Hello Steamgifters! It is that time again - adventure time! Join a great adventure with a large amount of treasures!


All of us like playing games, and all of us like winning games. So, how about playing a game and winning games while playing?


  • Introduction

Game of sWords is a text RPG Adventure where you can explore dungeons, upgrade your hero, find useful items, weapons and artifacts, avoid deadly traps, fight dangerous monsters and interact with other players while searching for treasures (private SteamGifts giveaways links) on your way and trying to complete a quest to get access to a huge amount of private giveaways! Each quest has a limited number of winners split between 3 available classes - Barbarian, Wizard and Thief, so the chances in each giveaway will always be great.

All giveaways have no restrictions, so anyone who finds them can join them!

A lot of giveaways have been contributed by the community members, and I would like to say a big Thank You to everyone who made a contribution! :)


Here is the topic of the previous Game of sWords.

Here is the topic of the second Game of sWords.

And here is the topic of the first one, which started back in November last year.


  • Important notes about the Game

You hero has Energy Points and Health Points.
Most of the actions require Energy Points. Energy can be replenished using items which you can find everywhere, thus it is important to check everything around you!

Energy also replenishes over time and that time can be reduced with special artifacts that can be found during the adventure.
Note, that the Energy won't be replenishing during the battles (you can only restore it with potions)!

If you lose all your Health Points, you will also lose all the Energy you had plus you will have to wait for a few hours to be resurrected. Energy can not be replenished while you are dead!

Note: If you have problems navigating through the map, you can switch to Simplified Navigation at the bottom right corner.

I highly recommend to visit sWords Library that has a lot of other useful information that will help you in the adventure


  • What's new in Game of sWords?

It's been more than half a year since the previous Game, and, obviously, it has a lot of changes and improvements! Adventures this time will get even bigger, with more variety in everything: items, monsters, traps, weapons, artifacts, interaction, you name it!

The Game now has sounds which can be activated by clicking a Note symbol at the bottom right corner and a Chat window which can be used to communicate with other adventurers and see what is happening around you!

You can also trade with other adventurers through the Chat using following command: /trade amount item(s) you have for amount item(s) you want

E.g.
/trade 5 small healing potions for 3 small energy potions
/trade 5 acceleration scrolls for 100 coins

The Game also has a new design a a new engine which makes all kinds of interactions happen in real time.
Note: The Game engine is not properly supported by Internet Explorer (you will encounter all kinds of nasty bugs there) and it is recommended to use one of the following browsers: Chrome (perfect), Opera (perfect) or Firefox (great, but the game works a tiny bit slower and sounds sometimes mess up a little).


Current Winners limits: Barbarians:10, Mages:10, Thieves:10.

Winners get access to all giveaways available in the Game! (50+)

Everyone who finishes the Game after the limit is reached (while it is still runnning) gets 1 random treasure as a consolation prize!

All giveaways end in about a week! The Game will last for a week.


  • Time to start the Adventure!

EVERYONE is invited to play the Game and search for treasures in the adventure! :)

The only requirement is that your Steam account should be more than 90 days old.

Join the official group

and

Start playing now!


Leaderboard


Bonus giveaway for everyone by Morshock!


Want to suggest an idea to help me improve the game? Post it here! People can upvote or downvote it, and it will help me see what people do and do not want to be implemented. Thank you!

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Already nap time for me xD.

8 years ago
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I am confused - is there a giveaway here? - oh wait do I have to play the game to get giveaway links?

8 years ago*
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All giveaways are hidden in the dungeon - you have to explore it to find treasures :)

8 years ago
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ahhh - fun fun fun :)

8 years ago
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I found a code. But it doesn't work. We need to make the usual puzzle search?

Edit: nevermind. Got the answer by myself xD

8 years ago*
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The game is great as usual :) Is it me or does it play better on Chrome than on Firefox? I have tried both browsers and in the latter I see a green square instead of a person in the mini-map.

8 years ago
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It does work best with Chrome and Opera :)

8 years ago
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I see a green person in Firefox, so probably something on your end.

8 years ago
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Ok, I guess it is. Anyway, since Server51 says it plays better on Chrome and Opera, I will stick to the first for the rest of the game. Congratulations on your cake day, btw. ;)

8 years ago
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I have to say the chat box is rather small, any way to open it up to have an easier view to see what has been said?

8 years ago
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Unfortunately not, you can scroll up to view older messages.

