Viking maiden thunderhammers robots and mecha, with interactive fiction in between. Plot twists in the story contain elements about neurodivergence and being misunderstood by the majority.

SUNDERBORN - ep. 1

- Where Is Home? -

Two possible endings: one bad, and one relatively not so bad. The choice you make in the last stage matters!

Keyboard & mouse	Gamepad
ESDF	left stick	movement
mouse	right stick	rotation
Shift	X	block
LMB or [ or comma	left bumper	light attack
RMB or ] or dot	right bumper	heavy attack
A	A	look at target
mouse scroll / PgUp / PgDn	triggers	cycle through targets
Q / T	Y / B	double HP amount, up to max HP
Spacebar	Y / B	thunder charge weapon
Tab	Start	Pause
M	Select / Back	toggle music

TIPS

Up to three-hit combos possible by using light attack and/or heavy attack.

You can charge your hammer with thunder, but only of the timer is full.

You can speed up the timer by hitting hard the enemies.

You have less HP than the robots, but you are a lot faster - use that to your advantage!

KNOWN ISSUES

- Due to time limitations and limitations on my own energy levels, the first three cutscenes of the story are unfinished. Hopefully, this won't make the plot twists and the possible endings too bad.

- First time you thunder charge your weapon, the game freezes for a few seconds.

Fun facts:

- I loved role-playing superheroes and robots as a child.

- Actually I had made a demo in a previous game jam, because I couldn't finish a whole game episode. I found the story to be fitting for the ND Pride 2025 game jam, so I took my chances to finish it!

Credits: 

- Demo launched for this game jam: https://itch.io/jam/redot-rising-giant-robot-jam 

- Mecha models done by me in https://www.blender.org/ 

- Animations integrated from https://www.mixamo.com/ 

- Music from the battle metal band THRONAR - used with their blessings. 

- Human model done in http://www.makehumancommunity.org/ 

- Melee combat AI programmed by me 

- Sound FX by: https://gamesupply.itch.io/ and https://dillonbecker.itch.io/ and https://heltonyan.itch.io/weatherelements My socials: - https://londolan.itch.io - https://www.tiktok.com/@londo-lanan - https://youtube.com/@londo-lanan-indiegamedev

- "Blue Planet Earth" by DLR_next is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0. To view the terms, visit https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/?ref=openverse.a

- Multiple background pictures by WorldWideWilco