Gather, craft, build, thrive, and sometimes survive. Here's what 2026 has in store for the open-world crafting genre.

Open-world games started to get big because of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim in 2011. There were open-world games before that, ...

Those main quests can wait! Players can take their time and enjoy the sights and sounds of these excellent open-world games ...

An upcoming open-world crafting game just crossed the one million wishlists mark on Steam, and it's not hard to see why. Outbound has slowly been gaining more and more hype over the last few months as ...

The survival genre is heading back to the 19th century in Westlanders, a wildly ambitious new title that challenges you to tame the American West.

Publisher Radical Theory and developer The Breach Studios have announced wild-west open-world survival game, Westlanders, for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and [...] ...

The Epic Games Store has only one new free game this week, as opposed to two. And this week, PC users on EGS are being treated to an open-world survival game from 2024, currently in early access. It’s ...

Bad news: the world is coming to an end. Good news: you can survive this doomsday event by joining a cult. If you've seen the trailer for Join Us, the co-op (or singleplayer) open world survival ...

So, you want to play the best open-world games? The basis of this genre is freedom and immersion, allowing you to lose yourself in a virtual world that is non-linear and interactive in more ways than ...

Mark your calendars, here are the most anticipated fantasy open-world games set to release in the coming months.

GTA 6, Crimson Desert, and Nioh 3. Upcoming games 2026 bring roguelike, soulslike, and open-world adventures to all platforms ...