Shadows of Eldara
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Shadows of Eldara
A pixel-art fantasy RPG
Seven kings feast while their people starve, and something older stirs in the dark. Take up your father’s oath, and become a Warden of Eldara.
Free. Plays online with your friends, no install needed.
Eldara is ruled by the Golden Circle, seven kings who keep the peace between their kingdoms so they can all live off their people. Orc tribes raid the borders, dark mages walk the old roads, and the shadows are spreading. Only the Wardens, sworn keepers of the people and of Eldara’s history, still hold the line. You were raised on a farm in Thornhollow. Your father was the greatest Warden of his age, and he vanished when you were a baby. Now it’s your turn to swear the oath.
Begin in Thornhollow, a farming village on the edge of the Whisperwood, and follow a trail your father left twenty years ago. Old runes are cut into the stones of Eldara, and the people you trust most may not be who they seem. Ten acts, written as one story, from a village beacon to the seat of the Golden Circle.
Walk from the green vales of Valewyn to the high passes of Highcrag, the burning Ashen Reach, the isles of Marisca, the drowned fens of Mirefold, the snows of Frosthelm and the forges of Ironvault. Every kingdom has its own capital — Kingsvale, Cragspire, Amberwell, Brinehaven, Dunmere, Hoarfrost and Anvilgate — its own people, quarrels and quests.
The rulers of the Golden Circle don’t wait for you. Every day each king holds court: they set prices and tolls, close markets, post royal bounties, send letters and spread rumours. They hear what you’ve done, think of you well or badly, and remember it the next time you stand before their throne. Ask the herald for the news — it’s never the same twice.
Beyond the sealed gates lies another Eldara: older, silent and grey-green, where time stands still and the moment that broke the world still hangs in the sky. Only green fire can touch what walks there. Step through, if you dare.
Bring your friends: make a party and fight side by side through quests, dungeons and world bosses in one shared Eldara. Everyone keeps their own story and their own Warden, saved on the server, so you can pick up on any PC or browser. Or play alone, offline, whenever you like.
Between the battles there’s a life to live. Till and water your fields, raise a house on a homestead of your own, keep animals, cook at the hearth and forge your own gear. Cast a line in a quiet pond, chop, mine and gather, then saddle a horse and gallop between the kingdoms.
Barrows, crypts, sunken forges, smugglers’ hulls and a drowned library, each with its puzzles, traps and a guardian at the end. Dodge-roll through telegraphed attacks, combo your sword, draw a bow or cast a spell — and when the story is done, the Deep goes down floor after floor.
Old Godric drills Thornhollow’s young ones in the square: learn the blade, the bow or the staff from him. Each style has its own skill tree, three skills on Q, E and R and an ultimate on F that charges as you fight — Whirlwind and Ground Slam, Power Shot and Arrow Rain, Frost Bolt, Chain Lightning and Meteor. Change your style later if it doesn’t suit you.
Every picture is taken in the game itself.
Nothing to install. Free, online, with your friends — on a PC, a Mac, a Chromebook or a tablet.
Run the installer. It installs for you alone, with no administrator needed, and adds the game to the Start menu. Windows SmartScreen may warn about an unrecognised app: choose More info › Run anyway. The game updates itself after that.
Open the disk image and drag the game to Applications. The first time, right-click (or Control-click) the app and choose Open, then Open again — after that it starts normally and updates itself.
Make the AppImage executable (chmod +x, or Properties › Allow executing) and run it;
it updates itself. On Debian, Ubuntu or Mint you can install the .deb instead.
| Browser | Desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| System | Chrome, Edge or Firefox (recent); Safari 16.4 or later | Windows 10/11 64-bit, macOS 11+, Linux x86-64 |
| Graphics | WebGL 2 | OpenGL 3.3 (almost any GPU from the last ten years) |
| Memory | 4 GB RAM | 4 GB RAM |
| Storage | about 250 MB, cached by the browser | about 400 MB free |
| Online play | A broadband connection; free account made in the game | |
| Controls | Keyboard and mouse, any standard gamepad, or touch | |
A pixel-art fantasy action RPG with a written story. You play a young Warden from the village of Thornhollow, following the trail of a father who vanished, across seven kingdoms ruled by greedy kings. You fight with a sword, a bow or magic, explore dungeons, farm and fish, and can play alone or online with friends.
Yes. The browser version and the downloads are free to play, with no ads and nothing to buy.
Choose Play online on the title screen and make an account (a name and a password). Add your friends by name, make a party and you share the same Eldara: fight together, trade and take on world bosses. Each of you keeps your own story.
Yes. Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and most other gamepads work in the downloads and in the browser, with their own button prompts, and every control can be remapped. On phones and tablets there are touch controls.
Playing online, your Warden is saved on the server, so you can continue on any PC or browser. Playing offline, the save stays on your computer (or in your browser’s storage when you play there). The game saves as you play and when you sleep, and puts you back where you stood.
Any recent browser on a PC, a Mac, a Chromebook or a tablet, with nothing to install. There are also downloads for Windows 10 and 11, macOS 11 or later (Apple silicon and Intel) and Linux.
Yes. When a new version is out, the title screen offers Update: one click downloads it, checks it is the real release, and restarts the game. Your saves are kept. The browser version is always the newest.
No. There are no analytics, no cookies and nothing loaded from other sites. The music button only remembers your choice in your own browser.