Survival & Sandbox
Boss guides, base building, crafting, and server setup for the survival, sandbox, and open-world games we cover, from Valheim and Rust to Palworld and Enshrouded, plus standout PC adventures like Hollow Knight: Silksong.
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Dragonwilds Combat: Your Health Bar Is a Collectible
You start with 100 health and the cap is 310. The other 210 is sitting in 21 sanguine urns across Ashenfall. Plus stamina, the one resource that pays for everything, and why parry is the level 5 unlock to rush.
Valheim Finally Let You Rebind the Dodge Key, and a Patch Note Admits Diagonal Movement Was 30% Too Slow
Patch 1.0.14 rebuilt Valheim's keybinding menu, added a blocking toggle for accessibility, and fixed a stick input bug that had been quietly penalising every diagonal you walked on a gamepad. Here is every control and performance change since 1.0, and which settings to go and change now.
Valheim's 1.0 Save Conversion Stripped the Upgrades Off Your Item Stands, and Only One Fix Gets Them Back
The 1.0 save format rewrote old worlds and quietly dropped durability, upgrade levels and variants from anything displayed on an item or armour stand. Patch 1.0.12 stopped it. Here is what is recoverable, what is not, and what the other eight patches fixed.
Dragonwilds Base Building: What to Build, and in What Order
The Build Menu runs on five material tiers and a dozen stations, half of them gated behind Vault Cores. Bed before bed roll, Lodestones at 80 Construction, and where you are not allowed to build.
Dragonwilds Food: You Can Only Hold One Perk
Food in Dragonwilds is not a healing item, it is a buff slot. Eating a new perk food wipes the one you had, so the question is which perk you are wearing into the fight.
Dragonwilds Vaults: Your Base Is Built Out of Vault Cores
Twelve Dragonkin vaults, and they are not optional dungeons. Every Blacksmith's Bench, Blast Furnace, Fletching Bench and Lodestone in the game costs Vault Cores, and Cores only come off vault pedestals.
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Abiotic Factor Review: The Half-Life Survival Game Worth Clocking In For
Deep Field Games' co-op survival game traps a team of scientists in a research facility gone wrong. We review the crafting, the comedy, the Leyak, and whether the Half-Life homage holds up.
Subnautica 2 Early Access Review: Familiar Depths, New Company
Subnautica 2 is out in Early Access with four-player co-op and four biomes. We dove in to see whether the dread, wonder, and survival loop still hold up. Our impressions and score.
Enshrouded Review: The Survival RPG That Finally Respects Your Time
We put 50 hours into Keen Games' survival action-RPG. Between its free-form skill tree, voxel building, and the Shroud, is Enshrouded worth your next playthrough? Our full verdict.
Palworld Review: Is It Still Worth Playing in 2026?
Two years after its explosive launch, we revisit Palworld to see how the 'Pokemon with Guns' survival game has evolved. Is it worth your time?
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