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We'll showcase the new features in the game and announce upcoming plans, as well as the Early Access release date.

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Dear GRAVEN fans,

We are very excited to share amazing news from the world of GRAVEN as the first major Early Access Content Update is OUT NOW!

The update adds two new areas - the Cruxfirth Archives and the Black House Bog, five new enemies, the Orthogonal Hymnal - a weapon capable of shredding foes with twin mana, the Swamp Bottom Swallow potion, weapon upgrades, spell upgrades and a lot more! Moreover, we have implemented numerous improvements and fixes to many bugs reported by our community!

It also marks the debut of GRAVEN’s experimental online co-op that is available through Steam. Play with other mighty priests (the lobby takes up to 8 but we recommend a maximum of 4) and roam a medieval world inspired by immersive sims and classic first-person shooters! We are confident there is a lot of fun to be had in the current state of the co-op mode and that's why we’ve decided to put it in our players' hands; but we want to re-state that it is still experimental at this stage and our team is working on improving it so it works flawlessly upon full release. Therefore we’d like to ask for your support as we improve the co-op mode and report any issues you might encounter to our team, via the Steam Discussions.

Additionally, as much of the save system has been reworked, we recommend players start a new profile. Outdated profiles are indicated by red text displayed on the profile slot in the profiles menu.

We are aware that we’ve been quiet lately and hadn’t released any new content because we wanted to focus on the game as a whole. While this update brings plenty of new features, items and improvements to GRAVEN, we’d like to highlight that the game is in Early Access, which means that there are still many things that will be added and improved until the game’s full launch. Lastly, we would like to thank each and every one of you for supporting GRAVEN so far and helping us identify issues and improve the game. And again - in case you encounter any bugs, please report them to our team through the Steam Discussions.



Complete list of new features, fixes and improvements:

• Five new enemies
  
• Two new areas
  
• One new weapon
  
• Upgrades for all weapons
  
• Upgrades for all spells
  
• One new potion
  
• One new merchant NPC
  
• Additions and improvements to previously released areas
  
• Enhancements to monster behavior
  
• Co-op support on Steam
  
• DPI scaling

• New Region - The Cruxfirth Archives
  
• New Region - The Black House Bog
  
• New Section - Lice Slough
  
• New Section - Clotted Avenues
  
• Brine Muskeg is now swampier, with a new puzzle
  
• New Enemy - Dihedral Cleric
  
• New Enemy - Dihedral Priest
  
• New Enemy - Undecaying Punished
  
• New Enemy - Mire Reaver
  
• New Enemy Miniboss (Optional) - The Archivist
  
• New Behavior - Infected horde bonuses
  
• New Behavior - Skitterfly projectile changes
  
• New Character - The Alchemist
  
• New Weapon - Orthogonal Hymnal
  
• New Potion - Swamp Bottom Swallow
  
• Weapon Upgrades
  
• Spell Upgrades
  
• Staff now has an alt-fire
  
• Armor system with pickups
  
• New interactive environment features (traps, buttons, horror-esque zones)
  
• Cooperative support added for Steam
  
• Gamepad support for gameplay and bindings
  
• DPI scaling option
  
• Add Obituary messages (hints) to the death menu
  
• Add Lore and notes pages in the pause menu
  
• Add minimum mana amount that will be regenerated over time
  
• Breakables are now physics reactive
  
• Throwables do damage to whatever they hit
  
• New fall damage system for the player
  
• New swimming systems for the player
  
• New screen shake on damage and hitting weakpoints with melee weapons

• UI: New Fonts
  
• UI: Scaling and sharpness pass on all menus
  
• Save System: FIXED: That white square issue
  
• Save System: FIXED: Settings file is now deleted when a profile is deleted
  
• Save System: Now saves full object states and quest state
  
• Save System: Saves that are no longer supported are labeled as such
  
• Settings: Fixed various settings not properly working
  
• Monsters now have various knockback amounts based on animation
  
• Monsters resist knockback based upon their mass
  
• Monsters now take fall damage
  
• Monsters have updated weakpoints and damage they're strong/weak against
  
• Relocated the Peat Burner off the main path
  
• Relocated the Cuff Arrow to original Brine Muskeg location
  
• Relocated the Discharge spell to require puzzle solving
  
• One of the pillar puzzle clues is much closer now in Clotted Avenues
  
• Cuff Arrow zoom now has a monocle
  
• Huge refactors of lots of backend functions, this will yield great things in future updates
  
