Scavland’s development team at NoShadow continues to impress indie gamers everywhere. The squad, which numbers barely more than a dozen staff members, has kept up a phenomenal update cadence for the post-apocalyptic shooter, and the most recent change is no different. It’s already at update 0.7.0, and it’s looking tasty.
The most exciting element of the 0.7.0 update is the ability to expand your stash. That’s great news, as most players have recognized that this is a looty game, especially if you’re playing on the newly added lower difficulty tier. You’ll quickly accumulate enough goodies to occupy the entirety of that stash, but now, that’s a thing of the past.
Read on to get the full gist of Scavland’s 0.7.0 update.
Scavland Continues to Evolve
Scavland is one of my favorite indie games of 2026. It’s a post-apocalyptic, pixel art survival game inspired by the likes of STALKER, Tibia, and Metro, and it’s coming together quite nicely. It was released just two weeks ago in early access on Steam, and already, the team has plugged into the community to bring together several major updates.
This latest update, 0.7.0, adds the ability to expand your stash, but it’ll set you back a pretty penny – 50,000 rubles per additional tab. Additionally, stashes and crafting tables have been added to all camps, but only the central village has the upgradeable option.
The game’s autosave function has been tweaked to better protect concurrent saves of different ‘runs’, which allows you to more easily experiment with different difficulty levels, too.
Talking about the community’s input to these updates, NoShadow has performed a balancing pass across repair and durability mechanics, increasing the resilience of almost all weapons in the game. Weapons now jam later and less frequently, and all gun and armor repair kits can be used regardless of how damaged your equipment is.
That was a sticking point that made the game a bit inaccessible in that way. Previously, repair kits were bound by the durability of your weapon. If they weren’t damaged to a certain extent or were too damaged, the repair kit just wouldn’t work.
Additionally, the game’s entire arsenal has been examined and balanced, with NoShadow focusing on accuracy, range, durability, and damage. In their words, they’ve made ‘each weapon more rewarding to use.’
In terms of quality-of-life improvements and general world changes, spawn rates, AI behavior, assets, loot distribution, incoming damage, stamina thresholds, trader stock and prices, and the overall economy have all been tweaked.
To close a blog post on Steam, NoShadow advised players to keep using the in-game feedback tool to report any new issues.
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Grant has been gaming for 30+ years and in the industry for 10+. You'll probably find him playing a post-apocalyptic game or an extraction shooter somewhere.
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