Son of Sword

The hero of a village sacrificed himself in a war and sealed his powers inside a sword. A prophecy says the weapon is to be wielded by his son and will play an important role in averting a future crisis.

Son of Sword is a 2D metroidvania heavily inspired by Golden Sun series. Explore the world, battle enemies and solve puzzles using a variety of powers that allow you for special interactions with the environment. The game features 18 sanely-sized locations full of secrets.

This is an old game I created over 10 years ago. It was originally created in Ruby/Gosu and this new release is ported to Godot Engine. This is a direct port using a custom re-implementation of Gosu on top of Godot, running in embedded Ruby interpreter. Due to this specific setup, the game is only available on Windows (though might run fine using Wine). Note that the main Son of Sword.exe file is a wrapped .bat file; if you have trouble running it (likely due to antivirus...), you can instead launch the Godot.exe found in GameData folder.

Note that this game was created when I was much less experienced in gamedev and this release contains almost unmodified original content, so it has some questionable design decisions and very poor writing (cringe warning). While I have verified that the game can still be finished, I imagine people will have some trouble finishing it, so here are some general tips:

• With default controls, Ctrl/Enter are used for accepting.
• Make sure to read the help page in the menu.
• Before heading out to the second village, talk to everyone in the first one (there is an useful key item you can get).
• There are no tutorials and you are expected to know all your abilities. You can read their descriptions in the game menu (opened using Enter by default).
• The game can be saved anywhere, as long as you have defeated all enemies in the current room. Save often.
• The difficulty can be frustrating/unfair at times, but it's doable. Most bosses follow fixed patterns and good old button mashing tends to be effective. Thrust attack is especially useful in early game.
• Getting 100% involves obtaining all power balls (there is 180 for each of four colors) and 2 hidden scrolls. It's better to leave backtracking/exploration until you get all abilities.

In the future I might add some QoL fixes and features, as I have some ideas after my recent playthrough, but I'll see how popular will this get.

Have fun ;)