Roboto Games announced that an official demo for Stormforge is now available on Steam. This should give survival crafting fans a peek into what the game offers before its early access release sometime later this year.
The Stormforge demo allows players to test the character creation with three available classes which are Warrior, Mage, and Ranger. They also get to explore the meadows starting biome solo or up to eight players. Players of the demo also get to see if they have what it takes to survive tornadoes in wind storms. Then there's the second forest biome that brings with it poison infused storms. As they explore the biomes, they get to face a boss encounter and discover the forest biome’s first dungeons. The demo also offers a sneak peak of the building systems, gliding and sailing.
Stormforge offers a cooperative survival experience that supports as much as eight players. It's set in a world that's been overrun by magical storms. Each storm brings with it unique dangers like tornadoes that fling rocks, trees, and enemies into the air and dust storms that reduce visibility and damage the player, to name a few. The storms have unique mechanics that change how the game is played. They're brimming with powerful resources though filled with deadly creatures.
Players get to start as a warrior, mage, or ranger. However, they can unlock extra classes by defeating bosses. It’s up to the players on how they can customize the loadout of their characters. They can mix and match skills and abilities across all unlocked classes to come up with those unique playstyles. Each time players survive a storm or finish exploring a dungeon, it gives them new skills.
One of the exciting features of Stormforge is that it's going to have deep support for modding which is then combined with procedural world generation. This should let survival crafting players experience the genre in new and exciting ways. The game also allows explorers to easily play with a wide range of equipment, enemies, points of interest. Its rules in particular were created directly by the community. All of these are accessible without any separate downloads.
Stormforge is scheduled to be launched in Early Access in 2026. Wishlist the game on Steam now.