StarVaders News

For the TactiCon Steam Festival, we're upgrading from Prototype to Demo! Come try out the demo on our steam page and let us know what you think!






[h3]- ​​Updated Tutorial! ​[/h3]

Meet Tippy, who will explain the mechanics of the game in a more user-friendly and clearer way than before!



[h3]- Metaprogression Systems![/h3]

After you finish a run (that is far enough), you'll meet a strange new character that will help you unlock more content in the game! On top of that, we've updated the way we handle unlocks for Pilots, and created a new Mech XP system that lets you unlock new cards and artifacts!



[h3]- Run History[/h3]

You'll now be able to see your Run History and score in a new scene! We're gonna be adding more features to it in the future, but for now it includes your deck, score, time played, etc.



[h3]​- Updated Visuals [/h3]

We've updated the visuals for the More Info scene, Victory and Defeat scenes, and the Main Menu! This is part of our on-going rework of all the scenes in the game. We're still working on the Deck view, Glossary, and the settings menu as well!

The new More Info scene let's you check out the AOE for some of the weirder cards like Flamethrower, as well as a new button that let's you check out all the possible components a card could get.



Other than patch fixes and balance updates, we won't be doing as many major updates as we prepare for our EA release sometime near the end of the year! The next major update you can expect will be the Next Fest update, which will also be the last update for the demo - that update will bring the remainder of the visual upgrades, as well as add animations to the game! (the grid entities will all be animated)

However, if you're starving for more content, we will be opening up beta testing of the new EA content on our discord server sometime soon, which includes the new mech and their card pool! Join our discord if you'd like to be notified when our beta testing begins!

[h2]Download the demo here![/h2]
[h2]Join our Discord if you have feedback![/h2]




https://store.steampowered.com/app/2097570/StarVaders/

[h2]​Hi Steam![/h2]

Thank you so much for checking out our game!

We've gathered over 2000 wishlists now and over a hundred followers! Thanks so much for all the feedback and enthusiam!

Download the demo on itch.io over here, and check out what's new!






[h3]- ​​2 NEW Pilots! ​[/h3]

We've promised 1 new pilot, but spent a bit more time to add 2 new pilots for the Gunner mech class! Pilots are characters that have a new starter artifact and starter cards - to spice things up each time you play! Their mechanics will be unique, and make you able to do combos and synergies that cannot exist with any other pilot.



[h3]- Noel - the Cool Headed Tactician![/h3]

Noel is the second pilot in the game. Her starter artifact called Perma-Frost lets her retain the rightmost card in her hand each turn - and unburn it! Her starter cards replacements are Flurry Fire! and Novalanche - unique twists on the classic starters. She can easily lean into burn synergies, build up epic combos of Flurries in Fire! synergy, or devastate the board with bombs with Novalanche. Her starter artifact lets her do some nifty things such as -

- A Chain Plasma Fire that never leaves your hand?
- Repeat your turns indefinitely by unburning Alpha/Beta/Gamma?
- Setup huge hard-synergy combos by retaining exactly what you need at the right moments!



[h3]- Zeke - the Gadgeteering Genius![/h3]

Zeke is the third, high complexity pilot for Gunner. His starter artifact is The Machine, which dismantles cards with Components to give you boosts! He does not start with new starter cards, but starts with Augment, as well as Downgrade Components on some of his Fires and his Nova Bomb! Break down his downgrades and boost up his other cards in a tactical and adaptive playstyle! Here's some of the potential builds you could make with only Zeke:

- Infinite Titan Rockets or Tornado? Dismantle creates a new copy of the base card, regardless of if the card purges itself or not!
- Dismantle Tactics to get Vapor and build a high Heat Sink build with the updated Furnace!
- Did you know double-Traited cards will give you two gadgets if you dismantle them?

[h3]​- New artifacts, reworks, balance changes, and more QOL improvements! [/h3]

Thank you so much for your feedback and comments, it's being so useful! If you do have more feedback, please join our Discord​​ and let us know!



