I love Neurodeck very much, but I didn't feel picking other categories for the game, so I would like to highlight Victoria & Jeanne's work with their cards & animations done for the game.

Vote for it in the visual category! One thing we did right is indeed, making the game outstanding visually.


Thank you to everyone who played Neurodeck this year.

The game is now out on Switch! It's the 1.0 version that lacks the post launch update, but we're looking into bringing these update to the Switch.

Hello, it's Tavrox, creative director of TavroxGames.

I'm glad to announce we're working on a new project after finishing Neurodeck. There are still some few things left on Neurodeck, but we need to keep up the pace and work on something new.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1736210/Match_On_The_Nile/

Here's a few concept from pre-production

Here's a glimpse of the team working on this new project:

Tavrox - Creative director, game designer, coder
Jérémy Forveille - Art director
Nicolas Gueguen - Sound designer
Whaïd Cremery - Developer
Niki Apergis - Admin
Tilia Weevers - Composer
Chloé Matz - Marketing

And thank you to our previous intern Chloé Morin for working on the game as well!

We'll share more details about the game during the next weeks.

Cheers,
Tavrox.

Hello everyone,

Neurodeck 1.4.1 is live on beta branch! This is the last stretch for us and to make sure that everything works fine and that we can fix issues before we push it on the main app, we need testers to help us get a better overview of these issues.

See you on our Discord server[discord.gg] if you'd like to lend a hand on testing!

Thank you for supporting us and welcoming the new features!

Hello everyone,

We are happy to see that many of you enjoyed Neurodeck 1.2 and its features!

Update 1.3 is up ahead and after the changes brought by 1.2, let’s take a look at what 1.3 has to offer:



This means new faces, new attacks and new animations & sound effects!

There will be one Rank 1 phobia and 2 Rank 2 phobias – a slight trigger warning for those who fear clowns.

Those new phobias are unlockable, we'll explain this right after introducing those new terrifying faces that will bring up your greatest fears!

Let's welcome:





As you go through the game and beat mini-bosses and final bosses, you’ll gradually unlock trials, Balcony cards and the 3 new phobias just revealed above.

This applies to new players only, so if you've been playing Neurodeck for a while now, you will certainly have unlocked most of this stuff!


During your session, you're free to read these new stories that will tell more about their own phobias as well as why they’re using the Neurodeck.

Those stories will appear:

• Once you've beaten a phobia
  
• At the end of your session

Such as text formatting for character’s memories when entering Gymnasium, living room...

Hotkeys for keyboard play will also be added!


After this update, there will be one and the last update that will focus on UX and UI, little adjustments and bug fix mainly. Then, Neurodeck will be stable enough to launch on Nintendo Switch! Thank you for your patience and your support towards the game!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1253860/Neurodeck__Psychological_Deckbuilder/

Hello everyone,

Thank you for following the updates of Neurodeck! Gostique and Nemrod joined us last month to help with Neurodeck updates and did great work for this new patch. Victoria has also created new great art with a dozen new illustrations.

We added around 15 cards, a new preview system, new unique effects and globally new content that add a lot of replayability to the game. Next month will bring new phobias and we hope you’ll enjoy these new features as much as we do!

Hospital Visit, Hiking & Drawing cards illustrations from the Balcony room made by Victoria Guareschi.



Some cards have been boosted, some phobias have been nerfed and boosted!


This new preview system gives you a better overview of the situation in-game as well as an additional piece of information. We hope it’ll help you to better understand the different game systems and that you’ll manage to make decisions in better conditions!


Here are the cards that you can find inside:

• Acting
  
• Beach Nap
  
• Broken Mirror
  
• Couple Counseling
  
• Drawing
  
• EMDR
  
• Hiking
  
• Hospital Visit
  
• Masking
  
• Wheel of emotions
  
• Rorschach Test
  
• Snowy Day
  
• Therapist
  
• Workout

Those cards are inspired by psychology to strengthen the link to mental health (EMDR which is a sensory stimulation therapy, Plutchik's wheel of emotions describing the 8 basic emotions, the broken mirror referring to the syndrome related to psychological and emotional trauma, etc.).

It adds another room so gives more replayability and more possibilities to your strategy.

Couple Counseling, Rorschach Test & Masking cards illustrations



Inspired by Hearthstone, this effect allows you to discover a random card or can be a last-minute escape from a situation. These apply to Balcony cards only.


