{"id":30788,"date":"2026-02-11T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/?p=30788"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:10:52","slug":"delverium-multiplayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/modding\/delverium-multiplayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixel Art Game Delverium Gets Multiplayer Demo This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2710040\/Delverium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Delverium<\/strong><\/a> is an open-world survival sandbox farming game where players explore a vast procedurally generated world with 1-8 players. In the game, players will gather resources, build shelters, tend farms, recruit NPCs, craft items, or take on high-risk dungeon crawling as they delve into the unknown. Although no set release has been scheduled for <strong>Delverium<\/strong>, the developer has been running a playtest that is still open to join.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The game has been developed by Brisbane-based <strong>Sagestone<\/strong> <strong>Games<\/strong>, and there is currently a demo available that will receive a major update on February 20th, 2026, as part of the Steam Next Fest. The update will add a host of multiplayer features as well as new quests and general fixes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The demo update includes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Online co-op for up to 8 players<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simultaneous split-screen and online multiplayer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A huge graphical overhaul, with improved sprites<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ambient audio overhaul for enhanced immersion<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Full control rebinding<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fast travel via hidden Journey Shrines<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New lore and quest systems<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A brand-new boss encounter<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Expanded world, character, and difficulty customisation<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Delverium - Multiplayer Gameplay Trailer\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HS9vQiWgou8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delverium is an open-world survival sandbox farming game where players explore a vast procedurally generated world with 1-8 players. In the game, players will gather resources, build shelters, tend farms, recruit NPCs, craft items, or take on high-risk dungeon crawling as they delve into the unknown. Although no set release has been scheduled for Delverium, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":30789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[261,262,24],"class_list":["post-30788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modding","tag-delverium","tag-sagestone-games","tag-steam"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31890,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30788\/revisions\/31890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}