INKBLADE — PRESS FACT SHEET

Developer / Publisher: Revenant Machine (solo studio, Austin, Texas)
Creator / Director: Neal "Neo" Nellans
Release: January 2027 (Steam)
Platforms: Windows, Steam Deck
Players: Single-player
Genre: Stealth hack-and-slash with a turn-based campaign map, feudal Japan
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5531730/Inkblade/
Website: https://revenantmachine.com/inkblade/
Press kit: https://revenantmachine.com/inkblade/press/
Trailer: https://revenantmachine.com/video/ink-trailer-1080.mp4
Contact / keys: press@revenantmachine.com

SHORT DESCRIPTION
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. Strike from the shadows or cut through the garrison, then lead your clan in a war for sixteen provinces.

THE STORY
The war for the sixteen provinces had run for a generation. 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 now hunts every name on the scroll.

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 voiced in Japanese with English subtitles
- Kage, voiced in English: 82 one-liners across 24 moments of a raid (commentary and strong language can be switched off)
- Career: a season-long war for 16 provinces against rival clans on a 3D hex map
- Survival (Shura-dō): castle after castle until you fall, with Steam leaderboards
- Full controller support, Steam Deck ready

AI DISCLOSURE
Some pre-made content (2D art, 3D models, music and voice lines) was created with the help of generative AI tools and then selected, edited and integrated by the developer. No AI content is generated during play.

All assets in this kit may be used for coverage of Inkblade.
