Break a Lance

A physics-based jousting game. Made by one developer in Sweden. Coming to Steam in 2027.

Break a Lance is a jousting game built on physics. Lower your lance, spur your horse and ride down the lists at a knight riding straight at you. Nothing is scripted: lances flex under load and snap where the stress is, and knights ride, reel and fall as full physical bodies. A clean strike can lift a man out of his saddle and drag him through the sand.

There is no HUD and no timing bar. You read your rider, your horse and your opponent the way a knight would. Nine challengers stand between you and the crown, each with his own trick, and every match is filmed for the Theater, where you can slow it down, scrub through the hit and watch it from any angle.

• Lances that bend, shiver and break under real physics, with splinters and freshly split faces
• Knights and horses as full physical bodies: every unhorsing is different
• No HUD: a cinematic joust with nothing on screen while you ride
• A ladder of nine knights, each with his own trick, and a secret champion
• The Armoury: helms, crests, harnesses, shields, capes and trappers won from fallen knights
• The Theater: every match filmed whole, with slow motion, free camera and photo mode

Logos on transparent backgrounds (full colour, light-background and one-colour versions), the shield emblem and the app icon.

Click a screenshot to open the full-size image. More screenshots and footage coming soon.

Abrar Alvi is a solo developer from Sweden.