A major new Enshrouded update has been released in the form of Pact of the Flame, which brings new social features, improvements to the game's building systems, and more. What's more, developer Keen Games has revealed a tentative release window for the game's 1.0 release.
It's been a year since Enshrouded was released into Early Access, and to celebrate, Keen Games has released the game's fifth major update, which has tons of improvements and updates to various game systems.
Among the highlights for the update are the introduction of text chat to make communication easier, as well as a new emote wheel for extra social animations, a new first-person building camera, and more than 70 "new or previously unavailable props" for base crafting.

You can also look forward to individually resettable skills in the skill tree, new visual parry indicators for certain enemies, and several settlements and points of interest being "reworked and expanded significantly".
If you'd like to, you can read the full Enshrouded Pact of the Flame patch notes here. It's a pretty extensive list, so don't be afraid to skim it if you don't want a deep dive into everything that's changed.
As well as releasing the new patch, Keen Games has also revealed when we can expect Enshrouded's full release: it'll happen sometime in 2026, bringing the game to consoles as well as launching it out of Early Access.
Also, as if all of this wasn't enough, the Enshrouded roadmap for 2025 has been revealed, and it includes tons of new features like new weather events, new customization options, and voice chat, plus more. You can see it here in all its glory.

If you're not familiar with Enshrouded, it's an open-world survival-crafter in which you (and optionally your friends) must venture out into the deadly Shroud in order to take down enemies and gather loot to help you survive.
The game is available right now for PC via Steam Early Access. You can check out our preview right here.