CrossWorlds: Escape
Released Mar 2020
CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.
63% positive · 157 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
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Steam $11.99
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Evaluation
CrossWorlds: Escape officially launched on March 20, 2020, after a long Early Access period beginning in 2016. At the time of launch, the developer explicitly stated that "release of the game does not mean that work on the game stops" and described the launch as the completion of only the "first chapter," with continuation content and further development promised as free DLC for Early Access buyers.
However, that promise has not been followed through in any visible way. The last recorded developer communication of any kind was a feature patch on March 3, 2021 — an engine upgrade with FPS improvements, noted as being delayed due to the developer's personal difficulties. Since March 3, 2021, there has been no further news post, patch, announcement, or developer statement of any kind. That is over five years of complete silence.
Looking at the post-launch update pattern: after the March 2020 release, there was one feature patch in April 2020, one bug-fix beta in May 2020, and then a single engine update in March 2021. No major content update (expansion, DLC chapter, named update) was ever released post-launch — the three "major_content" posts scanned fall within the Early Access period. The promised story continuation and free DLC for early buyers was never delivered.
Given the developer's January 2020 note about losing their second team member and becoming a solo developer, the subsequent near-silence after March 2021, and the complete absence of any DLC release or roadmap update, the game appears to have ended development without fulfilling its post-launch content promise. Because the developer has gone silent for over five years with no concrete unreleased DLC listed on the store and no recent roadmap, there is insufficient active evidence to flag outstanding commitments as currently being worked on. The content commitment made at launch was never fulfilled, and no further developer communication has reaffirmed it since March 2021.
Evidence
Engine upgrade patch released as the last recorded developer communication. Notes that prior delays were caused by personal difficulties. No further posts or updates have appeared after this date.
At launch, the developer stated that only the first chapter was complete and promised further story content and game development would be released as DLC at a later date.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Another Reality
Achievements
9
Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena. You have to start from scratch, supplying yourself with food, tools, clothing and shelter. You need to protect yourself against enemies who may turn out to be stronger than you, and you have to prepare for winter and summer. As you do all these, it would be quite good to at the same time look for a way to get out of this strange world where you happened to be against your will.
Key features:
- A 64 km2 game world, which you can explore without any restrictions
- Change in seasons:
Hot summer – time when you would want to be closer to the snowy peaks or at least to the cool creek
Fertile fall – the period of big travels and discoveries, a time you shouldn't forget about the coming winter
Severe winter – the time when a warm shelter with a hot fireplace and pre-readied stocks will be useful
Refurbishing spring – ready to sweep away your shelter from places perfectly coping without it for centuries
- Weather phenomena:
Gentle breeze that helps you to cope with the summer heat or that turns you into an icicle in winter playfully
Long-awaited rain, which will prevent you from dying of thirst, but at the same time, will flood your shelter
Mysterious fog, which will help you to escape from the crowds of enemies, but thanks to which you will pass the desired location without finding it you have missed your destination
Soft snow that decorates everything around. The snowdrift, which you will turn into, will be quite beautiful - Various biomes willing to share their wealth ... if you can cope with their inhabitants
- Enemies – both those that got trapped in this world against their will and the indigenous inhabitants with advanced intelligence, ready to call their friends to gladly kill you if they can’t do so alone. But if they can’t kill you with friends, they will play dirty tricks on you and crush your temporary shelter
- A construction and crafting system you can use to acquire strength, new clothes, armor and weapons. This system will force you to visit the most remote corners of the world, destroy already endangered species, explore the dark and inhospitable caves, where you will be seen as enemy number one
- Deadly creatures with immeasurable levels of strength. You will have to find or summon them, and then win them, to get out of this world. But if you don't hurry up, they may get bored and will come to you by themselves at the wrong time
- Severe and deadly magic that changes the laws of nature, gives enormous power, but demands long and difficult preparation and unreasonably huge cost in exchange
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 16, 2026
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