HearthBuilders

A world to build in. Every block can be broken and placed. Build houses and towers, farms and gardens, rails and machines that light up. Grassy plains, snowy mountains, deserts, jungles and deep caves wait to be explored.

A story that guides, never pushes. Pip floats over your shoulder, shows the way when you want it, and cheers you on. Eleven chapters lead from your first shelter to the Ember Deep and the islands at the edge of the world, and the sandbox stays open the whole time. Turn the story off any time and just build.

Every line is spoken. Pip, the Elder and the village chiefs talk out loud, so even children who aren’t reading yet know what to do. The game waits while they listen, and every line can be heard again.

Friends and villages. Trade with villagers, help the chiefs with their requests, tame animals, ride horses, sail boats and keep a logbook of everything you discover.

Play together at home. Friends join your world over your home network. No accounts, no internet, no strangers.

Made for children, set by grown-ups.

• Never goes online. No adverts, nothing to buy, no links out of the game.
• Each child has a profile with gentle limits: items kept after fainting, soft monsters or none, no fire spreading.
• Parent Settings, protected by a PIN, change what each profile may do.
• Gentle boss fights, an always-daytime option, colour-friendly signs and a game that waits for slow readers.