Guides · Exploration

Go see over there.

Every horizon is a real place: walk around the planet, dig under it, fly over it.

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Alphaplayable now

Openworld's world has no edge: it's a whole round planet, 1,000 km in radius, where walking straight brings you back home after 6,283 km. Forests, deserts, pack ice and oceans follow latitude and altitude, so every direction leads somewhere different.

Under your feet, caves hide coal, iron, oil, glowing geodes and lava lakes, down to 200 m — and our resources guide shows where to find each one, from black bitumen seeps to ore depths. Above it all, jump off a cliff: the wingsuit and the paraglider let you fly over the landscape and land wherever you like.

Exploration

Exploration guides

Exploration

Walk straight ahead… and come back to where you started

Most voxel worlds are flat. In Openworld the planet is round: walk straight and you come back to your start. How cubes fit on a sphere, and how far it is.

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Exploration

A wingsuit game: jump, fly, open, land

Jump off a cliff on a round planet: fly a wingsuit at 120 km/h, throw the pilot chute, steer your paraglider down. On Mac, Windows and Linux.

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Exploration

Cave exploration in Openworld: lava, oil and crystals under a round planet

Dig under a round planet: caves with lava lakes, oil, crystals and stalactites. What you'll find at each depth and how to come back alive.

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Exploration

How to find every resource in Openworld: oil, ores and gems, depth by depth

Where to find oil, iron, gold and gems in a voxel sandbox: bitumen seeps, ore depths, giant lodes, geodes, lava lakes and the Moon.

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Ready to go?

One small file, and your planet is waiting. The game updates itself.

Out now. Openworld is in alpha, and you can play it today.

AlphaYou are hereToday. The whole game, playable since the first day of the alpha, and it costs less.
BetaWhen the game is more stable.
Official versionThe final version. The launcher takes you there by itself.

Nothing to wait for: Openworld is downloaded from this site, not from Steam or any other store.

Your system

macOS

Apple Silicon (M1 and later) or Intel · macOS 11+

Mac Apple Silicon

Intel Mac? Openworld-macos-x64.dmg

Your system

Windows

Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit

Download

Openworld.exe

Your system

Linux

x64, glibc 2.31+ (Ubuntu 20.04+), Vulkan drivers

Download

Openworld-linux-x64.tar.gz

1Install Openworld with the downloaded file: it sets up the launcher.
2Create your account in the launcher and confirm your email.
3Pick your username… and play.

Follow Openworld

@play_openworld is Openworld's official Instagram page: videos of the game and news of every update.

@play_openworld

Openworld is created by @tompascard

Is Openworld out?

Yes. Openworld has been playable since the first day of its alpha. Download it for Mac, Windows or Linux, create your account in the launcher and play: there is no release date to wait for.

Is Openworld coming to Steam?

Openworld isn't on Steam or any other store, and you don't need one: you download the game from this site, today, and its launcher keeps it up to date.

Alpha, beta, official version: what does it mean?

Alpha: the game is playable and grows with every update; things move and sometimes break. When it is more stable, it becomes a beta, then its official version. It's the same game all the way: you play now, and the launcher installs each new version by itself.

Why play during the alpha?

You play right away, you watch the game grow update after update, and the alpha costs less than the official version will.

macOS says the app “wasn't opened”

Normal for now: the app doesn't have its Apple certificate yet. Click Done, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to Openworld and click Open Anyway. Just once.

Windows shows “Windows protected your PC”

The installer doesn't have its certificate yet. Click More info, then Run anyway.

And on Linux?

Extract the archive and run the program:

tar xzf Openworld-linux-x64.tar.gz && ./Openworld

You need a Vulkan graphics driver (Mesa or NVIDIA) and glibc 2.31 or newer (Ubuntu 20.04, Debian 11, Fedora 32 or newer).

What kind of machine do I need?

A Vulkan-capable graphics card (on a Mac, macOS 11 or newer). The game adjusts its view distance and weather quality: a recent laptop is enough.

The launcher doesn't open?

Update your graphics driver from NVIDIA's, AMD's or Intel's website. On a laptop with two graphics cards, update both. On Linux, install the Mesa Vulkan drivers (mesa-vulkan-drivers).

It's downloading!

Install Openworld

The game doesn't have its Apple and Microsoft certificates yet: your computer will be suspicious the first time you launch it. That's normal, here's how to tell it everything's fine. Just once.

1
Open Openworld.dmg
Drag Openworld into the Applications folder, then launch it from Applications.
2
macOS refuses: click “Done”
Definitely not “Move to Trash”.
3
System Settings → Privacy & Security
Scroll down to “Openworld was blocked”, click Open Anyway and confirm (password or Touch ID).
4
Relaunch Openworld
Click Open one last time. That's it: macOS won't ask again.

Comfortable with Terminal?

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Openworld.app

Then launch Openworld as usual.

1
Extract
```
tar xzf Openworld-linux-x64.tar.gz
```
2
Run
```
./Openworld
```
If it refuses: chmod +x Openworld first.
3
Vulkan
You need Vulkan drivers (Mesa or NVIDIA); on Debian and Ubuntu, mesa-vulkan-drivers covers AMD and Intel. vulkaninfo --summary will tell you if you're good.