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Adventurers!

Our latest major content update is now available on all supported platforms!

A New Age comes to Fahrul with our latest free campaign, with the Astronomer from the original For The King making their valiant return as our next free playable character.

You can also elevate your adventures with the Fallen Oaths Character Pack, launching simultaneously today! It includes two new playable characters, new weapons, followers, and more!

Read on to see the patch notes and full contents listed below.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3840400/For_The_King_II_Fallen_Oaths_Character_Pack/

To celebrate today’s launch, we’ve also made For The King II free until November 24th on Steam! Now’s the perfect time to get your friends in, with five base game chapters, plus two free additional DLC chapters and the Dark Carnival, our endless dungeon mode!

With 20 characters to pick from and customize, your adventuring party has never been better equipped to take on the chaos that permeates throughout the realm of Fahrul.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1676840/For_The_King_II/

Night falls over Fahrul as our Adventurers are called from the warmth of the hearth to the gates of Overwood. With The Resistance summoned once more to aid the realm, this simple task that comes at the request of the ever-befuddled Hildebrant may just find our heroes partaking in further chaos...

Bringing an all-new adventure to For The King II, A New Age continues on from the events of The Child Of Chaos, dredging the nefarious void realm into the lands of Fahrul.

A New Age and the returning playable Astronomer will be available for all players once they update to the latest version, including the all-new adventure, character, gear, cosmetics, followers, and more!

Take a peek below to see just a few of the additions coming with A New Age!

There's plenty more included in the A New Age update. Scroll down to the patch notes below to read through all the QoL changes, UI polish, bug fixes, and additional content coming to For The King II today!

Augment your time in the void with our latest paid character pack, offering two new playable characters: the Voidwalker and Fallen Knight! But this pack’s treasures don’t stop there, bringing new weapons, followers, and more!

Set your eyes on the graphic below to learn more about all of the fantastic additions to For The King II in the Fallen Oaths Character Pack.

Learn more about the skills, gear, and talents these new characters will be bringing to the fray with our character introductions and Steam Guides here.

The Astronomer returns! Bringing their wealth of knowledge and manipulation of the stars to the battlefields of Fahrul.

All players will find the Astronomer nestled into their Lore Store as of this update as a free addition.

The Astronomer comes equipped with the toolkit that players know and love from the original For The King, with the option to switch to the stunning Hammer Of The Stars in Loadout once you've completed any chapter with the Astronomer in your party!

For those just learning about the Astronomer for the first time, they're an Intelligence and Vitality-focused character, with their Skill, Black Hole, offering a random chance to one-shot an enemy in battle with aid from the powers of the cosmos, providing just a sliver of the heavens: Star Matter.

When used during combat, Star Matter offers the entire party protection via magic borrowed from the infinite vastness of the void beyond the clouds on high. When used on the overworld, Star Matter provides the party with a portal that remains open only once the sun has hidden its incandescent glow.

We’ve also gone ahead and made their Lore cost zero for the launch period, so players taking advantage of the free play week can hop right into exploring the new content we’ve just dropped!

You can learn more about the best ways to introduce Astronomer to your party in our most recent Steam Guides here.

As we delve into a new world with A New Age alongside our new friends of the Fallen Oaths character pack, we also have additional content and changes to current areas of the game. We also solved a bunch of bugs that can be found below. 

• Muskets have arrived!

  • This update brings back the fan favourite classic musket, to go along with the new Void Rifles that accompany the Voidwalker. 

• With the new rifles and muskets we’ve also re-worked Ammo. Ammo is now displayed in relevant areas.

  • All guns have varying levels of ammo 

  • Abilities may require different amounts of ammo

  • Ammo added to item cards 

  • Ammo added to damage modifier window in combat

The Astronomer has shown us the ways of Displace and Converge. Two new movement attack types that either push enemies/players to the outside edges of the combat grid; or converge, which pulls enemies/players to the middle of the combat grid.

This allows for some new gameplay mechanics to apply different styles to AOE & Splash attacks, as well as apply statuses more creatively. The Fallen Knight and their Charge ability will definitely be able to put some extra damage into play alongside these new movement attacks. 

A New Age brings in a new biome and new enemy factions. We want everyone to get into the adventure and experience this new content for themselves. In the overworld there is one new enemy faction, the Profaned Cultists.

