Ambitious space sim MMO Dual Universe funded on Kickstarter

The game is all about crafting and building. And trading. And space exploration. With some added combat and digging.

Back at E3 PC Gaming Show, right before No Man's Sky craze and controversy, and in a time when space sims are leaving their particular new golden age, we left very impressed with Novaquark's Dual Universe, a truly ambitious and innovative technology-based proposal in which you can create spaceships, buildings or full bases and cities, then have combat, mining, crafting, trading or digging in a shared online world. Our recap interview with CEO Jean-Christophe Baillie talked us through all the bullet points and game systems back then:

Now, after a summer of pre-alpha feedback, the game has managed to find success with its Kickstarter campaign, which is among the biggest - if not the biggest - crowdfunding campaign on the platform in the last few months, with more than €500,000 collected with a day and a half to go.

For more info on the many systems and features, the following pre-alpha gameplay clips, captured by the Parisian team as dev diaries, are samples focused on specific aspects and technologies, and show how they work in-game on Dual Universe: