Eldarwyn

Small islands, long evenings, and a long road from your first birch log to a wyrm-slayer's kit. It begins on Hollowmere, a small island of woods and stone, in a world you share with everyone else playing.

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The game

Start with an axe. See where it takes you.

Eldarwyn is a life-skilling game in the spirit of the old browser classics. You gather, you make things, you get better at it, and the islands open up as you do.

Seventeen skills

Woodcutting, mining, fishing, farming and hunting bring in the raw goods. Smithing, woodcraft, crafting, cooking and alchemy turn them into tools, gear, meals and potions.

Islands to reach

Trees and rocks get tougher, and more valuable, the farther you walk from the clearing. Build a boat, cross the causeway to Thornbury, or climb the old watchtower for the view.

Other people

Everyone plays in the same world. Chat, trade, duel, form a guild, sell on the market board, or gather a party for the bosses that are too strong for one.

Things to chase

Eleven quests from Elder Maren, five bosses, rooftop agility courses, hiscores, a weekly challenge, twenty pets to find and a town that grows as your reputation does.

A look around

The same island, never quite the same

Seasons turn every two days, the weather changes every few minutes, and a full day and night passes in twelve. Everybody sees the same sky.

A wood in its autumn colours seen from above, birches gold among orange oaks, with the roofs of the town beyond — Autumn in the birch wood south of town

The same birch wood in winter, with pale frosted trees — …and the same wood in winter

The cobbled square at dusk, with the fountain, a lit lamp and the windows of the houses round it alight — Lamps come on at sunset

The square at night, the fountain in the dark and lamplight pooling by the town hall — Midnight in the square

The town from over the south street on a foggy day, the hall and the church tower fading into mist — A foggy morning

A stony shore with ore rocks and a short pier, the houses of the town behind — The quarry shore and the pier

A river winding past the stone walls of Thornbury — The river below Thornbury's walls

The birch wood in spring, fresh green with pink blossom — Spring comes round again

Screenshots from the game. It is still being built, so the island you find may already look a little different.

Trouble

Some things on the island hit back

Come to the Barrow King alone and he calls up his guard. The Frost Titan is built for three to five players, and the Dread Knight walks the Old Fort for seven minutes in every twenty, for whoever turns up. Blades, maces and bows each suit different monsters, so it pays to carry the right one.

Three players among the broken pillars of a ruined fort, fighting a horned skeleton knight in a black cloak inside a red warning circle — The Dread Knight at the Old Fort

A pale giant of ice towering over three players on a snowfield by the sea — Three against the Frost Titan

Two players in a stone room fighting a tall dark-robed figure in a golden mask, with violet lights circling it — The Veiled One, behind the sanctum door

Four players side by side on the shore by an autumn wood, carrying a staff, a bow, a sword and shield, and a maul — Stormcaller staff, Stormwood bow, Emberblade, Greyspine maul

A player with a mace and shield beside a crowned skeleton at a stone tomb, a red circle spreading on the ground around them — The Barrow King: step out of the red circle

A player with a glowing orange sword facing a great spiked serpent in a dark cave floored with lava — The Molten Wyrm in its lair

Screenshots from the game, with the fights set up for the camera.

A living place

The village doesn't wait for you

Eldarwyn keeps its own hours, and it keeps them for everyone at once.

Villagers follow a timetable: out in the square by day, supper at the inn, home to bed at night.
The night watchman walks his round with a lantern from dusk to dawn.
Wolves hunt in packs after dark and the dead grow restless, but they carry more.
Fell a tree or empty a rock and it is gone for every player until it comes back.
Each season favours a skill: farming in spring, fishing in summer, woodcutting in autumn, mining in winter.
Dobbin's cart runs between Hollowmere and Thornbury, and waits for no one.

Lamplight on the cobbles and two market stalls at night, by the bank and the gate of the church green

Getting started

Playing in under a minute

Press Play
The game loads in the page. You start as a guest straight away; there is nothing to install and no form to fill in.
Make your character
Pick a name, skin, hair, tunic and trousers. This is how other players see you, and you can change it any time.
Follow the gold arrow
A short tutorial walks you through your first birch logs and your first trout, then leaves you to it.
Keep your progress
Sign in with Google from Settings whenever you like, and your character follows you to any device.

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