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We've been quiet lately, but for good reason. The demo is nearly ready.

We can't share the exact date just yet, but it's close. Very close.

At the time of the release, we will be doing a live stream where we'll be answering your questions about the game, the demo, and what's next. Drop your questions in the comments below and you might be featured in the upcoming livestream Q&A!

Behind the scenes, the team is deep in development on Early Access content. We'll have a lot more to share on that front after the demo drops

And to everyone who participated in our recent playtest: thank you. Seriously. Your feedback was invaluable in shaping the demo build, and we couldn't have gotten here without you.

More soon. Stay tuned.

Hello again, Phillip here.

Welcome to our latest Dimraeth Steam Playtest. This one is primarily a technical playtest, focused on three key areas:

1. Full controller + Steam Deck support

2. Localization (Brazilian Portuguese + Simplified Chinese)

3. Multiplayer lobbies

If you find any bugs, or have any general thoughts at all, please post in our discord: https://discord.gg/tEhWUTw8

Localization note: the game will auto-select a language based on your Steam account, but you can change it in the in-game settings.

What’s new since last time:

• About an extra hour’s worth of quest content, including 1 new area with new enemies, 1 new side quest, and 10+ Deeds (our short-form quests)

• A new Deed content type: Bounties. If you like repeating bosses and tough encounters, bounties let you replay them with scaling difficulty and rewards, so you can push higher ranks and earn better loot

• More equipment sets, new items, and an updated skill tree paced closer to the real game than last time

• Character customization, so you won’t all look the same in multiplayer

• Overall, expect around 3–5 hours of solid content, depending on pace and how much you engage with bounties.

Want early access to future playtests? After you’ve had a chance to play, if you want to be invited earlier next time, please fill out this form. We will consider responders for early access in the future. https://forms.gle/1GPQtQPj7qkAXiss7

Enjoy the playtest.

Hey everyone, Phillip here again, Game Director on Dimraeth. This month’s design talk is all about crafting and building: how we handle recipe discovery, why food and potions matter, and how your base ties it all together.

In Dimraeth, crafting is designed to be optional, but highly impactful for players who want to lean into it. Depending on how much you engage, crafting can either sit in the background and simply keep your character fed, or it can become a serious power lever that you invest into over time.

Crafting can be done directly from your backpack, or through dedicated crafting stations. Many recipes require specific stations to craft, so as you build out more stations, you expand what you’re capable of producing.

Recipe discovery comes in two ways. The first is classic exploration: you can find recipes out in the world. The second is more experimental and player-driven. In the crafting tab, you can place items into crafting slots, and if your inputs match a valid recipe, you can craft the item and unlock that recipe at the same time. Once a recipe is unlocked, you can craft it directly from the recipe list for convenience, without needing to remember the exact combination every time.

The intention here is to support both types of crafting players: the ones who want to hunt recipes through exploration, and the ones who enjoy tinkering and discovering recipes naturally by experimenting with ingredients.

You can see how many undiscovered recipes a given item is involved in, and if you’ve already unlocked a recipe, you can also see what other items are part of that recipe chain. For example, you might notice an ingredient like tender berries still has undiscovered recipes tied to it, which is a simple hint that there’s more you can do with it than just your current potion pipeline. The goal of the Crafting Codex is to give crafting-focused players a light set of breadcrumbs to follow, while also letting you track your progress as you move toward unlocking every recipe in the game.

The most important thing you can craft is food. Hunger and thirst are basic needs, and any cooked food can keep you satiated, but that’s not the real reason serious players will care about cooking.

The real value of food is the percentage-based stat buffs, which are timed rather than permanent. On average, food buffs last around 30 minutes. Food can grant boosts like increased max health, concentration, stamina, regeneration, and even elemental resistances. In endgame, a strong food buff can often be the difference between surviving a boss mechanic or getting punished hard for one mistake. The same goes for elemental resistances when you’re preparing for a boss with a specific damage profile. To access those high-impact buffs, you’ll need to discover the recipes and cook them.

