Hello, Fellow Arkers!
Chrono Ark EA v1.5 Beta 2 is here.
We have balanced out some characters and added a Quick Progress Mode option!
You'll be able to play through the game much faster by utilizing this mode.

• Lucy's Speed on screen has been slightly increased.
  
• Quick Progress Mode option has been added. Lucy will always run while Quick Progress Mode is active.
  
• Maximum Accuracy in Expert Difficulty is now limited to 98%. Other Difficulties remain the same.

We have nerfed overpowered skills and buffed weak skills in accordance with player data feedback.
Thank you so much for participating in Chrono Ark's Beta.

Lucy

• Potential: Cost increased to 2. No longer creates rare skills.
  
• Acceleration Circle: Now all skills below Acceleration Circle will correctly receive Swiftness. Discards per turn reduced from 10 -> 7.

Azar

• Crescent Slash: Damage ratio has been reduced from 150% -> 135%.
  
• Veiled Sword: Now has Swiftness. Veiled Sword now gives the target 1 -> 2 buff stacks.
  
• Resistance has been reduced.

Narhan

• Trojan Horse: Cost reduced from 1 -> 0.

Hein

• Rage: Cost reduced from 2 -> 1.
  
• Identify Weakness: Now has Once Only. Success rate increased from 120% -> 150%.
  
• Base Attack increased by 1.
  
• Tear Up: Damage increased from 75 -> 80.
  
• Mutilate: Damage increased from 175 -> 180.

Joey

• Health has been reduced.
  
• Base Attack has been reduced by 1.

Lian

• Overall stats have been increased.
  
• Bring It On!: Now adds random ally attack skills to hand instead of completely random ones.
  
• Preparation: Now protects the Healing Gauge and gives 2 -> 3 buff stacks.
  
• Combat Roar: Now increases the critical chance of 3 -> 5 skills from the top of your hand.

Miss Chain

• Health and Attack has been slightly increased.
  
• Zoom!: Now gives 1 -> 2 stacks of Armor Reduction Debuff.
  
• Engine Reload!: The buff no longer grants bonus incoming heals. Instead, increases Max. Health by 20%.
  
• Leave This to Me!: Damage from counterattacking has been increased from 50% -> 60%.

Pressel

• Guardian Angel: Healing amount increased from 150% ->170%.
  
• Healing Coil and Holy Light: Healing amount slightly increased.

Huz

• Give and Take: Fixed a bug where Huz used to view 3 skills at the top of deck and draw one.
  
• Uncontrollable Doll: Positive effects have been buffed.
  
• Rabbit Doll MVP: No longer has Once Only. Damage ratio has been increased from 140% -> 150%.
  
• Punish: Fixed text: 'damage per debuff on the target.' -> 'damage per debuff stack on the target.'

Charon

• Health increased by 2. Attack increased by 1. Evade Chance increased by 5%. Accuracy increased by 2%.
  
• Shadow Pillars: Attack ratio increased from 110% -> 130%.

Silverstein

• Attack has been increased by 1.
  
• Enhanced Mark: Incoming damage ratio increased from 20% -> 30%.
  
• Rapid Shot: Damage ratio increased from 25% -> 35%.
  
• Bear Trap: Target gains increased chance to be attacked. Damage ratio increased from 90% -> 100%. All fainted allies gain 30% Evade Chance once Bear Trap is activated.

Trisha

• Shadow Dance: Now has 100% critical hit chance.
  
• Blink Stab: Now has Swiftness. Cost reduced from 2 -> 1.
  
• Apply Bandage: Healing amount reduced from 120% -> 90%.

The balancing for this update is based on valuable collected data from our beta participants.
Further balancing can be implemented regardless of collected data. This will consider specific party comps in the future.


We'll release a teaser soon for the new UI that will be added to the game!
This is the concept we are working hard on!




How to participate in the Beta!
Your Steam Library -> Right Click on Chrono Ark -> Properties

Please feel free to participate in Chrono Ark's Beta!

Thank you!

Hello, fello Arkers!
Chrono Ark EA v1.5 Beta 1 is here.

Improvements

• New skills added for Huz, Sizz, and Narhan. Try them out now!
  
• We have now added a 'Send Data' option. You can send gameplay results to our server to make it easier for us to balance the game. You can toggle it on and off in the options menu.
  
• New dialogue has been added for the Investigation Team members.
  
• If you have acquired 3 of the same skill, it will no longer appear.
  
• New skill and buff icon illustrations have been added!

Balancing

• Azar - Sword of Infinity: Cost has been increased to 2.
  
• Charon - Dark Barrier: Ratio has been increased from 150% -> 140%. Dark Barrier's barrier amount can now be stacked.
  
• Miss Chain - From Head to Toe: Count has been removed. It no longer consumes Burnnn!.
  
