Hello everyone! We are proud to announce that the next Farwoods test period will begin on August 18th, 2026 at 8pm EDT. We have a huge amount of new content, features, and polish for you on an all-new client rewritten in Godot. Save the date, we hope to see you there!
What is Farwoods? Farwoods is a “graphical MUD,” an older style of MMO that mixes sandbox game mechanics with a roleplay community to create an immersive living world inspired by Redwall. It’s similar to a big, always-running D&D game that people drop in and out of. We have been working on the game since 2020 and next month, we will be bringing it back for people to try out and help us test all the changes we’ve made.
Farwoods is designed as a prosocial game where other people’s characters are part of the experience, as opposed to the antisocial theme park MMO style where there is a set story in which you are the protagonist in a largely on-rails experience, and forming connections with anyone else playing the game is purely optional.
What does it have to do with TTRPGs? This is a roleplaying game in the tabletop tradition, where you are put into a sandbox world with plot hooks you can explore of your own volition and problems you can solve in inventive and cunning ways, and Farwoods has its own dice systems under the hood. We have Game Masters who put on events at scheduled times, like TTRPG campaigns, and the game is top-down and tile-based. So… it’s like a really advanced Foundry VTT game that never turns off? ;)
If the idea of creating characters to play in a fantasy, Redwall-inspired world of magic and intrigue excites you, come check us out!
- https://farwoods.net/
- View our roadmap: https://farwoods.net/forums/thread?id=737
- Mastodon: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Farwoods
- Itch.io: https://farwoods.itch.io/farwoods
- Wishlist us on Steam (not necessary to play): https://store.steampowered.com/app/1678570/Farwoods/