Blog Post 7: Maiden Voyage Available Now!

Preparations are over. Lubomir and his team are fully armed and waiting for your orders. Take one last look over your village.. How much has changed since the day you first arrived in Karvenia - what started as a few ramshackle buildings hidden in the forest has now grown into a large village - almost a town - protected by walls and bustling with tradesmen and merchants. This place has become home for you. It will wait for you when you return, but now it's time for a new journey. Turning to your people, you say: "Let’s move! To Halmare Isles..."

Halmare Isles

Halmare Isles is our new expedition map which introduces a completely new environment, new quests, caves, new Points of Interest, new creatures and resources. It was a very ambitious technical and gameplay challenge of which we are incredibly proud. Our game, level, and narrative designers and environmental and technical artists really challenged themselves to push the bounds and create a whole new unique experience. Halmare Isles raises the bar across the board, providing much more expansive towns, improved visual quality, enhanced lighting, and a deepened narrative experience. As you explore the island, you’ll find there are multiple factions competing for the services of the Bellwright, and your choices really matter.

Character Customization

There is nothing more iconic in RPGs than creating your own character - maybe that’s rolling dice to allocate stat points, swapping out 8-bit textures, or, in the case of Bellwright, diving into the hundreds of customization options in our new character creator. Whether the Bellwright you imagine is a photorealistic copy of yourself or plausibly a bridge troll, you can now bring them to life! Along with that, there will be much more visual variety in all the various residents of Karvenia and Halmare Isles, including distinctive faction appearances and over time key storyline characters will receive distinctive makeovers.

Caravans and Trading

The medieval genre and economics go together like peanut butter and jelly. Whether you imagine yourself at the center of a vast trade empire or simply want to ensure that your soldiers are outfitted with the best gear Karvenia has to offer, trade and logistics are essential for the success of your rebellion. This update improves and expands on practically all economic systems in the game.

The Small Caravan Station allows you to establish trade routes and build carts. Villagers with the Caravaneer job will load up carts and use them to deliver and retrieve resources from your outposts and buy and sell resources with friendly villages, all based on rules set by you.

As you progress towards total liberation of Karvenia, villages will begin to take matters into their own hands, developing their own industry, creating new demands and offering new goods for purchase. The more you trade with villages, the greater their prosperity grows, and the higher your chances of throwing off Queen Osene’s chains become.

Defensive Fortifications

Similar to trading, walls are a critical element to the overall immersive medieval aesthetic that we want to provide and we are happy to finally have them in the game. We have already seen some amazing designs using them and they really bring villages together in a way we have yet to see. Along with the trade systems, walls add the possibility for additional strategic complexity, allowing you to keep your outposts much more reliably defended and ensuring those valuable resources aren’t pillaged by bandits or brigands.

And More!

Of course this is all just a brief summary of everything this update has to offer. In addition, there are tons of new weapons, armors, and equipment, new structures, new animals, new points of interest, and a whole host of other fixes, tweaks, and improvements. We really hope you’re all as hyped about this update as we are and can’t wait for you to experience it.

Console Release

We've been working on something very exciting (and very top secret!), which we're hoping to announce in the coming months. Meanwhile, in light of this new development, we're updating the Xbox release window to Q2 2026. Make sure to follow the game on Steam to see this announcement as soon as it's out, and let us know in the comments what other platforms you would like to see Bellwright on!

Head over to Steam for the full change log. See you in Halmare!