• Miss Chain - Combined Arms: Cost has been decreased from 3 to 2. Count has been removed. It prioritizes skills that aren't Basic Attacks, which follows after Combined Arms is cast.
  
• Lucy - Repeat: Now only shows ally skills that originally cost 1.
  
• Spirit Wolf(from Stage 3): Evade has dropped significantly. Now appears with a 'Ghost' buff instead.

Bug Fixes

• Skills played while Trisha has Double Team active are now properly shown as 0-cost.

How to participate in the Beta!
Your Steam Library -> Right Click on Chrono Ark -> Properties

Please feel free to participate in Chrono Ark's Beta!

Thank you!

Hello, fello Arkers!
Chrono Ark EA Beta v1.5 is here.

First of all, we apologize for the delayed updates.
We have moved our office from a small 150 square feet room to a 500 square feet office.

We had planned big scenario updates for v1.5, but unfortunately it's taking more time than initially planned.
We are currently prioritizing improvements for bigger parts of our game system.


The biggest improvement for v1.5 is the increased skill pool for all characters. Rare skills are a new addition to the game.
As we have improved most character mechanics, we have also added new skills for each of them.

- Currently, 49 character skills have been added.

The following characters are currently available in Beta:
Hein, Joey, Trisha, Miss Chain, Azar, Pressel, Ironheart, Charon, Silverstein, and Lian.


New

• Up to 10 skills and 3 Rare skills per character have been been added.
  
• Every character gained a Lucy's skill that helps draw more skills.
  
• Skill Books: Skill Books generate a random class skill for one of your party members.
  
  
• Golden Skill Book: Golden Skill Books generate a random party member's Rare skill. Rare skills have a red border. You are guaranteed to obtain a Golden Skill Book at some point while playing.
  
  
• Lucy's New Draw Skills: Gain a low chance to obtain a new class Draw skill for your party members when you upgrade Lucy's Draw skill.

Improvements

• Your party members now have more basic skills. You can remove a skill when you have more than 4-5 skills. Class skills are now removable.
  
• New Keyword: Count. This substitutes the previous Keyword: Focus. A skill with Count will be cast later than others. A skill's Count will decrease each time you cast a skill.
  
• Debuff skills with no damage will always be activated.
  
• You can now wait more per turn with increased Speed.
  
• New clown-themed music has been added for Stage 2. We are planning to add more bosses besides Joker.
  
• Boss-themed music has been slightly edited for Stage 3.

All character mechanics have been improved and adjusted.
There are so many changes this patch, please don't hesitate to check them out!

How to join the Beta
Steam Library -> Right Mouse Click on Chrono Ark -> Properties...

You can also join through the Beta tab!

Thank you!

Hello, fello Arkers!
Chrono Ark EA v1.42 has arrived!

Improvements

• Remnant of Madness: Description has been altered.
  'If an enemy is defeated, add the excess amount' -> 'Whenever a target is damaged, add any excess'
  Merciless Explosion and Remnant of Madness' combo now activates Remnant of Madness' effect even if you could not defeat the target with the overkill damage.

Balancing

• Soul Stigma: Base damage has been reduced from (50 + 200% of Attack) to (43 + 200% of Attack).
  
• Shadow Illusion: Now has Swiftness. This cannot be casted on a skill that was already created by Shadow Illusion.

Bug Fixes

• Trisha: All ally skill costs will be correctly reduced after 5 stacks of Trisha's Backstab.
  
• Time Eater: The next skill cast after Time Eater's Fast Forward will be correctly Focused.

We have made done some balancing and corrected some bug fixes for this patch.
Thank you so much for playing the Beta and reporting bugs!


Upcoming SD character design for Investigation Team members

Hello, fello Arkers!
Chrono Ark EA v1.42 Beta is here!

Improvements

• The shortcut for End Turn has changed from Tab to Q key.
  
• You can now open the party information window with Tab key during battle.
  
• Changed the attack timing of Lucy's 'Dark Silhouette'. e.g. Hein's 'Merciless Explosion' skill will be cast before 'Dark Silhouette' when both are cast on the same turn.
  
• The basic skill set for each role group after recruitment has changed slightly.
  
• Chrono Ark now supports Windows 64-bit! (Better optimized with 64-bit)

Newly Added

• Lucy's New Skill: 'Trick Show'

Balancing

• Charon - Soul Stigma:
  The debuff success rate has increased by 10%.
  The debuff damage is amplified if you or an ally has dealt damage to the target.
  
• Charon - 'Vigil of Darkness': Debuff duration has increased from 2 to 3 turns.
  
• Charon - 'Shadow Pillars': Skill has been reworked.
  
• Lian - 'Combat Roar': 3 Skills from the top of your hand gain 100% chance to critical hit after casting Combat Roar.
  
