Epic 5
Go adventuring
Scroll through the world, meet three kinds of foe with their own tricks, level up, and bank the motes you find.
Roadmap · Pre-alpha · Early Access
Aetherbound:
what's hatching next.
Piecing together what happened through fragments left behind: some are your own memories, some are strangers' last thoughts. The deeper you dig, the less black-and-white it gets.
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Cozy pet RPG
Pixel art
Now
Hatched
Playable today at game.nightart.dev.
Epic 4
Stats that matter
HP, Energy, Agility and Spirit shape every move in battle.
Epic 2
Easy getting around
A bottom nav and a Touch Rail drawer keep everything a thumb away.
Next
Growing
The committed plan, roughly in the order you will see it.
Epic 1
Feed, pet, repeat
The heart of a pet game: home, care and cuddles, ported from the prototype into the live build.
Epic 3
Pockets full of stuff
Library, Journal, Petdex, Stats and Feats, all a radial tap away.
Epic 6
Echoes
Memories to find and pieces to put together. No spoilers, just hints of a world that remembers.
Epic 7
Lab & Market
Tinker with your companions, and meet the trader who comes and goes.
Epic 8
Sounds of Aether
A home-grown audio engine, built and tested, waiting to be plugged in.
Dreaming
Someday
Speculative. Cool ideas, no promises.
Epic 11
Leave your mark
Places that remember you, designed with privacy first. Prototyped, not yet in the game.
Epic 12
Training minigames
A future Training tab. The first prototype kept its mechanic and lost its theme.
Epic 9
Trading, safely
A secure player economy. Still on the drawing board.
Epic 10
Two-server world
Shelved for now.
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