A downloadable world for Windows

The Bardo is a reincarnation themed multiplayer Rogue-lite, where your character's class and race are chosen at random at creation and each time you die in the game (soft permadeath). The architecture of the game is essentially that of a text based MUD, but using the UTF-8 glyph set to create a "graphical" overhead map. It is in extremely early access pre-alpha stealth release development, but you are very welcome to log in and poke around!

If you're interested in learning more, you can read the FAQ / Help thread at the bottom of this page or check out my posts on patreon.com/m

Thank you, and welcome to The Bardo!

(Note: You do not need the source zip unless you plan to run the project from inside the Godot game engine.)

More information

Download

Download
the bardo.exe 103 MB
Download
bardo client source.zip 63 MB

Install instructions

To try out the game you can either run the .exe client attached to this page on a Windows device, or you can download the Godot source code and compile the client yourself on Linux, MacOS, or Windows. Compiling the source code is a great way to make changes to settings like volume of music or color variations in this earliest state of development.

Development log