Free
Free play
€0 · no card needed
- A Shardbound ID and the whole game up to level 10
- Goldmeadow, The Westwatch Coast, Whisperwood, The Ashen Fields, Mistfen and Gravemaw's Hollow
- Your character keeps everything at the cap
Early access · development funded by players
Play now, help finish it
Shardbound is unfinished, and we'd rather say so than sell you a promise. Play free to level 10. If you want to see it finished, early access lets you play all of it while your subscription pays for the art and development it still needs.
Paid early access opens soon: subscriptions aren't on sale yet. Free play is open now, and game keys work today.
Early Access Opening soon
Early Access
€5 a month · or €50 a year
- The whole game with no level cap: both continents, the dungeons and the endgame
- Everything that ships while you're subscribed
- Your money goes into art and development time
- Cancel anytime
Founder Opening soon
Founder
€12 a month
- Everything in Early Access
- Your name in the credits
- The Founder title over your name in game
- A vote on which art gets funded first
The fine print, in plain words
How it works
- What the money pays for
- Art first: characters for the locked races, creatures, armour, animation and buildings that belong together. Then development time.
- No power for sale
- Stats, gear, upgrade materials, experience boosts and in-game currency are never sold, directly or through tradable items. Early access unlocks levels past 10, and the Founder title is only a name.
- Payments
- Polar is our merchant of record: they take the payment, handle VAT, send your invoices and keep your card details; we never see them. You manage or cancel your plan from your account page.
- Cancelling
- Cancel any time. You keep access until the end of the period you paid for; your characters stay, and past level 10 they wait for you without gaining experience.
- Game keys
- Keys look like
SHRD-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX. Redeem one on your account page or in the launcher; it gives Early Access or Founder for a set time, or for good. - The Founder vote
- When there's money for the next piece of art, Founders choose between the candidates: a race, a creature set, an armour set, a zone's buildings. We announce each vote to Founders when it opens.