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Solarpunk: How to Get and Build an Airship
This guide explains how to obtain and construct an airship in Solarpunk, a crucial element for exploring floating islands and gathering rare materials. Players must first build an Airship Dock, which requires reaching Research Table Tier 2, gathering iron and cotton, and finding Crashed Airship Components. Once the dock is built and placed, the airship can be crafted at its workbench.
Back to the North: GRYPHLINE Gives Sneak Peek Into the Future of Arknights: Endfield
GRYPHLINE has released the "Back to the North" trailer for Arknights: Endfield, offering a preview of the game's upcoming update and new narrative content. The trailer highlights the return of Arcane and expands on the game's real-time squad combat and industrial sci-fi setting. Arknights: Endfield is available on PlayStation 5, PC, and mobile devices, featuring cross-platform progression and advanced graphical options.
State of Decay 3 Gameplay Revealed, Coming to PS5 and Game Pass in 2027 — Too Much Gaming | Video Games Reviews, News, & Guides
State of Decay 3 gameplay has been revealed, showcasing a larger scale and integral multiplayer features with shared worlds for up to 4 players. The game is set to launch in 2027 for Xbox Series X|S, PC, and PlayStation 5, and will be available on Game Pass. Closed playtests for the title are currently ongoing.
Everything announced at the Future Games Show Summer Showcase: Every Announcement, trailer and Release date
The Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2026 featured over 70 announcements, including world premieres, gameplay reveals, and release dates for titles like ACE COMBAT 8: Wings of Theve, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, and EXODUS. The event also highlighted numerous indie titles and provided updates on existing games such as Little Nightmares III: The Backstage and PowerWash Simulator 2. The showcase covered a wide range of genres and platforms, offering a glimpse into upcoming releases for PC and consoles.
Echo Zero Revealed, Blending Roguelite Base Building and Co-op Defense on Steam
Wildboy Studios has unveiled Echo Zero, a new roguelite base defense game for PC via Steam. The game blends base building, tower defense, resource management, and co-op gameplay in a sci-fi setting where players control clones defending against a spreading organism. Echo Zero features procedurally generated runs, persistent progression, and supports both single-player and online co-op.
Deep Crafter Launches in Early Access — Roadmap Revealed for Future Updates
Deep Crafter, an indie automation and base-building game, is launching into Steam Early Access on June 5, 2026, for PC. The game challenges players to build an automated industrial base on an alien ocean world, featuring exploration, resource gathering, technology development, factory construction, and ecological study. A roadmap reveals three major content update phases planned for the Early Access period.
Review: Smalland: Survive the Wilds (Switch 2)
Smalland: Survive the Wilds tasks players with helping a race of tiny creatures called Smallfolk navigate life on a hostile planet by gathering, crafting, and building bases. While the game excels in its exploration and core survival mechanics on the Nintendo Switch, it suffers from a lack of compelling narrative and limitations in its co-op functionality, making it primarily a single-player experience.
Review: Smalland: Survive the Wilds (Switch 2)
Smalland: Survive the Wilds is a survival game where players help tiny creatures colonize a hostile world. The game focuses on crafting, base building, and exploration, with combat being a secondary but challenging element. While the exploration is rewarding and the game looks good on the Nintendo Switch, the narrative is weak, and the co-op experience is hindered by server limitations, making it primarily a single-player journey.
Satisfactory 1.2 is finally here, and you're going to want to redesign your entire base
Satisfactory update 1.2 is now available, introducing numerous quality-of-life improvements, new tools, and aesthetic features for the factory-crafting sandbox game. Key additions include daisy chaining for power connections, fluid stations and trucks for easier resource transport, and reworked automated vehicle paths. The update also brings enhancements to buildables, controller rebinding, creative mode options, and photo mode.
Terrors of War – Beta Sign Up | Alpha Beta Gamer
Terrors of War is a new World War 2 real-time strategy game with base-building elements where players manage supply lines. The game features procedurally generated maps, asymmetric factions, and both a campaign and multiplayer modes. Beta sign-ups are now open.
