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About This Game

Eldkin is a side-scrolling creature adventure in a huge pixel world that you can dig, craft, build on and explore, from a continent floating above the clouds down to the Sun Core. Your kin fight at your side in real time, carry you across the world and open new paths with their abilities.

• Over 130 kin to bond with, each with its own moves, evolutions and special abilities. Weaken a wild kin, throw an orb and make it part of your team.
  
• Real-time battles. Your partner attacks on its own while you call its moves, dodge, and send it where it needs to be.
  
• Ascend your kin into 19 legendary third forms, each with its own screen-filling Ultimate: Meteor, Tsunami, Blizzard, Eclipse Nova and more.
  
• Eight types, from Ember and Flora to Gale and Umbra, and nearly 100 moves to learn, swap and master.
  
• Rare finds: shiny kin, mighty alphas, rare eggs and legendary kin that only appear once the sun returns.

Every world is generated from a seed and every block can be dug, chopped or built on. Travel from the meadows of Hearthvale into the Glimmer Hollows, the Drowned Halls and the burning Ember Deep, and climb into the Aerie through the Divine Labyrinth, an ancient maze inside a sky continent.

• Ride your kin: gallop on the ground, fly through the sky, swim through sunken halls and cross rivers of lava.
  
• Use their abilities: Kindle burns bramble walls to reveal hidden rooms, Freeze turns lakes to ice, Smash breaks through, Echo uncovers secret passages and Ore Sense finds the veins worth digging.
  
• 16 dungeons full of traps, keys, puzzles and elite kin waiting in their arenas.
  
• More than 50 puzzles and trials: light beams, water cisterns, ice slides, echo stones, push blocks, magma crossings, star altars and temple braziers.
  
• Over 60 landmarks and hundreds of places to find: sunken galleons, sky gardens, kin dens, vaults and buried treasure marked on old maps.
  
• World events change the world while you play: meteor showers, sandstorms, petal storms, lantern nights, eruptions, kraken surges and more than 20 others, each with its own rare materials.

Eldkin can be played alone or in online co-op with up to four players. Invite friends through Steam, or open your world to anyone who wants to join.

• One shared world: dig, build, explore and fight guardians together.
  
• Bring your own hero: your kin, bag and coins come with you, and you take everything you earn back to your own world.
  
• Shared rewards: XP is shared between nearby players and everyone's kin can battle and bond with wild kin.

Between adventures there is always something to do in Hearthvale. The town grows as you travel and new villagers arrive with new crafts.

• Mine ores and craft tools, gadgets, orbs and gear at the workbench, the Forge and the Sun Anvil.
  
• 47 armour sets, each with a set bonus and its own look, forged from ores and event materials or found in the deepest chests.
  
• Build a home with walls, doors, windows, furniture and lanterns.
  
• Fish at lakes and shores, ride the mine-cart tracks, hatch eggs at the Kin Den and take on bounties.
  
• Make your hero your own with the character creator, hats, outfits and a wardrobe that shows any look over your real gear.

Six guardians stand between you and the Sun Core. Each one guards the way to the next layer of the world, and each victory brings new tools, new mounts and new friends to town. Defeat the Eclipse Wyrm and the sun rises again, bringing day and night, new events and the legendary Solune. After that, Eclipse Rifts, guardian rematches, legendary hunts and the Trial of Ascension are waiting.

Play your way: full controller support with Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo and Steam Deck button prompts, Steam Cloud saves and Steam Achievements.

Trailer music: "Grassy World Overture" by Matthew Pablo (CC-BY 3.0), edited for the trailer.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Kinstead is a one-person project made with the help of an AI assistant. The world, the creatures, the music and the writing were all created with AI, guided, play-tested and polished by the developer to make a cosy adventure worth exploring. Everything is generated ahead of time; no AI runs while you play.