Osiris: New Dawn

Osiris: New Dawn is an open-world sci-fi survival game set in the year 2078, where you play as a Mission Specialist sent to the Gliese 581 planetary system by the United Nations of Earth. Your ship malfunctions mid-journey and you crash-land on Proteus 2, a sprawling red-dust planet that openly owes a debt to The Martian and Prometheus. From the very first minute, the game throws you in cold: your spacesuit is already leaking, and your first crafting task is literally patching it with tape. That opener is genuinely tense, and it signals the kind of immersive, cinema-inspired atmosphere the developers were chasing from day one. The core loop is the familiar survival-crafting formula: scavenge resources, build a habitat with a pressurized atmosphere, grow food, research upgrades, and push further out into a hostile solar system. Where Osiris distinguishes itself is in the sheer visual fidelity and the creature design. The alien fauna on Proteus 2 ranges from small skittering things you can pick off with a blaster to enormous burrowing worms that launch out of the ground and remind you that some fights are just meant to be run from. You can tame certain creatures, construct droids and mechs to assist in exploration, and eventually build and pilot your own spacecraft. The base-building goes vertical, supporting multi-level structures with artificial atmospheres and interior gardens. On paper, the progression arc is satisfying. In practice, it depends heavily on how forgiving your patience is with bugs and rough edges. Multiplayer runs across four distinct modes: solo PvE, dedicated PvP servers, dedicated PvE servers, and private co-op sessions for up to five friends where you also get full difficulty scaling. Co-op with a consistent group is where the game shines brightest, since the colony-building and resource competition between player factions adds a layer of stakes that singleplayer cannot fully replicate. PvP servers deliver exactly what they promise, right down to strangers shooting you on sight before you have finished patching your suit. Here is where the honest part comes in, and I am not going to soft-pedal it. Osiris spent years in Early Access, formally left it in January 2023, and the full-release state disappointed a significant portion of its community. Bugs that had existed since the early days, including a non-functional multiplayer save system, persisted well past launch. The community reception turned sharply negative, the player count has dwindled to near-single digits on most days, and in April 2025 Fenix Fire officially announced the end of active development, with multiplayer servers remaining online but no further content planned. That is the defining context for any purchase decision right now. The vision was real and it produced some genuinely beautiful, tense moments. The execution never fully delivered on it, and the studio has now closed the book. For the niche audience who does not need a thriving multiplayer population and wants a moody, atmospheric survival sandbox with strong sci-fi aesthetics for solo or small-group play, there is still something here worth a few dozen hours. For anyone who needs an active community, reliable multiplayer saves, or ongoing updates, the situation today does not support that. Buy with clear eyes and treat it as a finished, if incomplete, artifact.

Monika · Scout Team

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