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Rising World
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-08-31 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
52 of the 84 reviews raise this.
“yo this ♥♥♥♥ is bananas. i flew to space. it was uneventful but its there. the tools are rad, i like that theres a tape measure. i cant believe the endlessness of the world, and the hyper-customizability in building,…”
“so far 100/10. I just want to build organic shape buildings, fantasy communities and terraform the land. I have been dying for a game where I could do this and have it look realistic. I am still learning so fingers…”
“This game begun as the java version of it, i remember it well, just a single stretchy plank, some tools, not much to do, but now? Its amazing, steps go slowly yes but in few years this game will be where we expect it to…”
14 of the 84 reviews raise this.
“I've been playing on and off here and there.. I really like the new version of the game. I mean I liked the old version too. I don't have a lot of time in the game but what I have seen so far in the new version makes me…”
“This is a real gem absolutely stunning game that runs beautifully on my steam deck. Just bought a copy for wifey so we can play together lucky wifey😁.Really looking forward to sinking some time into this. Would like to…”
9 of the 84 reviews raise this.
“yo this ♥♥♥♥ is bananas. i flew to space. it was uneventful but its there. the tools are rad, i like that theres a tape measure. i cant believe the endlessness of the world, and the hyper-customizability in building,…”
“This is a real gem absolutely stunning game that runs beautifully on my steam deck. Just bought a copy for wifey so we can play together lucky wifey😁.Really looking forward to sinking some time into this. Would like to…”
“Not cartoonish like minecraft, not 'realistic' like The Forest, but something in between. The game is beautiful and really has potential but for being launched in 2014, that is a lot of time, it really lacks substance.…”
7 of the 84 reviews raise this.
“This is a real gem absolutely stunning game that runs beautifully on my steam deck. Just bought a copy for wifey so we can play together lucky wifey😁.Really looking forward to sinking some time into this. Would like to…”
“Loving playing this game, runs beautifully apart from a few bugs, but thats to be expected at this stage. I cannot wait to see what the future updates bring.”
7 of the 84 reviews raise this.
“I've Owned this since Inital Release, Was a fan back then. Built an Enormous pyramid... My pc couldn't handle it... Been a while but still would recommend this title. Considering picking it back up. After seeing this…”
“The fact that this game is still on early access and has been recently updated makes me excited! this game is like a fusion of a advanced survival game and realistic minecraft put into one. I can see myself play this…”
“literally minecraft 2.0, have had the game since 2016, and recently got back into it. spent the past 10 hours on building. would recommend, more addicting than crank 👍”
14 of the 84 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“great concept, but after a couple days, i couldnt find much to interest me”
“Seriously? Released Dec 2014 and this is it? It's abandoned. It's like a game was created with all the basic mechanics to it and then just left alone. This feels like a collage student put this together to see if it was…”
7 of the 84 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“I like the game. It kept crashing initially. I play on Linux Mint Cinnamon. I set it to Proton Hotfix and lowered the block count to 10 as I'm running an old RX 580 8GB card and that fixed the crashing problem for me.…”
“not a bad game , devs need to fix grinder cant put anything in it an cant turn wheel ie cant make rags combat seems kinda off an slow cant seem to hit npc ' s very well”
“Loving playing this game, runs beautifully apart from a few bugs, but thats to be expected at this stage. I cannot wait to see what the future updates bring.”
7 of the 84 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“This game begun as the java version of it, i remember it well, just a single stretchy plank, some tools, not much to do, but now? Its amazing, steps go slowly yes but in few years this game will be where we expect it to…”
“Seriously? Released Dec 2014 and this is it? It's abandoned. It's like a game was created with all the basic mechanics to it and then just left alone. This feels like a collage student put this together to see if it was…”
“Not cartoonish like minecraft, not 'realistic' like The Forest, but something in between. The game is beautiful and really has potential but for being launched in 2014, that is a lot of time, it really lacks substance.…”
5 of the 84 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“This game started off 'alright', then I just slowly realize how annoying the building mechanics are. I've played dozens of base-building games and the shapes in this game are just stupid to use. Anyone who needs this…”
3 of the 84 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“Seriously? Released Dec 2014 and this is it? It's abandoned. It's like a game was created with all the basic mechanics to it and then just left alone. This feels like a collage student put this together to see if it was…”
“The game plays fine, it just doesn't really have a theme. Because of all of the disparate assets, it feels like playing Rust, but simulated inside of Second Life.”
Counted across 84 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 85.7% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“WOW I remember when this game didn't even have water after serving in the Army I finally got a laptop again and I was shocked to see they're still updating. In a world where majority of EA games become abandonware I was so happy to see they're still developing this and my first…”
— a player, Steam review · 101 hrs played“Honestly my first thoughts were oh its another one of those survival games that have been made tons of times over and over, flat plane world not alot to it. built a small house mined a ton of stones and trees, walked around for a while then i hit the ground and figured out this…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“Only started playing for a few hours now, but already enjoying this far more than I was expecting. It's very chill and not too punishing. Has a decent variety of building structures and some interesting crafting mechanics. Had this game sitting in my steam library for years now,…”
— a player, Steam review · 18 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Update 0.9.3: Animal Feeding and Taming, better caves and much more!
Hi folks! A new big update is now available! It introduces animal feeding and taming, improved cave generation, actual ocean waves and a lot more! Animal Feeding and Taming This update greatly expands
Update 0.9.2: Animal Breeding, Item Placement, better Controller Support
Hey folks! Finally a new update is available! It introduces various new things, changes and improvements and also several bugfixes. Item Placement With this update you can place items persistently in
Update 0.9.1: Steam Cloud and more
Hi folks! First of all, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We hope you enjoy the holidays :) This is a good opportunity to release a small update! It adds new items, various Quality-o
Update 0.9: Points of Interest
Hey folks! Finally the new update is now available! But first of all, I'm sorry for the long wait time. This update should have been available much earlier, but unfortunately unexpected personal circu
Minor Security Update
Hi folks! This is just a minor security update which fixes a recently discovered security vulnerability in the Unity engine. The security vulnerability affects all Unity games released after 2017/2018
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Early Access |
| Player tags | Open World Survival Craft · Mining · Relaxing · Building · Voxel · Base-Building · Sandbox · Crafting · Exploration · Survival · Adventure · Atmospheric (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · LAN Co-op · Cross-Platform Multiplayer |
| Languages | English, German |
| Official site | https://www.rising-world.net/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 (64 bit) or higher Processor: 2+ Cores, e.g. Intel Core i3 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: 2 GB VRAM, e.g. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti, AMD Radeon HD 7770 DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 20 GB available space