“Experiments continue! Take it, puny humans!”
As you probably noticed, the past season that has just ended was shorter than usual. "Any reason for that?", your puny brain might ask. Well, the reason is that we didn't have enough time to finish the important Mutations Tree change the last time around, okay? And we didn't want this to be delayed. Alright, now read what we added and back to the dungeon, human.


Watcher, a one-eyed brainy creature that shoots at puny humans from range.


There is now a progress bar that shows your Mutations Tree progression. New mutations are only available if you unlocked a number or required mutations and your progress bar is at a specific point. This change is meant to guide players towards optimal strategies. Oh, and we changed some mutation values too.




Now all team units are tied by one general link. These units are no longer split into smaller groups. Re-applying the status on a certain unit extends the duration of the ability rather than applying a new one.

• From now on, you won't encounter all types of enemies in one run. Instead, a selected group of enemies will spawn during a run, resulting in certain types spawning in floor rooms more frequently;
  
• Abilities of some enemies will have less effect on a fight;
  
• Changed values of some mutations:
  
  • ”You Thought”: cooldown 15 sec -> 5 sec; mana cost 30 -> 10
    
  • “What a Spark!”: damage 100 -> 160
    
  • “Strike a Light”: damage 150 -> 300
    
  • “Napalm”: damage 150 -> 210
    
  • “Intimidation”: chance 8% -> 10%
    
  • “Damage Link”: damage 150 -> 250
    
  • “Armor Wrecking”: effect -40 -> -50
    
  • “Bash”: chance 3% -> 5% for Shooters; duration 1 sec -> 1,5 sec for other classes
    
  • “Spiky Armor”: 30% and 50% -> 40% and 60%

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1. 🥇 jozaro312
   
2. 🥈 Izard
   
3. 🥉 아무런생각도없다

Congratulations. All three winners will receive Despotism 3k Steam keys and the Despot’s Game soundtrack. To claim your prizes, please contact Antishyr via Steam.

The 11th season starts now and ends on May 25 at 18:00 CET.

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First of all, we would like to thank all the participants for submitting their beautiful creations. d'Spot was really touched, getting uncharacteristically sentimental about human handiwork. A brief moment of weakness.




Congratulations, cn. You did a really, really good job for a puny human. The prize—the branded Despot's Game cap—will be sent to you shortly. It may take some time for it to arrive though—human mail can be slow sometimes, you know. Anyway, we will get in touch with you to find out your physical address.



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Honorable mentions:

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Thank you again for participating, humans.

"DESPOT'S ART CLASS"
FAN ART CONTEST HAS STARTED

“I've heard humans can be, ugh...creative. Let's see if you are capable of being creative in anything else besides ways to die in my dungeon. MwaHahahhHAhAhhaha!”

• Contest link: ːdespotːhttps://gleam.io/iNsbb/despots-game-despots-art-class-fan-art-contestːdespotː

[/h3][/list]Please, open the link above and follow the instructions to upload your work. Anyone can enter—there are no restrictions.

• Contest duration: APRIL 22-28

[/h3][/list]Submissions are open from 🗓️Friday, April 22nd, 6 pm CET to 🗓️Thursday, April 28th, 6 pm CET. We will close submissions on April 28th to have enough time to manually select one (1) winner. The winner will be announced on Friday, April 29th at 6 pm CET.

• Submission rules

[/h3][/list]We accept all kinds of physical and digital works: art, fan fiction, videos, 3D models—literally anything including pretzel recipes. You can submit both new and old creations. Your work doesn't have to be done during the period mentioned above (April 22-28). Multiple submissions are allowed! Please, keep in mind that multiple submissions do not increase your chance of winning the contest, you puny cheating humans.

• The Prize

[/h3][/list]We at Konfa Games will congratulate the winner, share their creation with the community and, most importantly, send them the prize: a branded Despot's Game cap!




Good luck, humans! Don't go easy on yourselves.

“Do not attempt to understand the machinations of the d'Spot! He is so wise that he himself cannot comprehend them.”


