Years after being retired from the platform, Somnium Space is returning to Steam in December.
Somnium Space, which was originally built around cryptocurrency and the buying and selling of virtual land as NFTs, and which launched its own CUBE token a year later, was removed from Steam sometime after Valve’s 2021 decision to ban games from Steam which featured crypto-based economies and NFT commerce. Valve’s policies forbidding NFTs and crypto games have not changed, so Somnium Space’s Steam re-release must therefore be blockchain free.
The non-Steam PC VR release still touts blockchain and NFT integration as a defining feature, with land parcels and purchases through traditional fiat rails like Stripe, or linked crypto wallets.
Somnium Space is a free-to-play social VR platform for adults 18 and older. The app’s persistent virtual universe allows players to meet, explore, and create their own new experiences to share with one another.
We went hands-on with the social VR platform in March of this year.
K. Guillory
Somnium Space will land on Steam as a free-to-play app. SteamDB lists the new app’s release date as “December 2026.” You can wish list it now.
