Keeper's Toll News

Hi Everyone,

There is less than 2 weeks to go until the Full Release of Keeper's Toll! The game will exit Early Access and launch on Steam and Nintendo Switch on Monday, October 28, 2024, at approximately 6AM PST. We'll have full details about version 1.0 on launch day.

Early Access has been an incredible journey, and we are excited to hit the major milestone that is version 1.0. We will have a launch discount available for the game, but it will be delayed a few hours after we transition to full release, because the discount is connected to Scream Fest, as KT will be included in Scream Fest, and it won't begin until later that morning.

Over the past couple of months, we've posted up a few videos on YouTube about Keeper's Toll. Feel free to check them out, including our latest one about designing the Blood Maiden class:

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If anyone has any questions, feel free to leave a comment in this thread or get in touch with us however you prefer. We'll be happy to chat, as always.

Thank you again for your interest in Keeper's Toll. We will see you at the finish line on October 28!

Stingbot Games

Just pushed a small patch build. Thanks to player Cicada Mikoto for letting us know about a rare bug with the Blood Maiden's Crimson Fury ultimate attack. We have since revised the logic in version 1.0 for her Ultimate attack, so we copied it over to version 0.9. There's a lot of fixes/improvements coming in version 1.0 along with new content, but the builds are quite different so as of now we are only fixing critical issues in v0.9 until the 1.0 launch.

[h2]Patch Notes 0.9.21[/h2]

- Blood Maiden: Crimson Fury Ultimate will no longer disable player control while the ability is active. You can now move around during the attack
- Bug Fix: When hovering over the passive skills for the Shadow Monk in the Pause/Level Up menus, the correct ability name/description will now be shown. One of them was incorrect.
- Localization: Updated Blood Maiden's ability description for Blightflies
- Localization: Updated description for Blood Maiden's abilities in Portuguese

Hi Everyone,

5 weeks to go until Keeper’s Toll exits Early Access. We can’t wait to see you all playing the new content! Keeper’s Toll is exiting Early Access and version 1.0 will be released on Steam and Nintendo Switch on October 28, 2024.

If you’d like to know more about the origin of Keeper’s Toll, we released a new video on YouTube. Feel free to check it out:

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[h2]Achievements[/h2]

We have created a set of custom achievement icons for all earned achievements in the game. Gone are the days of golden trophies and we’ve replaced the old icons with unique art for each earned achievement. Have fun collecting them all!

You may notice there are 8 achievements that are listed, but not yet available to collect. These will become available once we transition out of Early Access, when we unlock the remaining content. The new achievements are shown as live so we can test them and make sure everything is working right.

[h2]Trading Cards[/h2]

We’ve been asked if there will be trading cards added to the game. We’re looking into it, and we’ll likely plan to release them along with the 1.0 launch or shortly after. More info on this later.

As always, if anyone has any feedback, bugs to report, suggestions, etc. please don’t hestitate to reach out to us. We read everything and will do our best to respond as soon as possible.

Thank you again for your support, and we’ll see you soon at the full release on October 28!

Stingbot Games

Keeper's Toll is joining the Raid Survivors Festival! Click the link below to visit the festival:

https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/101xp/sale/RaidSurvivors2024


Lots of great games and discounts to be had in the Raid Survivors Festival. Keeper's Toll is currently 20% off. We will be raising the price to $6.99 USD following the end of our current sale, so if you are looking for a deal, feel free to pick up the game now.

As mentioned in our last post, KT will be exiting Early Access on 10/28/24 and will be released on Steam and Nintendo Switch.

[h2]DevLogs/Videos[/h2]

Up until release we will be uploading at least 1 YouTube video every week featuring some content about Keeper's Toll. If you are interested to know more about the game or game dev in general, feel free to sub to our channel and/or keep an eye on the new videos. We just published a new video live today showing the past 2 years of development progression:

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[h2]Bundle[/h2]

We also have a new bundle with Genome Guardian. The dev is really cool, and his game is great (played some last night on my Steam Deck) so please be sure to check out Genome Guardian, and pick us both up for an extra discount if you so desire! :)

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/45267/Bullet_Hell_Action_Roguelikes__Genome_Guardian_x_Keepers_Toll/





As always, if anyone has any feedback, bugs to report, suggestions, etc. please don’t hestitate to reach out to us. We read everything and will do our best to respond as soon as possible.

Thank you again for your support, and we’ll see you soon at the full release on October 28!

Stingbot Games

Hi Everyone,

The idea for Keeper’s Toll was born in May of 2022. Earlier that year, our core team had played Vampire Survivors, and we thought it would be fun to make a game inspired by VS, but focus on unique classes and progression, boss fights and deeper ARPG mechanics, and blend it all together with our love for the Dark Souls series. Fast forward nearly 2.5 years and we’re ready to release our finished game! Early Access has been a great experience, having players join our development process and provide seemingly endless amounts of feedback.

Keeper’s Toll will be releasing on Monday, October 28, 2024, on Steam (Worldwide) and Nintendo Switch (Americas/Europe). We have chosen this day because that’s when Steam’s Scream Fest starts, and KT will be featured in Scream Fest. Check out the full release trailer below:

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[h2]Pricing and Availability[/h2]

KT will be priced at $6.99 USD on all platforms. Next Monday, 9/16, we will be offering a final 20% discount on Steam based on the current price ($4.99) before we raise the price to $6.99. So, if you want to pick it up at a lower rate, feel free as it’s unlikely the price will be that low again for quite some time. KT is also available for Pre-Order on the Nintendo eShop with a 20% off pre order discount, so if you wonder why the game is more expensive on Switch, it’s simply because the PC pricing has not caught up and we will be raising the price to $6.99 USD on September 23, when the upcoming weeklong sale has ended. Please understand if you buy and play the game now on Steam, what you are buying and playing is the Early Access version of the game, which lacks a big chunk of content as well as some fixes/polish that the upcoming 1.0 release will have. You will not be playing the 1.0 version until October 28.

[h2]Launch Day[/h2]

We will be updating the Steam Page on launch day with lots of new screenshots and the new trailer, and while we don’t have a specific time the release will go live, we are targeting early morning Pacific Standard Time.

[h2]Save Data[/h2]

Your save data should not have any issues transferring over from Early Access to the full release. More on this when the game is launched.

[h2]Post Launch[/h2]

Come launch day, we’ll remove our Early Access roadmap and discuss a bit of what’s to come for KT in the future. We are already working on new content while we continue to polish the 1.0 version of the game.

[h2]Media/Marketing[/h2]

If you are a streamer, blogger, journalist etc., or would like to contribute to helping promote KT in any way, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us. We would love to chat.

[h2]DevLogs/Videos[/h2]

We are going to be uploading a few more videos to our YouTube channel from now until launch. We are going to cover various topics, all related to Keeper’s Toll, so stop on by or check in from time to time to see the new content we post.

https://www.youtube.com/@stingbotgames1315


As always, if anyone has any feedback, bugs to report, suggestions, etc. please don’t hestitate to reach out to us. We read everything and will do our best to respond as soon as possible.

Thank you again for your support, and we’ll see you soon at the full release on October 28!

Stingbot Games