Parry windows
Every enemy attack has a tell. Answer inside the window and the fight opens. Miss it and you lose the exchange, not the level.
PETAL & BLADE
Swordplay action RPG
Petal & Blade
Petal & Blade is a hand-painted action RPG set in an Edo that has been burning for eleven years. You play a swordswoman working off a debt to a castle that no longer exists, one duel at a time.
Combat runs on parry timing rather than combo lists. Read the blade, answer it, and the fight ends in two cuts. Read it wrong and it ends in one.
The three who ride with her
A sword, a ledger, and a man the rain follows.
Kaede
Eleven years of blade work and one debt. She does not talk during a duel, which her opponents find rude and her allies find restful.
Sumire
Archer, quartermaster, and the only one who keeps a ledger. She counts arrows, favours and grudges in the same book.
Tetsu
An old swordsman who taught Kaede everything she knows and now refuses to fight her. Rain follows him into every scene; the team has stopped asking why.
Core gameplay
One blade, one window, one answer.
Momentum
Clean parries fill a gauge that changes your stance. Spend it on a finisher, or hold it to keep the enemy's guard broken.
The burning map
Villages you save keep their merchants, side stories and smith. Villages you pass are gone from the map for good.
Seasonal duels
The world moves whether or not you are in it.
Reviews
Twelve hours, no filler — players noticed.
Aya K.
I played it with headphones in a hotel room and forgot to eat. The parry sound is the whole game.
Bram V.
Short by design, and I respected that. Twelve hours, no filler, every fight tuned.
Jun
The map remembers. I passed a village in chapter two and it is still gone. Nobody warns you.
S. Lim
Best swordplay on a touchscreen, and it does not need a controller to prove it.
Ivy N.
The archer counts arrows. I counted mine back. That kind of care is rare on mobile.
FAQs
Is there a difficulty setting?
Three of them: Story (parry windows relaxed, duels cannot be failed), Blade (the intended tuning), and Iron (one hit, no retries inside a chapter). You can change it between chapters.
Will Petal & Blade come to PC?
A Steam build is in testing. Mobile ships first; we will announce the PC date when it is fixed, not before.
Does it need a controller?
No. Touch controls are the primary scheme and were tuned first. Bluetooth controllers work on both platforms.
How long is the story?
About twelve hours for the main line, twenty for a completionist run.
Are there in-app purchases?
One expansion chapter a year, sold once. No energy, no gacha, no ads.