Steam is set to witness an electrifying surge in one of its most beloved genres. Survival games, a cornerstone of PC gaming, are gearing up for an extraordinary month with the highly anticipated releases of Palworld and Enshrouded. These titles, among the most wished-for survival games on Steam as per SteamDB, are slated to launch within a mere week of each other, promising an adrenaline-fueled start to the year for gamers worldwide.
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Palworld: A Blend of Cute and Cruel
Palworld, a Pokemon-like open-world game, will enter Early Access on January 19, 2024. The game will also hit Xbox Game Preview and Game Pass simultaneously.Palworld'score pitch of "Pokemon, but with guns" will immediately turn heads. It will be a creature-collecting survival game that will also function as a creature-shooter, creature-besieger, and all-around creature-destroyer.
The game will enter Early Access with over 100 Pals, 350 items, and 70 types of buildings. Its Steam page will also spell out surprisingly grim automation systems where Pals will "keep working as long as they're fed - until they're dead, that is".
Enshrouded: A Robust Action RPG
Five days after Palworld's debut, Enshrouded will start its Steam Early Access journey on January 24, 2024. Enshrouded will be a cooperative survival crafting action RPG. Players will survive in a fallen kingdom consumed by an evil fog, the Shroud. They will fight wild beasts and fearsome bosses, construct grand halls, shape their homestead's terrain, and forge their warriors with diverse equipment and a huge, open skill tree. The game will be praised during the latest Steam Next Fest as "Valheim meets Dark Souls."
As the countdown begins for the back-to-back release of Palworld and Enshrouded, gamers across the globe are bracing themselves for an unparalleled start to the year.
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