Kinhold

Kinhold is a third-person survival and settlement-building game set in a world where nothing is decoration. Every stone, tree, and inch of soil is a real resource sitting in a real place, and once it is taken it stays gone. You play the one character here who does not age, guiding villagers who very much do: raise them, build a settlement that is still standing long after they are not. When the raids start, arm them, fight your enemies and conquer their settlements. Play it solo, or bring a friend along in co-op.

Features

• A fully destructible world. Dig out a hillside and the hillside is gone. Clear a forest for timber and it will not regrow. Your villagers can do it too.
• Explore to unlock resources. Your villagers can only work with what you have found first. Find a seam of iron or gold, and they will mine it for you.
• Villagers who are born, grow, work, and die. You are the constant. Everyone else is temporary, so plan and build a settlement to last generations.
• Arm them and go to war. Turn villagers into warriors, hold off raids on your settlement, or lead your army against someone else’s.
• Death costs you. Respawn at the last bed you slept in, minus your inventory, then go and get your things back.
• Solo or two-player co-op. Explore and go to war with your friends.

On the roadmap

• Water, in a world you can dig anywhere. Less a texture problem than a simulation one.
• Versus mode, settlement against settlement, for when you would rather fight your brother than build with him.

The devlog has the longer version, and the current state of all of the above.