8 years ago
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Thanks for the new adventure :)

8 years ago
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You are welcome, good luck!

8 years ago
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Only 10 winners per class? People with a lot of time on their hands are gonna finish this quickly, those 10 spots won't last much. Tnx for everything though, I can imagine how much time this requires to put together.

8 years ago
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I might and probably will increase it later as more people will join the game :)

8 years ago
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I was hoping you'd say that, looks like napping is a thing now and I'm taking a siesta as we speak. How unfortunate :P.

8 years ago
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Things really have changed in here! Looks like I'm napping right now

8 years ago
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Good luck!

8 years ago
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Thanks!

8 years ago
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Response to your last reply, no, I'm on Chrome, its slow because my internet connection, I know that :(
And hey, can you check this, I'm at X6Y7 and can't go west (to X5Y7) even there is a way right there. Is this a bug?

8 years ago
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Gonna check it!

8 years ago
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Looks like I should have bought some energy potions at the market before entering.
I now have rank 116 with -32 points, there are only 124 in the dungeon right now... :D

8 years ago
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Yeah they could have helped you :) Well, as of now only ercalote is far ahead of others - level 7 already :)

8 years ago
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Then I find a shop and it only sells big energy potions...

8 years ago
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It's started! Good luck everyone :)

8 years ago
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Good luck to you!

8 years ago
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intersting.
I just joined and got poisoned by a crappy spider (damn that little thing).
Take care if you touch walls :-)

8 years ago
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Good luck! You can ask someone to help you cure the poisoning or trade something for an antidote :)

8 years ago
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Bump and meow - thanks!

8 years ago
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Have fun, Caractacus! :)

8 years ago
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bananas!

8 years ago
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"Loading error. Please refresh the page"

8 years ago
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How on earth are you so far ahead? We're both mage, and I'm able to take like 7 steps and do as many checks before sleeping. I've used multiple energy potions on top of that. I'm dead last in the rankings.

8 years ago
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haxor alert

8 years ago
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t3h lulz0rs

8 years ago
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Probably bought some energy potions before the start.

8 years ago
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I've only encountered one enemy, as well. And it happened after I was blinded and couldn't do anything.

Can't approach it to fight, can't run, doesn't look like energy regens during battle.

8 years ago
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Defend, then you sometimes get 15E(at least I did in my only battle).

8 years ago
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Yup, successful defence gives you some energy if you don't have any.
I knew I would forget something when writing the guides :p

8 years ago
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:-o

Thanks!

8 years ago
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This is Error.

8 years ago
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This comment was deleted 1 year ago.

8 years ago
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Hope you won't :P Good luck!

8 years ago
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How do you meditate? Read the whole library section and now I know everything about meditating, except what to click

8 years ago
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After an action, it'll show up in the main text of the room, if you need it. Just click "meditate".

8 years ago
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Thank you!

8 years ago
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<3

8 years ago
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I can't enter the dungeon. Is it on maintenance?

8 years ago
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The game is working right now. What message/error do you get?

8 years ago
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8 years ago
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Looking into the problem! Are cookies enabled in your browser?

8 years ago
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same with scuazmooq. I don't remember anything about cookies. I'll check it now. My browser is firefox.

8 years ago
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I can confirm cookies are enabled on my firefox by default and I didn't delete any cookies.

8 years ago
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Anyone experiencing problems with entering the dungeon - try logging out through this link: http://gameofswords.net/logout and then logging in again. That should be a temporary solution.

8 years ago
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this helped. Thanks!

8 years ago
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Glad it worked!

8 years ago
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It works now.

Curiosity: Why does it require Steam reauthentication every couple of hours?

8 years ago
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The website uses sessions to keep your user data - whenever the session expired (when you closed your browser, for example), you had to log in again to start a new session. I now fixed the problem, adding cookies which live for a long time - they now restart the session automatically whenever the session expires - so there is no more need to log out and log in again.

8 years ago
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Woo-hoo!

Thanks :-)

8 years ago
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Same here. Yes.

8 years ago
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Anyone experiencing problems with entering the dungeon - try logging out through this link: http://gameofswords.net/logout and then logging in again. That should be a temporary solution.

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Anyone experiencing problems with entering the dungeon - try logging out through this link: http://gameofswords.net/logout and then logging in again. That should be a temporary solution.

