Strażnica
A wooden watchtower with a curved tiled roof above misty mountains, in pixel art

Strażnica

Burn the nests before they grow. Rebuild the Northern Watchtower.

A single-player action RPG with base building. Jin, the weakest student of a sword school, returns to a ruined watchtower high in the mountains and has to stop a plague before its nests swallow the valleys.

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  • Paid once
  • No ads
  • Plays offline
  • English and Polish

One day at the watchtower

Every session is one day of the game, and the energy runs out before the work does. So every morning is a choice: a bigger haul later, or a clean map now.

  1. Jin with his sword beside a pine, facing a boar

    06:00 The expedition

    Pick a valley on the nest map and set out. Packs of boars, wolves, monkeys and bears wake when you come close and chase you across the map. Six skills with mastery, critical hits, oil and poison on the blade.

  2. The forge station of the watchtower

    13:00 The forge

    Smelt the ore, forge the blade, then temper it from +0 to +9. A failed tempering costs the materials and never the item: it keeps its level, and the next try gets better odds.

  3. An ink engraving of a boar on the dissection table

    19:00 The dissection table

    Bring back up to three carcasses. How you killed each beast decides its organs: oil spoils the liver, fire spoils the hide. Good organs become extracts that make Jin stronger.

22:00 At night Jin sleeps, the game saves, and the nests grow.

A pulsing plague nest at night in a pine forest, with infected boars around it

The nests grow while you wait

A nest left alone grows every night. Burn it early for a small haul, or let it ripen and face what comes out.

  1. Seed Days 0⁠–⁠2

    A pale growth in the grass. Easy to burn, worth one plague core.

  2. Nest Days 3⁠–⁠6

    A pulsing dome with roots. It sends out waves of beasts and makes the packs around it stronger.

  3. Mother nest Day 7 and later

    Roots across the whole map, stronger beasts everywhere, and one station of your base poisoned for a week. Its guest stays away.

A new seed appears every few days. Choose which one burns today.

See it running

Portrait on phones, landscape on a computer.

The base on a desktop screen: stations, guests and the menu on the right
The watchtower on a computer: the whole base in one landscape view.

Rebuild the watchtower

It starts as a ruin. Build stations, repair the wall and its faded ornament, and the watchtower grows from a ruin to a camp to a school.

A guest for every day of the week

  1. MonBlacksmith
  2. TueMerchant
  3. WedAnatomist
  4. ThuMonk
  5. FriScholar
  6. SatGeneral
  7. SunQuiet
  • Each guest has a chain of quests, a relationship with Jin and something to teach.
  • A tech tree for the base: stations, their levels and new recipes.
  • Apprentices at the stations keep working while Jin sleeps.
  • Three acts and three endings, shaped by what you choose and what you drink.
The watchtower in daylight: a wooden tower, a courtyard with Jin and a guest, a stone wall above the clouds

Pay once. That is the whole price.

No ads
None, ever.
No microtransactions
Everything in the game comes with it.
No tracking
The game sends nothing. There is no account.
Plays offline
No connection needed, not even to start.
Phones and computers
iOS and Android in portrait, macOS and Windows in landscape.
English and Polish
Switch any time in the settings.
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