A WWII voxel extraction shooter

No Man’s
Village

Forty minutes. One occupied village. Pack your kit, go in, take everything you can carry, and make it out alive before the bombers come, or lose it all.

Play the alpha Free on itch.io for Windows, macOS and Linux, Steam Early Access later. Bring up to three friends.
The raid

Go in. Loot it. Get out.

Everything you take in is on the line. Everything you bring out is yours to keep.

The loadout screen: a Colt M1911 in the sidearm slot, kit slots and the stash of guns, grenades and dressings.
01 · Headquarters

Gear up

Pick a rifle and a sidearm, pack rounds and dressings, and choose where you go in. Weight slows you down. The pouch keeps two things safe if you fall.

Searching a cabinet in a dark house: the kit panel lists what it holds beside the kit and the bag.
02 · The village

Loot everything

Every house has something worth opening: armoires, dressers, chests, desks, workbenches. Cognac, medals, silver, and if you are lucky a painting, a cipher book or a gold ingot worth more than the rest of the raid together.

An M1 Garand raised on a rainy road at dawn, a soldier of the garrison standing in the road ahead.
03 · The garrison

Survive the fight

Riflemen, machine guns on overwatch, scoped marksmen and an officer at the abbey. Every wound bleeds until you dress it, and nothing heals on its own.

The map with three minutes and twenty seconds left: the extractions, their distances and the orders still open.
04 · Extraction

Make it out

Hold an extraction for eight seconds and everything you carry is banked. Die, or let the clock run out, and you keep only your pouch.

  • The road out, a different one every raid
  • The supply train, while it stands at the halt
  • The half-track, once you fuel it
  • A resistance guide, for two cartons of cigarettes
  • A flare pickup the whole valley sees
Saint-Roch

A village worth the risk

Fog at dawn, storms in the afternoon, a lamp by the crossroads at night. Every raid draws its own hour and weather, and the garrison sees less in the dark.

Saint-Roch from above in thick dawn fog, bombers crossing the hills beyond.
The war memorial by the crossroads at dusk, a patrol in the street behind it.
Saint-Roch Abbey at dusk, its twin bell towers above the square.
The main street on a clear night under the moon, a lamp lit by the houses.
A storm over the abbey in the afternoon, rain across the rooftops.
A morphine syrette in hand on a rainy road at dawn, a soldier of the garrison ahead, health at forty.
The pillared command hall deep inside the bunker, lit by its wall lamps.
Everything in it

Why you’ll go back

No two raids are the same, and every one of them can be your last.

Raids

  • 40 minutes on the clockThen the bombers flatten the town, and whoever is still in it.
  • A new raid every timeThe road out, the train timetable, the hour and the weather change with every deployment.
  • Twelve ways inRidges, woods, fields, orchards and river banks all round the valley. The raid picks one.
  • Five ways outRoad, train, half-track, resistance guide or flare.
  • The command bunkerTwenty-two of the garrison’s best, their commandant, an armoury and a strongroom that opens to one key.

Squads

  • Up to four playersHost a squad, share the code, deploy together.
  • Open raidsMatch with another squad and share the village with them. They can loot your body too.
  • Get your friends back upA downed squadmate crawls; stand over them and bring them back.
  • Friendly fire is onWatch where you point it.

Loot and money

  • Search anythingFurniture, caches and the dead. A fallen soldier drops what he carried.
  • Rare findsPaintings, cipher books and gold ingots worth a whole raid.
  • The quartermasterSell what you found, buy what you need. Every gun is on sale; the better ones cost more.
  • Upgrades for goodA bigger rucksack, more pouch pockets, insurance that brings lost guns home.
  • Never broke for longNo gun and no money still gets you a basic kit.

Orders

  • A board that keeps movingFetch, watch, plant, kill. Up to three at once, paid in francs and standing.
  • A longer job, step by stepFrom the abbey dispatches to the strongroom ledger to the commandant himself.
  • The officer’s map caseKill him and it is the prize of the raid. Pick it up and the whole garrison comes for you.

Gunplay

  • Real ballisticsBullets fly, drop and lead. Iron sights are zeroed, scopes have a range drum.
  • PenetrationA rifle round goes through doors, planks and hedges. Stone stops everything.
  • Learnable recoilEvery automatic has its own pattern to pull against.
  • Breath and staminaSights sway with your breathing. Hold your breath to steady a shot.
  • Lean, crouch, go proneRest a rifle on a sill or wall top; bipods drop on cover.
  • No crosshairFrom the hip you point the gun, not a cursor. The sights settle once your feet stop.

Survival

  • No health regenerationField dressings stop bleeding, morphine brings you back.
  • Falls hurtA storey sprains an ankle, a roof wounds, a tower kills.
  • Wounds bleedAnd leave a trail behind you.
  • Played by earEvery soldier’s boots, reloads, searches and creaking doors carry through the village.
  • A last standAlone and down, your own morphine can get you back up.

Three armies

  • US Army, British Army, WehrmachtThirty-one period guns, from the M1 Garand and the Sten to the MG 42 and the Panzerfaust.
  • Dress your soldier1944 uniforms, helmets, webbing and division patches.
  • The enemy is always the other sideAny army’s guns work once you find them.

The garrison

  • They notice you slowlyStay low, stay quiet and stay in the dark.
  • They hear youGunfire, footsteps and broken glass give you away.
  • They fight smartThey take cover, suppress, flank, throw grenades, kick doors in and search where they lost you.
  • They breakA group that loses most of its men falls back. A man left alone may put his hands up.
  • A tank on its beatA Panzer IV or a Sherman patrols the farm roads, and the flak batteries are manned.

The village

  • Over fifty houses to climbFurnished rooms, oak stairs and first floors.
  • Doors and windows that workOpen, shut, shatter and climb through.
  • Cover that breaksGrenades tear cover apart; rooms get overturned, charred and buried.
  • Beyond the streetsBocage fields, a forest with a downed B-17, a rail halt and the abbey with its furnished church.
  • Twelve places out in the countryA radar station, a château, a quarry, a V-1 site, a hamlet, a calvados farm, a watermill, a field hospital, a railway junction, a blown bridge, an airstrip and a glider field, each with its own guard.
The orders board: the flak rangefinder, thinning out the garrison, valves for the set and a chain of jobs leading to the commandant.
The orders board
The soldiers screen: a US Army private standing in the street, his squad listed below.
Dress your soldier
Alpha test

The village is waiting

The alpha is free on itch.io for 64-bit Windows 10 or later, macOS 12 or later and Linux. Install it with the itch app and every new build arrives by itself; squads find each other on the public server.

Play the alpha

It is an early build: expect rough edges, and progress may be reset between versions. No Man’s Village comes to Steam Early Access later. Windows may warn that the game comes from an unknown publisher: choose More info, then Run anyway. macOS may say it cannot check the app: open System Settings, Privacy & Security, and choose Open Anyway. A graphics card with Vulkan, Direct3D 12 or Metal is needed.