Keen Games just marked two years of Enshrouded in early access with a fresh roadmap and some big news. The survival crafting RPG, set in a vast open world shrouded in mist, will hit its full 1.0 release this fall 2026, pushed back a bit from an earlier spring target. The team wants extra time to fine-tune combat depth, enemy behaviors, and balance, plus add new map areas, challenges, and console support. It's no small feat: over 5 million players have jumped in, logging collective millennia of exploration time, and current Steam peaks hover around 20k daily with lifetime highs over 160k. The game holds steady popularity without massive hype swings.
Right now, a small Patch 13 drops today (Jan 22), tweaking combat visuals like parry cues and projectile accuracy, toning down random barrel explosions, adding a vanity armor set, and squashing bugs for better stability. Come spring, update 0.8 brings Adventure Sharing, letting folks publish and browse custom worlds and bases straight from the game, alongside polish passes on balance and performance. That's the bridge to 1.0, where sharing gets even beefier with logic tools, spawners, traps, plus newbie-friendly tweaks and shader speed-ups for lower-end rigs.
Post-launch won't stop there; expect free updates and paid expansions to expand the adventure. Enshrouded started strong in early access, grew through steady content drops like Wake of the Water, and now stands as a reliable pick for co-op building and survival fans. No wild overpromises, just measured progress on a solid foundation.
