What's new since 0.1
- The standard game: four raids in about 35 minutes, from a Refuge to a Hamlet.
- Solo, or co-op for up to four, on the official server or hosted by a friend.
- Explore the valley: a cave in the Scarps, a rowboat to the wreck on Stillwater, a map that fills as you find things.
- Settlers walk in to work for you, and iron and fiber open new tools and buildings.
- Raids at dusk and night, English and Québec French, produced sound and music.
0.1 was one valley and three raids, built to ask whether gather, build, defend is fun. 0.3 is the first full game: one standard run, from the first fire to the last raid.
The game
You keep a ruined Refuge on a rise in Stillwater Vale, with the Old Road coming in from the east. Gather, rebuild the palisade and hold four raids, each bigger than the last. Along the way the Refuge grows into an Outpost, then a Hamlet. Play alone, or with up to three friends, on the official server or on a game one of you hosts. Language is a setting: English or Québec French.
Explore and automate
- A cave in the Scarps keeps the plans of the Old Forge. Rebuild your workshop from them and it works iron.
- Build a dock and row across Stillwater to the wreck and what it carries.
- Cut reeds on the shore for fiber, and mine iron in the Scarps' pass.
- Settlers walk up the Old Road to a lumber camp and, in a Hamlet, a quarry, and bring in wood and stone while you are elsewhere.
- A world map fills in as you find places.
Defend
- The sky turns to dusk and night for the raids. Always day in Settings turns that off.
- In co-op, a fallen keeper goes down instead of out, and a friend can pick you up.
- Drag walls in an L, and press R to flip the corner. The cost shows before you build.
- A hot meal at the Hearth makes you Well-fed for a few minutes: you work faster and heal slowly.
- After each raid, a summary says what broke and where.
- A short list of first steps guides the opening. You can turn it off.
- Up to eight saved worlds, and Continue picks up the last one.
Look, sound and comfort
- Produced sound effects, and music that follows the raid: calm, warning, assault, dawn.
- Captions, reduced motion and a larger interface.
- More of the camp, the Outpost, the tools, the ruins and the wilds are repainted in the game's own look.
Known limits
- The build is unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen says "Windows protected your PC". Choose More info, then Run anyway. The installation guide beside the Download button explains it.
- Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit, only.
- Some art is still early, and more is being repainted.
- The music is a few short loops, so it repeats.
- Balance is still being tuned, and it has been tested on few PCs. It may crash; your worlds autosave around each raid.
Get it
Press Download for Windows on the home page. If you already have the game, it offers the update on its title screen, and nothing downloads until you choose Update now.
Thanks for reading, and for playing.