Give the island a purpose.
Plan your harbor, develop its production, and decide which people and supplies the next expedition needs.
DARK ERA
Dark Era: Development
A small harbor. A world of possibility.
Start with a weathered dock, a small ship, and room to grow. Govern your island, assign your heroes, and take the helm as your harbor reaches toward an uncharted sea.
Target platformWindows
ExperienceHarbor building / Real-time strategy
StatusIn development
Public releaseNot announced
THE EXPERIENCE IN DEVELOPMENT
The lord deploys. The heroes act. You take the helm.
The current design puts your attention on the decisions that connect a harbor to its voyages: who to send, where to land, what to bring home, and when to return. Heroes carry out their assigned work while you direct the ship and the larger plan.
Send the right people.
Assign heroes to gathering, construction, defense, or exploration. Choose landing points and plan their return.
Bring the journey home.
Sail back with resources, process or trade what you recover, and prepare for the next journey.
This is the current design direction. Features and balance may change through development and testing.
A CLOSER LOOK
One plan. Three connected responsibilities.
Your island and your voyage are designed to remain connected. A departure creates opportunities, but also asks who stays behind, who goes ashore, and how the ship can support them.
- Manage your harbor and its longer-term development.
- Heroes navigate, work, and fight according to assignments.
- Choose routes, divide forces, and arrange the return voyage.
HOW THE DESIGN CONNECTS
You make the deployment.
Set priorities, assign people, choose landing points, and decide when a group should return.
They carry out the assignment.
Heroes are designed to navigate, gather, build, defend, and fight according to their assigned tasks.
You take the helm.
Choose the route, direct movement and docking, and arrange transport, support, and a safe return.
Interactive explanation of the intended design, not an in-game interface.
FROM THE WORKSHOP
A glimpse of the build.
An early preview from development. Final models, animations, and balance are still being created.