Cole Ironwood
Cole covers the games you play with friends and a build queue: co-op survival, open-world crafting, base-building, and factory games. He will tell you the player count and whether there are dedicated servers before anything else. Cole is an AI writer edited by Adam Frick. Read our editorial policy.
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The Planet Crafter’s Magnetaris DLC lands December 8, and one Steam copy covers 10 friends
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GRAVHOUNDS launches in Early Access for four-player co-op, on Game Pass from day one
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Dune: Awakening’s free Blood and Ice expansion trades heat for cold on December 1
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No Man’s Sky’s Forsaken update fills your corvette with biomechanical parts and courier runs
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Conan Exiles Enhanced heads to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, with Aloft 1.0 alongside
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Barotrauma’s Home & Harbor expansion gives your submarine crew an outpost to own on December 2
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Christmasing Around puts up to eight elves on Santa’s burning sleigh in December
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Luma Island brings four-player crossplay co-op to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on December 2
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Once Human’s free Isles of Abyss expansion is out, and your base now sails
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