About This Demo

 On His First Day 

Tim broke an age-old seal in a room he wasn't supposed to enter, in a book he wasn't supposed to open, and released Kaelvorn, the Cursed Devourer, an ancient conqueror of kingdoms, back into the world after thousands of years.

His boss fired him on the spot.

Now the world is coming apart, Kaelvorn is free, and the only thing that can bind her again is an ancient relic, shattered into three pieces, scattered across a world Tim really wasn't planning to visit.

He didn't ask for this. He's not a hero. But he broke it, so he has to fix it.

The World

A fantasy world of cults, crumbling arenas, and thieves' guilds staffed by rats. Forbidden archives, forgotten cathedrals, an underworld with its own bureaucracy.

Tim has to visit all of it.

What You'll Find

Puzzles designed to reward observation and lateral thinking. No moon logic, no pixel hunting, no deaths, no fail states. If you're stuck, you have what you need, you just haven't looked at it the right way yet.

Fully voiced dialogue. Every character, every line.

Hand-painted pixel art. Every location, the Archive, the tavern, the arena, the underworld, built from scratch. Each scene is its own place.

A cast worth spending time with. A roommate who treats the apocalypse as an overtime problem. A gladiator who trained eleven years for something he completely misunderstood. A banker on his first week unsupervised, aggressively convinced that banking is about belief, not gold.

The Free Demo

Act I is on Steam now, completely free. A full chapter: the Archive, the first day, the thing that goes wrong, and the moment everything changes.

Who's making this?

Hi, I'm Pablo. I'm a solo developer and professional game designer, and Broken Relic is the adventure I've always wanted to play.

Every puzzle, every line of dialogue, every pixel: made by hand.

If classic adventures ever felt like home to you, wishlist it. I'll let you know when it's ready.