Ashburrow Is Out Now

Ashburrow is out

Under the Goldcrest Hills, the Ashmane Clan's warren goes down further than anyone has come back to say. As of today, the whole of it is open: every road, every race, every class, and everything waiting at the bottom. Before anything else: thank you. To everyone who played the demo, and to everyone who brought a friend down with them. A game made by one person gets better only when other people play it.

What the full game opens

If you played the demo, here is what was held back until today.

• Level 25. The demo stopped at 10.
• All 39 upgrades. The demo sold 12. That includes three more races, the Lutrin, the Vesperin and the Verdani, and the Mesmerist, the class that takes a creature with a charm and lets it fight for them.
• All six roads. Start a run at the Riftworks, Frostspire Pass, or the gate of the Rimehold itself, up to level 20.
• Four ways to win a run. The Mushroom King in the Drowned Grotto, the Eternal Judge at the top of the Old Keep, Bannoch the Sporecrown at the bottom of the Bloomdeep, and Vorgrath the Cinderwyrm under it all. Bring one down and the win is yours to keep.

Your demo progress comes with you. Your gold, your upgrades and every objective you finished carry into the full game. Your character does not: the demo keeps a save of its own.

Who is waiting for you

The dead of the Old Keep: Aurelan the Bloodcrowned, the last king of Goldcrest, who holds its great hall, and the Eternal Judge above him on the top storey. On the right, the giants of the Rimehold and the Hollow Jarl who rules them, behind a gate under the glacier. And more!

Bring friends

Up to six players, over Steam or LAN by IP address. Your run is open to friends whenever Steam is running: they right-click your name in their friends list and choose Join Game. They can join mid-run with the character they are already playing, are raised to the session's level while they stay, and keep everything they find. One thing to know: demo and full-game builds cannot see each other, so everyone in a session needs the same one.

What comes next is up to you

Ashburrow will keep growing, and every update after today is free to everyone who owns it. What goes into those updates is what I want your help with.

• Which fight felt unfair, and which felt too easy?
• Which race or class do you play most, and which do you never pick? Why?
• What would you want next: a new region, a new boss, a new class, more to find in the places that are already there?
• Does the run feel right: die, bank, buy, go again? Where does it drag?
• If you play in a headset: what works, and what does not?
• Anything broken. Tell me where you were and what you were doing.

Post it in the discussions here. I read all of it, and the next update starts with what you say.

Thank you

To everyone who wishlisted, played, reported, recommended or just watched a trailer and thought it looked like their kind of game: thank you. If you are enjoying it, a review on the store page helps more than anything else I could ask for. Now go down. And take somebody with you.