To Carry a Sword
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Story-rich roleplaying game mixing interactive events, strategic planning, and real-time combat. Become the guard of a medieval caravan in a journey where the social connections you make are just as important as the money.
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Become the guard of a medieval caravan in a journey where the social connections you make are just as important as the money. In this roleplaying game, help the people who hire you in ways far beyond swinging a sword and scaring bandits for them, including tending to their animals and telling stories to their kids. Strategically plan your route across a procedurally-generated world, taking advantage of the text events you encounter to pursue your own goal, whether that is to become skilled and famous enough to join the escort of Her Majesty the Queen, or to see a religious pilgrimage to its destination. In the end, it's about the people who need you.Experience text-rich interactive events alongside strategic planning and real-time combat.Rely on your social skills as much as your battle prowess to see caravans safely to their destination.Serve the needs of the land's factions, aiding the Noble, Criminal, Religious, and Heathen.Select routes and explore the procedurally-generated map, seeking the clues to advance each questline.Relax in a self-paced narrative experience of over 85,000 words.Mod the narrative and add your own text events.
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MINORUpdate Notes October 2025
We were informed by Unity of a vulnerability in the version used for this game; we have addressed that vulnerability.
MINORTo Carry a Sword and its soundtrack, both available, both free!
To Carry a Sword is free on Steam, now and forever (well, as long as the service lasts), and in marking the event we have a no-longer-secret surprise: the free soundtrack! Yes indeed, our musician has
MINORTo Carry a Sword is going free!
We Three Nouns is (/are) pleased to announce that, as of this month, To Carry a Sword will become free for all. To mark the occasion, we’ve prepared a sparkly new update that addresses bugs and improv
MAJORLaunch stream
We Three Nouns is (/are) to broadcast on Steam upon the occasion of launch, February 14, 2022, starting at 1:00 pm Eastern! We have been streaming our development process off-site this whole while, bu
MINORTo Carry a Sword, out of playtest and onto Steam
We Three Nouns is (/are) pleased to announce our arrival on this platform! Those who followed our playtests or our streams will be familiar with our history, but for those who did not, introductions a
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