Planned Release Date: To be announced

About This Game

A road home through a broken world

Harrow is running out of heat and clean water. Vesper enters a sealed sanctuary to recover the Borrowed Dawn, an emergency regulator left by the old world. The mission goes wrong. Captured and sent to a prison camp, Vesper must survive, escape, and find new equipment. The regulator is still locked away, and the people at home are waiting.

Fight with steel, powder, and ward magic

Fire an antique carbine, strike with an arc blade, interrupt enemy attacks with ward techniques, and dodge clear threats. Combat is deliberate and responsive. Enemies use different attacks, apply harmful effects, and punish careless movement.

Search every broken road

Explore prisons, wild roads, settlements, and small dungeons shown in detailed dimetric pixel art. Read short records, help stranded people, stop dangerous rituals, and learn why the old machines are failing.

• Break objects and structures, then collect any supplies that fall to the ground.
  
• Find weapons, armor, rings, and ward devices with different stats and appearances.
  
• Craft field supplies and equipment upgrades from materials found in the world.
  
• Build Vesper through three talent paths and choose which combat techniques to equip.
  
• Use stealth, line of sight, and nearby cover when a direct fight is a bad idea.
  
• Reveal an actual map as you explore, with unexplored ground kept hidden.

Cinderbound is a single-player action RPG currently in development for Windows.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Generative AI tools assisted in creating pixel-art visuals, interface and narrative text, and Steam marketing artwork. This material is prepared in advance and integrated into the game and store page. The game does not generate content while running.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Frequent gun, blade, and magic combat against people and creatures, shown in stylized pixel art. The story includes forced prison labor, prisoners being killed, dead bodies in a morgue, blood stains, and ritual imprisonment. There is no graphic gore or dismemberment.