X4: Foundations is a space adventure where every element, from planets to ships to finance, is simulated to create a living universe where actions breed deep consequences.

X4: Foundations is a space adventure where every element, from planets to ships to finance, is simulated to create a living universe where actions breed deep consequences. Play is varied; you can fly every ship, explore anywhere, trade, build a space station or manage an empire.

Loddlenaut is an ecological adventure where you are sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet.

Loddlenaut is an ecological adventure where you are sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet. You explore the sea, cleaning up waste products and repurposing marine debris while taking care of friendly alien creatures.

Minecraft is an open-world adventure where you collect, craft and construct structures and items.

Minecraft is an open-world adventure where you collect, craft and construct structures and items. Play involves exploring the world to find resources and good locations to build.

Imagine Earth is a simulation strategy where you manage space colonies for a huge corporation.

Imagine Earth is a simulation strategy where you manage space colonies for a huge corporation. You gather resources, manage your finances, shape the planets and expand your cities while fending off rival companies and alien invaders.

Reforj is an open-world adventure like Minecraft where you collect, mine, build and construct structures any way you want.

Reforj is an open-world adventure like Minecraft where you collect, mine, build and construct structures any way you want. Play involves gliding and running around the vast world to find the resources you need to build.

Lego Worlds takes virtual building back to the classic bricks with familiar figures, buildings and challenges from other Lego video games in an open world where your imagination can go wild in a bottomless bucket of bricks.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a role-play collecting game where you live on a small island teeming with life.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a role-play collecting game where you live on a small island teeming with life. Insects, fish, trees, vegetation and fossils are represented with cute cartoon visuals.

The Long Dark is a thoughtful exploration-survival game where you have crash-landed in the icy Canadian wilderness after a global disaster and must find a way to survive.

The Long Dark is a thoughtful exploration-survival game where you have crash-landed in the icy Canadian wilderness after a global disaster and must find a way to survive. Through exploring, crafting and fighting you must look after your body temperature, caloric intake, hunger, thirst and fatigue.

Flower is a traversal collecting game where you control the breeze across fields of grass and blow petals into other flowers to make them bloom.

Flower is a traversal collecting game where you control the breeze across fields of grass and blow petals into other flowers to make them bloom. Flower is simple and single-purpose in evoking the feeling of the wind.

Don't Starve is an open-world survival game where it’s the environment and enemies, rather than other players, that you have to work with.

Don't Starve is an open-world survival game where it’s the environment and enemies, rather than other players, that you have to work with. You need to find and develop food, weapons and shelter to survive.

Terra Nil is a strategy game where you use clean technology to bring life back to a barren world.

Terra Nil is a strategy game where you use clean technology to bring life back to a barren world. It's a city-building game where you aren't building a city at all, but a clean thriving ecology.

Grow Up is a running and jumping adventure and the sequel to 2015's Grow Home.

Grow Up is a running and jumping adventure and the sequel to 2015's Grow Home. It extends the real physics exploration that lets you push, pull, climb and direct how plants grow in the world.

The Tomorrow Children is an online strategy game where you collaborate with other players to build, explore and develop communities.

The Tomorrow Children is an online strategy game where you collaborate with other players to build, explore and develop communities. Unusually, it uses social economics and a Soviet Union-themed post-apocalyptic dystopia as the setting.

Book of Travels is an unusual online role-play game that focuses on the small rather than the massive.

Book of Travels is an unusual online role-play game that focuses on the small rather than the massive. You explore an open world to find others to travel with, gather resources, craft items and learn abilities.

Summerhouse is a creative game where you design little vignettes by constructing buildings by dragging and dropping doors, windows, roofs and other paraphernalia.

Summerhouse is a creative game where you design little vignettes by constructing buildings by dragging and dropping doors, windows, roofs and other paraphernalia. Play is about design rather than success or failure, but it still offers surprising outcomes - particularly for players who wouldn't consider themselves creative.

Webfishing is an online fishing simulation with a focus on chatting while you catch all sorts of fish.

Webfishing is an online fishing simulation with a focus on chatting while you catch all sorts of fish. Play involves exploring the world to find friends and fishing equipment and talking to other players while you fish.

Mutazione is a narrative adventure game where you play as a 15-year-old girl visiting her grandfather on a faraway island inhabited by friendly but mutated villagers.

Mutazione is a narrative adventure game where you play as a 15-year-old girl visiting her grandfather on a faraway island inhabited by friendly but mutated villagers. By finding seeds, tending to gardens and talking to people, you uncover a tightly knit web of characters with unrequited love, hidden trauma and difficult memories.

