27 May 2026Developer post

Announcing OmniGun

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

07 Oct 2025Developer post

Security Update

This patch includes the fix for Unity's security vulnerability that they recently announced.

09 Apr 2025Developer post

Patch update 2

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.

23 Mar 2025Developer post

Post release patch #1

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 remo

17 Mar 2025Developer post

Broad Sword is launching on the 21st!

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 camp

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!

Factions

The full release features 3 more factions that aren't playable in the demo so I'll provide a quick overview of them here:

Dwarves

The dwarves are excellent engineers with improved armor across the whole faction. Their unique units include repeater crossbowmen that can fire an impressive amount of firepower in a quick burst before needing to reload and the fearless tunnel divers which are berserkers that wield firebombs and are tasked with clearing out the most dangerous tunnels in the Dwarven realms.

Elves

Elves are skilled and magically attuned warriors that have a higher base damage than any of the other factions. They also have deadly fire mages that group cast fire spells that damage wide swaths of the battlefield. Their more stealthy counterpart are the Shadow Blades that use blades cursed with a deadly poison and can teleport around the battlefield.

Orcs

Orcs are the most physically imposing faction as their most powerful warriors often take to the battlefield nothing but their bare fists. These brawlers use their weight and strength to tackle and trample their opponents. The smaller and younger orcs often use venomed javelins to hunt down both prey and enemies.

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05 Mar 2025Developer post

The Maps of Broad Sword Part 2

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 w

24 Feb 2025Developer post

The Maps of Broad Sword Part 1

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 region

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 have dramatic conclusions. This map features a series of elevated walkways that cut across the map allowing for vertical gameplay.

Lower Kingdom

The Dwarven realms house many secrets that they will die to defend. This map features a dual lane setup that splits your attention on two fronts. Can you secure the magma bridge and the forge?

Traitor's Pass

Mountain passes are deadly to travelers even before bandits and enemy armies enter the picture. This map uses a single lane through the canyon pass and features much more heavy armor spawns to protect against the freezing weather.

Meadow

A large grassy plane, perfect for a pitched battle! Spread out and fight your enemies over the hills and across the ponds in the area.

Courtyard Clash

A straight up battle with the spawns and objectives arranged in a 3x3 grid. The original map from the early prototype of the game. The small size of the map lets you get up close and personal with your opponent.

Emperor's Grove

The private gardens of the Elven emperor are filled with latent magical energy. This compact map features a single central objective point ringed with spawn points. The objective point is magically imbued to capture and drain enemy supplies twice as quickly as on other maps.

Barrows

Barrows is a unique map where you battle over ancient graveyards as neutral ghosts wander the region attacking any who trespass on their home.

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10 Feb 2025Developer post

Try out our demo in the Couch-Coop Fest!

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 togeth

12 Jan 2025Developer post

Game Mode Overview and Demo Release Details

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 i

23 Oct 2024Developer post

The Beta is now Active!

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 th

09 Aug 2024Developer post

The Magic of Broad Sword

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

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 damage.

Flame Barrier

Another channeled spell that creates a physical wall of flame on the battlefield that damages any enemies that stand in it. This is good for defending objectives and protecting ranged units from melee attackers. Partial casts reduce the width of the wall and the duration of the spell.

Melee Attack - If the main caster dies the acolytes will defend themselves in close combat, but this is used as a last resort.

Overcharge - The commander ability for spellcasting units fully unleashes their magical potential at the cost of taking damage over time. They cast spells at double speed, but can die if they are too aggressive.

Spirit Callers

Soldiers of the undead will fight for their masters even if their physical form has been lost. Spirit Callers tap into the ethereal realm to bring spectral allies to their aid.

Wraith Missile

Channels to call in a group of wraiths that fly forward as homing projectiles to harass and damage enemies. The longer it’s channeled the more wraiths are summoned.

Spectral Army

Channeling summons a group of ghostly swordsmen to fight for the undead forces. This is useful for defending your spellcasters or overwhelming enemies with pure numbers.

Melee Attack - If the main caster dies the acolytes will defend themselves in close combat, but this is used as a last resort.

Overcharge - As with the Fire Mages the spirit callers are able to damage themselves to drastically increase their casting speed.

What's up next

There are some other magical units in the works, but let me know if there are any magic types that you would like to see.

