We’re excited to bring you another update, packed with some of the latest features and tweaks based on your feedback. This minor update rounds out our recent changes as well as new artwork and changes to our Steam page.


We’re thrilled to announce that the final 2 designs from our SuperXP 2024 Artwork Contest have now been added, completing the set of all five winning artworks! Each unique design, crafted in collaboration with our talented players and our artist @DuckArtisan[www.instagram.com], is now available in-game. Show off these exclusive pieces in your deck and let your opponents marvel at your custom card collection.


Introducing the "Tribute" achievement! To earn this accolade, players must beat a boss in Endless Mode using all five artwork winner cards in their deck. It’s a true test of skill and a tribute to our community’s creativity!


To keep gameplay balanced and exciting, we’ve made several key adjustments to card effects and mechanics. Here’s a look at some of the changes:

• The Zealot: Effect now reads "up to 2" instead of "2", allowing more flexibility in the zone locked format.
  
• Cursed Coin: Resolves with "add this card to your hand" instead of creating a copy to prevent exponential cloning.
  
• Battlemage: Effect is now restricted to once per turn.
  
• Ignis Snail: Only triggers on the opponent’s turn, making it still usable defensively, but preventing free board wipes with other self-damage cards.
  
• Painful Exchange: Draws 2 cards instead of 3.
  
• Pandemonium Lost: Now causes "damage" instead of "discard".
  
• Wide-Head Miner: Disables itself if no draw is possible.
  
• Cataclysm: Effect now reads "up to 3" instead of "3", allowing more flexibility in the zone locked format.
  
• Egg Snatcher: Can now play from both damage and discard piles.
  
• Slime, the Jam: Effect was changed to "On damage (by battle): create as many level 1 tokens as possible. From damage: discard all tokens in your arena, play this card". This simplifies the card without taking away from the token multiplying nature.
  
• All-Mother, Aian: To prevent some unintended OTKs, now requires 5 materia to be played and the effect can no longer be copied.
  
  
  Steam Store Overhaul
  
  We’ve refreshed our Steam Store assets with new artwork to better showcase Primateria’s unique style and gameplay. Visit the Primateria Steam Page and check out the updated visuals!
  
  
  Daily Deck Milestone
  
  A big thank you to everyone participating in the Daily Deck challenge! We’re thrilled to see almost 2,000 daily deck and random deck challenges so far! Your continued support and creativity make this feature a cornerstone of the Primateria experience. Our team is having a ton of fun facing your decks every day! Keep them coming!
  
  
  Additional Updates
  
  
  • Multiple bug fixes and minor improvements.
    
  • Minor UI tweaks for a more seamless user experience.
  
  
  Final Words
  
  As always, we’re incredibly grateful for your feedback and support. Primateria has been out for nearly a year now, and since day one, we've been dedicated to enhancing your experience—releasing patches, hosting events, running giveaways and art contests, and so much more, all made possible by your amazing support.
  
  In our last announcement, we hinted at some exciting news for the future of Primateria. While we’re eager to share these plans, we’re still working hard to finalize the details before making an official announcement. It’s taking a bit longer than expected, and we appreciate your patience as we get everything ready.
  
  In the meantime, please don’t hesitate to Join Our Discord[discord.com] or follow us on Instagram @yfritgames[instagram.com] to stay connected and share your thoughts on the latest updates. Feel free to shoot us a message through our contact form on our website https://yfrit.com, or send us an email at contact@yfrit.com. We've also recently completely migrated to Bluesky[bsky.app] as a new social media platform, you can follow and contact us there too.
  
  We hope you enjoy these new features and can’t wait to hear what you think!
  
  Thank you,
  Yfrit Team

We know it’s been a while, but we’re thrilled to finally bring you the next major update. After taking your feedback and doing extensive research on what to prioritize, we’ve focused on delivering the most requested features. We hope this update makes your gameplay even more enjoyable!



Introducing the Daily Deck challenge! Players can now take on a new player deck every day. Each daily deck will be selected from the decks that beat the challenge from the previous day. Beating the Daily Deck also unlocks a new mode where you can battle against random decks from other players.


