Planned Release Date: 2026

Release plan

The first chapter of the game will be available for free on Steam.

About This Game

Severed is a narrative role-playing game about a brutal future world split in two. Here, law and order are bought with the blood of the powerless, and you must shape the destinies of two heroes whose lives run in parallel. Will you uphold the old order, tear it down, or carve out a path no one has yet dared to imagine—the choice is yours.

High in the heavens floats Excelsium—a dazzling technomagical paradise reserved for the elite. Here the Great Houses bask in luxury fueled by Intensium’s power. The price of this prosperity is the lightless depths of despair: the Abyss — toxic mines, reeking slums, relentless hunger, and a savage struggle for survival.

Immerse yourself in a narrative RPG that boldly blends Romepunk grandeur with post-apocalyptic desolation. Guide the lives of twin brothers separated at birth and raised on opposite sides of a fractured world—from their first steps to the moment when humanity’s fate rests in their hands. Can you heal a centuries-old rift? Protect the friends and lovers who stand beside you? Whom will you trust when truth proves deadlier than lies? And what will unfold when the brothers finally meet—and their worlds collide?

Raphael is being groomed as the rightful heir in Excelsium’s gilded halls. Since childhood he has been prepared for the burden of power, schooled in the arts of intrigue and the fragile balance among the Great Houses, ruthless Corporations, and the fanatical Ordo Unius Lucis. Yet at times he feels he was born for something else …

Seraphim is a born conqueror. Cast into the Abyss as a newborn, he was saved by a stray dog, and her pups became the only siblings he ever knew. He knows nothing of etiquette or the rules of high society, but he possesses feral instincts, sharp cunning honed by a savage struggle for survival, and a frightening gift for “wild” magic.

In this parallel narrative, every choice you make for one brother inevitably reshapes the other’s life. A single decree from Raphael may forge yet another chain for the miners of the Abyss. One brazen act by Seraphim can rumble all the way to the gilded halls of Excelsium, cracking the very foundations of the Imperium. Yet an inexplicable bond already links them—shared dreams, flashes of déjà vu, sudden stabs of pain, scars as if scored into the same flesh. They have never met, but they are already rewriting one another’s fate.

As Raphael, you’ll be thrust into a nest of vipers where a senator’s smile can prove deadlier than a dagger’s thrust. Will you remain the system’s chained hound, become a covert reformer, or seize power as a merciless dictator? Curb your overreaching ambition, or the palace’s gilded halls may give way to the blood-soaked sand of the gladiator pits … though perhaps that, too, is a path to greatness.

Guiding Seraphim, you hold the Abyss’s fate in your hands. Will you enlist with the Iron Fist Alliance—a cartel of former legionnaires turned Barons who rule the Intensium mines in an unyielding gauntlet? Will you side with the Will of the Abyss—radicals who burn out their own minds in the deepest catacombs to harness unimaginable power? Or will you cast off human quarrels altogether and become a messiah to the outcast Children of Prometheus—synth androids seeking the meaning of their existence?

At the heart of the Imperium’s power lies Intensium, a mineral attuned to psychic resonance that grants strength and authority to anyone capable of harmonizing with it. Its discovery revolutionized every field of knowledge, making magitek, the levitation of the Cappae, the creation of Synthi, and even cloning possible. The apparent loyalty of the Iron Fist Alliance, which controls the Abyss mines and guarantees a steady flow of Intensium to Excelsium, preserves a fragile balance of power. Yet the Children of Prometheus—synth androids who have become self-aware and already risen against humanity once—may again become the force that upends this equilibrium. And the refugees of the Will of the Abyss—radicals for whom Intensium resonance has become both a creed and a means of survival—refuse to accept the ruthless elites’ monopoly on magic and are preparing to burn injustice away in purifying fire.

In Severed, there is no unequivocally right decision. Mercy can cost hundreds of lives; cruelty might save an entire city. Trust may twist into betrayal, while betrayal can become the only way to avert disaster. Choose your allies, principles, and sacrifices wisely: consequences will accumulate over the years and return when it is too late to turn back.

Sooner or later, the severed worlds will collide, and the separated brothers will at last meet. Will they face each other as enemies, ready to slit one another’s throat for the future they believe in? Will they be able to reach an accord? Or must one sacrifice himself so the other can try to mend what generations before them have broken?

One playthrough won’t reveal the whole picture: even when they make fateful choices, the protagonists are still just two pieces in a vast, living world that moves according to its own laws. New routes unveil different facets of familiar events, lay bare the factions’ hidden motives, let you see well-known characters from fresh angles, and reveal consequences that are unexpected yet feel inevitable.

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AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Generative AI tools were used during development as part of the production pipeline for visual assets and localization.

AI-assisted visual material undergoes manual curation, editing, compositing, and final integration in image-editing software by the development team. AI-assisted localization goes through a multi-stage workflow that includes terminology and consistency checks, human proofreading, and final verification.