The wait is finally over - Rise of Humanity is NOW AVAILABLE in Early Access with a 10% launch discount!

Head on over to check it out now & find out what else is coming: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1048530/Rise_of_Humanity/

Watch our brand new Daily Challenge Trailer:
Complete missions to progress in the game

When you start a new level, your heroes get mission goals assigned to them. Complete these in order to get to the next level to face new and dangerous enemies and recruit skilful heroes to your team!

Get new skills by completing battle goals

Your playable characters will be given two possible battle goals they can choose from at the beginning of each mission. One of them will be easier, while the other will be more difficult, but more skill points as well. The skill points you earn for each hero will come in handy later on – exchange these for new skills to make your heroes more powerful!

Blow up big bad robots to earn new cards for your heroes

You can also build your deck by walking into the toolboxes hidden in each level. The newly acquired cards will be shuffled into your deck. Upgrade or merge them in the Hideout in between missions and they'll turn into even more intense weapons in your heroes' hands.

Walk into the hexes with blue hotzones in order to:

• Charge your energy
  
• Increase your health
  
• Get more cards - but for a price...
  
• Increase ranged attack damage
  
• Reduce the energy cost of your cards.

Practice with the Daily Challenges & become the Master of Decks

Rise of Humanity will have two separate game modes:

1. Story mode, with a linear story campaign where you meet the characters one by one and discover new levels as you progress through the game.
   
2. Daily Challenge mode, where you can play three new, randomly created challenges every day.

These challenges will have three randomly selected heroes and locations, as well as different battle conditions that can make the challenge harder or easier to finish.

If you’re lucky, you can have your enemies start with lower health. If you’re (very) unlucky, you will be playing the challenges with Acid Rain, which deals damage to your heroes in every turn.

Complete the Daily Challenge missions to earn points and a rank on our leaderboard that updates on a daily basis. The scores add up to a monthly rank so make sure to come back every day to improve your strategy and compete with other players! Score the most points to become the ultimate champion & Master of Decks!

What else is coming to the Early Access game:

Join our Discord & follow us on social media.

We’re extremely grateful to all the players who helped and supported us on our way to the Early Access release. We really appreciate your feedback and suggestions! Follow us on Social Media and Discord[discord.gg] to learn about the new updates first-hand and chat with the community and developers.

Join our fortnightly tournaments on Twitch!

We will be playing the Daily Challenges live every Wednesday on our Twitch[www.twitch.tv]. Join us in a tournament to beat our score and become the champion!

Hello Saviours of Humanity,

We’re super excited to be releasing the game in Early Access… NEXT THRUSDAY.
At the moment, we’re working hard on introducing a couple of new features that would make the game even more fun for you.

One of these is going to be a levelling system. This means that by playing the Daily Challenges, you will earn points based on a number of factors like how many enemies you’ve killed, how many cards you’ve looted or how much time you spent playing. But let’s start with the basics.

WHAT ARE THE DAILY CHALLENGES?

Along with the story campaign, our game will also have a Daily Challenge Mode. With this, you will be able to play 3 new missions every day, with 3 randomly chosen characters and 3 randomly chosen locations. We will have 4 characters and 6 locations in total so that already adds up to a lot of different scenarios.

But that’s not all. You will also be given:
• Randomly chosen battle conditions that can affect the starting health of your heroes or enemies, and a bunch of other things that can make it more challenging for you to complete a mission.
• A new deck for each of your heroes that you have to build, with new possible blueprints by which you can merge some of your cards.
• Randomly chosen battle goals that you have to complete in order to earn skill points for your heroes.
• Last but not least, we will randomly engulf some location in a dark fog of war that will hide your enemies from sight.

Let’s do the math: with all these combined, you will end up with new gameplay every day, and just a heads-up, we will keep introducing new battle conditions and other modifiers with the updates following the release. And if you play the Daily Challenges, you can also compete with other players with your scores on our leaderboard.

