Cross The World

Explore gather craft fight and survive the fantasy world with persistent world simulation as an adventurer party Every part of the world is persistently calculated environment interacts and changes over time with season and progress Play alone or play together with your friends upto8 in multiplayer
quot I guess it s another open-world survival craft Roguelike how is it different this time quot
Ever thought of an open-world game where stuff in the background never disappears into thin air or map chunks don t freeze with everything in them NPCs trees animals etc until the player walks nearby
How about an open world where nature and the environment constantly progress with the flow of time into the future with weather temperature and seasons shaping the world as they go and whatever changes you or the world have made are persistent throughout the entirety of the game world
For example the fruits you harvested from a tree would rot and eventually disappear even after you ve moved away from the area and the trees would change shape with the seasons and bear fruit again the following year
Cross The World started as a very ambitious project an answer to that itch I ve always felt as a gamer who wanted a game just like that
How does the game play
The game world isn t procedurally generated It is6006 x402624180156 tiles sized world including ocean chunks on a ground level z level0 including underground1 z level that d be48 million persistent tile world
Game offers several difficulty levels and a choice to turn on off features like permadeath and fog of war
It s a party-based Roguelike you can control up to4 characters in your party
You can choose between28 classes and3 races while some classes can be similar to each other
Game provides more traditional RPG elements of character progression with levels exp from combat and quest active and passive skills equipment enchantments as well as the well-known open-world survival crafting genre s UI and experience like chopping tree grass breaking rock crafting tools cooking meals etc
Environment features such as temperature weather wet dry frozen day and night darkness and lighting fog of war permadeath and4 seasonal changes affecting the gameplay
In multiplayer you can host the game so your friends can control the characters together
Everything in the game world runs persistently nothing freezes and stops progression just because the player is away Whatever progress or change you inflicted upon the game world will not just stay but progress over time as well
This also means there is no loading once you are in the game switching between two characters even if they are500 or1000 chunks away is instantaneous
Game features a world scenario where through the quest progression players will save the world from the imminent threats
Level editor you can access while running the game like a creative-mode in both single-player and multiplayer.Everything written here sounds very ambitious can you really do this
In a perfect world yes But we don t live in a perfect world
That s why I ve decided to make90 of the game s source code open source
Hopefully this action shows the passion and the willingness to accept criticism of my game s code
What future updates are planned
Enhanced NPC behaviors Animals monsters humanoid NPCs participate in routines that more actively reshape and influence their surroundings
More Season Biome-related content such as seasonal plants animals fish etc
New Scenarios
This Includes large-scale simulations like animals crossing the continent by change of season monsters raiding nearby town mobs reproducing and taking combat each other
New Areas which are currently greyed-out in the map
Controller Steamdeck support
Improved and polished level-editor
Dedicated modding support from the official developer
For more details on the game please join our official discord via the link provided in this store page