Rend preps for Early Access with a survival twist: Norse mythology

Frostkeep Studios‘s Rend seeks to improve on the survival game formula seen in titles like Facepunch Studios’s Rust and Studio Wildcard’s Ark: Survival Evolved. Its players are sorted into three factions straight away to encourage cooperative play and to give newbies a fighting chance. The game is in alpha, and it aims to enter Early Access on PC later this year.

While Rust looks fairly realistic and Ark features dinosaurs roaming its lands, Rend’s world draws inspiration from Norse mythology. It’s colorful and surreal, with star-splashed skies above and Yggdrasil, the World Tree, glowing like a beacon at the center of it all. Its map has 12 different biomes, and each has fantasy creatures that players can tame — like an elk with shining eyes or an enormous wolf.