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Tail Blade

Play as a loyal dog with a sword in a cozy top-down adventure. Explore a peaceful world, fight enemies, collect items, craft useful tools, and interact with characters while uncovering a gentle story at your own pace.

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PocketMyth
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PocketMyth
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About the Game

🐾 TailBlade

The Dog With a Sword is a cozy top-down adventure where you play as a loyal dog exploring a quiet world, wielding a sword, helping others, and surviving through simple combat, crafting, and exploration. Fight enemies, gather resources, craft useful items, and uncover the story of a small world at your own pace.

Set in a charming pixel-art environment, the game focuses on relaxed exploration mixed with light action. You’ll talk to characters, interact with objects like crafting tables and food bowls, manage a small inventory, and slowly grow stronger as you explore.

✨ Key Features

  • 🗡️ Simple, satisfying combat with directional sword attacks

  • 🎒 Inventory system with item pickups and slots

  • 🛠️ Crafting system that checks required ingredients

  • 💬 Dialogue interactions with NPCs and world objects

  • ❤️ Health system with visual heart UI and healing items

  • 🐶 Unique companion helper (“Time”) that guides you toward objectives

  • 💾 Save & load system that remembers your progress

  • 🌿 Cozy pixel-art world designed for calm exploration

🌱 Play at Your Own Pace

This is not a fast or punishing game. It’s designed to be approachable, cozy, and expressive—whether you want to fight, explore, craft, or just wander around as a dog with a sword.

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