• Clotted Avenues is now entered from the town instead of from underground
  
• FIXED: Some fences were only blocking projectiles from one direction
  
• FIXED: Pickups were sometimes triggering multiple times before being removed, should no longer happen
  
• Clotted Avenues now has a switch operated elevator for the first totem area
  
• Gas clouds now spread fire a bit further
  
• Respawn health is now 70
  
• Clotted Avenues got some item, enemy, and breakable adjustments
  
• FIXED: Explosions causing periodic performance drops

The GRAVEN Team!

Feedback is essential for us to successfully add new features and improve Dorfromantik together with you. Of course, it helps us a lot if you are specifically trying to test features that we have listed up in the Beta Patch Notes for the current update.

🧪 Beta: If you also want to test new features earlier and help with your feedback the development of Dorfromantik, then find out here how you can participate in the public beta.

🌻 Community Feedback: We highlight items that we have implemented based on community feedback or suggestions. We look forward to your feedback in our Steam Community Hub or on our Discord server.

UX Improvements
• 🌻 Added "Fast Load" button to loading screen
  
• Added "Load At Once" option to settings menu (this makes fast loading even faster, but freezes the game and causes it to become unresponsive until loading is completed)
  
• Challenges can be pinned / unpinned by clicking their ingame icon
  
  
  Bugfixes
  
• 🌻 Fixed creative mode loading getting stuck in games transferred from classic mode
  
• 🌻 Fixed challenges getting registered multiple times and not getting unregistered when switching between savegames. This could result in challenge fulfilled effects being triggered multiple times, but also in other faulty behaviour, like tiles not being placed but counting for score
  
• 🌻 Fixed preplaced tile quests not triggering immediately when directly fulfilled or failed while the preplaced tile is connected
  
• 🌻 Fixed issue caused when undoing a turn where a new challenge was unlocked
  
• 🌻 Fixed #9999999999 being displayed as leaderboard rank when starting the game
  
• Fixed "Clear Progress" button
  
• Fixed autosave screenshot in Save Games screen not being set up correctly
  
• 🌻 Perfect placement ratio is no longer displayed in stats while loading the game, which had caused it to use wrong values for calculation and display percentages over 100%
  
• 🌻 Fully completed challenges are no longer displayed ingame (only during the session in which they were completed)
  
  
  Other
  
• Improved loading time & memory usage for maps with large tile stacks
  
• Added key rebinding for Creative Mode > Generate Matching Tile tool
  
• 🌻 Undo now also resets the tile rotation, so it no longer breaks the Heavy Weight challenge
  
• Added experimental "Highlight Groups" toggle to Settings > Other to evaluate group highlighting performance issues

💛 Once again, we would love to thank you for helping us testing these changes and providing lots of feedback!

💛💙 Stay Safe!

Features

• Recipes can be collected and added to a special page in the menu book by grabbing them.
  
• Animals can be unlocked and featured in the menu book by taking a photo of them.
  
• Reworked fishingspots to make it more clear what fish appears in what location.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed occurrences when GodIsland wouldn't be visible after skipping the tutorial.
  
• Fixed issues with the merchant animations and sounds not transitioning correctly between day & night when loading a save file.
  
• Mushrooms from Crystal Island can now be used to create new seedbags.
  
• Fixed a bug where the loaded MoleSeal color did not match the saved color.
  
• Playtime no longer resets to zero after 24 hours.
  
• Each save slot is now backed up to a separate folder ("Deleted Saves").
  
• Improved saving and loading code to make it more reliable.
  
• Throwing a barn sign into the ocean will now free up the connected barn spot again.
  
• Trellises can now be placed on planter boxes again.

Here's our updated roadmap for this patch:




Thank you for all the support and help in spreading the word about Garden of the Sea! We love seeing what you create in the game and all your feedback is helping out a ton in updating and shaping the future of the game :)

You can always join our Discord if you need help or want to talk to us!

See you soon!