Phobia or player will deal less damage and you have a preview of these damage on the cards. This modifier is available in Balcony cards too.



Gaining Block will help you to build more defense and adds a little extra to your strategy. You will find this feature in Balcony cards only.


Those traits are available in the Nursery room. At the beginning of the game, you'll have to choose one of three traits proposed that will follow you for the rest of your session. Here are the traits you will encounter:

• Lucky
  
• Tenacious
  
• Laid back
  
• Funny
  
• Messy
  
• Shy
  
• Honest
  
• Dare-devil
  
• Improviser
  
• Frugal
  
• Contemplative
  
• Calming

In addition to the previous 1 to 5 resilience levels, levels 6 & 7 have been added.

• Level 6: Nightmares: every phobia met is in nightmare mode.
  
• Level 7: Mental Exhaustion: when you draw a card you lose 1 Sanity.

Do you want to get more challenges in Neurodeck? With those new achievements, you’ll be able to make modifiers a strong weapon and to use resilience levels!

• Resilient level X: Achieve a run with a resilient level. (1 à 7)
  
• Passive-aggressive: Kill a phobia with a trait
  
• Fast Forward: End a run with less than 10 cards in the deck.
  
• Kill anxiety: Kill a phobia with the anxiety modifier

Some bugs may have been added while others may have been fixed! It’s hard to track everything and provide a complete bug list...


Check out this complete guide explaining a lot of game mechanics. Useful when blocked on a phobia or wondering about a specific mechanic. Feel free to ask for more details! A big thank you to Chloé for creating this complete guide.

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2462195327


Modding is WIP so locked in beta branch; still checking how it should be working for the best use. Thanks for waiting!

Here is how to access Neurodeck beta:

• Right-click on Neurodeck app, then click on "Properties"
  
• Go to the "Betas" tab, then under "Select the Beta you want to opt into," select "beta - beta tests at your own risk"
  
• Finally, the Beta version will be uploaded automatically.

We're still planning to finish the updates in order to have a patched and finalized version for Nintendo Switch.


Animation made by Jeanne Prigent.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1253860?snr=2_groupannouncements_detail_

Hello everyone,

• Damage preview system (see the screenshot below)
  
• 10+ more cards that belong to the "Balcony" room
  
• New achievements
  
• New card effect "Discover"
  
• Player can gain Block
  
• New modifier "Weakness"
  
• One additional resilience level
  
• New traits

• Various bug fixes, especially on the UI, UX & gameplay
  
• Game feel improvement during fights and exploration
  
• Text standardizing
  
• Phobias pixels harmonization

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1253860/Neurodeck__Psychological_Deckbuilder/

Hello everyone,

Modding has always sounded fun and challenging.

Things are quite WIP for now but there's still room for modding that can be added to Neurodeck.

Of course, we're putting all our focuses on updates right now, so this is not an urgent project, but the earlier we think about it, the faster we can put things in place.

It's also worth mentioning that it doesn't take time on Neurodeck content-coding and its updates.

• Some translations are still missing, but we wanted to update the game first and we can still patch the 1.1 version on Steam with new translations.
  
• Gostique & Nemrod, our two new coders on the updates, will be working on the 1.2 version that’ll be pushed in beta once in a while – find how to activate Neurodeck Beta at the end of this post. It should be released next month.

• The exploration scene has been revamped a bit, it’s now displaying some stuff better as well as the pacing changes we made;
  
• Pacing changes make basically a shorter game, but with a mini-boss in the middle and a boss at the end. Future updates will add more unlockable stuff;
  
• The fight phases have seen some stuff changed and revamped, such as Theophobia rules and stamina & sanity feedback display;
  
• Rooms Meditation: unlocks permanent stats for the run;
  
• “Survey” should propose a little less of the surveys you already answered, some work is still needed on this;
  
• You’ll see “Nightmare phobias,” which has improved attacks and health points. The display is a bit poor at the moment but we want to make it clearer.

• New cards
  
• New rooms
  
• New resilience levels
  
• New nursery traits
  
• New achievements
  
• Improving the game feel
  
• Reworking the unlock system

Please keep in mind we might encounter challenges so some of those changes might get delayed.

Please let us know if you encounter any bugs or things to improve! We’re aware that you're all committed for at least 3 months of work but you’ll see patches every month!


Switch release has been delayed and will be available at the end of the series of patches on Steam.



https://store.steampowered.com/app/1253860/Neurodeck__Psychological_Deckbuilder/