Dusk Lord Online

Settle · Trade · Delve · Besiege

A 3D MMORPG on one persistent world. Take a patch of it, put a settlement on it, and hold it against everyone else doing the same. Free for Windows.

Download for Windows Requirements

Windows 10/11  ·  64-bit  ·  free

A small download, no installer. It fetches the game and keeps it updated.

PriceFree
PlatformWindows 10 / 11
GraphicsVulkan 1.3
WorldOne, shared
The chronicle

What it looks like

A walled city at dusk: cobbled streets, market stalls and townsfolk inside the curtain wall, a river and forest beyond it.
Aurelia at dusk. Every street, stall and passer-by is generated at runtime.
A market square in daylight, stalls around a tiled hall, with people standing and moving between them.
The market square, where the day’s prices are whatever the season has made them.
A close view of a paved street crowded with townsfolk in varied clothing, seen over the shoulder.
A crowd on the stones — players, townsfolk and the guard who is watching both.
Highspire's pale stone walls and gate above green fields and forest in bright daylight.
Highspire. Each kingdom quarries its own stone, so no two walls read alike.
A harbour city after dark, lit only by lanterns along its quays and streets.
Maris Reach before dawn. Night is dark here, and lanterns are the only argument against it.
The realm

What you do out here

01  /  Holding

A settlement of your own

Found a town, raise its walls and halls, and put people to work in it. Labour, storage, mood and income are all real numbers, and a town left alone quietly stops paying.

02  /  Economy

Prices run on the real clock

The economy is a function of the time of day and the season, not of who logged in. Seasons take months of real time to turn, so a shortage you plan for is a shortage you can actually reach.

03  /  War

Sieges, and the march before them

Declaring is the easy part. An army has to cross the ground between you and the walls it intends to break, and everyone can see it coming the whole way.

04  /  Depths

Dungeons, spells and quieter days

Generated dungeons under the map, fifty spells, a bestiary that fights back — and, when you have had enough of all that, a riverbank and a fishing rod.

05  /  Engine

Nothing is loaded from disk

Every mesh and every texture is generated at runtime, in Rust on Vulkan. There is no asset pipeline and no model files, which is why the download is measured in megabytes.

06  /  Rules

The server is the authority

Movement, collision, prices and combat are all resolved on the server. The client is a window onto the world, not a second opinion about what happened in it.

Before the gate

Before you download

Operating system Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
Graphics A GPU with Vulkan 1.3 drivers. Anything from roughly 2017 on qualifies; if the game will not start, update your graphics driver first.
Connection Always online. The world is shared and the server holds the only copy of it.
Disk space Under 1 GB. The download is one small executable that fetches the game on first run into %LOCALAPPDATA%\DuskLord. After that it updates itself in place, a few megabytes at a time rather than the whole game.
Nightfall

The world does not wait for you

Download for Windows