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Pathless Woods
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“An excellent survival/base building/farming game based on ancient Chinese folklore and Taoist beliefs, much deeper and challenging than it could seem at first glance, but at the same time it's still relaxing, and it's not stressful or too complex. I don't know why but somehow…”
— a player, Steam review · 43 hrs played“Mapped the game to controller, and it still confuses my wife a bit because obviously the visible prompts are still keyboard. Certain controls are mapped to an unnecessary amount of keys, like the teleport totem being G, when it could literally just be any of the other…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“keep it up guys”
— a player, Steam review · 79 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 18:23 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
We're Back! Pathless Woods - Updates Resumed!
Over the past year or so after our funding dried up, we tried every possible way to keep going, and we've finally found an opportunity to continue pushing the development of Pathless Woods forward. Th
A letter to players on the first anniversary
Greeting Settlers, Time flies. Since the release of "Pathless Woods" on Steam on April 3, 2024, it has been one year in the blink of an eye. This year, we released more than 20 updates, some big and s
Version 0.5234 Update
1. Fixed the issue of NPCs going missing. 2. Fixed the problem that the wicker low walls couldn't be demolished. 3. Fixed some synchronization issues of the airliner. 4. Handled some error messages.
Version 0.5233 Update
1. Fixed the issue where players couldn't feed other players. 2. Fixed the problem that the conversation bubbles wouldn't disappear. 3. Fixed the problem that clients couldn't shoot arrows.
Version 0.5232 Update
Fixes and Adjustments: 1. Fix the judgment problem when there are multiple quantities of recipe materials. 2. Handle the problem of the incorrect position of the dental - ear stone wall model. 3. Adju
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Open World · Crafting · Sandbox · Survival · Farming Sim · Simulation · Building · City Builder · Base-Building · 3D · Colorful · Cute (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · LAN Co-op |
| Languages | Simplified Chinese, English, Traditional Chinese |
| Achievements | 50 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 （64-bit） Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-4130 or Core™ i5-3470 or AMD FX™-6100 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 1030 (DDR4) or AMD Radeon™ RX 550 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 2 GB available space