Free alpha · macOS and Windows
From base camp to the volcano
Althar is an online role-playing game. You play a dwarf or an orc, learn trades, go down into dungeons, and the villages go about their day around you.
Version 0.1.32, 15 November 2026 · see what’s new
The world
From the plain to the ash lands
Everything starts at base camp, at level 1. Around it, each region has its own terrain, weather, villages and beasts, out to the ash lands and the Dune Harbour, where monsters reach level 100.
Great Plain
A halt on the road, the Strongfarm and its warren, bison at the ford.
Ancient forest
Old firs over the paths, moss, shafts of sunlight, and goblin dens.
Taiga
A village held by five watchtowers, and tents of stitched hides.
Snowy north
Fjords, a frozen lake, and Rimesmelt, whose forges glow red at night.
Great dwarf mine
Behind the great dwarf gate, a city under the mountain, with its inn and its great forge.
Ash lands
A volcano, the ash post, a hermit, and the Maw, the dungeon for levels 90 to 100.
Desert
The Three Wells oasis, its souk and its three hamlets; further east, the Ancients’ Pyramid.
Dune Harbour
The harbour works from morning to night: sacks between quay and boats, fish on the drying racks.
Elsewhere on the map: the west coast and its islets, the grey marches, the east coast of the desert, and Willowbridge on its river.
Trades
Eleven trades, and a market run by players
Each trade levels up on its own, and some quests ask for one. Merchants buy nothing: what you make, you sell to other players, at the auction house or from a stall.
- Woodcutting
- Mining
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Farming
- Butchery
- Baking
- Carpentry
- Smithing
- Alchemy
- Taming
Dungeons
Eight dungeons, from level 12 to level 100
Each has its rooms and its boss. Several have a mechanic of their own: a flood, braziers, ember grates, rune circles.
Levels 12–15
The cellar under the hill
base camp
A flood, twelve traps, a lever, a guarded bear.
Levels 20–25
The Hollow Stump
heart of the ancient forest
Four braziers around the boss.
Levels 25–35
The Strongfarm Warren
Great Plain
Levels 45–52
The Walled Quarter
dwarf realm
Reinforcements, and four ember grates.
Levels 70–80
The Ancients’ Pyramid
desert
Its queen buries herself.
Levels 78–85
The Collapsed Shaft
dwarf realm
Rockfalls, a flood and a pump.
Levels 90–100
The Maw
ash lands
Levels 98–100
The Deep
under the great forge
Rune circles and molten gold.
Plus instanced mines, for ore.
Villagers
The villages go about their day
By day
In Rimesmelt, Odvar works the bloomery and Yrsa minds the scales in the market hall.
At dusk
In the camp town, the tavern hall fills up as night falls.
At night
Lanterns light along the high street, and one house in three keeps a firelight glow behind its windows until dawn.
What’s new
31 releases since 28 October 2026
The launcher installs each one by itself. Here are the latest.
Release notes are written in French for now.
Version 0.1.32
15 November 2026
- Les seuils devant les portes se franchissent ; le grenier du village et la maison du port se montent ; rambardes en haut des terrasses du désert.
- Les rochers des crêtes arrêtent au bord de la pierre ; dans la mine naine, on circule entre les piliers et les arches tombées.
Version 0.1.31
14 November 2026
- Les elfes et les ogres portent enfin leurs armures : les 13 kits (Gambison, Pourpoint, Druide, Harnois, Haubert, Écailles de corne, Nomade, Chasseuse, Ordre du corbeau, Runes, Tisseuse, Cuir clouté, Garde-bois) sont taillés à leur corps.
- Huit armures refaites sur les huit corps : Plastron d'os gravé et Os du chef de guerre, Cuir bouilli du traqueur, Brigandines de toile et de sapin, Cotte de plates armoriée, Écailles de bronze, Manteau de feutre et Feutre de garance, Pillard des mers, Cuirasse à l'antique.
Version 0.1.30
13 November 2026
- Tavernes : une table de poker et cinq chaises dans chaque taverne (Bourgmarais, Pont-aux-Saules, taïga, Port des Dunes, cité naine).
- On s'assoit avec E sur les bancs, tabourets et chaises des tavernes, mairies et du camp ; à table, les mains se posent sur le plateau.
Get the launcher
It installs the game, updates it each time you open it, and signs you in. Free during the alpha.
Apple Silicon Mac, macOS 13 or later · Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
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