Veloren, inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft this new and in-development open-world RPG certainly has a lot to live up to and a lot of promise.

Mentioned here on GOL a few months ago, the team put out a huge new release recently with Veloren 0.5 bringing in absolutely tons of new and improved features. These include the ability to drop items, clouds, a "proper" SFX system, jumping while underwater, a death+hurt screen, an animated Map and Minimap position indicator, rivers and lakes which follow realistic physical paths, overhauled NPC AI, NPC pathfinding, a waypoint system, Pets now attack enemies and defend their owners, 28 new creatures and an absolute ton more.

Now you too can be a Punk Skeleton - Pictured: Veloren 0.5 on Linux

I'm actually amazed at just how quickly Veloren is turning into a fully-featured game and engine. While it's still in the early stages and there's a lot to be done, it's already very playable and shows a massive amount of promise for what could turn into one of the most interesting free and open source games around.

See more and download from the official site.