Mist Survival entered Steam Early Access on August 15, 2018. By October 2, 2025, the survival sandbox had spent more than seven years in Early Access, while version 1.0 still had no confirmed release date. Here’s the status of the game at the time and what the developer had said about completing it.
Impressions from 8.4 hours: bold visuals, noisy UI, and buggy—but fun with friends Reviewed on PC.Score: 6.5/10 What is skate.? On PC, skate. is EA & Full Circle’s free-to-play, always-online reboot set in San Vansterdam. This skate review highlights how it brings back physics-based Flick-It controls, supports cross-play/cross-progression, currently requires a controller on PC, and…
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First Impressions — Mars Attracts Reviewed on PC.Score: 7.5/10 I’ve spent half my life on city-builders and sims. The golden era for me runs from SimCity 2000 and SimCity 4 through Caesar III, Pharaoh, Zeus: Master of Olympus, Tropico, Anno 1404, Banished, and into modern staples like Cities: Skylines. Mars Attracts first impressions are influenced…
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Game of the Week #22 — Pompeii: The Legacy is the must-play Roman city-builder where law, trade, and disaster planning forge your dynasty Twenty years after Vesuvius, Pompeii rises—and it needs leadership. Pompeii: The Legacy (Siscia Games) blends deep city management with generational strategy: write laws with teeth, balance patricians and plebs, cultivate trade routes…
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Co-op sci-fi heist FPS with a techno-thriller twist from 10 Chambers Truth be told, there just aren’t enough decent heist games, or at least not enough decent ones where ‘tooling up’ with your friends in co-op to pull off a daring raid on someone’s hard-earned wealth is concerned. It wasn’t until the Payday trilogy of…
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Voidbreaker, the incredible roguelite shooter you probably aren’t playing Reviewed on PC.Score: 7/10 To bring something truly unique in a popular and heavily saturated genre like the FPS genre is no mean feat; in fact, it’s a rarity usually reserved for hugely experienced teams with sizeable budgets and the marketing clout to preach to the…
Recharge RC racing game — nostalgia meets modern sim-cade thrills I just tested the Recharge RC racing game with AI drivers, and it clicked right away. I’ve had great fun with real RC racing in the past, and Recharge feels “somewhat realistic” in the best way—responsive, weighty, and fun. Picking a Game of the Week…
Small Team, Big Guns: Witchfire’s Webgrave Update Proves Focused Indies Can Outpace AAA Reviewed on PC.Score: 7/10 I recently jumped back into Witchfire, curious to see what the much-hyped Webgrave Update really added. I expected minor tweaks. What I got was something far more substantial—and genuinely refreshing. No bugs. No broken quest logic. No weird…
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Early Access was meant to help games grow. But if your game’s been “early” longer than a Marvel movie phase… maybe it’s just your final form. Early Access was once a noble idea. A handshake between devs and players. “Here’s the game, it’s not done, but we’re building it together.” And for a while, it…
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Before it became Windrose, Crosswind already had the pirate survival spark Skull and Bones never gave me. I’ve played both Crosswind and Skull and Bones. One had the bigger name, bigger budget, and cleaner studio polish. The other had rougher edges, stranger moments, and a stronger sense of adventure. Guess which one I kept thinking…
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After a bold pre-alpha playtest and Future Games Show spotlight, this indie FPS/life sim hybrid has fallen silent. Is Team Waifu regrouping — or retreating? Back in early June, WTF: Waifu Tactical Force made quite the entrance during the Future Games Show. The game promised something you don’t see every day — fast-paced 3v3 movement…
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Dynamic weather, new gear, and global accessibility — the battlefield evolves in this massive community-driven update. The island is shifting — and the fight just got real. Gray Zone Warfare has officially launched its highly anticipated Winds of War update today, May 22, 2025. This is the game’s second major content drop, and it’s a…
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Scammers Exploit Hype Around Subnautica 2 with Fake Early Access Offers Scammers are still trying to cash in on the excitement for Subnautica 2, with new waves of fake early access promotions continuing to appear across the internet. Despite developer warnings, unsuspecting players are being targeted with promises of “free” early access, mostly through suspicious…
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Into the Fire from Starward Industries turns volcanic disaster into a high-risk extraction survival game where rescue, resources, fire, ash, and supernatural phenomena shape every run.
Pompeii: The Legacy enters Early Access on September 23 — demo live now Set two decades after the eruption of Vesuvius, Pompeii: The Legacy puts you in charge of rebuilding a city and a lineage. You’ll balance housing, trade, research, law, and politics while steering a Roman family across generations. A public demo is available…
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