Lay of the Land

Embark on a journey through a dangerous and mysterious world where fires spread and burn, sand collapses, water flows, and pockets of gas suffocate. Get a Lay of the Land, explore the world and use the environment to your advantage.

How will you survive? Will you use powerful melee weapons and armor to charge into combat? Maybe you like to keep your distance and strike from the shadows? Or will you use powerful spells and become a master of the arcane arts. The choice is yours.

Discover many distinct biomes filled with unique locations and wildlife. Explore overgrown ruins, or take on a deadly temple to find the treasure hidden within. Descend down winding caverns or ascend up jagged mountains to uncover the secrets just beyond the ridge.

Lay of the Land's procedural world generation uses a layered simulations to create interesting and natural landscapes giving each world a hand designed feel. Water will carve channels through valleys while roads wind their way through the terrain, organically connecting locations together.



Use the full power of a voxel based building system to build anything your heart desires. From humble cottages to majestic castles, bring your ideas to life using a variety of procedural tools and decorative elements.

Lay of the Land’s procedural shape system goes far beyond simple square walls and roofs. Effortlessly create circular structures with the cylinder tool and atop them with sloped roofs using the cone tool. Naturally raise/lower the terrain with terrain sculpting tools or construct paths by simply drawing directly onto the ground.

Enhance your creations with a wide variety of prefabs including windows, fences, slopes, and more. Design and create your own custom prefabs to quickly duplicate decorations or even entire structures with ease. Decorate with an assortment of furnishings such as tables, chairs, shelves and more.



Use the fully destructible world to your advantage in emergent encounters with a wide variety of bosses and monsters. Collapse the roof of a cave onto your foes, fell a tree to crush a dangerous monster or blast through a wall to get the drop on your enemies.

Wield a wide variety of powerful weapons as you battle and loot for new weapons and gear. Get up close and personal with an array of melee weapons, strike from afar with your arsenal of ranged armaments or master the arcane arts to unleash powerful spells upon your foes.



Lay of the Land features a physically based crafting and interaction system. Instead of relying solely on menus, items are physically placed and interacted with in the world. Want to make a basic axe? Lay sticks, rope, and flint on the ground and assemble them into a functional tool. Need to cook food? Simply place it into a campfire and let it cook.

Forge new weapons by smelting raw ore, crafting clay molds and casting metal parts. Upgrade your weapons to enhance attributes such as damage, durability, attack speed and more. Infuse them with special elemental effects including fire to burn enemies over time, ice to slow your targets or lightning to chain your attacks to nearby foes.