Two stars. Nine broken worlds. One song, silent for ten thousand years.
Lead bronze-masked priest-engineers, wandering caravans and a drowned choir in a real-time strategy game built on Norse seidr and ancient-future space. It runs in your browser (mouse and keyboard, touch or gamepad) and offline on an R36S handheld. VR is planned, not built.
Early prototypeSkirmish is playable with the Hesh, Oru and Thalm peoples.
Ten thousand years ago a people called the Choir wove everything they knew into nine shattered worlds, then fell silent. Now the first Echo has sung back.
Three peoples hear the same song and take it for three different gods. The Hesh hear what was, the Oru what is becoming, the Thalm what is owed. Each is sure the song belongs to them. A seeress, the VΓΆlva, speaks at the edge of every mission, and she knows more than she says.
Seidr Awakening is a real-time strategy game in the lineage you know: gather, build, tech through Ages, fight. What is new is the world around it, the three very different ways to play it, and where you can play it.
Concept renders from the Meshy modelling pipeline. Final in-game art is retopologised and may differ.
The Choir sang three threads and none of them was whole. Each people holds one.
What runs today: skirmish against the AI (four maps, seed codes, four difficulty levels) with the Hesh Dominion, the Oru Wanderers and the Thalm Deep, in the browser and on the R36S. Not built yet: campaign missions 5 to 12, online play and the ranked ladder (there is no online server running), and VR (design only). The list below is the plan, not the current build.
Twelve missions in three acts, one told by each people. Three difficulties, a bonus objective and three stars per mission.
One to four players against the AI on Easy, Normal or Hard. Every people is unlocked from the start.
A short code makes a whole map. Type the same code on a phone, a PC or the handheld and you get the same battlefield.
One-versus-one, an eight-map pool, three-month seasons and a public commitment score.
Watch any match at the exact version it was played. Race a shared seed against the Hard AI and compare times.
Type a seed code, or roll one. The picture is an illustration of the idea; the real generator is not on this page yet.
Every Hesh character and building starts as a high-detail model made with Meshy, then is retopologised, rigged and baked for the engine: a few hundred triangles on the handheld, thousands on PC. One art set, two budgets, identical game.
Rules we hold ourselves to: every unit reads at 35 pixels tall on a 3.5 inch screen, and every model has team-colour areas painted in.
The rules run on whole numbers at ten ticks a second, with no floating point anywhere in the simulation. Online matches will use deterministic lockstep: players send only their commands, and every device calculates the same battle.
We test it by fingerprinting the game state. The same AI-versus-AI match gives the same fingerprint on a desktop CPU, an ARM CPU, and inside a web browser.
| Platform | Fingerprint |
|---|---|
| x86-64 native | 92fd9eb63b1b1d90 |
| ARM64 (R36S build) | 92fd9eb63b1b1d90 |
| WebAssembly in Chrome | 92fd9eb63b1b1d90 |
The R36S is a 3.5 inch handheld with two sticks, a D-pad and a shoulder pair. Seidr Awakening runs there natively, in 3D, with no network at all. Seed codes, saves and replays still move between your handheld and your browser.
How to install itMeasured on a real R36S. Frame rate is capped by the 60 Hz screen, so the true headroom is still unmeasured.
Nothing ruins a ranked game like an opponent who quits at minute three. So every online player carries a public badge.
The score looks at your last 50 matchmade games: did you finish them? Leaving early, dropping without coming back, or going idle costs points. Finishing gives them back as old games age out. Steadfast and Reliable players are matched together first.
Try it: how many of your last 50 games did you leave early?
Steadfast Finishes 50 of their last 50 games
Sample illustration using early quits only. Other events weigh differently, see the full rules.
Unretouched captures of the playable prototype. The art is partly placeholder, and we would rather show you that than hide it.
Depth before breadth: one people made into a very good game first, then the rest.
The prototype takes about a minute to learn. Build a base, mine ore, train fighters and break the red AI.