For the daily deck feature, following your feedback on our playtests regarding first-turn kills (FTKs) and one-turn kills (OTKs) being too common, we've introduced a zone locking mechanic to balance early game advantage. Both players now start with 3 locked zones, leaving only 2 zones available. At the start of each turn (except the first turn of each player), one locked zone is unlocked. This change helps prevent early game domination while still allowing for strategic fusion plays without overwhelming first turns. It also evens the playing field for the player going first, as they will always be the first to unlock new zones, while the second player has the advantage of being the first to attack.


Based on your feedback, we’ve reworked the attack experience to make it smoother and more intuitive, especially for new players. You can now attack using drag-and-drop, click individually, or a mix of both. We’ve also added a new prompt asking if you want to enter the battle phase when dragging your cards to the opponent's.


Another highly requested feature — keyword tool tips are now available when you hover over cards, displaying detailed descriptions of each keyword. If you prefer a cleaner UI, this feature can be disabled from the options menu.


During the SuperXP 2024 event in Joinville, we held a special challenge where players who beat the challenge run had the opportunity to collaborate with our artist @DuckArtisan[www.instagram.com] (please follow him on Instagram!) to create their own custom card artwork. With dozens of sketches made and over 400 votes cast, the top 3 designs were selected and transformed into custom artwork for cards in the game. These unique player-created artworks are now available, and we’re excited to announce that 2 more winning designs will be featured in the next update!


We’ve also added new Steam Community items to enhance your Primateria experience! You can now unlock and collect:

• 6 Trading Cards
  
• 5 Emoticons
  
• Badges for Level 1-5 and the Foil Badge
  
• 3 Profile Backgrounds

Show off your progress and customize your profile with these new items while playing the game!

• A range of new micro-feedback has been added for actions like trying to attack the deck directly or playing high-level cards without fusing, helping new players understand mechanics better.
  
• Improved AI behavior for a more challenging experience.
  
• New artwork for 3 cards, additional to the 3 from our community artwork contest!
  
• Minor card effect changes to improve synergies and overall game balance.
  
• As always, we’ve fixed multiple bugs and made several performance improvements.

We’re also very excited to share that we have some BIG news coming in the next update — though we’re not quite ready to reveal it just yet! Stay tuned for more details, and we promise this next update won’t take as long to arrive. We're already ironing things out with our publisher Surefire.Games[surefire.games] so news should be coming soon.

Thank you so much for your continued support and patience. Don’t forget to Join Our Discord[discord.com] to share your feedback and connect with the Primateria community, or reach out to us via our Instagram @yfritgames[instagram.com] or on our website at https://yfritgames.com.

We hope you enjoy this update, and we can’t wait to hear what you think!

Thanks again for your support,
Yfrit Team

What's up Primateria Community!

It's been a while since our last update, but for good reason. We've been hard at work on new content, new modes and a lot of cool stuff we've been prototyping.

While we work on our next major update, we wanted to keep the updates coming for you guys to make sure content is always fresh!

Here's what's new:

- Boss Rush mode: a new mode where you can now face random bosses in a run structure. All available bosses in the game can appear as challenges.
- Tamera and Meros join the roster of legendary cards.
- Following your feedback, we have the reworked damage mechanic: cards in damage return to your deck at the end of battle. A dummy card is added to the damage to represent damage points. That way, your deck cards are no longer locked.
- Improved the pinata node to be more effective for effect based decks, now you can earn gold with most deck styles, not only attack based ones.
- 11 new cards focusing on untapped combos and mechanics such as links.
- 3 new decks with new / improved playstyles.
- 9 new achievements that go together with the new content.
- Replaced art for multiple cards with new custom artwork.
- Bug fixes, enhancements, balancing and other small changes.

More to come!

It should take us a little longer until the next major update, but we're very excited about the things we've been cooking for the last couple of months. With that in mind, we're releasing a new version before that with a lot of new content while we wait on the major update.

For now, we hope you enjoy the new content and changes!