HOW CAN YOU GET A SCORE?

As we’ve mentioned before, completing the Daily Challenges will earn you points that add up during your gameplay. Once you’ve completed the challenges or, well, died with all three of your heroes, your total score appears on our leaderboard, and, from now on, also along with your level. Your score will depend on a number of things:

• Missions completed: this one is worth the most points, completing all three missions will earn you 6000 points. Not bad, right?
  
• Enemies killed and damage dealt: the more robots you slay, the more points you earn. So get ready to kick some mechanical butts!
  
• Heroes defeated: try to keep all your heroes alive throughout all three missions and you shall be rewarded with more, precious points!
  
• Cards looted: watch out for those hidden treasure chests all over our locations, they won’t only give you scrap (= the $$$ in the game) but also new cards you can use against your enemy and by the way, get more points with! This is also a reason for you to slay more Crushers as eliminating them will also give you a new card.
  
• Cards upgraded or merged: get out those decks and have a look at your options in the Hideout! Not only will you get some more powerful weapons but they’ll also give you a higher score.
  
• Hexes moved: this will be DEDUCTED from your points. Our game was designed to reward the brave and the bold who don’t scare away from a battle with our nasty bots. If your strategy is to keep running away from the enemies, you might end up with a lower score.
  
• Battle goals completed and skill points earned: these two are a bit of a pickle and will be something you’ll have to think about. You are given a choice between an easy and a more difficult battle goal for each hero at the beginning of each mission. If completed, the easier goal will give you one skill point, while with the harder ones you will be able to earn two or three skill points. The easier way might seem more tempting but keep in mind that completing the difficult ones will leave you with more skill points and thus more points. At the same time, picking the low hanging fruit can sometimes be rewarding: you are much more likely to successfully complete the easy battle goals, earning you a higher score on the leaderboard.
  
• Cards played: yep, those who play more cards will get less points than those who play less. This is to reward players with a good strategy that use their cards in the most efficient way possible.
  
• How much time you spend on playing the game. This will be deducted from your total score so we would recommend not to chill too much in the Hideout between missions.

We’re aware that this is a lot of maths but these will all contribute to your final score and where you place on the leaderboard. These are all things you should consider if you want to be a real master of the Daily Challenges. Which brings us to:

HOW CAN YOU BECOME THE CHAMPION?

So let’s get to the point and talk about the LEVELS.

Again, if you play the Daily Challenges, you will get a score that will rank you on our leaderboard. This will also translate into a level from 1 to 30 (for now…). The level you’ve reached will become visible the day after so make sure to check back and see where you landed.

Our daily leaderboards add up to a monthly rank that you will find in the menu. Players who complete more of our Daily Challenges will eventually place higher on this, and by earning more points they will also reach higher levels.

So to summarize, the recipe for becoming our champion is simple:

• Take one dedicated and ambitious player
  
• Add the completion of as many Daily Challenge missions as possible
  
• Mix with a lot of strategic thinking based on the point system
  
• And finally, sprinkle with the tenacity to play the Daily Challenges every day to figure out the best tactic and get more points.

That’s it for now, we hope you’re looking forward to the release after reading through all this – we just CAN’T WAIT!

We’ll be sharing some more tips & tricks and updates on the Steam page of the Early Access game, check it out or add to your wishlist to make sure you don't miss anything:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1048530/Rise_of_Humanity/

Hello Saviours of Humanity,

We have some very exciting news for you: Rise of Humanity will be released in Early Access in less than a month, on 21 October!

It will have:

• Four playable characters, all of them with their own deck, different powers and different skill trees you can develop
  
• Six different levels, with stunning graphics, deadly enemy robots that are sometimes hidden by fog of war
  
• More than a hundred cards that you can collect, upgrade and merge
  
• A Daily Challenge Mode that will give you three new challenges to complete every day
  
• and much more.

