Heretic's Fork News

Hello Heretics!

We'd like to start off by thanking each one of you who have played, shared and supported the game during this interesting year, The recent reviews on our game Heretic's Fork are now rated “Overwhelmingly Positive” on Steam and In celebration of this occasion we're launched a large giveaway on X (formerly known as Twitter) so feel free to check that one out!

So without further a do! It's time to reveal what we’ve been working on for the past month, and what’s a better time to reveal it than early Christmas, we have officially collaborated with the iconic multi-platinum rock band, Disturbed, and we’re delivering an 4-song package of pure banger, let's dive Inside the fire 🤘

(Dev Note: This update is more than just a DLC with 4 songs, read the full announcement for more cool information)



[h2]Introducing the new — Inside the Fire DLC, here’s what’s new![/h2]

[h3]🎧 4 Music tracks from Disturbed 🎧[/h3]

• Indestructible — Instrumental
  
• Torn — Instrumental
  
• Inside The Fire — Instrumental
  
• Curse — Instrumental
  

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2744540/Heretics_Fork_Inside_The_Fire

[h3]🆕 7 New Variants 🆕[/h3]

• Cozy Ruby
  
• Riff Master
  
• The Guy's Roadie
  
• Master Gilbo
  
• Monkey Lord
  
• Reckless Niya
  
• Humble Shredder Greezy
  

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2744540/Heretics_Fork_Inside_The_Fire

[h2]🤘 Free Expansion Update 🤘[/h2]

[h3]🃏 7 New cards 🃏[/h3]

• Infrastructure
  
• Beelzebub
  
• Pick of Destiny
  
• Festive Tree
  
• Boiling Blood
  
• Blighted Blood
  
• Snowball Strike
  

[h3]👗 4 New Free Variants 👗 (Unlocked via new challenges)[/h3]

• Empire of Greezy
  
• Critical Roller
  
• John the Builder
  
• Denny Claws (unlocked via Holidays file)

[h3]🏆 Challenges 🏆[/h3]
New challenges to unlock the above variants

• Critical Mass
  
• House of Cards
  
• Empire of Sin
  

[h3]🎼 New Music 🎼 [/h3]

• 12 new tracks from POSTAL REDUX
• 1 New track from Rotting Christ
• 9 New tracks from Sakis Tolis

[h3]🔥 Things that no one asked for 🔥[/h3]

• Unholy Crit is now capped at 75%
  
• Christmas Wallpaper
  
• 4 New wallpapers from POSTAL REDUX
  

The following old variants are now also unlocked via challenges:

• Unknown Tormentor
  
• Tormented Ruby
  
• Messy Denny
  

[h3]🔥 Things that everyone asked for 🔥[/h3]

• Music shuffle button in options menu
  

- Reworked Greezy in a way that should make her early game less punishing while still maintaining her play style.

• Can upgrade cards similarly to other employees
  
• Only gets one “choice” when upgrading.
  
• Gets rewarded gold for every upgrade.
  

[h2]🎁 Steam Winter Sale 🎁[/h2]



Heretic's Fork will be on another 20% OFF sale celebrating the Steam Winter Sale event, feel free to grab the game for yourself or for your friend, it makes the perfect Christmas Gift 😉 It would be quite… hot.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2181610/Heretics_Fork

That’s all for today, May your Christmas be as hot as the depths of hell – If you made it this far don’t forget to leave a review, For in the depths of hell, my job depends on you.

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Greetings Heretics,



We're super excited today to announce our nomination for the Most Innovative Gameplay on Steam Awards, our dedicated team of one solo-developer is tirelessly working on the game since we released it back in September, and we’ve been hard at work delivering major update after another and next month we’re going to publish our fourth-biggest major content update which will be free and not a DLC of course, we’re also working with some world-famous music bands to include their music into Heretic’s Fork as well as more collaboration like you’ve seen with Running With Scissors and their popular franchise POSTAL!

It's very incredible to reflect on our journey and the path we’ve taken and the decisions we’ve made, and it is just the beginning, we released 3 months ago, and we’re still breaking new records every month.

Sincerely,
Heretic’s Fork Team!

Hey, we're sorry about the issue with enemies that keep spawning while idling, we hope that this patch will solve this issue!

* Synergist now procs Bonus card effect
* Fixed the forever spinning gamble
* Updated loc (again)
* Fixed the issue that caused enemies to spawn while paused (again)

Thank you! ❤️

Greetings, Heretics! 🔥



In celebration of the massive success we got for the Bullet Heaven Fest and in celebration of the release of our second biggest free expansion update we decided to prolong the sale to coincide with Autumn Sale! Enjoy another week of Heretic's Fork for 20%!!!

