How we source
Railborn is not out, and no build is public. That makes almost everything written about it somebody’s guess. This page explains how this site avoids being one of them — and what it refuses to do.
Source
Every factual claim is linked to its origin.
Nothing on this site is written from memory. Each entry names the studio communication it comes from, quotes it word for word, and links to the original. Where a sentence matters, we publish it verbatim rather than paraphrasing it — a paraphrase quietly adds precision that the source never had.
Verify
Information is cross-checked whenever possible.
The studio's own pages are watched for rewrites: we keep a fingerprint of every source page and compare it, so a page edited after we quoted it does not pass unnoticed. Facts the store publishes about the game are read from the store itself and regenerated, never retyped — a number copied by hand is a number that drifts.
Be transparent
When something isn't known or confirmed, we say so.
Railborn has no public build. Nobody outside Washbear Studio has played it — including us. So this site explains what the studio has said; it does not give play advice, and it publishes no numbers, because none have been published. Where a page has a gap, the gap is written down along with what would close it.
The three levels, and what each one means
Every entry on this site carries exactly one of three levels. The level is data, not decoration: it is stored with the entry, and it decides what the page is allowed to say.
There is a floor below these three. If no named, dated authority has mentioned a subject at all, it does not get a page — not even a page that says so. An empty page with a disclaimer is still an empty page.
What counts as a source here
Washbear Studio is the only authority. Its monthly development posts, its store page, its own site and its press kit are the primary record. Established games press is used as reported material, always attributed by name, and never promoted to confirmed. Community posts, wikis, videos by third parties and aggregator summaries are not sources: they are, at best, a pointer towards one.
An extract is not a source either. Every quote on this site was taken from the full page, opened and read — a search summary once told us the studio had announced a release year, and the article it summarised said the exact opposite.
Dates, and why every page carries one
Each entry records when its source was published and when the entry was last reviewed. Both are shown on the page. This matters more than usual here: the studio ends every post by saying that features may change before and during early access, so a fact that was true in November is a fact as of November.
When the game becomes playable, every entry on this site will be reviewed against it. None of what is written today was observed in play, and each entry records that too.
What this site will not do
- Publish a release date the studio has not given.
- Publish any number about the game — costs, yields, timings, tiers. None exist publicly.
- Give play advice. Nobody has played it.
- Present a community request or an expectation as a confirmed feature.
- Fill a gap with plausible text. A gap is written as a gap.