Renown Server Hosting: Medieval PvP Sandbox on HolyHosting

Mix open-world survival with skill-based melee fighting, throw in a medieval setting, and you get Renown. The game is built around PvP, kingdom-building and tactical raids, and HolyHosting is now an official hosting partner for it. That means you can spin up a Renown dedicated server and bring your friends (or enemies) along for the ride.

What Renown Actually Plays Like

Renown is a first-person multiplayer survival game from RDBK Studios, set in a shifting medieval world. Everyone starts from zero: gather wood, build a shelter, defend it, and slowly climb from a damp campsite to a fortified kingdom. The arc goes from chucking rocks at strangers to coordinating catapult volleys against rival castles.

The loop is simple to describe and ruthless to live in. Survive, expand, raid, repeat.

Core Features Worth Knowing About

Combat With a Learning Curve

Fights in Renown are easy to start and very hard to win consistently. Directional attacks, blocks, footwork and weapon timing all matter. Players who put in the practice get to walk away from fights other players walk into. Players who don't tend to feed the enemy team's loot pile.

Building With Real Depth

The building system follows familiar survival sandbox conventions, so you won't need a tutorial to place your first wall. Where Renown sets itself apart is in material progression and structural variety, letting you go from rough wooden palisades to layered stone fortresses with defensive geometry that matters during a siege.

PvP and Sieges

A castle is only impressive until someone else's army shows up with battering rams. Renown leans hard into siege gameplay: scale walls, smash gates with rams, or soften defenses from a distance with catapults. Melee skill carries the moment-to-moment fighting, but coordination and engineering decide who actually keeps the territory.

Progression and Politics

Beyond swinging swords, Renown gives players room to play diplomat. Form alliances, broker truces, or break them at the worst possible time for everyone else. Crafting also progresses from basic cloth and wood toward workshops and stations that unlock sturdier tiers of gear and structures, so investing in infrastructure pays off long-term.

Tunable Server Settings

Not every group wants a constant warzone. Renown exposes a wide range of server settings, so you can run a hardcore raid-heavy world, a low-conflict roleplay realm, or a creative castle-building sandbox. It's the same game, configured for the group at the table.

What You Get With a HolyHosting Renown Server

A dedicated server through HolyHosting comes with the basics handled, so you can focus on what happens inside the world rather than around it.

• Instant Setup: Servers go live as soon as payment is confirmed. No long provisioning queues.
• 24/7 Support: Reach the support team any time, with typical reply times under 15 minutes.
• Automated Updates: New Renown versions are applied automatically, with manual control available if you'd rather pin a build.

That's the practical side. The fun side is whether your kingdom is still standing by next weekend.

See It in Action

If you want a quick visual of what Renown looks like before committing to a campaign, the official teaser trailer is a solid starting point.