Every arrow you shoot will carry it. You can unlock more as you play.
Click one, or press 1, 2 or 3
Pick a name and jump in. Your rating and stats are saved in this browser, and move to an account if you make one later.
Keep your stats, rating and achievements, climb the leaderboards and post on the forum.
This copy runs offline, so there's no games list. Host custom game to set up a match against bots here. To play with friends, open your Bowfall site.
Everyone plays everyone, one on one, on this screen. Each match says who's up and which controls they use, so people can pass a controller round; both players ready up before it starts. Matches use your local game rules and the arena you pick.
Five drills, each graded D to S, always played as a plain Frost Trapper so scores compare fairly. Your best is kept on this device, and on your account when you're signed in, where it's ranked against everyone's.
Change any key, and set up an Xbox or PlayStation controller.
Pure rules: everyone plays a plain archer this match, with no element, role or upgrades. Your archetype comes back afterwards.
Changing team, or a bot joining mid-round, sits out until the next round.
A real ranked match between AI players, made the way matchmaking makes one: the nearest free AI players to the rating you pick, balanced into two teams, a drawn arena, the draft, then the match. Their ratings, stats and records change as in any ranked match. You watch it 5 seconds behind, like the Live now card, and if it's the top match on it's there for everyone to watch.
Fast matches between the AI players, run here on your machine (nothing to watch, no server): each round pairs everyone with someone near their rating, like a Swiss tournament. When it's done, preview what their ratings would do and send it up. Only ratings move (1v1 or team, by mode), with the same rating code as a ranked match.
New arenas start here, out of every list. Test starts a local game on one with bots (the usual lobby: add bots, pick rules, press Start). Tick Custom to put an arena in the lobby's arena picker for everyone, and Ranked to put it in the ranked rotation; Save sends it to the server, and players see it on their next visit. Arenas can be taken out the same way (a saved arena preference falls back to Meadow).
AI players fight each other here in your browser (no server, no network: the smoothest it gets). Record the screen with OBS, or tick Record below for a 60-frame video with sound straight from the game (on Chrome and Edge you choose a file first and it's written as it goes; elsewhere it's saved when you stop). Move the mouse during a match for the bar with its controls; it hides itself when the mouse is still. Press F11 for full screen first.
Tick what should change for every game. Pick Random under Match for a new arena each time.
Click a key to change it, then press the new one. Esc cancels, Backspace clears. Each action can have two keys.
Aim assist is built in for controllers, one strength for everyone. Near an enemy your aim slows and is drawn most of the way toward a spot just ahead of them, and once they're under your aim it follows them. Only a firm push of the stick steers, so easing off to fire keeps your aim. It never locks on, and the mouse is never assisted.
Each achievement has five tiers, from Bronze to Diamond, and shows how rare your tier is among players. They're earned in ranked games and in custom games without bots. Everyone in your games sees the title you pick next to your name.