• Miss Chain - 'Pursuit': Cost has reduced to 2. All skills drawn by Pursuit have their cost reduced by 2.
  
• Miss Chain - 'Bazzuum!': Attack power ratio has increased from 133% to 140%.
  
• Hein - 'Detect Weaknesses': Now costs 0.
  
• Hein - 'Blood Reflux': Restores the target's healing gauge. Take damage equal to half the amount.
  
• Trisha - Passive: Trisha's next skill costs 0 after her 4th ability or skill is played. -> For every 5th skill played by Trisha, an ally gains a free skill cast.
  
• Trisha 'Shadow Veil': Now has Swiftness.
  
• Trisha's New Skill - 'Heart Pierce': Heart Pierce costs 1 and deals combined ticking debuff damage from yourself and the target.
  
• Common Skill - 'Locked On': Now increases Accuracy by 15% instead of 10% and critical damage by 50%.

Bug Fixes
The buff from The Forgotten King's equipment no longer disappears below 3 stacks.


Development News
The Chrono Ark development team have welcomed a new UI designer, character artist, and scenario writer!
This has allowed us to work on Chrono Ark more efficiently!

The image below is a preview of the next new boss!


Thank you!

Chrono Ark EA v1.41 is here!


Hello, fellow Arkers!
Chrono Ark EA v1.41 is now live!

Newly Added

• Multiple NPCs have been added to the Ark who will appear in accordance with your game progress. Some NPCs will even be able to give you quests in future updates.
  
  
• Lucy's New Skill: Dark Silhouette.
  Whenever an ally takes damage, all enemies take damage.
  
  
• New Common Skills: 'Boomerang' and 'Fury Attack'.
  Boomerang and Fury Attack have special uses unlike previous Common skills.
  We are planning on dividing Common skills into tiers. If so, Boomerang and Fury Attack will be of a higher tier.
  
  
• New Purple Tier Equipment: 'An Indescribable Portrait'.
  
  
• New Relic: 'The Cross of Light'.
  

Balancing

• Huz: Bonus Attack Power per level has been slightly reduced.
  
• Charon: Healing Power has been increased by 1.
  
• Charon: New skill effect for Dark Heal has been added. Defeating an enemy with Dark Heal will now deal overkill damage to all enemies.
  
  
• Narhan: Damage based on maximum Health has been reduced when Narhan attacks more than 2 targets with Nightmare Syndrome.
  
• Pressel - First Class to Heaven: Overheal mechanic has now been correctly applied. The Overheal ratio has been slightly reduced.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a tooltip where the removed effect for Miss Chain's Engine Reload! was shown.
  
• Fixed a bug where Miss Chain's Death's Door Immunity buff did not activate at 3 stacks and she was already at Death's Door.
  
• Time Eater: Fixed a bug where you use a Fixed ability after Fast Forward is cast.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to use consumables twice.
  
• Fixed a bug where two or more characters recover or lose Health at the same time at the end of battle.
  
• Fixed a bug where the wrong skill effect was shown when you mouse over an enemy after selecting an attack skill during battle.
  
• Fixed various miscellaneous bugs.

Thank you so much for submitting bug reports!

Development News

• We are planning to make a chart regarding user's skill pick rate and each character's game clear rate. We are looking forward to release this chat with each update.
  
• Thanks to your generous support, we are increasing the size of our developement team! We promise to keep working on improving the quality of Chrono Ark.

What's up, everyone!
Chrono Ark EA v1.4 is here.

We've found many bugs during beta testing and we've fixed them.
Thank you for participating in the beta!

Newly Added

• Narhan and Huz are now unlockable. Their achievements are also now available!
  
• Narhan has new dialogue that has been added.
  
• Charon - Soul Stigma's effect has been added.

Balance

• The Sanctuary - Yellow and Green Guardian Golem's Resistance has increased.
  
• The Forgotten King - Protecting Pillar's Pain Resistance has decreased from 55 to 40.
  
• Time Eater - Skill 'Stand By' has changed to 'Fast Forward'. You can now remove Time Eater's unique Focused skill once by casting 'Fast Forward'. Timeless Gear's damage has been increased.
  
• White Graveyard - Jars no longer appear in the area.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where temporary storage objects did not appear at the campfire.

New Ark NPC

New Storyline
Chrono Ark's storyline is finally complete.
However, the storyline is really indepth so we'll release it in parts with future updates.
Adding the full storyline to the game may take some time, so thank you for your patience!

Twitch Stream: Chrono Ark Development
https://www.twitch.tv/hyungunder12
You can watch Chrono Ark live in development here!
While working on the story, the development screen may be hidden to prevent spoilers.

