Smalland: Survive the Wilds launches December 7 for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC [Update: Delayed to Q1 2024]

Open-world multiplayer survival game Smalland: Survive the Wilds will leave Early Access and launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on December 7, Merge Games announced. The console versions are newly announced.

Smalland: Survive the Wilds first launched in Early Access for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on March 29. New content will continue to be added to the Early Access version until launch. The third major content update will arrive in October, adding a new biome, new creatures, and more.

After its official launch, Smalland: Survive the Wilds will continue to be updated across console and PC with even more content.

Here is an overview of the game, via Merge Games:

About

After centuries living underground, the Smallfolk emerge from their burrows to reclaim the Overland now that the giants have gone. Join the exodus as a vanguard in an epic adventure played at a tiny scale. Explore, scavenge, craft and build as you fight to gain a foothold in this hostile new world.

A New Perspective on Adventure

Scale skyscraper sized trees, scramble through cavernous cracks, explore dense forests, hazardous swamps and strange ruins, as you experience a huge open world from a new perspective.

Turn Nature to Your Adventure

Fight, tame and mount a variety of creatures. Leap huge distances on grasshoppers, fly over the treetops on birds, scurry through undergrowth on spiders. This world and its inhabitants are yours to conquer.

Survive Alone or Thrive Together

Play alongside friends with support for up to 10 players in multiplayer. Explore together, fight together, build together and survive the wilds as a team.

Build the Foundations of a New World

Scavenge or refine resources to construct encampments with multiple material tiers, from wood to stone and metal. Pick a favorite spot in the world and build, or scale vast trees and claim your own permanent settlement at the top.

Craft New Gear to Even the Odds

Collect powerful armors that provide you with resistances and abilities and mix them up to personalize your appearance. Add wings to your armor to fly and glide through the world, or swing from tree to tree with the grappling hook.

A Dynamic Ecosystem

Brave the elements with variable weather, including lethal storms, and changing seasons all requiring different survival techniques to avoid an early death.

Key Features

• A huge open sandbox world to explore from a tiny perspective.
• Survive alone or work together with up to 10 players.
• Tame and mount insects, spiders, birds and more in order to travel further and faster.
• Explore at ground level or take to the skies.
• Build your perfect Great Tree base that travels with you to new servers.
• Discover Smallfolk lore through narrative quests and NPC encounters.
• Dynamic weather and random events organically create a living environment.
• Player upgrades and customization, warrior or builder—the choice is yours.

Watch a new trailer below.

Release Date Trailer

Update 11/15/23: Merge Games has delayed the release of Smalland: Survive the Wilds to Q1 2024. Get the full message from the development team below.

The launch of Smalland: Survive the Wilds 1.0 on PC and console will now be coming in Q1 2024.

The strategic action to release in Q1 will create the best possible result from a content and competitive environment standpoint and gives the team a timeline to implement even more features, giving new and existing Smallfolk the quality experience they expect.

Multiplayer is a vital aspect of Smalland, and we’re pleased to confirm that we are now in the process of implementing server support to dramatically improve online play, alongside other performance-enhancing improvements.

We will be refining and perfecting the new 1.0 content and post-launch roadmap, both of which we cannot wait to share with you all.

As an indie survival game, we live and breathe our community and couldn’t be here without you—which is why we are committed to delivering an excellent experience from Early Access to 1.0 and beyond. A new release date will be revealed soon. We are incredibly thankful for all your support thus far and look forward to sharing the full 1.0 experience soon.

Best,
The Smalland: Survive the Wilds Team