Songs of Conquest News

It's nearly the holidays, which means some of you might be looking for something to play on your Steam Deck while you're away visiting family. The choice just got a little harder: beautiful early access tactics game Songs Of Conquest and clever fantasy citybuilder Against The Storm are both now Steam Deck verified.

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Greetings Wielders!

We're thrilled to share some fantastic news! We've not only fine-tuned controls but are now proudly sporting the Steam Deck Verified badge! Your invaluable feedback played a crucial role in refining our controls, ensuring we passed every one of Valve's tests.

We are proud of every single thing on this list!

We have worked closely with our friends at Bitwave to get this verification, they are experts in the field, and working together with them has made this process a lot faster than if we had tried it alone.

There's been a complete overhaul of controls and menus, ensuring native integration with Steam Deck and gamepad controls. A major part of this includes adding a large-font UI, guaranteeing no awesome dialogue or tooltip goes unnoticed.

In the game of fonts, we play to win, bigger is better!

We've also introduced new tooltips specifically designed for Steam Deck. Due to our traditional mouse interaction, as within most strategy games, we have added a new control scheme. Making it easy and natural to move your precious Wielders across maps and through their adventures.

However, fixing menus and D-pad control settings hasn't been the only challenge. To ensure the game runs smoothly on your Steam Deck, we've done significant tweaking and optimization, benefiting the game as a whole! For example, we've streamlined terrain rendering and implemented a battery-saving system.

And do you need to bother with all these cool and improved settings? Of course not! We've ensured that the optimal settings are set as defaults the first time you start our game on your sleek machine. After all, we want you to play it as soon as you can!

Now you can really play our game wherever you are!

Adapting a game for that precious Verified check box involves a ton of considerations. While the entire list is too long to mention here, our focus has been on making sure the game feels as fun to play on the Steam Deck as it does on PC and Mac, and we truly believe we've succeeded! But if you want to read that before-mentioned cool list, there will of course be a link just below.

So enough words, get out there, and bring your Steam Deck to that family event! Instead of awkward small-talk with relatives you hardly know, you can lead armies and cast powerful spells, literally in the palms of your hands.

Turn to Conquest Wielders and have an awesome day!

A very proud Lavapotion Gang and our Bitwave Friends!

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Greetings Wielders!

Let’s start December by introducing our newest update! We never focus on just one thing but there has definitely been one or two focuses this last sprint. We are super proud to introduce gamepad support for Songs of Conquest, another step towards making sure you can play our game the way you want to!

And Gamepad support means an even better Steam deck experience. We want to thank our friends and neighbors over at Bitwave who have been working side-to-side with our devs on this project. Making sure the game looks great on smaller screens, utilizing larger fonts, design choices, and UI. We are now eagerly awaiting your feedback for the Steam Deck experience as we get ready to resubmit the game to Valve for that elusive green check mark and a true verification!"

Now doesn’t this look cozy?

But as some worked tirelessly on Gamepad others hunted down bugs reported by our fantastic community. We have also improved skills and starting troops of your favorite Wielders. More than a dozen of our brave commanders have had something altered, making sure that they are more varied. Be sure to delve deep into that changelog to learn all the new details.

Some of the frogs really leaped on the opportunity. Others just croaked.

The work on improving our menus and look n’ feel continues. We can reveal a faster, more fluid campaign menu, one that uses our faction-specific artwork to the fullest and with a new dotted line for you to follow when you embark on your next mission!

Follow the path, Adventure awaits!

The work on our AI never ends and with this update. It has gotten better at splitting tasks and tactics amongst each other. Just like you might make sure that one of your Wielder mostly acts as a mule, ferrying troops to the front and making sure that your economy thrives, well so does the AI after this latest patch. It now makes sure its different Wielders fill different roles and purposes.

This is one of the AI Mules, and you can tell she’s not meant to be at the frontline.

We can’t wait to hear what you think about our latest update, so update Songs of Conquest now and experience it in a new way! Why don’t you bring your favorite controller with you if you're going to one of those festive parties that everyone seems to like? And while you are at it you should enjoy our new wintery Main Menu to get you in seasonal spirit.

Even the Cultists are getting into the festive spirit!

We love getting your feedback so make sure to leave a response or dive into the discussions here on Steam. The only reason we keep getting better is because of you, our awesome community that tells us how we can improve our game even more.

Turn to Conquest everyone, and have a great day!

/Everyone at Lavapotion



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Greetings Wielders!

We love feedback, it’s just the absolute best and our game is better with every update because of it. We are closing in on that sweet, sweet Steam deck and Gamepad support but we'd love some more input from users! So for those that can we'd love for you to try out how Songs of Conquest feels like from a different angle!

That text isn’t crooked, it’s just your imagination

So who has been making sure this is possible? Well, it is our fantastic friends at Bitwave! They are the ones who have been doing the heavy lifting when it comes to making sure that our game feels just as awesome in your hands as it does from a good old classic PC

Now you are probably wondering how you brave Wielder can join this esteemed crowd of testers. Well, our Bitwave expert has put together this very helpful GUIDE on how you can do just that!

Even Snout Spout is helping! (Yes we’re old)

So where do we want this awesome feedback? Well respond to his post, write in our pinned Steam discussions, or over our dedicated Gamepad feedback thread on Discord. We also accept strange puzzle boxes written in ancient languages.

We look forward to your feedback and making sure that our beloved game feels just as good on a Steam deck or when you use any Gamepad from the comfort of your couch!

Turn to Conquest everyone, and have a great day!

/Everyone at Lavapotion

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