BROKEN WORD

A broken oath sealed the realm. Mend it — alone, or with a friend.
⬇  Download for Windowsfree · ~85 MB Co-op & leaderboard ↓

ONE REALM, MANY TRADES

⚔ Classic turn-based battles

Final-Fantasy-style combat: skills, spells, burns, freezes, buffs and boss gatekeepers guarding every road. Beat them and the world opens — permanently.

⛏ Gather & craft

Mine iron, silver and mithril in the Ironpeak deeps, pick herbs in Sunmeadow, then smith blades and brew potions with hands-on forge & alchemy minigames.

◈ Run an empire

Buy herb gardens, mines and trading posts from the town Steward. Hire workers, upgrade, collect — your gold grows even while you're off adventuring.

🛡 Gear that shows

Diablo-style equipment slots with a paper-doll hero — the armour and blades you forge visibly change how your hero looks in the world and in battle.

🗺 A hand-laid world

Four connected regions — Central Valley, Greenwood Forest, Ironpeak Foothills and Sunmeadow — plus a town hub, caves, a mine and a farm. Roads, not random noise.

🌍 One shared world

Everyone on the server walks the same maps — see other heroes exploring in the very armour, helm and blade they forged, their names and levels over their heads, their shops trading in your town.

🕯 Explorable dungeons

Descend the Sunken Crypt and the Emberdeep Mine level by level — named guards seal every stairway, and a boss waits at the bottom.

🐉 A realm-wide world boss

One beast, one shared health pool. Every rift victory wounds it; when it falls, every contributor claims a share of the spoils.

🐺 Tame the wild

Beaten beasts sometimes yield — a wolf, a bear, even a walking mushroom will follow you and fight beside you.

👥 True co-op

Form a party with a 4-letter code. Watch your party's health bars on-screen, drop a rally ping to call everyone to you, wave and cheer with quick-chat, fight shared bosses that scale with party size, and run 4-room dungeons together.

FROM THE REALM

An evening stroll through town — recorded straight from the realm.
Dragon battle
A wild dragon ambush — classic turn-based combat.
A party adventuring together in the shared world
Adventure together — rally pings, quick-chat, live party frames, and every hero in their real gear.
The Frostreach
The Frostreach — a frozen north where the snow never quite stops.
The Sunscour Wastes
The Sunscour Wastes — dust goblins, giant scarabs, and buried tombs.
The Emberdeep Mine
The Emberdeep Mine — lava-lit shafts down to the Ironscale Wyrm.
World boss rift battle
The world boss — every player on the server wounds the same beast.
A tamed wolf companion
Tame the wild — beaten beasts sometimes join you, and fight at your side.
Temple of the Sun-Sealed
The Temple of the Sun-Sealed — fight Khepri-Ka at the heart of its own monument.

PLAY TOGETHER

1 · Name your hero

The game asks on your first launch — that name is what the whole realm sees.

2 · Form a party

Pause → Co-op Lobby → Form a Party, then invite any hero walking the realm. They accept from wherever they are — no codes, no setup — and the party holds until the leader disbands it.

3 · Fight as one

Boss fights and dungeons run on this server, turn by turn. Everyone's spoils go to their own save — and onto the board below.

THE REALM'S ENEMY

peering into the rift…

Every player's rift victories wound the same beast. Slay it together — every contributor claims a share of the spoils.

REALM CHRONICLE

Live deeds from across the realm — level-ups, broken seals, and wounds dealt to the great enemy.

HALL OF LEGENDS

#HEROLVGOLDBUSINESSESSTANDINGBOSSES
consulting the guild ledger…
The heroes of the realm of Oathstone — progress syncs whenever a hero saves their game. More realms open as the population grows.

TAKE UP THE OATH

Broken Word — Windows

early access playtest · auto-updates itself

✦ New in v1.1.0 — REALMS: your hero now lives on the realm of Oathstone, parties form by invite instead of codes (and hold until disbanded), day/night and living light across the whole world, torch-lit dungeons, and a fully reskinned pixel UI. Plus every v1.0.x fix.

⬇  Download .zip
  1. Unzip anywhere
  2. Run BrokenWord.exe
  3. WASD move · E interact · M map · N minimap · H potion · C chat · F rally ping · hold Shift to run

Windows 10/11 · 64-bit · ~800 MB unpacked · no install, no account

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