Greetings, vikings!

Welcome to the official Steam page of ASKA!

I am Cristian, and I am Creative Director at Sand Sailor Studios. We unveiled our new game in the PC Gaming Show a few minutes ago: ASKA is a Viking themed open-world survival tribe builder, that places you in the role of a tribal leader landing your ship in a mystical ever-changing new realm.

You have to survive, build, craft, fight, farm, sail and prepare for the Dead Winter as you seek to create a self-sustaining viking society. ASKA lets up to four players work together to command villagers and prepare their tribe for the ancient threat that winter will bring.


This includes assigning jobs to villagers, constructing workshops, mines, farms and castles, exploring the world to discover hidden loot and resources, and fighting mythical enemies. Together, you will not just build a village, but a functioning society that you are a part of.

To create the ultimate viking tribe builder, we want to work closely with all of you out there! You can get a first taste of what ASKA has to offer in a single player closed alpha, starting on November 24th, with sign ups open now HERE!

If you would like to continue to be informed about ASKA wishlist and follow us here on Steam, and don't forget to sign up to ASKA Discord Community. Development updates, blog posts, video content and more are on the way, so stay tuned for more exciting news on ASKA coming soon!

Talk to all of you again very soon!
Cristian & The ASKA Team


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1898300/ASKA

Dear (future) Railroad workers!

From today until the end of this weekend, you can play Unrailed for free on Steam!

Take this chance to build some tracks, invite your friends for help or check out our Discord community https://discord.gg/unrailed !

See you on track!

Hello Mercenaries,

Our Friday Mod event will shift this week and focus on our controller-only playtest. We're conducting this playtest to hear your feedback and to gain an understanding of how controller players feel about the controls in-game.

We will be using Discord to announce any last-minute information and when the server is open, so we kindly ask you to LEAP on into the Discord if you haven't done so already.

For this playtest all we’re asking you to do is:

1. Play with a controller
   
2. Let us know your honest opinion on how the game felt while using the controller
   
3. Server will be called: Controller Only Playtest
   
4. Time: Nov 18 at 4pm EST (Toronto/New York) timezone

This is indeed a PC playtest if there was any doubt.

Please take time before the playtest to review your keybindings and if you’d like to change them before the playtest to make it as enjoyable and fluid to your native setup.
Location Main Menu: Options > Bindings
Location During Match: Esc> Options > Bindings


That’s all for now folks, feel free to ask any questions and if you’d like to be a part of our community please LEAP on into the Discord by clicking the link below.

Today with received a lot of feedback about the game. And we want to thank you for it - without it, we won’t be able to improve and expand our game. With this small update, we want to address one thing: servers🔥

Currently, there are only top options available for players - either Local Play with up to 4 people or Private Server with up to 10 people. And it is clear that those options aren’t enough. This is why we are currently working on an additional option - to set up your own servers on the local machine. This option will become available really soon, first - for Linux, and later - for Windows. As soon as they are ready we will update the game and you will be able to host your own servers.

This is only the first of the updates we will make for our game - more to come! If you want to know more about the future of the game - check our roadmap.

• Adding unfinished Japanese translation
  
• Added Brazilian translation, Removed Portuguese translation (Because the current Brazilian translation was wrongly labelled as Portuguese
  
• Added an automatic fallback to english language in case of a language is missing a input, to avoid errors and bugs

• Minor Achievements menu redesign to improve navigation

• Slight nerf to celerity
  
• Slight buff to lightweight
  
• Added a small Invulnerability time after you level up (0.5 sec)

• Some card applying twice the effect due to very specifics situation
  
• German localisation issues related to Corruption tool-tip
  
• Hard mode not translating at start
  
• Game Stats not translating

• Added a nightclub to the Downtown level.
  
• Added more Blackbook styles.

Hi everyone,

We decided to create a quick hotfix that fixes a minor camera issue during the final moments of the final bossfight.
This issue was introduced with the previous patch and has now been resolved.

Full hotfix patchnotes below:

• Replaced the XboxOne X,A,B and Y 3D icons with the different variants that closer match the 2D variants. This change should improve readability of the icons under different lighting conditions.
  
• Updated the default fallback controller X,A,B and Y 3D icons to use the more readable version matching the XBox One Controller glyph changes.

• Added 2 additional gold coins to guide players a little bit better towards the exit of the head puzzle chest.

• Improved one of the camera transitions after defeating the final boss.

• Fixed an issue where the camera didn’t reset correctly after dying before applying the final blow to the boss.

Throw colossals bones and big rocks in an ever growing horde of primal creatures to survive in the jungle. Choose from a variety of upgrades to create unique and game-breaking builds. Unlock a diverse cast of classes and weapons with unique powers.

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Well, plans have changed slightly for what will be the eighth game in the collection. Production for Takoyaki Surprise has escalated a bit and I think that will make for a better full feature game rather than for this particular project. In saying that I've decided that this weird game I made in the spring for my game making community should belong here.



The game tries a lot of things, much like the games in the collection itself and it was very educational to learn and apply new skills for a project like this. That's a lot of what makes the collection fun in my opinion is just being a developer and trying something new, even if it does poorly for some you can learn from it to get better. For instance, all of the exercises I learned for Fox in the Woods went directly into this game when remastering it for the collection.



Cthulhu's Paradox is very much about members of my game making community and it was fun making a jokey game about them and clowning together. The subject of this game, Fenrir Lunaris of OHRRPGCE fame was in full support of this being released here, so it's hard to not get excited about adding it in. A big theme for 2022 was using premade assets and supporting the artists that made those. If you are a game developer looking to just get your hands dirty with game design but maybe aren't great at art, I hope games like this and Fox in the Woods can inspire you to just go for it. Your ideas are always going to be your own and stressing over art can kill some of that creative momentum as you learn.



I hope you enjoy Cthulhu's Paradox, it's about 3ish hours long and it's probably more insane and wacky than I can actually describe. It was a total blast to make.