The Universal is a free massively multiplayer online game. Write the history of your civilization as you struggle from prehistoric ignorance to the stars!

Starting life as a simple caveman, you must compete and cooperate with other players to advance your society. Ultimately, you'll have the chance to build and run your own world in the galaxy.

The Universal progresses through a series of chapters with their own unique gameplay and challenges, from crafting and trading to combat and racing. At various points in the game the actions of individual players can change the course of history - or the cosmos itself!

While all of this goes on there are regular mini-games and events to take part in, and achievements to earn, as well as a fair amount of sitting down, chatting with other players and generally messing about.

The Universal is free to download and free to play - no ads, no catches.



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0 comments by TheUniversalDev on May 19th, 2012

Over the past few months our friendly little playerbase has been living out the first 60,000 years or so of human pre-history, which mostly involved sitting around eating a load of nuts & berries, dying occasionally and then an awful lot of waiting around. There's been a few notable events, like the generation of some thoroughly pointless mythology about an ark and a tower, the extermination of all life by a minor asteroid impact and a series of discoveries & inventions that led to the creation of kilns, bronze, boats and swords - with the latter getting messy pretty quickly once people worked out how to use 'em. Go go bloodsplats! 

Over the past few weeks the small population of the world has begun settling down in Chapter 3, building a few farms and doing a bit of baking.
 

This weekend we're entering a new phase, as we begin to learn more of the advantages of a settled civilisation, with our commulative wisdom leading us to the beginnings of a complex economy.
If you're in to those sort of occasional games where you get to corner the market for gold, profit from a wheat shortage or just help out another player by cutting a good deal on some construction work, now might not be a bad time to pop in and have a play. 

Alongside the sedate pace of the economy world, over the next few weeks there'll be various events & minigames including the traditional races and shamanic crow tournaments - check out the website regularly for details. 

The game continues to get frequently updated as we move through the ages, with lots more economy and gameplay stuff to come, heading for a return to space sometime in 2013. 
 

Hope to see you around :]


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clonekingtehsniper Feb 8 2012, 7:12pm says:

nice

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Trenial Feb 7 2012, 3:07am says:

For some more videos, old ones, check my Profile -> Videos.

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