Clockwork Sword

Clockwork Sword

Clockdrive Games · April 22, 2025 · Hack and Slash, Gun Customization, Steampunk, PvE, Isometric

Clockwork Sword is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Mostly Positive76% · 98 📈 Making a comeback 86%
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Clockwork Sword is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Clockwork Sword

Slash, stab, and shoot your way through a multi-tiered museum filled with corrupted automata, customizing your weapon with the scraps of the fallen. Clockwork Sword is a thrilling isometric hack and slash, in which you utilize combinations of weapons and elements to conquer your foes.

Clockwork Sword — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

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Players are divided on this free game, with some finding enjoyable combat mechanics and satisfying progression, but most criticizing it as boring and repetitive with an endless loop of uninspired shooting. Major technical issues plague the experience, including game-breaking bugs like permanent dodge invincibility that blocks item pickups and severe performance drops, making it feel unpolished and unplayable rather than intentionally challenging.

Recommended Aug 29, 2026
Clockwork Sword is an isometric hack-and-slash action game that distinguishes itself through an unusually flexible weapon-building system. Developed and published by Clockdrive Games, it takes place within a multi-level museum filled with corrupted mechanical enemies. The setting embraces a mixture of steampunk machinery, fantasy elements, and stylized action, but the real centerpiece is the protagonist’s customizable weapon. Rather than constantly discarding equipment for something with slightly better statistics, players are encouraged to modify how their weapon functions and create combinations suited to their preferred approach to combat. The customization system revolves around Forms, Charges, and Gears. Forms have the most immediate influence because they determine the fundamental behavior of a weapon, including its attack pattern and effective range. This makes it possible to construct configurations suited to direct melee encounters or attacks from a safer distance. Charges add elemental characteristics that can change how attacks affect enemies, while Gears provide further enhancements that help refine a particular build. These systems complement one another well because …
Not recommended Jun 11, 2026
I want to like this, but its A buggy broken mess. horribly optimised, but more flat out unplayable, Dodging *will* lock you in I frames permenantly, rendering you unable to pick up items, and making you completely invincible, fps tanks with even a few larger enemies on screen.
Recommended Apr 27, 2026
This game is easy to learn and fun to play. It is a fun combat game.
Not recommended Dec 31, 2025
Really boring. Isometric SHMUP. There's nothing except an endless loop of shooting clockwork robots.
Not recommended Dec 21, 2025
this is no GD fun its too hard theres no replay value i feel cheated i want my time back ADD CHEATS or FIX IT
Recommended Nov 21, 2025
Good progression and a cool final boss!

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