About The Swordbearer – Season 1
You grow up in the town of Riverfell alongside your best friend, and when you both apply to the Knights Guild in the capital, your life changes. The guild takes raw recruits and turns them into knights, and you carry with you a sword left behind by your mother. This is a fantasy RPG visual novel where your choices shape the story, its ending, and the characters who follow you into battle. Like Cabin Corpse, Season 1, it mixes combat and character building with branching narrative, though here the medieval setting anchors the tale of a growing darkness and an antagonist with plans of his own.
Romance is optional: you can build a harem, pursue a single relationship, or skip it altogether, and the game is designed to support whichever path you choose. Side quests and optional scenes let you spend time with your party without forcing the main story forward, which suits players who like to linger. The game includes adult scenes that unlock as you progress, and some have animations, though the developer intends to expand this as development continues.
The Swordbearer is in early access at version 0.11, available on Windows, macOS and Linux in English. The developer notes that the medieval framing is playful rather than strict, speech and humor bend genre conventions, and reminds players that planned features mentioned in the description may not yet be implemented.
Developer's description
The Swordbearer is an adult visual novel (AVN) where you take on the role of a young adventurer who grew up with his best friend in a town called Riverfell. Your journey starts after the two of you apply to the Knights Guild at the capital – A prestigious organization that turns novices into formidable knights. Life as you know it changes when you wield the sword your mother left you. You and your party will be thrown into a world of adventure where you will get to make choices and decide the outcome of the events. Meet loveable characters and beautiful romanceable women as you explore this world that awaits you. Face the darkness that surfaces and uncover the evil plot as your story progresses.
Romance
Meet lovable characters with different personalities as you progress. Create your own harem or take the path of monogamy. The choice is yours. The game will continue to be designed with both paths in mind.
Optional interactions
Need a break from the plot? Go through some fun optional content. Future plans include side quests that you can do with your comrades that will not mess with the plot but add a layer of content that is completely optional. I highly recommend going through all the content.
Bad guys!
What’s a story without a good antagonist? Be part of the action and drama as the plot unfolds. The game will have multiple endings. Choices that determine these endings will be made available to the player at appropriate events during the game.
Adult content
Adult content will come to you as you progress. The game also has animations for some scenes and the list will grow as the game progresses.
Additional notes
Although this game falls primarily in the medieval genre, I advise you to not take the tag too literally. While maintaining a strong connection to the medieval genre, this game is more playful in nature when it comes to speech for example. I personally find that limiting speech or certain elements to a strict medieval setting really limits what you can do in terms of creativity and humor. Please remember, this game is 100% fiction. The time era does not exist.
A final reminder that this game is in early access. If you feel like something is mentioned in the description but is missing, it probably means it’s upcoming content. I won’t commit to adding certain content unless I’m 100% sure.
Version History
v0.11 Latest
v0.11
N/A
v0.10
N/A
v0.9
- 1100 new renders
- New soundtracks
- New bonus images
v0.8
760 new renders
2 bonus images found via free-roam
v0.7
The episode comes with close to 1000 new renders and 14 animations.
A scene was removed and will be included in the next one because I was not happy with the animations and so they need some polishing.
v0.6
Added a Character Journal
- You can find the character journal in the menu. Look for 'Journal'. If you don't see any entries, just start the episode and they should fill up after like one second. Entries will be updated the more you interact with the character. Heart symbols on journal entries indicate main LI's (LI's that will have a unique solo ending should you choose to go with that route). Please remember that you can pursue all the LI's and change your decision to be a one woman man later on if you want to experience all the relationships for now. Your call.
Added achievements
- Achievements for this episode have been added and should automatically sync with your Steam account. Note that there are achievements from older episodes that will come with the next episode. I didn't activate all of them because I thought having so many pop ups would get annoying. The variables are tracked and saved in your game so you will get them when I activate them even though they're older ones.
The dialogue system
- I didn't talk about this one when I implemented it in the previous episode but basically, sometimes, you'll get options to respond in a certain way - Friendly, Funny, Flirty, Aggressive. These responses will be linked to achievements/bonus image unlocks/bonus action and dialogue unlocks. For example : If you're always aggressive, you might be able to perform aggressive actions in some scenes based on how high your aggression points are.
General notes
- As you all know, I moved to another country and it took me a while to find a place, settle down and start working, which is what caused this gap between the previous episode and this one. I apologize for the delay and assure you that releases will be much faster now that I'm all settled in. The next episode is planned in the first few week or two of January and may even be out if I finish before that.
I realize that the slow burn might be getting too slow for some of you. All I can say is that the next episode will change that. I've already written down most of the scenes for the next one so I just have to start working on renders now. If you have any questions or if you find any bugs, feel free to join my discord channel. Click on the logo at the main menu and come say hi.
v0.5
- ~800 renders
- Some new animations
- Added a personality scoring system for some dialogue choices that'll be obvious based on the icon next to them. For now, these will just track your points which will translate to achievements whenever they're implemented.
v0.4 Final
Episode 4 is now complete and live. There are around 800 new renders bringing our total render count to 1200+, our biggest yet and 15-16 animations I hope you like the update.
v0.2b
Second half released!
-Added around 700 images
-6-8 new soundtracks
-5 new bonus images
Plot wise, there's a little more than the previous version (in my opinion).
v0.2a
First half of second release
v0.1
First release
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