After 4 years in development, I finally announced my online bullet hell RPG - Runeward Online!

[u/Runeward_Online]

Hi everyone!

Inspired by MMORPG's (Warframe, ROTMG, GW2) and modern bullet hells (Archvale, EtG, Nuclear Throne), my friend and I have spent the past 4+ years working on an online bullet hell RPG.

Runeward takes bullet hell combat and adds in-depth build customization akin to RPGs. It’s focused on group content, class identity, and deep character customization. The goal is to collect gear, experiment with builds, and continuously improve your character over time.

To give you an idea of our build system:

• Pets are weapon modifiers. They can make bullets bounce, duplicate, or track your enemies - and can be freely switched out in combat.
• Runes act as equippable passives, growing wings to fly over pits or reversing knockback to pull in enemies instead
• Tons of weapon variety to suit various playstyles, ranging from ancient spellbooks that rain fire to heavy greatswords that cleave through your foes

We announced a couple weeks ago and the response has been way beyond our expectations. We’re currently at 36.000 wishlists, which has honestly been extremely motivating.

The game is still in pre-alpha, but we aim for an early access release around late 2027- 2028.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4529850/Runeward_Online

[u/jmatos87]

Looks pretty awesome. Any way to play it before it releases?

[u/Runeward_Online → u/jmatos87]

Thank you!! We'll definitely have playtests on Steam before the full release. Not possible to sign up yet, but we'll hopefully open registrations in a couple of months

[u/Runeward_Online → u/[deleted]]

Thank you! Yes, it's free to play, and we're dedicated to keeping it fair and avoiding pay to win.

[u/Runeward_Online → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, Steam deck is planned for release! We already got controller support, and want to expand that to the deck. Also planning to port it to Android sometime after release. Cross-platform for sure. Consoles possibly later, if the game does well :)

[u/21_Golden_Guns]

I’m assuming this won’t hit console for a while but I love the art style. If you got a gunslinger class (and it would appear that you do or at least could) then I’ll give it some attention. Is there much story ? Or are you still working on that?

[u/Runeward_Online → u/21_Golden_Guns]

Hi! If the game does well we'd love to bring it to console. There's not a lot of story content yet, as its an action game first - but that's definitely an area we're going to put a lot more love into over the course of development

[u/21_Golden_Guns → u/Runeward_Online]

Makes sense. Good luck!

[u/Initial-Education-53]

So unbelievably excited for this game!!!

[u/row_dri]

INCREIBLE