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About This Game

The world broke a long time ago, and it kept going anyway. So will you.

Epoch Forge is a 2D sandbox colony game where the systems don't take turns — they run all at once, in one world, and lean on each other. Start with a pick and a patch of dirt. End up — if you want — running settlements, wiring machines, bargaining with gods, and flying a ship you bolted together yourself. Or don't. Nothing is waiting for you to finish.

One world, all of it at once

• Build ships and fight in them — hulls with real frames and mounts. Guns cripple systems, not health bars; ships fail the way honest things fail.

• Talk to anyone — NPCs hold open conversations powered by a language model running on your own machine, grounded in what has actually happened in your world.

• A living economy — settlements produce, run short, issue contracts; caravans bridge the gaps and can be robbed of physical coin; prices are observations, not constants.

• Real circuitry — logic you can build computers out of. Not a minigame. Wires, switches, machines, consequences.

• Grounded physics — structures carry load and fail for visible reasons, on a heavy world whose physics are derived, not decorative.

• Five gods who answer — every prayer is answered through their domains, never in words. Devotion, hubris, and standing all matter, and favor has consequences you'll meet later.

• Abilities and rites — from small workings to things that change the ground you stand on.

• Disasters — meteors fall, earthquakes shatter the earth underneath you, storms burn villages to ruin. What they hit stays hit, and the economy feels it by evening.

• Enchanting with teeth — an altar with no meter and no numbers. Settled workings enchant; unsettled ones leave blemishes, quirks, and warps you'll live with.

Three ways to play, and they are not damage sliders

Difficulty changes what information exists, not how much health things have.

• Casual — the world explains itself. Full item knowledge, an in-game encyclopedia freely offered, forgiveness when you change your mind.

• Intermediate — knowledge is earned by use. Refuse the encyclopedia and it survives only in the deep places.

• Complex — the game records what you've encountered, not what things are. Refuse the Record here and it never asks twice. You chose this. It remembers.

No ending

There is no win screen and never will be. Payoffs are permanent changes to a world that keeps running — the storyteller reacts to your deeds forever, not until the credits.

Built to be modded

Content lives in data the game scans, not in code: add items, blocks, recipes, runes, deities' works, even encyclopedia pages, without touching a shipped file.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

The global economy, events, NPC dialogue and behaviors, and the choices your Storyteller makes use a lightweight, local LLM that runs with the game.