Cogheim is a steampunk 4X MMO set on a flat disc Earth five centuries after a cataclysm. Players live aboard Striders, walking fortress cities that carry a few hundred people each and are home, workshop, vehicle and battleground at once. The city keeps moving while players walk its decks and corridors, and anything that reshapes the world, from firing a Strider’s main weapon to confronting a 300 meter Colossus, requires several players working together. Players form Syndicates to crew and govern a Strider, explore the ruins of the old world, decipher a lost written language, trade and research, and fight other Syndicates for territory. Information arrives through in world instruments and machinery rather than floating markers, and the setting is drawn from the five Cogheim novels, which the game lets players uncover piece by piece.