Stones are weapons now in AREAZ. Stone in your right hand, aim, throw. One stone kills a rabbit. On Exploration and Eden an arc shows where it lands, and a trail follows every throw. #survivalgame #survivalgames #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

Lost in AREAZ? On Exploration and Eden, a new map now shows where to search for what your current mission needs. On Hard and Hell, you are still on your own. And driftwood stays on the beach after the tide goes out. Update 0.60.100. #survivalgame #survivalgames #indiedev #gamedev

AREAZ now has missions - a mission tree that teaches the first hours, XP for nearly everything, and Hunter, Forager and Fisher bonuses. On Eden you can loot your own body. Calories and water still decide everything. Update 0.60 is out. #survivalgame #survivalgames #indiedev #gamedev

Our GameDev Connect booth in Brno: an old ammo crate full of coconuts, bananas and mangoes, with a mission sheet on the lid. Play AREAZ, complete the mission, take your fruit - thank you all. #gamedev #indiedev #survivalgames

First day at GameDev Connect in Brno is done. Strangers played the next AREAZ update - missions, XP, abilities, traits - and some of them didn't want to leave the chair. Thank you, and thanks for the bug reports too. Back tomorrow. #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevconnect

Two lianas make a rope in AREAZ. One in each hand, hold F. Or one in each hand slot of the crafting menu. Or let Autocraft pull them from your backpack. #survivalgame #survivalgames #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

AREAZ roadmap. Done: DX12 + DLSS 4.5, Autocraft, new hints. Next: missions in November, other survivors' remains in December, Map 2 and beta in 2027. Price goes up after the Autumn Sale. #indiedev #survivalgames #steamsales #steamautumnsale store.steampowered.com/app/935490/?...

How to eat a mango in AREAZ. Press F to pick it up, hold F to eat. 80 food and 20 water. Or in the inventory, click Eat, or right-click the mango and choose Eat. #survivalgame #survivalgames #indiedev #gamedev #steamsales #steamautumnsale

Most materials in AREAZ now stack to 12 - sticks, rope, palm leaves, arrows. And the new hints near the crosshair show exactly what F will do, with your own key bindings. Update 0.59.300, straight from player feedback. #survivalgame #survivalgames #indiedev #gamedev #steamsales #steamautumnsale

Your first tool in AREAZ is two obsidians. One in each hand, hold F, and you have a stone knife. Or drag one into each hand slot of the crafting menu and click Craft. #survivalgame #survivalgames #indiedev #gamedev #steamsales #steamautumnsale

Small thing, saves a lot of clicks. Stop dragging items in AREAZ. Ctrl + click moves an item between your hands and backpack, or into a storage box. Right-click it to eat, use, drop, split or stack. #survivalgame #survivalgames #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #steamsales #steamautumnsale

Autocraft is in AREAZ. In the inventory, one click moves the items from your backpack into your hands and crafts. Out in the world, hold F still crafts from your hands. #survivalgame #survivalgames #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #steamsales #steamautumnsale

Infinite knife hack. Scrap metal and one short bamboo makes a knife you can grind back to new with a stone. The stone knife can never be repaired. #survivalgame #survivalgames #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

You can now play all of AREAZ on a controller - menus, inventory, crafting, the lot. The stick works as a mouse, and every key rebinds on keyboard, mouse and pad. Update 0.58.300 also updates DE, IT, CZ and SK, and adds Brazilian Portuguese. #survivalgame #survivalgames #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

ow to fry an egg in AREAZ. The stone campfire is six stones in each hand. Five places to cook at once, and it is the only fire that takes an egg. Where the eggs are, you figure out. #survivalgame #survivalgames #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

Your stone knife dies in a few cuts. It is not the knife. It is the two stones you picked. Every pickup in AREAZ shows its health before you touch it - yellow is damaged, green is pristine - and the knife is born with theirs. #survivalgame #survivalgames #indegame #gamedev

The sea is the best food in AREAZ and the only place that hunts you back - sharks. Bamboo rod left, stone knife right, and you have a trident. Charge with the mouse, let go to strike. Watch the last few seconds. #survivalgame #survivalgames #solodeveloper #gamedevelopment #steamsale

Crates in AREAZ carry loot you cannot find anywhere else, and they are not random. They turn up after you complete a mission. Crate left, stone right, hold F. Empty it before you can pick it up, then keep it. It burns longer than wood. #survivalgame #survivalgames #steamsale

A shelter in AREAZ is not one build. It is four, on the same spot. Bamboo and rope three times, then five palm leaves to cover it. The part nobody expects: you can unlock and move it between upgrades. #survivalgame #survivalgames #steamsales #steamevent #indiegame #solodeveloper

AREAZ is a one-developer PVE survival game in UE5, on Steam. Real-world survival on a tropical coast. Free demo is the entire first map. New Update with DX12 and DLSS4.5 on UE5 @nvidiabot.bsky.social @steampowered.com #indiegame #survivalgame #gamedev store.steampowered.com/app/935490/AreaZ/