Resident Evil and other post-apocalyptic games are as rampant as the zombies who are typically featured as groaning, stumbling enemies within them. That doesn’t make newly announced post-apocalyptic games less inherently enticing, however, and there are already at least a couple of great reasons to be excited for Techtive Games’ Ardem, a game that puts the “survival” in survival horror.
Ardem’s Steam store page describes it as “an immersive open-world survival RPG.” But while there is certainly a level of authenticity and ingenuity in its landscape, it may be most similar to and inviting for fans of both Resident Evil and Valheim—two games that, on their own, share nothing in common, yet lay foundations that Ardem can build on.
Ardem is technically free-to-play via playtests that have been going on for some time now. That said, Ardem is also ramping up to its paid early access period that “will start with a lower price,” though the developer states that “the price may increase once the game has its full release.”
Techtive doesn’t want to “create just another survival game,” and is “aiming for a development cycle of under two years.” As for what Ardem will...
