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VOL. MMXXVI · No. 1 All the games that's fit to ship. Not affliated with Valve. TWO BITS · 11 JUL 2026

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OPEN WORLD · SURVIVAL · CREATURE COLLECTOR 9 JUL 2026

Palworld

94%
OF 426974 REVIEWS
Created by Pocketpair
$29.99 $20.99 -30%
Q. What kind of game is this?

A. In this game, you can peacefully live alongside mysterious creatures known as Pals or risk your life to drive off a ruthless poaching syndicate.

Pals can be used to fight, or they can be made to work on farms or factories.
You can even sell them or eat them!


Survival
In a harsh environment where food is scarce and vicious poachers roam, danger waits around every corner. To survive, you must tread carefully and make difficult choices...even if that means eating your own Pals when the time comes.


Mounts & Exploration
Pals can be mounted to traverse the land, sea and sky—allowing you to traverse all kinds of environment as you explore the world.


Building Structures
Want to build a pyramid? Put an army of Pals on the job. Don't worry; there are no labor laws for Pals.


Production
Make use of Pals and their skills to make fire, generate electricity, or mine ore so that you can live a life of comfort.


Farming
Some Pals are good at planting seeds, while others are skilled at watering or harvesting crops. Work together with your Pals to create an idyllic farmstead.


Factories & Automation
Letting Pals do the work is the key to automation. Build a factory, place a Pal in it, and they'll keep working as long as they're fed—until they're dead, that is.


Dungeon Exploration
With Pals on your side you can tackle even the most dangerous areas. When the time comes, you might have to sacrifice one to save your skin. They'll protect your life—even if it costs their own.


Breeding & Genetics
Breed a Pal and it will inherit the characteristics of its parents. Combine rare pals to create the strongest Pal of them all!


Poaching & Crime
Endangered Pals live in wildlife sanctuaries. Sneak in and capture rare Pals to get rich quick! It's not a crime if you don't get caught, after all.


Multiplayer
Multiplayer is supported, so invite a friend and go on an adventure together! And of course you can battle your friends and trade Pals, too.

In online co-op play mode, up to 4 players can play together.
Additionally, a dedicated server can allow up to 32 players to play together.

SURVIVAL · EXPLORATION · OPEN WORLD SURVIVAL CRAFT 7 JUL 2026

Last Breath

67%
OF 3 REVIEWS
Created by MxCreationLab
$7.99 $4.79 -40%

Last Breath is a solo/cooperative terraforming survival game where you and your friends must bring a dead planet back to life. Dig deep, build smart, and fight to restore a world that has lost everything.

After centuries of pollution and war, the surface is barren and toxic. But beneath the dust lies the potential for new life. Armed with shovels, machines, and raw determination, your team will carve tunnels, extract resources, and construct the foundations of a reborn ecosystem.

Key Features:

  • Cooperative Gameplay: Work together online to explore, survive, and rebuild. Share resources, machines, and progress as a team.

  • Digging and Terraforming: Break through layers of terrain to uncover resources, clear space, and sculpt the environment to your advantage.

  • Survival and Strategy: Balance power, oxygen, and food as you expand your base in a hostile world.

  • Modular Machines and Automation: Set up extractors, generators, and processing units to automate your operations and accelerate growth.

  • Dynamic Environment: Watch the world change as you fight back the wasteland and regrow forests, lakes, and clean air.

The future of the planet is in your hands. Will you restore it or let it die for good?

EARLY ACCESS · SIMULATION · SURVIVAL 6 JUL 2026

By My Side

67%
OF 3 REVIEWS
Created by OverLKD Studio
$14.99

You wash up alone in the wilderness — nothing but your hands and what the land gives you. You chop wood, raise a shelter, and fight to stay alive as the seasons turn toward a merciless winter. Then one day, a stray dog crosses your path. Feed it. Earn its trust. Watch it grow — and it never leaves your side.

By My Side is an open-world survival-craft game about raw survival, a home you build with your own hands, and the bond that grows between you and your dog.

🐕 Your Dog, Your Story — Find a stray and raise it from a pup. Each run it's a different breed with its own look and talent. Teach it tricks, put it to work — guard, hunt, or haul a sled — and it follows your commands, watches your back, and warns you the moment danger closes in.

🏡 Build & Power a Home — From a first campfire to a walled homestead with a glass greenhouse and an upper floor. Place every foundation, wall, stair and roof freely — then bring it to life with your own power-and-water grid: solar, batteries, pumps, heaters, sprinklers, smelters and smart-relay automation that keeps the base running while you're away.

🔨 Craft Everything — Over 90 recipes across workbench, furnace, campfire and powered machines. Gather raw materials and refine them through real crafting trees — ore into iron into steel, fibre into cloth into cable — into tools, gear and the machines that run your home.

❄️ Survive the Seasons — Stay warm, fed and dry as spring, summer and autumn give way to a winter that wants you dead. Food spoils — salt it, preserve it, stock the larder before the cold. Droughts, animal migrations, wolf packs and aurora-lit nights keep every year unpredictable.

🌾 Live Off the Land — Till fields and grow crops, keep them alive year-round in a heated greenhouse, raise animals, trade with a wandering merchant, and automate the grind so your homestead works for you.

🐺 Defend What's Yours — The wild fights back, and it escalates the longer you last: harsher winters and pack sieges that strike from the first night. Read the danger, fortify your home, and hold the line beside your dog.

