Swordbreaker: Origins

This is a prequel to Swordbreaker The Game. Playing Swordbreaker Origins is like reading Fighting Fantasy gamebook with few exceptions: - You don't need to roll the dice when you make some certain choices or fight. Instead you decide what approach is suitable for you in different situations. Some actions may add a point to your Karma depending on the choices you make and which will affect your final result. - There are plenty of main hero death scenes in this game. I believe that around 1/4 of all scenes are actually death scenes in this game. And significant part of them are very unpredictable. Sometimes there's a feel that the protagonist can die literally from sneezing. Seriously! Despite these two factors Swordbreaker Origins can give much enjoyment from playing it. There are plenty of pop culture references, so if you like kinky adventure games like The Book of Unwritten Tales you'll enjoy this one too. Mini games are not very hard and can even mix the gameplay if you got tired ...

Yikes, this game is pretty bad, usally i love to have choices but in this game there is one right choice and one wrong choice and choices that gives you stuff. There is allot of them and they make very little sense most of the time, and the dialog is not that good either. Its a very silly game and since you cant save the game you have to restart when you do mess up to many times. I personally hate games that dont let me save before a choice so that is my biggest issue with this. But because of how bad the choices are and how poor the dialog is i quickly lost interest in this game. I would not recommend this game but if you dont mind restarting allot and enjoy silly games then you will probelly like this.

Excellent game! The Origin brings me a legendary adventure of Swordbreaker. Buy it now and you won't regret it :)

This is a CYOA visual novel that serves as a prequel to Swordbreaker. Each scene has you pick from options about what to do next, and in dangerous scenes picking incorrectly will result in death and losing a life. You have three lives to lose before being sent back to the beginning (although retracing your steps should be quick by just picking the same choices rapidly). If you're familiar with the original game you'll probably enjoy this too as it's a good bit bigger and offers some more complexity with having more items (or previous choices) influence events. For instance, helping someone may allow you to make a choice to call on their aid, or an item picked up earlier may allow you to resolve an encounter without needing multiple successful choices to survive. Much like the first game, death is pretty common and has some nice illustrations of your demise. Some criticisms are with the mini-games that are really basic (and failing just results in a generic "Daniel was dead" message)...

Good successor for the original Swordbreaker game. Art, music and funny references are on spot. Though due to increased length of the game 3 lives is not enough for comfortable exploration. Developers should have increased lives' amount or make option to disable it completely available in the settings from the start. Now it's locked behind discovering 3 endings, which can be very frustrating with only 3 lives. Overall still recommend it for a few joyful evenings. It's especially fun in a good company.

Played the first part by chance. This one has many more choices and paths. The artworkes are cool. Enjoyed it but still have to complete all paths.