A voxel lake shore seen from above: forest, a sandy point and deep blue water, a lone person standing on the beach

WILDBORNE

PREPARE FOR WINTER, OR DIE IN IT.

You start with nothing on a temperate continent. Work stone into copper, build a house that holds its heat, and farm, forage, hunt and fish through a year of twenty-minute days and eight-day seasons.

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EARLY ACCESS ON STEAM · WINDOWS · LINUX · STEAM DECK

DAY 6AUTUMN17:40

9°C · SNOW TONIGHT

WINTER IN 2 DAYS

01 · THE YEAR

THE SEASONS ARE THE ANTAGONIST.

Cold, hunger, thirst, rain and darkness do more damage than any animal. Winter is a scheduled event you can see coming, and being unprepared is a decision you made in autumn.

SPRING

PLANTING

Leave the bed with a plan. Knap a blade, gather fibre, put seed in the ground while the soil warms.

SUMMER

BUILDING

Long days for long work. Raise walls, fire the kiln, push one chain a step further before the light turns.

AUTUMN

PRESERVING

Autumn is a countdown. Dry, smoke and store what you can, and close every gap the wind will find.

The same forest edge under snow, the crowns frosted white

WINTER

SURVIVING

The test. Live on what you put by, keep the fire fed, and the first year ends when you see spring again.

02 · STAYING ALIVE

EVERY METER HAS A CAUSE.

Health, satiety, water, warmth and stamina, counted in segments rather than guessed at. When one falls, the game says why, so the cold is never a mystery: it is wet clothes, rain, dusk and no fire, and every one of those you can fix.

HEALTH

SATIETY

WATER

WARMTH

WET · RAIN · DUSK · NO FIRE

STAMINA

Wildborne as played: a person on a grassy shore with the meters at bottom left, the hotbar at the bottom and the clock at top right

Five stations in a row on a grassy bank: a workbench, a pit kiln, a charcoal pit, a forge and an anvil

03 · STONE TO COPPER

YOU UNDERSTAND EVERY TOOL.

No important tool is one step. Short chains with character, two to five steps through stations you built, so every tool in your hands has a history. Knap flint, twist cordage, fire a kiln, burn charcoal, then smelt your first copper.

THE FLINT KNIFE

KNAP A BLADETWIST CORDAGEHAFT

THE TORCH

GATHER STICKSGATHER FIBREDRILL

FLINTTHE FIRST DAYS

COPPERTHE FIRST YEAR

BRONZEAFTER THE YEAR

IRONAFTER THE YEAR

04 · HEARTH

A HOUSE IS A MECHANIC.

Any block can be dug and any house built. Rooms hold heat, materials insulate and gaps leak, so the walls you raise in summer are the warmth you keep in winter.

DARKNESS IS A STANDARD.

Caves and moonless nights are near black. A torch matters, a lantern matters more, and staying out after dusk is a gamble you choose to take.

Night: a torch and a lantern throw warm light over grass while the land around stays black

A row of campfires burning down at dusk, from four logs to embers

A person asleep in a fur and hide bed in the grass

05 · WEATHER

THE SKY KEEPS ITS OWN CALENDAR.

Weather comes from the climate, not a dice roll. A forecast warns you what tomorrow brings. Storms throw lightning that sets dry grass alight, fog swallows the morning, and snow lies where it falls until a thaw takes it.

A lightning stroke landing in a grassy clearing beside the person — LIGHTNING

Grass burning in patches across a clearing after a strike — WILDFIRE

A dark thunderstorm over a forest edge, rain streaking down — THUNDERSTORM

A foggy morning swallowing a forest edge — FOG

Snow lying over home, the screen edged with frost from the cold — SNOW

06 · THE WORLD

SOMEWHERE TO GO, SOMETHING BELOW.

Continents without end, each with its own rock and climate. Plains and temperate woods, taiga and tundra, alpine heights, red canyons and mesas, swamps, jungle, and redwood groves on the coast, with rare places worth the trip.

A sandy shore beside a redwood grove, red trunks at the edge of the sea — REDWOOD COAST

An opening in the jungle, dense crowns all round — JUNGLE

Orange mesa ground stepping down, green brush along its foot — MESA

Terraced taiga slopes with lone spruces and pale rock — TAIGA

Tundra: low green turf, bare earth and pale stone — TUNDRA

Alpine heights: grass ledges between pale rock and deep clefts — ALPINE

Red canyon ground with green brush and a lone tree — CANYON

Open plains, grass and bare earth with white flowers — PLAINS

Swamp ground of dark mud, tall grass and pale sand — SWAMP

THREE BANDS UNDER EVERY CONTINENT

0 TO −40 MUPPER CAVES

Damp winding caves that join the caverns under hills and the river caves. Clay beds, flint, coal and copper.

−40 TO −90 MDEEP CAVERNS

Big halls and flooded halls you need a route through. Tin, iron and silver.

−90 TO −128 MTHE DEEP

Hot rock and lava pools that light their own chambers. The richest veins, and gold.

07 · TOGETHER

ALONE, OR WITH FRIENDS.

Every world runs its own server inside it, even when you play alone, so a friend can come in from Steam whenever your world lets them. Each world decides who may join and what death costs.

NEW WORLD

FRIENDS

ANYONE ON YOUR FRIENDS LIST CAN JOIN YOUR WORLD.

DEATH

ALL ITEMS ARE DROPPED WHERE YOU DIE.

08 · MEDIA

SEE IT MOVE.

PLAY THE TRAILER

WINTER IN 2 DAYS.

Put Wildborne on your Steam wishlist and we will tell you the day the first year opens.

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WINDOWS·LINUX·STEAM DECK, 60 FPS TARGET·CO-OP OVER STEAM