What is this demo?

This is an introductory demo that lets you play through the new player experience for a character that starts their journey in the Free Nation of Porthia, the Northwest Continent in the world of Primal Currents.

The experience lasts roughly 10-15 minutes.

How representative is this build of the game?

This browser-capable build was developed as a barrier-free way to experience the game. Primal Currents is primarily intended to be a desktop-client based game for Windows.

The WebGL build playable here has many limitations that we are working to resolve before offering a full browser-based version of the main game. In the downloaded build you can expect significantly better performance and higher quality visuals , which take full advantage of your hardware's capabilities.

What remains representative of the final game is the world structure, gameplay mechanics, dialogue and narrative. We hope that with this demo you gain a feel for our intent behind Primal Currents: a focus on adventure, combat and exploration in a medieval fantasy open-world sandbox.

What else does the real game contain?

The Closed Beta build is continuously being updated with new content and game improvements. The initial new player experience is similar, but it continues and expands in a less linear fashion, allowing for full open-world exploration and progression of skills.

Content available right now includes:

  • The starting phases for two more standalone Adventures. In Primal Currents, "Adventures" are like Quests in other games, but much more complex, long-lived and multi-stepped, essentially a questline's worth of content that expands and continues as the player progresses and the world expands.
  • Ability to level all 14 available skills, although world content available focuses on early-game areas primarily.
  • Fully-realised combat, gathering, and crafting systems, including an unlockable testing area with accelerated experience rates, which allows for flexible experimentation with higher level equipment and combat to get more familiar with the full scope of the game's systems.

Where are the other players?

This demo is a single-player vertical slice of the game's first few minutes. Primal Currents is an MMORPG and the Closed Beta build features fully functional, persistent game worlds.

Game servers are hosted in the UK (and soon, the US and other regions, based on demand). Sign up for the Closed Beta now to begin progressing your character along with others looking for a classic old-school RPG experience in a brand new IP and universe, with a shared game world and fresh player-driven economy!