Shardbound

An Eador-inspired campaign of provinces, heroes and hex battles.

Lead one of four heroes and a persistent army through a linked campaign of three shards. Develop your stronghold, investigate guarded sites, counter a rival expedition and command turn-based hex battles where veterans keep their experience.

Early access Version 0.1.0-preview.1 Released 2026-09-08 Source 184584007ac3

Install

Play online: two-player shared-realm co-op

You and a friend command the same realm and army. Either of you can build, explore and give battle orders; the server keeps one authoritative campaign. Campaign rooms are kept for seven days without both players, so you can continue tomorrow.

Campaign rooms are kept for 7 days without both players. Invite links look like https://games.tachyon-ai.eu/join/shardbound-v1/abc123 and contain only the game and room code, never your private seat.

Your first match

1. Open the Field Guide with F1 for your first turns; the Codex (C) holds every rule.
2. Build a marketplace to fund your army and recruit troops at your stronghold.
3. Explore the current province with X and inspect the rival plan with V.
4. Invade a neighbouring province and fight the hex battle, or let automatic rounds resolve it.
5. Capture Duskspire before the rival takes Westwatch.

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What is in the game

• Four heroes with two advancement disciplines each, ten troop roles and twelve relics.
• Guarded expeditions with rout, hold and extraction objectives across twelve authored patterns.
• Manual orders or optional automatic rounds, with skippable playback of the resolved actions.
• A three-shard linked campaign: choose the next challenge and which veterans and relics travel.
• Three world themes, seed selection and three difficulty settings.
• Manual saves, rolling autosaves, sound controls, reduced motion and larger reading text.