Lead a small tribe against mighty empires in a story-driven strategy adventure. Sneak through living settlements, pause to plan your raids, bring your people home, and build a camp worth defending across five campaigns and four changing seasons.

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About This Game

No more civilization!

Tired of your goody hut getting raided? Sick of so-called "civilizations" showing up and settling on your land? Now you can fight back! Lead a small band of warriors through a warm, mischievous strategy adventure that combines real-time tactics with paused command planning, stealthy raids and a seasonal campaign map.

Small band. Big ideas.

Watch patrols, slip through cover and creep directly behind a guard for a quiet knockout. Hide sleeping guards, recover supplies and get your people home. When subtlety takes the afternoon off, pause the action, give orders and face the alarm together.

Five stories of standing together

Play 31 chapters across five independent campaigns facing Rome, China, Spain, Greece and England. Meet stubborn companions, outwit pompous foes and make choices your tribe remembers. Each story keeps its own progress.

Make a home worth coming back to

Choose your tribe’s name, colours and wolf, bear, raven, boar or stag totem. Build a longhouse, smithy and shrine, forge weapons and train your warriors. Your camp grows alongside your people.

Let the seasons change your plans

Spring blossoms, autumn leaves and winter snow bring a living frontier to life. Rain muffles footsteps, guards follow tracks in snow, and frozen rivers open new routes. Weather is more than scenery.

Keep the adventures coming

Explore a free campaign, quick raids, camp defence, daily challenges and the five-raid Five Winds journey. Try a gentler wolf-cub adventure, or create your own raids with the included map editor.

  • Single-player adventures with local saves and offline play.

  • Adjustable difficulty, tactical pause, interface scaling and reduced-motion options.

  • Interface and dialogue translated into 17 languages.

  • Distinctive, soft muffled character hums, with dialogue shown as text.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Assets were developed with the assistance of AI, in addition to debugging and code review activities.

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 / Windows 11 (64-bit)
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (2 GB) / AMD Radeon RX 460 (2 GB); Vulkan 1.2
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Keyboard and mouse. No internet connection required for gameplay.
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    Minimum:
    • OS: macOS 13 Ventura
    • Processor: Apple M1 / Intel Core i5-7500
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Apple M1 GPU / AMD Radeon Pro 560; Metal 3
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Keyboard and mouse. No internet connection required for gameplay.
    Recommended:
      Minimum:
      • OS: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (64-bit)
      • Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      • Memory: 8 GB RAM
      • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (2 GB) / AMD Radeon RX 460 (2 GB); Vulkan 1.2
      • Storage: 2 GB available space
      • Additional Notes: Keyboard and mouse. No internet connection required for gameplay.
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