Welcome to the Illuvium: Overworld FAQ — your resource for common questions about exploration, capturing Illuvials, and navigating the open world of Illuvium.
Here you’ll find clear answers about gameplay, progression, upcoming features, and how Overworld connects to the wider Illuvium universe.
Illuvium: Overworld is an open-world exploration and adventure game where players journey across a vast and dangerous alien planet — capturing Illuvials, gathering resources, battling enemies, completing quests, and contributing to the Illuvium Colony while uncovering the planet’s secrets.
It serves as the core experience of the Illuvium franchise, combining exploration, creature collection, and progression into a single, evolving MMO world.
Overworld is currently in active development toward becoming a fully realized massively multiplayer online (MMO) experience.
Illuvium: Overworld is currently in active development and will be available on PC through the Epic Games Store at launch.
Development updates, early footage, and playtest opportunities are regularly shared via Discord and our official social channels.
In Illuvium: Overworld, players take on the role of a Ranger waking up on an alien world filled with mystery, danger, and discovery.
You can:
- Explore diverse regions across the planet, each with unique biomes, resources, danger and secrets to uncover.
- Capture Illuvials, powerful creatures with distinct affinities and abilities that can join you in battle.
- Gather resources to craft gear, tools, and upgrades that enhance your Ranger’s capabilities.
- Battle enemies throughout the world to earn experience and valuable materials for progression.
- Fight powerful bosses to claim exclusive loot and rare rewards.
- Level up your Ranger and invest in a skill tree that defines your playstyle and abilities.
- Complete quests and discoveries that advance both the story and your personal progression.
- Play alongside other players in the shared MMO world, contributing to the growth of the Illuvium Colony.
Together, these systems create a rich blend of exploration, combat, resource management, and collaboration, forming the foundation of the Illuvium: Overworld experience.
As development continues toward the full MMO release, even more features, and activities will be revealed — expanding the world and deepening the ways players can explore, progress, and connect.
Overworld sits at the heart of the Illuvium universe.
The Illuvials you capture and the resources you gather connect directly to other games like Illuvium: Arena, where you can battle your Illuvials.
Your progress in Overworld will be the foundation of your identity and achievements
Yes — Illuvium: Overworld is currently in development to become a massively multiplayer online experience (MMO).
This next phase will allow players to explore, interact, and progress together in a shared open world, building a connected universe that unites every part of Illuvium’s gameplay and economy.
Illuvials are the mysterious and powerful creatures that inhabit the planet of Illuvium.
Each Illuvial belongs to a specific class and affinity, which determine its abilities, strengths, and role in battle.
Capture mechanics for the MMO version of Overworld have not yet been shared, but Illuvials will continue to play a central role in exploration, progression, and combat across the Illuvium universe.
Stay up to date on the latest Overworld news and release details through the Illuvium Portal.