In Hammerting you establish a small dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara, level up your characters and industrialize with drills, robots, and lifts, delve deeper, fight enemies, and, of course, ensure there’s always enough ale on tap.

With a war raging on the surface, the dwarves pledge to delve deep and, as the master craftspeople they are, produce and supply whatever is needed. From humble beginnings, you start with a few, hurried dwarves who need to set up operations. Ultimately, your small clan of dwarves will be known throughout the Upper Realms for their skill, and the base will span kilometers.

The lush, vivid visuals make you go “Hot damn!”, and its dwarves yell “Damn, hot!” as they delve fervently into the mountain’s fiery depths. War rages on the surface. Only by supplying legendary items, crafted using the most blistering magma, can triumph be ensured.

Team17 and Warpzone Studios have announced that dwarven mining colony simulator, Hammerting, will launch into Steam Early Access on October 27, 2020.

“We have ambitious plans for the world of Hammerting. We plan to use Early Access as a time to work with our community to better refine the title, test and introduce new features, and work towards a finished product. Being able to support ourselves as a studio is also critical in this time, so the money we make during Early Access is vital to helping us achieve our goals.”

“Hammerting will take 6 months to a year to complete the feature list we've laid out to fully realise our vision for the game.”

A demo is currently available, giving players an hour’s access to the mines underneath the perilous Mountains of Mara.

Key Features:

• You may find yourself having to craft oodles of silver swords against an oncoming vampire army, or a single Legendary Diamond-Encrusted Gold Crown of Divine Ruling +3 for an Elf princess’s coronation.
• As your dwarves increase in skill and your base expands, build conveyor belts and elevators to free them from manual labor.
• Vastly different biomes with distinct looks, creatures, plants, locations and events.
• Explore huge maps, farm and harvest plants, attack or use indigenous creatures to your advantage.
• The dwarves are always going down, down, down to find the most powerful materials and the rarest treasures.
• Figuring out the fastest and safest route down - and up again - is a chief concern, but you’ll have plenty of unique dwarven mechanisms to help you do so.
• Features liquid and physics mechanics for brewing beer, tossing torches down shafts to light up the unknown, and much more.
• Dwarves are generated with a host of traits and one dwarf is never like another. The player must manage their strengths, weaknesses, and interactions.
• Dwarves have goals they are keen to fulfill, goals that may not always align with the player’s.
• Events in a dwarf’s life can give them new abilities and traits.
• Modding Support: Extend the game with art, scripts, or even low-level C++.
• Co-op that lets you manage your colony with friends.

Hammerting is in development for PC and scheduled for a Steam launch later this year.