Lawless Lands

Lawless Lands

Released Aug 2020

Lawless Lands is a dark medieval role-playing game featuring a grim setting and innovative mechanics that allow players to delve into a low-fantasy, apocalyptic world of epic proportions. Defy and destroy the darkness that has taken hold over these Lawless Lands.

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Evaluation

Lawless Lands launched on August 14, 2020 and has received a steady stream of paid DLC and free content updates ever since. The 16-entry DLC catalogue spans cosmetic packs, companion additions, and full gameplay expansions, with the most recent — Unholy Pact, adding a necromancy and undead summoning system — releasing on November 24, 2025. All listed DLC is released. The developer (a solo developer operating as "Cryptic") has remained consistently engaged. In February 2025, they explicitly stated "Yes, I'm still updating and supporting the game! As I always will try to do!" Post-DLC activity has continued uninterrupted: a compression/performance update went out in December 2025, a gameplay improvement ported from another project shipped January 28, 2026, a community-requested quality-of-life improvement to the Blood Pit DLC arena arrived July 3, 2026, and a bug fix was posted on August 10, 2026 — just 17 days before today. The developer also cross-references changes from their other active project (Chaos Chain) and regularly back-ports improvements, suggesting an ongoing working relationship with the game. No specific future DLC has been announced, but the developer's consistent track record across five-plus years — including multiple major paid DLC releases, frequent feature patches, and active community responsiveness — makes clear this game continues to receive meaningful investment. The developer's communication is current and shows no signs of winding down.
Evidence
Bug fix patch 2.8.0 released, applying a fix from another developer project to both the main game and its expansion. Most recent developer communication, just 17 days before today.
news post · Aug 10, 2026 source development ongoing
high
Community-requested quality-of-life update for the Blood Pit DLC, adding 15 new solo-character fight compositions to the arena.
news post · Jul 3, 2026 source development ongoing
high

Content

16 of 16 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Publisher
Corrosive Studios LLC
Achievements
122
Platform
Windows
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

Plunge into the Lawless Lands of Crossia, a once great kingdom where chaos slowly consumes more and more of the country. The cities have plummeted into poverty and crime, and the surrounding countryside is littered with famine and death. The army is close to collapse from an ever-lasting war and cannot stop the spread of the disorder. Hope is almost nonexistent, restoring order is believed to be futile, and panic lingers everywhere. Take on the role of a champion who rises from the ashes to end the suffering.

Main Features:

  • Epic storyline with hours of gameplay, multiple endings, and over 125 unique side quests (expected completion playtime around 60-70 hours)

  • Randomized campaigns with 16 distinctive modifiers and over 650 unique situational events to make each and every playthrough one-of-a-kind and to offer lots of diverse replayability through dynamic storytelling

  • Choice and consequence system with alignment drift that alters the way characters react to you with benefits and repercussions

  • Sprawling open world on a massive scale that is influenced by your decisions with over 25 different settlements, dozens of discoverable locations, and over 320 unique areas to explore

  • Intricate character development with races, familial backgrounds, occupations, traits, 42 different skins, a vast number of skills, abilities, spells, talents, religions, alignments, titles, and much more including custom portrait importing

  • Grim atmosphere with harsh consequences for the unprepared and surreal lore of death and struggle

  • Crafting system for recipes, formulae, and equipment

  • Base building system with many upgrades, improvements, and customizations

  • Side activities such as bounty and monster hunting, tomb raiding, dungeon crawling, fishing, exploring, foraging, and more

  • Over 200 different enemies from more than 20 unique factions, each with their own behaviors, tactics, and characteristics

  • Randomized gameplay with loot, encounters, thousands of lines of dialogue and event text, and events

  • Hundreds of items, gear, and equipment choices

  • Durability and degradation system for weapons and armor

  • New Game Plus mode with bonus content and rewards for veteran adventurers

Other Features:

  • Original soundtrack themes

  • Day/night cycle (1 hour real-time is 1 day in game)

  • Realistic and randomized weather patterns

  • High quality/custom-made graphics and artwork

  • Support for all Windows computers

Inspired by games such as Dungeons and Dragons, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Battle Brothers, Mordheim: City of the Damned, Grim Dawn, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Age of Conan, Mount & Blade: Warband, Warhammer Quest, the Two Worlds series, the Dragon Age series, the Dark Souls series, The Witcher series, the Pillars of Eternity series, and many more!

Keywords: Dark fantasy, exploration, rpg, open world, crafting, survival, atmospheric, management, medieval, post apocalyptic, story rich, base building, indie, character creation, choices matter, scavenging, jrpg, adventure, pixel graphics. lore rich.

*A game made by a single developer.*

Last evaluated Aug 27, 2026
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