It is inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft.
You can play single player or multi-player, standalone or use an online server, or even host your own server in a Docker container, or on a Raspberry Pi. Plenty of options!
You start by creating your character, you can collect items for your inventory, you can craft items, there are weapons and combat, you develop skills, can tame creatures, you can trade with merchants, you can socialise, and lost more. There is no single, specific goal or focus, and the idea is to keep exploring and have adventures.
The game is community driven and actually updates quite regularly.
It is clearly no clone of Minecraft. It is fun and adventure!
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This looks awesome! I have no clue what I’m doing while playing so I probably look silly in-world heh.
I saw some excellent getting started videos - they at least get you orientated. But collect lots of cotton and you can trade that with merchants in towns for items you need to craft into weapons or armour, etc.
I’ve seen discussion of Veloren but I never knew it was open source. Roped some friends into trying it and we’re impressed by how much more content it already has compared to Cube World.
And it seems to be updating very regularly too…
Any word on Steam Deck compatibility?
I don’t have a steam deck but it is linux native so it shouldn’t be too difficult to get running on steam deck
It currently needs to be run via xwayland or x11 due to some bug and controller input is not great. Should be doable with the touch input on the SD though. There were some people on the chat reporting that it can be made to work on the SD and that it runs well.
Awesome! I will check it out!
Interesting. I will give it a try
It would be so fun if wé could make a beehaw veloren server
Thanks for sharing! This looks delightful
This looks pretty cool, love that it’s written in Rust and moreover that it runs on Linux. Definitely gonna try this.
oh, this looks sick! totally going to see if i can make my friends play with me lol
Oo this looks super interesting, I’m gonna download it today and try it out.
I just downloaded and messed around and I think I have something new to sink my hours into. This is awesome!
My friend group was burned on Cube World, and this game looks and plays exactly the way we liked how Cube World used to… I’m going to drop this on them and see how they react, played a few minutes of it and it satisfies that voxel itch
Going to try this out with my 8 yr old.
Wow, that’s amazing!
Glad flatpak is supported. Definitely trying this on my Batocera box.
Thanks for reminding me of the game that was never finished. -_-
Voxel Quest is (let’s be honest!) probably more of a research project than a game. It is an attempt to explore new areas in rendering, procedural generation, simulation, and AI. At this point, it is entirely free and I work on it as a hobby in my spare time. -https://www.voxelquest.com
This one looks like fun, though. I’ll add it to the backlog.
