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By My Side

Survive the wild with a loyal dog at your side. Wash up with nothing, tame a stray and raise it as your companion — build and power a home, outlast brutal winters, and face a world that fights back.

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Release Date:

Jul 3, 2026

Developer:

OverLKD Studio

Publisher:

OverLKD Studio

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French	✔	✔
German	✔	✔
Spanish - Spain	✔	✔
Portuguese - Brazil	✔	✔
Simplified Chinese	✔	✔
Japanese	✔	✔
Russian	✔	✔

Coming Soon To Early Access

The developers of this game intend to release as a work in progress, developing with the feedback of players.

Note: Games in Early Access are not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should wait to see if the game progresses further in development. Learn more

What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“By My Side is made by a small independent studio, and Early Access lets us build it together with our players. The heart of the game — surviving the seasons, building and powering a home, farming, and raising a dog companion at your side — is already here and fully playable. A cozy survival game like this grows best with real feedback: what you enjoy, what needs balancing, and what you'd like more of will directly shape the road ahead. We'd rather build the rest of the game with the community than on our own.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“We're planning roughly 12 to 18 months in Early Access. That said, getting the game right matters more to us than hitting a fixed date — if community feedback shows we need more time to polish features and content, we'll take it. We'll keep players updated on our progress along the way.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“Our goal for the 1.0 release is a bigger, deeper and more polished game. We're aiming to expand the world with more biomes, animals, crops and buildable content, deepen the homestead and survival systems, add more to do across the seasons, and refine balance and polish throughout — guided by what the community helps us prioritize. Early Access is the version where the foundation is solid and the content keeps growing.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“By My Side is already a complete, playable survival experience. You arrive in a procedurally generated wilderness, find and tame a dog that grows and follows you, gather resources, and build and furnish a multi-story home. You farm crops across four seasons (with greenhouses for year-round growing), raise animals, and run your own power and water systems — solar panels, batteries, pumps, heaters and sprinklers. You hunt, fish, craft, and survive harsh winters and wolf attacks. Two modes (hardcore Survival with permadeath, and a relaxed Story mode) and interface localization in 8 languages are already in. Expect some rough edges and ongoing balancing — that's exactly what Early Access is for.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“We plan to raise the price gradually as the game grows with more content and features during Early Access, so buying early means supporting development at the lowest price. The price will not change at the moment the game leaves Early Access.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“Player feedback is at the core of this project. We'll gather suggestions and bug reports through the Steam Community Hub, the discussion forums and our Discord, and use them to prioritize updates, balance and new content. We'll share progress regularly and let the community help steer what we build next.”

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About This Game

You wash up alone in the wilderness — nothing but your hands and what the land gives you. You chop wood, raise a shelter, and fight to stay alive as the seasons turn toward a merciless winter. Then one day, a stray dog crosses your path. Feed it. Earn its trust. Watch it grow — and it never leaves your side.

By My Side is an open-world survival-craft game about raw survival, a home you build with your own hands, and the bond that grows between you and your dog.

🐕 Your Dog, Your Story — Find a stray and raise it from a pup. Each run it's a different breed with its own look and talent. Teach it tricks, put it to work — guard, hunt, or haul a sled — and it follows your commands, watches your back, and warns you the moment danger closes in.

🏡 Build & Power a Home — From a first campfire to a walled homestead with a glass greenhouse and an upper floor. Place every foundation, wall, stair and roof freely — then bring it to life with your own power-and-water grid: solar, batteries, pumps, heaters, sprinklers, smelters and smart-relay automation that keeps the base running while you're away.

🔨 Craft Everything — Over 90 recipes across workbench, furnace, campfire and powered machines. Gather raw materials and refine them through real crafting trees — ore into iron into steel, fibre into cloth into cable — into tools, gear and the machines that run your home.

❄️ Survive the Seasons — Stay warm, fed and dry as spring, summer and autumn give way to a winter that wants you dead. Food spoils — salt it, preserve it, stock the larder before the cold. Droughts, animal migrations, wolf packs and aurora-lit nights keep every year unpredictable.

🌾 Live Off the Land — Till fields and grow crops, keep them alive year-round in a heated greenhouse, raise animals, trade with a wandering merchant, and automate the grind so your homestead works for you.

🐺 Defend What's Yours — The wild fights back, and it escalates the longer you last: harsher winters and pack sieges that strike from the first night. Read the danger, fortify your home, and hold the line beside your dog.

🧭 Every Run Is Different — Start from a fresh scenario, then take on one of a dozen origins — each a real strength and a weakness that shape how you survive. Climb the homestead ranks toward an endgame worth chasing.

🎮 Two Ways to Play — Survival (hardcore: one life, permadeath) or Story (your home and world endure when you fall).

Arrive with nothing. Leave a legacy — with your dog by your side.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

By My Side is developed by a small independent studio, and we use generative AI as part of our content pipeline:

- 3D models — many in-game models (crops, props, buildings, devices and characters) are generated with Meshy AI, then adjusted, scaled and integrated by hand.
- Music & sound — parts of the soundtrack and sound effects are created with AI audio tools and curated by us.
- Localization — translations are drafted with AI assistance and reviewed before release.

All AI-generated content is reviewed, edited and curated by the developer before it ships. No generative AI runs live during gameplay — everything is pre-generated and fixed.

System Requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
Processor: Intel Core i5-7400 / AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1060
Storage: 4 GB available space
Additional Notes: Vulkan-capable GPU required. SSD recommended.

Recommended:

OS: Windows 11 (64-bit)
Processor: Intel Core i5-10400 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Storage: 4 GB available space

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