The forge does not
go out when you leave.
A dark-fantasy idle RPG. Thirteen skills, twelve combat zones, ten guilds and a sea with twenty-six islands on it. Set something running and shut the window.
Somebody always
wants something doing
One guild for every skill, plus the Nightmarket. Join and the board hands you work: kill these, gather that, bring back this many.
- Three jobs a day, small to long, rerolled every morning.
- Titles that do something. Six ranks per guild, each a real bonus in that guild's own skill. Speed, yield, gold, a shot at double output.
- A shop each, paid for in tokens off the board.
- One skip, for the day the board asks for something absurd.
Everything feeds
something else
What you cut down becomes what you build. What you build decides how deep you get. What you drag back out of the dark is what the best tools are made of.
- A 98-point tree behind every skill, and 98 points is exactly enough to fill one. Getting there is the long part: points arrive a level at a time, and the Grandmaster tier stays shut until every base node under it is maxed.
- Tools in tiers, with the top ones gated behind drops you have to go and fight for.
- 735 items, every one logged the first time you see it.
Down as far as the
Demon Sanctum
Every zone has its own monsters, a boss at the end of it, and one rare spawn worth waiting for. Fifty-seven in all, each logged with what it drops and how often.
- Four raids with no retreat. Clear every stage or leave with nothing.
- Gems and 52 enchants to put into what you are wearing.
- A 37-node mastery tree on top of everything else.
- Slayer bounties from three masters, and points to spend on perks.
Send it out and
go do something else
Build a ship, sign a crew, pick a heading. Voyages run on a real clock and come home whether the game is open or not.
- Seven hulls, raft up to leviathan, with cannons, rudders and figureheads to bolt onto them.
- Four seas, and a chart that fills itself in as you go.
- A consort who will sail with you once you are far enough out.
The rest of it
It is still running.
Go and do something else.
Skills bank XP and materials. Voyages come home. Fights carry on. There is no energy bar and nothing to sit and wait for. Play for ten minutes or for three hours; the game is the same either way.
Three ways in
The full game
Every zone, skill and system unlocked, with Steam achievements and cloud saves. Three save slots. No microtransactions, no battle pass, no ads. Buy it once and every update after it is free.
Buy on SteamThe demo
Runs in your browser, no account needed, progress saved on your own machine. A real slice of the game rather than a trailer you can click.
Launch the demoThe Discord
Bug reports, questions and blunt feedback all land with the person making it. Most of what ships each update started as something somebody said in there.
Open DiscordMade by one person
Cindervale Idle is the work of a solo developer who likes the tick of a good incremental game and the weight of dark fantasy, and wanted one that was both.
It is a single hand-built game, bought once. No microtransactions and no pay-to-win. The only thing that gets you further is playing. Every monster, item and zone has its own hand-drawn icon.
It is in Early Access and gets updated constantly. Still to come: magic and ranged combat, more zones, and more of everything already here. Feedback goes straight to the developer.