I only get the game in Russian. I don´t understand Russian. Ihave tried to switch it to English vis the Steam menu, but I still only get the game in Russian. How do I get it in English?

Swordbreaker The Game is ironically named, because it's not a game, it's a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam. Even as a mobile app, it's not a mobile game, it's an e-comic-book Choose Your Own Adventure novel that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through short bits of text and looking at somewhat low resolution comic book fantasy art style images. Click on the right things until you get to the "end" of the comic. Did you ever read a comic book and say "Wow, that was a great game"? Of course you didn't. Nobody said that about Choose Your Own Adventure novels, either. So is this a game? Not by any reasonable standards.

From a technical perspective, pretending this should be held to the same standards as PC games, the comic doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

It's apparent that little to no testing for the comic was done, at least on modern gaming PCs. In fullscreen, the comic doesn't display properly, with the comic area drawn outside the viewable space, only the top left appears, filling the screen. The other 3/4 can't be seen. This is caused by the developer not bothering to ensure the comic works on resolutions over 1080p, with very high resolution monitors that use resolution scaling. Because the comic area is not drawn correctly, it doesn't map to the mouse pointer properly, so the comic itself simply cannot be read. Gamers shouldn't be forced to accept defective products just because developers don't bother with basic testing on PC.

The controls can't be customised because the comic has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just iPhone screen tapping stuff. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here.

Because this is a mobile app, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the iPhones that the comic was designed for. These are unfortunate handicaps and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was an afterthought for the iPhone developers who are to blame for this. The comic is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for mobile phones forces upon a game. Once more, mobile devs have made gaming worse for everyone. I didn't spend thousands on building a gaming rig just so I could pretend it's an iPhone. Or an e-book/comic reader.

Comically, the comic was written in Java (I'm not making this up). Talk about not using the right tools for the job. Might as well try to bake a cake with a screwdriver. The extremely poor choice of software engine here is a major contributing factor to the defects with the comic.

These technical defects push this comic below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

Swordbreaker The Game (e-comic) didn't appeal much to the people who own a copy of it, either. It has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the comic didn't really capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is for going through the "castle history" section of the comic, and only around 29 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the comic, less than half the players. Hardly a success story, gamers just weren't all that interested in the comic. Because it's not a game.

You can get better quality books and comics for free online or from public libraries, or from bookstores for a fraction of the price of this "game". Steam isn't a comic book store, neither is it Netflix, it's for games. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle. It's impossible for me to recommend things to PC gamers that aren't really games.

Swordbreaker The Game (e-comic) is relatively cheap at $3 USD, but it's cheaper on mobile phones. PC gamers don't deserve to be treated like second class citizens and price gouged by greedy mobile devs.

A poorly implemented choose-your-own adventure visual novel. The translation from Russian is poor, but its not like there is any really story to begin with. You don't even get a name.
The interface was clearly designed by a sadist.
There isn't any real story here, just a series of dead endings (literally, you die) until you figure out the random sequence to make it to one of the games 3 endings.
Not worth your time, her time, his time, anyone's time. You deserve better, internet friend.

Unfortunately it's a game of chance and since you only have "3 lives" you'll have to start all over again and again and again. Clicking through the same scenarios. Drawings are nice, the story nonsensical and the music quite annoying. Fun for a rainy afternoon and at that prize...nah, still can't recommend it :/

Bland Choose-Your-Own-adventure. The hero's name is "The hero" and most character's name are "Blacksmith", "Cook", "Mystery man" etc. So the story feels uninspired and quite generic. As other reviews this is a trial and error game.

A visual novel choose your own adventure game. It's mostly centered around alot of trial and error which kind of kills wanting to play through it for me. Getting far into the game then dying and having to go through it all again gets tiresome and ruins the enjoyment of the story for me.

Pretty simple Choose-Your-Own-Adventure game with pretty pictures but bland, generic characters and plot. Which choices lead to death and which ones continue the story seems very random most of the time, too.

Simplistic choose your own adventure game with beautiful art. I don't mind CYOA games, but this one is just too random for my taste. "You are in a library. Do you want to look at some of the books or go talk to the librarian?" <choose "look at books"> "The librarian bursts in angrily and crushes your skull." Really? No thanks.

Tags: Adventure - Choose your own
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library

TLDR: Short. Die-retry and pick a different route. Dungeon crawl oriented. No RNG. Just die or progress. Can be beat under half an hour. Not worth sinking the time to do that.

Got very repetitive, very quickly.