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Begin Your Story — $24

Craft. Explore. Unearth.

An uncompromising survival sandbox where every tool is earned, every season matters, and ancient mysteries wait beneath the surface.

Begin Your Story — $24

Held to High Standards

The values that guide every decision behind Vintage Story.

Fair & Independent

No loot boxes. No microtransactions. No paid DLC. No ads. No publisher. No NFTs. No empty promises. Just an honest game.

Handmade

Powered by a custom cross-platform engine. Low hardware requirements. 100% indie — every decision is made by the team that builds the game.

Social

An active community across forums, Discord, and the wiki. Direct contact with the developers. Multiplayer with built-in anti-grief mechanics.

Open

Built for modding from day one. Readable source license. Open-source modelling and animation tools. 6,000+ mods and growing.

Crafting and metalworking in Vintage Story
Progression

Progress Through Multiple Ages

Start empty-handed in the stone age. Learn to survive by foraging, hunting, crafting, and fighting. Smelt copper, create bronze alloys, learn to work iron, and ultimately reach the steel age. Every breakthrough is earned.

Ancient underground ruins in Vintage Story
Lore

A Wicked Universe

Take on the role of a lost being and discover the remnants of a fallen civilization. Encounter wayward creatures, find old stories, battle temporal instability, and endure temporal storms. The answers lie beneath.

Vast procedurally generated landscapes
World

One Million Square Kilometers

A vast open world populated by cute, strange, dangerous, and horrifying creatures. Immensely diverse landscapes, climate conditions, and geological features keep exploration fresh and exciting.

Realistic world simulation with seasons and weather
Simulation

Unreal World Simulation

Ten years of continuous development. The engine fully simulates seasons, soil fertility, rock strata, weather patterns, rainfall, snow accumulation, food spoilage, body temperature, farming, block physics, and more.

Multiple playstyles and customization
Freedom

Not Just Hardcore

Multiple playstyles and a huge amount of customization. Choose a creative experience, a peaceful world, balanced survival, hardcore wilderness, or quite literally anything in between. Your world, your rules.

Nature-inspired world and mechanics
Nature

Inspired by the Real World

Heavily inspired by natural processes and brought into the game in a fun, enjoyable way. The aim is to capture the beauty of the natural world and amplify the experience within every detail of the game.

Devlog

Actively developed, transparently shared

Release March 10, 2025

1.22.0-rc.2 — Fishing, Mechanisms, Metalworking and More

Bug fixes and polishing for the biggest content update yet.

Release March 7, 2025

1.22.0-rc.1 — Fishing, Mechanisms, Metalworking and More

Release candidate for possibly the largest update ever made in terms of game content.

Release February 5, 2025

1.22.0-pre.1 — Fishing, Mechanisms, Metalworking and More

Preview of new fishing, forge rework, quenching, grinding wheels, and mechanical power.

Milestone February 1, 2025

Celebrating 10 Years of Vintage Story

A decade of crafting, exploring, and building — together with the community.

Release December 13, 2024

v1.21.6 — Story Chapter 2 Redux

Maintenance patch with Story Chapter 2 improvements and bug fixes.

Release November 29, 2024

v1.21.6-rc.1 — Story Chapter 2 Redux

Release candidate for the second maintenance patch of the 1.21 series.

Read the full devlog →

6,000+ mods. Active forums.
A wiki that actually helps.

Expanded Foods

Expanded Foods

New cooking recipes, ingredients, and food preservation mechanics for the dedicated homesteader.

↓ 245K downloads · Updated recently
Better Ruins

Better Ruins

Handcrafted ruins and structures scattered across the world — every expedition reveals something new.

↓ 198K downloads · Updated recently
Primitive Survival

Primitive Survival

Fishing, traps, snares, and primitive tools. Expand the early game with authentic survival mechanics.

↓ 180K downloads · Updated recently
On a completely different level from any survival game I've ever played.
— Community review, vintagestory.at
The crafting system alone is worth the price. Everything else is a bonus.
— Community review, vintagestory.at
It doesn't hold your hand. It trusts you to figure things out. And that trust makes every discovery feel real.
— Community review, vintagestory.at

Your world is waiting.

No subscriptions. No microtransactions. All future updates included.