5. Survarium

Survarium gameplay

Survarium is a free-to-play multiplayer RPG-shooter on Steam Early Access that’s set in a post-apocalyptic version Ukraine, filled with dilapidated industrial buildings, cosmic anomalies, and terrifyingly disfigured and mutated creatures. The game currently offers a standard set of multiplayer-shooter offerings, but developer Vostok Games promises a more open-ended survival experience to be added in the future.

With the multiplayer shooter currently available the developer is proving that the gun-play is solid, visceral and realistic, while the RPG mechanics and loot/gear system is comprehensive and unique. Also, the environmental design and graphical fidelity is simply incredible (especially for a free-to-play game), and they’ve really cracked how to make a post-apocalyptic setting that doesn’t just look drab and grey. The supernatural elements and special powers you can unluck as your character levels up is an interesting addition that keeps Survarium fresh. It’s early days still, but the future looks bright for this one.

RPG mechanics run deep in Survarium, with special abilities and passives, unique gear, and temporary powerups. Once this is applied to an open-world survival experience we think it'll be something truly special.

The environment design is simply breathtaking, with unique supernatural elements complementing the post-apocalyptic landscape where nature has reclaimed the planet. Also ghost trees...there are ghost threes.