Lumengard

Lumengard is a single-player fantasy survival RPG set in the fallen kingdom of Lumengard, a procedurally generated hex-tile world. Gather resources, craft food and gear, and fight turn-based battles with cards drawn from your equipment and skills. Turn a small shelter into a village, build bonds with your companions, and shape the world through your choices.

A seal held back a rift to a world of darkness. The night it broke, black mist swallowed the capital. You and Princess Serin narrowly escape and take shelter in an old fortress on the outskirts. Find food, craft equipment to protect yourself, and build a home with scattered survivors. As you explore the ruins, the knowledge you uncover and the people you meet draw you closer to the truth behind the disaster.

Turn your gear and companions into combat tactics

Find your own fighting style with cards from your weapons, armor, learned skills, companions, and pets. Block a blow with your shield, keep an enemy in check with a longbow, or call on a companion's help to get through a dangerous moment.

Read the enemy's next move and choose when to attack or defend. Brace for a heavy blow, or bring the enemy down before it lands. The same opponent can call for a different approach depending on your gear and card combinations. The potions and throwables you packed can make a difference when it matters most.

Craft better equipment and learn new skills to expand your options. Put the preparations you made through exploration and crafting to the test in your next battle.

The gear you craft and equip changes your options in combat.
Gather branches and stone, craft a Flint Knife, and equip it to add the Thrust card to your combat options. The materials you find become new tools for your next battle.

Venture into unfamiliar lands

Each new game brings different terrain and location layouts through procedural generation. Explore a hex-tile world with handcrafted locations and stories, seek out resources and people, and uncover clues and knowledge in abandoned places.

Once your journey begins, your discoveries and changes to the world persist. Returning to the village or loading your save does not reset the world you have explored.

Follow the road, cut through the woods, or search for a place to cross the river. Terrain, weather, and the shift from day to night change your journey. Keep an eye on your food, water, and physical condition as you decide whether to explore a little farther, make camp and rest, or return to the village.

Craft equipment from the materials you find and learn new skills to take on the challenges of new places. Step beyond familiar paths, seek out what you need, and follow your own journey.

Craft, learn, and survive

Light a campfire to boil water and roast meat. Tend your wounds, repair damaged equipment, and sleep to recover from the day's journey. When you venture far from home, a camp gives you a place to rest before continuing.

Turn gathered fiber, hide, ore, and timber into clothing, armor, weapons, and village facilities. From a meal for today to equipment for more dangerous territory, make what you need to keep going.

Seek out recipes, blueprints, and new survival and combat skills. Knowledge is as valuable as good materials. As you learn to craft more items and use new techniques, you gain fresh ways to tackle obstacles that once stopped you.

Build a village and a life together

Serin pours her power into the old fortress's Wardstone, raising a barrier around the ruins. Here, you and the other survivors begin a new life.

Build and improve facilities with materials from your travels. Develop a simple workbench into a forge, and set up places to cook food and purify water. Reinforce the barrier and expand your home as life returns to courtyards and paths once buried in rubble.

Get to know the people who share your village: Serin, who asks you to join her for dinner; Edwin, who studies the secrets of the seals; and Lena, a smith who notices the state of your blade before saying hello. Each has a history and a point of view. Whom you help and whose advice you follow become part of your conversations and relationships.

The fortress changes as its barrier is raised and reinforced.

Meet pets to share your journey

Welcome a variety of pets you meet on your travels. Feed them, bring them along, and use your pet's cards to help you through difficult battles.

Pets can also hunt for useful supplies or track down leads from the clues you find. Choose who will join you on your next adventure.

A world shaped by your choices

Restore a blocked aqueduct or dig a bypass: how you solve a problem changes the surrounding environment. The images below compare the blocked waterway with the two outcomes.


Decide how to solve the problems you encounter, whom to help, and which relationships to build. The decisions you make on your journey change people's lives and the world around you in ways both large and small.

Discover new places, meet people with different stories, and make a story of your own.

Development note

Lumengard is currently in development. Character stories, village progression, pet tasks, and regional changes described here include features still in development. Details and the scope of the game may change.