Primal Axis

Primal Axis is a single-player game set in Aethel-Hearth, a world of floating vertical tiers. After the Horizon breaks and the Axis shatters, the old animals are gone, replaced by volatile Elemental Echoes that have forgotten their bonds with humanity. You play as a Field Researcher, using a copper-wired Codex to study the spirits and complete its catalog.

Explore and bond

Leave Hearth Town to fight wild spirits in real-time combat, earn their trust and bring eggs back to the Hatchery. Combat uses dual timers, three abilities, elemental matchups, meals and restoratives. You can catch and catalog hundreds of spirits: duplicates shatter into Embers, while new species advance your Bonding research.

As you explore, story beats unlock in your personal journal and field archive. Chart the tiers and develop your Codex until it is complete.

Research and raise spirits

Warm eggs in the Hatchery, arrange breeding unions in the Kennel and build your roster through the Pet Bank. Breeding includes rare bloodlines and late-game legendary breeding chains.

You can develop eight trainer skills: cooking, herbalism, fishing, mining, breeding, bonding, smithing and alchemy. Gather herbs, ore and fish, then cook, brew and smith at town stations. Town progression unlocks station tiers and lets you master recipes.

A defined journey

The intended endpoint is Grand Horizon with a full Codex, a goal designed for roughly months of comfortable play. The game has no daily rewards, seasons or post-cap grind bar. Its audio is music-only, with no gameplay sound effects.