Build, muster, raid Open beta

Hearthkeep

Build a hold that never resets, muster champions from the fire, and raid rival holds for what you need. Printed rates, no pity, nothing for sale.

Play in your browser Free. No install. Your IronVail account carries into it.

What it is

Hearthkeep is a base-builder and a champion collector sharing one hold. You build wards that stay built, you draw champions from the fire, you take them up a campaign of fixed-difficulty holds, and you fight the fights yourself, turn by turn, rather than watching a bar fill.

It is the one in the catalogue with the strongest opinions about what a game of its shape is allowed to do. Nothing expires. No event runs out. The summon rates are printed on the screen you summon from, and there is deliberately no pity counter — a pull is never secretly owed to you. Nothing anywhere in it costs money.

At a glance

210, across 8 kinChampions
40, eight per affinityArchetypes
26 holds in 6 stagesCampaign
an endless DeepeningEndgame
5 permanent SealsBosses
☆1–☆6, with sets and rolled linesGear

What is in it

The shape of it.

A hold that never resets

Three wards, a permanent build list, and offline catch-up that is exact rather than approximate — nine days away lands the same result as nine days played.

Combat you actually fight

Turn by turn, on a board you can read, with an Auto that plays back the same fight rather than skipping it. Every fight ends on a sheet showing what it paid.

A campaign that does not follow you

Every hold has a fixed difficulty. The ladder does not scale to your roster, so clearing one means something a week later.

Another keeper on the other side

Post champions to your wards and they are what somebody else meets when they raid you. The defender loses nothing — there is no ladder and no rating, deliberately.

Nothing expires, ever

No limited event, no battle pass, no seasonal currency you can be late for. The daily waits for you and never stacks up as a debt.

One account

Your progress is on the account, not this device.

Sign in once and the same save follows you to any browser on any machine. The same account opens every other IronVail game too.

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