Love from Team Garden of the Sea

Danny might look like a punk, but he's actually a former acclaimed showman that excels in illusions and manipulation. His cards are tailored to divert the enemy but also to manipulate the deck of his allies!



Let's look at two new cards:

• Shadow Clone - Deploy a holographic copy of yourself and use him to divert enemies or even attack them! Be warned: one Crusher attack and your clone's a goner. This card has a lot of nice combos to try out, so catch them all!
  
  
  
  
• The Great Unveil - Ever wanted to play an enemy card? Now you can! With Danny's The Great Unveil card you can take a look at an enemy's hand and use one of their annoying moves against them!
  
  

The MARV - or the chicken with a bazooka as we like to call it in the office - is the first ranged enemy in the game, which means it will shake up tactics quite a lot. No more hiding behind turrets or walls, this thing comes straight for your soul.



Let's look at one of the MARV's cards:

• Vigilance - This is a reaction card, meaning the MARV will use it as soon as it sees you move in a 2 hex radius around it. Then of course, it will reward you with some explosive presents.
  

We also conjured up the Warehouse, a magical place made for bot-clobbering. This abandoned multi-floor jungle of walkways and vines creates the most claustrophobic experience in Rise of Humanity yet. The level features a more narrow layout compared to the already existing levels. This also makes the Illusionist shine!




The daily challenges just got more challenging! More enemies - yes, including the MARV -, more demanding mission goals, more tension in general.

Four challenge types will possibly get you into full-on nail-biting mode:

ESCAPE – Be a sci-fi Houdini and make your way to an ever-changing escape zone while dodging robot raids. All heroes need to escape, so make sure to bring some elbow grease.

DESTROY – Airborne AI shuttles dropped some deadly bombs that eradicate your whole team if you’re too late. Get going and wreck them all before time runs out!

SURVIVE – The robot horde has spotted you, but help is on its way. Can you stand your ground for long enough without getting annihilated? Pro defense tactics are required.

KILL THEM ALL – Classic mode. Just wipe out every robot and claim victory. Simple as that.

Our community over on discord voted on the Deploy Turret card to be turned into an animated one. So here it is! Make sure to play the game between March 31, 2022 and May 31, 2022 to claim your animated Deploy Turret card.



And of course a lot of bugfixes and tweaks based on your reports and suggestions! Just to name a few:

• Polish language added thanks to our community member
  vito74m / A100N
• Quality-of-life improvements of the gameplay camera
  
• Fixed numerous bugs that would cause the game to not respond

...and much more smaller bugfixes and tweaks!

Crystal Project has finally been released! It's time to explore the Land of Sequoia while you find Crystals, unlock classes, learn abilities, and create a party capable of taking down the world's toughest bosses. Or maybe you'd rather just stick to looking for secrets. The world was made for you, and it's up to you to create your own adventure.

Want to chat about your adventures with other Adventurers? Join the discord here:
https://discord.gg/VGeS8aTBj3

Have a question or need assistance? Please feel free to ask here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1637730/discussions/0/2962796621651898428/

Hello everyone. As we mentioned last time, we took a break from Ruinarch for the entire month of February. Aside from rest, we also spent some time working on a new game to get our creativity flowing. We'll give a short preview of that at the end of this post.

We are all now back again developing new content for Ruinarch for all of March and April and will do testing, tweaks and balancing on May. We plan to have the next update released around the 3rd week of May.

Here's what to expect from it:

This is a significant rework. Essentially, choosing an Archetype will still provide the player with a different starting loadout, but each time they upgrade their Portal, they will learn a couple of fixed Powers but will also now be given a few choices from both their Archetype's pool, as well as from other Archetypes (but from a lower Portal level). This is intended to make each Archetype more well-rounded as well as to make repeat plays more interesting. Even the same Archetype could feel vastly different depending on the choices made per Portal level.

The next step which will be added on a different update, is to separate the Victory Condition from the Portal Upgrades. There are a lot of exploits to produce Chaos Orbs easily which right now makes winning the game sometimes a matter of tediousness. We are still discussing how best to approach Victory Condition but we are currently leaning towards providing the player Archetype-based goals or challenges.

With the reworked Archetypes System, we also needed to introduce more Powers to round out all Archetype's Upgrade Path options. There will be 8 new ones available. We also intend to improve some existing ones to make them more useful and interesting.

