Cross The World
Redbeehive Games · 2025 · Early Access, Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, RPG
PC
Positive100% · 15
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About 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 upto 8 in multiplayer!
"I guess it's another open-world survival craft RPG, how is it different this time?"
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 is 6006x4026(24,180,156 tiles) sized world including ocean chunks on a ground level (z level 0), including multiple underground z levels, that'd be 100+ million persistent tile world.
- Game offers Classic mode with features like permadeath and fog of war and casual mode without them.
- It's a party-based Roguelike RPG, you can control up to 4 characters or more in your party.
- You can choose between 28 classes and 3 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, and 4 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 are 500 or 1000 chunks away, is instantaneous.
- Level editor you can access while running the game like a creative-mode, in both single-player and multiplayer as a host.
- Dedicated modding support from the official developer.
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.
- 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.
- Calendar-based events like Fishing Tournament or Harvest Festival thrown and carried out by NPC AI.
- Controller, Steamdeck support.
- Powerful and polished level-editor as good as a game engine would.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Cross The World is awesome! One of my relatives gifted me the game for Christmas. I highly recommend it, there's lots to do, you won't get bored, and there are different playing styles and approaches you can use. For example, you could be more into combat or more into a peaceful play style with exploration. I love the many different options for customizing your character. In addition to the stats part of that, it's incredible how the automatic name generator changes the name suggestions based on your player type (male, female, dwarf, elf, human). The only negatives, which are minor, is that the in-game documentation is not as complete as I would have liked. This is more than made up for by the fact that the Discord channel is incredibly helpful and very responsive. If you're trying to do something in the game and can't figure it out, it's likely not a bug but just a lack of info. Simply head over to the Discord channel and ask. The other negative is that the multiplayer feature was still experimental at the time of this review. The good news is that the dev is actively updating this game often and is very responsive in the Discord - it's way better than what the bigger studios …5 found this helpful
Do you like open world games where you can play with up to 256 other people?!? Do you like unlimited possibilities where with a little elbow grease you can do anything? THIS GAME IS FOR YOU. The dev is super responsive in Discord, and the this game has so much going for it already. You can spend your whole career fishing and the world will just keep going on around you. It's like living in a god simulator, except you are just a peon who has to fight is way upward in the world just like everyone else. IF YOU LIKED KENSHI. YOU will like this. It's a great game already and will just keep getting better.3 found this helpful
Cross The World isn’t just another RPG where you complete quests and level up. It feels like a living world that keeps going even when you’re not there. Time passes, weather changes, and NPCs go on with their lives, which gives the game an amazing sense of immersion. The mix of survival, crafting, and RPG elements works really well. I started thinking I’d just go hunting for a bit, but ended up gathering materials, farming, and making gear because I was running out of food. That’s when it really clicked for me. The seasons and temperature system are surprisingly detailed, and preparing for winter adds a nice bit of realism. The visuals are simple but charming, and the lighting, especially at night or when it’s raining, creates a really cool atmosphere. The music is calm and fits the mood perfectly. What I like most is the developer’s approach to the world. It doesn’t stop when you log off, and things keep changing. That kind of world design is rare in this genre and makes every session feel different. The world doesn’t revolve around you; you’re just part of it, and that makes it feel more alive. It’s still in Early Access, but the direction looks solid and the devs seem to lis…3 found this helpful
Golly, this game is an absolute blast.2 found this helpful
You might start a little lost in the beginning but if you are used to rpg sandboxes like Elin, Dwarf Fortress, Unreal World, or Daggerfall you know you just need to start leveling up skills and more and more unlocks. I feel like this game has so many systems that I haven't even scratched the surface and I've almost put in 30 hours so far. Please give this game a try if you love sandbox RPGs!2 found this helpful
This game is created by a very active and helpful developer who quickly responded to questions about playing multiplayer. There is a lot of content here.1 found this helpful
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