HAIDUK is a tabletop role-playing game currently being developed for a limited release in late 2026, ahead of large-scale publishing and distribution. It centres on the eponymous figure – mountain outlaws of Balkan epic poetry.

History, imagination, and myth clash against a distorted Ottoman golden age. Heists, duels, love affairs, narrow escapes, and looming death make for dramatic and fast gameplay – easy rules and complex themes.

You are an outcast, crushed by an empire. The Sultan is distant and rarely mentioned, some say immortal by way of sorcery or alchemy. His Viziers shape reality, unnatural Janissaries fight his battles, and innumerable Pashas, Aghas, princes and princesses vie for ascension. What will your story be? Glorious victory, glittering treasure, lovers and fame, a song after your name, noble death?

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