BedWars is a game played on Minecraft (since 2017) or Roblox servers (since 2021).

BedWars is a game played on Minecraft (since 2017) or Roblox servers (since 2021). It's a team game where you start on an island and must protect your bed and build bridges to attack other teams' beds.

Smalland: Survive the Wilds is a survival adventure where you are a tiny character in an overgrown wilderness.

Smalland: Survive the Wilds is a survival adventure where you are a tiny character in an overgrown wilderness. You work with other players to make your way in the living breathing world full of hazards and opportunities.

Farm Together is a low-pressure farm simulator where you develop your farm by yourself or cooperate with your friends.

Farm Together is a low-pressure farm simulator where you develop your farm by yourself or cooperate with your friends. Starting with an empty plot you can grow crops, plant trees, take care of the animals, add buildings and facilities, and unlock new items as you go.

Endling is an exploration platform game where you struggle to survive.

Endling is an exploration platform game where you struggle to survive. It's a game about extinction with a strong ecological conscience.

One Hour One Life is a civilisation survival game where each player lives a whole life in an hour of play and then passes away.

One Hour One Life is a civilisation survival game where each player lives a whole life in an hour of play and then passes away. Born as a baby into the care of anonymous other online players, you initially depend on them for food.

Thousand Threads is an open-world game of consequences.

Thousand Threads is an open-world game of consequences. You are free to interact with the world, animals and people however you like, give, take, save, kill, inform, hide, befriend, and betray.

Grounded is a survival game where you are tiny and find yourself in someone’s back garden.

Grounded is a survival game where you are tiny and find yourself in someone’s back garden. It’s like Honey I Shrunk The Kids meets Fortnite.

Skyblock is a game played on Minecraft servers where you start on a bare island floating in the sky and you must gather resources to thrive and reach other players.

Skyblock is a game played on Minecraft servers where you start on a bare island floating in the sky and you must gather resources to thrive and reach other players. It's the Minecraft equivalent of being washed up on a desert island and is hugely popular.

Among Trees is a game you play in a forested wilderness full of creatures and fauna.

Among Trees is a game you play in a forested wilderness full of creatures and fauna. It's handcrafted by a small team and creates a vibrant world to explore.

Hokko Life is a community simulation game like Animal Crossing.

Hokko Life is a community simulation game like Animal Crossing. You pick a town and set up your home, before spending time helping the place develop into a charming rural idyl everyone loves.

Endless Ocean (Endless Ocean: Blue World in the US) and its sequel Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep are versions of a diving adventure game where you explore the Manaurai Sea to identify different fish and recover artefacts.

Endless Ocean (Endless Ocean: Blue World in the US) and its sequel Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep are versions of a diving adventure game where you explore the Manaurai Sea to identify different fish and recover artefacts. As experience is gained you can encounter dolphins, huge whales, underwater wrecks and deep-sea trenches.

Surviving Mars is a colony simulation game based on the real geography of Mars.

Surviving Mars is a colony simulation game based on the real geography of Mars. You build and maintain a liveable habitat while balancing resources and researching new ways to adapt to the hostile environment.

The Wandering Village is a strategy game where you build a city on the back of a giant, wandering creature called Onbu.

The Wandering Village is a strategy game where you build a city on the back of a giant, wandering creature called Onbu. It's unusual because as well as building a thriving settlement, you have to also take care of the creature on whom you are building.

Forager is an open-world adventure where you manage resources in a simple pixel world.

Forager is an open-world adventure where you manage resources in a simple pixel world. The collecting, crafting and consuming require you to tap buttons.

Dwarf Fortress is a longstanding strategy game set in a fantasy world where you control a group of dwarves wanting to construct a wealthy fortress.

Dwarf Fortress is a longstanding strategy game set in a fantasy world where you control a group of dwarves wanting to construct a wealthy fortress. It's unusual not only for its text-based appearance but for its expansive scope, and intricately modelled characters, psychology, politics, landscape, creatures, minerals and vegetation.

Eastshade is a slow exploration game in a world you explore by walking around.

Eastshade is a slow exploration game in a world you explore by walking around. Here, though, you play as a painter of landscapes rather than typical hero.

Everdale is an online strategy game where you build a village.

Everdale is an online strategy game where you build a village. With the help of friends you develop a society that survives on the basis of savvy cooperation.

Wildmender is a world-building game where you unearth the past in the desert.

