Scrap Mechanic

Our analysis

The new open-world co-op survival mode is so much fun, with brilliantly ingenious vehicle and machine building that lets you craft almost anything your mind conceives. Progression is clever, tying crop tiers to escalating farm-bot attacks and trading, and the world is large and varied. It's grindy and sometimes hard, and the early-access build suffers nasty framedrops near big buildings plus missing dedicated servers, a map, and markers, but it's a great game well worth getting for co-op or solo survival.