You start to recognize the alien fish on-sight, even stockpiling a healthy supply in case of disaster. Soon you start to feel comfortable though, and the ocean feels less foreign. Like any survival game, your first order of business is collecting enough food and water to live. You crash-land on an alien planet, adrift in what seems like a world-encompassing ocean. The early hours are pure frantic survivalism. It’s one of the few games to properly balance between guided experience and sandbox, between story and survival. That’s ultimately what lands it on our best-of list. The game is also available in an unfinished format on Xbox One, and set for a release on PlayStation 4 next year.Subnautica ($25 on Humble) understands the allure of the unknown. The 1.0 release and the free weekend combined is bound to spur some interest, so get in while the getting is good. Launched as one of Steam’s second wave of big Early Access titles in December 2013, it sold over a million copies in four weeks.ĭespite being the game that inspired the creation of titles such as PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite Battle Royale, the game’s player base has dwindled somewhat over its protracted development period.

That success prompting BI to spin the mod off as its own stand-alone product. It launched the aging infantry simulation Arma 2 : Operation Arrowhead to the top of Steam, accounting for over half a million concurrent players at its height. To celebrate, the team at Bohemia Interactive is making it free-to-play all weekend on Steam.Ĭreated in 2012 by a member of the New Zealand army, the DayZ mod became a kind of phenomenon. After a long and winding road, DayZ is out now on Steam with a feature-complete 1.0 version.

Dayz free download full game pc 2018