Spear is an adventure developed by Polyhedric Games, released 5 May 2025 on Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Spear is
Spear is an adventure game developed by Polyhedric Games and released in 2025. It is available on Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 5.
The premise, in the publisher's words
It all starts like a classic fairytale: you're a knight in shining armor, the crowd is cheering, and everything feels just right... until the game suddenly crashes. Welcome to S.P.E.A.R. — a 2.5D action-platformer where flying glitch-squids invade and corrupt the digital world. Everyone vanishes. Well, almost everyone. One NPC survives: Default, a background character armed with a makeshift spear built from a broom and the mouse cursor. Now it’s up to Default to squash the bugs before the developer returns from lunch and deletes the whole project. Explore a rich 3D overworld filled with diverse regions and unlockable levels. Battle corrupted mini-bosses, collect scattered pieces of code…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Spear launched on 5 May 2025, within three weeks of Doom: The Dark Ages, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, The Midnight Walk and RoadCraft. It arrived 5 years into the Xbox Series's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Doom: The Dark Ages, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, The Midnight Walk, RoadCraft.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel. See all 4 videos →
Screenshots
All media
Quick answers
Spear — frequently asked questions
When did Spear come out?
If you like this
