SWORN News

Soulforged,

We want to thank our community for all your support since our Early Access launch yesterday. We feel incredibly blessed to be given the opportunity to work directly with our community. We're listening to all your feedback and suggestions, so we can learn from your in-game experience and gather insight to continue to improve SWORN during our Early Access period.

We've heard your suggestions from our Early Access launch and are currently looking into all your feedback! This includes implementing WASD binding, allowing pausing in single-player runs, and fixing tab menu issues that some players are experiencing, and more.

Before this, we'll have our first hotfix patch releasing next week, bringing damage tuning, further optimisation, fixes to minor bugs, and more. This is the very start of our continual improvements to our balancing and polishing throughout Early Access!

[h3]Upcoming Hotfix #1 - Patch Notes[/h3]

• Optimize UIs so they are disabled when not in use. This should result in a noticable performance gain.
  
• Damage Tuning:
  
  • Increased "Blade Rush" damage 75 -> 100
    
  • Increased Arcane Blade Light Attack damage 12 -> 15
    
  • Reduced Arcane Blade Heavy Attack speed
    
  • Increased Armillary Sphere Light Attack damage and reduced attack speed
    
  • Adjusted "League of Shadows" damage scaling
• Fix Golden Hand event balancing
  
• Fix emote stuck on screen during loading
  
• Misc emote UI fixes
  
• Changed default emotes for new saves
  
• Fix "Total Shade Damage" stat string on "League of Shadows" blessing
  
• Remove "Reaper" Scythe Blessing from game
  
• Update Credits
  
• Fix issue where blessing seal rooms would remove roundtable blessings
  
• Add dither to Arthur arena entrance
  
• Add collider in tutorial level to prevent walking inside rocks

SFX

• Added harbor bell SFX to Deep Harbor ambience
  
• Added Ultimate Ready SFX
  
• Fixed Percival Intro SFX
  
• Fixed Post Level Shop ducking UI SFX
  
• Added Failed Interaction SFX to Post Level Shop, Architect UI, and Bounty Board
  
• Added Show/Hide SFX to Skill Trees and Bounty Board
  
• Fixed Unlock hint text
  
• Turned off Door Closing SFX at the beginning of Arthur's Fight

We hope you are immersing yourself in our crafted comic world and enjoying the start of our swift and exciting Early Access!

Soulforged,

It's finally time to bind you and your friends in an oath to overthrow a corrupted Arthur! SWORN is now available in Early Access! We can't express enough how thankful we are to our community for joining us on this journey to Early Access — helping us refine and shape SWORN into a game that we are immensely proud of.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1763250/SWORN/

We hope you enjoy SWORN! The Early Access launch version of the game is packed full of highly polished content. Our development process means that the game we release into Early Access, while not containing all of the features and content we plan to have in the final game, plays like the base version of a finished game - without major features missing or work-in-progress content.

Become soulforged with our launch trailer
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[h2]About SWORN[/h2]

SWORN is a 1-4 player action roguelike that sets you and your friends on a unique quest to reclaim a fallen Camelot in a dark retelling of the Arthurian tale.

A co-op first roguelike with a classic fast-paced dungeon crawler combat. You must work together, with aid from familiar Camelot characters to become knights worthy of facing Arthur himself.



You can play solo or unite with up to 4 friends to stand off against the Knights of the Round Table.

Choose from 4 characters: Vigilante, Rook, Spectre, and Monk and combine the strengths of each character in surprising ways and master abilities to become knights worthy of standing off against Arthur himself.



You can combine your blessings with unique character, weapon, and ability selections. This allows you to test thousands of unique builds as you become a seasoned knight.



Upgrades from the Beacon of Avalore will forge your squire into a worthy champion over time. However, if you believe you are already worthy of facing Arthur, get ready for a challenge that will put your skills to the test.



[h2]About Early Access and What's Next[/h2]

Our Early Access will be swift and exciting. Our goal is to fully launch SWORN in the Summer of 2025.

We plan to have 4 major updates to the game before full release that expand and refine the overall experience. We have a packed development roadmap that we will share in more detail soon, but we aim to expand in key areas – run variety to keep the format exciting, new weapons and abilities, creating more co-op magic moments and overall polish – as well as continual improvement to balancing and polishing throughout Early Access.

To the Speedrunning Community, we appreciate your continued support by playing the demos (and breaking them) over the past year. We wanted to let you know that we're working with a fellow runner (Nikoheart) to create an official autosplitter for your SWORN runs. We know you're itching to go fast, but please engage patience and slow down; This will be released alongside one of our major updates during Early Access: https://www.nikoheart.com/


The gates of Camelot are officially open. Thank you, and good luck! You and your companions will need it.

[h2]SWORN enters Early Access tomorrow, February 6th! [/h2]

Before we open the gates to Camelot, please see key information on release timing, pricing, content, and a message from us.

[h2]Release Time[/h2]

• February 6th: 9:00am PST / 12:00pm EST / 5:00pm GMT / 6:00pm CET
  

[h2]Pricing[/h2]

• EA Launch Price (20% Discount): £19.99 / €19.99 / $19.99
  ❗20% Launch Discount will run for 6 days before prices revert to Default.
  
• Default Prices (0% Discount): £24.99 / €24.99 / $24.99
  
• Regional Pricing is also available for SWORN, to be inclusive to our global fan base.
  

As a reminder, Joining us in Early Access is the best and most rewarding experience you can have, and will also come at a lower price than the full release.

[h2]Early Access Content[/h2]

• 4 Characters with different playstyles
  
• 16 Weapons (4 for each character)
  
• 16 Spells (4 for each character)
  
• 331 Blessings to collect
  
• 4 Biomes, 10 Bosses
  
• Meta Progressions system
  
• Character and weapon customization
  
• 1-4 player Online Multiplayer
  
• Fully translated into English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified)
  

[h2]A Message to our Community[/h2]
We feel incredibly blessed to be given the opportunity to work directly with our community, and we'd like to express our immense gratitude to you. For the past 9 months since we announced SWORN, your feedback, ideas, bug reports, and enthusiasm have fueled our journey, giving us that extra bit of purpose as we've been preparing for this Early Access release. Tomorrow, we click the "GO LIVE" button, and this would not have been possible without your immense support.

Early Access is a beginning, and not an end state for SWORN. We have multiple content releases planned ASAP for some much requested features, tons of new content coming, then console releases this summer. It's going to be jam packed, fun, and we are excited to continue working with you along this journey. Thank you for your support!

- Sam Leonard, Game Director