Willowmere at sunset: a painted village by a waterfall, with three Xu on the riverbank

From IdleFly Games

said “zoo-verse”A cozy idle MMO about creatures, crafting and friends.

Befriend creatures called Xu, gather and craft across seven painted regions, and fight beside your companion. Your character keeps working while you’re away, and everyone plays in the same world.

Free to play · Ages 13 and up · Browser and Windows, with Mac and Android coming

Xuverse

Meet the Xu

Xu are the creatures of Xuverse. Yours fights beside you, helps with the skills it likes and picks up a personality from what you do together. There are thirty to befriend, in rare colours too, and about one in two hundred is gilded.

Spriglet
Emberkit
Ripplefin
Petalpup
Snowpuff
Lanternbat
Lunamoth
Glowray
Galecub
Cloudram
Rimeowl
Sunplume

Seven regions

Each region has its own resources, Xu and weather. Travelling between them takes real time, and things can happen on the road.

WillowmereMossy rooftops and whispering trees.Where everyone starts
Amber ReachCopper leaves and harvest lanterns.From level 15
FrostmereSnow-hushed pines and frozen bells.From level 30
GloamwoodLamplight under an endless violet night.From level 45
EmberpeakAsh, starfall and rivers of light.From level 60
SkyreachWind chimes over a sea of clouds.From level 75
The StarwellCrystal light from the bottom of the sky.From level 90
The fishing dock at Willowmere's lake

Spots

Pull up a seat

Each skill has a place in every region, like the dock for fishing or the forge for smithing. When you work there, you sit next to whoever else is there and share a chat.

Realm boss

Mother Snowdrift

Every Saturday a realm boss wakes for two days. Every fight anyone wins counts toward the same total, and everyone who helped gets rewards by mail. The next one wakes Sat 17 Oct.

Festivals

Hallowed Nights

Festivals bring their own Xu, quests and rewards for a few weeks at a time. Hallowed Nights is on until Mon 2 Nov.

Primverse

A shared 3D world its people build

Every island starts bare: no houses, no trees, no rules about what goes there. Shape the land, build whatever you can picture, make it move and glow, then open it to everyone. The tools come with the world, so there is nothing to export and bring back.

Visit primverse.world Free to join · For adults, 18 and over

Model anything

A whole 3D modeller inside the world: extrude, bevel, loop cut and knife, with materials and UVs.

door.lua
local open = false
local swing = euler_to_quat(
  vec3(0, 0, 90 * DEG_TO_RAD))
local closed_rot

function on_start()
  closed_rot = get_local_rot()
end

Make it do things

Scripts in Lua: doors that open for friends, vehicles, vendors, games that keep score. Every function has a wiki page with an example.

lava.lua
function surface(p)
  local flow = vec2(p.time * 0.05, p.time * 0.02)
  local heat = fbm(p.uv * 3 + flow, 4)
  local hot = smoothstep(0.45, 0.75, heat)
  return { color = mix(crust, glow, hot) }
end

Draw how it looks

Lava that flows, water that ripples, a hologram that flickers. Write a surface in a few lines, or snap it together from blocks.

Shape the land

Raise hills, dig out a bay and paint the ground. Lay a road where you click and the land is cut and filled to meet it.

Go and see what people made

Land on somebody’s island, follow the shore, or take off and look down on it all. Fly, sail and swim between islands, or teleport straight to a place on the map. Every place is rated General, Moderate or Adult, and you choose what you see.

An island of your own

Pick a kind of region, an island to start from and a spot on the map. Decide who may visit, build or stay, and sell what you make.

Open Water 15 people · $19/moCove 40 · $49/moIsland 120 · $119/mo
An Aeons planet in the stone age, with the names of its first peoples on the land

Aeons

A planet of tiny people that writes its own history

Each world is generated from a seed: land, climate, oceans and the tribes that wander onto them. They settle, found nations, trade and go to war, era by era from the stone age toward spaceflight. Nothing is scripted.

Watch from orbit at whatever speed you like, click anyone to see who they are, or step in as the god of the place.

Open Aeons

Life

Start peoples and help them along.

  • Create people
  • Bless the land
  • Inspire
  • Golden age

Wrath

Nature at its worst, on your say-so.

  • Lightning
  • Earthquake
  • Volcano
  • Great wave
  • Hurricane
  • Tornado
  • Drought
  • Wildfire
  • Pestilence
  • Meteor
  • Doom asteroid

Shape

Move the coastline.

  • Raise land
  • Sink land

Fate

Nudge the nations.

  • Sow war
  • Grant peace
  • Spark revolt
Aeons in year 3,009: the Iron Age, with twelve nations and the chronicle of their wars and successions
Year 3,009: the Iron Age, 105,000 people, twelve nations
The chronicleEvery war, plague, succession crisis and discovery, dated and filed under war, disasters, progress, politics or divine.
Five ways to lookColour the planet by nations, terrain, eras, people or plague.
Anyone, up closeClick a person, a city or a nation to see who they are and what they’ve been through.
Any speedPause on a single year or let centuries go by in a minute.

Updates

Recent Xuverse updates

All patch notes are in the game

· Xuverse 1.2.5

The wiki, redrawn

  • BetterThe wiki’s front page is rebuilt. Search sits on a painting of the Listening Tree’s library, next to the sky over every region and the time to the next starfall. Each section shows what’s in it: the skill icons, the region paintings, items, creatures and Xu, each opening its own page. The wiki’s menu uses the game’s painted icons.
  • BetterPlainer descriptions on the wiki’s front page and guides, in all 15 languages.
  • FixedOn wide screens the welcome page no longer stretches its painting, and its footer keeps its links on one line next to the wordmark.

· Xuverse 1.2.4

A new front door

  • BetterThe welcome page is rebuilt. Willowmere’s falls, river and lanterns move with the realm’s real time and weather, Xu wander the meadow, and it shows what’s on right now: the festival, this week’s boss, the Skill Spotlight and more. You can also browse every Xu, the regions and the Spots there.
  • FixedAt Spots, fishing rods, hatchets and pickaxes point away from you and swing from the handle, and the fishing line starts at the tip of the rod.
  • BetterThe radio’s play button in the sidebar is now a small glass button on the record.

and 2 more

· Xuverse 1.2.3

Your own pace

  • NewNew here? When you make a character, the game now asks whether you’ve played idle games before. New players get a few short painted cards on how idle play works, and menus that open as the story reaches them. Experienced players start with everything open and the first-day tips kept quiet.
  • New“Show everything” at the bottom of the menu opens every page at once, whenever you like. Settings → Guidance switches between Guided and Experienced at any time.
  • BetterCrafting pages put the region you’re in first: its recipes sit under “This region”, and the rest follow under “Everywhere else”, each tagged with where its materials come from. You can still make all of them anywhere.

and 1 more

The studio

About IdleFly Games

IdleFly Games is a small independent studio. We started on the web, so Xuverse, Primverse and Aeons all open in a browser with nothing to install, and their worlds keep going when you close the tab.

We also build our own tools, including a game engine of our own, and we plan to make games that run outside the browser too.

Xuverse is our main game and gets updates most weeks. It is free to play, with no ads and no energy timers. Plus, the optional membership, adds comfort and looks, never power.

Games
Xuverse, Primverse, Aeons
Plays on
Any modern browser; Xuverse also on Windows
In the works
Our own game engine
Community
Discord and Reddit
Press
Logos, colours and boilerplate

Writing about us?

Our logos, colours and a short description of the studio are on the press page. Each game has its own kit too.