Darkenmoor
A co-op survival RPG for up to eight players, by Alyro Studios.
Fact sheet
- Title
- Darkenmoor
- Developer
- Alyro Studios
- Publisher
- Alyro Studios
- Based in
- New South Wales, Australia
- Genre
- Co-op survival RPG
- Players
- Co-op for up to 8
- Platforms
- Windows and Mac, via Steam (coming soon)
- Status
- In development
- Website
- alyrostudios.com/darkenmoor
- Text game
- Playable in the browser at alyrostudios.com/darkenmoor/play
- Contact
- support@alyrostudios.com
Descriptions
Short
Darkenmoor is a co-op survival RPG for up to eight players. Something is wrong with the dark, and it gets into the wolves first, then the villagers, then you. Fell timber and hunt by day, hold the palisade by night, and keep the Hollowing out of your blood. Coming soon to Steam for Windows and Mac.
Long
Something is wrong with the dark. It gets into the wolves first, then the villagers, then you. They call it the Hollowing, and nobody in Thistlebrook will say where it started.
Darkenmoor is a co-op survival RPG for up to eight players in one world, hosted by a friend. You wake in a village with a broken gate and too few hands to mend it. By day you fell timber, hunt the Greywold and take what work the elder gives you. By night you hold the wall, and count who is still standing at dawn.
Beyond the hills the land gets worse. To the north the Ashen Reach still smoulders under a church that burns its heretics. To the west the Thornwood has grown a wall of its own, and something old sings behind it.
Darkenmoor began as a text RPG: twelve classes, a thousand scenes, and a world told in second person. The 3D game is built on the same rules, the same story and the same maths, and the text game can be played in the browser today.
Features
- Co-op for up to eightOne world, hosted by a friend. What one player builds, burns or breaks stays that way for everyone.
- Live off the landHunt deer and boar, forage, and cook what you kill. Raw meat rots.
- Build, then build betterTimber and thatch, then stone and slate, then ironbound doors when the raids get serious.
- Smelt and forgeCopper and tin make bronze. Iron and coal make steel. Silver bites the Hollowed.
- Twelve classesEach with three paths, from knights and rogues to druids and priests. Eight abilities on your bar.
- Weather that mattersRain soaks you, snow chills you, and fog lets the dark in closer.
- A story with consequencesChoices carried over from the text RPG. The village remembers what you did.
- A map you draw by walkingThe land inks itself onto parchment as you explore it.
Logo
The wordmark is set in Cormorant Garamond, in capitals, widely spaced. Use it light on dark or dark on parchment. For a vector file of the wordmark, email us.
Screenshots
Work in progress, for use in coverage of Darkenmoor. These are replaced as the game develops, so check back before you publish.
Thistlebrook, the village inside the palisadeDownload JPG: Thistlebrook 
Thistlebrook at duskDownload JPG: Thistlebrook at dusk 
The Thornwood at nightDownload JPG: the Thornwood at night 
The Thornwood by dayDownload JPG: the Thornwood by day 
The Ashen ReachDownload JPG: the Ashen Reach 
Ash-fall in the marchesDownload JPG: ash-fall in the marches 
Thistlebrook under snowDownload JPG: Thistlebrook under snow 
The map, inked as you exploreDownload JPG: the map
Contact
- Press and general
- support@alyrostudios.com
- For interviews, assets in other formats, or anything not on this page.
About Alyro Studios. Alyro Studios is an independent games studio in New South Wales, Australia. It makes Darkenmoor and small mobile games.