Poker Quest News

* We are launching in Early Access on Steam on July 20!
* NEW HERO: The Assassin.
* NEW ITEMS! Several new items were added to the game to discover.
* Poker Quest now runs on Mac! We would appreciate players testing it some, before Early Access!
* Throwing Knives now requires 7 or lower (from 8 or lower)
* Gluttonmaw no longer potentially lasts forever.
* Several items with expensive upgrades had their upgrade costs reduced.
* Card Swapper now starts with 6 uses per combat.
* Some UI tweaks.
* Fixed a bunch of bugs.
* Fixed some reloading exploits.

Lots of new stuff and big changes with this update! Thanks for playing and helping us get to this point! The game has came a long way since the initial demo release and now this will be the final update before the game launches in early access.

* NEW FEATURE! CUSTOM RUNS. Design a run just the way you like it.

* NEW WORLD MODIFIER: "Impostor". Heroes will start with items from other heroes.

* NEW HERO: The Monk!

* IMPORTANT: Re-ordered the heroes in the Hero Select screen. You may notice some extra heroes unlocked.

* The Casual mode upgrade "Reveal X enemy cards every round" has been changed to "Reveal the first X cards each combat", and split into more upgrades.

* Added two new Catacombs: Dreadshield, Firewall

* Added empty nodes to the world map. There is nothing in these nodes.

* Rebalanced the monsters so they are a little bit easier than they used to be.

* Added "Previous Best" lines to the world map for each hero.

* Huntress's energy ability cost reduced from 3 to 2.

* Fixed a bug where Phoenix was invulnerable against Enflame

* Craven chef now reduced to 5 available food.

* When enemies take Curse damage, it now happens at the start of the next round, instead of at the end of their turn.

* Darksludge now removes curse when applying poison.

* Pierce damage now ignores Armor.

* Block now blocks damage before Armor.

* Counterattack now works with Armor.

* Rebalanced Soulseeker.

* Vampire is no longer affected by the "Lose less life from starving" casual upgrade.

* There is now a maximum of 999 chips. Any amount higher will be discarded.

* Phoenix is no longer impossible to kill with Enflame.

* Blessed items now deal their damage after the item effects take place.

* Illumination now works when enemy items are disabled.

* Added hotkeys for Casinos.

Poker Quest v45
* NEW HERO: The Paladin!
* IMPORTANT CHANGE: Sudden Death now increases draw, each round, for both the player and the enemy.
* A bunch of new items for you to discover.
* Nerfed Kraken.
* The Queen's Flower now has a maximum of 8 uses per combat.
* Time spent in game now only tracks time while the game is running, not while alt-tabbed, and not while the game is closed.
* You can now display the remaining cards in the deck, and the discard pile, with a new hotkey (semicolon, ";")
* Added some combat log lines for when world modifiers take effect.
* Performance improvements.

Note: This will likely be the final free alpha version of the game before we enter Early Access on Steam. Help spread the word to your friends!

Poker Quest v42 (Feb. 2, 2020):

• NEW ANIMATED EFFECTS! In the Steam version, there are new animated combat effects for attacks, enflame, curse, etc.
  
• NEW HERO: The Ninja!
  
• NEW GUILD SKILL: "Alchemy". It allows you to re-fill an additional consumable item at campsites.
  
• NEW ENHANCEMENT RELIGIONS: Faces, Reds, Blacks, Odds, and Evens.
  
• See the complete patch notes in the game.
  

Join us on Saturday at 11 AM PDT where we'll be playing Poker Quest and answering your questions!

Poker Quest is a fantasy game where you use a standard deck of playing cards (like the "Queen of Spades") to empower your items in combat. Bigger and better hands can trigger stronger abilities on your items.

Discover thousands of different items and hundreds of monsters. March forward through a huge variety of locations and events in a procedurally generated, high-fantasy world.

Choose one of many heroes. Each hero comes with a unique set of equipment and abilities, to encourage many different play styles.

• A deep and interesting world full of Castles, Knights, Wizards, and Dragons. And Poker cards.
  
• Choose whether to play with or without permanent upgrades. (Some would call it roguelite vs. roguelike modes)
  
• 12 unique heroes, and many more to come.
  
• Daily Runs with public stats and other interesting details.
  
• Challenge runs with game-changing modifiers.
  
• Mini-games. Casinos!
  
• Thousands of unique items.
  
• Hundreds of unique monsters.
  

Poker Quest feels a lot like a deck-builder, but is fundamentally very different. The world map takes inspiration from Slay the Spire, with the intent of providing a great variety of events. The combat is inspired by Dicey Dungeons, but instead of dice, we use playing cards. That is where the similarities to other games end. Poker Quest contains a vast, novel set of game mechanics that centrally focus on the properties of the playing cards.

Some of the knowledge that you may have gained from other card games will naturally carry over to Poker Quest. Additionally, Poker Quest is a game that you can play to hone your skills at determining card probabilities, but while playing a fantasy RPG. With enough practice on the hardest difficulties, the answers to questions like "What are the chances they have a Spade in those two cards?" can become second nature to you. Or you can play on Casual mode and not worry too much about these things.