Tank
Broad, square crest
Absorbs hits. Wins blade binds.
Khaedr form The wall-breaker. Heaviest grafts, a slab shield.
I · The Game
Skill decides fights
Torvane is a skill-based online melee team game for Steam. Pick a role. Level it from 1 to 5. Earn gear that changes how it plays. Never a win button.
Inspired by the swordplay of Chivalry 2 and the roles of Warlander, without the parts players hate.
The promises
- Every deatha fight you could have won
- The triangleeach role beats one, loses to one. Softly.
- Your unityours for the match. No counter-swapping.
- Mirror matchestank vs tank is a good fight on its own
- The storeno power for sale. Cosmetics only.
- Ring-outsnone. No free wins that skip the fight.
- Lag & cheatsnever decide a fight
- The lookgrounded and grim. Never a store-asset game.
Three roles · one triangle
DPS
Narrow, long blade, swept crest
Deflects. Punishes.
Khaedr form The reach-dancer. A long heat-forged blade.
Healer
Tall staff, rounded crest
Survives by spacing. Stays out of binds.
Khaedr form The graft-wright. Cauterizes and staples wounds shut. Healing without magic.
Levels 1 to 5 add options, not power: a level 5 should beat an equally skilled level 1 no more than about 60% of the time. Gear never changes a role's silhouette.
II · The World
Every match is a Claim
The knights hold the iron hills. The Khaedr need iron. Their oath forbids raid and siege, so they declare a battle: a place, a time, a number of warriors on each side. Won by fighting, not by trickery.
- 01
The Far War
The Khaedr crossed between stars and built weapons that struck from the other side of the world. Cities died to killers who never saw a face. The survivors named the sin: distance.
- 02
The Oath of Reach
No killing beyond the reach of an arm and a blade. Face to face, where you can be killed back. It is why Torvane is pure melee.
- 03
The Ashfall
Their ark came down hard in Torvane's north. The mountains burned. The ash still falls, and turns the sun to copper.
- 04
Blade-debt
A warrior beaten and spared fights for the one who spared them until the debt is paid. So there are Khaedr sworn to knightly houses, and knights in Khaedr war-castes.
Working lore. The setting is still being decided, and every name here may change.
III · Combat
Chivalry 2 is the floor
The duel starts from the Chivalry 2 longsword's public numbers and default controls, then gets rebuilt to move better: more fluid, clearer to read, never clunky. Matching it is not enough to ship.
Impact
Every hit lands with weight. Hit-stop on contact, a short directional camera kick, layered sound, a physical flinch. Heavier weapons hold longer.
Struggle
When blades lock, it's strength and timing, not a coin flip. Both push, stamina drains, and the winner shoves, disarms or opens a strike. Good timing slips out.
Deflection
Catch the attack on the right side and it glances off, throwing the attacker off balance. A perfect parry opens more than a held block. Turtling loses.
The rules under the feel
- Feelnever changes the pace
- Motionsmooth, never choppy
- Effectsstay at the contact point
- Every mechanica switch, settled by blind A/B
- Feelmeasured, not claimed
Attacks
SlashOverheadStabAlternateHeavyJabKickFeint
Defence
Parry / Block
Chivalry 2 default keys.
Visual language
Color means who. Shape means what. Brightness means how much. The world is grey on purpose.
- Woadyour team, from where you stand
- Emberthe enemy. Always.
- White-hotskill only: a perfect parry, a clean deflection, a bind's break
The color drain. On your big hits the frame drains toward grey for a tenth of a second while the sparks stay lit. Power by subtraction.
IV · The Honest Dev Log
No hype
Torvane is built by one guy who isn't a game developer, using AI tools and a custom engine on NVIDIA's RTX framework. The log shares the real costs, the fails and the wins.
Build the fight before the game
Every phase ends in a gate: a yes or no test. A failed gate means reworking the fight, not adding content to hide it.
- Pillarsdone
- Own engine & toolchaindone
- 1v1 online duelin progress
- Gateone duel, fun 50 times in a row
- Three roles, mirrors firstnext
- Levels & gearlater
- Objective modelater
- Vertical slicelater
- Steam playtests & launchlater
No release date. One gets set when it's earned.
From the log
- Log
The promises and the combat pillars get written down. Grim, grounded realism wins the first style test.
- Log
The arena gets lit like a film set: moonlight through broken roof beams, green emblems glowing in the far bays.
- Win
Unreal is retired. Torvane now runs on its own C++ engine, built on NVIDIA's RTX framework.
- Fail
The repo blows through its free large-file storage budget. Big files move off it.
- Win
The main menu gets its cipher. Hover a button and its letters turn into the sigils carved into the arena floor. Try it above.
- Log
“A 100% match to Chivalry is really a low bar.” The bar moves up.
- Log
Five duel stages passed on a stand-in body. Online with friends is parked while the first Khaedr fighter is built.
V · Mature
Mature 18+
Torvane is aiming for a Mature 18+ rating. Details on its violence, gore and language sit behind an age check.
Sealed