Soulmask (v1.0.13 & ALL DLC)

A brutal prehistoric frontier turns survival into a clan-building campaign where every resource, rival tribe, and ruined monument matters. Soulmask casts you as the final bearer of a strange ancient mask, stranded in a land shaped by forgotten civilizations, animal threats, and competing beliefs. Its mood sits somewhere between Conan Exiles and Valheim, but the focus falls more heavily on managing people and uncovering the purpose behind the mask’s power. Beginning with almost nothing, you hunt, gather, craft shelter, and gradually turn a vulnerable camp into a functioning tribal settlement.

Moment-to-moment play revolves around open-world exploration, hands-on survival, and increasingly capable combat. You gather materials, cultivate food, tame mounts, construct defensive bases, and venture into dangerous ruins for technology and answers. The defining system lets you recruit NPC tribesmen, assign them jobs, train them, and even take direct control of them, making individual skills and traits valuable rather than treating followers as disposable workers. Clan members can harvest, craft, patrol, farm, and defend while you push farther into hostile territory, and the mask itself expands your tactical options as your understanding of it grows. Solo play supports a slower, self-directed settlement journey, while online multiplayer lets groups divide labor, form clans, and compete over territory.

What separates Soulmask from many crafting sandboxes is its emphasis on identity transfer and tribal management: losing your original character does not necessarily mean losing your progress when a skilled follower can become your next body. Its dense progression systems reward players who enjoy optimizing a base, building a workforce, and preparing for difficult expeditions rather than simply erecting elaborate buildings. The world’s ancient ruins and spiritual mystery give the survival grind a larger narrative thread, even when player-driven goals remain the main attraction. Fans of ARK: Survival Evolved, Conan Exiles, or Palworld’s workforce systems should find plenty to dig into, though newcomers should expect a demanding opening and a lot of interconnected mechanics.