Villagers may now develop Grudges towards other Villagers. A Grudge affects a Villager's behavior, they may quit a Party if they have a Grudge on its Party Leader, they won't assist a Restrained or Unconscious Factionmate they have a Grudge on and they will harshly punish a Criminal they have a Grudge on. The player can also eventually consume a Villager's Grudge using Trigger Grudge (one of the new Powers) to make them perform a deadly action against the Grudge target.

We're taken a second pass look at Share Intel and Emotions. We want Share Intel to have more useful effects when used by the player. Since it gives the target various Emotions, our approach is on making the effects of these Emotions a bit more intense.

There will be more ways for Players to exploit a Villager in Critical Mood. One new approach for players will be to turn a Villager's Mood to Critical and then activate Exploit Mood on it. This will provide the player with a few choices randomly available based on the situation. They can make the Villager go berserk, murder a Rival, leave a Faction, etc.

Finally got to add more of these to the game!

Nona's Game will be the second game coming out of Maccima Games! During the height of the pandemic, one thing that kept us entertained are streamers playing multiplayer games like GTA RP, Raft, and most significantly: Among Us. Now that the Among Us craze has died down, we wanted to develop something that could potentially take its place without being another clone of it. This is a complete departure from Ruinarch's genre so we do think there may not be a lot of overlap in terms of audience but it is refreshing to work on something very different for a change. We'll discuss more details about the game soon!

So that it will not distract from development of Ruinarch, we've hired a full second team to work on Nona's Game concurrently. Aside from me who also works as the game designer, there is a tiny but complete team working on it separately.

It's quite risky taking on multiple projects at the same time but we do feel that there is a void left by Among Us for Streamers that we want to possibly occupy as soon as possible. We're hoping revenue from Ruinarch could continue funding both teams but we do expect there will be months (like March) where we go into negative and draw from savings instead. Something that players may not be aware of regarding revenue for games is that the dev team gets only around 30-50% of the base price due to tax, chargebacks, discounts, cheaper price on other countries, revenue sharing with Steam and publisher (even though our Publisher has already closed, we still have revenue sharing ongoing with them). The good news is that we do get some sales bump whenever we go on sale and usually that should be enough to sustain us for that month. We hope our sales continue as they are now at least for the entire year and we should be able to develop the two games in parallel without too many financial worries.

We'll leave you with a Promo Art for Nona's Game:

Fantastic news, everyone:

Because you all have been so well behaved recently and not deceitful at all, we have decided to extend the 5th-anniversary event by one week and it will now end on May 19th to give you the last chance at getting those juicy Anniversary Exclusives!

Don't forget to join our Discord to show off your new looks!

Best of luck and see you in the Booth!

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*Happy Birthday to us… Happy Birthday to usss!* It’s official! We’ve hit the grand old age of Five, and it’s time for us to celebrate - with you! We’d like to give a big thanks to everyone who has played and supported Deceit over the years - and we’re looking forward to five more years of deception, mistrust, and ruining friendships to come.

So, now onto the main event!


This Anniversary, we’re introducing our first Premium Event Pass. This Premium Pass will include some exclusive goodies that can be used in game, including permanent Item Upgrades for the event’s duration.

Included in the Anniversary Pass are:

• 5 Event Tokens
  
• Access to Premium Event Pass Content - the only way to access exclusive cosmetics
  
• Upgrades your free daily Token from Standard to Event
  
• Unlimited event item upgrades for the duration of the event (More details below!)
  
• Anubis Terror Cosmetic for Werewolf Terror

Buy it in the in-game store now.

This Anniversary Event, fill your bag with birthday goodies as you play. Earn tickets from games to progress your Event Pass and win loot. Some of the items will be exclusive to the Anniversary Premium Pass, but there’s still plenty to win. If you have already acquired an item that's unlocked in the pass then you'll receive an Event Token instead.

Loot can also be won in Loot Booth with Event Tokens.

