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Shardbound in-game: a Warblade at the gate towers of Lumen Hollow at dusk

Flagship · Early access

Shardbound

A classic tab-target MMORPG on its own engine, made independently and honestly unfinished.

Pick a target, learn skills as you level, run dungeons with friends and meet strangers in a world that persists. Factions fight over the fallen Lumen Shard. The hour comes from the server, so every player sees the same dawn, the same storm and the same night. Nothing that affects power is ever sold.

It's playable today and free up to a level cap. Most of the art is placeholder: early access pays for the art and development still to come.

Play and follow it Shardbound press kit

Genre: MMORPG, tab-target combat, third person
Status: Early access, in development. No release date.
Platforms: macOS on Apple silicon. Windows and Linux are built but not yet tested on real hardware.
Engine: Kiln, our own (Metal and Vulkan)
Price: Free to play up to a level cap; early access tiers on the Shardbound site

From the current build

What it looks like today

Straight from the game, placeholder art and all.

Shardbound in-game: a Warblade in Whisperwood among pines and long grass — Whisperwood

Shardbound in-game: rain at the town gate, the ground dark and wet — Weather every player shares

Shardbound in-game: a meadow at night with fireflies — Night on the shared clock

Shardbound in-game: the Warblade's three talent trees — Talent trees

Still dark

Next lanterns

Nothing else announced

Shardbound has all of our attention. When there's another game to talk about, it will be here first.

Built to be reused

Kiln's editor framework holds no game: cameras, gizmos, undo, preferences. Shardbound's world editor is one game built on it, and the next one starts from it.

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The quickest way to hear what we're up to is Shardbound itself: its news, its roadmap and its early access.

shardbound.ninth-lantern.com

What we're making

Shardbound

Nothing else announced

Built to be reused

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