Animyst

Animyst

Animyst Games · 2018 · Dark Fantasy, Demons, Horror, Philosophical, Surreal

PC
7 user reviews100% · 7 📉 Recent reviews down 87%
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About Animyst

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Rise from the dead as a skeletal warrior or cursed corpse in this open-world PvP survival game where you explore a post-apocalyptic realm, craft spells, and build monolithic bases with your faction. Engage in first-person combat against players and creatures while searching for mysterious lore pages, all while customizing your magic loadout and establishing your community in an ever-expanding desert wasteland.

There is no right way to live an afterlife... The world fell to pieces ages ago and all history crumbled to dust. Magic has brought you back from the dead, but your mind has eroded and your purpose is unclear.
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Play as either a Friend- a skeleton warrior assembled of bones from a mass grave; or a Cursed One- the fleshy walking Corpse of an embalmed aristocrat. Travel, explore, and build alongside your faction members, or stalk the territory of your enemies in search for players to kill and bases to crumble.
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You wake with a voice whispering in your head, leading you ahead on a quest of knowledge and power. Venture outward and explore the ever expanding Realm of the Dead. You must settle the land and build a new home as you wander the desert in search of pages of an old book, The Lore, which may hold the key to salvation.
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Participate in First-Person open-world PvP and PvE combat, as well as recurring daily events. Craft spells and magic trinkets to gear up in a completely customizable loadout. Throw fireballs, create giant sandstorms, hurl meteors and glide from the highest peaks with your spellcasting powers.
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Build a base with free-placing gigantic stone monoliths. Make your own Stonehenge and live in it. Place a Throne and establish a community to gain benefits from being a good neighbor. Make new friends and skeleton dance together, or insult each other with animated emotes.
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Animyst has been in open, playable, development since 2018 and is made by a tiny team of two mortals.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Mar 12, 2026
This game is really captivating and even though the overworld is a barren dead wasteland there seems to be a good few secrets I would really like to uncover... but the server lag is so bad that it's very hard to fight creatures or get anything done, which is a shame
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Recommended Mar 6, 2026
This should be the baseline for every single AAA going into the future
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Recommended Feb 25, 2026
Unique experience.
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Recommended Jun 20, 2026
Definition of a Fever Dream.
Recommended Jun 5, 2026
hoochika.... y'all.
Recommended Feb 11, 2026
Surreal, yet oddly captivating in its own bizarre way.

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