Grab your copy for yourself or a copy for a friend of yours, makes the best early Christmas gift!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2181610/Heretics_Fork/

Thank you for your continued support ❤️

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[h3]Hello Heretics![/h3]

In this update we’re introducing a new character bringing an entirely new mechanic to the realm of Heretic’s Fork, we’re also adding a new selection of cards some will be unlocked via promotions and some will be granted through challenges, more information below.



[h2]❓ Gilbo Gibbins joins the action[/h2]



Are you ready to press your luck? Spin the wheel and find out! 👺

• [h3]🎲 New Gamble mechanic : Gilbo's Ability[/h3]
  

Scaling off the amount of luck you have you can increase your chances of getting a legendary, thus reducing your chances of destroying your cards (not banish). Other than that you can duplicate, make the cards free, randomize them (but keep the same rarity) or turn them to Legendary cards (Tier 5) if applicable or random ones if not applicable.



[h2]🪦 Postal Dude Gets Hired[/h2]



We got a letter in the mail from DUDE begging to get a job so, as a variant for John Fenriz, INTRODUCING THE POSTAL DUDE! You can find out what he does in-game 😉

[h2]🃏 New cards[/h2]

Some of these cards are unlocked by default, some are unlocked via the promotions' system, and 4 of them are unlocked via challenges.

1. Coin Barrage (Granted by completing Challenge)
   
2. Lucky Flame
   
3. Ups and Downs
   
4. Lucky Rock (not obtainable unless via Bonus card is applied)
   
5. Refund
   
6. Risky Business
   
7. Nuke (Granted by completing Challenge)
   
8. Thief
   
9. Lucky Break
   
10. Synergist (Granted by completing Challenge)
    
11. Destiny
    
12. Bonus (Granted by completing Challenge)
    
13. Lucky Crit
    
14. Lucky Break (1)
    
15. Lucky Break (2)
    
16. Lucky Break (3)
    
17. Lucky Break (4)
    
18. Double Down
    
19. Deal with the Devil
    

[h2]👺 New challenges[/h2]

• Fluke (Grants Bonus Card)
  
• Good Break (Grants Nuke Card)
  
• Honiton Hot Pennies (Grants Coin Barrage Card)
  
• Akimbo (Grants Synergist Card)
  

[h2]🛠️ Fixes/Changes[/h2]

1. Fallen Crusaders damage 0.7>1.2
   
2. Luck per rounds decreased from 5>2
   
3. Reduced cost of garrison unit lifespan cards 5>3
   
4. More consistent wording for garrison lifespan
   
5. More consistent wording for curses/dark mark
   
6. Various performance fixes
   
7. Fixes to the “credit gain” animations
   
8. Delta time fixes
   
9. Gilbo rewards a key (essentially making Greezy optional to “complete” the game)
   
10. Glibo Steam achievement
    
11. Amount of cards that are awarded at the end of rounds are now limited to 7
    
12. Fixed enemies spawning in on Torment 3+ when time is paused
    
13. Cards that are pulled from the collection scale off of luck less (x0.5)
    
14. Updated Messy Denny description
    
15. Dark Mark cards are now tagged
    
16. The progress bar no longer flashes when it’s the players turn
    
17. Fixed an issue that caused the Fueled by Light card to not upgrade properly
    
18. High Roller card is now unlocked by default
    
19. Reduced luck gained from Fortunate to 4
    
20. Reduced luck gained from Higher Roller to 7
    

[h2]🗨️ Ask Me Anything[/h2]



By the time this update is live, we’d have organized an AMA session on r/Games! Where you can ask us anything you’d like to know about the game, the development and whatever lies in between. The AMA has started, so feel free to drop your question to the post below, and we’ll get right on them:

And we’ll start answering at 10 AM PST all throughout the day.

Link Here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/17zplx0/ama_hello_this_is_9fingergames_a_small_studio/


And finally we’d like to mention that we have successfully delivered two major updates in the time frame promised in our roadmap, and we have another major for next month, if you’re still hesitant to buy the game, now’s your chance, the experience is only getting better and better and hell still needs news managers, the Bullet Heaven Fest sale will be prolonged till Steam Autumn Sale so grab a copy for yourself and get to punishing sinners 👺

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2181610/Heretics_Fork

[h2]🌟 Bundles and Special Offers[/h2]

Check out our Collaborations and Bundles with similar games!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/34854/Bullet_Heaven_Bundle__Heretics_Fork_x_20_Minutes_Till_Dawn/
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/34864/Fork_and_Potato_Bundle__Heretics_Fork_x_Brotato/
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/36206/Heretics_Trap/


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Sincerely!