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Kaelvra stands full length in black armor, white braids, her double axe crackling blue
Kaelvra
The Brute stands full length: horned, red-eyed, white and gold plate, a crimson-edged sword in both fists
The Brute

Torvane

TORVANE

Skill-based online melee · Steam

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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

Tank

Broad, square crest

Absorbs hits. Wins blade binds.

Khaedr form The wall-breaker. Heaviest grafts, a slab shield.

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 · Fighters

Face your kill

Kaelvra's face, white-braided, lit blue from her axe off to the left

Kaelvra

The cleric. She heals by fighting.

Double axeGrace

Meet her

The full key art: both of them at the stone.

Key art
A horned Khaedr in white and gold plate, bare-armed, a crimson-edged sword raised in both fists

The Brute

Heavy-boned. Terrifying, and fair.

KhaedrOath of Reach

Meet him
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III · 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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

KHAEDR

The Khaedr

KAY-der

Heavy-boned warriors from a high-gravity, volcanic world under a dim sun. Terrifying, and fair.

  • Hidecracked ash-stone
  • Armoriron grafted into bone
  • War-maskone eye-slit, no mouth. Earned, never bought.
  • Throat ventssteam harder as stamina drops
  • Chest-drumtwo strikes. A challenge.
  • Their bladesforged at impossible heat

Grounded sci-fi: heat, magnets, grafts, sensors. Never magic. Never energy blades. A spear that comes home still counts as held.

Working lore. The setting is still being decided, and every name here may change.

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IV · 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.

01

Impact

Every hit lands with weight. Hit-stop on contact, a short directional camera kick, layered sound, a physical flinch. Heavier weapons hold longer.

02

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.

03

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.

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V · 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

  1. Oct 25Log

    The promises and the combat pillars get written down. Grim, grounded realism wins the first style test.

  2. Oct 27Log

    The arena gets lit like a film set: moonlight through broken roof beams, green emblems glowing in the far bays.

  3. Oct 28Win

    Unreal is retired. Torvane now runs on its own C++ engine, built on NVIDIA's RTX framework.

  4. Oct 28Fail

    The repo blows through its free large-file storage budget. Big files move off it.

  5. Oct 28Win

    The main menu gets its cipher. Hover a button and its letters turn into the sigils carved into the arena floor. Try it above.

  6. Oct 29Log

    “A 100% match to Chivalry is really a low bar.” The bar moves up.

  7. Nov 2Log

    The pit is relit by two lights only: her axe's blue on one side, his blade's crimson on the other. Everything else falls to black.

  8. Nov 2Log

    Five duel stages passed on a stand-in body. Online with friends is parked while the first Khaedr fighter is built.

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VI · Mature

Mature 18+

Torvane is aiming for a Mature 18+ rating. Its violence, gore and language, in detail.

ANSWER THE DRUM

Answer the Claim

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Torvane is a work in progress; everything shown is pre-release and subject to change.

AI disclosure: Torvane is built with the help of generative AI tools for code, art, and audio, directed and curated by a human.

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