Common

• Terror Eyes Emblem
  
• Mini Game Master Emblem
  
• 5th Anniversary Emblem
  
• Tally Spray (Premium Pass exclusive)
  
• Rose Spray
  
• Feign Blood Bag Spray

Uncommon

• Balloon Spray (animated)
  
• Fireworks Spray (animated)
  
• 8-bit Cake (animated)
  
• Glowstick Knife
  
• Funky Wristband

Rare

• Doughnut Pistol
  
• Doughnut Wristband
  
• 6 Party Hats (Hair/Hat)
  - Alex
  - Chang
  - Lisa
  - Rachel
  - Hans
  - Nina (Premium Pass exclusive)
  
• 6 Party Glasses (Accessory)
  - Alex
  - Chang
  - Lisa
  - Rachel
  - Hans (Premium Pass exclusive)
  - Nina
  
• Candle Blow Victory pose
  
• Dropped Cake Defeated pose (Premium Pass exclusive)

Legendary

• Minotaur skin for Yeti Terror
  
• Anubis skin for Werewolf Terror (Premium Pass exclusive)
  
• Ancient Anubis skin for Werewolf Terror (Premium Pass exclusive)
  
• Tactical Pistol
  
• Butterfly Knife (Premium Pass exclusive)
  
• Chang Head
  
• Chang Clothes
  
• Rachel Head
  
• Rachel Clothes (Premium Pass exclusive)
  
• Party Dance Victory pose (animated) (Premium Pass exclusive)
  
• It’s My Party Defeated pose (animated)

These three Item Upgrades are unlocked with the Anniversary Premium Pass, and then they are unlimited for the duration of the event.

• Cake Shotgun: food fight! Shoot someone with cupcakes and leave a splodge on your opponent's screen.
  
• Party Pooper Lethal Injection: eliminate someone from across the room with this blowpipe lethal injection. You’ve only got one shot - so make it count.
  
• Confetti Antidote: save someone with style! When you antidote someone, confetti will fly out of them with a flash of light, and down all nearby terrors.

30 Challenges will be available during the Event for you to get to grips with and earn you those tasty cosmetics. The first 10 challenges will be available from today, with the next 10 available next week, and the last 10 available in two weeks time.



They say you should dress for the job you want. But what about the game you already have? Enter our Starter Pack, which includes a rare outfit for all our playable human characters.

The Starter Pack is now live and in it you get:

• Rare outfit for each human character (or a token if you already own it)
  
• 5 Booth Tokens to win additional cosmetics
  
• GM Spray
  
• GM Emblem

Lying has never looked so good. Get it in the Steam store now.



When our new Community Manager started playing, she thought that using the Camera would give you a photo of the human beneath the Terror… and misunderstandings like that can impact how people play and enjoy the game. We see players forget to finish objectives, collect items they’ve unlocked or what to do with fuses in day and night, so we’ve introduced the new Tips system.

The Tips system will be shown to new players in game, or you can toggle them on or off in the Settings in the Main Menu.






We know you’re keen to hear more about Ranked changes, but instead of rushing some changes we have decided to take more time to listen to the community and talk through any changes we might want to make.

So over the next few weeks, we’ll be discussing a number of things in #ranked-chat on our Discord. If you’re interested in the changes to the Ranked game mode, please join the conversation.

Today’s update means the Ranked season has been reset.



Keep an eye out for something special dropping on our socials later today, and we hope you enjoy the Anniversary Event, and we will see you in game!

The Deceit Team
Discord | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok

• Anniversary Event has started and will run until 12th May, with new Item Upgrades and cosmetics.
  
• Anniversary Pass includes exclusive Terror Skin.
  
• Easter 2021 items have been added to the Vault so you have a chance of winning them in the Loot Booth.
  
• Starter Pack available in Steam store.
  
• We have removed Ticket Boosts from our in-game store.
  
• We have addressed some game crashing issues.
  
• Some in-game ticket sources have been adjusted.
  
• The cost of rewards in the Labyrinth have been adjusted.
  
• Increased the time you have to select an Infected partner in the pregame.
  
• Updated our EasyAntiCheat Splash Screen and in-game Splash Screen to use the new Deceit logo.
  
• [FIXED] Clicking on a reward just in front of the Labyrinth's exit triggers the audio for the exit being open.

Every 10 days or so, you are give the option of choosing from several of the new Special Treasures. These accessories do interesting things and may shape the way you play the game. Each one can be upgraded as well. You will see these items on enemies and mercenaries throughout the game.