As I work through adding more unique unit types and polishing content, I am looking at October being the next dedicated playtesting session to help weed out issues and bugs before the public demo is released on the road to full release in Q1 2025, but more info to follow. The next few updates will focus on covering the different factions and their units and fighting styles.

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17 Jul 2024Developer post

Siege Mode Announcement

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 o

28 Mar 2024Developer post

Major revamp Omelet Update

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. A

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 have their own logic as needed, projectile attacks now have an arcing trajectory, and melee units will engage enemies attacking them without needing player input. Capture mechanics have been improved including easier to capture spawns as contesting points delay troops spawning in.
UI - The UI has been revamped and the respawn screen has been reworked to allow more variety of loadouts.

Known issues:

many of the sound FX are missing
Unit types and factions temporarily have the same stats. The stat variations will be added back as the light and heavy armor units are added in.
Some UI navigation issues when in split screen multiplayer

The path forward:

The immediate future will focus adding missing content including filling out the unit loadouts, adding unique stats, and making another pass at the sound FX, which will then be followed by giving factions their unique unit types including things like Giants, Mages, Crossbowmen, etc.
The next major update would be to include a wave survival "Siege" mode where you can either by yourself or cooperatively with a friend hold out against increasingly deadly waves of units.
The last mode to be added before the 1.0 release would involve a conquest campaign with a turn based overworld leading to individual battles.

Be sure to try out the new update and let me know your thoughts on our brand spanking new discord here.

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17 Nov 2023Developer post

Broad Sword Playtest is now live!

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 provid

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. You take the role of a human militia captain being trained by the Elven military. You will learn how unit formations work and how to control Spawn and Objective Points. I'm looking forward to seeing how players react and updating accordingly.

VS Maps:

Courtyard Clash

The original map from the tech demo of the game. It features an enclosed courtyard with a central row of 3 objective points.

Ziggurat

An ancient temple built before the founding of the Elven Empire. This map features large ramps and elevated causeways up to a central cluster of 3 objective points. If you prefer king of the hill style gameplay this is the map for you. Just don't let your opponent surround you by capturing the surrounding spawn points.

Stagwood

A small village from the opening of the upcoming campaign. Both teams need to push into the village to fight over the 2 objectives within. You'll have to wait till the campaign to see the fate of this village.

Factions:

As the game enters wider playtesting things are subject to change but each faction has had its stat lines adjusted to allow for unique tactics. They currently share the base 5 troop types of Swordsmen, Bowmen, Great Swordsmen, Skirmishers, and Pikemen, with either light, medium, or heavy armor, but unique unit types are part of the development roadmap.

Humans: Well rounded and serve as a general baseline for the other factions.

Elves: Faster base movement speed and slightly better armor at the cost of less soldiers per unit. Heavy units have the maneuverability of medium units of the other factions.

Dwarves: Slower base speed and reduced formation size in exchange for a larger health pool and much higher armor.

Orcs: Lower armor with a very large health pool as they survive through ruggedness over advanced armor. Good move speed and formation size.

Undead: Light and medium troops are very fragile, but come in large swarms, and the Heavy death knights come in smaller groups, but serve as a tanky anchor. All undead units feature fast health regen due to their dark magic.

Going forward:

As I'm collecting feedback from play testers I'll continue to work on the narrative campaign starting with the 2 missions that will be contained in the final demo and then expand it to the planned 10 mission narrative arc. Part of this development will include adding more unit types and maps along with a new wave survival mode. I've decided to take online multiplayer off of the 1.0 release roadmap in order to get the game released in a reasonable timeframe, but if the demand is there I can add it post release.

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Updates & announcements

Game Summary:

One Gun. Every Bullet.

Exit Strategy

Campaign Mode

Factions

Dwarves

Elves

Orcs

Greetings commanders!

Siege Map Pool

Coastal Fort

Wizard's Tower

Keep

Terraces

Greetings commanders!

Conquest Map Pool

Inferno

Ziggurat

Stagwood

Siege Works

Lower Kingdom

Traitor's Pass

Meadow

Courtyard Clash

Emperor's Grove

Barrows

Broad Sword is proud to Participate in Steam's Couch Co-Op Fest!

Conquest

Siege

Demo release date

Conquest Mode

Siege Mode

Campaign Mode

Fire Mages

Cast Fireball

Flame Barrier

Spirit Callers

Wraith Missile

Spectral Army

What's up next

Siege Update

New Gameplay Trailer