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The build

Windows build — not yet posted

There is no build to hand out yet. This page goes live with one the day the first session is called; everyone accepted gets an email when it does.

First run

1. Unzip the whole folder before running anything. Running it from inside the zip will fail in confusing ways.
2. Start the launcher. It shows the version, the patch notes and a Play button. Automatic updates are not switched on yet, so you reinstall by hand for now.
3. On first launch the game fetches the local language model — about 2.5 GB, once. That is what lets your tribe, the wanderers and the other chiefs answer in their own words. Skip it and they fall back to written phrases.
4. Check your microphone. You command your people by speaking: hold the key and talk. Everyone in earshot hears you — only your own obey.
5. Set aside the whole session. A match is one sitting, three to five hours.

What to report

Bugs go in the Discord, in the playtest channel. The useful ones say what you were doing, what you expected, and what happened instead.

Especially useful

Anything that made you stop and stare — a moment where you had no idea what the game wanted from you. There is no tutorial and no quest marker by design, so the line between deliberately unexplained and actually broken is the thing we most need your eyes on.

Also worth saying

Which kin you played and whether it felt worth playing. Where the frame rate fell over. Anything your tribe said that was uncanny, in either direction.

Open the Discord

Please keep it close

The build is unfinished and unannounced. Streaming or posting footage from it before we say so does real damage to the one chance this has at a first impression. Screenshots in the Discord: always welcome.