Our latest coverage of rend.
After spending eight months in Steam Early Access, fantasy sandbox survival game Rend finally makes the jump to full release and making good on Frostkeep Studios’ promise to fully release the game within a year of hitting Steam Early Access. “We introduced Rend as a fully developed game experience with room for growth and advancement so we could work alongside [...]
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Frostkeep Studios has just rolled out Early Access Patch 8 for Rend today. Patch 8 is the Norse-themed survival sandbox game’s first update of 2019 and introduces significant changes to how bows work in the game. First and foremost is how bows are fired: “We’ve made a comprehensive update to how Bow combat works. As of this patch, you draw [...]
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Frostkeep Studios released their early access development roadmap today for their sandbox faction based survival game Rend. The game has been available through Steam early access for about 2 months now and despite a strong start the game's playerbase is in decline, averaging about ~240 players online at any given time. Some of the key targets and objectives in the [...]
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The faction based survival game Rend by Frostkeep Studios launched onto Steam early access yesterday on July 31, 2018. Think Conan Exiles or Rust, but more team oriented with faction based PvP. As with most other survival games, Rend is not free to play. It's available on Steam for $29.99. Since launching on Steam yesterday the game is hitting over [...]
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Looks can be deceiving when it comes to bipedal bird. Sure they look cute but you can never be too sure what goes on behind those large beady eyes. Are they friendly and can you ride them in search of buried treasure? Or will they gang up on you and peck you too death the moment you come too close? [...]
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Team-based survival game Rend has started Alpha testing during the weekend. Frostkeep Studios announced the game in March last year and plans to move the game into Early Access by the end of 2018. Unlike other in the market, however, Frostkeep promises a “complete” game when it transitions into Early Access. “Following a thorough Alpha test phase, Rend will enter [...]
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Your faction base is one of, if not the most important structure in the survival sandbox world of Rend. However, while building the faction base is a collective effort, some members might not feel a bigger sense of ownership as veteran members of the faction, especially ones who hadn’t earned enough faction reputation to actually build something. Frostkeep Studios recently [...]
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Faction-based survival MMO Rend will be hitting Steam Early Access later than expected. After a short Alpha test, ex-World of Warcraft developers, Frostkeep Studios decided to pull the game and push back the game’s Early Access launch to add in more survival MMO elements based on player feedback. The overhauled version will feature a bigger map, a new control point [...]
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In a surprise move earlier this week, Frostkeep Studios sent out their initial wave of pre-alpha invites for their survival sandbox game, Rend. The studio hopes to get more players into the game to help get it into Early Access. If you haven’t signed up for the pre-alpha you can still do so here. Also, keep an eye out for [...]
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In a new blog post that was posted yesterday, Rend developer Frostkeep Studios detailed some of the environments that players will encounter in the game. Players will start out in the idyllic Valley environment and make their way through increasingly hellish landscapes from there. They can head towards the World Tree, which is located in the Center, the game's "first [...]
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