Build beyond a class
Choose a class and lineage, then keep shaping your character through Mastery, skills, equipment, and profession choices.
A multiplayer RPG working toward MMO scale
Build a character in the world its makers left behind.
Makers' Wake is working toward MMO scale. Start with a class and lineage, then shape what you can do through Mastery, skills, equipment, profession, and discovery.
- Phase
- Pre-alpha
- Platform
- Windows
- Current target
- Levels 1–10
Build more than a class
A character shaped by the choices you keep making.
Class and lineage are the beginning. Mastery, skills, equipment, professions, and the things you discover keep opening new ways to contribute—in a fight, on the road, and among other players.
Have a life beyond combat
Gather, craft, trade, explore, and become useful to other players in ways that do not begin and end with damage.
Make your name slowly
Travel a dangerous shared world where preparation matters, unusual discoveries stay memorable, and people can come to know one another.
Your class is a starting point
Choose what kind of capable you become.
Mastery gives each class three directions to explore. Commit deeply, combine them, or let equipment and learned skills pull your character somewhere unexpected.
A life beyond combat
What you know and make should matter.
Gather resources, learn a profession, trade, and prepare for the road. The early build proves the first pieces; the long-term goal is a world where useful specialists are as recognizable as accomplished fighters.
The complete current roster
15 classes with a point of view.
Each begins with its own combat spine and opens into distinct Mastery disciplines. Scroll through the whole roster, then open the class guide for more.
All 15 classes
Pressure · Sympathy · Transference
Conduit
A phase caster who turns offensive pressure into life-saving force.
Blight · Siphon · Dread
Defiler
A wielder of decay, fear, and stolen power.
Binder · Incarnate · Mender
Echocaller
A memory-binder who summons embodied echoes or wields a remembered presence as conjured arms.
Acclaim · Censure · Legacy
Herald
A battlefield proclaimer who turns decisive words into power for the whole group.
Dominion · Clarity · Correction
Lorekeeper
A master controller who dictates the pace of battle.
Pugilist · Wind · Harmony
Monk
A disciplined martial artist who turns precision and motion into offense or healing.
Bone · Legion · Doom
Necromancer
A death-worker who commands the dead and weaponizes fallen remains.
Bonded · Wildform · Regrowth
Primal
A wild guardian who chooses beast bond, animal shape, or restorative growth.
Arsenal · Juggernaut · Warcry
Reaver
A weapon master who turns punishment into momentum.
Triage · Aegis · Suppression
Restorer
A dedicated healer who rescues allies and prevents incoming harm.
Assassin · Phantom · Saboteur
Shade
A melee infiltrator who strikes from openings and dismantles priority targets.
Awakener · Artifice · Colossus
Shaper
A golem sculptor who commands and reshapes one awakened creation.
Bulwark · Mercy · Forsworn
Warden
An armored oath-knight who protects, restores, or wields broken vows.
Deadeye · Trailblazer · Trapper
Wayfinder
A patient bow scout who commands distance, movement, and prepared ground.
Catalyst · Stasis · Prism
Weaver
A battlefield mage who combines flame, frost, and arcane power.
Familiar roads. Stranger depths.
Life continued after the makers left.
Centuries after the world's makers departed, towns still work, roads still need guarding, and people still find ordinary reasons for joy. Beyond those warm places, reality has begun to fail in small and unsettling ways.
You are not a chosen savior. You are one more person trying to make a name, earn trust, and understand what the makers left behind.
“A world with weight: worn stone, useful work, dangerous roads, and rare wonders.”
Development manifesto
A world worth returning to should not make attendance a job.
Makers' Wake is being built for lasting characters, grounded travel, useful specialists, and progress that opens outward instead of erasing what came before.
What we are testing now
The first ten levels, built to be played together.
The current target follows the road through Rimwatch, establishes an early character build, and ends in Salvager's Cache for the first dungeon test.
Open playtest
Read the full development statusFrom development
Latest notes
Introducing Makers' Wake
The game has a public name. Here is what Makers' Wake means, and the kind of world we are building beneath it.
Read noteWhat the first playtest is meant to prove
The first open playtest has a deliberately narrow job: make the road from level 1 to the first dungeon worth playing together.
Read noteBuilding a life beyond combat
Combat is one part of a character's story. Craft, trade, travel, and useful knowledge should matter too.
Read noteThe first playable road
The playtest is open to everyone.
The download page is the permanent home for the launcher and the current playtest build. Install once, then let the launcher keep the game up to date.
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