A common loop here is simple: you scout a boss that leans heavily into a specific damage type, then you come back to base and prep for it. You check your Crafting Codex for what you’ve unlocked, cook the meal that pushes you into the right stat or resistance breakpoint, eat, restock, and head back out. The fight doesn’t suddenly become easy, but you give yourself the breathing room to actually play the mechanics instead of losing the run to a single slip.

Another major advantage of crafting is resource recovery during combat. Health, concentration, and stamina can all be recovered quickly through potions, and if you want to rely on potions consistently, you’ll want to maintain a healthy stockpile.

Potions also become a co-op tool. Some potions can be thrown, meaning if your friend is in trouble, you can literally throw them a heal mid-fight. In co-op, this creates those small save moments that stop a run from collapsing: a teammate gets clipped, their health drops, and instead of backing off and letting the fight spiral, you land a thrown potion and keep the team’s momentum intact.

On top of recovery, certain potions can provide short-term buffs as well, such as a minute of increased damage. The main split here is long-term versus short-term. Food is your long-duration baseline power. Potions are your burst sustain and burst buffs.

If you keep a steady ingredient supply coming in through farming, you can turn basic materials into a reliable potion stockpile. Over time, potions stop being “rare loot” and start being part of your standard prep before heading back out.

Cures sit in a more specialised category. They matter most when you’re taking on enemies that apply heavy bleed or poison buildup. In those cases, bringing cures is less about raw power and more about keeping control of the fight by clearing a dangerous buildup before it snowballs.

Crafting also gives you access to offensive tools like throwable knives and elemental flasks. These exist to supplement your build and cover gaps. If you’re missing ranged pressure, area damage, or a reliable way to apply a certain status effect, offensive tools let you patch that weakness without having to rebuild your entire character around it.

A core part of progression in Dimraeth is unlocking new spells, and your base plays a role in that too. As you recruit NPCs into your settlement, some of them will be able to craft spell books for you based on materials you gather from monsters and bosses. These spells are almost always reflections of the creature you took the materials from, and they can become a major pillar of your build once you unlock them.

Unlocking more spell books through these NPCs is tied to broader progression. As you complete quests and push the main story forward, you’ll gain access to more options, deeper spell pools, and more ways to shape the direction of your character.

Equipment crafting is not in the game yet, but it’s something we plan to add later. The intent is for equipment crafting to be an end-game activity for players who want to min-max and fine-tune their builds. The idea is that once you’ve unlocked certain item sets, you’ll be able to craft them repeatedly in an attempt to roll the perfect stat baselines for your setup. This is a longer-term plan and will likely land later in Early Access.

We still want monster drops to be the primary loot path for the majority of the game. So equipment crafting is designed as a late-game supplement and optimiser, not a replacement for hunting gear out in the world.

Moving away from item crafting, building is the system that supports long-term production. The primary purpose of building is to establish your item pipeline. If you want steady access to the things that make your character stronger, you will need to build the stations, farms, and storage to keep production running.

The loop is straightforward: you return to base, you restock, you queue up items for your next adventure, and you gradually expand your base so that it supports more recipes, more farming output, and more long-term convenience. Over time, your base becomes the backbone of your progression outside combat.

Building also has a purely decorative side. We have a full isometric, tile-based building system for players who want to create their dream pixel art home. That includes furniture, wall decorations, rugs, lighting, and more. If you want to treat your base like a functional production hub, you can. If you want to treat it like a cosy creative project, you can do that too.

Farming is one of the core tools for sustained production. If you want a steady supply of health potions, you will need a steady supply of ingredients, and that means farming. A simple example is tender berries: if they’re part of your potion pipeline, you’ll want them growing constantly so you’re never bottlenecked.

Farming in Dimraeth is intentionally simplified. You build farming plots, plant seeds, and harvest them when they mature.

