Getting Started
Steam, the Launcher and Mods
One path into the realm: install on Steam, sign in through the launcher, play. Everything else is optional.
Installing
Ugaris is distributed through Steam only: Ugaris — The Legend Recovered (App 1044010). It runs on Windows and Linux, including the Steam Deck. macOS is not part of this release.
- Add the game to thy Steam library and install it.
- Press Play. The launcher opens first.
- Sign in and pick a character — the launcher starts the game client for thee.
The old manual download is gone. Steam keeps the client, the launcher and the content pack up to date; there is nothing to patch by hand.
Signing in
- Sign in with Steam the moment the launcher opens, or use thy e-mail login.
- Already have a Ugaris account? Sign in with e-mail once and link it to Steam; from then on Steam logs thee in.
- If a Steam sign-in created a fresh account before thou linkedst, the launcher offers to merge: thou choosest which account's details to keep, and all characters end up together.
- Steam accounts without a real e-mail are asked to complete the profile (e-mail and password) so thou canst also log in from the website.
The same account tools live on this website under Account.
The launcher
- Characters at a glance — real game-sprite portraits in thy own armour and colours, clan badges, search, sorting, favourites thou canst drag into order, and a details view with inventory, skills and professions.
- Overview totals gold, items and levels across all thy characters and searches every inventory; Compare puts two side by side.
- Multiple accounts (optional): remember several, switch with a click, see all their characters in one list.
- Game settings that reach the game: fullscreen, gamma, lighting, minimap; borderless at desktop resolution by default; per-character overrides for resolution, monitor, fullscreen and FPS.
- Play-time statistics with streaks and a calendar; tray quick-launch ("Play last", "Play as …", Ctrl+1–9 for favourites); keyboard shortcuts everywhere (F1 shows them).
- Discord Rich Presence and Steam rich presence, news with a breaking-news banner, live players online, a server status window.
- Steam Deck and controllers: full gamepad navigation with hints, a fullscreen console mode on the Deck; the launcher hides while thou playest.
- Fifteen languages. Saved passwords live in the operating system's credential store; there is no usage telemetry and crash reports are opt-in.
Mods
Client mods are native add-ons loaded by the game. The Ugaris mod itself — which provides the Auction House, Journal, parties, companions, clan window and tabbed chat — is always installed; without it the client shows an UNSUPPORTED CLIENT banner and those systems are unavailable. On top of it thou canst install community mods from the launcher: Mods → Browse lists the official registry with featured and categorised entries; Install from URL takes any GitHub repository that follows the mod layout; Update All refreshes them in one go. The game has five free mod slots.
| Mod | Category | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Gains Tracker featured Ugaris/tracker-mod | utility | Prints your exact experience and gold gains to chat, announces item drops appearing around you, and shows a session overlay with exp/hour. |
| Quest Guide featured Ugaris/quest-guide-mod | gameplay | In-game quest walkthroughs from the community spreadsheet, with live route guidance: tile markers, a guiding arrow, and steps that advance as you reach them. |
| Radar & Nameplates featured Ugaris/radar-mod | ui | Health and shield bars over characters, level badges coloured by relative danger, a players-in-view list, and an alert with a ping when another player appears. |
| Skill Planner featured Ugaris/skill-planner-mod | utility | Every skill's next-point cost, how many points your unused exp can buy, and per-skill targets with exact totals — computed with the client's own cost tables. |
| Combat Text featured Ugaris/combat-text-mod | visual | Floating combat numbers: exact HP/mana changes over your character, health percentages over everything you fight, and a live list of your active buffs. |
| Notebook Ugaris/notebook-mod | utility | In-game notes, kept per character: #note jots something down, #notes opens the notebook. Plain-text files you can edit outside the game too. |
Want to write thy own? Four demo mods (C, C++, Rust, Zig) show the mod API in each
language, and the client release ships a mod-sdk.zip with the headers and import
library.
See also
- Controls and The Game Interface — thy first minutes in the client.
- Hints and Tips — thy first hours in the world.
- FAQ