Tarnished Blood News

We are thrilled to announce that from today until February 7th the second public playtests for The Whims of the Gods are available on its Steam page!

This strategic, cooperative city-builder invites you and your friend to construct and defend an ancient city together. Experience unique co-op gameplay, manage resources, and face challenges sent by whimsical deities.

How to do it in a few simple steps?

• go to the Steam The Whims of the Gods tab
  
• click the "REQUEST ACCESS" button or...
  
• join our community on Discord, select the emoji 🎮 accepting our rules, and tag our admins there so that they can give you a key to the game
  

Your feedback is invaluable to us as we refine the game ahead of its release. You can:

• leave it on the Steam tab in discussions (this particular thread is visible only to accounts that receive the game code!) or
  
• on the appropriate, playtest-dedicated channel on our Discord
  

We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Let's create the best possible city-builder game in the world together!

[h2]🩸Greetings Hunters!🩸[/h2]

The first update of 2025 is here! Dive deeper into the madness with new languages, Quality of life improvments, and fixes.

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[h3]🌍 New Language 🌍[/h3]
Tarnished Blood welcomes two new lenguages:

• Brazilian – A Cúpula está à sua espera
  
• Spanish – La Cúpula aguarda tu llegada
  

[h3]What’s New?[/h3]

• 🆕 Escape Battle – Trigger a cryptic event by fleeing (1 choice for now, more soon!).
  
• 🆕 Cancel Level-Ups – No regrets. Back out of upgrades freely.
  
• 🆕 Camera Controls with WSAD – Early keyboard support for tactical maneuvering.
  

[h3]🧑‍🔧 Fixes[/h3]

• 📌 Steal Fortitude – Now works against Wounded Beast.
  
• 📌 Events & the Dead – Wyld Lust/Caretaker no longer target corpses.
  
• 📌 Description Clarity – Traits/Traumas explained better.
  
• 📌 Diseased Trauma – The infection behaves… as intended.
  
• 📌 Octophobia – Fear of "8" now includes 18, 28, etc.
  
• 📌 Maultigore’s Belly – Survival text no longer lies.
  
• 📌 Replay Stability – Crush Maultigore, replay endlessly.
  

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The Dome watches. Stay vigilant. 🔪
~The Juggler Games Team

Added:
🆕Added button to escape battle, it starts special event for now with only 1 option, more options will come in future
🆕Added Cancel button to level up screen
🆕Added basic WSAD camera movement with keyboard in fight scenes, more keyboard controls to come

Fixed:
📌Fixed Steal Fortitude trait not working on Wounded Beast modifier
📌Fixed follow up event(wyld lust, caretaker event) being possible to show up on dead characters
📌Fixed some traits/traumas descriptions
📌Fixed Diseased trauma not working correctly
📌Fixed Octophobia not working if 8 was in number that has more than one digit (18,28 etc)
📌Fixed Maultigore Swallow Event description showing lethal version even if it didn't kill character in "Try to crawl out" failure
📌Fixed Replay crashing if used after killing Maultigore from his swallow event
📌Fixed Replay crashing if used after last hunter died during in-fight event
📌Fixed special character animation, that is shown if Maultigore is killed by his swallowing event

-Fixed being unable to enter settings/pause if you clicked to continue campaign after defeating Warden (without quitting to menu)

- Reported broken load after leaving midfight fixed.