SAVAGE: The Shard of Gosen

BE ADVISED.. ABANDONWARE

2025 was a really horrid year, but this Christmas gave me hope that this game will eventually be finished with a miraculous game update. Bless Tobor for his hard work.

I've played more that the time shown, maybe 5-6 hours. Only reason I stopped is I'm waiting for the game to be finished. Can't wait to see the finished product!

SAVAGE: The Shard of Gosen — Worth Another 100 Hours One man built this game. Matt Fitzgerald (Planet Tobor) has poured over 10,000 hours into SAVAGE — design, code, pixel art, chiptune soundtrack, all of it. You can feel that obsession in every frame, and it's why I'd happily sink another hundred hours into it without blinking. It's a 2D action-platformer with RPG bite, set in the dying world of Lor. Your barbarian wakes up beaten, bloody, and hungry for revenge against the slave-hungry Argeshii empire and its warlord Aben Bael. That's the pitch. That's all you need. The combat is filthy in the best way. Dodge-roll under arrows. Raise your shield overhead, then bash a brute in the teeth with it. Parry, riposte, stun-stomp. Hoist an enemy above your head and chuck them onto spikes — which then becomes a platform you walk across. Stomp impaled corpses deeper onto the spikes. Yes, that's a feature. Yes, players asked for it. Over 34 weapons and shields, each leveling up on its own and unlocking perks as you master them. Three stats — Might, Resolve, Favor — let you build a brick wall, a glass cannon, or a rooftop dagger lunatic. Reforge gear with ore. Bless it at carvings…

Abandonware... don't bother.

great solo dev project! i have the game before the steam version. there alot of love in it.