Heirdeep

Heirdeep is a dynasty and hold game. Dig rooms into the rock and put your kin to work where their best stat shines. Keep food, water and light flowing through the seasons. Choose who pairs with whom: children inherit their parents’ base stats and can surpass them. Each generation is a chance at a stronger line, and your Lord or Lady’s seat passes to the Heir of the blood.

• A bloodline to raise: the Pairing Bench forecasts each couple’s children. School, books and paid tutoring help them learn. At a level-5 Apothecary, adults can pay for dubious research that improves a base stat their children can inherit. Can you raise an S?
• A hold to run: build Hearths, Deepwells, Lumenworks, Quarters, Schools, Infirmaries and more. Upgrade rooms through five levels as your hold grows into a town. Winter tests your stores; warnings help you prepare.
• Gold of their own: working kin earn wages and spend their savings on personally owned weapons, armour, tutoring and comforts. Their gold and equipment can pass to their children.
• The Wilds: your starting Lodge sends explorers on three-, five- or seven-day trips. They find gold, books, salves and new places on the map. A level-5 Lodge can send twelve explorers.
• A valley to win: defend your Gate in real-time battles, call workers to arms and fight room by room if the wall falls. March warbands from the Barracks, make rival holds swear allegiance or burn them out. Watch their loyalty: an oath can break. You win when no other house stands free.
• A world that remembers: people you turn away, cast out or lose to rival holds live on in the valley and may return. Follow your family through the lineage, then watch its generations scroll over your valley at victory, accompanied by “What We Leave Behind.” Continue playing or replay the record later from settings.
• Music and movement: a living title-screen valley, quiet hold ambience and a raid soundtrack for the big fights.

This is an alpha. You can play from founding to victory, but expect rough edges, changing numbers and more to come. Emberkeep, a growing map and further buildings remain ahead. Your hold saves itself in your browser.

Controls: drag kin into rooms, or click a kin and choose where they work. Right-click for more actions. Space pauses; 1 / 2 / 3 set speed; V opens the Valley; H sounds the Horn during a raid. The Warden’s Almanac, the book in the top bar, explains the systems.