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Update 7.0 is live and free across every platform. Cosmos adds space station directorship, player-run galactic alliances, asteroid belts and derelict hulks to salvage, free-floating orbital bases, universal spacewalking, and a six-week 10th anniversary expedition narrated by Sean Murray - plus DLSS 4.5, XeSS 3 and a long list of performance fixes.
North Beach Games revealed Stranded Deep 2 with a debut trailer and six screenshots. Built at the new North Beach Games Prague studio under original co-creator Sam Edwards, it swaps the island chain for a desert wilderness built around an endless river, adds a floating base you can move, deformable terrain and a simulated food chain.
Unknown Worlds' Early Access update 1.2 is all about co-op: cross-platform proximity voice chat that degrades into radio static with distance, teammate revives that preserve your loadout, player trading, tracking tags, emotes and two new avatars.
Obsidian's Into the Abyss update opens Brookhollow Park's pond at 18:00 UTC on August 11, adding five regions, diving suits, a harpoon and the amphibious Toe-biter Buggy. Grounded 2 also hits PS5 early access the same day at $29.99, with crossplay and cross-progression intact.
Hello Games marked No Man's Sky's tenth anniversary with a trailer, a letter from Sean Murray, and the name of the next update: Cosmos. Details are non-existent, but 2026 has been the game's biggest year since launch.
Pocketpair's monster-collecting phenomenon has finally exited Early Access. Palworld 1.0 launched July 10 as a free update with a 27-page changelog - adding the long-teased World Tree, the Sky Islands, 20-plus new Pals, water-based building, reworked tower bosses, and a breeding-defining new system called Genetic Recombination.
Palworld's 1.0 release lands July 10 on PC, PS5, Xbox and Game Pass, nearly doubling the map with a World Tree and Sky Islands, adding PvP and its biggest wave of new Pals - free for owners.
Game PassFuncom's open-world survival RPG Dune: Awakening arrives on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on September 22, 2026, alongside a cross-platform update adding a full single-player mode, PvE access to the Deep Desert, and a free Polar Cap ice map. It joins Game Pass day one.
The second Frostpunk 2 expansion, Breach of Trust, arrives June 23 on PC, PS5 and Xbox. It swaps the series' signature cold for a volcanic crisis in New Edinburgh, adding two maps, five factions, a new 'Vote of Trust' mechanic and Tremor and Volcano Night systems.
The medieval survival town-builder Bellwright hit PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on June 9, 2026, adding the new 10 sq km Halmare Isles map, fresh quests and a Loyalty and Faction system. It remains in Early Access.
Iron Gate confirmed at the PC Gaming Show 2026 that Valheim leaves Early Access on September 9, 2026, with its final biome, the Deep North, plus new PS5 and Switch 2 versions and full crossplay.
Pocketpair announced at Summer Game Fest 2026 that Palworld leaves early access for its 1.0 release on July 10, with a debut cinematic trailer teasing the long-locked World Tree, new Pals, new regions and a fresh threat across Xbox, PS5 and PC.
Funcom's survival MMO Dune: Awakening reaches PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on September 22, 2026, announced with a Paul Atreides-narrated story trailer at the June State of Play; the same-day update adds a full single-player mode, scalable difficulty and the final Act of the Book One story, with Game Pass and Play Anywhere support on Xbox.
Solarpunk, the serene floating-island survival sandbox from two-person studio Cyberwave, has been confirmed as a day-one Xbox Game Pass title when it launches June 8, 2026 on Xbox Series X|S, PS5, Switch 2 and PC - building, farming, drone automation and airship exploration across islands in the sky.
Subnautica 2 hit Early Access on May 14 and immediately set a 467,582 concurrent Steam peak with over a million copies sold in the first hour, burying nine months of pre-launch drama on the way to one of 2026's biggest game launches.
Unknown Worlds confirms a single global unlock at 15:00 UTC on May 14, 2026 for Steam, Epic, Xbox Series X|S and Game Pass. The .99 Early Access build introduces drop-in co-op for up to four divers on a new planet.
A 14-person indie studio just shipped a sustainability-flavored road-trip RPG to Game Pass Ultimate. Build your own house on wheels, source power from sun, wind, or water, and bring three friends along — Subnautica 2's three-day head start was no accident.
Unknown Worlds underwater survival sequel enters Early Access on May 14 with four-player co-op built from the ground up, cross-platform play, day-one Game Pass access, and no microtransactions at 29.99 dollars.
Resident Evil Requiem producer Masato Kumazawa says the fan backlash to Nvidia’s AI-yassified Grace Ashcroft from the DLSS 5 demo was actually ‘a positive.’ The intensity of the negative reaction, he argues, proves the original character design was successful enough to make players genuinely defensive of her appearance.
Subnautica 2 enters Early Access on May 14 with four-player co-op, a brand-new alien ocean world, and a $29.99 price tag — after surviving one of gaming's messiest developer-publisher disputes.
Windrose has crossed one million copies sold in just six days and peaked at over 200,000 concurrent players on Steam, doubling its initial 500K milestone in less than a week.
Windrose launched into Early Access on April 14 and sold over 500,000 copies in just 48 hours, reaching nearly 100,000 concurrent players and dethroning Counter-Strike 2 as Steam's best-selling game. The pirate survival adventure from Kraken Express combines Black Flag-style sailing with Valheim-style crafting in a co-op PvE experience that has earned an 88-percent positive rating on Steam.
Klei Entertainment has announced Don't Starve Elsewhere, the first new mainline Don't Starve game since 2016. Revealed at the Triple-i Initiative 2026 showcase, it adds magic, a jump button, and a multi-layered vertical world to the studio's signature dark survival formula.
Finnish solo developer Antti Leinonen launches Road to Vostok into early access on April 7, bringing a hardcore single-player survival shooter set in a post-apocalyptic Finland-Russia border zone, built entirely in the Godot engine and priced at just $14.99.