Press kit
- Game
- Sword & Soil
- Developer
- Critbyte Studios (Casey, solo developer)
- Genre
- Top-down action RPG with farming
- Engine
- Godot
- Platforms
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- Demo
- Free on itch.io
- Status
- In development
- Release
- Not announced
- Trailer
- YouTube
- Contact
- CritbyteStudios@gmail.com
About the game
Sword & Soil is a top-down pixel-art action RPG about running a family farm and fighting your way down the roads around it.
Players grow crops, raise animals, fish and cook, then sell what they make in town to buy weapons and armor. Combat is real-time, and enemies wind up before they attack. There are four classes: Warrior, Paladin, Monk and Wizard, each with its own class move and stats. Dungeons have puzzles with ice, push blocks, spring pads and arrow tiles, and end in boss fights.
The story covers five towns. The free demo is chapter one.
The pixel art is built on the Lil' Dragon pack by Raou, with extra art drawn in Aseprite. AI tools were used to assist with the coding of this game.
Screenshots
Taken from the game. Click one for the full 1280 x 720 PNG.
Key art and logos
- Key art with logo, 1232 x 706 PNG
- Key art header, 920 x 430 PNG
- Sword & Soil logo, 560 x 304 PNG, transparent
- Critbyte Studios logo, 1024 x 1024 PNG
- Critbyte Studios wordmark, 640 x 128 PNG
- GIF: a Wizard casts Chill, 1280 x 720
Scale the pixel art by whole numbers with nearest-neighbor filtering so it stays sharp.