Mainspring

Saathane runs on clockwork. At 03:07 the Great Clock's mainspring snapped, and everything that was moving froze mid-motion: townsfolk mid-step, pigeons mid-flight, rain hanging in the air. Only two things still move: the automatons, running wild on their own springs, and Nehir, the clockmaker's apprentice.

With her master's winding key in hand and Kuku, a brass cuckoo, at her shoulder, Nehir climbs through the stopped city to the Great Clock, and learns what the master was keeping from her.

• A complete story in ten chapters: a frozen bazaar, a foundry, icy canals, a chain bridge, an observatory, a lantern festival, the master's workshop, the gear well and the clock chamber. Three bosses, a choice, two endings.
• Tight third-person combat: combos, heavy strikes, a perfect dodge that slows time, counters, lock-on, eight kinds of automatons.
• Bend time: the Time Lock freezes machines and enemies; the gear throw hits switches and foes from afar.
• A hand-inked look: the whole city is cel-shaded with inked outlines, like a graphic novel caught mid-frame.
• Worth a second wind: nine hidden recordings, New Game+, and a photo mode.
• Accessible: three subtitle sizes, remappable keys, gamepad support, three difficulty levels.

Controls

WASD / mouse move and look · Left / hold right mouse strike and heavy strike · Shift dodge · Space jump · R lock on · Q Time Lock · F gear throw · E interact · Esc pause. Gamepads are supported.

Credits

Characters and some props modelled with Meshy AI; voices by Kokoro (Apache 2.0); crowd poses from Mixamo motion capture. Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0. Sounds and stall goods by Kenney (CC0). Made with Godot.