Sword Reverie

Released: Jan 21, 2022
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Last updated: 16 Sep 2026, 22:42 GMT

Updates & announcements

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07 Mar 2025Developer post
Sword Reverie 1.0 Update
Now is a great time to jump back into Sword Reverie 🔥 Unique skills and strategy: Discover 16 unique player skills and 12 challenging enemy skills. Optimized skills and player skill cooldowns to allow more combos and strategic choices. ⚡ Optimized early levels so you can get to
Now is a great time to jump back into Sword Reverie
🔥 Unique skills and strategy: Discover 16 unique player skills and 12 challenging enemy skills. Optimized skills and player skill cooldowns to allow more combos and strategic choices.
⚡ Optimized early levels so you can get to the fun faster!
🌸Japanese VO and subtitles in English, Japanese, and Chinese (simplified/Traditional). Play in the language of your choice and get the full anime experience.
🐞 Game optimization: We’ve greatly improved the game's performance, added many new small features, and fixed a ton of bugs including but not limited

Added comfort settings
Better indication when hitting enemy armor.
Better skill swap UI
Issues with using teleport after level 6
Correctly unlocking a weapon after completing level 12.
As always, thank you for checking out our game again and we hope to bring you more exciting updates soon!
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28 Nov 2024Developer post
Black Friday Update
Minor new featuers, bug fixes, and performance optimizations Added support for LIV SDK Improved character shaders Allow players to cancel enemy's skills with knockback Fixed bugs and optimized performance for certain skills Fixed some issues with skill sound effects when pausing
Minor new featuers, bug fixes, and performance optimizations

Added support for LIV SDK
Improved character shaders
Allow players to cancel enemy's skills with knockback
Fixed bugs and optimized performance for certain skills
Fixed some issues with skill sound effects when pausing and restarting
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23 Sep 2024Developer post
Major update to player and enemy skills
We’ve been working hard behind the scenes since our last update, and we’re thrilled to announce major new updates after having heard your feedback! 🔥 Diversified gameplay: Discover 16 unique new player skills - we have doubled our previous skill set! Each skill is designed to en
25 Feb 2024Developer post
Sword Reverie Updates Starting again
Exciting updates from the Sword Reverie Team Hello! First off, we owe you an apology. It’s been a while since our last update - too long, really. For the last year and a half, we faced some tough challenges. Financially, things didn’t pan out as we’d hoped, which slowed us down m
17 Mar 2022Developer post
0.8.9 Early Access Update 1.5
New features: Added volume settings, including the ability to change music, voice-over, and sound effect volume independently. Improved Magnus AI to attack enemies in more cases during Chapters 2 and 4 (we will continue improving NPC AI in future updates). Bug fixes and balance c
New features:

Added volume settings, including the ability to change music, voice-over, and sound effect volume independently.
Improved Magnus AI to attack enemies in more cases during Chapters 2 and 4 (we will continue improving NPC AI in future updates).
Bug fixes and balance changes:

Fixed issue with menus blocking each other in Guild Hall.
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23 Feb 2022Developer post
Early Access Update 1 Now Available
0.8.8 Early Access Update 1 The first update for Sword Reverie Early Access is here! New features: Improved Magnus AI to attack enemies in certain cases (we will continue improving Magnus AI in the next update). Players now receive exp and items when killed. Added sitting mode an
0.8.8 Early Access Update 1
The first update for Sword Reverie Early Access is here!
New features:

Improved Magnus AI to attack enemies in certain cases (we will continue improving Magnus AI in the next update).
Players now receive exp and items when killed.
Added sitting mode and height calibration options (decide how tall or short you want to be).
Added setting for snap / smooth turn speed.
Bug fixes and balance changes:

Reduced drag on player swords (allows the sword to more closely track player hand movement)
Reduce the slow time effect duration after hitting an enemy.
Increase Elemental and Humanoid enemy movement speed and attack speed.
Fixed issue where certain Steam achievements aren’t being correctly set.
Fixed issue when Humanoid enemy swinging down still damages player after the attack finished.
Fixed issue where the player can stun-lock enemies on the ground. Enemies get up more quickly after being knocked to the ground and can not be knocked down again for a certain duration after getting up.
Player hands are better posed around Swords in a grip pose.
Improved player forearm IK to reduce player arm twisting.
Fixed issue where certain sound effects would play repeatedly when switching between guild hall and levels.
We are working on many more improvements based on your feedback and will continue to have updates every 1~2 months.
Select items from Roadmap for next 1~3 months:

