NOSTRA

Nostra is an island continent, ringed by an ocean no ship has ever crossed and returned from. Three kingdoms stand on it. Calum holds the centre where three rivers meet, a realm of order, trade and parade-ground glory. Dorneval keeps the southern coast, where scholars argue in the shade and the blood sports fill the arenas. Vargheim holds the northern mountains, its warriors and its deep crystal mines. Each is proud, each is wary, and each is certain the other two will break the peace first.

Beneath the politics, something older has begun to stir. Portals open where no one built one. Roads that were safe for a generation are not safe now. The old peace is thinner than anyone wants to say out loud.

You begin far from all of it, in a village that has never mattered to anyone. Where the road takes you, and what you become on it, is yours to find out.



Every fight is decided by position, timing and what you are willing to spend. Build up Boost to turn a routine strike into the one that breaks a guard. Raise a Ward and take the hit on your terms. Parry on the frame and the counter is yours. Runic Power fuels the strikes that end fights, and it does not come back on its own.


Bandits on the road are one thing. What waits in the crypts under the old church is another, and it does not fight like anything the kingdoms trained their soldiers against.


Your knight is not a class you pick once. Specializations branch as you go, each with its own weapons, its own rhythm in a fight and its own way out of trouble. Gear drops with rolled properties and sockets, and the good pieces are worth rebuilding a whole approach around.


Day turns to night on its own clock. Lanterns come on, shutters close, and the roads empty. Weather rolls in across the land rather than switching on. Footsteps answer the ground you are walking on, and sound sits in the space around you instead of in front of you. Nostra reacts, down to details you are not meant to notice.


An original orchestral score, written for this world, from a single melody in an empty village to the themes that carry a boss to the end of its last phase.

NOSTRA is the first game from Runecraft Studios, built by one developer with a small circle of freelance artists and musicians. It is only beginning: new regions, new stories and new mysteries arrive as the world grows.


Add NOSTRA to your wishlist and follow the journey from the start.