Punching an opponent, air-dashing across the screen, and finishing them off with a blinding nova blast captures the chaotic, high-energy combat animating Covert X Universe. This online, anime-inspired sandbox MMO throws players into a vast, nine-planet solar system where survival, base building, and raw combat collision dictate your success. It is an ambitious, unpolished project that sits somewhere between the survival loops of Ark, the sandbox freedom of Minecraft, and the planetary scale of No Man’s Sky, held together by a highly kinetic, Dragon Ball Z-style power scaling system.
At its core, the game challenges you to carve out your own path across a connected universe. You begin by choosing from nine starter races, with the ultimate goal of unlocking up to 64 distinct races as you grow stronger and utilize the game’s reincarnation system. Progress is not about following a linear questline; instead, players are expected to gather resources, craft items, build fortified bases, and form tribes to survive the open-world PvP environment. To travel between the game’s nine distinct planets, you do not just click a fast-travel button—you actually have to launch into the atmosphere and fly through deep space, encountering bosses, harvesting rare resources, and taming powerful Battle Pets that fight alongside you in real time.
For players who have sunk dozens, or even hundreds, of hours into the game, the combat is the undisputed star of the show. Dedicated players praise the sheer physical feel of the encounters, noting that mastering the power scale system allows for incredibly fast-paced, vertical battles. The thrill of aerial mobility, combined with a wide array of skills, items, and competitive environments like universe-wide tournaments and Battle Royale-style events, creates a highly addictive loop. If your idea of fun involves lawless chaos, raiding other players, and engaging in high-stakes PvP, this sandbox offers a wild, permissive playground to do exactly that.
However, Covert X Universe is heavily divided by technical roadblocks that will test the patience of any player. While some users report smooth performance, others find the game to be an unoptimized hardware hog that pushes CPU, GPU, and RAM consumption to near-maximum capacity while delivering single-digit framerates on competent machines. The game’s settings menu is notoriously finicky, frequently failing to save adjustments and defaulting back to high graphics settings upon restart. The visual presentation and animations are noticeably basic and unpolished, which has led to criticisms that the game relies heavily on a collection of mismatched assets.
Worse still are the functional bugs currently plaguing the user experience. Players report running into invisible physical hitboxes while exploring, and the user interface is prone to frustrating glitches. Crucial menus occasionally fail to scroll properly, snapping back to the top of the screen and preventing players from reading descriptions or allocating their hard-earned stat points. These rough edges create a steep barrier to entry, transforming what should be a smooth progression grind into a battle against the interface itself.
Covert X Universe is a game built for a very specific crowd. If you are looking for a polished, narrative-driven MMO experience, you should look elsewhere. But if you have a high tolerance for indie jank, love the lawless freedom of open-world survival, and want a combat system that lets you live out your high-flying anime battle fantasies, this rough-around-the-edges sandbox offers a deeply compelling, chaotic universe worth exploring.
Key Facts
- Developer: Covert X Gaming
- Publisher: Covert X Gaming
- Release Date: May 30, 2026
- Price: $14.99