As gaming trends and tastes ebb and flow, one genre that’s had a particularly strong 2024 is survival games. The long-running stalwarts still boast impressive player counts, while a flood of excellent newcomers like V Rising and Palworld have also established themselves. There are countless new survival games currently in the works, too, and I’ve just come across one that is being made by a team of devs spearheaded by a prolific group of former Oblivion and Skyrim modders. It’s called Ardem, and you can actually playtest it right now. Continue reading Ardem is a DayZ style survival game with Skyrim modders at the helm MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best open-world games, Best survival games, Best indie games