01 · Day
Scavenge. Stock the cart.
Cross the blight. Raid procedural ruins for salvage. Read the roads, dodge the hunters, carry home what the outposts will actually pay for.
- Raid the ruins
- Weigh the loot
- Stock the cart
A debt-driven roguelite
HAWKER
Thirty days. An impossible debt.
By day you scavenge the ruins and stock the cart. By night the shadows hunt. Thirty days to settle a debt to Death. Or end the creditor.
Early Access · September 2026 · PC
The Hawker
You are the Hawker.
The Duchy has Fallen.
And you still owe Death his due.
A century after the Fall, Ysward endures under blightstorms and the uneasy weight of supernatural debts. You are the sole survivor of an ambushed trade convoy, suspended between life and undeath by the enigmatic Ankou, who for reasons wholly his own requires a reliable revenue stream.
Rebuild your caravan in the bone-dry labyrinth of Gwiravon. Scavenge the ruins. Sell to the survivors. Wrestle with the strange darkness awakening in your blood. Thirty days to pay the debt. Or end the creditor.
0Days to Pay
0Biomes
∞Ways to Fall
One day. Two lives.
02 · Night
Trade. Survive. Repeat.
Open the shop. Read the buyer. Price the rare. Then close the shutters, because the shadow that owns you wakes when the sun drops, and it is not the only thing out there.
- Open the shop
- Price the rare
- Hold the line
How You Play
The Loop
01
Prepare
Plan or Perish
Consult the dead, study the blightstorm patterns, and manage your caravan upgrades. Every dawn is a decision.
02
Scavenge
The World is Your Market
Fight through procedurally-generated ruins and cursed wilds. Salvage what Ysward's survivors need most. And what Ankou's hunters desire least.
03
Survive
Night Belongs to Something Else
As darkness falls, your shadow powers surge. And so does the danger. Push your luck, or return to camp with your haul intact.
04
Hawk
Open for Business
Set up shop at your caravan, read your customers, price your goods, and fill the special requests that can turn the tide of your debt.
What Sets HAWKER Apart
Key Features
Emergent Combat
ICore Mechanic
Light & Shadow
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Your body was touched by the Ankou's dark bargain. In shadow, you are something more than mortal: abilities surge, reflexes sharpen, and the darkness obeys. Step into the light, and you are only flesh again. Every fight, every biome, every choice becomes a dance between illumination and entropy.
Shop Keeper Systems
IIThe Shop
Your Mobile Caravan
Set up. Read the room.
Your caravan rolls between the outposts of Ysward, and at each one your trade starts over from a rug on the dirt. Upgrade your stalls. Read each market. Stock what sells. Miss it, and the debt keeps growing.
Procedural Generation
IIIThe World
A World Reborn
The storm reshapes everything.
The blightstorm rolls through Ysward on its own relentless clock, reshaping the procedural landscape entirely. New ruins, new paths, new dangers. And new salvage. The world never gives you the same challenge twice, but you always get thirty days to solve it.
Dynamic Narrative
IVStorytelling
A Debt with Consequences
Every choice is remembered.
Every NPC has memory. Every choice ripples through the dynamic narrative, built on a fully-branching Ink architecture. Miss a payment and expect the hunters. Earn favour and unlock secrets about Ankou, about the Fall, about what you really are.
From the Studio
From the Blog
Blog25 Apr 2026
Light and shadow, in one fight
Our combat inverts at night. Here's what that actually means inside one minute of play, told in the order it happens.
Michael · 5 min readRead
Blog24 Apr 2026
What HAWKER is, in plain language
The pitch I give my mum, my friends, and the bloke at the local who asks what we're working on. No marketing voice. No genre fog.
Michael · 4 min readRead
Blog22 Apr 2026
Why thirty days
On the design choice that almost killed the project, why we kept it, and what a clock does to a roguelite that permadeath doesn't.
Michael · 6 min readRead
Frequently Asked
- HAWKER is a debt-driven roguelite. By day you scavenge procedurally-generated ruins and stock a mobile caravan. By night the shadows hunt, and your own shadow powers surge. You have thirty in-game days to trade your way out of a supernatural debt to Death — or end the creditor.
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Talk to the team.
Daily-ish dev chat, early looks, playtest invites, bug reports nobody asked for. Three of us answer when we can.
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One email at launch.
Major milestones. Demo windows. The release. No weekly anything.
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