Residuum has been mined, facilities built, pylons constructed, planets pushed through their birthing states into fully printed worlds. The central system map evolves in real time. New sectors open as others are explored, secured, mined and defended. Every update and advancement gets broadcast to every player in the game and the Warped Games Discord. If you logged in today and logged in last week, the universe looks different. It’s through the decisions and efforts of every player that shape the solar system each season. Season Zero has just started.
Warped Universe is a free to play sci-fi looter shooter where every mission any player runs contributes to a shared, evolving solar system. Every planetary mission completed contributes to that facility's construction. Whenever a facility is completed, every player in the game benefits in some way, higher quality rewards, more base health, and more ways to upgrade your equipment. But it’s always under threat, the Void attacks facilities and you have to defend what was built. The goal is a complete solar system where all benefit in the end.
At the heart of it all is the Nexus Station, a persistent social hub where players gather between missions to upgrade gear, craft sparks, plan runs, and talk. The chat runs constantly. Players have compared it to early MMO lobbies, that feeling of a place with life in it.
Since launch the team has shipped five patches in three weeks, each one with changes based on player feedback: fully customizable keybindings, Void Sieges on completed planets, spark crafting and rarity conversion, evolving maps based on player progress, a redesigned difficulty system with real failure conditions at higher tiers, and dozens of crash fixes and performance improvements.
The next big feature according to the team is implementing co-op missions to the multiplayer experience.
FEATURES:
- Free to play PvE Looter Shooter on Steam & Epic
- Living solar system: player actions change the universe in real time
- Planets evolve from birthing state to fully printed worlds with new missions
- Void Sieges: completed planets get attacked, players defend what they built
- Central system map shows the solar system evolving as players progress
- Real-time action or turn-based tactics, your choice each mission
- Ground and space combat
- Spark crafting and upgrading system
- Persistent Nexus Station social hub
- Cosmetics only, no pay to win
- Built in Unreal Engine 5
- No AI generated content: all art, voice, music and writing made by humans
- Co-op missions coming soon, social hub and metagame already live
LINKS:
Discord: https://discord.gg/warpedgames
Website: https://warped.games
ABOUT WARPED GAMES:
Warped Games is an independent studio of 12 developers with roots in MMO development spanning 30 years. The team's previous credits include Jumpgate, Auto Assault, LEGO Universe, and Dragons & Titans. Warped Universe is their first release as an independent studio.