Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP

Released Apr 2012

Traverse a mythic little realm, use a sword to do battle & evoke sworcery to solve mystical musical mysteries.

77% positive · 2,650 reviews
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All announced content has been released
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Evaluation

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP originally launched in 2012 as a complete, self-contained adventure game. The store description describes it as a "remastered & ready for public exhibition" edition — the current PC version is the refined, finished release of that original vision, bundled with the full Jim Guthrie soundtrack. The developer's news posts from late 2022 through 2023 are primarily about promoting a separate game (JETT: The Far Shore + Given Time) and making maintenance updates to Sword & Sworcery itself. The November 2023 post confirms the game received a compatibility and polish refresh — adding Steam Deck support, macOS compatibility with modern OS versions, and bug fixes. These are maintenance updates to keep an existing finished product running well, not signs of new content being developed. There are no unreleased DLC entries, no announced expansions, no roadmap, and no developer statements indicating further content is planned for this game. The developer's creative focus has been on JETT, which they explicitly described as their "new" and "now complete" videogame vision as of January 2023. One passing teaser in NEWS-8 (November 2022) mentioned "a playable something special related to sworcery that will surface at the appointed time" — however, given that no such content ever appeared in the subsequent news posts or DLC listings, and given that the 2023 refresh update could plausibly have been what that teaser referred to, there is no concrete evidence of unshipped content. The game has received no further developer communications since November 2023. Sword & Sworcery launched as a complete package in 2012 and has been maintained since. It is a finished product.
Evidence
Developer (Capy) released a 2023 refresh update adding Steam Deck support, macOS compatibility, and general bug fixes. Framed as housekeeping on a beloved older title, not as new content development.
news post · Nov 16, 2023 source content shipped
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Developer describes JETT: The Far Shore + Given Time as their current and now-complete videogame vision, with Sword & Sworcery treated as a back-catalog title rather than an active development project.
news post · Jan 31, 2023 source development ending
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Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Capybara Games
Achievements
14
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player

About this game

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is an exploratory action adventure with an emphasis on audiovisual style. Traverse a mythic little realm, use a sword to do battle & evoke sworcery to solve mystical musical mysteries. Experience a videogame world that is affected by moon phases & help a wandering warrior monk complete her woeful errand.

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP features an album's worth of original music by noted composer Jim Guthrie as well as artwork & designs by Superbrothers Inc, crafted & engineered by videogame wizards at Capy in Toronto, Canada.

Songs will be placed in your Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP Folder in the Steam Directory:

...Steam\steamapps\common\superbrothers sword & sworcery ep\soundtrack

Key Features:

  • Guide a warrior monk on a laid back adventure in a bronze age mountain wilderness, overcome occasionally hard-hitting battes & solve mystical musical puzzles to help The Scythian complete her woeful errand.
  • A fevered famicom dream. Explore a lavishly-painted mythopoetic storyworld affected by real-world moon phases, conceived & crafted by a representative at Superbrothers Inc.
  • A prog rock concept record you can hang out in. Treat your ears to an album's worth of original music created by the legendary composer Jim Guthrie.
  • Remastered & ready for public exhibition. The new edition features razor-sharp pixels and a refined audio mix, ideal for projecting in a home theatre or cinema context.
  • Point & click. This new edition of S:S&S EP for the electric computer has been faithfully re-engineered by videogame wizards at Capy to support input via the two-button mouse.

Soundtrack Details:


Jim Guthrie's legendarily epic Sword & Sworcery LP: The Ballad of the Space Babies is a landmark prog rock concept album from the noted composer. Jim's compositions were named "The Best Videogame Music of 2011" by Kotaku, while Double Fine's Tim Schafer said "The music is amazing. I want Jim Guthrie to score my life."

Track List:

  • Dark Flute 02:40
  • Lone Star 02:35
  • Doom Sock 02:35
  • The Prettiest Weed 02:19
  • The Cloud 03:50
  • Under A Tree 05:03
  • The Maelstrom 01:56
  • The Ballad Of The Space Babies 03:06
  • Unknowable Geometry 04:02
  • Bones McCoy 02:06
  • Ode To A Room 01:43
  • The Prettiest Remix 00:56
  • The Whirling Infinite 02:30
  • Little Furnace 03:25
  • Bonus Track Intro 00:01
  • Cabin Music (Bonus Track) 02:39
  • Battles 1(Bonus Track) 00:48
  • Battles 2 (Bonus Track) 00:35
  • Com64 (Bonus Track) 01:21
  • Mushrooms (Bonus Track) 02:15
  • Death To Everyone (Bonus Track) 01:13
  • Confronting The Wolf (Bonus Track) 01:20
  • Up A Mountain (Bonus Track) 01:28
  • Activating Trigons (Bonus Track) 01:23
  • How We Get Old (Bonus Track) 05:21
  • And We Got Older 04:47
  • Bonus Track Outro 00:02
Last evaluated Jun 28, 2026
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