Alpine Village

First look

Alpine Village in under a minute

The story

Six years in the city. Then Mom's letter.

Grandfather is gone, and his hut at the edge of Bergdorf is yours, if you want it. The alms above the village have gone quiet one by one. The tourists stopped coming the winter the lift broke down.

So you take the post bus up the valley, to the last stop. Dad is waiting. Mom has bread and cheese ready and won't hear a word against it. And Grandfather's axe and pickaxe still cut.

Fell your first spruce. Build a workbench. Reopen the overgrown tracks one by one, and bring the village back to life, one season at a time.

See you up there.

What you'll do

A cosy life, high in the Alps

Gather, farm, fish, fight and build your way up the mountain. Every skill feeds the next, and every alm you open brings something new.

Summer

Farming

Wake up the farm alm

Clear the old track north of the square and the fertile ground up there is yours. Till it, sow, and water every morning. Milk the cows and turn it into cheese and butter in the alm dairy, then cook the lot into proper Austrian dishes.

7 crops, each with its own seasons, and a greenhouse for the winter
Cows, hens, sheep, goats and bees
Run the café's kitchen yourself when the guests come in

Winter

Visitors riding a rope tow up your ski slope

Your own ski area

Build the slopes. Then ski them.

Get the old cable car running and the mountain is yours to build on. Lay pistes, put up rope tows and chair lifts, open a café. Visitors come by themselves once there's a lift, and the better your slopes, the more of them come.

Blue, red and black runs, moguls, rails and jumps
A slalom, a ski jump and a ski school, each with records to beat
Put your skis on and carve down it yourself

Danger

Adventure

The deep forest, the old mine, the ice cave

The village and the alms are always safe. Danger is something you go looking for: in the deep forest, where boar and wolves don't want visitors, down the old mine floor after floor with only a lamp, and in the ice under the glacier.

16 creatures to face, and something big at the bottom of every dungeon
Copper, tin, iron and silver, smelted and forged in workshops you build
Better tools and weapons for every skill, from Grandfather's old axe to crystal steel

Explore

The alms

Open the valley, one alm at a time

Every alm above Bergdorf has gone quiet, and every one you reopen brings something new: a lake full of fish, sheep, goats and bees on the high pasture, waterfalls one under another, and a glacier at the top.

12 places to explore, from the village square to the glacier
A cable car up the mountain, with a stop at every station
Look round the whole valley on the map

Cosy

Home

A bare hut, and everything you make of it

The furniture was sold the winter the lift stopped. So you make a workbench from your first wood, then a chest, a table, a bench. Dress yourself in lederhosen or a dirndl, and spend a quiet evening with a rod at the stream.