Under a Rock ‘Development Progress Update’ video, screenshots

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Gameforge and Nordic Trolls, the team behind the upcoming survival adventure game Under a Rock, recently shared an update on the game’s development. The game, announced in 2023, has already been wishlisted over 450,000 times on digital stores.

Here is an overview of the game, via Gameforge:

About

Under a Rock is a new survival-adventure game where you explore a vast, ever-changing island. Discover strange creatures, towering wildlife, and unique inhabitants as you uncover the island’s mysteries. You’ll need to build a base and survive both the challenging landscapes and dangerous nights.

This update moves the game beyond basic technology and focuses on how players experience everything together. Exploration, building, combat, and finding new things now all connect and work together in a more engaging way.

The new developer video gives fans a great look at how the game is progressing, showing off things like automatically generated environments, cave exploration, building bases, underwater movement, and improved combat. It really highlights what the game currently offers and where the developers are taking it.

The team working on Under a Rock has been busy improving the game’s most important features over the last few months. They’ve been building a solid foundation for players to progress further and experience more unique and unexpected gameplay.

Key Features

  • Procedural World Evolution – Expanded world generation with new “epics,” improved starter crash sites, richer biomes, and more intentional structure, making exploration feel distinct and purposeful across regions.
  • Caves, Oceans, and Lakes – Major content and technical upgrades to caves (new modules, creatures, underground resources), a full underwater visual overhaul, swimmable lakes, and early implementation of underwater combat and pathfinding.
  • Base Building and Blueprint System – New crafting and construction stations, plus a fully implemented Blueprint system that allows players to capture, share, cloud-sync, and redeploy bases with color-coding and decoration previews.
  • Research, Cataloging, and Journaling – The first phase of a deeper discovery loop, turning exploration into structured progress through researchable Creatura and Materia entries that expand the in-game Journal over time.
  • Combat, Animation, and Balance Improvements – Refined combat timings, clearer visual feedback, new weapons (including cursed variants), improved parries, rebalanced creature tiers, animation polish, and preliminary steps toward underwater combat.
  • Environmental Hazards and Survival Systems – New fire and drowning mechanics with clearer warning and damage phases, reinforcing environmental awareness and preparation.

The game Under a Rock is currently being developed for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC, and will be available on Steam and the Epic Games Store. An official release date hasn’t been announced yet.

Watch the developer update video below. View a new set of screenshots at the gallery.

Developer Update Video

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2026-01-28 15:01