Some of you may recall — or even be fans of — a cute indie voxel RPG known as Cube World. This was a MineCraft-styled multiplayer title that came on the scene in 2013, went intermittently dark for years after taking alpha monies, then re-emerged for a beta in 2019 and released thereafter. Reviews weren’t (and still aren’t) kind to the game, as many players were grumpy about developer Picroma’s long silences and post-alpha revisions.
The game went largely radio silent again before popping back up in 2023, when Picroma developer Wolfram von Funck announced that he was creating a successor called Cube World Omega that would be a vast improvement and utilize the Unreal Engine 5.
Von Funck posted blogs and videos of the new project through fall of 2023, but after that, the only news we got was the occasional Twitter post showing a screenshot or short video clip about hedgehogs, cube particles, the day/night cycle, moving foliage, and global illumination. The most recent of these posts happened back on June 7th, 2024, after which we haven’t heard anything from the game.
So is Cube World Omega still happening? We can hope, but until this elusive dev appears once more, we have no indication one way or the other.
