Roboto Games put Stormforge into Steam Early Access on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, and it holds the whole Friday crew: one to eight players, online or over LAN. It is a fantasy survival crafting game on PC, priced at $19.99, with a 15% launch discount that takes it to $16.99. The store page says nothing about dedicated servers or crossplay, and those are the two questions I would want answered before the poll goes out.
The setting is the Islands of Sorana, a procedurally generated world torn up by magical storms. Each storm is its own open-world dungeon, guarded by tornadoes that hunt the player, plus lightning strikes, toxic clouds and fire spurts. Break the crystal at its heart and the storm clears, which unlocks loot and the next challenge, on land or across the ocean.
What a chaos storm does to base defence
The other kind of storm is the group’s problem. Large chaos storms sweep across the whole map, and Roboto says players will need a magic shield to protect their base. In Enshrouded, the danger is a place: the Shroud is a fog you walk into on a timer and walk back out of. Stormforge makes the danger a place that moves, and it moves toward the house. That gives the base a job beyond storage, and it gives somebody on the crew a reason to stay home while the rest go storm-chasing.
Early Access opens with three biomes (Whispering Vale, Howling Woods and Ember Canyons), three bosses, and more than 100 skills to mix into a build. There are five classes: Warrior, Ranger, Mage, Forager and Villager. That last one is either a joke or the most honest support role in the genre. Modding works from day one, too. A built-in level editor publishes to Steam Workshop, so a group can trade custom places, gear, enemies and rules.
"Early Access marks the beginning of our journey," says Mathilde Pignol, co-founder and chief creative officer at Roboto Games. The beginning, she says, after a year and a half of playtests and a demo. The Steam page puts the rest at about a year, with a mountain biome, a boss, new storm types and new classes on the road to 1.0. It also warns of "a modest price increase" at 1.0, so the group that buys in now pays less.
Roboto describes itself as a small studio of industry veterans whose goal is games that are good alone and great together. Eight slots is a confident way to test the second half. (Adds Stormforge to the Friday poll.) Hold the vote until Roboto says who hosts the storms.