We have some news that's not really news. We say it's not really news because it doesn't involve dates, numbers, names, or any of that kind of information that fits nicely into news headlines. But we're still going to try and tell you a little about our plans and what's ahead for Despot's Game in the near future.

We're getting ready for the full release, version 1.0. It will happen this year – maybe even very soon. We really want to get it out before the Despotism reality is replicated in the real world. Ideally, we want as widespread a release as possible: version 1.0 will come out at the same time as we launch on other platforms. And again, we can't say specifically which ones yet – that depends more on our publisher, tinyBuild, than on us. But we can say that we're already working on porting the game. We ourselves are mostly PC games, and Steam will always be home to us, but playing Despot's Game while laying on the couch seems like a great idea too!
In connection with these plans, part of Konfa Games's work won't be making it into new updates, and as we get closer to 1.0, this will happen more often. We don't want version 1.0 to be drastically different from the early release version, like with the demo version and Early Access release, but at the same time we're planning to pack enough treats into it that all our current players will want to come see what we prepared for the release. Along with this, we're doing a couple of experiments while the "Early Access" tag allows it.

Answers to questions you might have:

❔ ""%RandomGame% gave us a roadmap of features. Why don't you post your development plan? Is your whole studio in chaos and unable to make games?""
📢 We have an internal development plan, but it's so often derailed by circumstances and sudden inspiration that it doesn't make sense to publish one version. And constantly updating the published plan means a lot of extra work. Right now we can share our current plans for version 1.0 that aren't secret:

1. Expanded Twitch integration. Whatever that means in the end.
   
2. A ranking system for Brawl. Different from King of the Hill, but with it's own leaderboard.
   
3. Give one unique ability each to all level 5 items (that is, the most expensive). If it goes well, we'll do the same for level 4 items.
   
4. A reward for making it to level 5 in the previous round. (We want to make it so it's not advantageous to ""reroll"" level 1.)
   
5. Statistics after a fight: what classes dealt the most damage, who ""absorbed"" the most damage, how much HP the medics healed, etc.
   
6. Profiles with settings. First and foremost, profiles let us make lots of different medals, and players can then choose which ones to display in King of the Hill

Okay, now head to the comment section and complain that none of that is important, and that if we don't do X and Y, we're heading straight for failure, oblivion, and microwave burritos.

❔""So is that it? Will you be done soon? Are you going to make a new game?""
📢Not exactly. The release of 1.0 doesn't mean the development process is over: we'll be improving Despot's Game for a while longer. Plus, a lot of the features in the list above will only appear after the full version is out. We haven't heard anything about a new game, except for a few backstage whispers.

❔“Why is the [X] class so awful in multiplayer? Why can't you make all the classes balanced?!”
📢Don't worry, those who are last will soon come in first, since the balance is always changing. It's incredibly difficult to make all the classes equally strong, and there's no reason to: we're not trying to build a glass tower of balance that we'll be afraid of toppling over with every change. We prefer fun chaos. We'll build a glass tower when we step away from regular game updates.

❔“I can't beat the game! Make it easier!”
📢No. But we'll try and make it easier to understand how to make the right tactical decisions.

Have more questions? If you do, ask away in the comments – we'll try and answer. And if you don't have any more questions, then keep reading the patch notes.




Smirch, a trash can with tentacles

1. Effective Aura: increases Shooter aura effectiveness
   
2. You Thought: block magic damage every so often
   
3. Most Dexterous: a dodge aura that has increased chance based on Trickster class ability level
   
4. Blinding Lightning: mage lightning removes targets from ranged attacks
   
5. NanoMineSweeper: when attacking, buries a microscopic explosive in the enemy that explodes after they die
   
6. Last Word: on death, increases a random ally's armor.

We are grateful for any feedback on how intuitive the gamepad controls are! But we don't need feedback on the hints and tutorial yet, okay?=).

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1. 🥇 Lectrice
   
2. 🥈 Izard
   
3. 🥉 Дранiк

Lectrice has finally done it! He defeated Izard after being the runner-up for two straight seasons. It seemed like no one would ever be able to beat the almighty (W)Izard but...things change!

