Haven and Hearth

[noaah]

Hey guys,
I just wanted to share an excellent game I've recently started playing called Haven and Hearth. Here's the site description -

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.

Players start the game surrounded by a vast and somewhat unforgiving wilderness, with only the most basic tools of survival at their disposal. The use of fire is a thematic focal point of the game's mythos, and an early and important task will be the simple lighting of one. As the first hearth fires disperse the darkness of the surrounding wilderness, more pressing questions will present themselves to the players: Who are they? Where are they? And, most importantly, where are they going? From this point on, players will have to blaze trails of their own into the unknown, the wilderness and the future, and explore and affect the world of Haven & Hearth using only their own best judgment and a chipped stone axe. Trust us, the stone axe is the shit.

As players progress, they will be able to acquire new skills and abilities, allowing them to perform a variety of tasks—such as the claiming of land, the construction of buildings and the cultivation of crops—each step forward making the basic task of survival somewhat easier. Having progressed far enough, players will, in time, be able to organize themselves into societies, from simple tribes and villages, progressing through republics, nation states and, ultimately, empires.

The game is very addicting and quite fun to play, it's also very inspiring to me as it is being created by just two people and has had the luck to acquire a large and very loyal fan-base. I would like to warn you however that the game has an extremely steep learning curve and is not for the faint hearted.
Thanks,
Noah.

[Callan S.]

A bit of self reliant survivalism sounds really interesting! Though becoming states and empires generally means the very opposite of self reliance (in real life people aren't independent, they are horribly interdependent on massive infrastructures not collapsing)

Looking forward to seeing more!

[62896dude]

This game sounds extremely interesting to me! I will definately check it out!

[noaah]

I forgot to add that the game is currently in an open Alpha, so there are down times and the like. The game also features a complete PVP world with perma-death. This is actually the one game where the combat system will take you days just to barely understand it, and the PVP is fully skill based rather than item.

[Callan S.]

Will you have dueling to the defeat rather than death, so players can learn about combat without having to go through character after character?

[noaah]

Ya, that's extremely important for when your new. There's also hunting to get used to combat as well, although many animals can kill you with ease.