I recently did a one hour livestream playing Eden Crafters and honestly, I had a pretty good time with it. The game is basically a survival building game similar to Conan Exiles or Valheim but with a sci-fi setting on an alien planet. It even gave me some “poor man’s No Man's Sky” vibes, and I mean that in a good way.

The first thing I noticed was how easy the controls were to learn. I didn’t struggle much figuring things out, which made the experience feel very relaxed and casual. At first, I actually thought the game only had a first person view, but after checking the control settings, I discovered pressing F5 changes the camera perspective between first and third person. That definitely made the gameplay more enjoyable for me.

Steam is without a doubt one of the best places to discover new open-world survival-crafting titles, with games like Palworld, RuneScape: Dragonwilds, Enshrouded, Sons of the Forest, and Once Human being some of the platform's more recent hits. The genre has seen a steady flow of new entries over the last couple of years, and when a genre grows because players keep showing up for it, adding more games to the lineup is rarely cause for an eye roll. On that note, Revelation Games' As One We Survive is coming to Steam Early Access very soon, and its combination of elements from games like Valheim, State of Decay, and Project Zomboid makes it look like it could be the next best thing for fans of those titles and the open-world survival-crafting genre in general.