Bellwright News

Thank you to everyone that tried out our Bellwright demo during Next Fest!

It was an exciting week for our team, especially seeing just how many of you decided to try our demo. We were blown away to learn that Bellwright ended up being the 4th on the list of Daily Active Demo Players on the Fest (shoutout to Warhaven, Lies of P, and Norland!), and we can’t wait for you to see more!

We’re still going through all of your feedback and encourage anyone who has more to say to please leave it for us to read on the forums! We’d love to hear what else you’d like to see in the game, what you particularly did or did not enjoy, and any kind of suggestions you might have.

Getting to watch your streams and videos was very special to us, as it's our first time seeing anyone outside the dev team walk through Karvenia, and we especially appreciate everyone that took the time to share their thoughts on the game while playing. Special shoutout to tkm_Ferdnand for spending almost 3 in-game months in the Lowlands, while building the absolute biggest camp we’ve ever seen and ending up with such a massive army that poor brigands were squirming when it marched.

There’s quite a bit of work ahead of us, and plenty of things to add, improve, and fix. Truth be told, we hadn’t initially planned on making a demo before the release, so the version of the game you’ve played was more of a spontaneous beta test than an extremely polished slice of the full game. It goes without saying that you should expect huge improvements in every aspect of the game by the time Bellwright is out, including general stability, variety of localization options, professional voice over, intuitive UI, and improved performance to name a few things you've mentioned.

There’s also a massive amount of content you haven’t seen yet that we’re working on for release: full-fledged warfare and rebellion, allowing you to march your armies against the oppressive kingdom, liberating villages and protecting your territories by building fortified town defenses or even whole fortresses, new massive regions with their own unique looks and feel, full of exciting places to explore and fight over, town progression going all the way from a small camp to a prosperous medieval city, and much more. Not to mention all the ideas we’ve collected so far from your feedback that we’ve already discussed and planned out.

It’s been wonderful to see so many of you enjoy the game, even in such an early state that it’s in. We can’t wait to share more about our plans with you, so if you'd like to stay up to date with the news about Bellwright, make sure to wishlist and keep an eye on the Steam announcements for what’s coming next!

[h3]Welcome to the Bellwright Demo[/h3]

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.


Bellwright Demo features the beginning of the hero's story, just as you return to your homeland, where your journey starts. Establish and grow your own village, help others and recruit them to your cause, command your army and fight in epic battles. All of this and much more is available in the demo, where you're free to explore an entire region of the kingdom of Karvenia, discovering countless quests, enemies, treasures, and other secrets within it.

You’ve come to the region of Lowlands with a goal in mind, but the people consider you an outsider, and you have to earn their trust before they’re willing to help you with information, assistance, or both. With a camp set up and next to nothing to your name, you’ll venture out and soon find yourself developing and strengthening relationships with villages and their inhabitants by helping them with various tasks and defeating bandits that plague the land.

As you establish yourself as a trustworthy figure among the people of the Lowlands, you’ll be able to grow your camp into a village of your own and manage your settlers and the resources they’ve gathered. Engage in combat solo or with a few of your settlers to take on enemies that have taken up residence in the Lowlands, eventually building up strength and numbers to have your own army to command.



The demo will be available during the Steam Next Fest from June 19th to June 26th.


We'd love to hear what you think about our demo, as we continue to tirelessly work on Bellwright.

Make sure to wishlist to get the news on the game and be the first to hear when we announce the release date and other exciting events!

Thank you for playing Bellwright Demo! We've been collecting your feedback during the week and released an update that should solve most of the critical issues you've reported. Other things, like performance issues on some hardware, is something that we're actively working on and will be addressed before the release. Make sure to wishlist the game not to miss the announcement!

[h3]Gameplay[/h3]

• Fixed raids sometimes getting stuck on new and existing saves.
  
• Improved conditions for new raids to start.
  
• Decreased damage to humans from arrows.
  
• Fixed not being able to mine Iron.
  
• Fixed some of the loot in camps not being reachable.
  
• Added durability damage when using Shovel.
  
• Changed farming interaction from F to LMB.
  
• Fixed and improved Wolf behavior in combat.
  
• Fixed character teleporting too far when stuck in construction.
  
• Allowed to harvest Mud inside neutral villages.
  

[h3]Quests[/h3]

• Removed Mint from quest objectives.
  
• Fixed Drying Rack unlock quest needed for Rawhide being unreachable; requires new game.
  
• Fixed quests that require to bring coins.
  

[h3]NPCs[/h3]

• Fixed NPCs walking into ruins in Haerndean village.
  
• Fixed workers not being able to use buildings with blocked access points.
  

[h3]Sounds[/h3]

• Fixed volume of footsteps being too low.
  
• Adjusted dynamic audio mix of UI sounds.
  
• Fixed blocking SFX sometimes not playing.
  
• Improved bow shooting and arrow sounds.
  

[h3]User Interface[/h3]

• Disabled left-clicking items dropping them from inventory.
  
• Fixed visual display of new codex entry popups.
  
• Fixed details text wrapping on Codex screen.
  
• Improved codex entry and description of Knowledge Books to explain how they work better.
  
• Added specific reasons for errors in town management; which exact tool is missing, etc.
  
• Added a codex entry for explaining death mechanics.
  
• Added an icon for Construction Stockpile when building to mark its location.
  
• Made main quest talk options visually stand out in dialogues.
  
• Added hints for adding orders and worker assignment in town management.
  
• Made save screen more intuitive to use.
  
• Added notification when new NPC joins your settlement.
  
• Renamed "Item Generation" structures to "Farming".
  
• Fixed randomization in character creation not updating initial equipment.
  

[h3]Stability[/h3]

• Fixed crash when NPC is trying to block without a weapon.
  
• Fixed crash when bandits attack neutral villagers.
  
• Fixed crash when workers start a new delivery job.
  
• Fixed crash when forager tries to harvest with weapon and shield equipped.
  
• Fixed crash when interactable object isn't loaded properly.
  
• Fixed crash when a new NPC starts foraging job.
  
• Fixed crash when completing some of the quests with bringing items.
  
• Fixed crash when objects load without settlement assignment.
  
• Fixed crash when player is killed during some of the quests.
  

[h3]Welcome to the Bellwright Demo[/h3]

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.


Bellwright Demo features the beginning of the hero's story, just as you return to your homeland, where your journey starts. Establish and grow your own village, help others and recruit them to your cause, command your army and fight in epic battles. All of this and much more is available in the demo, where you're free to explore an entire region of the kingdom of Karvenia, discovering countless quests, enemies, treasures, and other secrets within it.

You’ve come to the region of Lowlands with a goal in mind, but the people consider you an outsider, and you have to earn their trust before they’re willing to help you with information, assistance, or both. With a camp set up and next to nothing to your name, you’ll venture out and soon find yourself developing and strengthening relationships with villages and their inhabitants by helping them with various tasks and defeating bandits that plague the land.

As you establish yourself as a trustworthy figure among the people of the Lowlands, you’ll be able to grow your camp into a village of your own and manage your settlers and the resources they’ve gathered. Engage in combat solo or with a few of your settlers to take on enemies that have taken up residence in the Lowlands, eventually building up strength and numbers to have your own army to command.



The demo will be available during the Steam Next Fest from June 19th to June 26th.


We'd love to hear what you think about our demo, as we continue to tirelessly work on Bellwright.

Make sure to wishlist to get the news on the game and be the first to hear when we announce the release date and other exciting events!