Ashbound

Ashbound is an open world text-based dark fantasy MMORPG built for Android.

Enter a grim world of ruined roads, dangerous regions, fractured guilds, ancient threats, and long-term character progression. Train skills, gather resources, craft gear, fight enemies, join guilds, complete expeditions, challenge raids, and help shape a world rebuilding from the ashes.

Ashbound is a Solo-Developer created game currently in Open Beta. The game is actively being tested, expanded, balanced, and improved with help from its players. Expect ongoing updates, balance adjustments, interface improvements, bug fixes, and occasional maintenance as development continues.

Current Features

Create a character and begin your journey through Ashbound
Train skills through actions, gathering, crafting, combat, and exploration
Explore Hearthgate Crossing, Blackfen Road, Old Graves, Emberfall Ridge, and many other regions
Complete expeditions, regional tasks, public threats, and dynamic world events
Craft weapons, armor, consumables, materials, and profession-based items
Buy and sell goods through vendors, the player marketplace, buy orders, and regional demand
Collect equipment, resources, blueprints, cosmetics, and rare event rewards
Customize your character through equipment appearances and the Avatar Forge
Join guilds, contribute to guild projects, and develop guild strongholds
Form parties and challenge dangerous raids for valuable rewards
Compete through PvP, bounties, guild wars, warfronts, campaigns, and leaderboards
Face world-scale threats including Titans, Enemy Invasions, and Planar Rifts
Unlock achievements, titles, reputation, notoriety, professions, codex entries, and bestiary discoveries
Manage housing, storage, farming, tasks, alerts, mail, and long-term progression

Open Beta Focus

During Open Beta, development will focus on:

Improving first-session onboarding and early progression
Strengthening mobile readability, navigation, and performance
Refining combat, crafting, inventory, equipment, and vendor systems
Improving guilds, strongholds, wars, campaigns, and player interaction
Balancing raids, public threats, invasions, rifts, and Titan encounters
Improving rewards, pacing, progression clarity, and the game economy
Finding and fixing bugs, crashes, confusing screens, and unfinished polish
Expanding the world with additional content, systems, and quality-of-life updates

An Evolving World

Ashbound remains an actively developed game. Features, balance, rewards, progression, and presentation may change throughout Open Beta as systems are tested and improved.

Player feedback is an important part of that process. If something feels confusing, too slow, too punishing, too easy, broken, difficult to read, or especially enjoyable, sharing that experience helps guide development.

Join the Ashbound Open Beta, forge a new character, explore a dangerous world, and help shape what rises from the ashes.

See you in the ashes.