Renown Server Hosting

Renown is an intense medieval PvP survival game developed by RDBK Studios, a four person indie team based in Melbourne, Australia. Launched in Early Access on September 22, 2025, Renown combines the resource gathering and base building mechanics of survival games like Rust with the skill-based melee combat of medieval fighting games like Chivalry and Mordhau.

In Renown, players start with nothing in a vast, lush medieval world. They gather wood, stone, and ore, craft tools and weapons, and build strongholds ranging from humble farms to sprawling castles with defensive walls. The core gameplay loop centers on this eternal tension: build your fortress, gather resources, improve your weapons, and defend your territory against other clans who want to raid you and take everything you own.

Why Renown Stands Out

Unlike many survival games that rely on ranged weapons and distance combat, Renown emphasizes close quarters, skill-based melee combat. Every sword swing, shield block, and tactical positioning matters. This creates a more intimate, grounded form of PvP where player skill and reflexes determine outcomes far more than gear.

• Full loot PvP: When you die, you lose everything in your inventory. This creates genuine stakes and tension in every engagement.
• Castle building and sieges: Clans construct elaborate fortifications and siege each other with trebuchets and catapults, creating large-scale spectacle battles.
• Server progression and wipes: Regular wipes reset the world and player progress, keeping gameplay fresh across seasons.
• Group systems and claims: Form clans, take territory, set titles and ranks, and build persistent communities.
• Emergent gameplay: Player-driven politics, alliances, betrayals, and dramatic stories emerge naturally from the mechanics.

Renown servers support up to 100 concurrent players maximum, though most communities run smaller groups optimized around their preferred playstyle.

Common Renown Server Configurations

• Small group servers (2 to 10 players): Perfect for building and creating complex medieval structures without constant PvP threat. Friends and tight knit groups prefer intimate server experiences.
• Clan warfare servers (20 to 50 players): The sweet spot for organized groups. Large enough for epic clan battles, sieges, and territorial control. Supports multiple competing clans and emergent storylines.
• Large community servers (50 to 100 players): Open to public or whitelisted, supporting diverse player groups. Requires careful server management and strong administration but creates the most dramatic emergent gameplay.
• Hardcore PvP servers: Maxed difficulty, fast resource depletion, aggressive PvP rules, and frequent wipes. Attracts the most hardcore competitive players.
• Building focused servers: Lower PvP threat, longer wipe cycles, higher building rates. For players who want to create rather than constantly defend.
• Seasonal roleplay servers: Themed seasons with specific rules and storylines. New mechanics and narratives drive seasonal progression.

All of these server types are possible with our Renown hosting. You have full control over difficulty settings, resource gathering multipliers, building rates, PvP rules, and wipe schedules through our control panel.

Renown is a demanding game to host. It requires serious CPU power to handle 100 concurrent players, complex physics calculations, and the constant resource synchronization that full loot survival demands. Budget hosting with oversold servers will lag, stutter, and frustrate your community.

What Makes EUGameHost Different for Renown

• UK and US server locations: Our London location delivers low latency to European communities, critical for skill-based melee combat. Our Dallas location serves North American players perfectly.
• Full modding support: The Enfusion engine is highly moddable. You have complete file access to install mods from Steam Workshop or upload custom content. Unlimited mod capacity.
• Enterprise hardware: Intel Xeon CPUs running at 3.8GHz or higher. DDR4 RAM. NVMe SSD storage. 10 Gbps networking. Built for competitive multiplayer.
• DDoS protection included: Competitive Renown communities attract unwanted attention. Our always-on protection keeps you online through attacks.
• Instant setup: Your Renown server is live in 60 seconds. Deploy it, configure it, and start playing immediately.
• Support that understands Renown: Our team knows the game. When you need help configuring difficulty, explaining wipe systems, or troubleshooting server issues, you get answers from people who actually play.
• Full configuration control: Customize everything. Server difficulty. Building rates. Resource multipliers. PvP rules. Safe zones. Wipe schedules. Mod management. Total control.

Renown is the result of a simple observation from RDBK Studios founders Charlie and his co-founder: nobody was making the exact game they wanted to play. For years they waited for a developer to combine Rust-style survival mechanics with Chivalry-style melee combat, set in a lush medieval world. Eventually they decided to build it themselves.

RDBK Studios launched Renown through crowdfunding campaigns starting in 2020, building community support and funding the development entirely from player backing. The team chose this path deliberately: they felt asking for investor money would compromise their vision, so they built the game alongside the community instead.

Renown entered Early Access on Steam on September 22, 2025, after years of community playtests and feedback. The game immediately found an audience among players hungry for skill-based, immersive medieval PvP. Current reviews are mixed (57% positive from 1,080 reviews), reflecting typical Early Access challenges, but the foundation is solid and the community actively shapes the game's future through direct developer involvement.

Renown's Design Inspiration

Renown explicitly draws inspiration from several key games and genres: Rust's survival and base-building mechanics, Chivalry and Mordhau's skill-based melee combat, and traditional open-world survival games. The developers recognized a gap in the market where these elements weren't combined, and filled it with passion and dedication.

The result is unique. Renown isn't trying to be Rust with swords, nor is it purely a melee fighting simulator. It's a deliberate synthesis of multiple influences into something new that resonates with a specific audience: competitive medieval game fans, clan-focused players, and survival game enthusiasts who want depth beyond just gear grinding.

Renown is built on the Enfusion engine and is highly moddable from day one. The developers committed to Steam Workshop support and extensive modding tools as a core design principle, recognizing that community-created content keeps games alive long term.

What Can Be Modded in Renown

• Weapons and armor: Create new weapon types, armor sets, and cosmetic variations.
• Building materials: Add new construction materials, building pieces, and decorative objects.
• Siege engines: Customize or create new trebuchets, catapults, and siege weapons.
• Gameplay mechanics: Modify damage values, resource gathering rates, building speed, and other core parameters.
• World customization: Alter terrain, add new biomes, change landmark placement.
• Economy tweaks: Adjust crafting costs, resource values, and progression speed.

Steam Workshop support makes mod installation and updates seamless. Our servers handle automatic mod synchronization, so players never struggle with manual downloads or version conflicts. Unlimited mods can be installed simultaneously.

The modding scene is still early (Early Access only launched September 2025), but the community is already creating content and pushing the boundaries of what Renown servers can offer.

Renown appeals to a specific subset of gamers: those who want the tension and emergence of survival games, combined with the skill-based challenge of competitive melee combat, all wrapped in an immersive medieval setting.

Primary Renown Audience

• Survival game enthusiasts: Players who love Rust, DayZ, and Ark. They understand wipes, full loot, and emergent gameplay. Renown gives them a fresh survival experience.
• Medieval game fans: Kingdom Come Deliverance players, Mount and Blade fans, fantasy game lovers. Renown's setting and atmosphere resonate deeply.
• Chivalry and Mordhau players: Competitive melee combat fans who want a game with more depth beyond just deathmatch. Renown's survival layer gives them purpose and progression.
• Clan and group focused players: Gamers who want to play with friends, form guilds, and build something together. Clan systems, territory control, and cooperative building appeal to this audience.
• PvP-focused communities: Competitive players who thrive on conflict, politics, and player interaction. Renown creates naturally emergent storylines from PvP outcomes.

Ideal Renown Server Community

The most successful Renown servers are built around organized groups: established clans, friend groups, or competitive communities. Solo players struggle on full loot servers, but groups thrive through cooperation, specialization, and shared progress toward dominance. Server communities tend to be mature and engaged, treating their Renown world like a long-term project rather than a casual game.