Fantasy Blacksmith
Released Nov 2019
You are a blacksmith in the world of the sword, magic and war, in which any blacksmith who knows how to make even the simplest swords is in demand. You start off as a poor unskilled blacksmith, but in time you will gain experience and improve to achieve wealth, fame and power, and change this world!
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All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
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Evaluation
Fantasy Blacksmith launched into Early Access in March 2019 and received its full 1.0 release on November 15, 2019. Since launch, the developer has shipped content at an irregular, slowing pace: a soundtrack DLC in November 2019, a comic book DLC in January 2020, a series of feature patches through 2021, the "Escape From The Forge" exploration DLC in May 2021, and the substantial Update 1.5.0 in July 2023. The most recent developer communications were Update 1.6.0 on October 24, 2024 and a hotfix on October 26, 2024 — primarily an engine upgrade to Unreal Engine 5.4, physics improvements, and bug fixes rather than new gameplay content.
All three DLC entries in the store are marked as released. The developer has made no announcements of upcoming content, no roadmap, and no statements about planned future updates. The gap between the last genuinely major content release (the DLC in May 2021) and subsequent updates has grown significantly, with updates since then being engine upgrades, performance improvements, and bug fixes rather than new content expansions. The October 2024 patch was the last communication from the developer, and no content plans have been signaled since. The overall trajectory — from active content additions through 2021, a long silence, a large maintenance patch in 2023, and a final engine/stability update in late 2024 — is consistent with a game that has concluded its content development cycle.
Evidence
Update 1.4.0 launched alongside the 'Escape From The Forge' DLC, adding 4 new explorable locations, new ores, and portal mechanics — the last major content addition to the game.
Update 1.6.0 released, upgrading the engine to Unreal Engine 5.4, improving physics, updating character artwork, and fixing various bugs. No new gameplay content announced.
Content
3 of 3 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
GrabTheGames
Achievements
21
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player
About this game
You are a blacksmith in the world of the sword, magic and war, in which any blacksmith who knows how to make even the simplest swords is in demand. You start off as a poor unskilled blacksmith, but in time you will gain experience and improve to achieve wealth, fame and power, and change this world!
Fantasy Blacksmith is a magically realistic blacksmith simulator in which you have to create and sell weapons. Also, your smith will gain more experience and become stronger and more accurate with each created sword. You can also improve your equipment in the smithy, buy a better forge, better grindstone, improve your hammer and etc. We want to create an exciting and interesting simulator in which any player can make his dream sword.
"You are a smith and you create swords!"
The creation of the sword begins with the drawing. The sword consists of 8 parts: Blade (5 parts), Cross-guard, Handle, Top. You choose the material from which the sword will be made. It can be iron, bronze, titan, tungsten, mithril, silver, gold, etc. Using the large number of options offered and your imagination, you can create a huge number of unique swords. We believe that there may be more than 10 billion different swords that you can create.
"Using a hammer, beat your ingot into a blade"
According to your drawing, you will be hammering the red-hot metal to give it the shape of a blade.
You also need to remember to keep the metal temperature high, if it cools down, you can not forge it.
"Finally I can make Damascus steel"
You will have the opportunity to practice alchemy. Using different chemical mixtures of the correct recipe, you can create a damask pattern on your sword. Depending on the proportion of the mix of the chemical elements, and on the heating and holding the mixture, the result will depend.
One thing I can say for sure, you will not get two identical patterns.
"Feel yourself a witch"
One of the most interesting parts of the gameplay is making a magic potion. This is a very exciting and dangerous process. Having done everything correctly you will get a new sword from the mythical material, but if you make a mistake you can spoil the sword or even destroy it.
In the game there will be a lot of ingredients for the magical boiler and by collecting everything by recipe, you will get many different potions.
"Long live runic magic"
To superimpose magic effects on weapons, runes will be used, depending on the pattern on the magic table, different spells will be cast on the weapon.
"You can mine and smelt your own ore!"
You can mine the ore, and by mixing various ores in the smelter you will get very unusual metals."Casino in the Forge"
We will add a few mini-games for a variety of gameplay. Currently, dice and darts are being developed. Also artificial intelligence of rivals will be added. In mini-games you can try to sell your goods at an inflated price or play for money or rare artifacts with visitors to your forge.
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