- Announcing OmniGun - 27 May 2026
I've been hard at work on my second game and am happy to announce OmniGun! OmniGun is a roguelike physics FPS where you wield a gun that can fire ANY type of ammo shoot, shock, burn, shrink, dismember, crush, explode, freeze, and impale your way past swarms of physically reactive enemies. Check out the Steam page hereGame Summary:Everything was going great. You're a lab tech testing the OmniGun, the ultimate weapon of the future. Then the automated facility turned against you! Now you must fight against every automated security system Kill Inc. ever built. Time to earn some hazard pay!One Gun. Every Bullet.The OmniGun fires any ammo type ever made allowing you to shoot, shock, burn, shrink, dismember, crush, explode, freeze, and impale your way past swarms of physically reactive enemies, then do it again with something completely different. Your enemies are the canvas, the OmniGun your…
- Security Update - 7 October 2025
This patch includes the fix for Unity's security vulnerability that they recently announced.
- Patch update 2 - 9 April 2025
The tutorial has been made optional as some players expressed interest in jumping right into the action rather than being forced to play through multiple maps.
- Post release patch #1 - 23 March 2025
Includes a few bugfixes and quality of life updates: Windowed vs full screen and screen resolution can now be selected in the options menu. A soft lock where controller players can get stuck if they are currently selecting a spawn point they lost in the spawn screen has been removed. Some of the pikemen's resting spear angles were off and didn't update correctly. This should be fixed.
- Broad Sword is launching on the 21st! - 17 March 2025
At long last Broad Sword is almost here! The game is releasing this Friday at 5PM Pacific time. The game's price is $11.99 with a 20% launch discount so make sure to pick it up in the launch window to save some money. In anticipation of the release we're taking a look at the campaign mode of the game and the factions not playable in the demo. Campaign Mode The campaign takes place on the hex grid where you control territories that generate supplies and grant access to unit types beyond to core 3 that each faction starts with. On your turn you can redistribute your forces among your controlled tiles and then can send an attack against an adjacent tile to try to capture it. Once you decide how much manpower to commit, you fight a head to head battle in the attacked tile's map and the winner gains control with their remaining troops. Gain control of the whole map to win the campaign! Facti…
- The Maps of Broad Sword Part 2 - 5 March 2025
Greetings commanders! For this update we are taking a look at the siege maps for Broad Sword, but first a bit of housekeeping. Steam Next Fest went well and some of the player feedback focused on improving the visual indicators on when you are damaging your opponent. So to help with this a damage particle effect has been added where each droplet represents 1HP of damage. Some previously silent abilities have also had audio added to them. Also, with the release date coming up quick I'm happy to announce we will be launching on March 21st! So without further delay let's get into the siege maps! Siege Map Pool Coastal Fort One of many forts guarding the coastlines and rivers of the kingdom. The sturdy walls should protect against all but the most determined of attackers. Wizard's Tower High up in the mountains this wizard's tower is used by a magical order to tap into the elemental forces…
- The Maps of Broad Sword Part 1 - 24 February 2025
Greetings commanders! As we're kicking of Steam Next Fest we are taking a look at the maps of the game starting with the conquest map pool. We'll go over more maps and features throughout the fest to stay tuned for more! These maps will be available in free play and be the regions fought over in the campaign mode. Conquest Map Pool Inferno The gates have been broken and the city is burning, but the enemy must be repelled! Inferno features a main road with a central courtyard leading to an all out brawl in the middle of the map. Ziggurat An ancient temple that leads to an elevated king of the hill style of map where there are a trio of central objective points surrounded by spawn points on the lower ground. Stagwood A small village surrounded by a wooden palisade. Secure the outer spawns and take the objectives within the village to secure the map. Siege Works Long drawn out sieges often…
- Try out our demo in the Couch-Coop Fest! - 10 February 2025
Broad Sword is proud to Participate in Steam's Couch Co-Op Fest! Once you play through the tutorial Broad Sword is a game that allows you to play local multiplayer in both Conquest Mode and the wave survival Siege Mode. Conquest In Conquest up to 4 players can play locally together in either a head to head faceoff or work together against bots. Siege In Siege you can work together in a team of up to 4 fend off escalating waves of enemies. Can you defeat the hardest enemy army and survive? The Demo is available now and being regularly updated all the way up until release of the full game in late March so check it out!
