Lost For Swords News

Hi there!

New update for the Lost For Swords demo, including new difficulty options and better run variety!

Here are the details:

• new late-game mezzanine with two vendors: collector and jeweler
  
• option to skip the first floor battle if you found the rope on the previous run
  
• more fine-grained options for easier difficulties
  
• improvements to translations
  
• lots of card description clarifications
  
• quality of live improvements
  

Thanks for reading and see you at the next update! :)

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Hi there!

This is a big one! New update for the Lost For Swords demo, including new and improved bosses and lots of playable cards. Rogue Disarm is now a viable strategy, for example!



Here are the details:

• reworked bosses: instead of a regular 3-room floor, bosses appear on special single-room floors. Players must defeat the boss in three phases
  
• Trinkets are now equipped in mezzanines too, offering more interactions and possibilities for the future
  
• mezzanine rooms with Merchants now appear in addition to other mezzanine rooms, not instead of them
  
• Merchant rooms have Herotrap
  
• new NPC - Trader: trade away your cards in exchange for random new ones; appears in prison mezzanine
  
• Mirage creates Illusory Walls in 4-neighbor spots (instead of 8-neighbor)
  
• Monster attacks can become negative (will deal 0 damage while negative)
  
• cards at vendors and in Mezzanine are properly sorted
  
• reduced healing of Ring Of Health from 3 to 2
  
• improved Solomon’s Hammer
  
• reworked Forged By Flames
  
• removed Thick Skin from Rogue
  
• renamed Curses to Afflictions
  
• allow Monsters to walk off the map when their telegraphed movement says so
  
• Potions replace Priest and Healer in prison mezzanine
  
• hide yet-to-be-discovered cards in card library
  
• different floor tiles for different towers and training cellar
  
• improved animations when interacting with NPCs
  
• improved emerald spending animations and sounds
  
• enable previewing upgrades when inspecting a card
  
• cards wiggle just a tiny bit when hovering and when activating
  
• improved wording regarding “board” and “room”
  
• bugfix: 2 or more unidentified loot in the same room now offer different rewards each
  

New Cards:

• Hammer And Anvil
  
• Samson’s Sword
  
• Fencing Rapier
  
• Jester’s Bottoms
  
• -Shadow Presence
  
• Vicarious Shame
  
• Augustin’s Charm
  
• Sword Trader’s Ring
  
• 50 Emeralds
  
• Bloody Chest
  
• Large HP Potion
  
• Constitution Potion
  
• Herotrap
  

Thanks for reading and see you at the next update! :)

Bye! (ʘ‿ʘ)╯

Hi there!

New update for the Lost For Swords demo, including full support for Chinese and German languages.

Here are the details:

• full Chinese translation
  
• full German translation
  
• colorized card types in card descriptions and keyword explanations
  
• Steam Cloud saves
  
• lots of card description clarifications
  
• fixed animation for cards that are immune to getting pushed off the board
  
• show tower name and floor number in in-game menu
  
• bugfix: cards with timer AND attack indicator were overlapping in certain setups
  

Thanks for reading and see you at the next update! :)

Bye! (ʘ‿ʘ)╯

Hi there!

New update for the Lost For Swords demo, including keyboard and controller support, new content and new cards! :)

Here are the details:

• reworked map screen and forts: map contains only towers now. Forts have moved into the “training cellar” of the new castle, which serves as the place to select/change the hero.
  
• greatly increased size of Paltry Tower: 5 floors, including a new monster, the Sentry.
  
• added basic keyboard and controller support: Controls explained in options screen
  
• in hero deck screen, differentiate between cards on the board and in the deck
  
• nerfed Shield Maiden starter deck: -1 Shield Slam, +1 Broken Shield
  
• slightly changed highscore calculation: each collected emerald is worth 2 points instead of 1
  
• bugfix for To Arms
  
• limit Pocket Wormhole to 2 uses per room
  
• change to interaction between Slow Weapons and Brutes: Brutes now get +2 attack AFTER being hit by the slow weapon, not before
  
• - small bop animations when cards get pushing into each other or monsters try to move to occupied spot
  
• - bugfix: alternative starting decks were not unlockable
  

New Cards:

• Sentry
  
• Pauldron
  
• Arbitrage
  

Thanks for reading and see you at the next update! :)

Bye! (ʘ‿ʘ)╯

Hi there!

New update for Lost For Swords, with a bunch of balancing changes, improvement and new cards! :)

Here are the details:

• reduced Gathering Tower to 8 Floors: this makes for a better gameplay loop! To balance it out, a couple of changes to benefit the player:
  
• increased Emeralds options in Loot Select from 10 to 20
  
• increased Emeralds in Strange Chest from 10 to 20
  
• in Prison-Mezzanine, spawn Unidentified Loot instead of 20 Emeralds
  
• added highscore and win streak system to towers!
  
• gameplay change to Push mechanic: push now also flips the affected card(s) before push and damage happens
  
• gameplay change to cards in decks and shuffling: order of cards in decks is now consistently shown to player in deck popups. Cards returning to a deck are put on the bottom of the deck. Effects that draw cards from the deck draw from the top of the deck. Effects that affect first X Monsters in deck do so in order
  
• buffed Shield Slam
  
• buffed Graceful Exit
  
• buffed/reworked Sinner’s Might
  
• reworked Achilles’ Armor
  
• reworked Greed (Sin): gets destroyed after atoning
  
• slightly buffed Hammers
  
• slightly reworked Fawkes Pendant: all barrels are now X-Barrels
  
• nerfed Defiance: 1 Armor Plate instead of 2 at base quality
  
• bugfix for Puncture Ring affecting ALL kinds of attacks/damage
  
• bugfix for rare occurrence allowing players to move to an already occupied spot
  
• when inspecting card, related card is shown properly upgraded
  

New Cards:

• Brewmaster’s Tunic
  
• Ring Of Fortitude
  
• Strange Chest
  

Thanks for reading and see you at the next update! :)

Bye! (ʘ‿ʘ)╯