Wildmender is a world-building game where you unearth the past in the desert. Play involves exploring to discover what has gone before, so you can restore the environment for your future.

Cloud Gardens is a puzzle game where you grow vegetation over a dilapidated post-apocalyptic world.

Lawn Mowing Simulator is an adventure game where you ride an authentic and expansive roster of lawnmowers.

Lawn Mowing Simulator is an adventure game where you ride an authentic and expansive roster of lawnmowers. The novelty is a combination of absolute control over lawn care and weed eradication.

Sunlight is a short adventure game where you explore an uncharted forest, guided by harmonised whispers.

Sunlight is a short adventure game where you explore an uncharted forest, guided by harmonised whispers. As you move from tree to tree you discover different voices, genders and dialects, speaking as one.

Trove is an online adventure game that looks like Minecraft but with more role-play elements.

Trove is an online adventure game that looks like Minecraft but with more role-play elements. This means you choose a class of character with specific attacks and abilities.

Pocket City is a creative strategy game where you build your own living breathing city by creating residential, commercial, and industrial zones, as well as placing special buildings.

Pocket City is a creative strategy game where you build your own living breathing city by creating residential, commercial, and industrial zones, as well as placing special buildings. In addition to this Sim City-style play you earn points to upgrade by completing missions.

Icarus First Cohort is an adventure survival game where up to eight players work together to endure the wilderness.

Icarus First Cohort is an adventure survival game where up to eight players work together to endure the wilderness. Your task is to survive the brutal environment as you explore, harvest, craft and hunt.

Atomicrops is a farming game where you also have to defend your crops from mutant attackers.

Atomicrops is a farming game where you also have to defend your crops from mutant attackers. It sounds like a strange combination, but the shooting and the tending work well to counterbalance each other.

Plasticity is a running and jumping-puzzle game about a world overrun with plastic waste.

Plasticity is a running and jumping-puzzle game about a world overrun with plastic waste. You collect and recycle the plastic to transform your environment back to health.

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a survival adventure.

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a survival adventure. But rather than controlling a specific character, you guide an entire lineage of primates trying to survive in prehistoric Africa and facilitate its evolution.

Breakwaters is an adventure set in an ever-changing oceanic world.

Breakwaters is an adventure set in an ever-changing oceanic world. Unlike other games, Breakwaters isn't satisfied with day-night and weather cycles, it stands out for the fluid mechanics of its water.

Conan Exiles is an online survival game, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian.

Conan Exiles is an online survival game, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Similar to games like Ark or Green Hell, you start with nothing and must use resources you find in the open-world sandbox.

Common'hood is a squatter simulator where you craft the means to survive in an abandoned factory.

Common'hood is a squatter simulator where you craft the means to survive in an abandoned factory. You work to create a thriving community by growing food, constructing shelters, workshops, and eventually high-tech manufacturing.

Highwater is an adventure game where you battle to survive the effects of global warming.

Highwater is an adventure game where you battle to survive the effects of global warming. While the elites of society make plans to leave the planet you explore a submerged and dilapidated world with your gathered crew of survivors.

Land Above Sea Below is a calm landscape-building puzzle game where you raise an island out of the sea to keep the flora and fauna above water.

Land Above Sea Below is a calm landscape-building puzzle game where you raise an island out of the sea to keep the flora and fauna above water. You work to increase your island’s area and height by placing tiles one after one.

Urbek City Builder is a city-building and resource management game where you grow, plan and shape a city.

Monterona is a creative game where you build Italian-style towns, inspired by your grandma’s stories.

Monterona is a creative game where you build Italian-style towns, inspired by your grandma’s stories. Play focuses on imaginatively placing and detailing houses, walkways, green spaces and canals to create your own unique town.

Planetiles is a world-building strategy game where you terraform a planet using Tetris-style pieces of flora and fauna.

Planetiles is a world-building strategy game where you terraform a planet using Tetris-style pieces of flora and fauna. Play involves positioning your different land and flora tiles without leaving gaps and then working to upgrade each element to create the perfect ecosystem.

Wildfire Swap is a puzzle game where you swap tiles to stop forest fires.

Wildfire Swap is a puzzle game where you swap tiles to stop forest fires. Each level starts with a grid of trees, houses and bare land.

Block Rancher is an ironic adventure game where you collect natural resources to create trinkets sold by a massive corporation.

Block Rancher is an ironic adventure game where you collect natural resources to create trinkets sold by a massive corporation. You harvest creatures and plant life to create throwaway products to fulfil your employer's corporate appetites.