Planned Release Date: To be announced

About This Game

Aquis is in early development. Right now you can explore and build on the first island, the Earth realm. This page shows the game as it really is today, and I'll keep it up to date as it grows.

Pick a spot and place a building. The ground has to be right: not in water, not too steep and not on top of something else, and buildings settle naturally onto slopes. Rotate as you go and keep placing in a row. Each building goes up in stages.

Give your villagers jobs. Lumberjacks fell trees, chop them into logs and carry them to storage. Gatherers pick mushrooms, which grow back after a few minutes. Cooks turn raw food into meals at the Kitchen. Everyone gains experience and levels up in the job they do.

Build houses and the village grows: new villagers walk out of their homes, and houses get small gardens. Felled trees regrow from their stumps, so the forest comes back.

The Earth island is about a kilometre across: meadows, deep forest, waterfall cliffs, a river and a lake, a quarry hill and a beach. Butterflies, jackdaws, geese, gulls, dragonflies, fish and fireflies live around you, and the days turn to dusk and night, rain and snow.

Aquis is heading somewhere bigger. A mage is thrown into an unknown world by an arcane accident and has to win over its elemental peoples to repair a torn portal and find a way home. The plan is four realms, Earth, Water, Fire and Air, each with its own creatures and resources, and shadow creatures spilling out of the breach. None of that is in the game yet: the Earth island comes first.

• Place buildings with real ground checks: on slopes, rotated, in rows

• Buildings that go up in stages

• Lumberjacks, gatherers and cooks, each with job levels

• A village that grows, with new villagers and gardens

• Trees and mushrooms that grow back

• A kilometre-wide Earth island with river, lake, cliffs and beach

• Wildlife, day and night, rain and snow

• Autosave, Continue and New Game