A steel breastplate pierced by musket balls, hung by a campfire beside a wagon at night

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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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.

Every problem has three answers

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

A covered wagon with two horses in a farmyard at dusk

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 rumours, and your wagon decides how much you can carry.

A smithy with a glowing hearth, anvil and tools on the wall

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.

A dirt road between dry stone walls in the Catalan hills

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.

A ship on the slipway at a Barcelona shipyard

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 world map of Catalonia built from real terrain: mountains, rivers, roads and the coast

It begins with a fire

The prologue is told in six engravings: the night a stranger came for something Alvaro's father brought back from America.

A farmhouse at night with strange horses in the yard
Strange horses in the yard.
A father and a stranger in a black cloak talk by candlelight
A quiet voice downstairs.
A boy at a window, fire on the stairs behind him
Smoke on the stairs.
Peasants tending a wounded boy on a straw bed
Two weeks with strangers.
An old man on a mule arrives to take the boy
“From now on, your name is Alvaro.”
The old blacksmith teaches the grown boy at the anvil
Twelve years at the anvil.

The prototype today

Built in Godot and playable in English in any browser, phones included.

World map of Catalonia from real terrain, the wagon by the home village
The world map is real Catalonia: mountains block the road, the wagon goes around.
Vallromanes, Alvaro's village, with neighbors and stone walls
Vallromanes, Alvaro's village.
A street in Manresa with stone houses and tiled roofs
Manresa, built from the street plan that still stands.
The market square in Vic with stalls, a well and a notice board
Market day in Vic.
Alvaro breaks ore with a pickaxe in the Manresa pits, a progress bar over his head
Ore from the Manresa pits: an hour of work for a little ore. The money is in the forge.
The apothecary's table: healing draughts and tinctures that raise strength or luck for a while
The apothecary's table: brew what heals, or what lends you strength for a few hours.

Where it stands

  1. PrototypePlayable now in the browser.
  2. Steam pageComing at the end of 2026. Wishlist to follow the game.
  3. DemoSteam Next Fest, February 2027, in English.
  4. KickstarterAfter the demo, if you want the full island.