Inkblade

Five warlords signed a pact in cursed ink. One shinobi survived it. Raid procedural castles floor by floor, from the outer grounds to the lord at the summit, then lead your clan in a war for sixteen provinces.

About the game

Inkblade is a stealth hack-and-slash set in feudal Japan. The war for the sixteen provinces had run for a generation when four great houses signed the Black Covenant in the ink of a cursed inkstone, and the ink signed its own name beneath theirs. Kage, the scribe who ground that ink, saw his lord refuse to sign and die before morning. He quenched his sword in what was left of the ink, the only blade that can cut what the ink has made, and hunts every name on the scroll.

Every raid is a new castle across five procedural floors. Guards patrol with vision cones and growing suspicion; bodies get found, bells get rung and castles lock down. Fight with combos, a flash lunge, parries and finishers, or never be seen at all. Between raids, rival clans fight for sixteen provinces on a 3D hex war map, and every castle you take grows your army.

Kage is a Black shinobi told with a 1970s grindhouse swagger, voiced in English with 82 one-liners; the lords and their courts speak Japanese with English subtitles.

Key features

• Procedural castles: five floors per raid, from the outer grounds to the summit
• Stealth with vision cones, suspicion, bell runners, lockdowns and key carriers
• Sword combat: combos, flash lunge, block and parry, posture breaks and finishers
• Shinobi tools: kunai, smoke, caltrops and a grapple
• Five cursed lords, each with in-engine cutscenes
• Career: a season-long war for 16 provinces against rival clans
• Survival (Shura-dō): castle after castle until you fall, with Steam leaderboards
• Full controller support, Steam Deck ready

Keys and builds

Steam keys are available to press and creators on request: email press@revenantmachine.com.