Last updated September 22, 2026.
Facts, pictures, and words for writing about Goodly Trials. For keys, interviews, and review copies: [email protected].
Fact sheet
- Title
- Goodly Trials
- Developer
- Osborn Design Works
- Designer
- Taylor Osborn
- Genre
- Turn-based strategy, roguelite, autobattler
- Platforms
- Steam (Windows, Linux); web
- Release
- Open beta live; Steam Q3 2026
- Price
- To be announced
- Players
- Single-player; 2–8 player real-time multiplayer
- Age
- 13+
- Website
- goodlytrials.com
- Discord
- discord.gg/nHx9gCpFcx
- Press
- [email protected]
Short blurb
Goodly Trials is a turn-based strategy game with roguelike and autobattler bones. Hire a storied leader, build an unlikely company, and spend a careful purse on gear to survive twelve trials — alone on the road, or at a shared table.
Long blurb
Hire a storied leader and gather an unlikely company. Each journey lasts twelve turns of trading, tactics, and combat. You shop for companions and gear, place the line, and then the battle plays out. Victory belongs to preparation.
The road has four faces. Training teaches the trade. Fair Trial is the honest journey. Unfair Trial raises the stakes. Ranked keeps a rating and a title. At the shared table, two to eight companies draft, bid, lock their lines, and fight.
Three factions walk the road: Goodly, Bone, and Below. Equipment changes people more than numbers — a humble shield may be worth more than another sword. No two companies survive in quite the same way.
Goodly Trials is made by Osborn Design Works. The open beta is live. Wishlist on Steam for Windows and Linux.
Features
- Twelve trials: hire, bargain, place, and fight.
- Leaders with a trade and a temperament.
- Companions from Goodly, Bone, and Below.
- Gear, trinkets, spell tomes, and potions that change a bearer's purpose.
- Training, Fair Trial, Unfair Trial, and Ranked.
- Live multiplayer: draft, bid, lock the line, fight the table.
- Pixel art, written in a warm and peculiar voice.
Key art
Screenshots
Stills for coverage. Empty slots are shots still being gathered.
Logos
- Use the provided files. Do not redraw, filter, or replace the type.
- Keep pixel art sharp (nearest-neighbor). Do not blur or AI-upscale.
- Give the mark a little air. Do not crop into the letterforms.
- White marks on dark fields; black marks on light fields. Do not recolor the wordmark.
- The Goodly Trials mark is the game. The ODW Games mark is the studio. Keep them distinct.
Gameplay
Short clips from the open beta. A dedicated trailer is not up yet.
About
Osborn Design Works is an independent studio in the United States. Goodly Trials is our turn-based strategy game — a company, a purse, and a long road home.
Credits
- Design, writing, and development: Taylor Osborn
- Studio: Osborn Design Works
- Press: [email protected]
