A dead game, coming back to life
Deepworld was a 2.5D steampunk sandbox MMO — mine, build, craft, and explore a vast always-online world of brass, copper, and strange depths, alongside other players. It was shut down in 2019, with no way left to play it.
This is the revival. A faithful, preservation-minded rebuild to make Deepworld playable again — for the people who loved it, and anyone discovering it for the first time. This page is where you can follow along as it comes back together, update by update.
Your ButlerBot companion is already up and running in-world.
▶ Playable right now
- Mine, build & explore a procedurally generated steampunk world across eight biomes — temperate, arctic, hell, desert, brain, deep, space, and ocean.
- Craft, trade & collect — the full crafting system, player-to-player trading, and a deep item set.
- Skills & leveling — all twelve skills, level-ups, and skill points, including advanced skills that unlock as you grow.
- Quests & missions — take quest chains from android quest-givers, complete tasks, and earn XP and crowns that persist.
- Guilds / Crews — found a guild with a Guild Obelisk, name it, choose its colors and crest, manage members, and wear your crew tag above your head.
- Orders & membership — join in-world Orders, climb their ranks through real in-game feats, and earn a permanent XP boost at the top tiers.
- Mail inbox — receive messages even while you’re offline, with an unread badge and one-tap reply.
- Companion ButlerBot — a robot helper that follows you, recharges, and can be directed to mine, place, fill, drain, and more.
- World Machines, teleporters & achievements — placeable weather/spawner/teleport machines, portable map-teleporters, and a growing achievement set.
📜 Latest updates
- 2026-06-16 — Mail Call — Your Inbox Is Open · a new mail inbox, plus health & respawn fixes.
- 2026-06-15 — A World That Lives · ButlerBot, world machines, quests & prestige Orders.
- 2026-06-14 — Unity 6 & the First Crews · a modern engine, and guilds arrive.
- 2026-06-13 — It’s Alive · the server returns and you can log in again.
→ Browse everything in the full devlog.
🔮 On the horizon
- The Brain Biome Insurrection — the eerie brain biome coming alive with Evoker invasions you fight back against using Inhibitor field devices.
- Living-world events — earthquakes, supernovas in space, acid pipe-bursts in the deep, and hazardous weather.
- Player-to-player mail — you can receive and reply today; composing new mail to other players is next.
- More Order regalia — higher Lion and Moon ranks getting their over-head insignia art.
- Livelier NPCs — deeper monster behavior and more android dialogue, to make the world feel genuinely alive.
The look of Deepworld
A measured, hand-tuned palette per biome — part of keeping the revival true to the original’s feel:
This is a living dev journal — it updates as the work ships. Bookmark it and check back. 🛠️