The HinterLands

The HinterLands is a multiplayer sandbox side scrolling survival game.

In the HinterLands, there is a large focus on multiplayer, building, and survival. You arrive in The HinterLands with just a few tools and torches. To survive you must build a house, and hunt for materials to craft new items. Mine the terrain for resources, build great structures, harvest plants, trees and mobs, the choice is yours! Play cooperative or competitive multiplayer with friends or random players!

The HinterLands is a work in progress, and will continue to grow, expand and evolve over time. Your feedback and suggestion will help shape the game, and you can participate in the development of the game.

Features

Multiplayer, featuring player vs player combat, and cooperative exploration and building

Parkour style movement- run up walls, do flips, climb over ledges, run and slide under things, wall kick/jump between walls

Fight with fast combos, slow strong attacks, and block incoming enemy attacks

Take no damage, and unlimited blocks in creative mode

Free content upgrades

Optional touch screen controls

Mine, Craft, Fight and Build!

Mine procedurally generated, unique worlds, with randomly generated terrain, and dynamic day/ night cycles

Craft tons of blocks and items, and use them to build!

Farm mobs, or destroy them for food to satisfy your hunger

Harvest trees and plants for food, potions, or seeds to replant and grow your own forests

Multiplayer

The HinterLands is an indie sandbox game, built with a heavy emphasis on multiplayer.

Play on the free public servers and play with tons of people or just play with friends over LAN

Play cross platform with Android, iOS, and more platforms if people are interested

Why Play?

If you enjoy multiplayer games, and would like to help shape the direction of this one

Play with other people: create amazing structures, or just battle it out with swords, crossbows and guns

Help shape the development of the game, add ideas, and watch the game evolve

Explore the world, see new content added to the game, and provide feedback on what you like/ don’t like

Who isn’t it for?

Someone looking for a completely finished game. The game still needs a lot of development, and will continually be updated to fix bugs/ add content until it is finished

The HinterLands was originally released on mobile early in development to encourage people to contribute, and since then it has grown a ton, and keeps growing thanks to player feedback!

Planned features

NPC’s: Characters to give you quests, buy and trade items, marry and start a family with!

More advanced item, armor and weapon crafting system

Bosses, more mobs, and more biomes

Player vs. Player: Free for all, capture the flag, team oriented with different classes, tower defense with creeps and towers

Pets: Animals to join you on quests and in combat (and mounts!)

Craftable vehicles, space travel, permanent worlds on servers

Instructions

Customize and create your player and world

Play on a public server, wifi, or single player game

Mine dirt, stone, ect with the pickaxe. Chop trees and items with the axe

Build amazing structures, upgrade your tools, and share on our facebook page

More instructions on the wiki:

Controls

Use WASD or arrow keys to move

Left mouse button to mine/fast attack

Right mouse button for strong attack

Middle mouse button for shield

Scroll the middle mouse button or +/- on the keyboard to zoom in/out

Esc to exit/ go back

I can add back in controller support if people are interested

The game is still in still in development, because there is so much still that we want to add. There are only 2 of us working on it, but we appreciate everyone who plays the game, helps contribute by finding bugs, adding ideas, providing art or scripting, or suggestions and feedback.

Feedback

Join the forums:

Take the poll and let me know what you want changed in the game: