Dual Universe Alpha Launching In November, Release Roadmap Unveiled

Sci-fi Sandbox MMO Dual Universe unveiled their release roadmap today which reveals key dates for the game up until 2020. The first milestone is in November, 2018 and it will be the game's first round of alpha testing. Check out the development roadmap below:

Dual Universe has so far raised over $11 million to date including over $600,000 through Kickstarter back in 2016. The game is quite ambitious and aims to deliver a Second Life like world where players can edit the world and even script their own content into the game. I'm a bit skeptical about this one but I'll keep an eye on it.

About Dual Universe

• UNIVERSE (available in test version): The first fully editable universe made for players by players. The only limit is your imagination! Gather your friends and build on a truly epic scale, from ships, cities and space stations, to Lua scripted puzzles and interactive constructs.
• MASSIVE (available in test version): Dual Universe is the first game where potentially millions of players can interact together simultaneously, inside the same giant universe. We call it the Continuous Single Shard Cluster (CSSC) technology. This proprietary technology means no multi-server player separation, instances or loading times, just one enormous, persistent universe.
• EXPLORATION (partially available in test version): Explore & Discover new worlds with your friends, find rare resources and build the greatest place in the universe. Will you be a nomad treasure hunter, or a calculating profiteer?
• ECONOMY (work in progress): Dual Universe will have the most realistic economy system ever made in a game. From weapons and tools, to spaceships and giant space stations, build and trade everything to everyone - at your price - on your own market.
• WARFARE (work in progress): Fight for supremacy, resource control or geostrategic advantage, as you join with fellow players and create your own defense systems, build warships, cities and space stations. Will you defend yourself or lay waste to your enemies?
• POLITICS (work in progress): Be a lone wolf or choose an organization or build your own, hire new players, fight other alliances, cut deals with them or rule your own part of the Universe with this completely open political landscape, full of emergent gameplay opportunities.