Observe
Every animal has needs, a territory and a temperament. Watch from cover with binoculars, learn what it eats and when it moves, and fill your field guide with what you have actually seen.
Pre-alpha · Playtest waves openStudy the wild.
Study the wild.
Earn its trust.
Wildbound is a creature research and survival game. Walk into a living wilderness, learn how its animals live, win them over without a single capture, and breed lineages nobody has seen before.
Day 1. The valley is wider than the maps. Something glowed in the reeds at dusk.
How it plays
A field researcher, not a trainer
You are not here to collect. You are here to understand, and the wild only opens up to people who pay attention.
Earn trust
There is no capture ball. Animals bond through patience: the right food, the right moment, no sudden fright. Up to two bonded companions travel with you into the field.
Breed new lines
Genes blend into the body you see: size, colour, horns, living light. Pair animals at camp and follow a lineage across generations.
Survive the wild
Weather, water and predators are real. Rain fills rivers, floods spread, and a hungry pack does not care that you came to study it. Build a camp, keep it powered, and make it home.
A living ecology
Everything eats, everything is eaten, and the land remembers
Herds graze where the grass is good and move when it is not. Predators follow them. Chipmunks dam a stream and a meadow becomes a pond. Rain fills the rivers, and a storm can flood the valley floor you camped in last night.
Nothing waits for you to arrive. The world runs whether you are watching or not, and your notes are how you keep up.
Pack moved north after the flood. Follow the herons, not the wolves.
Ancient Woodlands
Old-growth forest with moss-deep floors and spring-fed streams, where Glowing Chipmunks build and repair their dams.
Windcarved Highlands
Ridges and cliff shelves above the valley, home to Sky Ibex and the wind that shapes them.
Tidal Marshes
Reed beds and shallow water that rise and fall, stalked by Marsh Herons; watch where you wade.
The Rainforest
A layered canopy of fig towers and liana bridges where primate troops live, feed and glide.
Field guide
Ten species and counting
Each one has a diet, a territory, a temper and a reason to be where it is.
Pack predator
Lumen Wolf
Hunts in coordinated packs; its markings brighten when it is close.
Dam builder
Glowing Chipmunk
Dams streams; floods and erosion change around its work.
Troop primate
Dusk Ape
Territorial at dusk and dawn, with real troop tactics, tools and snares.
Canopy glider
Lumen Spidermonkey
Roosts in colonies; its membrane’s light carries the colony’s signals.
Indicator species
Glass Salamander
Translucent and fragile; where it thrives, the water is clean.
Wading hunter
Marsh Heron
Patient, still, and very fast when it strikes.
Cliff browser
Sky Ibex
Guards its ledges; follow it and you will find the best paths up.
Burrowing herbivore
Stoneback
Roots and tunnels through the forest floor.
Small grazer
Bristlekin
Quick, wary prey that keeps everything else fed.
Ambush hunter
The Walker
Waits dark and still in the trees above the water. Do not stand under it.
Honest status
What is in the pre-alpha today
Wildbound is early. This is what playtesters can play right now; everything else is on the public roadmap, not promised as done.
- A seeded valley with the Ancient Woodlands, Windcarved Highlands, Tidal Marshes and the layered Rainforest
- Physical water: rivers, groundwater, tides, rain feeding the water, floods, and chipmunk dams that flood, breach and erode
- One world weather system: clear, overcast, mist, rain and storm, with real wetness and shelter
- Animals with needs, habitats, territories, predation and visible attacks, across five anatomy families
- Taming by trust, bonding and breeding with gene-blended bodies and living light
- A held field tablet, a parchment journal with sketches and a hand-drawn map
- A starter camp with a comms tower, a power grid, Rust-style building with stability, and supply orders
- Field equipment (binoculars, flare pistol, machete, hatchet, shovel, flashlight and more) and two research scooters
Membership
Help build Wildbound
From US$5 a month. Every tier includes the game and you keep it after three paid months. Higher tiers get test builds and a vote on what comes next.
Newsletter
Field reports by email
Devlogs, new builds and playtest openings, a few times a month.
Questions
Frequently asked
- What kind of game is Wildbound?
- A single-player creature research and survival game. You explore a living wilderness, study and tame its animals through trust, breed new lineages, and build a camp to survive. There is no compulsory story: you choose what to research and where to go.
- What platforms is it on?
- Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit) PCs. It plays with mouse and keyboard or an Xbox controller.
- Is there a free demo?
- Yes. The demo is the full game for two hours of play. If you buy the game, the same world and save carry on.
- Do I need to be online to play?
- Only once, to activate your PC through the launcher. After that the game plays offline for good; updates need the internet.
- How many PCs can I play on?
- Three at once. You can free a PC slot yourself from your account or the launcher.
- When is early access?
- Wildbound is in pre-alpha with invited playtesters now. Early access opens later at US$15; join the newsletter or apply to playtest to hear first.
- What is the membership?
- A monthly or yearly way to support development. Every tier includes the game, and after three paid months you keep it for good. Higher tiers add test builds and a say in what gets built.
- What is the refund policy?
- Refunds within 14 days of purchase with under 2 hours played are automatic from your account page. Anything else, contact support and we will look at it.