Space Engineers is a block-based sandbox game created and published by Keen Software House, a company from the Czech Republic. In 2013, the first version of the game joined the Steam Early Access program. Over the next several years, the game sold more than one million copies.
RocketWerkz is a video game company based in New Zealand. It was started in December 2014 by game designer Dean Hall, who is most famous for creating the game DayZ. The company began in Dunedin and now has its main office in Auckland.
In Greek mythology, Icarus was the son of Daedalus, a skilled craftsman who designed the labyrinth of Crete, and his wife, Naucrate. After Theseus, the king of Athens and a rival of King Minos, escaped from the labyrinth, Minos believed that Icarus and Daedalus had shared the labyrinth’s secrets. As punishment, Minos imprisoned them—either in a tall tower near the ocean or inside the labyrinth itself, depending on the version of the story.
The Planet Crafter is a game where players explore a large world and survive, created by Miju Games, a studio from France, for computers running Windows. In the game, players start inside a broken spaceship and must change a lifeless planet to make it suitable for living. Players collect materials, create tools, build machines, and slowly change the planet’s environment.
Astroneer, officially written in all capital letters, is a 2019 sandbox adventure game created and published by the American company System Era Softworks. The game was first available in early access in December 2016. It was fully released on February 6, 2019.
Stranded Deep is a survival video game created and released by an Australian company called Beam Team Games. It is available to play on Microsoft Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Linux. A follow-up game, called Stranded Deep 2, was announced in August 2024.
George Raft (originally named Ranft; September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer known for playing gangsters in dramatic films from the 1930s and 1940s. He was a popular leading man in many movies. Raft is remembered for his gangster roles in Quick Millions (1931) with Spencer Tracy, Scarface (1932) with Paul Muni, Each Dawn I Die (1939) with James Cagney, Invisible Stripes (1939) with Humphrey Bogart, and Billy Wilder’s comedy Some Like It Hot (1959) with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon.
The Long Dark is a survival video game created and published by Hinterland in 2017. Players take on the roles of Will Mackenzie, a bush pilot, and Astrid Greenwood, a doctor, who must survive the cold Canadian wilderness after a geomagnetic storm. The game received initial funding from the Canada Media Fund and later support through a Kickstarter campaign in October 2013.
Valheim is a planned survival and sandbox video game created by the Swedish studio Iron Gate Studio and published by Coffee Stain Studios. It became available in early access for Linux and Microsoft Windows through Steam on February 2, 2021, and for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on March 14, 2023. Versions for PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2 are planned for release in 2026.
Ark: Survival Ascended is an action-adventure survival video game created by Studio Wildcard. It is a remaster of the 2017 game Ark: Survival Evolved. The game was released in early access for Windows on October 25, 2023, for Xbox Series X/S on November 21, 2023, and for PlayStation 5 on November 30, 2023.