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.

Hanako: Honor & Blade’s 4th major update is now live on Steam Early Access and the game will be on a free weekend from now until April 12th.

New in Early Access v.4:

• New map: Yamai Village
• End-of-Match Victory Cinematics
• Refined Combat & Animations
• Item Store

“We’re thrilled to finally have our last year of work, feedback and grind finally make it to the public. If you like melee games with a faster pace in a feudal Japan setting Hanako is for you. We think it’s one of the higher quality indie games out there given our team size [8 developers] and experience,” said team lead Matt Canei.

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

Hanako: Honor & Blade is in development for PC scheduled for later this year or early 2021, with PS4 and Xbox One releases to follow.