A new Merc has been locked away in A New Age and he brings a certain… flavour that hasn’t been seen in any of the other mercenaries. Some friends may be better served to stay locked up. 

Under Gameplay settings we’ve added the ability to change multiplayer region without having to access the multiplayer menu. This can be helpful in the event certain regions are having isolated issues that could prevent players from getting to the multiplayer options. 

When playing on mouse and keyboard we’ve increased, and improved, the keyboard callouts that players can use in the game to better navigate, or access key information. For example, pressing P for Summary is now displayed in the footer. We’ve lost count of how many times we’ve watched Twitch streams and shared to players that they can press P (now Right Shoulder on controller) to access party information anywhere in the game. Check out below for some other key areas with callouts and controller changes. 

• Keyboard callouts can be turned off and on in Settings via “Show Footer Controls” 

• When playing with a controller, Overworld zoom has been a bit cumbersome and frustrating. To improve this flow zoom is now bound to Left Shoulder + Right stick to zoom in and out. 

• Various areas of the game now show improved contextual callouts. 

• Fixed a softlock that could occur in an online session of Dark Carnival when completing the Fahrulian Fortune encounter. 

• Fixed a softlock that could occur if the Kraken attempted to drop a grabbed character onto an occupied combat tile. 

• Fixed  softlock that could occur during the Landboat repair flow.

• Fixed a softlock that could occur after combat when taking the Wheel of Fortune tarot card.

• Fixed an online softlock that could occur when a player gives another player a merc deed while a town menu is currently open.

• Fixed an issue where an Online Error warning could persist on the screen if the player attempted to change the region multiple times.   

• Fixed a softlock that could occur in Chapter 2, The Primordial Oak, if the client that triggered the prompt leaves before completing their choice. 

• Fixed an issue where the Poison status effect was not triggering correctly after completing a dungeon room. 

• Fixed an issue in Chapter 3, The Royal Mines, where the minecarts could spawn facing incorrect directions. 

• Fixed an issue where using a Firesilk would not share across two players connected via the Link ability from the Lovers tarot card.  

• Fixed an issue where The Chariot tarot card was not increasing movement or secondary actions in the round/turn that it was used in. Teleport scrolls can no longer be used from boats. 

• Fixed an issue where Channeling was being interrupted if the player was afflicted with a status (i.e.. burn, bleed).

• Fixed an issue where Eager could proc despite the player being afflicted with Poison. 

• Fixed an issue where the Purify Scroll was not removing negative statuses correctly through its applied Purified status.

• Fixed an issue where a combination of Party Heal and using the Calming Pipe was granting extra focus to the non-caster. 

• Fixed an issue where certain types of attack against the Kraken were also damaging the boat. 

• Fixed an issue in boat fights where summoned ally attacks were damaging the boat.

• Fixed an issue where players that have already attacked could be brought back into the current combat round by casting Rush. 

• Fixed an issue in combat where a dead pet would play its healing animation if it was in the Party Heal AOE. 

• Fixed an issue where the previously played difficulty could default back to Apprentice after restarting the game. 

• Fixed an issue with the Dark Carnival leaderboard showing a placeholder when first entering the Leaderboard. 

• Fixed an issue that could occur in Dark Carnival where loading into a previous gamerun there would be no dungeon timeline tooltip on Sanctum rooms. 

• Fixed an issue in the Shrouded Mirror Encounter where the roll values may not display correctly for intelligence-based rolls. 

• Fixed an issue in the inventory menu that the Seer’s Orb displayed an additional visual flare when navigation between players. 

• Smoothed out the animations of the End Turn button. 

• Fixed an issue in Town Markets where certain keyboard flows could prevent the item card from displaying correctly.

• Fixed an issue in Encyclopedia when using a controller the player could not navigate the Skills section correctly. 

• Improved the Druid Mask helmet when equipped on the Toymaker. 

• Improved the lighting in the Sea Cave dungeon.

• Improved the chandelier placement in certain dungeons to prevent camera blocking. 

• Fixed a clipping issue with the Ringmaster armor cosmetic when equipped on the Monk. 

• Updated the language on the Camp Chestnut trophy to describe the correct unlock criteria. 

• Fixed an issue that could occur on PlayStation 4 where the system could become unresponsive after immediately dismissing the “Connecting” prompt after joining multiplayer.

Thanks again for your continued support and dedication to the realm of Fahrul!

