Inkborn

Inkborn is a survival game set inside an unfinished comic, where you explore a fixed-size world of paper and ink. You gather materials, build shelter and manage hunger, thirst and warmth while creating tools and weapons by tracing their outlines in a sketchbook. Your strokes are drawn by hand rather than snapped to guide lines, and the game measures how accurately you trace.

Drawing with ink

Ink fuels every stroke, including each glyph, while obelisks cost a lot of it. Enemies splash ink when you hit them; at night, ink rain replenishes your supply but also chills you. Obelisks create safe zones.

Before tracing a weapon, you choose its tier. Rare weapons require 10 times the materials and deal 1.5 times the damage of normal weapons. Legendary weapons require 50 times the materials and deal twice the damage. Both tiers use the normal drawing ink cost but require greater precision.

Surviving the nights

Hunger, thirst and warmth drain continuously, and your tools crack before they break. After dark, the Unfinished emerge, still uncoloured. You can build a shelter to withstand the night or draw a bed and sleep through it.

A giant eraser occasionally sweeps across the page, temporarily removing natural features before they regrow. It does not permanently shrink the world.

Characters and encounters

You can choose from six paper-and-ink player characters: three women and three men. The world also has a merchant for you to meet.