Longbarrow

In most strategy games, you can out-think your opponent and still lose to a random number. That is presented as tension. It is closer to noise, and it quietly teaches players that reading the board matters less than volume.

Longbarrow removes the dice from combat entirely. Two identical engagements resolve identically. If you lost, something about your position, timing or composition was worse — and the game can tell you which.

The result is a game where terrain is an argument, formation is a sentence, and a smaller force in the right place beats a larger one in the wrong place.

No accuracy rolls. No critical hits. No hidden percentages. Damage, range, speed and cover resolve the same way every time, and the post-battle report tells you what actually happened rather than estimating a confidence.

Determinism is not a restriction, it is what makes skill legible. When chance cannot be blamed, every loss is information.

High ground extends what you can see rather than improving what you hit. Bushes conceal. Cover is soft or hard and behaves differently. Trees and cliffs come down. Footprints and weather leave a record of where an army has been.

Clumping suffers diminishing returns, so formation and spacing are real decisions rather than a byproduct of drag-selecting everything you own.

The Cohort is the military infrastructure of a civilisation that is no longer there — bone-pale, fossilised, legionary, still executing its orders with shields, blades and weapons nobody alive knows how to build.

The Mycora is what grew afterwards: iridescent, fungal, transformative, pressing outward into ground the Cohort still considers occupied.

The whole game is the ragged, moving line between ash and overgrowth.

In development. The engine work is focused on deterministic simulation and readable low-poly rendering that stays fast on modest hardware — it has to run in a browser tab, on a machine nobody upgraded for it.

A playable build will be linked here the moment there is one worth your time. There is no waiting list gimmick in the meantime.