Hello Dragon Hunters
Early Access launch is just around the corner! We couldn’t be more excited at the studio with only a few days left until we push the button to release Dragonkin: The Banished into the world.
We can't wait for you all to finally get your hands on Dragonkin: The Banished.
From our hearts to yours, we hope you enjoy the hunt for dragons.
While the demo gave you a taste of what’s to come, Early Access offers more content and a smoother leveling experience, starting at level 1 right after the prologue.
What’s in Early Access launch?
At launch, you'll be able to choose from 3 playable classes: Knight, Oracle, and Barbarian.
Pick your Wyrmling from Fire, Ice, Electric, or Toxic types.
Explore the City of Montescail and upgrade it.
A prologue and the chapter 1 of the story.
Endgame content includes Dungeon Purification and the Hunting Board, offering replayable hunts and rewards.
You can also adjust the difficulty across 11 available settings to tailor your experience.
More information below:
Playable classes, Wyrmlings & Ancestral Grid
You'll be able to choose between 3 playable classes after the prologue. Each class has its own unique skills.
In the future, we'll be expanding each class with additional active skills.
- Knight
- Oracle
- Barbarian
To know more about it check:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1863430/view/516325296815734848
You'll be able to choose from 4 types of Wyrmlings, which act as a specialization for your characters, each with its own skill tree and skills.
- Fire
- Ice
- Electric
- Toxic
Fragments of varying rarities (commun, uncommon, rare, legendary and mythic).
A Fragment is made up of one to five hexagons. Each hexagon can contain:
- A character's skill or Wyrmling's skill : One per Fragment (a fragment can come without any skill)
- One or more modifier(s): which enhance skills using a “Keyword” system.
To know more about it check: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1863430/view/508444538590724447
Itemization & City of Monstescail
Equipment from common to mythic, along with divine and draconic items.
To know more about it check: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1863430/view/506195274633317929
You will be able to earn city XP and unlock developments as well as various bonuses.
Some city upgrades grant bonuses, such as the Abbey, which provides attribute points to all characters, or the Pythia, which increases the size of the Ancestral Grid.
Of course, more buildings and customization options will be added to your city throughout Early Access.
Here the list of all the services at Early Access launch:
- Crafting
- Jailer
- Ornamentalist
- Apothecary
- Jeweller
- Other services
- Dark merchant
- Training ground
- Bonus
- Abbey
- Pythie
- And more
To know more about it:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1863430/view/508445806184891240
Story, Endgame & Difficulties
During the prologue, you'll be able to play as the Knight, Oracle, and Barbarian.
The Tracker is also featured but is work in progress and isn’t playable outside of the prologue until a future update planned for the Summer.
At the start of Chapter 1, you begin as a young recruit of the Dragon Hunters at level 1. This is where your journey begins!
- Prologue
- Chapter 1
For the Early Access launch, you will have access to endgame content.
It includes the Hunt Board (offering unique rewards) and Chaos Hunts. These activities feature various missions and dungeon purifications. You’ll learn more about them directly in the game!
Dungeon Purification involves eliminating a certain number of enemies to access a room where a draconic rift will open, triggering a special battle.
The Hunt Board offers a variety of hunts for draconic creatures. Each hunt have settings, with different durations, modifiers, difficulty levels, and rewards.
Hunts from the Hunt Board are replayable, but rewards can only be obtained once.
Chaos Hunts allow you to create your own hunts using parameters unlocked on the board.
- Hunting board
- Dungeon Purification
You can adjust the difficulty between 11 settings, we plan to add 5 more later on.
- Hard - Unlocks draconic equipment
- Desolation 1 - Unlocks mythical equipment
- Desolation 3 - Unlocks mythical ingredients
- Calamity 1 - Unlocks divine items
Early Access Roadmap
We are working on the future of the game - as you can see in the Early Access Roadmap below, we’ve got plenty of updates in the works.
Additionally, thanks to community feedback, balance and quality of life updates will be made throughout Early Access.
Our first major update in Spring 2025 will bring:
- New active skills for the Knight, Oracle and Barbarian
- A new endgame activity & more endgame content
- More city features
- And as much of your feedback taken into account as possible
Thanks to You!
A huge thanks (again) to everyone who jumped into the demo and gave us feedback. We outlined some issues, and worked on fixing these for to ensure the best possible Early Access launch.
Our community is growing every day, and we love seeing new Hunters join our Discord, keep the discussions going, help each other out and share their feedback. We really hope you'll keep sharing your thoughts on Dragonkin: The Banished and will continue to be the cool and welcoming community you are!
See you on March 6th!
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