Spellborne is a retro-inspired massively multiplayer online role-playing game for PC browsers and mobile by Mon Studios. The game is centered on creature collection, exploration, and narrative progression within a fantasy setting. The game follows three protagonists from the city of Isogashi, whose interconnected journeys unfold through an open-ended storyline shaped by player decisions. Core gameplay combines monster capturing and training with turn-based combat, alongside a range of non-combat activities such as resource gathering, crafting, and environmental interaction. The overall structure integrates exploration across diverse regions, strategic combat encounters, and life-simulation elements, with progression influenced by both narrative choices and system-based activities. Each playthrough may diverge based on decisions taken and routes explored within the game world. Additionally, Spellborne integrates blockchain technology (Ethereum) to record and secure ownership of various game-related digital assets such as NFTs (e.g. creatures, apartments) and cryptocurrency (e.g. $BORNE).
Game Features
- Two Distinct Modes: The game comprises a competitive Duel Arena focused on structured one-on-one contests and related minigames, and a large-scale Gold Rush mode emphasizing open-world exploration, resource extraction, monster hunting, and player conflict beyond the Capital City’s safe zones.
- Risk-Centric Exploration: The Gold Rush environment incorporates constant decision-making around expedition length and survival. Venturing further from safety increases potential rewards while exposing participants to escalating dangers and the possibility of losing accumulated gains.
- Stress System: A core mechanic that limits prolonged activity in higher-tier regions by applying accumulating negative effects tied to exploration, combat, and resource gathering. Rising stress levels enforce trade-offs between extending a run for greater returns and retreating before conditions become untenable.
- Multi-Type Combat Framework: Combat is organized around Melee, Ranged, and Magic, each supported by varied weapons and armor sets. Encounters involve selecting appropriate equipment for the environment, opponents, and desired tactical approach.
- Special Attacks: Weapons may grant forceful abilities that offer temporary advantages—such as heightened accuracy, increased damage, or mobility effects like dashing through targets. These actions provide situational leverage beyond standard attacks.
- Diverse Damage Types: Encounters incorporate several damage categories—Crush, Slash, Pierce, Poison, Bleed, and Burn—each associated with distinctive mechanical effects, including armor penetration, stacking accuracy, damage-over-time states, or temporary reductions to healing and attack speed.
- Equipment Durability & Maintenance: Weapons, armor, and tools degrade through use and must be repaired when worn down. Repair functions are available at Scrapping Tables in exchange for in-game currency and create ongoing logistical considerations during extended play.
- Resource Transport via Wagons: Constructible wagons allow players to move heavy materials across long distances. Building one requires specific materials and interaction with an NPC craftsman in the Capital City.
- Prayer Skill System: Progression in Prayer grants access to toggleable status effects, including defensive “Protection Prayers” that reduce incoming damage from particular combat styles. Advancement is achieved by collecting and burying bones from defeated NPCs.
Blockchain Integration
DocumentsSpellborne features some form player-owned economy where players can effectively own and trade several game-related digital assets (e.g. monsters, apartments, cryptocurrency) outside of the game, using smart contracts built on the Ethereum, Avalanche, Abstract blockchains to record and secure transactions thereof. The game also integrate its own cryptocurrency $BORNE, which serves as a medium of exchange for NFTs, a premium currency for NFT minting, a reward token, and a governance token.
Spellborne is not open source. While ownership of digital assets is decentralized and secured on the blockchain, users may not be able to run the game in the event that its online service is prematurely shut down.
Ownable (NFTs)
| Name | Description | Markets |
|---|---|---|
| Apartments | Digital housing units (3,333 total) of varying sizes that function as player-owned social spaces with customization options. May be staked for rewards. |  |
| Monsters | Monsters function as core in-game entities that can be acquired through capture in the wild using crystals or obtained via specific events. They may also be converted into tradable assets by being minted into non-fungible tokens, enabling exchange between players. | |
Cryptocurrency
$BORNE is a gameplay-driven utility token that underpins the in-game economy where value is generated through player activity and redistributed via competitive and social systems. It combines transactional utility as a medium of exchange, progression enablement, governance participation, and player-driven market dynamics…. (read more)
