NOSTRA: Crystalbound

About the Game

From the world of NOSTRA

In the old wars, the kingdoms of Nostra burned crystal as if there would always be more. Then the portals appeared, and with them forces no one in Nostra had a name for. Whole lands fell, and the dead did not always stay dead.

Now it is the year 860 of the Charter. Crystal grows everywhere. It lights the lamps and fires the forges, and no kingdom guards the roads anymore. The merchants of Brennmarkt pay any blade that will clear them. You are the Rune Warrior, a mercenary with runes in his arm and a price on every road. Those who fall, the carters drag back. For a fee.

Every run a new build

• Fight in real time: chain your strikes, raise your Guard at the right moment and answer with a perfect parry.
  
• Etch runes into your abilities. A bolt that splits into three, a burst that raises frost pillars, lightning that jumps from foe to foe: the runes you find decide how the run plays.
  
• Choose your blade and your glyph before you set out, and grow a skill tree of your own.
  
• Bring your haul home. In the camp at Brennmarkt it turns into lasting upgrades, and Writs open new abilities for the next run.

A broken land

Three regions lie between you and your pay: the river meadows around the bridges, a mountain pass full of old mine shafts and the drowned marshes on the coast. Every map is laid out by hand, with more than one way out and a route you choose yourself. Bandits, marsh creatures and beasts grown from crystal wait along the roads, and each region has its own masters at the end.

Built on the NeoEngine

Crystalbound runs on the NeoEngine, the engine behind NOSTRA: painted light and shadow, weather, fog that gathers in the valleys and wind that moves the grass.

About NOSTRA

NOSTRA is a dark fantasy RPG by the same solo developer, with side-view party battles in a world of three kingdoms. Crystalbound is set long after its story. NOSTRA is on Steam with a playable alpha demo.

Release is planned for Q1 2027. Add NOSTRA: Crystalbound to your wishlist and follow Runecraft Studios to hear first when the demo opens.