About Forgotten Horizons
⚠️ Forgotten Horizons is not finished: it is in active development (beta, version 0.9.6).
The world, the main systems and the story from the prologue to the finale are playable, but art, balance and stability are still being improved, and you will meet rough edges and bugs. It is made by one person, and player feedback decides what comes next.
🔥 Here it is not people who forget — it is places 🔥
A road bends into a loop and joins itself. An inn has twelve made beds and no door. Deer carry flowers to a grave no living soul remembers. And beneath the Forgotten Temple lies everything people once gave away so they would not have to carry it.
You wake beside a fire that is almost ash. No memory. A sharpened rusty sword, a blue-stitched backpack, an empty waterskin, and a note in strangely familiar handwriting:
📜 "If the fire is still burning, you're alive. Go east. Find the village. Don't go into the mountains."
📖 A story where you decide
A prologue and eleven chapters — from Hearthmere, a village where every agreement is spoken aloud before a hearth, down to the Choir of Vesper deep beneath the temple.
🧭 Follow memory traces, notes and testimony — the world itself tells you where to go next.
⚖️ Decide who to spare, who should hold the Prism, and who deserves the truth. The people around you will remember.
🎭 No chosen one, no prophecy — only the consequences you are prepared to accept.
🏁 Three endings.
🌍 A world that keeps going
The world generates around you and streams in as you walk. Five regions, five different moods:
🌾 Plains — old roads, the village and the first dangers.
🌲 Forest — overgrown city blocks and a school still guarded by wolves.
🏔️ Mountains — mines, passes and the Forgotten Temple.
🏜️ Desert — land of the Unrecorded, who keep the truth in clay tablets.
💀 Death Valley — black glass and a city you can only see sideways.
🌦️ Dawns, fog, rain and storms change both the view and how far you dare to stray from the fire.
🗺️ Places worth finding
🏛️ The Forgotten Temple — seals, ancient records and the way down to the Choir of Vesper.
🏰 The Silent Keep — a garrison, an undercroft and the Warden waiting in his vault.
⛏️ Shaft Six — lifts, rail cars, dark drifts and a prize at the very bottom.
✨ The Aether — another dimension beyond a lens ring: fragments of forgotten places drift above a sea of clouds, and you fly between them.
⚔️ Combat that teaches respect
🗡️ Combos, dashes and blocks with real attack animations.
📈 XP for victories, a bonus for your first fight with a new species, streaks and weapon mastery.
👑 Bosses in their own arenas: readable attacks, summoned adds and multiple phases.
💪 No skill point screens: you get better at exactly what you do.
🏡 Life between expeditions
🏘️ Hearthmere — a quest board, merchants, a fisherman and reputation you have to earn.
💰 Trading — buy, sell, save up. Merchant stock is finite.
🎣 Fishing — fishing spots, different species and a skill that unlocks better catches.
🪓 Gathering — cut the wood and mine the ore with your own hands.
🏠 A home of your own — build a house from gold and timber and make it your respawn point.
🛡️ Raids — defend the village, then find out who attacked it and why.
🎒 Gear — rarities, search, filters, sorting and a hotbar.
🧩 Mods
The game loads mods from a local folder and from the Steam Workshop: new items and creatures without reinstalling the game.
🏆 And also
🏅 32 Steam achievements.
💾 Autosave every minute and on exit.
☁️ Steam Cloud saves.
🌐 English and Russian.
⌨️ Keyboard and mouse.
🖥️ A command console on F9; commands that change the world (teleport, gold, flight) work in worlds created with cheats on.
🛠️ Still growing
Forgotten Horizons is made by one person, and the game is still growing: new places, quests, balance and polish are on the way. Found a bug or have an idea? Post in the Steam discussions — every update takes player feedback into account.
🌄 The fire is still burning. Go east. 🌄