Beyond seed plots, you can also build production structures such as wells and animal or monster pens. These provide a reliable stream of basic resources over time, so as the game progresses you’re less reliant on constantly going out to gather low-tier essentials.

If crafting and building aren’t your thing, that’s fine. We’ve designed them to be impactful, but not essential.

Most, if not all, essential items can be purchased from NPCs at a premium. You may also gain access to some of those supplies later than you would if you were crafting them yourself, but you won’t be hard-blocked. In Dimraeth there are multiple paths to power. Crafting mainly changes your timing, consistency, and convenience, but you can still reach comparable strength through other lanes like gear progression, leveling, and general exploration.

The more you engage with Dimraeth overall, the easier time you’ll have. Crafting and building is one strong path, not the only one.

So now for some broader development news. We’ve been steadily working toward polishing for our next playtest, which we previously announced. As a reminder, we’re planning to host another open weekend playtest at the end of the month, running from January 30th to February 1st. We’ll also be letting our Discord members in a little earlier, so there’s still time to join if you want early access.

This upcoming playtest is primarily a technical and localisation test. Our main priorities are our new multiplayer lobby system (to make it much easier to find and join each other’s games), our Brazilian Portuguese localisation, and our new controller and Steam Deck support.

That said, this playtest still includes new content. You’ll be able to try a revamped tutorial, a new boss, and a new zone filled with three new monster types. So even if you’re not here for multiplayer testing or localisation, there should still be plenty new to sink your teeth into.

If you’re interested in what you’ve seen here, please consider wishlisting and following Dimraeth on Steam if you haven’t already. It genuinely helps us a lot, and it makes it easier for us to keep building the kind of RPG we’re outlining in these posts. And if you’re curious about other aspects of the game, or there’s a crafting, building, or progression system you’d like us to cover next, let us know in the comments.

You can also join our Discord athttps://www.discord.gg/dimraeth to talk builds, share crafting discoveries, and follow development more closely alongside the rest of the community.

Hey everyone, Phillip here again, Game Director on Dimraeth. Today’s focus is character creation: race, class, archetypes, attributes, Personas, and how all of these pieces are wired together under the hood to support the kind of long-form, theory-heavy character-building RPG we’re trying to make.

In Dimraeth, character creation is one of the most important decisions you can make. It’s the point where you choose your race, class, persona, and appearance – and that choice becomes the beginning of your character-building journey, which sits at the centre of Dimraeth’s experience. This update is a look at how those pieces fit together, and why we’ve built the system the way we have.

Your first major decisions are your race and your class. These two choices are the seed from which your character will grow. The combination of race and class defines your archetype, and every archetype gets its own unique skill tree – built as a blend of race, class, and that archetype’s identity.

These archetype trees are where you’ll find spells and passives that no other archetype can use. They are the anchor of your build: the core set of tools, synergies, and power spikes that you will build around. What we want to achieve with this system is simple: give you strong anchor points that encourage theorycrafting, and let you branch out into hundreds of possible builds while still feeling like your character has a clear, distinct identity.

In combat, your race isn’t just flavor, it’s your base kit. A Minotaur will always be a heavy, axe-wielding frontline presence, even if you lean into a more ranged class; a Fairy will always fight as a staff-wielding caster, even if you choose Brawler. The combination of race and class is what decides whether you’re dashing into the thick of it, kiting at the edge of the fight, or setting up control from the back line – your entire default playstyle flows from that first choice.

Your race and class also define how your attributes scale. In Dimraeth, it costs XP to level up your attributes. The XP cost of each attribute is primarily determined by your race–class combination. That means it is significantly more expensive for a Fairy Magician to raise Strength than it is for a Minotaur Brawler, and if you spend a lot of XP pushing into your “off” stats, you will end up with fewer total attribute points by the time you reach max level.

