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11 Romestead combines survival and adventure with town-building and city management. Players explore and fight during the day, then farm and decorate at night while defending against the dead. The result is a loop that rewards both active adventuring and slower, base-focused play.
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33 The Core Loop
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66 Progression is biome-based. The intended cycle is to explore a biome, gather its resources, craft better gear, restore the gods through offerings and sacrifices, defeat its bosses to unlock the next crafting tier, and then move on to the next biome. Players who prefer a slower pace can instead spend their time to decorate their settlement, experiment with automation, and farm crops.
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88 Explore a biome (see Biomes).Gather resources, including physical heavy materials (see Resource Management).Craft better gear at the Workbench, Blacksmith, Leatherworker, and other production buildings.Restore the gods at the Altar for buffs and technologies.Defeat the biome's boss to unlock the next crafting tier.Advance into the next biome with stronger gear.
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1010 Day and Night
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1212 The game is split between two rhythms. During the day the world is open for exploration, resource gathering, and dungeon runs. At night the dead walk and hunt the player, so settlements need defenses and lit torches. Night is also a time to farm and decorate within the relative safety of a town.
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1414 Pillars of Play
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1717 Survival against hordes of the walking dead, especially at night.Exploration of a procedurally generated world dotted with handcrafted locations and dungeons.Resource gathering, including physical hauling of heavy materials: rocks, ores, and logs are carried one at a time or hauled together with a cart train, and a boulder can be thrown at an enemy closing in. See Resource Management.Crafting and progression through building tiers unlocked by defeating bosses. See Crafting and Progression.Settlement building and management of recruited artisans, whose happiness is fed by the appeal that decorations give their buildings. See Settlements and Buildings.Specialized settlements in different biomes, linked by trade routes. See Automation and Trade.Worship of the seven Roman gods for buffs, technologies, and upgrades. See The Gods and Worship.
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1919 Finding Your Role
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2121 Players can build their character around one of three combat archetypes (melee, ranged, or magic), or specialize in farming, building, or exploration. Solo players naturally do a bit of everything. In co-op, a group can specialize so that individual players focus on fighting, gathering, crafting, farming, automating production, or growing the settlement. See Combat for the combat options, Character Creation for the three class archetypes, and Multiplayer and Co-Op for how groups divide roles.
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2323 Player Count and Difficulty
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2525 Difficulty scales with the number of players in the world. The game can be played solo or in multiplayer with up to eight players, either by hosting a server or by connecting peer to peer, and the studio said before launch that it is tuned for one to four players and scales up to eight.
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2929 Pressing N opens the World Map 2.0, which displays map markers, hover-over dungeon names, and quest icons. Quest names appear as icons on the map, and the Altar shows previews of upcoming worship unlocks. The map can be expanded and players can edit markers for shared planning in co-op.
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3131 The studio's December 2025 map overhaul let players place their own markers, see discovered dungeons with their names, and reveal boss locations on the map. Since launch-week hotfix 0.25.1_3, a quest dungeon stays marked until the quest item has been taken from its chest (see Quests). Hotfix 0.26.1_3 (1 September 2026) added new map markers, which the notes do not itemize.
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3333 Worlds and Updates
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3535 The whole world, every dungeon and boss included, is generated when a world is created, so there is no free space for dungeons added later. That is why the Autumn Update (0.26.1, released 31 August 2026) asked players who want its new dungeons to create a new world. The studio was explicit that older worlds are not lost; they simply do not get the new dungeons, and nearly everything else in the update can be experienced in an existing world. It also said it is looking at options for handling this differently in future updates.
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37+Mundus Cerialis, the October 2026 seasonal event, works in existing worlds. It becomes available after progressing through the Desert and defeating its bosses; a friendly spirit appears in town the next day. End-game gear is recommended for the optional challenge.
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3739 Quality of Life Since Launch
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3941 Storage: 0.26.1 gave the Material Storage a drop-off zone that never fills up, and patch 0.26.1_4 added a Deposit All button to inventories (working with the Food Storage since 0.26.1_6).Sound: 0.26.1 fixed music stuttering, sound looping while the game is paused, and stacked coal traps and braziers being deafening, and removed the buzzing insect from the Plains ambience.Controllers and Steam Deck: full controller support through Steam Input arrived with 0.26.1, and the game became Steam Deck Verified on 18 September 2026. See System Requirements and Controls and Keybinds.