Open now · By request
Harrowlands playtest
by Bashful Wolf Studio
Harrowlands is a medieval fantasy colony sim where you build your settlement, manage Fateborn with unique traits, shape relationships, survive raids, magical threats, and the demands of a powerful kingdom.
It's free to ask. The developer chooses who gets in.
- Access
- By request
- On playtest since
- Oct 27, 2026
- Planned release
- 2026
- Developer
- Bashful Wolf Studio
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- Danish, Dutch, English, French and 15 more
How to join the Harrowlands playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Request access button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Request access to the Harrowlands playtest there. It's free and doesn't commit you to anything.
- The developer lets players in, often in batches, so it can take a while. Steam emails you when you're in, and the playtest appears in your library.
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How AI is used
Harrowlands incorporates pre-generated AI material as one part of its visual production process. Human artistic judgment guides the process from initial selection through editing, composition, integration, and final presentation. No generated visual output is included without being reviewed and worked on by the developer. Generative AI tools are also used to assist with translations of in-game text. The vast majority of Harrowlands is handcrafted. Its world, gameplay systems, creative vision, and artistic direction are the result of my own imagination, design, and development. Harrowlands is a personal creative work, built with care and a clear vision of the experience I want to create.
The developer's own words, from Steam.
About Harrowlands
Harrowlands is a medieval fantasy colony sim where you build your settlement and guide the Fateborn who call it home. Each has a unique past, traits, and relationships that shape their everyday lives. Explore a mysterious world, overcome its dangers, and forge your own story.
Choose Your Story
Begin as fugitives who narrowly escaped a reaver's keep, or as survivors forever changed by a forbidden sacrificial rite. Every settlement has its origins, but what happens next is up to you.
Core Features
- Three Distinct Races Humans, Sylrions, and Azuraans each have their own traits, temperaments, and cultures. Watch friendships form, rivalries emerge, and unexpected relationships unfold as they live together in your settlement.
- Fateborn with Unique Stories Every Fateborn has a backstory, distinct traits, special affinities, and abilities that influence how they work, fight, and interact with others.
- A Vast Procedurally Generated World Explore diverse mystical biomes, uncover hidden locations, and adapt to an ever-changing landscape. Each new world brings fresh opportunities and challenges.
- Kingdom Politics & Recurring Threats Defend against reaver raids, navigate imperial demands during the Sovereign Reign, and decide how to deal with court mages, inquisitors, and powerful factions.
- Trade & Diplomacy Trade with traveling merchants, neighboring villages, imperial outposts, and secretive societies like the Venom Vault. Build alliances, negotiate deals, or pursue your own interests.
- Crafting & Customization Discover and craft hundreds of weapons, equipment, consumables, and magical books. Equip your Fateborn for battle, strengthen their abilities, and prepare for whatever lies ahead.
- Specialized Buildings Expand your settlement with structures that improve comfort, encourage social bonds, enhance magical training, and unlock new production opportunities.
- Quests & Consequences Rescue prisoners, confront dangerous creatures, and embark on heroic quests, or choose a darker path through raiding, forbidden alliances, and imperial service.
- Ancient Temples & Legendary Loot Venture into forgotten ruins, face formidable creatures, and uncover powerful artifacts hidden within.
- Modding Support Customize and expand your experience through a dedicated modding framework, giving players the freedom to shape Harrowlands beyond its original design.
Shape Your Legacy
Build a peaceful refuge, forge alliances with powerful factions, or carve your own path through conquest. From the friendships and rivalries of your Fateborn to the choices that shape your settlement's future, every decision adds another chapter to your story.
In Harrowlands, the world is yours to explore, the colony is yours to build, and the story is yours to shape.
From the game's Steam page.
