Haven & Hearth

Haven & Hearth

Seatribe · November 1, 2024 · MMORPG, RPG, Sandbox, Adventure, Survival

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About Haven & Hearth

✦ AI summary

Haven & Hearth is a persistent multiplayer RPG where you hunt, farm, craft and build in a procedurally generated world inspired by Slavic and Germanic mythology, with permanent player-driven consequences that fundamentally reshape the shared landscape. What sets it apart is that your choices—from staking claims and constructing fortifications to waging siege warfare and committing crimes—leave lasting marks on the world, creating a genuine sense of stakes where every action with other players matters.

Haven & Hearth is a MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game) set in a fictional world loosely inspired by Slavic and Germanic myth and legend. The game sets itself apart from other games in the genre in its aim to provide players with an interactive, affectable and mutable game world, which can be permanently and fundamentally changed and affected through actions undertaken by the players. Our fundamental goal with Haven & Hearth is to create a game in which player choices have permanent and/or lasting effects and, thus, providing said players with a meaningful and fun gaming experience.

Skills & Attributes

  • Develop your character to unlock new Skills, Abilities, and Credos.
  • Devour sumptuous feasts of food and drink to increase your Strength, Intelligence, Agility and other base Attributes.
  • Study sundry Curiosities of nature and artifice to gain Learning Points to increase your Farming, Masonry, Exploration and other Abilities.
  • Experience oddities and obscure situations to gain experience points and cast or incant the spells and charms of Hearth Magic.
  • Discover materials previously unknown to you to unlock new recipes for Crafting & Building.

Hunting & Gathering

  • Slay vicious beasts of nature, flay their hides and tan for leather.
  • Make sausages of Boar, and smoke Sea Gull Meat. Feasting and a varied diet is important to all Hearthlings.
  • Forage rare flowers to Study, or bind them into bouquets for additional Learning Points.
  • Traverse the vast- and wilderness of Haven & Hearth's procedurally generated world and gather rare Herbs, Mushrooms and Flowes.
  • Pick wild seeds to grow into domestic crops for Farming, such as Grapes, Wheat, Carrots or Peas.
  • Tame wild animals to raise Livestock like Cows, Pigs, Goats or Reindeer. Ride like the wind upon mighty Horses wild and tame, and breed your animals to ever rising qualities.
  • Fish or cast nets in Rivers, Lakes, Oceans or Caves to catch a wide variety of aquatic life such as Cod, Perch, Bream, Halibut, Clams, Crabs, or Lobsters.
  • Should true bravery inspire you; Venture into the depths of the cavernous underworlds of Dungeons such as Beaver Lodges, Bat Caves, or Ant Hills. Thraximundar's Vicious Hive of Tyranny awaits!
  • Dig deep and greedily down multiple levels of caves, to extract minerals, ores, and precious gems from the inky fathoms below the plane of the Hearth. Mining and Forging are essential for progress, but rumors speak of Trolls in the deep!

Crafting & Building

  • Terraform the Hearth by digging, paving, plowing or planting.
  • Hearthlings are the wolves of Hearthlings: Stake a Claim to your corner of the Hearth to protect it from roving bands of others.
  • Construct mighty walls and palisades to keep your homestead safe.
  • Erect homes and Houses of log and stone, from humble cabins to mighty towers.
  • Smelt ores for metal, and refine further metallurgical advances in Finery Forges and Steel Crucibles.
  • Cook as varied a diet as you can by building Ovens for Bread, Cauldrons for Stews, Sheds for Smoking or Meat Grinders for Sausages.
  • Decorate with a wide variety of wall mountings, lanterns, shelves, tables, cupboards, and many other pieces of furniture.
  • Construct Boats & Ships to carry you across the oceans blue, from humble Coracles to mighty Knarrs.
  • Upload Custom Graphics to give that extra flair to banners, shields, flags, capes, and sails!
  • Cycle and recycle your production line, acquire better materials and refine your production chains to increase the Quality of all produce.
  • Things are what you make them; Watch the color and tenor of the Variable Materials you use reflected in the things you build and make. Should the Rocking Chair be made from Cherry, Maple, or Oak?

Permanent Death & Open PvP

  • Master the Dark Arts of Trespassing, Theft, Rage, Vandalism and Murder to impose upon others who roam the Hearth.
  • Increase your Perception & Exploration to track down and bring to justice all breakers of peace and oaths, by tracking the vicious Stenches of Crime.
  • Construct mighty Siege Machines and engines of war to bring the flames of war to foreign lands.
  • Found Villages to claim large swathes of land and organize kith and kin into mighty bands.
  • Found Realms and lay claim to entire Provinces by capturing the ancient Thingwalls dotting the Hearth.
  • Bury the dead and fulfill the will of the ancestors to draw upon the strength of your previous lives.
  • Experience the thrill of a world where all interactions with your fellow Hearthling carries the potentiality for grave consequence.

Haven & Hearth — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Online PvP
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Aug 23, 2026
I played around 9 hours of Haven & Hearth, and despite my frustrations with some of its systems, I genuinely had a great time with it. The biggest issue for me as a new player was the UI. A lot of the icons are difficult to understand at first, and there are quite a few systems that feel unnecessarily convoluted. A lot of basic things, like moving items around or finding something you want to craft or build, can become a chore, especially when you are still trying to understand how everything works. That said, once I started understanding the systems, I really enjoyed the progression. There is a surprising amount of depth, and it felt rewarding to slowly figure things out. Exploration was probably my favorite part, especially exploring abandoned villages. The game became surprisingly addictive. Then I met Mr. Boar. He spotted me through the trees and came charging at me, foam around his mouth. What followed was complete chaos. A bunch of icons and numbers suddenly appeared on my screen, most of which I could not understand, and some of them were blocking my view of what was actually happening. I had never learned how combat worked. There was no introduction to it, an…
5 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 9, 2026
after over an hour and half of figuring things out, i find there is not an wolf, or skeleton, or any monsters to kill whatsoever. maybe im missing somthing, but a game without that is severely lacking
2 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 15, 2026
Very addicting sandbox survival MMORPG game. Pros: + Deep crafting system + Open world full loot PVP + Factions, communities, drama + Interesting character progress system (curios, FEPs, clothing. credos) + Music instruments Cons: - Highly addicting - Needs better toturial for new players - Permadeath (imo could be reworked to stat loss) - Snugglesnail
1 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 29, 2026
VERY niche survival. High skill cap, can be very fun for long time. I recommend you to download the Hurricane client. Use wiki. Talk to people. Else you Will be lost :)
1 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 22, 2026
It's new for me on Steam, but not a new game for me at all. You will either love it or hate it, there's no other option...or maybe you will just love hating it ;} ps. let me sleeeep!
1 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 3, 2026
excellent. i diagnose all the pve nerds with the FATTEST skill issue, and diagnose the rest of us with autism.

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