The Shattered series was one of my main game series between 2020 and 2025. It is a series of medieval fantasy games with intense hack and slash action, light RPG elements, and vaguely feminist themes. Four main games were planned, two of which have been completed and one of which has a small prototype/demo. Although currently on pause, I may come back to this series someday.
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Main Games
Shattered – Why Not Me is the game that started the series. It begins the story of Lady Briella Brukton, daughter of a minor noble, the first in generations to wield her house’s magical sword, Silvergleam. The gameplay is a combination of first-person swording and narrative sections reminiscent of western RPGs. It was created for the first Magical Girl Game Jam in 2020, where it missed the mark entirely on being a mahou shoujo game but took first place in Creativity.
Shattered 2 – The Promise greatly expands in scope with an open world while adding more varied and refined combat mechanics. Her family murdered, her house destroyed, and herself near death, Lady Elisa Wycke seizes the power of the Shadow Blade and vows to take revenge. Shattered 2 was conceived almost immediately after the first game, but had a very rough development process and was not completed until mid-2022.
Shattered 3 – Queensreign was intended to be a major departure from previous games, moving to fully 3D graphics and turn-based battles. Across the Kingdom, magic is coming alive, the Artifacts are awakening, and the women wielding them converge on the capital, driven by fate, vengeance, and inquisition. Shattered 3 was started in 2023, but there was very little momentum and development effectively stopped as soon as it had started. The demo, released 2025, is a thin sample of what could have been.
Other Games
A Dream of Valhalla is more or less a mechanics demo for Shattered 2. It also follows Elisa Wycke, but is considered at most ambiguously canon. This game was created for Magical Girl Game Jam 3 in early 2021, where it received middling ratings, but was an important step in the development of Shattered 2.