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As a tiny Vanguard in an oversized wilderness, gather, craft, tame insects, and build a movable base to survive.
Released 15 Feb 2024
Ride Giant Insects
Build a Tree Settlement
Move Your Base
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Developed by Max Ent Games Ltd · Published by Max Ent Games Ltd
Themes from a helpfulness-selected sample of Steam reviews, not the aggregate Steam score.
You play as Vanguard, a smallfolk adventurer returning to the surface after the giants have vanished. Explore forests, swamps, ruins, and towering trees on a mission to help your people, with NPCs offering quests and clues about the world.
Scavenge and refine resources to craft tools, weapons, armor, food, and building pieces. Fight hostile insects with attacks, dodges, and blocks, while changing weather and seasons make preparation part of survival.
Develop your character and equipment as you explore, and hatch or tame creatures that can fight, carry supplies, or serve as mounts. Build a settlement on the ground or in a tree; a designated tree base can be moved between locations. Play alone or in multiplayer with up to 10 players.
Players who enjoy the game often highlight the striking sense of scale and exploration, along with tamable creatures that add combat and traversal options. Co-op and the ability to build and relocate a tree base also recur as appealing parts of the experience. Other reviews find the resource gathering repetitive, progression unclear, or later combat and content uneven.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 23 |
| Age ratings |
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| Players | 1–10 |
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| Multiplayer | The game supports single-player and online multiplayer. Official store text states online co-op and support for up to 10 players. Reviews describe cooperative play, joining other players' worlds/servers with the same character, and transferring a claimed tree base between worlds. Some reviews also mention dedicated and non-dedicated servers, public/unlocked servers, official servers, and guild-related features, but these are not confirmed by the store features list. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No information about mods affecting multiplayer is provided. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| DRM / EULA |
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| Website | Official website |
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