Survival Craft Away From Life Enters Early Access on Steam
Away From Life enters a crowded survival-craft market with a focus on cooperative play and underwater exploration, and its Early Access roadmap suggests the developer is aiming for a full release within the year.
Reporting from 1 sources: Game Spark.
The open-world survival crafting game Away From Life launched into Steam Early Access on April 22, 2026. Players take the role of a helicopter crash survivor stranded on a dangerous archipelago. The game features resource gathering, tool and base crafting, food procurement, exploration, combat with wildlife, and underwater exploration. It supports cooperative multiplayer for up to eight players. The developer has published a roadmap on the Steam store page outlining plans for the full release, which is targeted for the end of 2026. Planned additions include new items, AI improvements, optimization, a custom island creation tool, fishing and advanced farming systems, new character progression elements, open-world activities, and vehicles. The article from Game Spark notes that Away From Life ranked second in a roundup of popular survival games for the first half of May 2026, behind the removed-then-restored Pickmos and ahead of the SSD-wear issue game Windrose.
Away From Life launched on Steam Early Access on April 22, 2026. The game puts players in the role of a helicopter crash survivor on a dangerous archipelago, where they must gather resources, craft tools and bases, secure food, explore islands and underwater areas, fight wildlife, and survive. It supports cooperative play for up to eight players. The developer has shared a roadmap on the Steam store page, listing planned features for the full release targeted at the end of 2026: new items, AI improvements, optimization, a custom island creation tool, fishing and advanced farming systems, new character progression elements, open-world activities, and vehicles. Game Spark ranked Away From Life second in a roundup of popular survival games for the first half of May 2026, behind Pickmos (which was removed from Steam and later restored with altered key art) and ahead of Windrose (which had a widely discussed SSD write-issue that was patched).
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