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Fact sheet

Title
Banners & Bones
Developer
Copperkeep Games, a one-person studio
Publisher
Copperkeep Games (self-published)
Genre
Auto battler, strategy, city building
Release
Early Access, 2027
Platforms
Windows, Linux, Steam Deck (Steam)
Demo
Free, for Windows, macOS and Linux: bannersandbones.com/demo
Price
To be announced
Languages
English, German
Steam
Store page coming soon

Description

Build a fantasy settlement on a hex map, where dwellings raise your troops and every neighbor counts. At the end of each day your army fights on its own, against guardians or the settlements of other players. Lead the Crownlands or the Gravelands in this auto battler with asynchronous PvP.

Banners & Bones is a fantasy auto battler about building, not drafting. Day by day you grow a small settlement on a hex map: buy buildings from the market, place them with care, upgrade them and send settlers to claim new land. Dwellings raise stacks of creatures, farms make those stacks bigger, forges sharpen their blades, taverns lift their morale.

At the end of the day your settlement becomes your half of the battlefield. You see the enemy and can still redeploy your stacks, then the battle plays out on its own, turn by turn on a hex grid.

On most days you face a ghost: the settlement another player built on the same day of their own run, matched to your record. No waiting for opponents and no time pressure. The first day of each week belongs to neutral guardians, from wolf packs to dragon broods.

Features

  • Two factions that play differently: the Crownlands with knights, griffins and morale, and the Gravelands, whose necromancy turns fallen enemies into an ever-growing horde of skeletons
  • Four heroes who level up every week and choose from 14 skills
  • 28 buildings and 40 creatures, dwellings with three upgrade levels
  • 42 cards from three schools of magic
  • Weekly events, from Plague Week to Siege Week
  • Every number explained: tap a building or a stack to see where each value comes from
  • Short runs: ten wins before five losses, about 20 to 30 minutes

Screenshots and key art

PNG, 1920×1080. Click to download.

Logos

PNG with transparent background, studio logo as SVG.

About Copperkeep Games

Copperkeep Games is a one-person indie studio making strategy games with short, dense runs. Banners & Bones is the studio's current game. More at copperkeepgames.com.