The game
Roguefort is set on Cantal, a continent where cheese is the economy and the source of all magic, and five Guilds are close to war over it. You play an affineur, and what you do from there is up to you. Crawl dungeons, sail the coast, run a homestead, pick a side, become a vampire, or spend a season fishing while trouble builds two towns over.
It's in the tradition of Caves of Qud and Dwarf Fortress, and the cheese is played completely straight. It's a deep open world I'm hoping you can disappear into for hundreds of hours.
Timothy Graham, solo developer
Four ways to play all in Early Access
Adventure
The main game. One character on the handcrafted continent of Cantal, with the campaign, the five Guilds, cheesemaking, vampirism, sailing, homesteads and roughly 10,000 dungeons.
The Crossing rough edges
Adventure on a freshly generated continent, with cities nobody has seen before. It's the least tested mode, so expect a few surprises.
Fortress
A colony sim in the spirit of RimWorld and a lighter Dwarf Fortress. You run a settlement instead of one character: its people, farms, workshops and defences.
Survival: The Wilds
Your ship's wrecked and you wash up alone on a distant shore with 10 items. How long can you last?
Five Guilds, one war two alliances and a holdout
Cantal is split between two alliances, with one Guild sitting the war out. Each Guild has its own territory, culture and quests, and your standing with one ripples out to its allies. Commit to a side, or try to stay on good terms with everyone.
The Rind Dominion
Thymerock
Hard Guild
A highland fortress-state that ages granite-hard wheels in mountain caves for decades, and believes only central control can save the craft.
Brinehold
Washed Guild
Built around a vast underground salt lake. Its salt-hardened legions are the backbone of the Dominion.
Independent
Roquelle
Blue Guild
The deepest and oldest of the Great Cellars. Its scholars have withdrawn from the war to guard whatever stirs below.
Compact of Free Guilds
Grasse-Verdenne
Soft Guild
The cultural capital, on the richest pastures in Cantal. Its diplomats lead the Compact and defend free trade.
Fennmarche
Fresh Guild
Wetland inventors of experimental cheeses, and the frontier's supplier of quick-acting remedies.
What's in it
- Magic you make yourselfRaise livestock, forage and age cheese into spells. Blind something with a smoked gouda fog and heal with a sunberry tomme, or just hit it with a two-handed sword.
- A world that remembersPeople work, grow old and remember what you did (and what you got away with). Reputation spreads between allied Guilds, and your choices lead to different endings.
- Four ways to see itClassic ASCII, 2D pixel art, 2.5D isometric or first-person 3D, all on the custom-built Opthalis Engine. Switch whenever you like.
- Friends, if you want themOnline co-op for up to four players over Steam. The Old Mouth hub has an auction house and the first raid dungeon, The Monadic Descent.
- Pick your poisonPermadeath for the classic roguelike run, Wayfarer if you'd rather die with consequences and carry on, or the new Hardcore mode.
- Made with the communityA lot of what's in the game came out of Discord reports and suggestions, and everyone who helps gets credited in the patch notes.
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Get it Windows · macOS · Linux · Steam Deck
US$9.99, and buying in Early Access gets you everything through to 1.0, which is planned for 13 October 2027. I want as many people as possible to be able to play it, so I'm keeping it cheap.
If you've wishlisted it, Steam will email you when it goes live. Launch times for your part of the world, saves, co-op and the road to 1.0 are in the FAQ.
If you'd like to chip in beyond buying the game, there's a Ko-fi.
Latest updates all patch notes
Come and say hi
The Discord is where bugs get reported, ideas get argued about and most of the game's direction gets decided. I'm in there most nights. For anything else, like business, press or a question you'd rather not ask in public, email me or message me on Discord.