ORMOD: Directive is a survival sandbox from House 16 Software, set in a world overrun by the ORMOD machines. Each new game generates an endless procedural map, and you can play solo, with friends or on large persistent 24/7 servers.
Items exist physically and stay where they were dropped, so gear can be stolen straight from another player. Bases are laid out tile by tile in a top-down build view and can grow into automated factories. There is ballistic gunplay, vehicles with manual gearboxes, hunger, sickness and temperature, and mechanoid hunts at night. Modes include PvP, PvE, Hardcore and Creative.
It suits players who enjoy building and surviving under pressure. Much of it is designed for solo and co-op play too, and release is still far off: closed playtests with invite waves have been running since early 2026.
