New Open-World Survival Crafting Game on Steam Feels Like The Long Dark on Steroids

It’s like this with most genres, but survival games especially have a way of circling around the same ideas, even when they’re dressed up a bit differently here and there. Whether it’s the freezing isolation of The Long Dark or the usual loop of chopping, crafting, and repeating, it’s easy to know what to expect with the genre because it’s essentially what gets done almost every time. One upcoming open-world survival-crafting game on Steam called Category 6, however, looks like it might be trying to shake things up, not by abandoning the core ideas that make it a good fit for the genre, but by ensuring the pressure often associated with survival games comes from more than just resource scarcity and environmental hazards.