You are no one. Everything is earned.
An open-world multiplayer RPG in a brutal, low-tech fantasy wasteland. Fight directional duels, raise a squad, and make a name in a world that does not care whether you live.
The game
Vendetta: Debt of Steel is an open-world multiplayer RPG set in a low-tech fantasy wasteland of empty roads, ruins and worn-out towns where everyone owes somebody something. You arrive as nobody, with a vendetta to settle and nothing to settle it with.
What you become is up to you. Learn to win duels where every swing is a commitment. Recruit a squad, give it orders and keep it fed and paid. Mine, craft, research and build. Work for the factions, rob them, or go to war with them, and live with the bounty that follows.
It will be free to play on PC. Characters and weapons can be owned on Ronin, and that part carries risks you should read first.
Combat
The rules are fixed so that they can be learned. When you lose a duel, you should know why.
Attacks, blocks and rolls all pick a direction. Incoming attacks are signalled, and unblockable attacks and bashes carry their own warnings, so what beats you is something you could have seen.
Up · left · right
Every attack has fixed frame data and always takes the same time. A character's skill shows in damage, stamina and recovery. It never makes a hit arrive sooner. Practice mode has a dummy that records and replays, with feedback on your timing.
Fixed frame data
Feints, guard breaks, chip damage, shield bashes and unblockable attacks. Run out of stamina and you are slow, open and unable to chain until the bar refills. Rage only comes when you are outnumbered.
Feint · break · bash
Dagger, sword and shield, two-handed, polearm and dual wield. Each style has its own chains, finishers and attacks out of a dodge, and enemies from Rabble to Champion use them according to their rank.
5 weapon styles
Bows, crossbows and thrown stones follow real ballistics. Arrows stick where they land and can be pulled out and used again.
Bow · crossbow · stone
Hit-stop on impact, bodies thrown back by physics, movement with mass. One health bar, hit zones and wounds that bleed until they are bandaged.
The current focus
The world
More than 260 items, 117 recipes and 36 technologies so far, with named characters and faction leaders who keep their own accounts.
Recruit people and take them with you. Give orders and stances, set them to mine, craft or stand guard, pay their wages and watch their morale. A Quartermaster, Scout, Surgeon or Trainer each changes what the squad can do.
Your squad and the people you meet can be spoken to in your own words, typed or by voice. They answer, they remember, and they act on what you say inside the game.
Every faction keeps its own opinion of you. It decides how its people treat you and what its shops charge. Earn their trust, or declare war.
Theft, assault, murder and looting all count when someone sees them. Witnesses talk, guards come, and there are cells and bounty hunters for whoever is still wanted.
Mine resource nodes, set up workbenches and work through a tech tree. Research keeps going while you are away. When you have the means, build a place of your own.
Characters have skills from 0 to 100, a race, passions, a background and a genome. Scavengers and Stonekin are two of the races. Pick a starting scenario and begin as nobody.
Ways to play
Co-op and PvP online
Host a world or find one in the server browser. Travel with friends or cross blades with strangers. Friendly fire is real, and an ally who goes down can be revived.
1v1 to 4v4
Team elimination on maps made for it. With fixed timings the better read wins, and if the clock runs out the side with more health takes the round.
Alone or with your squad
The Chimera Golem waits behind fog gates, and only a true parry answers its hammer. Out in the wastes, Cave Spiders, Hornbacks and Predators hunt in packs with attacks you cannot block.
Where it stands
Nine weeks from a bare skeleton to an open world.
Work began on 5 September 2026. By 2 November the build had directional combat, squads, factions, quests, an arena and a first playtest behind it. The job now is weight: every hit has to land harder.
Devlog
Media
A cinematic trailer of about a minute is in production. People on the list see it first.
Roadmap
Each step opens when the one before it is good enough.
September 2026
First playable build with a test arena.
31 October 2026
Open world, squads, arena and the new combat.
Now
Weight, stamina, cameras and weapon movesets.
Open now
Pre-register and keep your fire lit.
In production
About a minute long.
No date yet
Free to play on PC, with items on Ronin.
