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CADLE

The Sundered Vale

Ten regions. One broken sky. Whatever the Sundering left behind is still out there, and it is still hungry.

Play NowDesktop only

Free. No download, no account, no launcher. It starts in this tab.

Not available on mobile yet - Cadle needs a mouse and a keyboard. Open cadle.gg on a desktop to play.

10Regions
65Quests
25Creatures
8Weapon types
1-50Levels

The Sundering

The sky came apart over the Vale, and what poured through it did not leave. It settled. It learned the shape of the world and started wearing it.

- the only line of it anyone wrote down

You start in the Vale: a green bowl inside a mountain wall, with an waystone burning in the middle of it and something already circling the ruins on the far side. Nine other places press up against its edges - a forest that closed over itself, a tundra that buried one, a caldera that is still burning, an abyss with shelves you can stand on.

Each has its own creatures, its own weather, its own music and its own way back through the mountains. Nothing here is a menu entry. If you can see it you can walk to it, and the walk is most of the point.

What you do

Shoot things. Take their stuff. Go somewhere worse.

Eight archetypes, and they do not feel alike

Hand cannon, auto rifle, pulse, scout, shotgun, sniper, fusion and beam - each with its own recoil pattern, its own aim-down-sights snap and its own reason to exist. You start with the Dawnbreak Verdict and the Stormwright, and find the rest out there.

Every shot, reload and impact is generated in code. There is not one recorded gun in the build, and it still hits like one.

Kinetic
Arc
Solar
Void
Stasis
Strand

Dawnbreak Verdict, a hand cannon — Dawnbreak VerdictHand cannon

Stormwright, an auto rifle — StormwrightAuto rifle

Hollow Crown Cantor, a shotgun — Hollow Crown CantorShotgun

Aetherlance, a sniper rifle — AetherlanceSniper

Coil of Halone, a fusion rifle — Coil of HaloneFusion

Rimecaller, a beam rifle — RimecallerBeam

Triune Litany, a pulse rifle — Triune LitanyPulse

Pale Verse, a scout rifle — Pale VerseScout

Dawnbreak Verdict, hand cannon

Stormwright, auto rifle

Triune Litany, pulse

Pale Verse, scout

Hollow Crown Cantor, shotgun

Aetherlance, sniper

Coil of Halone, fusion

Rimecaller, beam

Three buttons that change the fight

Aether Orb lobs, sticks and leaves a sigil burning on the ground for anything that walks back through it. Arc Strike lunges and puts a shockwave out around you. Grapple Hook takes any piece of scenery under your crosshair and flings you past it - over the fight, behind the fight, or straight out of it.

All three are on their own cooldowns, and all three are worth spending before you need them rather than after.

G · 25 s
F · 15 s
Q · 20 s

Aether Orb

Momentum is the point

Sprint with a FOV kick, slide out of it and keep the speed, double jump with real air control, land with a dip that costs you nothing, and grapple anything you can see. The whole traversal loop is built so that the player who never stops moving is the player going fastest.

Two kilometres square, no loading screens between regions, no fast travel required.

W A S D
Shift · sprint
Space · double jump
Ctrl · slide

The Vale

Five tiers, and a floor under the bad luck

Common through exotic, off anything you kill and anything you open. Droughts have a hard ceiling - the game counts how long it has been and eventually stops asking. Three currencies, a skill tree, sixty-five written quests and fifty levels of it.

Glimmer
Emberdust
Relic shards

Drop

The world

Ten regions, one broken sky.

1-10

Meadow, lake and ruins

Aether Hounds · Stone Golems · the Warden of the Spire

The Vale1-10

Whisperwood Deep5-11

Frostveil Tundra11-17

Shadowfen15-22

Infernal Wastes18-25

The Sunken Kingdom20-28

Dragon Peaks24-32

Celestial Isles30-38

The Void34-44

The Lost Realm40-50

Drag, or use the arrow keys

The bestiary

Twenty-five things live out here.

They hunt, they flock, they dive on you and they slam. Every region has its own, and the further out you go the less they care how many of you there are.

The ValeAether Wisps, Aether Hounds, Stone Golems, Ember Drakes
WhisperwoodWood Sprites, Elder Treants
FrostveilFrostveil Wolves, Frostveil Giants
ShadowfenFen Wraiths, Bog Witches
Infernal WastesCinder Imps, Magma Golems
Sunken KingdomDrowned Courtiers, the Court Leviathan
Dragon PeaksPeak Wyverns, Kharaz Forgeknights
Celestial IslesEmpyrean Seraphs, Sky Serpents
The VoidRiftlings, Void Horrors
EverywhereRaiders, and whoever is leading them

Two of them are not creatures, they are appointments. The Warden of the Spire has been standing in the ruins across the meadow since before you got here. The Archon of the Convergence is at the far end of everything, at level fifty, and it is the reason the sky is like that.

In engine

All of this is the game running.

Screenshots from the live build at 1080p. No concept art, no cinematics, nothing you will not see for yourself in about a minute.

The Vale is waiting.

Press the button, count to fifteen, and you are standing in it.

It needs a mouse and a keyboard, so not from this phone - open cadle.gg on a desktop and the Vale is fifteen seconds away.

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