The goal of this attribute scaling system is twofold. First, we want every race–class combination to have clear strengths and weaknesses, so that different archetypes naturally lean into different build paths. Second, we want to encourage thoughtful attribute distribution: you will need to manage breakpoints and plan around specific spells or items you care about. Maybe you want a physical-based spell on your Fairy Magician, or a key magical spell on your Minotaur Brawler – you can do that, but you will have to weigh the XP cost of reaching those minimum requirements against investing more heavily into your primary attributes.

There is a third element tied to your race–class combination: the archetype passive. This is a simple passive that adds an extra benefit to one of your attributes. For example, the Minotaur Brawler (a Vanguard archetype) gains bonus stamina whenever they level Strength, whereas other archetypes do not. Effectively, each archetype has a “primary” attribute that gives you the most value per point, pushing you toward certain builds while still leaving room to experiment.

In co-op, the archetype trees and attribute scaling are where party identities come from. One player might build a Minotaur Mage (Earthshaker) around spreading fire and proccing passives whenever enemies are Burning, while another builds a Human Mage (Elemental Ranger) that turns any existing fire on the field into high-impact single-target nukes. The result is a party that doesn’t just “have two mages,” but a coordinated Burning engine – a build that only exists because of how those archetypes, passives, and attributes stack across players. We want parties to feel like carefully tuned machines built by their players, where the most satisfying moments come from combos you planned ten levels ago finally snapping into place.

Once the heavy systems are out of the way, we come to character customisation. As a pixel art game with a large number of races, adding customisation has not been trivial, but we knew it was important for players to be able to see “their” character in the world.

We’ve added colour customisation for hair, skin, and clothing across all races. Within the constraints of our art style, this lets you tune the look of your character in a way that still respects the visual identity of each race. It’s not a full 3D morphing system, but it’s enough to make your character feel like yours.

One of the more unique elements of Dimraeth is the Persona system, which acts as your character’s personality layer in dialogue encounters. Your choice of Persona adds flavour to your dialogue options in conversations, giving you more room to role-play and adding variety when you’re playing in multiplayer.

Choosing a Persona does not lock you into a single style of dialogue forever. Instead, it increases the frequency of certain types of responses. If you decide you want your character to shift over time, you can simply start choosing different types of options, and your “behaviour” in conversations will trend in that direction. Long term, our intent is to let Personas evolve, allowing combinations and more unique dialogue patterns to emerge from how you actually play.

In a tense conversation, this shows up immediately. A Joker persona might cut through the tension with a sharp, ill-timed joke, while a Stoic persona brushes past the emotion of the moment and goes straight to the point. You are still choosing your lines, but your Persona biases which kinds of options appear more often: the Hero leans toward principled, sacrificial answers, the Scholar toward probing questions and analysis, the Joker toward irreverence, the Stoic toward blunt clarity.

Right now, our Persona options include Hero, Stoic, Scholar, and Joker. Each of these influences how your character tends to speak, how they respond to situations, and how they come across to other characters – without forcing you into a single rigid archetype.

When you put all of these variables together – race, class, archetype skill tree, attribute scaling, archetype passive, appearance, and Persona – our aim is to provide a huge amount of replayability from the very first screen. Dimraeth is built around the idea that understanding the system is itself a power fantasy: the more you internalise how stats, archetypes, and passives interact, the more you can bend the game around a build that feels uniquely yours. With our intended 1.0 roster of 8+ races and 6 classes, that already gives us at least 48 archetypes, each with its own unique tree and passive.

Our hope is that you will feel encouraged to try new archetypes with friends across different worlds, explore different Personas, and push into strange or “off-meta” builds just to see what happens. Character creation in Dimraeth is not just a cosmetic step; it’s the foundation for the kind of character-building RPG we’re trying to make.

So now for some broader development news. Over here at Mudtek we’ve been heads-down in content production, building out the areas, enemies, quests, and archetypes we want to showcase in our upcoming demo and, beyond that, our Early Access release. We’ve already made updates to our tutorial region and are in the process of adding a whole new area, along with a new batch of enemies: the Goblins. There isn’t too much we can share in detail just yet, but expect more concrete updates as we get closer – especially as we move into the new year.