Thanks for your support,
Yfrit Team.

Hello Primateria Community!

We're finally back with the exciting first major update based on your feedback and suggestions. This update introduces some significant features and enhancements to improve your gameplay experience in Primateria.

Here's what's new:

• Players can now create, edit, save, and delete their own custom decks using the cards they have unlocked. These decks can be used to start endless runs and quests.
  
• Difficulty dynamically changes to balance runs using custom decks. Adding more cards to your deck will make the run more challenging.

• We've added a new era with 4 new quests, introducing a boss rush mode where all battles are boss battles.
  
• The new quests feature new super-bosses at the end, providing extra challenge and requiring advanced strategies to defeat.

• 7 new Equipment items have been added.
  
• 7 new achievements to unlock.
  
• 5 new cards have been added.
  
• Abandoning a run now grants experience similarly to losing a run.
  
• Some card arts have been replaced.
  
• Balancing changes include a rework of the "Convoy Bison" card, improved monster parties for initial floors to reduce frustration, and a rebalanced unlock progression to encourage exploration of new cards.
  
• We've also implemented multiple bug fixes, small changes, and optimizations to improve game performance and stability.

Your feedback is crucial to us, and we're committed to continuously improving Primateria.

Don't forget to Join Our Discord[discord.com] to share your feedback, opinions, criticism or if just want to chat about the game! You can also contact us in any of our social media platforms @yfritgames or contact us through our website at https://yfritgames.com. We'd love to see what you cook with the new deck editor!

We hope you enjoy the new content and changes!

Stay tuned for more updates, and don't hesitate to share your thoughts and suggestions!

Thanks for your support,
Yfrit Team.

Hi folks!

Thank once again for all your support to Primateria!

Just a quick announcement that the highly requested official sountrack is now available on Youtube! We worked very hard on it, and some of those tracks took us months to write and produce, so we hope you enjoy it! You can listen to it for free on Youtube.

For the people asking where to purchase it, the soundtrack is also available on Bandcamp[yfritgames.bandcamp.com]. If you want to support us, you can buy the album or tracks individually!

Hope you all enjoy!

Hello Primateria Community!

We wanted to first of all thank you for the feedback you provided during the playtest, your participation was very important, and we're very happy that the changes made helped improve the Primateria experience!

This minor update incorporates all the changes made for the playtest, alongside other fixes based on your feedback.

Here's the list of changes:

• Card rewards are no longer mandatory when winning battles; they can be skipped.
  
• Divine Sacrifice and Transmutation nodes can now be skipped.
  
• Special unlock conditions for the legendary cards are now available in the gallery.
  
• Information about the current challenge is now displayed on the Battle screen.
  
• Difficulty is now clearly displayed on the quest selection screen and on the ending screen if you choose to keep your deck.
  
• Multiple bug fixes and other minor changes.
  
• The tutorial now explains the attack on deck mechanic.

• Battles now give two cards as reward instead of one.
  
• Balanced the Battle in Waves node; it now has a battle phase, and the difficulty was adjusted.
  
• Balanced boss battles: improved AI and adjusted combos accordingly with difficulty.
  
• Balanced run difficulty: you can now only keep your deck for one era instead of all quests; the difficulty of the next quest when keeping deck was also increased.

• Skin Wearer can now only target cards in the backrow. It could easily steal a powerful high level card and deal a lot of damage in a single turn, and the only way to prevent that was by removing it from the arena. Now, it can be countered by moving the high level cards to the front row and only leaving weak cards in the back.
  
• Ethereal Beast was removed from the enemy card pool, and is now a player-only card. If left alive, its effect of attacking mana would always do guaranteed damage to the player, without offering any kind of counter-play apart from removal.
  
• Convoy Bison was also removed from the enemy card pool, but for the opposite reason. Using any removal effect would easily circunvent its defensive effect and trivialize battles, making them way easier than was intended.
  
