Travel through a beautiful, fictional rendition of the 16th century of Feudal Japan, on a symbolic campaign representing a personal trial of life and death of a lost loved one. Experience multiple levels and game modes to bring peace or chaos, in (up to) 24 player online battles.

Choose Warriors destined to decide the future of Japan: The Kenshi (Swordsman), Naginatashi (Pikeman), Ninja (Assassin), or Ite (Archer). All featuring their own style of combat, movement, and weaponry.

Master Combat through the discovery of different attacks, abilities, and combos. Our combat system features multiple offensive stances driven by your movement, defensive techniques (such as the grappling hook) and abilities (ranging from acrobatic combos to multi-enemy sweeps to multi-hit combos).

Hanako: Honor & Blade offers a multiplayer experience with several modes of gameplay taking familiar elements and expanding them to fit the game's backstory and to introduce fun and engaging new experiences. Combat is based on your movement direction and supplemented by abilities ranging from strong stunning dashes, to multi-hit combos and Master level abilities.

Early Access 2 will release on June 14th, 2018 at Midnight EST with a giant update. This will introduce the Samurai Archer, New Shiga Forest, Capture the Scroll Map and more!

"Since our first early access release, focused completely on melee - we wanted to bring the Samurai Archer to the game and add new features we've been waiting to develop for years. There have been melee games with Samurai, but I'm confident that focusing on Samurai and Ninja offers a fast-paced engaging game experience at a quality level typically seen in AAA games. We hope to keep improving and adding things outside of matches to keep working towards full 1.0 release." says Matt Canei, Lead Developer at +Mpact

"Our primary objective with Hanako: Honor & Blade is to create a deep, artistic multiplayer world that allows players to experience our own fictional Feudal Japan and what it's like to be a samurai (or ninja). We poured our personal tragedies, losses, and souls into this title to create a symbolic journey of life and death, sickness and disease & love and war. We created a melee-centric game that is easy to learn, but difficult to master that brings in a familiar but faster paced directional attacks and abilities. Players will campaign across multiple maps and game modes experiencing the strikingly different territories of two clans, and their war of steel and fire. Ultimately, they represent a war of a lost loved one with a terrible illness. We hope the player may discover inspiration from this, or at least learn a bit about the way of the samurai." - Matthew Canei, Lead Developer

Hanako will also be available on Steam for a free weekend June 14th-17th so everyone can sample the game with the updates included.

"We're excited to announce our FIRST Free Weekend June 14th - 17th. We hope it's a good way for anyone of any budget to check out our work and give us feedback to head into upcoming updates and see our game the way it was designed to be played, lots and lots of 24 people matches."​

Join your friends Wednesday evenings at 10 pm ET when the servers are most active, and experience an immersive 12v12 multiplayer campaign across Japan in pursuit of either preserving the peace and honor of the Emperor or bringing on chaos and death by playing across four different game modes with different objectives and strategies. Explore multiple territories and battles across a much broader war that is uniquely opposed to the typical random map cycle in some other multiplayer games. Whether you prefer the blade-wielding Kenshi or Naginata Samurai, the range and precision of the Samurai Archer, or the deceptive Ninja, the options are vast and the battles fierce.

Hanako: Honor & Blade's tutorial is single-player and you can play any map with/against AI, but this version does not have any single player gameplay going on.

Key Features

• – Epic Online Battles
• – Directional-Driven Combat
• – Distinct Warrior Classes
• – Symbolic Online Campaign
• – Ki-Guided Abilities