Gather, craft, build, thrive, and sometimes survive. Here's what 2026 has in store for the open-world crafting genre.

In the original The Outer Worlds, there was no crafting system, at least not in the typical sense. Instead, you had Tinkering, which allowed you to repair and improve your favourite weapons so they ...

Open-world games offer diverse crafting opportunities, from survival to RPGs. Crafting systems in modern games are expansive, allowing for endless possibilities. Games like Rust and Starfield offer ...

The first big video game hit of 2024 was Palworld, a game everybody thought would be “Pokémon with guns” but turned out to be an open-world crafting game where you capture monsters — called “Pals” — ...

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