Questions
An open-world multiplayer RPG in a brutal, low-tech fantasy wasteland. You start as no one. You fight directional duels, recruit and run a squad, work, craft and build, and deal with factions that remember what you did.
It will be free to play on PC. Where to download it will be announced on this page.
There is no release date. Development began in September 2026 and the first playtest ran on 31 October 2026. The mailing list hears about every milestone first.
Yes, online. You can host a world or join one, play co-op or PvP, and fight team-elimination matches in the Arena from 1v1 to 4v4.
Pre-registration. Light your fire once a day to earn points and build a streak, and complete quests for more. A streak multiplies your daily points, up to three times at 30 days. Points open seven resource boxes, two raffle tickets and a free mint every week, playtest access and weapon and character NFTs every month, and a place on the board. The board never resets, and it pays NFT prizes by rank when the season closes.
You link a Ronin wallet to your account, and NFT rewards are sent to that wallet. Characters and weapons are made to be owned on-chain. You can also offer RON for extra Season 0 points. The game is free to play and none of this is required. Read the risks before you link a wallet or send RON.
No. Lighting your fire and the quests are free. The weekly boxes and raffle tickets, playtest access and the monthly weapon NFT can be earned without spending anything. Offering RON only adds points faster: offerings pay for the team and the game's costs, and give nothing but points.
English, Spanish, Catalan, French, Portuguese and German so far.
Tick “Count me in for closed playtests” when you join the mailing list. Invites are sent by email.
It is a game about fighting with blades, with blood, bleeding wounds and graphic melee violence. It has not been rated yet.
Ronin, RON and NFTs
The game is free to play and none of this is required. If you use the Ronin features, these are the risks you take on.
RON and NFTs are crypto-assets. Their price can fall to zero and there may be nobody to sell them to. Nothing on this page is an investment or a promise of profit.
A transaction on Ronin is final. RON sent to the wrong address or by mistake cannot be recovered, by us or by anyone else.
If you lose your seed phrase, or someone else gets it, what is in the wallet is gone. We never ask for a seed phrase or a private key. Linking a wallet here only asks you to sign a free message: it sends no transaction.
RON you offer is a payment for Season 0 points. It is not a charitable donation, a deposit, a loan or a share in the game, and it does not guarantee any reward.
Points have no cash value and cannot be traded or cashed out. The game is in development: reward amounts, dates and rules can change, the season can end early, and the game can be delayed or cancelled. The team checks claims before anything is sent.
Wallets, smart contracts and the Ronin network can have bugs, outages or attacks. An NFT can arrive late, and what it does in the game can change with balance updates.
Offering RON and receiving NFTs is for adults aged 18 or over, and only where your local law allows it. Any tax on what you receive is yours to declare.
Everything sent to or from an address can be seen by anyone on the blockchain, permanently.
You can light your fire and earn the weekly boxes and raffle tickets, playtest access and the monthly weapon NFT without spending any RON.
Mailing list
Leave your email to get the trailer, closed playtest invites and development updates.
You're on the list
The trailer and any playtest invite will come to this address.
Season 0 · Pre-registration · registry open
Stoke your fire three times to light it for the day. Each lit day adds points, and an unbroken streak multiplies them, up to ×3 at 30 days. Points earn weekly resource boxes and raffle tickets, monthly rewards and your place on the board.
Total points
0
Not ranked yet
Played before on another browser or device? Sign in with the Ronin wallet you linked there to get your points and streak back.
The Ronin features carry risk. RON and NFTs can lose all their value, transfers cannot be undone and rewards are not guaranteed. The game is free, and none of this is required.
Your fire is cold.
The multiplier climbs to ×3 on day 30 of a streak and starts again at ×1 if the streak breaks.
RON for points
Only you see this panel. Open each transaction and check the amount, the sender and that it went to your treasury wallet. Confirming adds the points to that player.
No offerings are waiting.
Nothing yet. Claim weekly boxes and monthly rewards, and hold a streak, to fill it.
The team checks NFT claims and sends them to your linked Ronin wallet. The weapon can be earned without spending RON.
Prizes go to the standings when Season 0 closes. The closing date will be announced here.
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