Best of 2024: Survival Crafting Games
If you’ve ever punched a tree, you’ve played a survival crafting game. There were a lot of these in 2024. Here’s the ones I played.
Palia
Pantheon: What's so bad about 247 Extraction?
We need to have a little talk about Pantheon…
I killed a wolf and all I got was this stupid broken claw
Why do you have to kill a hundred deer to get one antler? There’s got to be a better way.
Palia First Impressions: A Promising Start to a Social MMO Adventure
If you were waiting for the second coming of Free Realms, Palia ain’t it. But, if you hate adventuring and love gathering and crafting in your MMO of choice, you might just find a new home in Palia, the new social MMO from Singularity 6.
Palia: You're In Our World Now.
That… isn’t actually their tagline (old folks know that it was EverQuest’s), but it seems like what this social MMO is going for. An idyllic world where you can relax with friends. The trailer shows players building their own homes and communities, but is that all there is? Creek Because I enjoy tedious tasks for little reward, I found myself idly listing every MMORPG I could find on Steam last night. People called out all the MMOs I’d missed when I did the Google Trends experiment the other day, and I kept thinking of more, afterward. I’d missed Runescape!? I literally watch Runescape videos every day. I’m pretty sure that the Old School Runescape streamers are being punished in some sort of televised Hell, and I just want to make sure they’re okay and try to give them some hope for the future. ...