Mini War Codes (May 2026)
Mini War, a Roblox strategy experience, currently has no active reward codes available as of May 27, 2026. The game does not yet feature a code redemption system, but developers may implement one in future updates. Players can monitor the official Pentagon Community Discord server for announcements regarding new codes and system implementation.
The Stream Team: Diving back into No Man’s Sky’s Dreams of the Deep
MJ Guthrie is returning to the Dreams of the Deep mission in No Man's Sky, aiming to unlock blueprints for underwater bases without in-game currency. The stream will focus on her efforts to build an underwater empire and potentially encounter oceanic anomalies.
tinyBuild Reveals Pair of New Trailers at INDIE Live Expo Showcase
Indie publisher tinyBuild showcased new gameplay trailers for the Y2K electronics repair sim ReStory and the human-fueled base building tower defense roguelite Hull Rupture during the INDIE Live Expo. Both games are set to release on PC via Steam in 2026, with playtests and wishlisting available now. tinyBuild also highlighted several other titles at the event and the upcoming Bit Summit.
How to get the Subnautica 2 metal farm
This guide explains how to establish a metal farm in Subnautica 2, a crucial resource for late-game progression. Players must scan three parts of a destroyed metal farm located east of the Alien Power Plant to unlock the blueprint. The guide also details the crafting requirements, placement, power needs, and operational mechanics of the metal farm for replicating valuable resources like titanium and troilite.
F.A.R.M.S.: Chill Factory launches tomorrow on Steam with massive item flows and a 10% discount
Plema Crafts will launch its factory automation simulation game, F.A.R.M.S.: Chill Factory, on Steam for PC on May 22, 2026, with a 10% launch discount. The game features large-scale logistics with tens of thousands of items and includes a new tower-defense-style system called Void Harvesting where surplus materials are used for defense.
Procedural Sci-Fi Hero-Shooter Symbiosis Drops Playable Demo on Steam
Independent studio Aberratic Studios has released a playable demo for their upcoming sci-fi cooperative hero-shooter, Symbiosis, on Steam. The game features procedural exploration, tactical base-building, character evolution, and co-op multiplayer. The demo is available now, with the full game available to wishlist on Steam.
How To Unlock The Bioreactor In Subnautica 2
This guide explains how to unlock and craft the Bioreactor in Subnautica 2, a large base fixture that generates energy. Players need to scan three fragments scattered in the Shallows region and then craft it using Titanium Ingots and Copper Ingots. The Bioreactor can consume various biodegradable resources to produce energy, with an Overdrive mode offering increased output at a faster consumption rate.
How To Unlock The Bioreactor In Subnautica 2
This guide explains how to unlock and craft the Bioreactor in Subnautica 2, a large base fixture that generates energy. Players need to scan three Bioreactor fragments scattered in the Shallows region and then craft it using Titanium Ingots and Copper Ingots. The Bioreactor can consume various biodegradable resources to produce energy, with an Overdrive mode offering increased output at a faster consumption rate.
How To Unlock The Thermal Plant In Subnautica 2
This guide explains how to unlock and utilize the Thermal Plant in Subnautica 2, a crucial component for base power generation. Players need to scan two fragments located at the border of the Shallows and Zezuran Desert, an area with high temperatures requiring heat resistance. The Thermal Plant generates energy based on ambient temperature, with optimal placement near thermal vents yielding the maximum output.
How To Unlock The Thermal Plant In Subnautica 2
This guide explains how to unlock and utilize the Thermal Plant in Subnautica 2, a crucial component for base power generation. Players need to scan two fragments located at the border of the Shallows and Zezuran Desert, an area with high temperatures requiring heat resistance. The Thermal Plant generates energy based on ambient temperature, with optimal placement near thermal vents yielding the maximum output.