An open-world fantasy game
Everything starts somewhere.
Wake with nothing on a shard of a broken world. Gather with bare hands, build before dark, find the element waiting in you, and grow from a donkey to a dragon. No levels. You become what you do.
- PCComing first
- PlayStationPossibly later
- XboxPossibly later
skills that grow by use
peoples from old myths
elements to wake
0levels. You become what you do
One world, four ways in
Grow, make, build and fight
Everything in Boz Universe starts small and grows with you. Everything works with mouse and keyboard and with a controller.
Skills
A world of skills
No levels, no classes. 53 skills that rise each time you use them. What you do is who you become.
Making
Gather and make
Wood, then stone, then metal. Every tree and rock can be worked, and new pieces are discovered as you play.
Building
Build in a moment
Walls, floors, stairs and roofs snap into place. Hold your village against raiders, or test yourself in the ring.
Fighting
Fast, physical fights
Heavy blows, dodges, warned attacks on the ground, fury, fighting arts and loot with legendary powers.
Your first hour
Everything starts somewhere. Yours starts here.
You wake alone on a seam-shard, a small island of your own people's land, where the world is thinnest. A young archivist of the Nazars walks with you, and the Chronicler names each chapter.
- I
Bare Hands
You came with nothing. Most of us did.
Snap sticks from a tree, pry stones from the rock.
- II
Var and Yok
Every door in this world asks one question: light, or silence?
Wake an old shrine's door with a lever and threads.
- III
Things from the Seam
Where the eye is shut, the cold comes through.
Fight off the shades that slip through.
- IV
The Element Wakes
Something in you has been waiting for this.
Choose fire, water, earth or air at the cracked lens.
- V
Before the Night
Walls first. The dark is patient.
Build a shelter, then hold it till dawn.
- VI
Even Riding Starts Somewhere
The kindest thing you do today will carry you.
Calm a donkey, and ride.
- VII
The Eye Opens
Look through it. Look how far it goes.
Set a machine running and wake the eye.
The Sundering
Before the first morning, there was the One
Light and silence, held as a single breath. Kayra.
And the One broke.
Var, the light, ran one way. Yok, the dark, ran the other.
Where they parted, worlds were born. One of those sparks was Boz.
Inside the game
What you do there
Screenshots from the game as it is today. Much of the art is still stand-in.
Build anything, piece by piece
Press B and the world becomes a grid. Floors, walls, stairs, roofs, forges and looms snap into place, and new pieces reveal themselves as you play. Build three walls and you work out a window.
How building works
No levels
You become what you do
53 skills rise a tenth of a point at a time as you use them. Swing a sword and you get better with swords. Chop a tree and you get better at chopping. All your skills together hold 700 points, so nobody masters everything: who you become is a choice you make by playing.
- 30Neophyte
- 40Novice
- 50Apprentice
- 60Journeyman
- 70Expert
- 80Adept
- 90Master
- 100Grandmaster
Combat
Anatomy · Archery · Athletics · Fencing · Healing · Mace Fighting · Martial Arts · Parrying · Swordsmanship · Tactics
Gathering
Farming · Fishing · Herbalism · Lumberjacking · Mining
Crafting
Alchemy · Blacksmithing · Bowcraft · Carpentry · Cartography · Cooking · Inscription · Smelting · Tailoring · Tinkering
Magic
Aeromancy · Evaluating Intelligence · Geomancy · Hydromancy · Magery · Meditation · Pyromancy · Resisting Spells · Spirit Speak
Nature
Animal Lore · Animal Taming · Camping · Riding · Sailing · Tracking · Veterinary
Subterfuge
Detect Hidden · Hiding · Lockpicking · Poisoning · Remove Trap · Snooping · Stealing · Stealth
Bardic
The Nazars
Thirteen eyes. One is shut.
Thirteen eyes watch the seams where the worlds touch. For an age, not one of them blinked. Now one is shut, and through the seam it watched, something is listening.
Your magic
Four elements. One wakes in you.
Fire, water, earth and air are the same in every world. Rain feeds water and dulls fire, a storm feeds air, rock feeds earth. Raise your first element far enough and a second one opens.
Who you are
Ten peoples. Ten old mythologies.
Choose your people and one of their two paths. Each reads the four elements its own way, carves its words in its own script, and starts out good at two things.
People 1 of 10
Norse
Longhouses, sea-roads and oaths sworn on rings. The world-tree holds nine worlds; the gods know they will fall at the end and fight anyway.
Hall-folk of the bright half of the year: smiths, skalds and shield-bearers who follow Sól's chariot and keep the hearth-fires.
Good at Blacksmithing and Swordsmanship · often earth · runes in Futhark
More about the Norse
A multiverse of seeded worlds
Universe Zero is the original world. Every other world is an echo of it, grown from a seed: a word or a number that always makes the same land, so friends can share one. Each brings two peoples' lands together.
The worldsWays to play
A world to live in, and fights to test you
Playable
Survival
Your own world from a seed: gather, build, tame, explore caves and lakes, and grow without levels.
Playable
Village defence
Raiders gather some nights and march on your hearth. Walls, towers and your settlers stand between them and your food.
Playable
The ring
Hadrik's gauntlet of waves, and five champions to duel one after another. Nobody dies in the ring.
Coming
More ways to play
Quick modes with their own loadouts, from arenas to raids, beside the survival world.
The Chronicle
Latest changes
Questions
Asked often
When does it come out, and what will it cost?
There is no date and no price yet. Join the waitlist and you will hear first.
Which platforms?
PC first. PlayStation and Xbox may follow. Everything already works with a controller as well as a mouse and keyboard.
Can I play with friends?
Yes. One player hosts a world from the Play screen, with a password if they like, and friends join it to build, gather and fight together. Players can fight each other too, under the law. Public servers come later.
Are there levels or classes?
No. You get better at what you do, skill by skill, and your best skill gives you your title.
Is there a story?
Yes. The Chronicler tells the myth of the Sundering, and your first hour plays it out, from a broken world to the Nazar eye that shut.
The waitlist
Be there when the eye opens
Boz Universe is coming to PC first, with PlayStation and Xbox possibly to follow. Join the waitlist for news, playtests and the day it launches.