If you liked our Prologue, make sure to add the Early Access game to your wishlist so you won't miss our news and updates:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1048530/Rise_of_Humanity/

The Lumber Mill is a seemingly peaceful location with beautiful scenery and lush meadows. While its flora is quite pretty and harmless, we can't say the same about its fauna - well, its population of mechanical animals at least.

It is the first level where you meet the malicious Puppies. They can bite you, cripple you or even make you suffer some damage when you attack them.

Your very first mission in this level is to rescue a fellow hero, Memory from one of them so you might want to check out this little tutorial to learn how to beat these nasty doggos: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1654440/view/5144786299693124848

Once you've saved her, you have to complete the second mission and look for a data cable that Memory wants to use. But it won't be an easy mission, as the data cable is hidden in a shed with a surprise inhabitant:

Just a hint, you may even have to face two of these big bad robots there. (Tip: you might want to walk around the shed and reach the indicated hex from the back. This way, you won't wake up the dangerous enemy lurking in there.)

If you've accomplished this goal as well, first of all, congratulations, you're one tough cookie! But it's too early to celebrate.

There's still one thing you have to do: find the entrance to the mysterious Quarry! It's located across the bridge, next to the first puppy on this GIF:

But don't worry. Once you've made it this far, all you have to do is make sure that that vicious doggie stays asleep until you reach the goal!

We hope you found this little guide useful! If you have any requests on what you want to learn more about in the game, don't hesitate to leave us a comment!

If you liked the Prologue, feel free to leave a review (those help us out a lot!) and you can also add the upcoming Early Access game to your wishlist:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1048530/Rise_of_Humanity/

Hello Saviours of Humanity,

We're here to share a playthrough video of the final level of the game. Oh yeah... the game is also set to NIGHTMARE mode - the highest level of difficulty!

Do you have a different strategy? Make sure to share it in the comments or leave us a review on Steam!

If you liked the Prologue, you can also add the upcoming full game to your wishlist here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1048530/Rise_of_Humanity/

Don't let the cuteness fool you, the Exploding Bunny is one of the most powerful weapons in our game!

It has 3 throwing range, and deals 5 damage to everyone standing in a 1 hex damage radius of where it lands. This means you can easily blow up a bunch of menacing Crushers or Puppies with it, as long as they are all standing close together.

It's a card that is exclusive to one character, in this case Hunter, and it costs 3 energy points for him to use it. Pretty ''expensive'' but definitely worth its price!

Being a “One Shot“ card, it will not reshuffle into your deck once all your cards have been used/discarded. It's also a pretty rare one to come across, so you might want to hold onto it until you have a whole bunch of enemies together instead of using it on taking out one single robot.

If you liked the Prologue, don't forget to add the full game to your wishlist, it will have a lot more Bunnies!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1048530/Rise_of_Humanity/

Once created by mankind to help repair machines and robots, the drones have since switched sides and now use their versatile skills to eliminate humans.

These insidious apparatuses will not come at you right away in a battle, but do not think for a second that you are safe from them. They are the sneaky kind that tend to lurk around bots to heal them from your attacks, and they have plenty of tricks up their sleeves that can make your life miserable.

• Their signature move is the deadly kamikaze attack: this move of self-destruction deals 4 damage to your heroes standing in their close vicinity!
  
• Using their Repair Ally card, they can heal their vicious bot friends you’ve been battling for 3 health – making all your hard work go to waste.
  
• With their Drone Buzz, they can dazzle your heroes from afar and make them loose one of their cards.
  
• They can always disengage from your heroes without having to discard a card with their ‘’Flee’’ move.

So how can you defeat them? Here are some tips & tricks on dealing with this malicious enemy:

• Even though they are not injuring you directly and it may seem like it’s less of a priority to eliminate them first, it might be a good idea to get them out of the way before you take on the bigger enemies.
  
• If you injure another enemy, it will trigger the drone to move closer in order to heal them. This is the moment when you can take your chance and attack them with an explosive weapon such as the grenade or the bunny. Killing two birds with one stone!
  
