A new website, and what early access will mean

This website is new. It replaces a single page that tried to say everything at once, and it lives where the game's servers are: shardbound.ninth-lantern.com.

The facts come from the game

The zones, levels, classes, races and dungeons on the game page aren't typed in by hand. They are read from the same data files the game servers load, every time the site is built. If a class is locked in the game, the site says it's locked. The roadmap works the same way: its "being built" list is our design board.

Early access

Every Shardbound ID can play free to level 10. Past that, early access unlocks the rest of the game: Early Access at €5 a month or €50 a year, and Founder at €12 a month, which adds your name in the credits, a title in game, and a vote on which art gets funded first.

Subscriptions aren't on sale yet. We are still testing the payment side, and we'd rather open it late than open it broken. Game keys already work, on your account page and in the launcher.

The art is still placeholder

We say it on every page because it matters: most of what you see in Shardbound is stand-in art. The money from early access goes into hand-made art first. More on that, with numbers, as it happens.