Unreal Engine 5: List of Confirmed Survival Games

The last part of 2022 left Unreal Engine 5 fans hanging. During the State of Unreal 2022 event, Epic Games made Unreal Engine 5 available for all game developers to use for their upcoming projects. Both high-profile and even less well-known games have been confirmed to use the platform.

The highly successful and popular engine game, Unreal Engine 5, will likely see the busiest (yet) and heavy usage while the current console generation develops. This new version is said to be “a leap forward in terms of crafting geometry, lighting, and animation”, according to Epic Games.

Here is the list of best survival games that are currently being made in Unreal Engine 5 and Unreal Engine 4 and will come out in 2023 and beyond. Netizens say that the best upcoming games like Call of Duty and Battlefield with ultra realistic and photorealistic graphics coming out this year! Are they for you though? Let’s take a look!

1. Dune: Awakening
Made its debut at The Game Awards as an open world survival, the massive multiplayer online game provides players to “Rise from survival to dominance in a vast and seamless world of Arrakis, shared by thousands of players. In this open world survival MMO, build shelters against sandstorms, maintain your stillsuit, and master the old ways to walk even the deepest deserts.”, Funcom publishes.

Dune: Awakening – Pre-Alpha Teaser Trailer here: https://youtu.be/Ixq-y_r-lkE

Inspired by Frank Herbert’s sci-fi masterpiece and the award-winning blockbuster film by Dennis Villeneuve, players will get a chance to “ascend from searching for water and building shelters against storms to controlling the flow of spice in the top echelons of Arrakis”, Funcom added.

Hopefully, it will be close to the second Dune movie coming in late 2023.

2. Nightingale
Nightingale is described as a “shared-world survival crafting game set within a rich Victorian gaslamp fantasy setting”. Realmwalkers play in the Victorian-style fantasy. Fans were disappointed that Nightangale got delayed in 2022 with developer Inflexion Games posted to Twitter revealed that Nightingale has been delayed until “early 2023” in order to upgrade to Unreal Engine 5.

Nightingale- Official Gameplay Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCbGq5IdSag

Inflexion Games cited its good reasons to delay the early access release.

“The first is an upgrade to Unreal Engine 5,” the studio revealed. “After reviewing the potential UE5 has to offer, we decided on upgrading now rather than waiting until after release.”

“Secondly, Inflexion Games is committed to delivering the best possible experience and fulfilling the promise of what Nightingale’s universe of realms has to offer players. To Achieve that, the additional time will allow the team to make key improvements, bolster content, and polish gameplay.”

Fans share the excitement of Inflexion CEO Aaryn Flynn told NME: “The thing that got us excited in the earliest days of developing Nightingale was the idea of crafting a new universe with some rich worldbuilding. A lot of survival crafting games build on existing lore and understanding of how things work, that they build on over time. I think we were ambitious to say ‘what if we put worldbuilding front and centre?’ and made it a foundational piece of our game.”

3. Frostpunk 2
Following the the highly acclaimed, BAFTA-nominated society survival game that blended city building, strategy and management gameplay, 11 bit studios released its statement on the upcoming sequel: Frostpunk 2.

“You play as the leader of a resource-hungry metropolis where the expansion and search for new sources of power is an unavoidable reality. After the age of coal, conquering Frostland for the oil extraction industry is expected to be the new salvation of what’s left of humanity. However, change does not come easily, and not everyone in this new multi-layered society will welcome this new direction.”

Watch Frostpunk 2 Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kfHUN4gFiw?autoplay=0&rel=0&controls=0&showinfo=0&modestbranding=0

“What we aim to deliver to players is an experience that goes vastly beyond that of the original Frostpunk. With a still-growing team of nearly 70 people, we have more manpower available to focus on all aspects of the game from the scale, the production value, and the quality of UX, but our ambition is to do more than a straight-up sequel. What players should expect is a wide universe of choices, the freedom to shape the society and the city however they see fit – and reap the consequences.”, Jakub Stokalski, Frostpunk 2 Co-Director, added.

Add Frostpunk 2 to your Wishlist on Steam to play it on premiere date: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1601580/Frostpunk_2/?utm_source=frostpunk2_com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=fp2_annoucement#game_area_purchase

4. Occult Chambers
“Occult Chambers” is a third-person action horror video game set in the valleys of the Himalayas. The game explores the horror elements of Occult Rituals and the fantastical creatures from the rich deep Indian mythology, developer BornMonkie summarizes.

Watch the Occult Chambers Teaser here: https://youtu.be/TTDy6NXxGzY

To be released in 2025, BornMonkie developed the game as part of the new breed of Indian gaming developers who are working on AAA console and PC titles instead of smartphone games.

5. Sengoku Dynasty
Targeted to be released second quarter of this 2023, players expect to “experience an epic adventure in Feudal Japan and build your own village in a beautiful ocean-side valley in this cross-genre game. Protect your settlement from the dangers of war-torn Japan and rise from simple peasant to man of legend.”

Add Sengoku Dynasty to your wishlist to play on premiere date: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1702010/Sengoku_Dynasty/