• If you have your dodge card, a quick and efficient way to get rid of them is if you make them attack you with their signature move, a kamikaze attack. They will come at you and destroy themselves, injuring everything around them in a range so make sure to stand close to other enemies when you make them go for the kamikaze!

Wanna find out more? Check back next week or have a look at the page of the Early Access game, where we have more tips & tricks to share:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1048530/Rise_of_Humanity/

The Hideout is a central hub in Rise of Humanity where your heroes can recover from a battle. It has three locations at the moment, the Sleeping Quarters, the Card Shop and the Mission Centre.

Sleeping Quarters
The Sleeping Quarters is a key strategic location in the game where you can heal your heroes if they suffered some damage from a fight with the vicious machines. One health point will cost 20 scraps for one hero.

It is also possible to increase your maximum health but this will cost hardly earned skill points so you might want to look around a bit more before investing into this.

Your heroes can also acquire new skills in exchange for these skill points. You can choose from three possible skill trees specific to each of your characters. Each skill tree comes with three new powers that you can unlock using the skill points you’ve gathered, the first one costing 3, the second 6, and the third 9 points. You can find out more about the possible skills your heroes can gain here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1048530/view/4430963222696091247

In the Sleeping Quarters, you can also have a look at the deck of each hero and check what cards you have collected so far and which ones you can use in your future battles.

Speaking of cards... Our next location in the Hideout is:

The Card Shop

A place where you can spend your scraps on improving your heroes’ decks. You can either:

• Upgrade cards: this will take two of the same cards and make them into a stronger one. For example if you have two Ice Axe cards and you choose to upgrade, you will end up with one improved Ice Axe card that will deal more damage to your enemies than the ‘’regular’’ version.
  
• Merge cards: based on specific blue prints, you will be able to merge different cards of your heroes and create new cards from them. This will become available to your heroes in the Early Access game, we will share some more information on it in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!
  
• Remove cards from your deck: you can remove cards you don’t need for a price based on how rare the specific card is.

The Mission Center

You can access your past and present missions and keep track of your progress in the game. In the Early Access version, this will also be the place where your heroes can access the unlimited random side missions they can use to collect more cards, gain more skill points to become stronger and practice for future battles.

Curious to learn more? Check back next week or have a look at the page of the Early Access game, where we have more tips & tricks to share:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1048530/Rise_of_Humanity/

In Rise of Humanity, the world as we know it have ended when a powerful AI went rogue and took control over from humans. Once created to help mankind, machines are now roaming the empty streets in search for the remainders of their makers with one goal in mind: to destroy them.

Robot Puppies are no exception. Don’t be fooled by the name, these machines are one of the nastiest enemies you can come across in the game, with various tricks up their mechanical sleeve.
• They move fast and not only can they block your attacks, but also strike back and damage your hero in the process. This way when you hit a Puppy with a melee attack like the Ice Axe, your hero will suffer the equal amount of damage as the Puppy they attacked.
• If they use a Bite card on your hero they will deal one damage to them – but also make them bleed, so they will suffer more damage in the next turn as well… Nasty, am I right?
• Their Cripple card is one of the sneakiest moves however – not only do they deal a lot of damage to your hero but it also immobilizes them for the next turn: their target will not be able to use any of their movement cards.

So what can you do to defend yourself from their vicious attacks? Here are some tips and tricks that will help you face this malicious bot:

• When you spot that the puppy has used a Strike Back card (a little circle will appear next to its name and you can have a look at his deck by clicking on its icon at the top of the screen), try playing a ranged attack instead of a melee attack card. This way you might not damage the Puppy that much but it will not be able to deal any damage to you either.
  
• You can also try playing a Quick Reflexes card before attacking the puppy that can block this effect.

Do you have another strategy? Don’t hesitate to let us know in the comments or join our Discord to share your tips and tricks with the community!