A downloadable world for Windows

The Bardo is a cursed, reincarnation-themed, online multiplayer, Rogue-ish experience. Your character's class and race are chosen at random each time you die (soft permadeath). 

The architecture of the game is essentially that of a text based MUD, but with emoji 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.)

Download

Download
the bardo.exe 104 MB
Download
bardo client godot_source_project.zip 66 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.

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