RUFAT WORKSHOP · 2D ACTION-ADVENTURE PLATFORMER
Come wander through what remains.
Rufat is a handcrafted, story-driven 2D action-adventure platformer with exploration, combat and light Metroidvania elements. Explore the people, places, memories and ideas that shape the game. When something sparks an idea, the Workshop is here for it.
WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
Rufat's public vertical slice releases 1 February 2027.
We are building toward a focused opening journey from Dar al-Sukun through Bab al-Ahd and to Aqeed Ayuub's threshold. The extra production time is being protected for hand-drawn art, world building, story iteration, playtesting and polish.
See the vertical slice plan and current build →BEGIN ANYWHERE
There is no required path.
Read about a region, understand an Echo, learn who Samir is, or simply browse until something catches your attention.
The World
Meet Qamaris, understand what Rufat has become, and learn the creative heart of the project.
Enter the world →02The Regions
Explore each part of Rufat through its people, atmosphere, questions and surviving memories.
Choose a place →03The Concepts
Learn what Echoes are, why ordinary names matter, and the ideas that give Rufat its identity.
Browse concepts →PLACES TO WANDER
Five regions. Five kinds of memory.
The Spirit Realm — traces, memory, passage
Dar al-Athar
Dar al-Athar is the strange realm where Rufat begins. It is not presented as an afterlife, but as a place of traces: fragments of memory, impressions of places and lives, and things that have endured beyond where they should belong. Samir awakens here before returning to Rufat, guided through a path whose purpose he does not yet understand.
The ruined heart of the old royal court
Dar al-Sukun
Samir returns here between journeys. Once the royal heart of Qamaris, Dar al-Sukun now holds broken ceremony, abandoned objects, and traces of palace life.
Ayuub — duty, defence, promises
Bab al-Ahd
One of Qamaris' great defensive entrances, Bab al-Ahd was shaped by guards, travellers, workshops, military families and roadside trade. Its duties and promises continue long after there is nothing left to defend.
Maryam, Mother of Cinders — family, protection, childhood
Hosh al-Dar
A region of domestic courtyards, family life, caregiving and community. Hosh al-Dar remembers joy as well as grief: games, food, lullabies, neighbours, arguments, celebrations and the small routines of home.
Idris — knowledge, history, learning
Riwaq al-Ilm
Riwaq al-Ilm holds libraries, archives, scroll vaults and spaces of learning, but not only bookshelves. Qamaris also preserved knowledge through recitation, teaching, debate, star maps and spoken history.
Harun — justice, guilt, judgement
Diwan al-Hukm
Diwan al-Hukm is a civic district of judgement: public halls, records, clerks, witnesses, guards, petitioners and families awaiting decisions. Its memories ask whether the law protected ordinary people or failed them.
WHEN YOU ARE READY
Bring us a remnant.
You do not need to finish exploring before contributing. You also do not need to contribute at all. The Workshop should give you ideas before it asks for one.