Greetings fellow travelers of the world of Rogue Cards!

We have finished an update that is likely to make you feel awesome.

Featuring:

• Tutorial is a little less hectic at the start
  
• Deck Manager: Hovering over a collection button now highlights cards in the collection
  
• Outsider drops a Staff if player doesn't have all of them (which means a max of 7 wins for ultra win!)
  
• You can see how many cards are in your graveyard during a match
  
• Lots of typos and small graphical bugs have been fixed

Looking so cool, right?!

Out now on PC. Rogue Cards invites you to a deckbuilding master-class - can your strategy take you all the way to the Outer Planes and defeat the Outsider?

Have you ever felt like you were a peasant from a generic medieval time period destined to save the world? Are you skilled enough to challenge The Outsider - a god of the Outer Planes? Does your food taste bland in the morning due to lack of purpose? If you answered yes to those, or any other questions you might have, then look no further and venture out to victory!

Features

• Unique graveyard mechanic that challenges tactical and strategic gameplay
  
• Character and deck development over multiple runs
  
• Hundreds of cards, endless combinations
  
• Deck management tools to alter your gameplay from one encounter to the next
  
• Ultra rare cards from boss encounters that have truly astounding impact
  
• Enemies that remember killing you

Challenging tactical and strategic gameplay

• Monsters with multiple stages of attack
  
• Cards you play aren't automatically available for the next fight - choices matter!
  
• Cards that alter your character through the whole run
  
• Bosses that require unique approaches and give unique rewards
  
• Adjustable difficulty perks for those who want a truly hardcore challenge and the bragging rights to go with it

Get it now while stocks last!
Just kidding, it's just cheaper at launch, is all.

We've been hard at work in making the game more fun and stable and have set a release date on 15 September 2023.

Testing will close on 15 Aug, so be sure to get your game on before that!


We are currently working on two new features, which will go live to testing in the end of July.

Tweak gameplay elements for individual runs, making the game harder or easier! Bragging rights go to those who play with maximum fervor. Includes for example monster resist tweaks, damage type tweaks and coin drop tweaks. Think Hades' Pact of Punishment, but this goes both ways.

We're introducing player classes. At first they will only affect starting deck and stats, but great things have been planned for them.

Beta test can be accessed by anyone until we close taking new participants. Most likely we'll limit it to the first 500 or so.

During the test we mainly want people to play the game, but if you got feedback or feature requests or spot a bug, we'll be glad to hear it reported.

Our current focus is on balancing the early and end game and the itemization. We will be implementing new features and changing the balance as we go along, so remember to keep on playing. We've also got some graphics updates on the pipeline coming out this week or the next.

-Dapper Grim

Taking some new graphics and a whole lot of new concepts to testing.

The game has developed lots and we hope to gain lots of insight and most importantly we hope to provide fun for all!

Stay tuned, we should be opening the beta to requests in the upcoming week. The beta will stay open for a few weeks, or until we've gathered enough data.

Don't forget to report findings and bugs and amount of fun / not fun.

Been a while since we've posted anything, so I though I'd get you guys up to speed.

Since the demo on Steam Next Fest, there have been quite a lot of changes to the core game. We've digested the feedback and we've added several new features into the game and we're working on testing them at the moment. I'll list them here in order of coolness (as judged by me):


If you've ever played Middle-Earth: Shadow of ... games, you are pretty much up to speed. Certain bosses and mini-bosses in the game will develop different stacks and attacks as you get beaten by them, and this will also affect their card drops.


Each realm will now have unique card drops (with unique graphics too) specific to that realm. So it will matter a LOT which path you take. And in order to collect those really wanted cards, you need to think more roguelite and less roguelike. We feel this adds greatly to the replayability of the game and adds a further twist into the decision making.


This was always a-coming, but you will now have access to a wide variety of stats from previous runs. For gloating or for personal interest, you decide.

In addition to those cool new things, there's been a lot of bug fixing, a complete rewrite of the core loop of the game (which took quite a lot of work!) so that the whole experience should be smoother and more intuitive.

We're still working on a tutorial and some graphics, and the music collection is getting a few pieces added to it. And of course, a lot of testing.

Stay tuned, I'll be announcing a semi-public beta in the upcoming months, before our Q2 (fingers crossed) release.

Best,
Grim Dapper

Steam Next Fest was a huge success for us, even with our slightly hurried prep for it (life happened a lot just before and we were a bit behind on various aspects that I wanted to include in the demo).

I did a short stream on Sunday that gained 10k unique viewers, which was a much larger than anticipated! Thanks to all who watched and listened to me ramble about deck management, tactics and strategy.

Our demo gathered a lot of interests, with 1000+ registrations for it, and 150 downloads. While that is nothing compared to the more advanced titles from higher profile studios, we got some dedicated players doing several rounds, and gathered a lot of data to analyze as we prepare to go into closed beta. A huge thanks to all who played!

What the data tells us, is that not many were able to get past the first boss: The Ogre. The difficulty level is high in the start, but it's a roguelite after all, and you're supposed to develop your character quite far before you can beat the game. A couple of players actually beat the demo. Well done!

Quite a lot of players also underutilized the selling of existing cards, which is a major part of the economy. In part, this also applies to other aspects of the shop, and we didn't see many players gearing up as much as they should have!

The demo is now down and will be forever.

Coming up:

We're currently working hard on updating the GUI from the placeholder graphics. We will be replacing the HUD, deck manager, shop and village with something cool as beans, and are also working on some promotional art to update the Steam page.

We're also going to add a lot of new music.

Current balance of the game is yet quite untested on bigger audiences, and that's next on our agenda.

We're announcing the closed beta in a few months, so stay tuned!

-Grim Dapper

Rogue Card dev playing a few rounds and showing some strategies.

Dapper Grim will be playing a few rounds for you to see.