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The Game

Gravemarch

A dark fantasy game about the duty of carrying the dead.

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The road is long and the dead are heavy.

The plague took the burial grounds first. Now every corpse in the north must be walked south to consecrated earth, and someone has to walk them. You are a Marchwarden: hired, distrusted, and paid in whatever the village can spare.

Gravemarch is a game of slow travel through a country in mourning. You will ration lantern oil, negotiate with priests who no longer believe, and decide which bodies make the journey when the cart is too full. The land does not forget the choices you make on it.

There are no heroes here. There is only the procession, the dark between towns, and the work of getting the dead where they are owed.

Gameplay pillars

How Gravemarch plays

Gameplay pillars

  • The Procession

    You never travel alone. Mourners, coffins and obligations follow you across every mile. Their pace is your pace.

  • Lantern Discipline

    Light reveals the road and reveals you. Douse the flame and the world turns honest, and far less forgiving.

  • Rites, Not Menus

    Healing, binding and warding are performed as rituals in the world. Every one of them costs you time you may not have.

  • Land That Remembers

    Villages record what you did on the way through. Come back later and find the consequences standing in the road.

  • Weight and Consequence

    Combat is slow, committed and legible. A single swing decides more than a dozen ever should.

  • A Country in Mourning

    Six regions, each with its own burial law. Break one and the next village will already know.

Gallery

Scenes from the march

Release

Status
Coming soon
Platforms
PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S
Players
Single player
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Technical

System requirements

System requirements

Minimum · 1080p / 30fps

OS
Windows 10 64-bit
Processor
Intel i5-8400 / Ryzen 5 2600
Memory
8 GB RAM
Graphics
GTX 1060 6GB / RX 580 8GB
Storage
40 GB SSD

Recommended · 1440p / 60fps

OS
Windows 11 64-bit
Processor
Intel i7-11700 / Ryzen 7 5800X
Memory
16 GB RAM
Graphics
RTX 3070 / RX 6800
Storage
40 GB NVMe SSD

Targets are provisional and will be confirmed closer to release.

Questions

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Frequently asked questions

  • No date yet. It ships when it is finished and not one week before. Wishlist on Steam to hear first.