What’s up, everyone!
Chrono Ark's EA v1.4 official beta patch is now live!

v1.4 includes 2 new crew members joining the Investigation Team.
We have decided to release new characters during the beta.
You’ll need to unlock them after beta testing is over.

New Party Members

Huz is a supporter who utilises her healing whip with low-risk and high-return.
She provides strong healing alongside weakening debuffs.
This character’s design was based on an idea from a Kickstarter patron.


Narhan is a Psychologist who can read minds.
He is also a Crowd Control (CC) debuff specialist who can efficiently interfere with enemies.

• 'Reinforcement' at Research Lab
  You can recruit the 4th party member at the campfire.
  This feature will be available after you unlock a certain amount of party members.
  
• 'The Joker' is a collectible loot item that drops from the boss, Joker.
  
• Character stats now show the chance to resist fainting and debuff accuracy.
  
• Mechanics regarding damage to barriers has changed (Faster and more versatile response to various types of damage).
  
• 'Hand of Stars', a purple-colored level equipment has been added.
  
• Remnant of Madness no longer targets a random enemy.
  
• At the campfire, you can recruit a role that you do not have in your party.
  
• Enemies with action count remaining will attack first at the end of turn.
  
• A 'Stand By' button has been added during combat. 'Stand By' reduces ALL enemies’ action count by 1.
  
• New interactive character lines at the campfire.
  Some characters will interact with each other while you are resting at the campsite.
  More lines will be added.

Ironheart

• Passive 'Overbarrier': The excess healing converted to a barrier has changed from 100% -> 90%.
  
• Shock Wave: Base Attack ratio has slightly reduced.
  
• Shield Bash: Base Attack ratio has slightly reduced.

Joey

• Intoxication: The max. stack amount has reduced from 6 to 5.
  
• Weakening Smog: Damage has reduced from 55% to 40%.

Hein

• Blood Reflux: Now transfers all removable debuffs to Hein.

Charon

• Vigil of Darkness: Evade Chance has increased from 5% to 15%. It no longer reduces Armor. Instead, increase a target's receiving damage by 25%.
  
• 'Soul Stigma' has been added.
  
  Soul Stigma reflects damage to an ally as a Pain debuff to an enemy.
  Try it with skills that damage an ally or yourself!

Pressel

• First Class to Heaven: Attack damage has increased from 175 to 190. Accuracy has increased from 100 to 108.

Sizz

• Most of Sizz’s skills have been improved.
  
• Eve gains a chance to attack (2 stacks).

Miss Chain

• Leave This to Me! and Engine Reload!: New buffs have been added.
  'Immune to Death's Door': At 3 stacks, prevents Miss Chain's health dropping below 1.
  
• Engine Reload!: Miss Chain gains a buff that increases healing received by 33%.

Silverstein

• Bear Trap: Bear Trap is less strong and it now returns to your hand after it is activated.

Extras

• Improved Cross Brooch's item effect.
  
• Some equipment now has Weakening debuff Accuracy.
  
• Equipment has 1% less chance to be cursed and 2% more chance to be enchanted.
  
• Forgotten King's Blade, Vest, and Cloak gives 5% increased Attack, Max. Health, and Healing Power.
  
• Relic 'Witch's Curse': 'Crucifying Curse' deals more damage but doesn’t last as long.

• Fixed freezing after casting Remnant of Madness.
  
• Miss Chain's 'Burnnn!': When Miss Chain’s skills are copied by others, additional effects from ‘Burnnn!’ will be applied.
  
• Dodo's Rabbit Mask now always gives a unique effect.
  
• Living Armor from Stage 1-1 now can be unlocked properly.

How to join the Beta
Steam Library -> Right Mouse Click on Chrono Ark -> Properties...

You can also join through the Beta tab!

Twitch Stream: Chrono Ark Development
https://www.twitch.tv/hyungunder12
You can watch Chrono Ark in development live!

Improvement

• If the game crashes after the beginning of stage 1-2, you can continue from that stage.

bug fix

• The problem with being unable to adjust the volume for the BGM in the intro and the main screen has been fixed.
  
• Fixed an issue where character stats were sometimes displayed incorrectly.

balance

• Sacred Karaela: Burning Shield and Cross : Reduces pain damage.
  
• Expert Difficulty: Cursed monster reward in Stage 2 must be a Lifting Scroll.
  
• Purification Stone: The item dropped from a cursed monster is no longer cursed.
  
• area 4 Pyromancer : Reduces damage, reduces burn damage, and duration.
  
• area 4 Watcher : Max Health and attack power decreased.
  
• area 3 Ghost wolf : Evade reduced by 3%.
  
• Ark Lab Upgrade : Removed the draw enhancement. Even if you do not strengthen the draw, you can receive the existing draw strengthening effect.

Improvement

• Some Crash and game optimization completed.