Once a Blade

You used to be a great warrior. One of the best – at least, you liked to think so. Quick and sharp and bright; all the things a blade ought to be. Your presence altered the outcome of so many battles. You were brutal, a person turned into a vessel turned into a weapon, hollowed out and filled with mission details and orders to be followed.

And now it's all gone. You wake up and find yourself in a position to make decisions about your own life for the first time in ages. There's no fight or flight, no tension winding tight around your throat, no do or die trying. Just you and the little town you find yourself in.

It’s been a long time since you had to be anything other than what they made you, but you suddenly find yourself with nothing but time to figure it out. 

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Once a Blade is a solo journaling game about relaxing and becoming yourself again.

To play, you'll need:

• a freshly shuffled tarot deck
• two coins from anywhere, and 
• somewhere to record your story.

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This is a Princess Sword game, based on Anna Anthropy's Princess with a Cursed Sword, available at w.itch.io. It was created for the One-Page RPG Jam 2025.

The blade photo in the thumbnail image is by  Vlad Markov on Unsplash, and the page background is by  Ricardo Cruz on Unsplash.