Alder's Blood: Definitive Edition
Alder's Blood is a tactical strategy game with stealth-based combat, RPG elements, crafting, resources gathering, and management, exploration, and a rich storyline. Set in a grim world, where mankind killed their God and is facing extinction.
Developer
Publisher
Release
April 10, 2020
6 years and 115 days ago
Steam Reviews
Mixed261 reviews60.5%
Does this feel indie?
Vote based on whether this game feels indie to you. You can change your vote at any time. Results earn an IGF score after 10 accepted votes.No votes yet
Game contextLatest: IGF Team
| ContextThe evidence factors used to assess whether this game belongs on IndieGame.Fan. | Status | Notes Latest Contributor: IGF TeamEdit notes |
|---|---|---|
Updated: Jul 13, 2026Developer scaleThe operating scale of the game's developer. | ||
Updated: Jul 13, 2026Publisher scaleThe operating scale of the game's publisher. | The publisher meets the large-publisher threshold through its catalog and developer network. | |
Updated: Jul 13, 2026Release statusWhether and how the game has been released. | The game was released through a separate publisher. |
Media
16 itemsAbout the Game
⚜️ DEFINITIVE UPDATE ⚜️
🔹 3 new enemy types. Prepare to fight swarms of feral bats, witches of the wood, and elder vampires.🔸 30 new weapons with unique abilities to add to your arsenal.
🔹 Overwatch added to ease up your ambushes. Snipe any foes running into your range.
🔸 Tug of war mechanics. Push a beast into a trap or pull it into the range of ally's overwatch.
🔹 Rebalance of corruption system. Cursed weapons and items give you immense power but at a cost of slowly losing yourself.
🔸 New questline: uncover dark secrets of House Blackwell.
🔹 New hunter skin - hunt in style.
⚜️ GAME FEATURES ⚜️
🔹 Twisted, Lovecraftian atmosphere🔸 Complex tactical combat
🔹 Rich lore and RPG mechanics
🔸 Diverse crafting: weapons, charms, equipment and consumables
🔹 Squad-based strategy
🔸 Over 70 missions
🔹 Clan management
🔸 Over 10h of main-story gameplay
🔹 Over 40h including side-quests
🔸 Massive world to explore
🔹 Unique mechanic: odor and scent
⚜️ SUMMARY ⚜️
▏ God is dead, and it was us - who killed him.Without God - the world became twisted and has fallen into chaos. Malevolent essense bleeding from his dead carcass, gives birth to inhuman abominations that roam the land - hunting and devouring anything human.〞
▏ But the God’s death has also sprouted new kind of life: The Hunters.
They look like humans, but they are not. They are so much less, and so much more. The meaning of their life is to vanquish the ever growing Darkness and to protect humanity - at all cost.
▏ Each clan of Hunters has their Chief. You play as one of them. As the Chief - you manage your clan’s camping, shifts, equipment, resources, crafting, trading, travels and most important - the Hunt.
▏ Hunts are main source of field experience for Hunters under your lead, and reward for a successful Hunt - your funding. Extremely difficult and dangerous, as the spawns of Darkness takes various shapes - each one more deadlier than the other.
▏ On a Hunt, there is no place for blind bravery or brute force - those will only lead to your end. Instead, the key tactics are stealth, paying attention from where the wind blows, traps, ambushes and swift, accurate strikes. There is no room for mistakes and each - is being paid with life and blood.
▏ Only carefully threading your actions, strategies and wise management of your scarce resources - does give you a chance of survival.
Then something happened.
An old friend, but with a stranger’s face.
Blind eyes, that saw something they weren't supposed to.
Silence, replaced by whispers.
Whispers, replaced by screams.
And the curtain of this wounded world
...is about to fall.
