Hearthvale

Hearthvale is a hand-crafted pixel-art MMORPG you can play right here in your browser. Step into the Vale, one shared online world, and make your own way: chop, mine, fish and smith, trade with real players, and fight your way across the map to Ashmaw the Elder Wyrm.

It's a love letter to the old-school online RPGs of the 2000s, built with hand-made pixel art and lit like a modern game. Walls, roofs and trees stand up off the ground, with lanterns, torches, fireflies, god rays and changing weather.

A whole world to grow into

• 184 named places on a 768×768 tile map
• 14 skills: Attack, Strength, Defence, Ranged, Magic, Vitality, Devotion, Mining, Woodcutting, Smithing, Firemaking, Fishing, Cooking and Crafting
• 95 quests: a 28-chapter story, 46 tales and 21 errands
• 408 items to gather, forge and trade, 187 of them wearable
• 121 kinds of monster, from level 1 to 186
• 9 world bosses, each in its own lair
• 39 spells, including teleports between cities, and 24 prayers

The Lantern Road

The main story takes 28 chapters. Carry the last Warden's lantern from fire to fire across the Vale and the isles before the Ashcloaks wake Ashmaw the Elder Wyrm. Along the way, face Sorrowclaw in The Tiger's Sorrow, help out in dozens of other tales, and run quick errands for the townsfolk.

A player-driven economy

Everything you gather can be sold. Shops restock, banks wait in every town, and at the Lantern Market in Highcairn you can buy from and sell to players across the Vale, with players setting the prices. Or swap gear face to face.

Bring friends

Nine world bosses rule lairs at the far edges of the map, from the frozen shore of the Rime Sea to the lava caldera of Cindral. Chat with whoever is nearby, send private messages, keep a friends list, hang out in clan chat, and wave, dance or bow at passers-by.

A living world

A day passes every 40 minutes. Each region has its own weather and music: rain, storms, fog, snow, desert sandstorms and falling ash. Explore riverside Hearthford, the marble city of Castra Solis, the moonstone towers of Moonhaven, the elven glades of Lyrandel, snowbound Skaldheim, the coral atoll of Tidewater and the desert oasis of Zarifa.

How to play

• Click to walk, or click people and things for their main action.
• Right-click for every option: examine, trade, attack and more.
• Hover for details.

Play as a guest straight away, then claim your account to keep your character. The same world and the same character are on iPhone too.

Free, no ads

Hearthvale is free to play with no ads. It's an online game, so it needs an internet connection. For ages 13 and up.

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