That Body Is Mine

In a world where dead and alive are blurred, meet our unlikely hero-

Never mind, the MCU style cinematic narration has gotten too cliche anyways. Anyways, if you don't mind hopping into another cliche, this game centers around our protagonist who has become a sword after a spirit has thrown him out of his own body. With his newfound power of being able to possess others (after killing them), he must get back his body.

A grand adventure awaits where there are absolutely no side quests and nothing else to do except mindlessly kill off hordes of enemies that swarm at you while you struggle to stay alive.

How to play

Use ASDW or arrow keys to move. You control the sword, the possessed character will follow you. The enemies will attack your possessed character instead of you so be sure to not stray too far. Collect souls as you progress.

Use left mouse click or Z to attack. This will perform a semi sweep attack in front of you.

Use right mouse click or C to spin attack. This will perform a full 360 sweeping attack. Although this takes slightly longer which will leave you vulnerable so use it wisely.

 Use middle mouse click or X to possess a dead character. You (the sword) needs to be close enough to a dead character to possess them. Keep an eye out at the bottom right to see who you are targeting to possess. If there are multiple dead characters in your vicinity, cycle through them using Q and E.

There might be cases where you do not have enough souls to possess a character.

You have some time to possess another character after your current possessed character dies but if you are unable to possess another character within that time, it's game over. You can sacrifice some soul points to continue but if you don't have enough souls for that it's truly game over.

The goal is is to find your body and possess it!!! Hint: follow the arrows and look for purple!

Some footnotes:

Hi, thank you for checking the game out! I really appreciate it. This game was made for the 2025 Jan Pirate software game jam! The theme was "You are a weapon" and I couldn't think of a concept that fits the theme better than this one. This is basically my first full game in godot (you could say ever but there are other two mini games in my itch page). I should not have chosen a new engine for a jam as that spiked up difficulty so much.

I am a one man team but the art came from this amazing pack https://pixelfrog-assets.itch.io/tiny-swords . 

Once again, thank you so much for checking this out and I hope you enjoy/enjoyed it. Please leave a comment! Even if you did not enjoy it and want to tell me off or just want to point out some issues or bugs (there are a lot) or even general suggestions, just comment!

Changelog:

v0.1:

• Fix some sprite issues
• Add Keyboard controls for attack
• Add camera pan for cutscenes