Astatos News

To the Crown Mages,

Happy Lunar New Year from Studio Klondike! This month we’ve prepared a special Hero Skin in celebration of the Year of the Snake, featuring Alkaios. We wish all our Crown Mages a lucky 2025!



New artwork for Cascade Trials. Above is a sneak peek at the background artwork for the Hero select screen for Cascade Trial, with other elements being worked on this past month.

Story and artwork production for Chapter II continues! We’re closing in on preparing the final sections of the next Chapter, including story writing, cutscene scripting, and CGs being worked on.

For the detailed list of changes implemented with Astatos v0.7.18, please read on below.

- From the team at Studio Klondike

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• A new Hero Skin has been made available as the monthly reward. The previous month’s Hero Skin has been added to the in-game store.
  
• Alkaios - Serpentine Providence
  
  

To the Crown Mages,

The latest update for Astatos is here! This update includes Sulpicius’ latest Hero Skin, along with fixes and a new development update!

Chapter II development continues! With new artwork and story scenes being worked on. As of this month the final background assets have been completed for the upcoming Chapter II.

We also have made progress on artwork and gameplay systems for Cascade Trial. We’ve been working on implementing more event and gameplay systems.

For the detailed list of changes implemented with Astatos v0.7.17, please read on below.

- From the team at Studio Klondike

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• Season IX of the Takeover Trial leaderboard has concluded. The top 100 players will receive a new player title sometime after the release of this patch.
  
• Additionally, the timing between Takeover Trial Seasons in 2025 has been increased from 3 months to 4 months.
  
• A new Hero Skin has been made available as the monthly reward. The previous month’s Hero Skin has been added to the in-game store.
  
• Sulpicius - Dragon’s Advantage
  
  

[h2]Game Fixes[/h2][hr][/hr]

• The splash screen video playback has been optimised to resolve an issue where it failed to display on some computers running Windows 11.
  

To the Crown Mages,

The Steam Winter Sale is here until January 2nd! If you're a fan of our music, be sure to check out the Original Soundtrack DLC for 25% off. Or invite some friends to play and save 33% off on the Game + OST bundle! Your support means a lot to us!

We're also steadily working towards the completion of Astatos Chapter II, a free updating including hours of new story content, and new Hero Cards!

- From the team at Studio Klondike


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1764200/Astatos_Original_Soundtrack/

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/22815/Astatos__Original_Soundtrack_Bundle/

[h2]Plus more from Studio Klondike[/h2][hr][/hr]
If you haven't yet, be sure to check out the DLC sale for our previous game, Nekojishi. The base game is free to download too!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/570840/_Nekojishi/

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/6935/Nekojishi_DLC_bundle__A_Sunny_Day__Voice_Pack__Chinese/

To the Crown Mages,

The latest update for Astatos is here! This update includes Lysander’s latest Hero Skin, along with a new development update!

This past month we focused purely on development of upcoming content, with new story scenes, CGs, and interludes being completed. It’s been hectic, but we hope to make something worth the wait.

[h2]The Steam Autumn Sale, on now till December 4![/h2][hr][/hr]
Astatos is also currently featured in the Steam Autumn sale! If you're a fan of our music, be sure to check out the Original Soundtrack DLC for 20% off. Or invite some friends to play and save 28% off on the Game + OST bundle!

Your support helps us create even more artwork and story content for the game!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1430970/Astatos/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1764200/Astatos_Original_Soundtrack/

For the detailed list of changes implemented with Astatos v0.7.16, please read on below.

- From the team at Studio Klondike

[h2]New Content[/h2][hr][/hr]

• A new Hero Skin has been made available as the monthly reward. The previous month’s Hero Skin has been added to the in-game store.
  
• Lysander - Harvest Reverie
  
  

To the Crown Mages,

The latest update for Astatos is here! This update includes this month’s Hero Skin, along with gameplay optimisations and bug fixes.

We’re back from our trips PAX Aus and SXSW Sydney last month. It was great seeing so many new people try out the game and we got to see some fans too! After watching people try the demo version, we have a lot of ideas for improvements to gameplay and UI— some of which are included in this update!

Additionally, while our producer was busy the rest of the team have been working on new CGs and story text for the upcoming Chapter II— with over 15k words of the story being completed this month alone!

[h2]Hero Action Menu[/h2][hr][/hr]


We’ve reworked the way players interact with Hero Cards. Upon selecting a Hero Card, a context-sensitive action menu is displayed. This menu allows you to give Energy and toggle Hero Abilities where appropriate.

The Hero Ability description has also been redesigned with better feedback on when Hero Cards can be selected. Hero Ability costs and other information have been moved to the Hero Action Menu.

After watching many players interact with the game at conventions last month, we feel this change is important to make the core mechanics of the Hero Stage intuitive to new players!

Note: With this update, it is no longer possible toggle a Hero Ability by clicking and holding. However, we have left the right-click to toggle functionality in the game as a shortcut.

For the detailed list of changes implemented with Astatos v0.7.15, please read on below.

- From the team at Studio Klondike

[h2]New Content[/h2]
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• A new Hero Skin has been made available as the monthly reward. The previous month’s Hero Skin has been added to the in-game store.
  
• Krokos - The Philosopher's Truth
  
  

[h2]Game Changes[/h2]
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• The Hero Ability popup has been redesigned to give better information to the player.
  
• The hero action menu now appears when selecting a Hero Card. Some tutorial dialogue has been modified to reflect this change.
  
• Hard AI opponents now perform their actions faster in the Hero Stage.
  
• [Takeover Trial & Story Trial] Hero Cards that cost more than 1 Energy to summon are now summoned with a single action. You can no longer begin to summon these Hero Cards unless you have enough Energy.
  
• Alkaios’ Hero Ability has been revised. Players can now choose to forfeit giving Energy. If all players have run out of Energy or forfeited, the Ability will end automatically.
  

[h2]Game Fixes[/h2]
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• Fixed an issue that allowed A.I. opponents to incorrectly use Exchange directly after summoning Gaios.
  
• Fixed a server configuration issue that prevented email verification and password reset emails from being sent.