Forgotten Eras - Demo
A downloadable game for Windows
Ivan wakes with no memory in a kingdom that is losing its own. Shamans have broken the sealed book of runic magic, mist is creeping over the villages, and the Grey Wolf is bound to him by a pact older than the ruins he walks through. Reach the hut of Baba Yaga and you find out what the runes cost.
Play the demo
The demo is free and runs on Windows. The download here is the tech demo build on Google Drive. Take the whole folder and run ForgottenEras.exe without moving the files out of it. The same demo is on Steam: Forgotten Eras on Steam.
Rewrite the story with Morana
Destiny is not fixed here. Ivan is guided by gods and followed by spirits, and every choice moves the forest closer to healing or to a winter that never ends. Morana is the goddess of that winter. She is not seen, only felt, and her influence spreads as frozen roots and frost-bitten air the deeper Ivan goes.
Move fast, land clean
Leap across ruins, climb cursed trees, swing past enchanted traps. The side-scrolling plane rotates through 90 and 180 degrees inside a full 3D world, so a corridor you already cleared can turn into the wall you have to climb.
Fight your own way
The sword Kladenets up close, the bow at range, or the Grey Wolf beside you. Runic powers change what each of those does against witches, spirits and beasts out of folklore.
Face the old ones
Domovoy was the gentle protector of hearth and home before the mist got into him. He now guards a ruined cemetery with a cursed broom and a flickering lantern, and he is your first real boss. Leshy owns the trees. Baba Yaga is not simply evil: she is balance turned chaotic, and she knows what the rune of Veles really did to Ivan and the wolf.
Handcrafted, not generated
Animation drawn frame by frame. Environments painted by hand, concept through to final. Music recorded by a live orchestra in a room rather than assembled from a library. No generative AI in the art, the animation, the writing or the sound, and that is the reason the project exists in this shape.
Status
In development at Behind the Hump, a studio in Larissa, Greece, with about 40 people working remotely. Built in Unreal Engine 5, aiming at a February 2027 launch. Everything shown here comes from work in progress builds: visuals and mechanics are not final.
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Currently, we are reworking the whole game :)