Improve Magnus AI to fight enemies on more levels.
Improve Ranged Enemy AI so they run away at a slower speed than when running towards you so players can catch up to them and kill them when they are running away. i
Add volume settings.
Change health and mana potions so players can choose when to use them (from the pause menu) instead of consuming them as soon as the player receives them.
Add checkpoints to certain longer levels so players do not need to restart the whole level when they die.
Add potion crafting.
Add vignette comfort option.
Add additional movement options (run, dash, jump).
Add Japanese VO.
Add Chinese and Japanese UI.
Add subtitles (in English, Chinese, and Japanese).
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02 Feb 2022Developer post
0.8.6 Early Access Hotfix
Bug fixes and balance changes: Fixed issue where players can’t move controller after completing a level when turning using smooth turn.
Bug fixes and balance changes:

Fixed issue where players can’t move controller after completing a level when turning using smooth turn.
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27 Jan 2022Developer post
0.8.5 Early Access Week 1 Patch
Bug fixes and balance changes: Reduced memory usage by 40%+ and reduced memory-related crashes Improve performance on 16GB RAM machines Reduce crashing on machines with <8GB page files Baked vegetation to reduce memory usage Optimized textures Delay loading of voice-over dialo
Bug fixes and balance changes:

Reduced memory usage by 40%+ and reduced memory-related crashes
Improve performance on 16GB RAM machines
Reduce crashing on machines with <8GB page files
Baked vegetation to reduce memory usage
Optimized textures
Delay loading of voice-over dialogue
Added logs to end of level win menu to help debug issues with players not being able to move controllers after completing a level. New logs will help us resolve the issue if players continue to experience it in the future
Fixed bug causing mana regen only once per two hits instead of once per hit.
Fixed bug where Stella and Magnus VO were not properly spatialized.
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22 Jan 2022Developer post
We are listening to your feedback
A big thank you to those of you who purchased our game and provided us feedback and bug reports. We are reading all the feedback and issues you have. We are working hard to fix all crashes and soft lock issues and will address issues with the design that players did not like. We
21 Jan 2022Developer post
Sword Reverie Available Now
The wait is over! Sword Reverie is now available on Steam. The game is $19.99 and there is a 20% launch discount on Steam. Grab your copy now and start your journey in the Kingdom of Newcrest. You can also get the Digital Deluxe bundle which includes the artbook and soundtrack fo
23 Dec 2021Developer post
Sword Reverie Early Access Jan 21.
The Sword Reverie PC VR Early Access starts January 21, 2022. Wishlist the game on Steam to be notified on release. Your journey in the Kingdom of Newcrest begins! Will you be able to master the four elements, skillfully use your awesome abilities, and defeat an Elemental Centaur
28 Nov 2021Developer post
Sword Reverie Closed Beta Starts 12/17
After 3 years in development, the Early Access portion of Sword Reverie is complete! We will be conducting a final round of testing starting on December 17th, 2021 to find bugs and adjust difficulty. Early Access release date will be announced soon! We thank you for your continue
27 Sep 2021Developer post
Game development for Early Access nearing completion. Beta coming soon!
Game development for Early Access nearing completion. Beta coming soon! Our latest alpha build (0.7.5) has been completed. There have been many changes to the progression and difficulty balance, the music and sound design of the game, as well as two additional levels. We have rec
24 Jul 2021Developer post
Early Access Delay and Alpha Update
Hi Everyone, Unfortunately, Spring 2021 has come and gone :( We did not finish Sword Reverie Early Access development in time for our original Early Access launch date. We are still hard at work on the game, and the new Early Acess date will be later this year. We will announce t
03 Feb 2021Developer post
Exploring an Isekai in VR
Join me as I livestream my adventures in the isekai world of Sword Reverie. Sword Reverie is a new JRPG inspired VR action game developed by Isekai Entertainment. Sword Reverie gives players a rich fantasy world to explore and a unique combat system where players use body motions
22 Sep 2020Developer post
Sword Reverie Kickstarter Now Live
Sword Reverie Kickstarter is now live! Back now: Check out the latest development progress and exclusive video that tells the behind the scene story from the dev team. Back now to take advantage of our Early Bird discounts and secure a limited edition reward.
10 Sep 2020Developer post
Kickstarter Coming 09/22/2020
The Sword Reverie Kickstarter will start September 22nd, 2020 . Get notified when our Kickstarer is live: The Kickstarter will allow you to support the development of the game and get the game at a discounted price at Early Access. This is also a unique opportunity to get guarant