Darlings, Gameforge and Nordic Trolls just dropped the taming gameplay trailer for Under a Rock, and it's giving full creature-collecting fantasy with rideable, fightable hatched companions that carry your loot like personal pack mules. Tames get caught in baited boxes, chill at your base shedding resources or laying eggs if you keep them fed, but slack off and they ghost you back to wild mode with attitude. Companions hatch in the Hatchery, level up stats like Ferocity and Burden, take commands, rock cute hats, and bounce back from fights without permanent death — basically the low-maintenance BFFs every survival game dreams of.

The new footage spotlights fresh beasts like the eerie Curse Eye in crystal caves and those busy-but-deadly Giant Bees, tying exploration, base life, and combat into one cozy-yet-chaotic loop on this procedurally generated island. Steam's already sitting pretty with hundreds of thousands of wishlists from earlier teases, and the official account is buzzing with dev love for the feature fans have been begging for.

It's early days with no release date locked, but this system screams the kind of personal attachment that turns a standard survival craft into something players might actually stick around for instead of rage-quitting their bases.