THE LOWER WORLDS — GAME I
VALENFELD
A hardcore open-world RPG — the first game of The Lower Worlds. No fast travel. No quest markers. No hand-holding.
Climb, glide, and grapple across a vast procedural world — alone or in co-op — hunting named artifacts through 100+ dungeons. You are the Explorer.
Windows & macOS · No install fee · Play now
No Steam page yet — join the waitlist for the wishlist link & playtest keys.
“If you remember stepping off the ship in Seyda Neen — no marker, no arrow, just a journal, a rumor, and a direction — Valenfeld was built for you.”
Morrowind's density × Breath of the Wild's verticality × a dash of Indiana Jones.
Read the World — The Books of the Vale
THE GAME'S LORE, OPEN ON THE TABLE · the whole shelf →Valenfeld is a video game first. Its entire canon is also bound as a set of illustrated books you can read right here in the browser — the very same lore the game ships and the collectible books in-game quote word for word. Start with the living Atlas, drawn by the players themselves.
JOIN THE EXPEDITION
Built With the Company of the Vale
Valenfeld is charted in the open. The players in our Discord aren't an audience — they're the expedition: they break the builds, name the places that stick, and steer where the world grows next. Enlist, and you help draw the map.
WISHLIST-DAY PRIORITY · PLAYTEST KEYS
Be First Through the Gate
The Steam page is coming. Join the waitlist and you'll get exactly two kinds of email: the wishlist link the day it's live, and playtest keys when new builds open. Nothing else.
Prefer the feed? Follow @metatransformr on X — or come talk to us on Discord.
From Inside the Vale
CONCEPT ART
Screenshots
IN ENGINE
Dispatches
LATEST FROM THE BUILD · all devlogs on itch →-h
fix: spawn townsfolk clear of building footprints
NPCs spawn clear of buildings
The World Atlas
301 PLATES · 758 ENTRIES · ONE WORLDValenfeld's entire canon — its regions, cities, peoples, factions, and bestiary — is browsable right here. The same world book the game is built from, open to explorers.
No Mercy. Just a World.
Get lost. Get killed by something you had no business fighting. Come back smarter — with a build you've never tried and friends you've dragged in with you.