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The 2022 overview and the 2023 roadmap

Hi everyone!

The year 2022 came to an end, and what a year it was! We've made some substantial progress over these past twelve months, both in the game's development and as a studio. We wanted to briefly go over what happened this year and what we're planning on in 2023 here in our creativity forge, known as the Dark Point Games studio.



First things first, the full release date of "Achilles: Legends Untold". If all goes well, it's planned for the second quarter of 2023!

We're planning one more big update until then, version 0.3.0 of the game, and then it's straight for the 1.0.

Let us show you a roadmap of the goals we want to reach this year:



If you’re more curious about the details, take a look below:

[h3]Patch 0.3.0:[/h3]
  • Performance upgrades
  • Improved default control mapping, also including custom key binding on controllers and ready presets to choose from
  • Combat upgrades with additions like rolling through enemies when overwhelmed
  • Diverse new enemies, featuring spiders, living statues and murderous plants
  • Group AI Action (GAIA) system refinements, making the non-scripted group/environmental attacks more frequent
  • New dungeons to explore
  • More NPCs in the game’s world
  • Quest expansion, focusing on extending the Agamemnon questlines
  • Loads of new basement layouts to venture down to
Important note: because of many changes implemented in the 0.3.0 patch, we plan to erase the current saves, since they would be incompatible with the most recent version of the game. Fret not though - it will be possible to keep playing your old save.
More info on how to do it will be posted soon.


[h3]Full Release:[/h3]
  • Complete main campaign with new characters to meet and new locations to explore
  • Crafting
  • Destructible objects across the whole world
  • New version of the Troy
  • New open-world map, the second part of Greece
  • New boss fights
  • A new and improved co-op mode rendition based on fighting enemy waves in arenas
  • More Group AI Action (GAIA) attacks
  • New enemies
  • Skill tree alteration
  • Multiple save slots
  • Achievements
Once the full game is released, it will be ported to Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 consoles somewhere in Q3. There are also plans to optimize it for Steam Deck.

The game will also be later expanded with new free content for you to enjoy.




With all of these new features, let us not forget about everything we've already done! "Achilles: Legends Untold" has visibly changed during the last year, be it the map locations or the amount of content, including various enemies, weapons and items.

OLD and NEW



The game’s release in Early Access in May 2022 gave us a great opportunity, specifically a chance to involve the people that we’re developing the game for (that’s you!) in our work. Player feedback is a greatly valued thing here at the Dark Point Games studio, because it helps us make something that everyone can enjoy.

Thanks to you, the game received some great additions, for example the in-game map, but also balance improvements (including the difficulty and shrine placement) and bug fixes based on your reports.

We’ve also realized that because of the isometric view, “Achilles: Legends Untold” might resemble some titles, like for example “Titan Quest”, so we want to make it clear - the game does not belong to the Hack and slash genre. It has slower combat and relies mainly on the stamina bar, which forces the player to act more thoughtfully and be careful with each move.

You’ve been a great help so far. We’ll continue to listen to you while we progress with the development of “Achilles: Legends Untold”.






Not only did the game expand, but so did our team! In the beginning, only 4 people were working on the game, and now there are 20 of us! We're still a modest indie studio, but we're steadily gaining momentum and growing.



This was also the first season in which we, as Dark Point Games, were able to present our game at a fair. What an experience it was for us! "Achilles: Legends Untold" was shown at some of the biggest European fairs – Gamescom, EGX London, Poznań Game Arena and Paris Games Week.



It was amazing to meet all these people and feel the atmosphere of common passion between everyone we've talked to. We're already looking forward to more opportunities to see you, our players, and show you all what exciting new features we're working on now.

We feel that “Achilles: Legends Untold” is really becoming the aRPG game we wanted to make, with the strategic, thoughtful real-time combat giving it a unique feel.

See you next time!



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Contest Results



Hello Warriors!

The Steam Winter Sale is over, and so is our contest! The five players to receive the awards are:
    Bessas
    Godofhellfire
    Djfajax
    Mikarasu
    Neptune
Please contact our community manager through Discord at Bartek DPG#4275 (you can also find him at our server) with your addresses, so we can ship the prizes.

Please make sure to have your Steam and Discord accounts connected as a way for us to verify it’s you. Please contact us till 14 of January 2023.

Thank you for participating!

All your comments are very valuable to us, as our game is still in Early Access and being developed according to our vision and your feedback. Feel free to comment and tell us what you think at any time.

Look forward to more news!



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Christmas Contest

Hi warriors!

Christmas time! It’s the time of gifts and celebration. Here at the studio we too are overflowing with the holiday spirit, so we thought that we’d show you some appreciation and give out some presents!

For the duration of the Steam Winter Sale we’ll be running a Christmas contest. To enter, just write your opinion about Achilles: Legends Untold in the comment section of this post. You could say what about it you liked the most, which part was the most troublesome, what feature would you like to see added/changed etc.

At the end we’ll pick out 5 of the most interesting and give out gaming mouses from Xtrfy (€59 worth each!) to the winners!



We’ll announce the results in a Steam post in our community hub, so make sure to check in on our page. We’ll be waiting for your responses!

In the meantime,

[h3]Season's Greetings and a Happy New Year everyone![/h3]





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Trading Cards and Steam Points Shop items are now available!



We're happy to announce that Achilles is joining the Steam Trading Cards and Steam Points Shop with a full set of items to help you personalize your profile!

From now, by playing Achilles: Legends Untold you will be able to get virtual cards that you can later exchange for badges and tradable Steam community items.

Extra to Trading Cards, we provide sets of items for the Steam Points Shop.

Now you will be able to personalize your profile in the most mythical style.

The whole set of items includes:

Trading cards set:
  • 5 trading cards
  • 4 profile backgrounds
  • 9 emoticons

Steam Points Shop items:
  • 1 miniprofile background animated
  • 4 animated frames
  • 4 frames
  • 1 animated avatar
  • 1 avatar
Discover and collect them all!



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Inventory Addition & New Locations (DevLog #4)



Hi everyone!

A while has passed since our last DevLog, and the time is due for a new entry. Buckle up, we have some things to go over!

We're working hard at developing existing and new mechanics, fixing issues and testing out upcoming things. There's much, much more to show you regarding this process. This time however we have a few ready elements to showcase, here they are!



The quest focused around finding Agamemnon will get expanded! Agamemnon is a king, and each king worthy of his title has a palace that he rules his kingdom from. Agamemnon’s is located right in Mycenae, where you’ll be able to see it in all of its might.





Using many items at once - a feature much requested by our players - will be available in the next update! Now you won’t have to get through all the fate items you’ve collected one by one. We hope it will provide you with a new level of convenience.



We’re also adding a simple crafting mechanic - you’ll be able to make some items straight out of your inventory!



There is much more to come. Stay tuned!



[h3]Did you know?[/h3]

Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae and the brother of Menelaus, was the one who commanded the Greeks during the Trojan War.

In Homer’s Iliad, near the end of the war he had a quarrel with Achilles. He stole an attractive slave called Briseis, one of the spoils of war, from Achilles. This created a rift between Achilles and Agamemnon, causing Achilles to withdraw from battle and refuse to fight.

Agamemnon, having realized Achilles's importance in winning the war against the Trojan Army, sent ambassadors begging for Achilles to return, offering him riches and the hand of his daughter in marriage. Achilles refused, only being spurred back into action when Patroclus was killed in battle by Hector, eldest son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba.




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