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Just A Humble Swordsmith

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2022

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Quick resume

Craft swords from a variety of styles and materials in order to best equip the adventurers who come into your sword smithing shop. Strategize and watch the adventurers fight their way through a dungeon full of monsters in this idle battler!

Global score

90/100

Genres

Casual, Free To Play, Strategy

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    Pros

    • Free to play
    • Simple and accessible gameplay
    • Cute pixel art and music
    • Short and suitable for quick sessions
    • Interesting weapon and material combinations

    Cons

    • Very short game length
    • Limited replayability
    • Lack of depth and challenge
    • No options menu or settings
    • No multiplayer or social features

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Creativity

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Fellowship

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Value

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    Analysis

    Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Survival, Competence, Violence. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Strategy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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    Last update: 30/04/2026