
Dive into a living medieval fantasy sandbox RPG where the world moves with or without you and factions rise and fall. Become a thief, hunter, or sellsword, survive alone or with a party, and shape your story in a fully enterable world where every building, cave, and road hides opportunity or danger.
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Dive into a living medieval fantasy sandbox RPG where the world lives and acts with or without you. Villagers follow routines, factions compete for power, dangers roam the land, and every decision can create opportunity or disaster.
Become a thief, hunter, or sellsword. Travel alone or build a party. Hunt, steal, trade, fight, and survive in a fully enterable world where every building, cave, and road can become part of your story.
No fake doors. No decorative cave entrances. If you can reach it, you can enter it.
Create the heroes of your journey. Customize each member of your party’s appearance, hairstyle, physique, and background story to make your mark on the world.
Every choice teaches you something. Earn experience through what you do and unlock skills that keep you alive. Go in loud with brutal weapons, or stay unseen, avoid fair fights, and end threats before they notice you.
The world won’t keep you safe; you’ll have to prepare. Stock up, craft gear, and choose how you live: settle in town by renting a house, or roam freely with camps you can set up between expeditions. Hunt, gather, and craft your loadout, then do whatever it takes to survive.
Valorborn is built around player-driven stories, not a single scripted path. Start small and survive however you can. Steal and sell stolen goods. Live off the wilderness and trade pelts for coin. Take contracts and hunt the dangers stalking roads, ruins, and settlements. Tip faction conflicts in your favor, exploit the chaos for profit, or stay out of politics and carve your own path. Your choices shape your identity, your reputation, and your future.
Living World Simulation
AI characters follow day and night routines, travel, work, and react to danger with or without your involvement.
Sandbox Roleplay
Choose your own path as a thief, hunter, sellsword, or forge your own way through the world.
Faction Tension and Conflict
Kingdoms, guilds, and local groups pursue power, survival, and influence across the region.
Fully Enterable World
Every building, cave, and point of interest is designed to be explored.
Survival Systems
Hunt, gather, manage resources, and prepare for long journeys through dangerous territory.
Stealth, Stealing, and Crime
Pick locks, steal valuables, and profit from risk while living with the consequences.
Camp and Progression Systems
Set up camps, prepare supplies, and build a stronger foothold as your story grows.
Solo or Party Play
Survive alone or build a group and shape multiple lives in the same world.
Permadeath
Death can wait behind every corner, but risk, loss, and adaptation are part of what make each run rewarding.
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Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Themes across 40 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
[b] Quoted: [/b] "We will keep working on it and improving it as long as we can provide for our families & have the chance to go at least once a year on vacation. 😂🫡" This game will be 100% be abandoned before a good product is released; please don't waste your money like I did. The developer has only one other game, that is also unfinished. I love Kenshi, but I regret supporting this game, and the developer.
Based on solid idea. But literally unplayable right now. So many bugs. Game breaking bugs.... Soul crushing bugs. For example you clear out a bandit camp for a quest, but the quest won't update itself after you kill everyone. It just get stuck. Any many more like these... Note for devs: Please work more on the building details. A furnace should be smoking out of the chimney and not closed out with stone.
Here's my review of the game: it's terrible and a waste of money. When you're creating your character, it seems like they have trouble standing upright. The running mechanic feels completely artificial and very strange. It also gives the impression that all the male characters are wearing eye makeup, and this can't be changed. The crouching mechanic is completely bugged; I ended up decimating an entire camp by assassinating one NPC after another. The perception system also needs improvement. Another issue is the trading system. You need to separate coins for purchases and even keep the merchant's coins separate if you want to sell something. This doesn't make much sense to me. The game had potential, but it needs a lot of work. The combat system isn't intelligent either. If you're in a group, everyone just lines up behind one another and attacks the same person. In Kenshi, the way you run, walk, and fight is much more fluid, and trading is simpler. I hope you read my review.
Slow updates post-launch. Not worth it yet.
broken game,glitchy,bugy,empty....early alfa at its best...dont buy for now
If I wanted tedious slow gameplay I would just play Kenshi, great trailer though. The bandit camp you clear just respawns bandits after game-save/some time in game. Every crafting technique from smithing, woodwork, to leather is cumbersome, UI management isn't what I was expecting going into this.
A buggy mess. Items keep disappearing. The smelter can't be accessed unless it is built on a slope (the foundation gets in the way). So why do I give a positive review? It looks promising, it can become a good game. But bug-fixes should be the top priority for the next 6 months, no more content before what you already have got is functional. I will leave now, and check back in 6 months time. This game needs a lot of work, but it is based on a sound idea.
Kenshi is a game released on the 31 March 2016. It is a fully complete simulation of a group of people not being the hero trying to survive un an unforgiving world. There are undead that are trying to kill you, there are factions that will brutally murder you. The game is not forgiving or fair and is a challenge to anyone who picks it up Valorborn wants to be Kenshi Valorborn is not Kenshi Valorborn may yet be Kenshi Valorborn is not Kenshi Valorborn is the wheat in the field that has yet to be grown by your population Kenshi is a seasoned sourdough, lovingly crafted and make you want to eat nothing else. As of this time, the choice is clear. Play Kenshi if you want to play Valorborn. Updated: 14/07/2026: Attempted to play this again to give it a good run and I really still cant recommend it.
Way off where it needs to be to emulate Kenshi, I find at the moment too much interaction is required, moving small amounts per click. Very much need to add map click auto travel, and the camera needs sorting out as it's not flexible enough, nor can zoom out enough. Also looking at the road map it seems your just looking to copy kenshi directly. Cannibals in a post apocalyptic world makes sense. Less so I think in this environment. I hope they add slavery however and do a better job of it than Kenshi did
The game is sucks as tutorial wise, performance and graphics is bad far as management you companion is terrible. you can NOT have you companion or whatever they call it to gathered the amount you need when have them gathered for example stone you only need 10 they gather 50 there is no set amount of resources they gather until inventory is full and they cant do nothing after that. moving around through the map is the tough part you be running around lost you do NOT know where you going is dark as hell no sign or fast travel. NPC is just bad as the game , the game need a lot of improvement far as graphics travel around the map and NPC and management also you can NOT removed a building or destroy it ones you build it you stuck with it . I understand the game in early access but is not playable at the moment at this stage wasting money and time.
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