Deck of Haunts News

[p]We have an awesome community here on Steam and on our Discord https://discord.gg/MhcDeypzne and we decided they deserved a heart of gold, literally.[/p][p]We've combined our 2 brand new DLCs for the game into one bundle:
the Deck of Haunts Golden Heart Edition.[/p][p][/p][p]What to expect:[/p]

• [p]Custom Heart room. - You'll get a heart of gold... because you have a heart of gold![/p]
• [p]5 Custom colors for Azrael the housecat that you can edit in the settings menu. - Black cats are perfectly made for haunting, but not the only option.[/p]
• [p]Custom Entrance. - Will entice even the most reserved humans to enter your house even if their gut feeling says otherwise.[/p]
• [p]6 Soundtracks.[/p]

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Full Bundle:
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Here are the two separate DLCs:[/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]A big thank you for playing and all your feedback ❤️[/p][p]May your domains be forever haunted 👻[/p][p][/p][p]And if you have read until here, there is another bit of information just for you: next week we'll be releasing something big, for free 👀[/p]

[p]Players have been asking us for ways to support the further development for Deck of Haunts... well we've just launched the first out of two support packs![/p][p][/p][p]The first one is a soundtrack pack, with tracks made by the wonderful Aleks Kmiec, that you can find here:[/p][p][/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]The second support pack will probably drop somewhere next week, and will contain a few cosmetics.[/p][p][/p][p]A big thank you for playing and all your feedback ❤️[/p][p]May your domains be forever haunted 👻[/p]

[p]The big Steam Winter Sale is over, and we're happy to welcome 10.000 new players to Deck of Haunts![/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]We've been hard at work these past days to bring a few quality of life changes and fixes to the game.[/p][p][/p][p]Changes[/p]

• [p]Smudge Stick rework: Creatures will no longer completely avoid Humans with Smudge Stick. Instead they will prioritize rooms without smudge stick when possible. If not, they will enter a room with smudge stick. However, the Humans with Smudge Stick are immune to their effects.[/p]
• [p]Show the deck during the Rest nights.[/p]
• [p]Show a preview of the specific card when hovering over the name in the Rest night event “The Rooms Remember Their Names”.[/p]
• [p]Changed the unlock condition text for Legendary Rooms to better reflect that you get 1 per completed 28 night run.[/p]
• [p]Added a tooltip for the Nightmare mode Reaper button.[/p]

[p]Fixed Bugs[/p]

• [p]Fixed pathfinders skipping their idle turns and the interaction when entering in a dark room.[/p]
• [p]Improved the scaling of the Rest night UI on Steam deck.[/p]
• [p]Fix compass trait second room effects or traps not triggering sometimes.[/p]

[p][/p][p]If you found a bug or a crash that we haven't caught yet, let us know in the Steam Discussions, we'll have a look. (Or on our Discord, even better! https://discord.gg/MhcDeypzne)[/p][p][/p][p]If you like the game and the direction we're headed in, feel free to leave a review, as this helps us more than you think!👻[/p][p]And again, a big thank you for playing and all your feedback ❤️[/p][p][/p][p][/p]

[p]Happy New Year and Happy Haunting 👻.[/p][p]The first batch of Deck of Haunts changes for 2026 have just been uploaded to Steam:[/p][p]Changes[/p]

• [p]You can now toggle the portrait sorting on and off by clicking on the sorting icon.[/p]
• [p]Only deduct the essence cost for upgrading during a rest night when selecting the card.[/p]

[p]Fixed Bugs[/p]

• [p]Fixed Silent Menace rarity changes when upgraded.[/p]
• [p]Fixed some pumpkin patch bugs.[/p]
• [p]Fixed controller support for opening workshop presents.[/p]
• [p]Fixed the positioning of invalid tiles from the “Building Code” Nightmare Totem.[/p]

[p]If you found a bug or a crash that we haven't caught yet, let us know in the Steam Discussions, we'll have a look. (Or on our Discord, even better! https://discord.gg/MhcDeypzne)[/p][p][/p][p]If you like the game and the direction we're headed in, feel free to leave a review, as this helps us more than you think!👻[/p][p]And again, a big thank you for playing and all your feedback ❤️[/p][p][/p][p][/p]

[p]We hope you're having a wonderful end of 2026, and a good time haunting your domain in Deck of Haunts.[/p][p]As you may have read, we are currently working on a Scenario Builder, where you can create your own custom runs, share them on the Steam Workshop if you'd want and play other people's runs.[/p][p]We've just pushed a major update for the pre-alpha version live on the special Steam beta branch.[/p][p]If you want to try it out, give your feedback and influence how it's going to play when released in 1.0, you can join our Discord server and give yourself the DoH - Playtester role: https://discord.gg/MhcDeypzne[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]The biggest changes since the last update:[/p]

• [p]Completely reworked the editor UI to be more intuitive and user friendly.[/p]
• [p]Added the option to customize the starting layout of the house.
  Meaning, you can now fully build the starting layout without any Essence or room-card restrictions. Think of it as a sort of sandbox experience where you can just build the house that you want![/p]
• [p]Added the option to upload a custom thumbnail for uploading the scenario to the Steam Workshop.
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• [p]Added the option to choose between human types and the Male and Female variants of the humans through the portrait selector.[/p]
• [p]The starting deck now automatically gets a tag in the Steam Workshop.[/p]

[p]What we still want to add in the future:[/p]

• [p]The option that you cannot build the house out any further, or change it in any way while playing the custom run. So you could create a "set" scenario that people have to play through.[/p]
• [p]Customized starting deck.[/p]
• [p]Smoothing out the UI some more.[/p]

[p]What would you like to see in a Scenario builder?[/p][p]If you like the game and the direction we're headed in, feel free to leave a review, as this helps us more than you think!👻[/p][p]And again, a big thank you for playing and all your feedback ❤️[/p][p][/p][h3]Wishing all of you very happy holidays! ☃️🎄🎇[/h3][p][/p][p][/p]