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Halden: The Cordon

A top-down survival game set in Halden, a coastal city sealed for fourteen months. Everyone else wanted out. You drove in.

A lone survivor in a hooded coat walks towards a concrete wall marked N-08, a searchlight cutting through the rain and the sick gathering in the dark.

Survival RPG
Top-down
Solo · Co-op · Servers
Coming to Steam

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The premise

Everyone else wanted out. You drove in.

Fourteen months ago a fever nobody could name came out of Halden General. The bridges were blown, the trains stopped and a military cordon sealed the city. Halden: The Cordon starts the day that cordon waves you in through the north gate.

Search a city still full of what people left behind, learn which of the factions holding the streets will trade with you, and stay quiet: the sick hunt by sound.

What it is

Slow, tactical, lived in.

Four ways to play

The Campaign alone or in co-op, an open persistent city, and dedicated servers where the world never ends.

A whole city to search

Halden, its districts, the country around it, and the places people tell stories about.

The Armoury

Fifty-seven firearms, weapon mods, ammunition you find and trade for, bows, crossbows and crafted melee weapons.

A body kept part by part

Each part can fail, and armour protects what it covers. No health bars over anyone’s head.

The sick hunt by sound

Sneak, keep to the dark, throw a bottle, or be loud and ready for it.

Factions and bases

Factions run the streets, each with ranks, duties and grudges. Claim a building and make it a base.

Four seasons

Snow keeps every track, floods close crossings, summer fields catch fire.

Together

Co-op for up to eight, crews of four, a friends list and a server browser.

On screen

From the game.

A burning car lights a dark street. — Fire in the street

A survivor fires down a dark road. — Firefight at night

Four survivors in a street, rifles up. — A crew of four

A crowd of the sick gathers around a streetlamp. — Under the lamp

A survivor’s torch cuts through heavy rain. — Rain on the street

The facts.

Everything press and players ask first. For screens, the trailer and the logo, see the press page.

Game: Halden: The Cordon
Genre: Top-down survival RPG
Players: Solo, co-op for up to eight, dedicated servers
Platform: Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit), keyboard and mouse or controller
Ages: 16 and over. It shows violence, blood and horror, and has not been age-rated yet.
Made: Designed and directed by one person, built with AI. Made with AI, not by AI: not generated from a prompt.
Status: In development. Coming to Steam.
Website: haldenthecordon.com

Five expansion packs are planned after 1.0.

Halden: The Cordon is in daily development. Follow the road to Early Access and 1.0 on the game’s own roadmap.

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