Poker Quest News

UPDATE! Poker Quest v53 (July 26, 2021):

* NEW HERO! The Tortoise. He is very defensive.

* IMPORTANT: Reduced the amount of XP required for the later heroes. Some of you who have reached these later heroes may immediately unlock them when you start a new run.

* Fixed the text of "Bump" to say "Draw" instead of "Draw or steal"

* Fixed an issue where items like "Holy Mace" were turning into different items.

NOTE: The next time you gain XP, you may notice one or more heroes suddenly unlock. This is not a bug, and will only happen this update. Since we now have 18 available heroes, we re-balanced the XP curve to make it unlock heroes much more quickly.

* 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.