Realms
The Ashen Fen
realm one, still standing
painted frame-by-frame in our Covent Garden studio
Hand-painted fantasy action-RPG
Forge runes. Bend fate. Outlast the collapse.
Eternal Rune Forge is a single-player action-RPG set in a watercolour world coming undone. Graft living runes onto your gear, tame twelve collapsing realms, and stand against the myth-born bosses that remember every choice you make.
The Game
A living world, painted and rewritten as you play
the anvil remembers
Every rune is alive
Runes are not stat stickers — they grow, argue, and mutate. Feed a Emberveil rune enough fallen kings and it learns to burn cold. Your build becomes a story only you have told, and no two Forgemasters carry the same arsenal into the final realm.
nothing waits for you
Twelve realms, quietly collapsing
From the Ashen Fen to the Drowned Cathedral, each realm decays on its own timeline. Linger too long and the bridges dissolve into pigment; move too fast and you miss the runes hidden in the wash. Pace is a weapon here.
they learn your habits
Bosses that hold a grudge
The Hollow Crown fought you three realms ago and did not forget. Bosses carry scars, adapt to the runes you leaned on, and return with counters painted into their movesets. Beating them once is never quite enough.
The forge, in numbers
0K+
Closed-beta Forgemasters
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Hand-forged living runes
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Collapsing realms to tame
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Average story playthrough
From the world
Realms, bosses, and the anvil
Every frame below is captured in-engine and painted by hand. Filter by what you want to see next.
Bosses
Vaelithar, the Hollow Crown
she remembers you
Crafting
The Rune Anvil
where builds are born
Realms
Skyhold Ruins
the last dry bridge
Bosses
Duel at the Glass Bridge
one misstep, one fall
Crafting
Living Rune Grafting
it will change you back
Realms
The Drowned Cathedral
realm nine, sinking
Bosses
First Light of the Collapse
the fight that opens it all
What you get
Built for players who read the fine print
The Living Forge
A deep crafting core where runes evolve from your play style. Over 60 base runes, thousands of viable grafts, and full respec at any anvil so experimentation never costs you a save.
Adaptive bosses
Fifteen named bosses that log the runes you rely on and return with painted-in counters. No two fights against the Hollow Crown play the same way twice.
Standard Edition
The full single-player campaign, all twelve realms, and free content updates through 2027. £29.99 on launch.
Forgemaster Edition
Everything in Standard plus the hand-bound digital artbook, orchestral score, and the Emberveil starter rune set. £54.99.
Painted accessibility
Full colour-blind palettes, remappable controls, adjustable enemy tells, and a story-first difficulty that keeps the world open to everyone.
One purchase, no traps
No loot boxes, no energy timers, no online requirement for the campaign. You buy the game, you own the game — offline and complete.
Before you ask
Questions from the closed beta
4.8 / 5 beta rating
We are targeting a full release in Q3 2026 on PC, with console versions following within the same year. Closed-beta Forgemasters keep their save data and carry an exclusive Emberveil rune into the launch build.
The campaign is fully single-player and playable offline from start to finish. An optional asynchronous mode lets you leave painted messages in other players' realms, but nothing about the core story requires a connection.
A focused run through all twelve realms takes around 48 hours. Completionists chasing every hidden rune and boss variant regularly report 80 hours or more, and New Game Plus reshuffles boss behaviour for a fresh challenge.
The hand-painted look is deliberately light on hardware. A 2019-era mid-range GPU comfortably holds 60fps at 1080p, and we ship a low-spec painterly mode that runs on integrated graphics without losing the art direction.
None. There are no loot boxes, battle passes, or paid boosts. You choose an edition once and every future content update for the base campaign arrives free through 2027.
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Reach the studio
Join the forge or just say hello
Tell us where you play and we will slot you into the next closed-beta wave. Our studio team reads every message from Covent Garden.
Phone
+44 20 7224 5763Email
[email protected]Studio
58 Neal Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9PA
Studio hours
Mon–Fri, 10:00–18:00 GMT