Echolon

Twelve winters ago the sky broke. Xalvorath, the World-Eater, devoured Vael – a world of singing crystal under two suns. Its Starborn fled on crystal arks, and only a few reached Earth. Now they roam the forests, mountains and craters of their stranded new home. You are a Keeper: you calm them with your lantern, win their trust and fight at their side.

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Wander four handcrafted pixel-art regions inspired by real landscapes – the dark firs of the Gloamwood, the alpine winter of Frostridge, the volcanic Ashmark and the star-glass crater of Starscar. Wild Starborn roam where you can see them. Walk up to one and fight a turn-based 3v3 battle: the tank draws fire, the attacker strikes, the healer plants life seeds. Shared types form resonances, and every team plays differently.

Every evolution is a metamorphosis. Each of the 139 Starborn families has its own design – an animal, a fantasy creature or an enchanted thing from its region. The bark kid grows into a root behemoth, the star foal into a winged star steed, the little armoured fish into a leviathan of the crater lakes. And every move fits the body: no wing strike without wings, no bite without jaws.

The caves of the Underworld play like a survivors-style action game. Your Starborn's moves fire on their own while you steer one of them through ever-growing hordes, pick a new power on every level-up, beat the guardian and escape through the portal before the cave collapses. Five difficulties up to Echo Chaos, ranked runs, group instances for 2–4 Keepers and a raid for up to 10.

One team, two worlds: every Starborn, talisman and piece of gear works in both – in turn-based battles above and in real-time caves below.

Chat, form groups, trade on the marketplace and found a Keeper Bond. Bonds meet in the Guild War – king of the hill on the Banner Peak. World events change the map every day, and the Wandering Colossus can only be beaten when 4 to 16 Keepers fight it together.

• 300+ Starborn in 14 types – evolve them, fuse them and awaken them at the end game
• 139 families, each with its own design – every evolution is a real metamorphosis, and every move fits the creature's body
• 385 moves, including a fusion art for every pair of types – each one works in turn-based battles and in the caves
• Turn-based 3v3 with roles (tank, attacker, healer), resonances, status effects and an optional auto-battle
• 18 survivor-style caves with run upgrades, runes, guardians, curses and leaderboards
• Chat, groups, trading, a marketplace, friends, duels and tournament seasons
• Keeper Bonds (guilds) and Guild War
• World events: star showers, brood incursions, weather fronts, echo rifts, glimmer swarms and the Wandering Colossus
• Six professions – mining, herbalism, fishing, smithing, alchemy, cooking – plus expeditions that run while you are offline
• Keeper talents, talismans your Starborn wear as visible accessories, gear, deeds, titles and 41 cosmetic mounts – each capital's stable sells its own, the rarest drop from world events or reward deeds
• Living towns with day and night, all in hand-tuned pixel art
• Keyboard, mouse, touch and gamepad – in English and German

Free to play. No loot boxes, no pay-to-win – anything ever sold will be purely cosmetic. The server decides every battle, roll and trade, so the game stays fair for everyone.

Controls

• Move: arrow keys / WASD (two keys = diagonal) or click
• Confirm / back: Z, E or Enter / X or Esc
• Menu: M · Map: N · Chat: T · Help & search: F1
• Touch controls and gamepads work out of the box; every key can be rebound

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Echolon is an independent project from Germany, made by armbru.