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Exhibyte · Published by Exhibyte
2 user reviews — 0% positive (2 reviews)
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Hunt for legendary loot and forge your path in this stylized ARPG. From intricate itemization to deep character customization, every choice shapes your legend. Explore, fight, and gather rare resources to upgrade your arsenal in an evolving, handcrafted world.
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Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Early Access · 2026 · More £5 - £15 games
About this game
Forge Your Legend
In Artifex Legends, power is earned through curiosity and conquest. Step into a handcrafted realm where your progress is defined by the gear you scavenge, the talents you master, and the mysteries you uncover. You aren’t just a traveler; you are a pioneer in a world where your choices and your treasures define the legend you become.
🗺️ Explore a Handcrafted World
Experience a landscape built with intent. Rather than endless random generation, explore stylized biomes designed to set the stage for your journey.
Uncover the Lore: Piece together the history of a silent realm by discovering hidden entries and fragments of a forgotten past.
Search for Secrets: While not every trail leads to treasure, the observant explorer will find tucked-away secrets and rare rewards hidden within the environment.
Atmospheric Discovery: Immerse yourself in a world that balances beauty with danger, where exploration is its own reward.
⚒️ Dynamic Gathering & Crafting
In Artifex Legends, obtaining resources is an active journey. We’ve blended traditional progression with an Event System that brings gathering and crafting to life.
Resource Events: While gathering materials, encounter unique challenges and dynamic events that break the mold of the standard progress bar.
Active Participation: Engaging with these events adds a layer of action to your search for supplies, turning routine tasks into gameplay moments.
💎 The Hunt for Rare Spoils
Loot is the lifeblood of your journey, and every find has a purpose—whether it’s for your build or your coin purse.
Beyond Equipment: Find rare resources, ancient artifacts, and valuable materials that fuel your progression and your coffers.
Randomized vs. Unique: Hunt for gear with randomized attributes for a perfect stat-roll, or seek out "Uniques"—one-of-a-kind items with fixed, powerful traits.
Trash to Treasure: Found an item you don't need? Every piece of loot has value. Sell unwanted hauls to local merchants to fund the purchase of what you truly need.
🛡️ Play Your Way
Your hero’s growth is visible, tangible, and entirely in your hands. Define your identity through the gear you wear and the skills you master.
Deep Customization: Mix and match your equipment, skills, and talents to create a build that matches your specific playstyle.
Visual Evolution: Watch your character transform. As you equip higher-tier gear, your appearance evolves from a basic wanderer into a formidable legend.
Total Identity: Choose your gear not just for the stats, but for the look. Forge a legend that commands respect in every encounter.
⚔️ Combat: Strategy Meets Action
Combat in Artifex Legends is a deliberate test of your preparation, but it still demands focus in the heat of battle. It is a balance between the strength of your build and your ability to execute.
Synergy in Motion: Victory relies on how you weave your chosen abilities together with the loot you’ve scavenged.
Engaging Encounters: While your talents and trained skills provide the foundation, you must still navigate the dangers of combat with active, intentional play.
Visible Growth: Return to difficult areas with your improved arsenal and feel the visceral difference that your strategic choices—and your gear—have made.
⚒️ Created by a solo indie developer from a lifetime of ideas and passion for fantasy roleplaying games.
⚒️ Early Access: This game is unfinished and is a work-in-progress. Features and content are being added and iterated upon frequently. Much work is still left to do on content, features, and systems before it will be finished. Things such as crafting professions, more archetype skills and talent trees , and multiplayer are planned for future updates. And much more!
⚒️ Constructive feedback and suggestions are welcome but negativity and harassment is not.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 11
- Processor: Intel Core i5
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Dedicated Graphics Card
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 8 GB available space
- Additional Notes: System requirements may change before full release.
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- Processor: Intel Core i7
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Dedicated Graphics Card
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 8 GB available space
- Additional Notes: System requirements may change before full release.
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Update 2026.5.30.1.0
Greetings adventurers!A new update is available.Contained within:Sam the container merchant was missing from town. He can now be found next to Pippin the food merchant. Containers are items that can be opened and closed, and items can be placed inside them. You can also just drag items onto the container icon to quickly drop it into the container.The town healer's profile image is now that of a human female, instead of a human male.The game engine has been updated.Read full article on Community Announcements (Exhibyte)Patch NotesOfficial
Update 2026.5.9.1.0 (5/9/2026)
Fixed a glitch where inventory items would grow larger than their normal size from saving and loading your game.Read full article on Community Announcements (Exhibyte)Patch NotesOfficial
Update 2026.5.6.1.0 (5/6/2026)
Now each creature targets a specific body region when attacking, instead of the hit body part being random for every attack. This will allow me to have specific creatures focusing on different body parts, such as a boar being able to only hit the player's feet or legs, or a dragon hitting core body parts such as the head, chest, or legs.Enabled HDR output for 4k displays.Enabled ACES tone-mapping for more contrast between light and dark areas.Increased the color intensity of sun-shafts (for HDR)Updated the Unity Engine.Updated various 3rd party assets and plugins.Read full article on Community Announcements (Exhibyte)AnnouncementsOfficial
Your Feedback Matters
If you've enjoyed playing Artifex Legends please take a moment to leave a positive review and tell me what you enjoyed and if you think something could be improved.This helps me greatly in determining what projects and updates to work on and also helps Steam get Artifex Legends in front of new users that might want to buy the game which in turn helps encourage and fund development.Thank you for your time.Read full article on Community Announcements (Exhibyte)AnnouncementsOfficial
Game Instructions
Greetings adventurers!Here are the game's instructions for those who are curious or might be getting stuck.Movement:Move your character with the WASD keys.Sprint by holding the Left-Shift key and moving.Roll forward by pressing the Left-Control key.Jump by pressing the spacebar.Death:If you die, you will be taken to the spirit world where you must find a wandering healer in order to be resurrected. Then you must make your way back to your corpse to loot your items. Press the "F" key when nearby your corpse to loot it.Gameplay Modes:During different gameplay modes or when viewing certain talent trees different actionbars will be visible and then you can drag those specific types of abilities from the talent window onto that actionbar or use that actionbar.Combat:Cycle between peace, melee, and ranged combat modes with the Tab key.Perform a basic attack with the R key while in combat mode. Attacking multiple times will start a combo, and after the combo there's a brief cooldown period, then afterwards you can attack again.Press and hold the "T" key while not attacking or dodging and if you have 5 stamina you'll consume the stamina and enter into blocking mode if you have a shield equipped or parrying mode if you don't have a shield equipped but you have a weapon equipped. + Holding blocking mode or parrying mode drains stamina constantly, depending on your equipped shield or weapon. Blocking or parrying an attack will drain more of your stamina. Different shields and weapons can block different amounts of damage, so not everything offers the best protection but can help in a pinch. You can attack while blocking or parrying but there is a stamina cost.User Interface:Move a window by dragging it around with left mouse.Inventory:Open the inventory with the I key.Drag an inventory item around with the mouse's Left-Click by clicking on its pixels.Use an item in the inventory by Right-Clicking it.Open/close bag item in inventory with mouse's Right-Click.Drag an item over a ...Read full article on Community Announcements (Exhibyte)
