Last month we wondered aloud whether DreamWorld, a self-described “infinite open-world sandbox MMO” from developer Dreamworld Realities, would make it to a March 10th release date, especially considering all of the Kickstarted game’s issues and drama leading up to this point. But sure enough, the game did indeed make it to release, specifically an early access release on Steam just as promised.
Readers might remember that this would be a second early access launch of the game, as it technically started early access in 2022, but that was through direct download; this is the Steam early access portion of its otherwise long-running and shambling development. Yet despite this, the studio heralds the Steam launch as the culmination of a four-year labor of love.
As for the title itself, it boasts of a single seamless world capable of housing thousands of players, while also hanging its hat on generative AI tools for players that lets them build 3-D models with text prompts. Most of its toolset and gameplay zeroes in entirely on being a builder’s sandbox, in fact.
However many players it claims to be capable of housing, DreamWorld is currently not really setting the gaming world aflame, with an all-time player peak of 56 on Steam so far and mixed user reviews as players complain about poor optimization and widely claimed digital land, while others praise its building tools and procedurally generated map.