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I'm having trouble formulating a trade request offering a Resurrection scroll for some coins. I tried the following without success (error message is "One of the trade items names is incorrect or the number of items is not specified."):

/trade 1 Resurrection Scroll for 350 Coins
/trade 1 ResurrectionScroll for 350 Coins
/trade 1 Resurrection Scroll for 350 Coin
/trade 1 ResurrectionScroll for 350 Coin

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Use lower case: "/trade 1 resurrection scroll for 350 coins"

8 years ago
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Fixed it by the way. You can now use uppercase letters as well :)

8 years ago
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Awesome, thanks! Is there a way to cancel a trade offer, once it's made?

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Nope, but it will disappear in an hour. You can just make another one.

8 years ago
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whoa just started new quest and i see there are many new great features :D
brilliant job!

8 years ago
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Thanks a lot, kasztoix, and have fun in the dungeon! :)

8 years ago
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My character was unable to move just now until I made a check. Bug? Also can you sell stuff? I keep finding scrolls that are useless to me as a Barbarian, not being able to use teleportation scrolls seems like a major disadvantage.

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Each class has different Energy cost for different actions:

Barbarian - Move: 25, Check: 20, Attack: 15.
Mage - Move: 15, Check: 25, Attack: 20.
Thief - Move: 20, Check: 15, Attack: 25.

So you probably had enough energy to make check, but not enough to move.

You can't sell stuff in shops, but you can trade with other players - mages would quite likely be willing to give some coins or even energy potions for teleportation scrolls.

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I had more than 40 pts and could not move. Not a huge deal to waste one move, just a heads up in case it might be a common issue.

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Did you get any message when you clicked the move button?
Edit: Please specify the browser you use as well.

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Chrome. Nothing specific, it just said I moved I think.

8 years ago
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I found the mistake in the code and fixed it :)

8 years ago
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Ok, tnx, guess I wasn't going insane :)).

8 years ago
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I'm napping, I'm always napping xD

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Had something strange happen to me a little while ago. I had enough energy (don't remember how much exactly, but it was definitely 100+) and couldn't move to the left room. This happened on:

  • from X6 Y7 - couldn't go left to X5 Y7
  • from X7 Y9 - couldn't go left to X6 Y9

When clicking the "Go Left" link, the same thing happened when you actually move from one room to another (the four corner actions disappeared and then appeared), but in both cases I was in the same room and no energy was spent.

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Happened to me too, had to recheck a wall before I could move again.

8 years ago
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Thanks for specifying the coordinates! Which browser are you using?

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Vivaldi.

And since we're talking about browsers, I was using Pale Moon at first, but in it, the player icon isn't a small green square, it's a larger rectangle (with about twice the length of the square). I imagine it's something similar in Firefox too? If you think this is an easy fix, could you take a look at it?

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To be honest, I have never even heard about both these browsers. As a matter of fact, the player icon is supposed to be neither square nor rectangle, but a green human :)
That's what it looks like in tested browsers - Chrome, Opera and Firefox (see the picture)
It is an HTML symbol and I guess it just isn't supported by your browser for some reason.
Are other symbols displaying for you correctly? - exit portal, shop, etc., or are they squares/rectangles as well?

View attached image.
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Vivaldi is Chromium-based, so it should work fine. It's headed by the former CEO of Opera and made by people who used to work for Opera, so you should check it out, if you liked the original browser. Pale Moon is a fork of Firefox.

May I add you on Steam, so I can show you screenshots of the map?

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Sure

8 years ago
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No energy again :(

8 years ago
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You have made quite a huge progress in a short time :)

8 years ago
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How can you meditate on command? I want to meditate but it isn't popping up on screen even though I'm at 8% concentration.

8 years ago
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How much Health and Energy do you have? Max Concentration value depends on your current amounts of HP and EP, so it is possible that your Concentration just can't get higher at the moment.

8 years ago
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Oh I see, I'm too tired and at 87 life so I guess that's it. What triggers meditation option though?

8 years ago
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It will appear when you will replenish some of your Energy or Health.

8 years ago
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You can trigger the option anytime out of combat by reloading the page (don't do that if you're standing on a trap)

8 years ago
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Tnx for the tip.

EDIT: doesn't work for me.

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Strange, sounds like a bug. Maybe it's browser dependent?
Just to make sure, the Meditation option only appears if you are eligible for at least an 1% increase. If it's redundant it won't appear. The exception is after using a Potion, where it'll always appear.

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Closed 8 years ago by SErVER51.