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Your grandfather's cabin in the northern woods is yours now, roof leaks and all. Mend it, fill the cellar, and get through your first winter.

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In development. Plays in the browser on a computer. First download is about 50 MB.

A year in the woods

You arrive at a derelict cabin in early spring with a few tools and a deed. By the time the snow comes you need a sound roof, dry wood stacked high and food put by.

Forage, farm, fish, hunt, mine and trade, and above all make things. Every attempt at a craft makes you a little better at it, and every room you mend makes the cabin warmer.

The derelict cabin and its overgrown yard on a summer evening
SummerClear the yard, plant, forage.
The homestead in autumn, birches turning gold
AutumnCut wood, fill the cellar.
The cabin under deep snow
WinterKeep the fire fed.
Northern lights over the snowy clearing at night
And the nightsSome are worth staying up for.

Inside, by the fire

When a storm settles in, the cabin is where the work is.

  • Mend the cabin room by room. Patch the roof, chink the walls, lay a floor, add a bedroom, a workshop, a cellar.
  • Learn by doing. Carving, mending, brewing, the soup pot, forging, fiddle tunes: each is a small hands-on task you get better at.
  • Mind the cold. Warmth, hunger and the weather matter. A winter night with the fire out is dangerous.
The cabin interior at night, the fire lit and rain outside

Millbrook, down the road

The village has a store, a smithy, an inn and a dozen neighbours with their own stories. Trade what you make, learn what they know, and find out why the last two settlers out your way didn't see spring.

Millbrook's main street at midday Millbrook by lamplight

Hear when it's ready

Hearthwood is free to play while it's being made. Leave your email and we'll write when it comes to itch.io and Steam, and not much else.

Loonlight Games

Loonlight is Josh Skeen, one developer making Hearthwood. Every build of the game has a feedback button in its pause menu, and every note gets read.

Write to hello@loonlightgames.com, or see the press kit.