🧭 Every Run Is Different — Start from a fresh scenario, then take on one of a dozen origins — each a real strength and a weakness that shape how you survive. Climb the homestead ranks toward an endgame worth chasing.

🎮 Two Ways to Play — Survival (hardcore: one life, permadeath) or Story (your home and world endure when you fall).

Arrive with nothing. Leave a legacy — with your dog by your side.

RELAXING · NATURE · COZY 21 JUN 2026

Skillwood

92%
OF 223 REVIEWS
Created by sshulin
Free
Game revolves around resource gathering by chopping or mining, while keeping enought stamina to do it.


Upgrade your fireplace to increase maximum stamina and regenerate it neat the fireplace faster.




To get new resources for your structures you can explore different areas. It may require building bridges and ladders.



To get more trees and rocks upgrade unlocked areas, so more new trees and stones will spawn.




Using skills will upgrade them and increase efficency of hits, however when you reach the tier limit you have to upgrade corrseponding workbench. It will increase efficency hugely but also increase stamina spent.




There are also renewable food sources such as berry bushes that can provide some fast stamina.

MMORPG · MEDIEVAL · OPEN WORLD 17 JUN 2026

Gloria Victis: Medieval MMORPG

69%
OF 11449 REVIEWS
Created by gamigo US
Free

Gloria Victis – A medieval MMORPG where Mount & Blade meets Planetside 2! Explore a breathtaking and atmospheric open world designed by lovers of the Witcher and Gothic series. Be part of a living society and become a soldier, knight, archer, assassin, swordmaster, berserker, huntsman, blacksmith, builder, merchant, farmer, healer, and more... the choice is yours!

FEATURES:

Non-Target Combat & Epic PVP

Engage in action-based, non-target combat where your skills and tactics matter! Show your warrior spirit and earn fame as an undefeatable duelist, eagle-eyed archer, or respected commander inspiring your allies in battle. Compete for territory in the open world, and fight to the death in tournaments, castle sieges, and epic wars where entire armies collide!

Challenging Territory Control

Conquer land, siege non-instanced towns and castles and build advantageous fortifications in the everlasting conflict of the realms. Fight for glory in one of three nations or claim a castle for your guild and rule your lands!

Innovative Partial Loot System

Be brave when waging wars and battling over castles, but beware when venturing into the lion’s den. In the centre of the mainland, the risk and rewards become much higher. In certain places on the map, you’ll be able to loot defeated enemies and take your reward by selecting which specific items you will loot – but hurry, the clock is ticking! Are you good enough to succeed there? Or would you rather choose less risky ways to gain your wealth? It's all up to you!

Player-driven Economy

Look for the best resources and materials out in the world, and capture resource nodes. Use workstations to craft high-quality items, and cooperate with others to increase your efficiency and achieve mastery in one of 8 different realistic crafts. Plant your own seeds, tend your crops, and keep them safe from pillaging enemies! The economy is in your hands – swords don’t drop from wolves, they are forged by blacksmiths!

Class-less Progression

Become who you want to be! Build your character without artificial classes, and fully customize your equipment using hundreds of available items!

Forge Your Legend

Establish your reputation and move up the feudal hierarchy, leading your allies to victory under your guild’s banner. Mark your way to the top with the blood of your enemies – become a hero and make them fear you!

Living Open World

Seamless, breathtaking, challenging, dynamically reacting to your actions – the massive and diversified world of Gloria Victis awaits you!

Freedom

Explore the vast world and face various challenges – go solo and complete quests, or group up and take part in massive PVE events including open-world dungeons! Or, gather materials and focus on crafting and trading. Or, leave it all behind and unleash your warrior spirit in huge PVP battles. The choice is yours!

Low-fantasy Setting

Explore lands inspired by medieval Europe including frosted mountaintops, deep forests, swamps, ruins, and rocky, arid plateaus. Discover ancient secrets, seek forgotten treasures, and face mythical creatures inspired by medieval tales!

Join our official Discord channel! 

This Game may contain content not appropriate for all ages, or may not be appropriate for viewing at work:

Includes violence and words not appropriate for children.

EARLY ACCESS · ADVENTURE · OPEN WORLD SURVIVAL CRAFT 10 JUN 2026

Witchspire

83%
OF 1721 REVIEWS
Created by Envar Games
$22.99

Prepare to get lost in the hand-crafted world of Witchspire: a co-op open world witch adventure where you and your friends have been chosen to save corruption from spreading through the world. Grow your powers, explore a vast world and form bonds with the creatures around you.

Survival Made Magical

Call forth forests when you’re short on timber, spirit jump up ledges, blink out of the way of attacks, and send out magical pickaxes to harvest resources. You won’t starve, but resources can help you along the way to replenish and bolster your power.

Befriend Diverse Familiars

The wilderness is filled with fascinating creatures, defeat them in battle and collect their spirits. Build long-term bonds and guide their growth to support your play style and needs.

Conjure a New Home

Use astral projection to untether yourself from gravity, allowing for free movement as you build the perfect home to suit your coven’s needs.

The Ancients & Corruption

The Witchspire calls to you as its chosen one. Keep your wits about you, be wary of falling meteors, the ancient creatures of this world and the vile corruption that spreads beneath the surface.

Find Your Strength in Numbers

Dive into a cosmos of customization where a branching tech tree, player levelling, and varied crafting options give every witch a part to play in uncovering the mystery of the Witchspire. Start on your path with unique outfits and abilities by joining a coven, from the brave Cloudpiercers, to the mystical Foretellers.