We are so excited to get this adventure out to players, along with a hefty helping of goodies, unlocks, and secrets to explore!

We are also hard at work planning what our 2026 will look like, so keep an eye out on our socials, Steam NewsPost, website, Reddit, and Discord for more news, surveys, and opportunities to see what's ahead for For The King II and IronOak Games.

Merry adventures to you all, intrepid Heroes!

⚔️IronOak Games 

Attention, shoppers! We've got some exciting news about a big sale and our next patch, so read on!

Who's ready to go on a cozy quest? 😌⚔️ Discounty is part of the annual Cozy Quest event, and we're offering our biggest discount EVER at 25% off, from now until November 24th!

Check out the full event here: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/CozyQuest2025

And pick up the game on sale:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2274620/Discounty/

But here's what you really want to know: what's coming next for Discounty? Well, we've been working hard on our next patch, which will be focused on adding quality of life and accessibility features!

Since launch we've gotten so many requests from our community to add additional settings and improve the way certain systems work, and we're happy we can finally deliver them to you! We don't have a release date yet for this patch, but stay tuned -- we're hoping to share more news soon.

A lot of players have mentioned that sometimes it's unclear why customers become impatient and leave negative reviews, even if you've done everything "right." We've made a series of tweaks to make patience feel more fair, so that if you are attentive to all of your tasks, customers will be less likely to become impatient -- but the inverse is also true! We've also added a visual indicator to show when customers' patience is getting tested:

Walking on a dirty floor will test anyone's patience!

We're also making a number of tweaks to make appealing shelves and boosters have a more meaningful impact on customer behavior. Currently, in some layouts, customers will almost always go to the shelf that has the highest appeal rating, even when other appealing shelves are nearby. In this patch we're tweaking customer behavior so that lower-appeal shelves can tempt more customers. We're also increasing the number of impulse purchases customers can make overall, so that having lots of appealing shelves and boosters feels like a more worthwhile investment.

Once you have a busy shop, customers' shopping lists can really start to clutter up your screen. We've cleaned up this UI into a neat little stack of lists that you can switch between using your keyboard or controller.

Additional settings might sound like the most "boring" new addition, but we think it's also the most important -- and definitely what players have asked for the most! We're adding new settings to allow different font size options, turn off text animations, increase accessibility, and more. Adding these options has taken a good amount of time, but we think it's really important to make sure Discounty can be enjoyed by as many players as possible.

We've also spent a long time working on improvements to systems "under the hood" that players won't notice, but which will make it a lot more efficient for us to keep building future content. Plus, there are a few more miscellaneous improvements...here's a peek at one:

Finally, you can hide the scanner guide!

If you haven't yet, please take a moment to leave a review on Steam! Your feedback has been invaluable as we continuing improving the game, and every review helps us reach new players.

That's it for now, and as always, thank you for shopping at Discounty!

xoxo

Crinkle Cut Games

Hello everyone! Today starts the Cozy Quest 2025 and to celebrate it, we have partnered with our friends at Poti Poti Studio to bring you the comfiest and most relaxing bundle:

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/62771

Additionally, the game will be 40% off during the event. Our biggest discount so far! Spend a relaxing afternoon arranging shapes or family photos with this bundle.

Best,

- Endflame Team

First things first, we would like to thank you all for the feedback and the love you have sent us our way - It truly helps, motivates and inspires us for our current title and the creation of new titles.

• We have added 8 new languages to the game, so more players can enjoy the adventures of Nat in their preferred language! For the curious ones, these would be the new languages: Portuguese (Portugal), Traditional Chinese, Korean, Thai, Italian, Dutch, Ukrainian and Czech.

• We have also fixed bugs that our beloved community reported! (thank you so much for the help ❤)

https://youtu.be/7Wug30ZZaZs

We are super excited to announce that “Is This Seat Taken?” will be part of the Cozy Quest Event by Secret Mode!

The Cozy Quest is all about celebrating relaxing adventures and warm vibes! For more information about the event, you can find it here: Cozy Quest 2025 🔎

To celebrate it, we have a promotion of 20% off during the event days! We also partnered with our buddies at Endflame to make a bundle that includes “Is This Seat Taken?” and “Instants”, a puzzle game where you arrange the pictures in the correct order to piece together their most cherished memories! Find the link for the bundle here: Bundle 🔎

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/62771

We currently don’t have any plans to add more content to the game. For now, we would like to focus on prototyping,  developing and testing ideas for new games with funny twists, so it brings joyful moments for our community!

