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Heartwood Online
Heartwood Online is a cross-platform free-to-play MMO. Explore a vast world filled with adventure where you choose your own path. Immerse yourself in crafting, trade, PvP & PvE battles, guilds, politics, and a thriving player economy.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“I would recommend this as I alr invested 100+ hours, but the down side is if you are following a repeating pattern then might get flagged and eventually they will Ban you Or sometimes they false Ban you without telling the main reason. Apart from that i love this game.”
— a player, Steam review · 100 hrs played“easy to get into, lovely music and cute animals, its a grind but worth it”
— a player, Steam review · 106 hrs played“Banned for following the rules is crazy work. And they announced today the game is pretty much shutting down? Guess i wont miss much.”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2026-08 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
A message from the Devs
We owe the community a clear update on where Heartwood and Shadowfang currently stand. Development on Shadowfang has stalled, and we do not currently have a credible release timeline. Working on a pro
Dev Log #4 – Shadowfang Testing Ahead
Shadowfang has continued moving forward over the past weeks, but as development progressed it became clear that the Q1 timeline we previously mentioned isn’t realistic anymore. Rather than rushing the
Dev Log #3 – Shadowfang, Bots & Next Steps
Quick update time. Recently we added a handful of popular suggestions to the game, several related to guild management and a few smaller QoL improvements (like the game remembering whether you had cha
Dev Log #2 – Winterforge Is Live, Back to Shadowfang
Winterforge went live yesterday. Thank you to everyone who jumped in immediately, reported issues, shared screenshots and generally turned the game into festive chaos faster than we expected. While Wi
❄️ Winterforge is live! ❄️
Holiday jingles can be heard in Heartwood again, as the Winterforge holiday has begun! This year, townsfolk are reporting a brand new pastime sweeping the land... snowball duel mechanics. Challenge yo
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Casual, Free To Play, Indie, Massively Multiplayer, RPG, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · MMORPG · Pixel Graphics · Massively Multiplayer · RPG · 2D · Adventure · PvE · Dungeon Crawler · Top-Down · Action RPG · Exploration (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · MMO · Co-op · Online Co-op · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Achievements · In-App Purchases |
| Languages | English * * |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Memory: 4 GB RAM Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 2 GB available space