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Primestone

Primestone is a brutal stone age survival-craft game that won’t hold your grubby little hand. Use your big, beautiful brain to invent tools, tame fire, outsmart rival tribes - and maybe uncover the ruins of something much older than you.

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MrBeef
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About the Game

You are surrounded by idiots and deadly creatures. But you have something they don’t: a big, beautiful brain. Use it to dominate the past.

Survive by gathering the resources you need to unlock powerful technologies. Crush your enemies. Empower your allies. And shape the world as you see fit.

Set in the deep past, after a global cataclysm, this is a single-player sandbox survival game where you can go it alone, or join a tribe of NPC cavemen. Just don’t get too comfortable. Power shifts fast when others are watching your every invention.

Explore a procedurally generated world in a playful pixel art style. Craft tools, harness fire, start farms, and work your way through a sprawling tech tree that spans from stone tools to early metalworking and primitive power generation. But as you rise, so do others - tribes will learn from you, steal from you, and one day challenge your dominance.

There’s no hand-holding and no fixed path. Live as a solitary innovator, a tribe-leading tactician, or a fire-starting force of chaos. The world is yours to shape.

And buried beneath it all, there are whispers - clues that you may not have been the first to walk this path. Something older lies hidden, waiting to be uncovered...

KEY FEATURES:

  • 🌍 A procedurally generated world full of natural resources to discover and exploit

  • 🪓 Craft tools and unlock technologies from the Stone Age to early industry

  • 🧠 Join, leave, or form your own tribe - interact with dynamic AI tribes that evolve by observing your actions

  • 🔥 Survive and shape your environment with fire, farming, and clever use of tools

  • 🧱 Play your own way - no quests, no endgame, just pure open-ended discovery and survival

  • 🏺 Uncover traces of a lost civilization and wonder: were you really the first to think this way?

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