Shellborne
Swarmforge Games · 2025 · Casual, Free to Play, Online Co-Op, Adventure, Multiplayer
PC
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About Shellborne
Note: Shellborne is currently in the beta phase.
Shellborne is a student‑made, completely free to play, co‑op adventure—no paywalls, just pure turtle‑powered fun.If you want to support us, join our community discord and give us feedback.
Collect Resources and Remove Obstacles
Harvest wood, mine stone, and gather berries, then load them onto your trusty turtle to carry for you.
Smash through debris and rebuild bridges to carve out a safe route for your turtle.
The evil fog hunts your turtle
A living wall of mist moves toward you, hungry for your magical turtle. It sends Spirits to slow you down - keep them away and keep running.
Work together and communicate.
Coordination is key as you can only carry one tool at a time.Discuss roles and swap gear at the right moment to clear the way.
Note: The Game is about playing with friends, use the Steam friend list for invites.
Use the Steam voice chat or an external tool for communication.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
For a free game it's actually not bad but it has a few bugs. Sometimes trees are floating. Also you can't pickup items from the turtle when on a bridge.8 found this helpful
[h3]A straightforward yet fast-paced and challenging co-op game that requires a degree of coordination that's almost impossible to achieve playing solo.[/h3] You start out inside a protective bubble (which you can exit) with 30 seconds to quick harvest everything in sight before a large purple spirit moves to consume your turtle. From then on you have to do your gathering on the move. The turtle moves forward but will stop if there is an obstacle in your way (thorny bush, stone formation, broken bridge, etc). Unless you specify a map seed, each time you start over the area layout is different. So your first area might have you repairing a bridge while on a different run you might clear three areas without even seeing a bridge. Harvesting can be done by hand but it is faster with a tool. However, the kicker is that you have to drop your tool in order to pick up resources and deposit them on the turtle's corresponding storage area. Mix this with the fact that you are constantly racing forward and it's pretty much impossible for a single player to keep all the tools available throughout the journey. Probably still pretty challenging even with a full squad. The little purple …6 found this helpful
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Played for 20 minutes. Had fun for 20 minutes. Few little bugs. But y'know what, it was free, made by Uni kids, give it a whirl1 found this helpful
A very good concept. I don't know if there is an ending or just procgen the whole way, but I enjoyed it. The only thing I'd complain about is that the difficulty curve is too flat, the game was a bit monotonous because the levels didn't get any harder.
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