A medieval village on a 3D island that floats above your open windows. Build, trade and grow a whole sky archipelago while you work. Your villagers keep going even when the game is closed.
No window frame, no full-screen takeover. The island simply floats over your desktop, next to everything else you have open.
The window is transparent. Click any empty spot and you are back in your browser, editor or spreadsheet.
Park the island in a corner, zoom in on the market square, move it to another monitor, or tuck it into a bubble with Ctrl+Alt+O.
Fields, mills and workshops run in real time: at full pace for 12 hours after you close the game, then at half pace for up to a day.
In-game shots with the background removed. On your screen, your own desktop sits behind the island.
162 buildings and 184 goods connect into production chains. Set trade rules once and the market sells your surplus for you, while merchant balloons drift by with offers and the merchants' guild researches new crafts.
Villagers have names, homes and requests of their own. The season changes every day. In winter the river freezes and villagers build snowmen, go sledding, skate and fish through holes in the ice. Rain leaves puddles, storms roll over the roofs and at night lanterns light up the lanes.
Over 150 decorations: paths and plazas, fences and hedges, gardens and benches, rivers that pour off the island's edge as waterfalls, and even lava. Move and rotate your decorations for free, as often as you like.
Raise troops on the castle island, set their formation and send them on missions. Battles play out on their own and you can watch the replay. Prefer peace? Skip it. The army never blocks your progress.
Every new island gets its own trade. Fly between them through the clouds.
The starting island: market, workshops, port, guild, lighthouse and tavern.
Cows, sheep, goats, geese, pigs, rabbits, bees and horses, plus a dairy and a smokehouse.
Barracks, a shooting range, stables and a watchtower. Missions, loot and trophies.
A shaft that digs ever deeper: salt, copper, silver, gold and gems.
Townsfolk buy food, clothes and luxuries; the bakery and the print shop supply everyone.
Tailors, goldsmiths, clockmakers and balloon makers craft the finest goods.
Hoverwick is made by DIOM Games, a small studio from Poland. You will meet a village elder, bake gingerbread, brew mead, polish amber and, one day, dress a winged hussar. The name says the rest: “hover”, plus “-wick”, the old English word for a settlement.
Wishlists help Steam show the game to more players, and you will get a note on launch day.
Planned minimum: 64-bit Windows 10 (21H1 or newer) or Windows 11, a DirectX 11 graphics card, 4 GB of RAM and about 500 MB of disk space. Final requirements will be on the Steam page.
Not at launch. The transparent desktop window relies on Windows features.
Partly. The village works on its own, in real time, even while the game is closed. On top of that there is a whole economy to plan: 184 goods, production chains, trade rules and six kinds of islands. Play for a few minutes between tasks or for a whole evening.
Clicks on empty space go straight to your apps, and Ctrl+Alt+O tucks the village into a small bubble. Your village keeps working either way.
The release date and price will be announced on Steam. Wishlist the game to get a note on launch day.
English and Polish at launch.
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