In-game title scene: a galleon burns at night while the armored hero and his dog watch from a wooden pier

Catalonia, 1690Powder & Steel

Steel is ending. Powder is coming.

A Fallout-style RPG about the last years of the sword. Trade, forge and fight across Catalonia to find the man who raised you, and the island where he is held.

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Trailer

Gameplay recorded in the current build.

The last years of the sword

Alvaro was raised by a blacksmith who taught him three things: how to forge, how to count money and how to fight with a blade. He comes of age just as the world stops listening to blades.

Ten days ago his grandfather Xavier rode out to meet an old friend and never came back. The people asking about him work for a cardinal. The trail runs through taverns, toll gates, bandit camps and a smugglers' guild, and ends at sea, on an island no ship is allowed to reach.

A breastplate was tested with a pistol shot. If the ball left only a dent, the dent became the armorer's mark of quality. That is where the word “bulletproof” comes from. In this game you will forge that breastplate, then watch a musket ball go through it.

Sword, money or hammer

Each step of the story can be solved by the sword, by money or by the hammer. None of them is a dead end.

In-game wagon screen: a covered wagon with a team of four horses

Trade

Twenty-three goods and ten towns that need different things. Buy salt in Tarragona, sell it in Vic. Prices move with supply, war and rumors, and your wagon decides how much you can carry.

In-game smithy screen: smelting iron from ore and charcoal, with the gunsmith

Forge

Buy blueprints, gather iron and coal, and make your own rapier and breastplate in your grandfather's workshop. Better steel is still steel: it slows a ball, it does not stop it.

In-game fight: plate armor and a musket against soldiers, smoke from a shot

Fight

Real-time battles you can pause at any moment. A rapier reaches one step, a musket reaches across the field but takes long to reload. Hire up to five companions, each with a past and a reason to leave you.

In-game port of Barcelona with a ship at the pier

Reach the island

Sea traffic to Mallorca is closed by order of the cardinal. Buy a ship, build one at the Barcelona yard, or win one as a prize at the royal tournament.

One country, walked on foot

The map is Catalonia as it was in 1690: a war with France in its second year, a dying king in Madrid, and every town arguing about what comes next.

  • Barcelona
  • Manresa
  • Vic
  • Girona
  • Tarragona
  • Lleida
  • Figueres
  • Olot
  • Puigcerdà
  • La Seu d'Urgell
In-game 3D world map of Catalonia near Manresa: rivers, roads and hills from real terrain

It begins with a fire

The game opens with a short film made in the engine: the night a stranger came for something Alvaro's father brought back from America.

A two-story farmhouse at night with strange horses in the yard
Strange horses in the yard.
The father at a candlelit table facing armed visitors
A quiet voice downstairs.
A boy sits awake on his bed in a dark room upstairs
The boy upstairs hears every word.
A soldier in a morion helmet by a stone wall
The visitors did not come alone.
A fight breaks out in the main room by the stairs
The father fights back.
The farmhouse burning at night
By morning there is no house.

The game today

Shots from the current build, made in Godot. The demo comes to Steam Next Fest in February 2027.

A musket fight on a mountain pass, smoke from the shot
Royal armor and a musket against soldiers on a mountain pass.
Alvaro with a pitchfork against three wolves in a field
The first fight: a pitchfork, a shirt and three wolves.
The character creation screen with attributes, skills and traits
Build your hero: attributes, skills, traits and later perks.
The inventory with Alvaro in full royal plate armor
Every piece of gear shows on the figure, from a shirt to royal plate.
The wagon screen with a covered wagon and four horses
Your wagon grows from a farm cart to a convoy with a team of four.
The Barcelona market screen with goods, prices and the trader
Markets with their own goods and needs. Buy cheap, sell where it is wanted.
The smithy screen: smelting iron, with the gunsmith
Forge your own iron, blades and armor.
The 3D world map of Catalonia with the wagon near Manresa
The world map is real Catalonia: mountains, rivers and roads.
A street in Manresa with stone houses and tiled roofs
Manresa, built from the street plan that still stands.
The port of Barcelona with a ship at the pier
The port of Barcelona, where every ship to the island is watched.
A conversation with Francisco Pujades, with answer choices
Conversations where the wrong word costs a friend or a clue.
Maria, a young woman in a red bodice, in a village street
Maria, who is looking for her own father.

Where it stands

  1. PrototypeIn closed testing: browser, Mac and iPhone.
  2. Steam pageBeing prepared now. Wishlists open with it.
  3. DemoSteam Next Fest, February 2027, in English.
  4. KickstarterAfter the demo, if you want the full island.