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Get Started

Gluniverse is live, in open alpha. If you are in, entering takes about a minute.

Where you play

gluniverse.gibglue.xyz

On a desktop, a tablet or a phone: the mobile layout landed in July 2026. It runs in the browser, there is nothing to install.

Are you in?

Yes. The door is open: anyone with a Solana wallet can enter, with no token to hold and no whitelist to be on. Access is still per wallet: your wallet is your character.

The door

Connect a Solana wallet, Phantom, Solflare, Backpack or any wallet that can sign a message, and sign once. That is the whole entrance.

Signing is not a transaction: there is no fee, no gas, nothing to approve and nothing leaves your wallet. It is a message that proves the wallet is yours. One signature covers your whole session.

You wake in the dead forest

Every soul wakes alone in the dead forest. Find the scarecrow and talk to it.

Find your companion

Your companion is out there, somewhere past the four ways. Go look. Once you are bonded, the world opens.

One thing to know before you cross: crossing is final. Until you step into the shared world you can start over as many times as you like and pick a different form. The moment you cross, your form is locked forever and everything you gathered in the prologue is left behind. See Your First Steps.

The controls in one breath

  • WASD or the arrows to move, hold Shift to gallop, click the ground to walk there.
  • E does almost everything: talk, gather, shop, sit at a terminal, claim a plot, open a chest, take a door.
  • Space to jump, and a jump is also your dodge.
  • Click a creature to strike it, hold T to charge, R for a horse's rear kick. Fighting has the rest.
  • B bag, C soul, P build, V craft, M map, Enter to chat.

The full list, every key and everything on your screen, is in Controls and the Screen.

What you start with

₲1,000, credited once when you first arrive, and nothing else. No gear, no materials, no land. Everything after that is yours to earn.

Your progress follows your wallet

Progress is saved to your wallet. Sign in from anywhere and you continue exactly where you left off.

When you want to stop, use the log out button on the right of the top bar rather than reloading. Logging out takes you out of the world at once; a reload leaves your body standing there for about 45 seconds, and it can be killed.

Next: What Is Gluniverse for what the world is, and The Economy for how the world trades.