Dig. Reshape the ground and take the material with you.
Raise ground as well as dig it, and shape rolling land where your cuts stay cut.
In-game frames
In-game captures (Med quality) — HUD hidden.
What you can do in the playtest
Highlights pulled from the current loop and shipped work — no wishlist filler.
Craft from the dig. Turn those materials into something you can hold and set down.
Wood is a new material with its own quality (craft V, improve U), alongside improvable packed dirt (I).
Owned place mark. Leave your mark on ground you shaped, so the place is yours.
Claim ground (E). Claimed and owned land get their own edge colors and dashed corner guides.
Shape the land
Dig down to a stone layer, and level a 5×5 patch flat for a floor (F). Ground needs support: you can't place on thin air.
Feel and readability
A guided first minute: the menu and HUD walk you through Dig → Own → Craft, with a next-step hint after each action.
Look
A living valley: textured earth with soil and stone, wind-blown grass, conifer groves, and still ponds that reflect the sky.
The playtest loop
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Dig. Reshape the ground and take the material with you.
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Craft from the dig. Turn those materials into something you can hold and set down.
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Owned place mark. Leave your mark on ground you shaped, so the place is yours.
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Private playtest. The loop is proven in a closed playtest. Nothing to download today.
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Early access, early 2027. USD $19.99 reserves a seat when that window opens.
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Windows first. Desktop sandbox first. No Steam store today.
What's new
Shipped since September.
Shape the land
- Raise ground as well as dig it, and shape rolling land where your cuts stay cut.
- Dig down to a stone layer, and level a 5×5 patch flat for a floor (F).
- Ground needs support: you can't place on thin air, and cutting away the ground under a floor makes it collapse.
- The earth answers each edit: the ground eases into place, the view kicks a little, and a fresh cut looks dark and damp before it dries. Dug faces show soil grain; steep cuts show stone.
- Your valley is kept: digs, placements and your bag survive quitting and relaunching. A damaged save is refused and left untouched, never quietly replaced.
Claim, wood, and things you set down
- Claim ground (E). Claimed and owned land get their own edge colors and dashed corner guides, so your plot stands out from wild land.
- Fell a tree for wood. One chop per tree, and a stump stays where it stood.
- Wood is a new material with its own quality (craft V, improve U), alongside improvable packed dirt (I). Quality runs from 1 to 100.
- Build on your claim: a wood post at a claim corner, a wood board on a claimed column, and a wood box that holds your dug dirt. From the ridge, the post, stump and box read as landmarks.
Feel and readability
- A guided first minute: the menu and HUD walk you through Dig → Own → Craft, with a next-step hint after each action.
- See what a click will do before you click: the aim cursor shows which patch will change and whether it's claimed, a verb bar shows the live action, and "Too far — step closer" tells you when you're out of reach.
- Smoother first-person look (eased mouse look, 70° FOV) and high-contrast counters for dirt and packed dirt.
Look
- A living valley: textured earth with soil and stone, wind-blown grass, conifer groves, and still ponds that reflect the sky, with shore foam and wet banks.
- Sky and light: sun halo, drifting clouds, shadows, distance haze, and F4 to cycle dawn, noon, dusk and night.
- A realistic look at Med quality (F3): photoreal ground textures, a dense forest band, a cloud sky with aerial haze, and real 3D models for the post, stump and box. Low quality stays available.
Under development
What we're building next. Plans can change, and nothing here has a date. None of this is part of the $19.99 pass today, and no feature or date is promised.
Crafting with quality
In progressCraft from what you dig and fell. Every item carries a quality shaped by your materials and your tool, and there's no random failure.
Skills that reward practice
In progressDigging, forestry, crafting and building improve as you use them. You work faster and steadier, but nothing is ever locked behind a skill.
Ships of war
In progressBuild a skiff or a sloop and fit it with mast, sail, guns and armor. Walk the deck as it sails, climb aboard, or jump overboard and swim.
Clean crafting and inventory UI
PlannedA simple bag list, a predicted-quality readout before you craft, and a progress bar. No weight puzzles.
Buildings and bridges
PlannedPlan a timber building on your claim and raise it, then span gaps with plank bridges braced by piers.
Caves and mining
PlannedTunnel into the hills to mine iron. Shore up your tunnels or they come down.
Hot air balloons and parachutes
PlannedCraft a medieval hot air balloon. Fire controls only how high you fly, and the wind decides where you go, so launch upwind of your target. Then drop in by parachute.
Fire
PlannedWood burns. Fire arrows, torches and heated shot can set buildings, balloons and wooden ships ablaze, and wildfires race downwind.
Who this is for
TerraForge is for people who want to shape ground, test an idea, and see whether the land holds. Windows-first sandbox in early access — not a finished MMO, not a Steam storefront today, not a crowded lobby on day one.
- Builders who dig and place rather than wait for content drops.
- Windows players who want a desktop sandbox first.
- Backers who can live with early access: incomplete, iterative, explicit.
- Anyone supporting an honest play loop — not a feature wishlist.
What early access means
Means
- EA entry when the planned early 2027 window opens.
- A dig/place sandbox still being proven in play.
- Gaps, iteration, builds that change.
- Refunds follow PayPal terms on this site.
Does not mean
- No Steam store today.
- No day-one multiplayer promise.
- No finished MMO / locked feature checklist.
- No invented engine marketing — dig, place, test, revise.
Dig, craft, mark
Carve the ground. Make something from what you took. Leave a mark you own. That is the loop, not a masquerade of a live MMO.
Dig
Dig and reshape the ground, and keep the material.
Craft from the dig
Turn those materials into a thing you can set down.
Owned place mark
Leave the mark on land you carved. If it fails, dig again.
Reserve early access
USD $19.99 digital EA access pass / reservation. Nothing to download today. Early access early 2027.
EA access pass — $19.99 — no download yet
USD $19.99 via PayPal. Digital EA access pass / reservation. Nothing to download today. Early access early 2027.
Early access FAQ
Same answers on the standalone page: terraforge-us.com/faq.
What is TerraForge?
An indie ground-shaping sandbox. The current playtest loop is dig, craft from those materials, then leave an owned place mark.
Is this the same TerraForge as the cookware, homestead planner, Unity TerraForge 2, or biocarbon products?
No. This TerraForge is an indie ground-shaping game on terraforge-us.com. It is not cookware, not a homestead planner, not Unity TerraForge 2, and not a biocarbon product.
When is early access?
Early access targets early 2027 for a Windows-first early-access window as the dig/place core matures.
What do I get if I preorder?
A digital EA access pass / reservation. Status on this site path. No download, key, or playable build today. Early-access entry when the early 2027 window opens (see PayPal/site terms).
Is it on Steam today?
No Steam store page yet — desktop Windows is the first play target.
Is this a finished MMO?
No. Core sandbox loop first; bigger systems only as they’re real.
Multiplayer?
Not promised for day-one EA — focus is a solid single-player reshape-the-world loop.
Refunds?
Follow PayPal/preorder terms on this site — we don’t invent policy in marketing copy.
What this pre-order is — and is not
USD $19.99 buys a digital EA access pass / reservation for TerraForge early access. Read this before you pay.
This is
- A digital EA access pass / reservation for TerraForge early access
- USD $19.99, paid here with PayPal
- A clear access window: early access early 2027
This is not
- A download, key, or playable build today
- A storefront listing or shipped binary
- Immediate access — early access is early 2027