If you’re interested in what you’ve seen here, please consider wishlisting and following Dimraeth on Steam if you haven’t already – it genuinely helps us a lot and makes it easier for us to keep building the kind of RPG we’ve outlined above. And if you’re curious about other aspects of the game, or there’s a system you’d like us to cover in a future post, let us know in the comments.

You can also join our Discord at https://www.discord.gg/dimraeth to talk builds, theorycraft archetypes, and follow development more closely alongside the rest of the community.

We are extremely proud to announce that Dimraeth has won the award of "Most Anticipated Game" at the Pitch Competition of Gamescom Asia x TGS 2025.

Thank you so much for all the people who have supported us from the beginning and to all those who playtested the game and gave us feedback. And to the whole team that worked tirelessly for months - WE DID IT!

Lastly, this would not be possible without Gamescom Asia, Thailand Game Show, and Agora Gaming Partners. From the bottom of all our hearts - thank you!

Hey everyone!

I wanted to give a quick update on our Steam Deck progress and where things are headed leading up to the demo release planned for Q1 2026.

I’ve been testing the game on my own Steam Deck and have base combat already working, which has been super exciting to see in action. There’s still some work ahead to get the menus, inventory, and other systems fully functional, but it’s coming together nicely.

We’re also planning to have full controller support in before the demo and the next playtest. That’s been a big focus for us lately, and it fits perfectly with the Steam Deck work since both need the same kind of input improvements.

I just want to say a big thank you to everyone who joined our first public playtest. Your feedback and enthusiasm really helped shape where we’re going next. I’m looking forward to the next round - especially for those of you playing on Steam Decks or controllers, since this next version should feel a lot smoother and more natural.

Appreciate all the support — more updates coming soon!

- Joseph @ Mudtek

Hey everyone!

As October begins we have a lot to mention about the month of September. Firstly, we need to give a huge thanks to the community for joining in on the playtest. We had an amazing time with streamers, players and content creators all diving into the game and figuring out the systems and what worked and didn't work for them. The feedback that we have gathered from this was pretty immense and we are thankful for all the help. The following list contains the updates for the month and we are also pleased to announce that we are currently finalists for Gamescom Asia 2025!

Major Updates:

• Lost cavern map overhaul

Minor Updates:

• Added spell tooltips to HUD

• Added discord presence

• Passive icons added to the UI

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed the equipment forge equipped slots being messed up

• Fixed the quest tracker to always be showing a quest if there is one

• Fixed the monsters spawning in events not properly targeting

• Fixed issue with timed quests not being removed

• Fixed issues with encumbrance

• Fixed several issues with pet slots

• Fixed quantity not updating on crafting bench

• Added 6 inventory slots to the backpack

• RangingVortex increased cooldown by 2x

• Fixed inventory to reject items when there is no space left

• Fixed AOE cast indicator not appearing on cast spells

• Fixed issue with Concentrated Dragon upgrade not working

• Fixed the boss wall not spawning in

• Fixed equipment pane going away after viewing a chest

• Fixed empty slots being right clickable

• Fixed corrupted treant boss not resetting properly

• Fixed the revive popup text to update with interact key

• Fixed issues with tents

• Fixed weavers request quest area being disabled

• Fixed issues with harvesting and combat

• Fixed corrupted forest entrance not being blocked before quest

• Fixed spell upgrades and passive set bonuses to properly show in the stats UI

• Fixed bug where unprogressed personal quests did not save

• Fixed farming plots, bed and tents not spawning

• Fixed dragging shop items to the map making it get stuck to cursor

• Fixed player dash firing twice

• Fixed burning pool not working correctly

• Fixed plants doing destroy animation on wake

• Fixed spell haste not showing up

• Fixed issues with client dialogue

• Fixed vital potions not healing after taking stuns

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