01 Mixed
Your first fifteen minutes in Broken Oath
A first-hour route through the live Broken Oath playtest: pick a class, read the HUD, survive your first Rupture and bank the right upgrades.
start 9 min read
Wiki
Every entry, one shelf.
Every Broken Oath guide in the wiki: start here, the six classes, build craft, Ruptures, loot and the Forge, endgame and lore. Sorted, searchable and labelled.
02 Confirmed
Release date, playtest and what is actually confirmed
Broken Oath release status: a live request-access playtest, the 6 November server reset, Early Access plans, price, languages and system requirements.
start 7 min read
03 Confirmed
Playtest status: the alpha, the reset and the weekend push
Broken Oath playtest status: live since 30 October 2026, online reset on 6 November, the weekend Rupture 150 push, and what online vs offline actually means.
start 7 min read
04 Mixed
Controls, HUD and the settings to check first
Broken Oath controls: what the official screenshots confirm about the HUD, skill bar, flasks and passive tree, plus the settings to check at launch.
start 8 min read
05 Confirmed
The Early Access roadmap, minus the guesswork
What Crater Studios has actually promised for Broken Oath Early Access: more skills, supports, uniques, Primal items, Rupture themes, Forge recipes and controller support.
start 6 min read
06 Mixed
The six classes, without a fake tier list
Broken Oath classes compared: Warrior, Mage, Ranger, Samurai, Paladin and Necromancer — confirmed identities, art, likely playstyles and what to test at launch.
classes 8 min read
07 Mixed
Warrior — the heavy answer
Broken Oath Warrior guide: confirmed identity, official art, likely playstyle, the Cyclone example, and what to test before committing to a melee build.
classes 7 min read
08 Mixed
Mage — the elemental engine
Broken Oath Mage guide: confirmed identity, official art, Ember Bolts and chosen-element design, mana questions and what to test in the first hour.
classes 7 min read
09 Mixed
Ranger — the arrow economy
Broken Oath Ranger guide: confirmed identity, official art, the chosen-element arrow example, kiting questions and what to test before a bow build.
classes 7 min read
10 Mixed
Samurai — the precision blade
Broken Oath Samurai guide: confirmed identity, official art, the fast-melee questions, animation commitment and what to test before a katana build.
classes 6 min read
11 Mixed
Paladin — the oath made armour
Broken Oath Paladin guide: confirmed identity, official art, the vow/curse connection, defensive questions and what to test before a holy melee build.
classes 7 min read
12 Mixed
Necromancer — the legion problem
Broken Oath Necromancer guide: confirmed identity, official art, the burning-legion example, minion AI questions and what to test before a summoner build.
classes 7 min read
13 Mixed
Skill gems and supports: the engine room
How Broken Oath skill gems and support gems work, based on the confirmed examples: Cyclone with Ember Bolts, burning legions and elemental arrows.
builds 9 min read
14 Mixed
Skills seen in the playtest: the names, and how sure we are
Broken Oath skill names seen in the playtest: Cyclone, Ember Bolts, Leap Slam, Earthshatter, Shield Charge, Storm Whirl, Winter Orb, Deathcoil and more — with confidence labels.
builds 7 min read
15 Creator-reported
Playtest builds: what creators are running
Broken Oath playtest builds reported by creators: Poison Golem Necromancer, Samurai Cyclone, Leap Slam Warrior, Storm Whirl Mage and Winter Orb Mage — labelled, sourced and not ranked.
builds 9 min read
16 Mixed
The passive tree: read the room before you spend
Broken Oath passive tree guide: confirmed notables and keystones, the class start nodes, the observed UI controls, refund cost and a planning method.
builds 9 min read
17 Mixed
Blessings and Curses: swear, mark, collect
Broken Oath Blessings and Curses explained from the official description: Vows, Woe, marking the strong, and how to plan around the Oath HUD button.
builds 7 min read
18 Theory
Build primer: seven layers, one character
A patch-proof method for planning a Broken Oath build: main skill, supports, passive tree, Blessings and Curses, gear, defence and sustain.
builds 8 min read
19 Mixed
The Rupture Map: eight bands, one bad idea at a time
Broken Oath Rupture Map guide: the eight danger bands, the run HUD, modifiers, lives, checkpoints, rares and how to read a run before it kills you.
ruptures 10 min read
20 Mixed
The five biomes: forest, desert, snow, swamp, Underrealm
Broken Oath biomes guide: forests, deserts, snow peaks, swamps and the Underrealm, with observed location names and what each terrain asks of a build.
ruptures 8 min read
21 Mixed
Guardians: phases, tells and the run you should leave
Broken Oath Guardian guide: confirmed phase scaling, how to prepare, what the HUD tells you before a boss and when to abandon a run.
ruptures 8 min read
22 Mixed
Weather and time of day: the atmosphere is a mechanic
Broken Oath weather and time-of-day guide: confirmed visual and audio variation, the Blue Hour screenshot, and how to protect readability in bad conditions.
ruptures 6 min read
23 Mixed
Item rarities: magic, rare, red, Primal
Broken Oath loot guide: magic, rare, unique and Primal items, the observed item label structure, and how to decide what to pick up.
loot 7 min read
24 Mixed
Red uniques and Primal items: the chase, not the plan
Broken Oath unique and Primal item guide: build-defining red uniques, the ultra-rare Primal tier, and how to farm without planning around a lottery.
loot 6 min read
25 Mixed
The Forge and rune stones: Edda is expecting you
Broken Oath Forge guide: rune stones found in each land, recipes learned, Edda Ironhand, and what to craft first when the system is still unknown.
loot 7 min read
26 Mixed
The long grind: what to chase after the campaign
Broken Oath endgame progression: the eight danger bands, Guardians, gear checks, the Forge and a sustainable loop for the two-hundred-hour claim.
endgame 8 min read
27 Theory
The Guardian ladder: a readiness test, not a boss list
How to prepare for deeper Broken Oath Guardians: phase checks, defensive audits, run economics and the discipline to climb one band at a time.
endgame 7 min read
28 Mixed
The Dwarven Realms: what the oath broke
Broken Oath lore: the Dwarven Realms universe, the Ruptures, the broken oath, and what Crater Studios has actually revealed about the setting.
lore 7 min read
29 Theory
What “an oath was broken” actually tells us
A close reading of Broken Oath’s only lore line, its connection to Vows and the Oath HUD, and the questions the developer has not answered.
lore 6 min read
30 Mixed
Edda Ironhand: the smith at the Forge
Who is Edda Ironhand in Broken Oath? The confirmed Forge smith, her role, the dwarven name and the questions the developer has not answered.
lore 5 min read
31 Mixed
The wiki glossary: every term, defined once
Broken Oath glossary: Ruptures, danger bands, Guardians, Vows, Woe, Primal items, the Forge and every other term the game uses.
lore 8 min read
32 Confirmed
Sources: every claim has a receipt
Every primary source used by the Broken Oath Wiki, what it supports, when it was checked, and what it does not cover.
reference 6 min read
33 Confirmed
Editorial standards: how we know what we know
The Broken Oath Wiki fact-checking policy: confirmed, observed, theory and unknown labels, correction policy, independence and AI disclosure.
reference 6 min read
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