DragonSword: Awakening Guides
Practical walkthroughs for the systems that decide fights on the Continent of Orbis.
DragonSword Achievement Tracker: All 60, Saved Locally
A free DragonSword: Awakening achievement tracker: tick off all 60 Steam achievements, see your percentage and learn which unlock is statistically easiest next.
DragonSword Achievements: All 60 and Unlock Rates
All 60 DragonSword: Awakening achievements with Hound13's own descriptions and global unlock rates as of 1 September 2026, plus the 17 hidden ones by name.
DragonSword Awakening System: How to Awaken Your Heroes
How the Awakening system works in DragonSword: Awakening — 6 tiers per hero, the Stigma Awakened Stone cost, Sacred Light farming, and when to spend it.
DragonSword Beginner Guide: Your First Hours
What DragonSword: Awakening actually is, the combat loop that decides fights, what to spend Fate's Invitation on, and the crashes to patch around.
DragonSword Best Team Comps: 4 Party Lineups That Work
The best team comps in DragonSword: Awakening — Cerese/Othello/Dana for boss learning, Charlotte/Johnny/Reina for pressure, plus rotation and investment order.
DragonSword Bosses: 17 Names and Difficulty Gates
The 17 DragonSword: Awakening bosses Hound13 names in the achievement list, which ones are gated behind Very Hard or Nightmare, and the counter to Hagen.
DragonSword Chapters & Bosses: The 8
All eight DragonSword: Awakening chapters, the bosses we can confirm — Gauron, Ursula at Lv.70 — and the three roadblocks players mistake for bugs or walls.
DragonSword Co
How DragonSword: Awakening multiplayer works: the 2 and 3 player caps, invite codes and Steam lobbies, P2P hosting, and Hound13's own words on story co-op.
DragonSword Awakening Codes: Why There Are None
DragonSword: Awakening has no redeem codes as of September 2026, and here is the actual reason why — plus what to farm instead of waiting on a code.
DragonSword Cooking: Boil, Grill, Slice, 73 Recipes
Cooking is DragonSword: Awakening's healing economy, not a side activity. What boil, grill and slice do, how recipe discovery works, and how to hit 5 stars.
DragonSword Familiars: All 29 Mounts and 8 Types
Every DragonSword: Awakening Familiar, the eight types and their movement set bonuses, how many sit behind DLC, and the unlock claims sources disagree on.
DragonSword FAQ: Price, Consoles, Steam Deck, No Gacha
What DragonSword: Awakening costs, why it is no longer a gacha game, the console release plans, how it runs on Steam Deck, and what the 2026 roadmap promises.
DragonSword Gear, Runes, Karma and Awakening
How DragonSword: Awakening's Runes, Karma, Awakening tiers, gear sets and reforging work, what the Tower of Trials feeds, and which numbers nobody published.
DragonSword Glossary: A
Every DragonSword: Awakening system name and currency defined in one place — Awakening, Karma, Signal Skills, Fate's Invitation and more, linked to each guide.
DragonSword Patch Notes 1.0.4
Every DragonSword: Awakening patch we can read, 1.0.10's fixes, the 1.0.11 preview for 3 September, the retracted Workshop mod policy and the roadmap.
DragonSword Reading Order: A Guide to This Guide
The order to read this DragonSword: Awakening guide in, from system requirements through endgame Raids — each step links to the page and says why it's next.
DragonSword Combat: Status Ailments and Signals
How DragonSword: Awakening's tag-team combat works: the nine confirmed status ailments, how Signal Skills arm and fire, and the enemies that gate on element.
DragonSword Requirements, Steam Deck and Settings
DragonSword's official PC requirements, why the SSD warning is not boilerplate, a working Steam Deck preset, and the D3D12 crash workaround.
DragonSword Team Archetypes Compared: All 6, Side by Side
The six DragonSword: Awakening team archetypes — Bleed, Burn, Shock, Aerial, Summon, Defensive Control — compared in one table: which is sourced, which is not.
DragonSword World Boss and Raid Guide: Prep and Claims
How Raids and World Bosses work in DragonSword: Awakening — two Raids at three difficulties, six field bosses, the shared weekly claim limit, and daily farming.
First, what kind of game this is
DragonSword: Awakening is an open-world action RPG, not a roguelite. One persistent Continent of Orbis, eight story chapters, nothing resets and no procedural stages. If you arrived expecting run-based progression, that expectation will fight you for the first hour.
The main story runs roughly 10 to 15 hours by the producer's estimate, or about 20 to complete all eight chapters.
What is in this section
Pages that explain the systems deciding fights rather than listing what is in the game.
Start with the beginner guide if you have just bought it. Go to the combat page if your damage feels like it is being ignored — that is usually an element gate rather than a gear problem. Read the cooking page as soon as you notice there is no natural HP regeneration, because food is the healing economy and only one hero can heal on demand.
The chapters and bosses page maps the eight-chapter story and the three places players wrongly conclude they are stuck. The co-op page explains what multiplayer actually covers (2-player Subjugations, 3-player Raids — not the open world) before you buy a second copy. The FAQ answers the buying questions, including why this is no longer a gacha game.
The boss list reads seventeen boss names and their difficulty gates out of the achievement data, the achievements page maps where players actually stop, familiars and gear, runes & karma cover the two collection systems, and patch notes & roadmap tracks every update we can read, in order.
The system requirements page is worth reading even if your PC is comfortable: it carries the -dx11 workaround for the D3D12 crash Hound13 has acknowledged, and the save-backup path, which several players have needed the hard way.
Three things that trip people up early
Basic attacks are not filler. They do very little damage but chip skill cooldowns and build ailment stacks. If your skills feel permanently unavailable, you are treating basics as a fallback instead of the rhythm.
You can only equip two consumables. With three party slots and one healer in the entire roster, that constraint shapes every fight. Decide deliberately rather than carrying whatever you cooked last.
Patch 1.0.7 changed recovery substantially. Goddess Statue usage is now unlimited, and dungeon entry and wipe recovery restore you to full HP with the party revived. Complaints you may read about respawning at 20% health are outdated. What has not landed is a [Retry] button — Hound13 delayed it explicitly.
How to read these pages
Every page ends with a Sources checked box naming exactly what it was verified against: the Steam store listing, Hound13's own patch notes and announcements, player-written Steam guides, or individually attributed reviews and discussion threads.
Where something is not documented, the page says so rather than filling the gap. That matters here — the game shipped on 22 July 2026, and most of what currently circulates about it is auto-generated from the store page.
What is not here
No full cooking recipe table and no complete boss-by-dungeon list. Both exist only on sources we cannot verify, and a wrong ingredient list costs you materials that take real time to gather across the continent.