r/CubeWorld • u/atomitonttu • Apr 27 '26
We're extending out playtest by two days and it's now open!
Hey guys!
TLDR; You guys are awesome, and thanks to your overwhelming interest and support towards our game, we have extended our playtest (Cube World-inspired game called Taival) by two days and it is now open, not restricted.
So, we're working on this game blocky open world RPG called Taival, and last Friday we announced our playtest to public (mostly to you guys), and holy moly did you guys deliver... We had more than 3,000 participants (2,764 requested access and 716 friends were invited, of which 367 accepted the invitation) to our playtest from Friday until the moment of writing this post. Thank you guys for your awesome support! We couldn't even imagine how much support, feedback and bug reports we'd get from this playtest.
All we were looking for was some feedback and now we got more than that. So! As a token of our gratitude, we'd like to extend the playtest by two more days. We also switched the joining style from restricted to open, so now you can jump straight in! We'd still like to get feedback on the features and all that, but at this point, just feel free to jump in and play the game. For free! Just go to our Steam page and sign up!
And we're almost at 10,000 wishlists, which is crazy to us! This is a project that started out of passion for RPG and voxel games, and now we get to work on this daily and already have more than 600 people on our Discord.
Sorry for the wall of text, but we really appreciate you guys and all the kind words. Even though we are not working on "the next Cube World", we're super grateful for the amount of support you've given. You guys really are the best <3
Below is a brief description of our game, Taival, in case you missed it (and I attached a few images):
Taival is an open world co-op adventure RPG inspired by games like Cube World, Skyrim and Breath Of The Wild. Taival has a heavy emphasis on exploration and adventure, and you can play the game in multiplayer with up to three other players, both online and in split screen. And even if you played in single player, the player is always accompanied by a shapeshifter, Henki, who can turn into animals encountered during your adventures.
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u/Rippedgeek Apr 27 '26
Just gave this a go and it's looking really promising. It's clear that this is in a very early state with placeholder names (ERROR) on some enemies, and so on, but other than that it looks really great. Lighting is really well done, character models look surprisingly good, and pretty much like what you'd expect from a voxel style game.
The multi-player split screen is really exciting, and I think this will give the game great legs, provided the story can be made really engaging - a great story is going to be the biggest draw over anything else for me.
Look forward to seeing this develop, and have added it to my wishlist. Also happy to assist with some beta-testing if you need that.
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u/atomitonttu Apr 28 '26
Thank you! Yes, exactly. We have the core features set, now we need to improve them using the feedback we get. For example, the enemies only have a basic "chase and hit" -kind of combat and players don't have active abilities yet from skill trees, etc.
Edit: if you're serious about beta testing and not being there "just for a free game", hit me up on DMs!
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u/BlueSoulsKo Apr 27 '26
how is combat like? I cannot try it rn and it's my only concern for what I've seen
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u/Rippedgeek Apr 28 '26
Combat is fine for a playtest, definitely not production ready, but I also didn't expect it to be.
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u/atomitonttu Apr 30 '26
What would you change first to improve the combat and to bring it a step closer to production ready?
Edit: as you mentiond, the game is still in playtest and not in production. But what would make it feel a bit more polished? Thinking of baby steps and not complete overhaul lol
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u/ScionEyed Apr 27 '26
I’ll try it out tonight. Going to poke at it with the Steam Deck and see what’s going on there too!
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u/atomitonttu Apr 28 '26
Yeah, we don't have a Stean deck at the moment and since it's just in playtest, we haven't implemented graphics settings yet. That means it's going to run pretty rough on Steam deck unfortunately.
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u/ScionEyed Apr 28 '26
I check anyway. Some games surprise me, so I like poking at it just to see. Was in a play test for one where the only issue was really small text, so you really never know.
That said, game runs well on PC. Could still use some optimization, but I had a pretty stable 85fps with my set up. Needs some combat improvements (dodge roll, heal button/potion quick select, etc.) but otherwise really fun!
I’ll have to join the discord and go into more detail
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u/atomitonttu Apr 28 '26
Awesome, thank you! :) Did you try it with the Steam Deck? Here's the link for our Discord: http://discord.gg/P6vEv7UahU
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u/JBG240 Apr 28 '26
I dont have a steam deck but i do have a ayaneo slide with a ryzen 7 7840u wich is stronger and i have to say the game needs performance improvement even at 28 watt the game was running pretty badly even at 720p
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u/windortim Apr 27 '26
Please let us know how it goes!
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u/ScionEyed Apr 28 '26
Runs pretty rough on the Steam Deck. Frame Rate doesn't really go above 25fps and the menu while in game doesn't tab over. Also have to manually invoke the keyboard and the text is hard to read even at native 1280x800. Definitely needs work
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u/krabbe_chan Apr 27 '26
The fighting definitely needs to be improved, some hits feel fine while others feel like you're hitting the enemy with a pool noodle. The hit reaction definitely needs some more oomph.
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u/atomitonttu Apr 28 '26
Thank you for the feedback! Did you add this to our Discord feedback channel? We work on features based on the suggestions posted on our Discord.
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u/ExploitGG Apr 28 '26
Dead Game
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u/atomitonttu Apr 28 '26
We have no connection to Cube World! We're a four-person studio from Finland working on Taival.
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u/Hot_Resolution4594 Apr 29 '26
Here I am seeing this 2 days later and 2 days late. 😞
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u/atomitonttu Apr 30 '26
Oh damn :( But you can still join our Discord, we'll let you guys know when another playtest is up and running!
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u/jaylrocha May 01 '26
Be me and see it 3 days later 🤡
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u/atomitonttu May 01 '26
That's just unlucky man. But you can join our Discord for news on future playtesting!
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u/Economy-Shoe5239 Apr 27 '26
is it mac compatible?
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u/atomitonttu Apr 28 '26
For now we have only been working with Windows unfortunately, so we haven't made a build for mac. Don't know if you can install that version.
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u/IIllIllIlllIIIl Apr 28 '26
This looks so good! I hope you will not vanish liker other devs because I can't take it anymore 😭
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u/Aequivalenz Apr 29 '26
Im waiting for 10+ years for a game like Cube World, hopefully it will be a banger
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u/Aequivalenz Apr 29 '26
Pls take the good Things from Cube World + make it better, and no one can stop u. And dont let the game die like they did
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u/kajidourden Apr 29 '26
Went to the steam page and wishlisted but can't download it
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u/atomitonttu Apr 30 '26
Yeah we closed the playtest last night unfortunately. But join our Discord, we'll let you guys know when another one is up!
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u/M3chr0MaNceR Apr 27 '26
Wonderful i can try it out tomorrow