I'm excited to announce that Realms & Ruins: Abencor will launch on July 28, 2026!
The demo is live for Steam Next Fest too. We're in the final stretch!
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December 2025: Realms & Ruins: Abencor devlog is up! Systems polish, new skills, a fresh gameplay trailer, and a release status update. ⚔️
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Realms & Ruins: Abencor Steam Demo is live! Tons of updates and QA passes on the main branch, getting ready for Nextfest and release shortly after!
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March 2026: DEMO IS DONE! Want to get an early peak at R&R or help with closed testing? Check out my itch devlog to learn how or just join us in Discord 😀 discord.gg/BRGAEkHxh4
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New Dungeon coming in Realms & Ruins: Abencor!
Not far off the coast stands a lonely tower on an island. What awaits inside?!
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October 2025: Lots of performance and balancing improvements as things start coming together and I get closer to release! Check out my itch devlog below:
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Realms & Ruins is now in beta!!! All core content is complete and implemented. Focus now on playtesting, balancing, polish and making an upcoming demo. Read more on my itch devlog:
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September 2025: Big update this month! Quests, treasures, puzzles, and more await!
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Read the full breakdown here:
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January 2026: Road to release is upon us! Added 18 new items, 8 new skills (all skills now complete!), plus a new dynamic spell & weapon throwing system.
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Building traps is fun. Treasures await if you can survive! Don't ask me how many takes I had to do for this gif.
Wishlist on steam if you like what you see!
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Realms & Ruins: Abencor is a first-person, grid-based, open world, retro, pixel art dungeon crawler harkening back to the days of yore. Realms & Ruins takes inspiration from games like Wizardr...
Happy holidays! I hope everyone is staying warm. This update focuses on refining core combat systems, improving status effect behavior, and tightening up map design. I’ve also put together a new gam.....
Hello everyone, The demo for Realms & Ruins is complete! I've since launched a closed test for it if you would like to participate or check out a peak of R&R: Abencor a bit early. All you have to do i...
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Over the last development stretch, Realms & Ruins crossed a major milestone. WE ARE OFFICIALLY IN BETA! All core content is in and R&R is feature complete. From here on it’s heavy playtesting, balan.....
The Realms & Ruins: Abencor Steam demo is finally live! It's a small slice of the game to give you an idea of what to expect before I launch the full game. It contains a small area, the Listless Swamp...
Another month in the books! This update includes me filling out the world with treasures and quests, along with some bug fixes, new systems, stats, some puzzles and expanding some of the existing area...
