Bleak Sword
Bleak Sword is a dark fantasy action game tasking players to struggle across compact, cursed diorama battlefields. Through nine tense chapters, heroes must lift the curse of the legendary Bleak Sword by…
Bleak Sword is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by more8bit, released 19 September 2019 on iOS and Mac.
What Bleak Sword is
Bleak Sword is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by more8bit and released in 2019. It was published by Devolver Digital. It is available on iOS and Mac. It runs on Unity 5.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Bleak Sword is a dark fantasy action game tasking players to struggle across compact, cursed diorama battlefields. Through nine tense chapters, heroes must lift the curse of the legendary Bleak Sword by striking down all manner of creatures in every forest, swamp, castle, and dungeon on their journey. Invoke powerful magic, uncover helpful items, and level up your character to upgrade your stats before facing down menacing guardians. Once the curse has been lifted the challenging Arena Mode and thirty unlockable achievements await even the most accomplished warrior. Bleak Sword is designed to be able to play it easily with elegant controls allowing heroes to roll, parry, attack and…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Bleak Sword launched on 19 September 2019, within three weeks of Borderlands 3, GreedFall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019) and Gears 5.
Released around the same time: Borderlands 3, GreedFall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019), Gears 5.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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All media
Dlc
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