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Explore a cooperative fantasy world as a customizable hero, completing quests, crafting gear, and building a home and village.
Released 17 Apr 2014
Raise Crops and Animals
Build a Player Village
Craft and Trade Gear
Step into a cozy fantasy MMORPG where adventure feels like home. Craft gear, farm, and build your village—then band together with a warm community to take on challenging boss raids, explore dangerous realms, and forge your legend.
Developed by Mad Otter Games · Published by Mad Otter Games
Play as a customizable hero in a fantasy MMORPG focused on cooperative PvE. Travel through the Seven Realms, follow quests, explore regions, and fight monsters and bosses alone or with other players; the game has no player-versus-player combat.
Gather resources by fishing, mining, foraging, gardening, ranching, and other activities, then craft items such as weapons, armor, meals, and furnishings. Sell creations directly to players or through the Auction House.
Develop your character through combat specializations, abilities, and equipment. Design a personal homestead, grow crops and raise animals, or join a village where players contribute to shared facilities. Gear can be customized by combining equipment and runes while preserving abilities.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its helpful community, crafting and gathering, and relaxed pace, with some also valuing the homes, villages, and choice of activities. Criticism in the supplied reviews includes dated visuals, repetitive or clunky combat and progression, technical or camera problems, and reports of lost characters or account access. Views on the shop and costs also differ.
ADVENTURE TOGETHER. BUILD A HOME.
Villagers & Heroes is a free-to-play fantasy MMORPG where heroic adventure and a welcoming home share the same world. Explore vast realms, battle monsters and bosses, master crafting and gathering, design your homestead, and become part of a thriving village community. Play at your own pace—solo or with friends old and new.
EXPLORE A VAST FANTASY WORLD
Journey through a wide variety of handcrafted regions filled with quests, hidden corners, memorable characters, dangerous enemies, and powerful bosses. Follow the story across the Seven Realms, explore freely, or pursue the activities you enjoy most.
Venture out alone or join other players for Elder bosses, raids, and seasonal event challenges. Villagers & Heroes is focused entirely on cooperative PvE, with no player-versus-player combat.
BUILD A PLACE TO CALL HOME
Design and furnish your own homestead, cultivate a garden, and raise animals through ranching. Collect recipes and decorations to create a home that reflects your character and your accomplishments.
You can also join a shared village where players work together to develop useful facilities and build a welcoming community. Whether you arrive with friends or meet them along the way, there is always a place for you.
GATHER, CRAFT, AND TRADE
Fish, mine, forage, collect bugs, and gather resources throughout the world. Turn what you find into weapons, armor, meals, furnishings, and other useful creations through smithing, tailoring, cooking, and carpentry.
Trade directly with other players or sell your creations through the Auction House. Use the unique Gnogmenting system to combine equipment and runes, preserve your favorite abilities, and shape gear around the way you want to play.
CREATE YOUR HERO
Choose from ten combat specializations:
• Lightning or Fury Warrior
• Fire or Ice Wizard
• Holy or Shadow Priest
• Marksman or Nature Hunter
• Earth or Water Shaman
Customize your appearance, abilities, equipment, and play style as your hero grows. Discover distinctive outfits and collect more than one hundred mounts ranging from noble horses and magical creatures to fearsome beasts and quirky companions.
ONE COMMUNITY ACROSS PLATFORMS
Villagers & Heroes brings Windows, iOS, and Android players together in the same live worlds. Adventure with a worldwide community wherever its members choose to play.
Created and continually updated by an independent development team, Villagers & Heroes combines the scale and progression of an MMORPG with the warmth of a place you can call home.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Controller required | No |
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| AI disclosure | We use AI as a technical tool to support our human developers. While all of our 3D game models, environments, and core game art are hand-crafted by our artists, we use AI to assist with 2D rendering and localization. For 2D promotional art, AI is used to composite, light, and polish images based strictly on our original in-game assets. We also utilize AI-assisted translation pipelines to help localize our massive world into multiple languages for our global community. |
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| Website | Official website |