​For our 0.4 update, we are focusing on fixing up the remainder of the scenes, and reworking the tutorial. Or more specifically, we will be reworking the tutorial so that it ties into the meta-progression as part of one big clean progression system. It is not a content-focused update, but we will still be adding cards, artifacts, components to the game as always!

[h2]Download the demo here![/h2]
[h2]Join our Discord if you have feedback![/h2]




https://store.steampowered.com/app/2097570/StarVaders/

[h2]​Heya everyone![/h2]

Thank you so much for playing our game!

Since our first demo release, we've got content creators who found our game, reached over 1000 wishlists, and gathered over 1200 downloads in under a month! So today I'm super excited to announce that update 0.2: Mars Attacks! is now released.

Download the demo on itch.io over here, and check out what's new!






[h3]- ​​4 new invaders, 1 new special encounter! ​[/h3]

We've added the Vengoid, Spitter, Leviathan, and Voidspawn invaders! These new invaders challenge your tactical senses and introduce new mechanics for you to learn and overcome. You'll find them across all 3 acts, adding to the exponential variety of battlefields you can encounter!

[h3]- 5 new cards, 3 new artifacts, and 5 new components![/h3]

We've introduced new cards that enable legendary ways to play with the Burn, Junk and Fire! archetypes. 0.2 adds a new utility card to the fan-favorite Bomb archetype! Find and plan for huge explosions with the new Detonator card!

​Find the Jester, Furnace, and the legendary ​Big Fridge ​​artifacts that change the way you play with the game! The ​Big Fridge​​ sets ALL of your cards' Heat cost to 1 when you play them (Overclock says hi!).

There's also 3 new basic components and 2 new secret components! One of the new basic components is the Linked ​component, which, when played, also immediately plays ALL other ​Linked​ cards in your hand or draw pile for free. How many cards do you think you can you link to each other in your deck?

[h3]- Improved tutorial, a Glossary, and a bunch of visual updates![/h3]

The tutorial is now a lot friendlier, with a nerfed Mothership and better scripted card rewards - getting into the game is smoother than ever. (and we are still planning on reworking the whole tutorial soon!) The Glossary lets players check out all the different cards and artifacts that they might have missed while playing! It's a theory crafter's dream.​

[h3]​- 70+ Bugfixes, balance updates, and QoL improvements! [/h3]

​We've fixed almost all the bugs that have been reported to us! (almost because there's a few very sneaky ones we're still working on >:( ) Thank you so much for your feedback and comments, it's being so useful! If you do have more feedback, please join our Discord​​ and let us know!



​For our 0.3 update, we're gonna be working on meta-progression, a mech selection screen, as well as a new pilot for you to play with! The full game will have multiple classes of mechs with distinct card pools and mechanics. But each mech class will have multiple pilots as well! Pilots will share card pools, but have different starter cards and artifacts that change the way you play the game. As always, there will be new cards, artifacts, components, bugfixes, etc, too!


[h2]Download the demo here![/h2]
[h2]Join our Discord if you have feedback![/h2]




https://store.steampowered.com/app/2097570/StarVaders/

Hey all!

We've just released our Prototype 0.1 demo on itch.io. Check it out over here!

The demo includes the following:

• The card pool and starter cards for the first pilot of the Gunner class!
  
• The entire 3 act roguelike campaign - with a variety of enemies, and three challenging bosses!
  
• A Glossary of all the cards and artifacts in the game so far.
  
• Over 30 unique artifacts, 70 special cards, and thousands of possible upgrade combinations.
• A simple tutorial to get started.
  

The full game will feature much much more, but if you'd like a taste of what's to come, or if you want to help out by providing feedback, go check out the demo!

Remember to join our Discord if you have any feedback or suggestions!

And don't forget to Wishlist!

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- Axolotl ★