Congratulations. All three will receive Despotism 3k Steam keys, and the Despot’s Game soundtrack. To claim your prizes, please contact Antishyr via Steam.

The 10th season starts now and ends on May 3 at 18:00 CET.

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• Magic damage bonus is now correctly applied to damage over time skills
  
• Teleport button can't be used in quest rooms

We added 4 new mutations, 3 of which are fiery. Fire deals damage over time to targets.

1. What a Spark!: Summoned creatures have a chance to ignite enemies when attacking
   
2. Napalm: Throwers ignite enemies by bombs
   
3. Strike a Light: Fencers ignite enemies when they land a critical hit
   
4. Antigravitational Strike: Mages have a chance to significantly knock small or medium enemies back when attacking (no fire here, but it still looks interesting).

1. Deja Vu: Returns the player to the start of the level. Triggers automatically on a loss. Deja Vu mutation removed;
   
2. Soul Food: disables the effects of hunger for the next fight;
   
3. Teleport: lets you teleport to a random room on the level.

There is now a "Faster quests" option in the settings that lets you skip cutscenes. Warning! The first time after you enable this option, the quest will show entirely, even if it was already completed.

• Bloodletting now deals 300% damage instead of 200%
  
• Thunder Lance now has a 15% chance to trigger instead of a 5% chance
  
• Health Bonus (Mutations Tree) has been buffed: [100,200]->[100,250]
  
• Health Multiplier (Mutations Tree) has been buffed: [50, 110, 200, 330, 500, 620, 720, 800]%,->[50, 110, 220, 350, 550, 680, 800, 900]%

1. 🥇 Izard
   
2. 🥈 Lectrice
   
3. 🥉 jozaro312

Congratulations. All three will receive Despotism 3k and Despot’s Game OST Steam keys. To claim your prizes, please contact Antishyr via Steam.

The new 9th Season starts now and ends on April 19th at 18:00 CET.

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• Fixed a crash that happened when a healer tried to heal a unit, which just died
  
• Fixed novices not participating in Meganewbie creation, if they existed at the time of acquiring the mutation
  
• Fixed an old bug, where wrong medals were displayed in leaderboards
  
• Fixed several other small bugs

These are consumables that can be obtained as rewards and then used outside of combat. Designed to help you turn a bad run around. More "buttons" will be added soon.


You are able to sell items you don't need anymore at half-price from now on.


Added for the following classes: Tanks, Cultists, Shooters, Eggheads, Mages, Healers. Now each class has its own unique active ability animations. Previously, the default attack animations were used instead.


...is now titled simply just "Brawl". We removed all the holiday stuff.

• Hedonism (Mutations Tree) is now cheaper: 50 -> 30 tokens;
  
• Magic Defense Bonus (Mutations Tree) nerfed: max level is now 80%;
  
• Sale! (Mutations Tree) changed: discounts decreased, mutation price decreased;
  
• Levels 2 and 3 of the Armor bonus mutation (Mutations Tree) buffed: 20, 50 -> 30, 60;
  
• Bloodletting now doubles the Healers' healing and damage;
  
• The majority of the mutations from the Mutations Tree now don't affect non-human units that join your team: drones, zombies etc.
  
• Magic resistance from the "Crocodile Head" text event decreased: 15% -> 10%;
  
• Powerful Pill damage bonus buffed: 20 -> 30
  
• Healers' items: 1-3 tier items are cheaper, 4-5 tier - more expensive. Health bonus increased

1. 🥇 Izard
   
2. 🥈 Lectrice
   
3. 🥉 Scruffy. The janitor.

Congratulations. All three will receive Despotism 3k and Despot’s Game OST Steam keys. To claim your prizes, please contact Antishyr via Steam.

The new 8th Season starts now and ends on March 29th at 10 am PT / 19:00 CET.

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OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP 2021: THE FULL LIST OF THE WINNERS

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Return his love to you in the comments, puny humans.