The standalone game · Unreal Engine 5
Multiverse
Shares a name with my No Man's Sky project below — but this is a separate, brand-new game built from scratch in UE5.
Not a No Man's Sky game — but it draws deep inspiration from it and aims to be far more: a flatscreen & VR dimensional-exploration game where space travel bleeds into interdimensional travel.
Prerelease-NMS wonder and mid-century sci-fi, blended with liminal spaces and a found-footage feel. The multiverse is the character — unstable, merging, alive. Presence and awe over progression — no XP, no checklists.
The clip — Thallume — was a throwaway test: could UE5 evoke that prerelease-NMS feel using none of Hello Games' content or code? The real game looks and plays differently. Its HUD is built from scratch — a quiet nod to prerelease-NMS design principles. It stays out of your way.
“The portal is where infinity becomes small enough to stand in front of.”
The multiverse is the character
Unstable. Merging.
Alive.
Dimensions aren't separate levels — they're layers of one multiverse, bleeding into each other through rifts: jagged tears in reality, never tidy doorways. You never know whether the next room is more familiar, or more alien. And every rift is real — the world beyond renders live through the tear. Not a skybox. Not a screenshot. A live window.
What it feels like
Four layers, one world
Warm, analog, painterly — the feeling of stepping into a Chris Foss canvas. Never cold, blue, modern sci-fi.
Strangeness baked into the biology itself — impossible materials, scale that won't resolve, life that defies classification.
Empty pools, corridors that never end, the quiet sense of being watched by the place itself.
Impossible lavender-to-magenta skies, colored fog that blends everything, the analog grain of a half-remembered dream.
Alien wonderlands
Worlds worth
getting lost in.
Golden-age sci-fi, made walkable. Each dimension is its own painting you can stand inside.
A field guide to impossible things
Surrealism isn't a filter laid over the worlds — it's grown into them. A growing field of specimens, rendered from the Multiverse’s own art pipeline.
What it isn't
A journey into the unknown
For the explorer
in you.
Some dimensions are calm and mesmerizing, others quietly uncanny — and a few are genuinely unsettling, the way the deep Backrooms are. Wonder leads, but it isn't the only thing out there. Golden-age sci-fi, liminal spaces, the Backrooms, prerelease No Man's Sky — they all share one pull: venturing into the unknown. That's the heart of it.
You see it all through found footage — a recording device carried through impossible places. The camera isn't a game camera; it's a physical object. It breathes, it sways, it catches fragments of the next world bleeding through like VHS interference. You don't manage systems or read menus. You just exist somewhere you don't want to leave.