• Monster Grasshopper and cards with "on play: attack" effects will no longer appear during the 2nd turn onwards on the Battle in Waves node. These cards would instantly activate on summon, which would do guaranteed damage without a chance for counter-play. By restricting them to the 1st turn, when the player arena is still empty, those effects won't be able to trigger.

We have been listening to your feedback and working hard the past days to improve on the game, and will continue to do so! Our next update will be a major one, with new content and the highly requested Deck Editor feature.

Don't forget to Join Our Discord[discord.com] to share your feedback, opinions, criticism or if just want to chat about the game!

We greatly appreciate the support and hope you keep enjoying Primateria!

Thanks!
Yfrit Team.

Dear Primateria Community Members,

Our playtest phase has officially begun! This is your chance to be among the first to experience the exciting changes we've been working on, based on the valuable feedback you provided.

• Bosses had way more cards than the player and difficulty at beginning of runs was too steep due to small number of cards in deck;
  
• Rewards could not be skipped, making decks too big, especially on late game, and shops were too far in-between;
  
• First quest boss was too difficult for new players;
  
• A "complete run" (doing all quests) was too long of a challenge;
  
• Keeping the same deck throughout all quests made the game too easy for experienced players;
  
• Difficulty of quests and runs was not clear, as it wasn't explicitly displayed;
  
• Battle in Waves node was too punishing for most of the decks, especially due to the lack of a battle phase.

Joining the playtest is easy! Just activate the "playtest" beta in your Steam client. You can do so by right-clicking Primateria on your Steam library, and navigating to "Properties..." then "Betas". There, just select the "playtest" branch from the dropdown list:

For any questions, discussions, feedback, and sharing your playtest experience, please Join Our Discord[discord.com].

You can also send feedback through our website https://www.yfrit.com, our contact email contact@yfrit.com or any of our social media platforms.

Your input during this playtest is crucial for us. It's an opportunity to see the changes in action and gather your thoughts on how they impact your gaming experience.

And if you are liking the game, please make a Steam review, we are really close to reaching that sweet "Overwheelmingly Positive" rating.

Looking forward to seeing you in the playtest! Thank you for playing and for the support!

Warm regards,
Yfrit Team.

Dear Primateria Community Members,

We have just released a minor update focusing on:

Update Contents:

• Localization fixes.
  
• Minor bug fixes and some small adjustments.

Although this update is minor, our attention is now turned to a more significant update that we plan to playtest next week. This playtest is an essential step in addressing the key feedback we have received from you. During this session, we will focus on:

• Adjustments to bosses and AI behavior.
  
• Adjustments to the difficulty curve.
  
• Adjustments to the deck building process.
  
• Adjustments to the gameplay loop.

Your participation in this playtest is crucial. It is an opportunity for us to implement and test changes directly based on your feedback.

To participate in the playtest, simply activate the playtest beta in your Steam client. You can do this by following the instructions here. We will make another announcement when the playtest begins and the update to your game becomes available.

For more details about the playtest and to share your ideas, please visit our Discord[discord.com]. Your contribution is invaluable in helping us refine these aspects.

We are also diligently working towards our next major update, which will include the much-requested Deck Editor feature, along with fixes to other issues highlighted by your feedback.

Thank you for your continued support and engagement.

Best regards,
Yfrit Team.

We're genuinely grateful for the positive reception Primateria has received. Your support means everything to us.

We're listening closely to your feedback and are already working on updates to enhance your gaming experience. Your thoughts and suggestions are guiding us in refining and improving Primateria.

Here are some of the things we're planning based on your feedback:

• More content in terms of challenges, nodes, and exploration.
  
• Balancing of challenges, battles, and bosses.
  
• Quality of life improvements to sounds, animations, keywords, the gallery, and tutorials.
  
• Localization fixes and improvements.
  
• Multiple bug fixes and minor adjustments.
  
• And last but not least, the Deck Editor feature for you to build your own decks.

For more direct interaction and to share your feedback, we invite you to join our Discord community. It's a great place to discuss ideas and help shape the future of the game.

Join us on Discord[discord.com]

Thanks again for your support. Together, we'll make Primateria even better!

Cheers,
Yfrit Team.