A turn-based roguelike RPG. Five years after the outbreak, a wandering family finds a child who may carry a cure. If they can keep her long enough.
Four siblings carry their father, a driven scientist now a shadow of himself, through years of wandering a zombie-ridden land. Until they find a lost girl. As far as they know, the first child born since the outbreak. To their father, a chance for a cure. A new plan: dig in, buy time, and hold.
A grounded story of survival, loyalty, old wounds, and the bitter frictions of a motherless family, where hope flickers back to life at the end of the world.
Every fighter has a role and a place in the line. Every effect sets up the next: tar the walking corpses, then set them ablaze; shock, expose, blind them. Turn lamps, barrels, and cranes to your advantage, and pull the right item at the right time. Deploy auto-weapons at the rear, from crossbows to flamers and mortars. And watch the pressure: tension builds until someone snaps, for better or worse.
This is a hard game. You will fall, learn, and come back sharper. Weigh the risk of every foray and plan your respites. And above all, when the Tide's waves come, hold the barricades to the last breath.
Draw a line among the ruins at a cliff's edge, and turn the debris into a working camp. Restore the chapel, tend a greenhouse, build a workshop, improvise a solar rig. Raise a barricade and electrify it. Craft items, then upgrade and power your buildings.
Split your people between forays and camp duties, gather resources, feed everyone, and trade whatever you can spare. Every brick laid stands between the living and the dead.
Recruit new fighters, level them up, raise their stats, and unlock new skills. Let bonds grow between them until they step in for each other in battle.
Find unique Hardware for the camp and Holdovers to carry into combat: relics of the world before, priceless now. Learn new crafting recipes, upgrade arms and armor, and engineer auto-weapons. Bear the consequences too: a wound can linger long after the foray, and a bad call can leave you at the Tide's mercy.
Four to start. Four more to join them.
Frontline tank willing to harden with every blow.
Henry, the eldest brother. First to stand in the way, last to blink at the end of the world. Every scar on him was meant for someone else. Says little and means it. Loyalty, absolute and unconditional. The Wall, brick by brick.
Versatile fighter who drives the team onward and sets the pace.
Mika, the second-born, never took an order without a fight. When the old man broke and Henry wouldn't step up, she did. She had to. She buried their mother herself. Five years of hard calls since, and she stopped counting the wrong ones. Rough, unyielding, cold as a frozen river cracking under her torch. All guts.
Fast-hand healer, quick on the trigger and the weak spot.
Allan, the younger brother, a promising student cut short by the undead, now a field medic by default. Forever under his father's disapproving eye, and never quite the old man in his siblings'. He carries a borrowed medical bag. Quick hands, quicker mouth, plenty to prove, and everyone to prove it to.
Loose-cannon tinkerer who plays best to a wide audience.
Dimitri, the so-called cousin, or the old man's bastard. Or the one who came out of nowhere for a few weeks, just as the outbreak came for good. Managed to burn down the garage in the meantime. A chemical for every problem, a burn for every chemical, and only his pretend aunt to ever patch him up. He'd joke about that too.
Now We Hold is built from scratch by a solo developer. All the art, animation, writing, sound, and music are made by hand or licensed from other creators, with full credits here. The game uses no generative AI art, writing, or audio.
Coming to Early Access in 2027, and growing with every update until it's complete.