The brambles are coming back early this year.
Brambletide is a small online RPG you play in your browser. Fish off the town dock, cook what you catch, hammer out a better helmet, and go find out who's been planting black thorns in the forest.
Free to play. Still being built. Nothing to install.
The look we're building toward.
What you actually do
It's an MMO, so there are other people around: in town, at the fishing spots, in the dungeons. It's also small on purpose. You can sit down for twenty minutes, catch a few trout, and log off having done something.
Fight with your feet
Monsters wind up before they swing, and the ground shows where it's going to hurt. Step out of it or roll through it. Sword and shield, staff and bow all play differently, and bosses have a second phase you'll want to learn.
Fishing is a real skill
Different water, different time of day, different rod, different fish. Some of them pull hard. Cooked over a campfire, they're also the best buffs you can get, so the people who fish end up feeding the people who fight.
Make your own gear
Mine ore, chop wood, smelt it, smith it. Sometimes what comes off the anvil is better than the recipe promised. Whatever you end up wearing shows on your character, for you and for everyone else.
Bring friends, or don't
Parties of four, guilds, chat, a trade board in town. Or ignore all of it and go fishing.
Runs in a browser tab
No launcher, no download. Open the page on a desktop browser and you're in.
Still being made
New places get added as they're finished. Expect things to change, and the odd rough edge.
The world
Every few hundred years the brambles rise out of the middle of the country like a tide. The old guardian spirits, the Wardens, each sit on one of the great roots and keep it asleep. This year the forest is waking early, and someone has been pushing black thorn-seeds into the Wardens.
You start in Mossmere, a hill village of honey-colored stone, and work outward from there.
Mossmere Town
Terraces, stacked chimneys, lanterns after dark. Where everyone starts.
Bramblewick Ford
A slow brook, one stone crossing, and a willow tied with ribbons.
Saltmarrow Flats
Salt plain, tide pools, a salvage camp, and a belfry that leans.
Glasswright's Kiln
An abandoned glassworks that is still, somehow, hot.
Wending Fens
Willows, plank walks and lily pads big enough to stand on.
Hushwood
A birch wood where it's always late evening. Stay near the lanterns.
Lumen Abbey
A sealed library kept by moths, half swallowed by thorn.
The Heartbriar
Where the brambles come from. It's breathing.
Concept art. Some of these places aren't in the game yet.
Downloads
For now Brambletide runs in your browser, so there's nothing to download. Standalone builds will show up here when they exist.
- Windows Not yet
- macOS Not yet
- Linux Not yet