An ambitious upcoming Eurojank RPG is holding a closed playtest on Steam and it’s probably worth your time if you’re into that sort of thing

Of Ash and Steel is a third-person open world RPG that sets players off on a once-prosperous island to explore, fight, and “shape the fate of the world,” or at least the fate of the island. It’s still early in development (which presumably explains the lack of detail on what the game is actually about) but developer Fire and Frost has kicked off a playtest on Steam, so you can get an early look at what it’s all about.

I’ve horsed around with the Ash and Steel playtest a bit myself, and look: It is very janky. Some of the systems don’t appear to be fully implemented, some narrative elements don’t line up, and sometimes it’s just weird. In one case I retrieved an item belonging to the camp doctor that a drunken sailor had thrown away; the doctor seemingly knew the sailor had stolen the item (he was pissed off at the guy about it, which was a central part of the whole mini-quest) but when I handed it over and told him what happened, he was all, “That bastard!” and then jumped the sailor from behind, beating him with a cudgel.