RAEV: Kingdom on the Distant Shores has officially launched its highly anticipated Closed Beta, giving strategy and city-building fans a first chance to forge their own empire ahead of the game’s full release. The Closed Beta runs from December 2 to December 9, 2025, offering players an entire week to dive into the game’s sprawling world, meet the Raevins, and explore the sweeping strategic systems that set RAEV apart.
Debuting a brand-new trailer during the Best Indie Games Winter Showcase 2025, Ravine Games also unveiled an expanded look at what awaits future rulers of Nyttland. The trailer highlights the game’s mix of city-building depth, character-driven storytelling, and large-scale realm management—all woven into a vibrant, living world.
A Kingdom Worth Building: What RAEV Is All About
At its core, RAEV: Kingdom on the Distant Shores is a kingdom-builder that grants players full control over the rising realm of Nyttland. Unlike traditional single-city builders, RAEV challenges you to design, govern, and optimize multiple cities at once, each with their own personalities, problems, and potential.
Every Raevin—a citizen within your domain—comes with unique skills, desires, and quirks. As the ruler, you’ll guide them toward their ideal occupations, improve their quality of life, and ultimately shape the future of your kingdom through thoughtful leadership.
From idyllic villages to bustling trade hubs and fortified frontier towns, your kingdom grows based on the choices you make—and the Raevins you empower.
Explore Biomes, Expand Borders, and Command Your Realm
RAEV’s world spans three visually distinct biomes:
- Temperate Lands – fertile, balanced, and perfect for early expansion
- Black Forest – dense, mysterious, and rich with untapped resources
- Tundra – harsh and unforgiving, but rewarding for strategic masterminds
Across these landscapes, players will engage in real-time grand strategy, managing armies, cultivating trade routes, and navigating diplomatic tensions. Neighboring kingdoms may not take kindly to territorial encroachment—so your plans must be careful, measured, and cunning.
Will your reign inspire prosperity, or will competing powers push Nyttland to the edge?
In RAEV, the outcome is entirely yours to shape.
Closed Beta Features: What Players Can Experience Right Now
Build Your Empire, One City at a Time
Create, customize, and connect multiple cities across the world map. Leap seamlessly between them as you grow your realm from a lone settlement into a thriving empire.
Freeform, Gridless Construction
Enjoy complete freedom in designing your kingdom. Place buildings, roads, gardens, castles, and districts exactly where you envision them—no grids, no limits.
Strategic Depth at Every Turn
Balance trade routes, resource management, defenses, diplomacy, and city specialization to keep your kingdom thriving against rising challenges.
A World Filled With Raevins
Every Raevin has a story. Assign them roles suited to their talents, develop their skills, and let their ambitions shape the evolving identity of your kingdom.
Join the RAEV Closed Beta on Steam
Players eager to experience RAEV early can opt into the Closed Beta right now on Steam. Ravine Games is also inviting the community to join the official Discord for updates, announcements, and future playtesting waves.
This early glimpse offers a rare chance to influence the evolving kingdom-builder before its full release—so strategy enthusiasts won’t want to miss it.