- Game Mode Overview and Demo Release Details - 12 January 2025
Hello all! As release approaches I'm about to release the promotional Demo for the game and more of these updates will take place as we get closer to launch. Demo release date Our public beta demo of the game is releasing for the Real Time Strategy Fest on January 20th and will include the following features ahead of our launch in late March. Tutorial missions explaining basic mechanics and main game modes Human and Undead playable factions (Elves, Orcs, and Dwarves included in full game) 2 Conquest Maps against either bots or other players in couch coop 1 wave survival Siege Mode Map. The Demo page can be found here This week were taking a look at an overview of the 3 game modes featured in Broad Sword. Conquest Mode The main goal of Conquest is to secure the majority of objective points on the map to gradually reduce their remaining supply points, but you'll need to make sure to captu…
- The Beta is now Active! - 23 October 2024
Hello Commanders, Broad Sword has entered a round of public beta playtesting! Sign up to participate on the main store page here: Store Page The playtest will be open for about a month and then taken down for a bit to work on before the promotional demo releases in January and the full game launches in March. Please leave any feedback on the current state of the game in the comments here or in the form accessible from the pause menu of the game. The playtest contains all the currently developed content for the game so make sure to give it a try before the more constrained demo comes out.
- The Magic of Broad Sword - 9 August 2024
Greetings commanders, This development update focuses on how the magic system works in Broad Sword. One of the core mechanics of the game is having groups of units working together and using formation tactics, and the spellcasting system is no different! Magic units are led by a powerful spellcaster or wizard supported by a group of acolytes in order to boost their spellcasting power and cast massive spells that change the battlefield. Today we will focus on two spellcasting units, the Fire Mages and the Undead Spirit Callers. Fire Mages Firemages tap into powerful flame based magic to deal large amounts of damage and cover areas of the battlefield in flames. Their abilities are as follows: Cast Fireball The group channels a massive fireball that flies forward and explodes dealing massive amounts of damage. The spell can be partially cast for shorter cast times at the cost of reduced da…
- Siege Mode Announcement - 17 July 2024
Siege Update To arms commander, the enemy is at our walls! The studio has been hard at work and is proud to introduce the siege update. As you may be able to tell by the title, we have added an entirely new wave survival game mode where you must defend your castle against waves of increasingly difficult enemies. If you can maintain control of your spawn points without being overrun you win! With this update there are two new castle maps to explore. There has also been a good amount of visual polish added from improved animations and movement, UI additions, and interface fixes. New Gameplay Trailer To celebrate this update I’ve also put together a trailer showcasing the current state of the game including a sneak peak at magic users and an upcoming 3rd game mode: The best way to keep up to date with the development of Broad Sword is to sign up to be part of our play test group, and don't…
- Major revamp Omelet Update - 28 March 2024
In order to make an omelet you need to crack a few eggs. Over the last few months we've made a lot of upgrades to core systems and under the hood features, but since these updates touched a lot of core systems much of the content in the game was broken and needed to be rebuilt. As of today the game is stable enough to share the build, but some features still need tweaking and polish. Here's a summary of the major updates made: Core system refactor - Much of the code has been cleaned up and refined to remove bugs, improve performance and to make it easier to modify going forward. Visual update - This improved performance allowed for graphical improvements while maintaining performance benchmarks. Unit shading is improved, the maps have been revamped to use Unity's terrain system, and dead units ragdoll. Gameplay updates - Unit AI has been differentiated to allow different unit types to h…
- Broad Sword Playtest is now live! - 17 November 2023
Hi everyone, I'm happy to announce that our playtest build is live! Signups are currently open so sign up and dive in! A lot of development has gone on since the release of the announcement trailer, and with the release of the playtest build I figured now is a good time to provide a devlog update. Since the game announcement the following features have been added: 2 more VS maps for a current total of 3. A tutorial mode has been added to explain core game concepts. Expanded to 5 total fantasy races including Humans, Dwarves, Elves, Orcs, and Undead, each with different stats. Unique troop types are on the roadmap. Units now passively heal out of combat. I've started to build an options menu which currently includes a volume mixer. General polish tweaks. Tutorial: The new tutorial area features the very beginning of the narrative story and will lead directly into the narrative campaign.…
