Dire is releasing into Early Access soon! If you don’t have it wishlisted (if you are seeing this then you probably do) then wishlist it here to be notified once it is available:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/556530/Faerie_Solitaire_Dire/

Early Access!?

We completely understand reservations over the Early Access system. We know the pitfalls of Early Access and will avoid them with Dire. Instead of taking the community through 90% of a game’s development, we are only doing the last 10% of polish/balancing/bug fixing and so on. If you do not want to help us find bugs, fix typos, and suggest polish but still want to play the full release then please make sure Dire is wishlisted and wait for the approximate full release in about 2 months.

What is the Early Access release date?

The Early Access release date is September 7th.

What is the price?

The price is $9.99 USD with a 10% Early Access launch discount.

Full release price will increase by 50% to $14.99 once full release happens.

Demo?

There won’t be a demo ready and available at Early Access release but we will be releasing one in the future.

Is Dire for me?

If you loved the first Faerie Solitaire / the challenge mode of Faerie Solitaire Remastered then there is a good chance you will love Dire too. Dire dips more into the sinister of dark fantasy than the other games. Dire also focuses much more on character driven storytelling.

Is Dire a visual novel?

Strictly speaking no. Dire is a hybrid of multiple genres. The story telling in Dire is much more frequent than with our other games, but if you are only here for the solitaire then you can easily enable Story Skip in the game’s options menu.

When will updates happen?

Small ones frequently, big ones weekly. If the more frequent updates annoy you then disable auto-update on the game and force an update when you want to see what’s new. The last stretch of development is still a journey you can be a part of so give us your feedback on any issue and there is a good chance we’ll address it in an update.

Why Early Access?

Dire needs a bit more development time until it’s ready for full release and we want to open up the last bit of development to solitaire fans so that we can all ensure that Dire is the best solitaire game possible. We need feedback on balance, polish, and anything else you think is important based on playing.

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

Dire will be in Early Access for approximately 2 months. We know how important it is to not linger in Early Access forever… that is why we’re only using it to get feedback on the finalization of this game after primary development already happened.

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

Most of the content and features are already near a level of completion and will be made available over the Early Access timeline (we may obscure / blur unfinished work). Mainly the differences between the Early Access version and full version release will be better balance, less typos. Don’t expect major changes from what is presented (we have already spent much development time on iteration already), do expect many polish improvements toward the game coming completely.

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

The first version will have 8 chapters of the Adventure story mode available, but final character art is not included yet, and chapter backgrounds are blurred for the first build. Each chapter has 3 layouts - this is a pacing decision to make the story and gameplay happen closer together than before. Zero pets are available (you can collect some eggs but we are blocking off the pets screen for the very first build). 20 achievements are available. If you have played our other solitaire games you know what this means and you may have an idea of what to expect to come after. There are things obviously temporary assets and things obviously missing but we've still tried to make it as presentable as we could in time for the first public Early Access build.

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

The price will increase by 50% at full release.

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

There is room for feedback on content and features. For the most part the major strokes are already done and in Early Access we are mostly only looking for feedback on balance, typos, and areas where you may feel there is not enough polish yet.

Will there be paid DLC?

We don’t have plans for paid DLC on Steam.

Where is the X?

If you feel there is something missing in Dire that is familiar in our other FS games then there’s a good chance we are already planning to release an update with something like it included in the future. We’re not going to talk about these updates until they happen though so you’ll have to wait and see what we add in the future. If there is something you really want added do let us know!

What is the purple bar?

That is the XP To Next Level for the player profile. Right now the only thing player level does is slowly increase permanent luck in small amounts.

What can I spend my Pure Gold on?

Nothing right now. Consider it as a kind of high score until you inevitably have things to spend all of your riches on!

What is the e1.2.1xx?

This is the version of the engine. We use Defold for our game engine now. This is next to the version in some places mostly as a sanity check for us to quickly make sure the game was built with the latest engine version.

I thought Dire was supposed to be hard? I already beat all of the chapters!

Others who have played previous beta builds can attest to how challenging we can make layouts. The real challenge is yet to come...!

Steam Trading Cards

These won’t be available at Early Access release but we will let you know when they are available. (If you have our last game Faerie Solitaire Harvest it will be getting these at the same time.)

Steam Key

If you are entitled to a Steam key from a past event or purchase then you already know what to do - contact us at help@subsoap.com with relevant information.