Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders - Bandit's Trail
Released Aug 2023
FREE PROLOGUE! Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders is an action-adventure RPG with base-building elements, where you take on the role of a classic hero who stands up to the tyranny and injustice that haunts Sherwood. Fight, craft, steal, and of course help the local people grow and prosper.
82% positive · 1,082 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
Bandit's Trail is a free prologue for Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders, released on August 9, 2023. Its purpose was always to serve as a preview for the full game, covering the first region of the game world (Barnsdale). The full game, Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders, launched on February 29, 2024, which represents the fulfilment of the prologue's core promise.
The developer posted a major prologue update on February 22, 2024 (just before the full game's launch), adding gamepad support, balancing improvements, new systems, and other quality-of-life changes. This was explicitly framed as bringing the prologue up to par with the full release. Since then, no further updates specific to the Bandit's Trail prologue have been posted.
The February 28, 2025 anniversary post from the developer focuses on the full game's anniversary and the announcement of a separate standalone game, Robin Hood: Sherwood Defenders. The developer explicitly clarified that Sherwood Defenders is not a DLC for Sherwood Builders, and no further content for the Bandit's Trail prologue was mentioned.
As a free prologue, Bandit's Trail was a finite, scoped product designed to showcase the first region of the full game. With the full game now released and no announcements of additional content for the prologue itself, it is a complete, finished product.
Evidence
Full game Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders launched, fulfilling the prologue's purpose as a preview product.
Major prologue update shipped with extensive balancing, new systems, and gamepad support. Explicitly framed as bringing the prologue in line with the upcoming full game launch on February 29, 2024.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
PlayWay S.A.
Achievements
14
Platform
Windows
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player
About this game
Bandit's Trail is a FREE prologue version of Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders. Become the legendary outlaw of folk tales, explore Barnsdale, the first region of the game's world, and face its challenges.
Robin Hood: Sherwood Builders is an action-adventure RPG with city-building elements, where you take on the role of a classic hero who stands up to the tyranny and injustice that haunts Sherwood. As Robin, you’ll fight, hunt, craft, steal, and of course help the local people thrive to spite the Sheriff of Nottingham and his ruthless regime – all within an open-world environment that can be freely explored.
Robin Hood is a famous hero of medieval English folk tales, believed to have during that time roamed the forests of Sherwood with his band of loyal outlaw companions. In the game you’re going to meet those legendary characters as well, such as Lady Marian, Little John, Friar Tuck, Allan-a-Dale, and Will Scarlet.
Robin's main goal is to help a fledgling community of refugees and rebels advance and expand. Starting with what could be described as a small forest settlement, with a bit of care, hard work, and good luck, it can end up as a town full of people. Recruit local peasants, rebels on the run from the law, and even the citizens and guards of Nottingham themselves as your new outlaw settlers.
You start your adventure with building a forest camp, which can soon be expanded following the arrival of new residents. You will be responsible for properly managing the space you secured for yourself within Sherwood Forest to build up the village.
Another important part of taking care of the settlement will be to manage the community members’ professions and tasks, training them to become craftsmen, hunters, or guards, and to manage the settlement’s resources, either gathering them yourself or stealing them from convoys and noble estates.
As Robin's people grow large in number and strong in sword arm, an uprising in Nottingham may just become a reality, ending the Sheriff's tyranny once and for all.
Can Robin Hood and his Merry Men survive and put an end to injustice? Their fate is up to you!
Robin Hood: Sherwood Builders is an action-adventure RPG with city-building elements, where you take on the role of a classic hero who stands up to the tyranny and injustice that haunts Sherwood. As Robin, you’ll fight, hunt, craft, steal, and of course help the local people thrive to spite the Sheriff of Nottingham and his ruthless regime – all within an open-world environment that can be freely explored.
Robin Hood is a famous hero of medieval English folk tales, believed to have during that time roamed the forests of Sherwood with his band of loyal outlaw companions. In the game you’re going to meet those legendary characters as well, such as Lady Marian, Little John, Friar Tuck, Allan-a-Dale, and Will Scarlet.
Robin's main goal is to help a fledgling community of refugees and rebels advance and expand. Starting with what could be described as a small forest settlement, with a bit of care, hard work, and good luck, it can end up as a town full of people. Recruit local peasants, rebels on the run from the law, and even the citizens and guards of Nottingham themselves as your new outlaw settlers.
You start your adventure with building a forest camp, which can soon be expanded following the arrival of new residents. You will be responsible for properly managing the space you secured for yourself within Sherwood Forest to build up the village.
Another important part of taking care of the settlement will be to manage the community members’ professions and tasks, training them to become craftsmen, hunters, or guards, and to manage the settlement’s resources, either gathering them yourself or stealing them from convoys and noble estates.
As Robin's people grow large in number and strong in sword arm, an uprising in Nottingham may just become a reality, ending the Sheriff's tyranny once and for all.
Can Robin Hood and his Merry Men survive and put an end to injustice? Their fate is up to you!
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