Thank you once again for playing and for supporting the game and we hope you enjoy this new update!

We are so proud to announce that Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker is part of this year's Cozy Quest!

Cozy Quest 2025 begins at 18:00 GMT today with an opening Showcase. You can watch an exclusive Trailer with Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker - the prequel of Tavern Talk. So, keep an eye out! 👀 We'll introduce you to an old friend. 💜

To the showcase!

And the annual Cozy Quest Awards will return on Thursday, 20 November, where players can vote for their favorite games. We keep fingers crossed and hope for a lot of votes for our cozy visual novel. 😉

During the celebration a lot of incredible and cozy games will have great discounts including Tavern Talk and its DLCs. Check our last news for more information on our newest costume DLC "Pirate Palooza":

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2076140/view/563639634283724926?l=english

Check out Cozy Quest right now!

Don't forget, you can still follow our Kickstarter for Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker. Following the pre-campaign early on ensures that you won't miss the launch date and will get notice when to grab some early bee offers! 💯

And with our campaign's social achievements, you can already help collect points to unlock more goodies at the end! This way you have the chance to get more free stuff while supporting our game in the long run!

Follow the Kickstarter!

Let's go big with the Kickstarter and even bigger with Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker!

Your Gentle Troll Team!

Today, we’re excited to present the Storybook. ✨📖✨

We’ve carefully read the comments you left in our survey after playing the demo (btw, we have 5,500+ responses now that's so awesome!), and we noticed several types of players, many asking for an additional way to listen to the story unfold... and since this game is all about the story, we decided this update should meet the needs of as many players as possible.

This update for:

🙌 those who like the story but need to pause the game to read

🙌 those who miss lines because the subtitles move too fast

🙌 those who forget to read because they get too absorbed in the gameplay

🙌 those who prefer silence for an ASMR-like experience


❤️ We also wanted to keep the update exciting for those of you who already love everything about the game, so we added short stories about some of the villages. We now have 4 new stories in the demo, translated by excellent translators.

(I want to thank those of you who love the game! Your feedback makes me so smiley. 😊)

Summary:

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📖 You can now play without narration and still enjoy the story.

📖 You won’t miss any text lines – play without worry.

❤️ Bonus: learn more about our quirky characters.

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We have been doing this update for a few months, and it took more time than we expected. (I think this is the usual developer excuse.😆) Still, we are happy with where we ended up.

I want to share some behind-the-scenes screenshots for you:

Concept in Blender with 2 different color palettes.

It is just 2D assets. But we tried to make it look like 3D. At this stage all the simple parts were over. 😅



Implementing inside Unity—truly a headache! With different languages, we tried to ensure all the text was readable and looked good on the pages.


And the last part (most satisfying for me as an artist) - drawing illustrations on iPad.


+ Map Upgrade
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Almost all of you asked about this!
Finally, you can interact with villages on the map. 😁🙌




Thanks for reading, and we hope you will like this update. 😚
Tell us your opinion in the feedback form in the demo or write to us on the Woodo Discord to share your thoughts directly.

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In our next news, we’re going to share a fantastic story about how I met our composer and how we began working together. Every part of this story feels like pure magic to me, and I can’t wait to share this little fairy tale with you.

See you in Woodo! 🦊🌿

Julia
Tiny Monks Tales

Hey everyone!

We’re really excited to share that we’ll be part of Cozy Quest 2025, running November 17–20.
This year’s event is the biggest Cozy Quest yet, with almost 300 cozy games joining in, so grab something warm to sip and settle in for a seriously comfy weekend of streams, showcases, and good vibes.

To celebrate Cozy Quest, our game will be 40% off for the duration of the event!https://store.steampowered.com/app/1536090/Echoes_of_the_Plum_Grove/🎥Developer Broadcast🎥

We also had the chance to join a Developer Panel for the event, chatting about our game along with some amazing fellow devs. Keep an eye out for us in the Simulation broadcast stream during the event! There will be a Let's Play Feature on our game, and right after, you can find us in the "Making it On Our Own" Panel. We had a great time recording for the panel, and we can’t wait for you to see it.

We also wanted to take a moment and share some exciting news with you all!

In true Echoes of the Plum Grove fashion, we’ve expanded our family tree in real life, and we’re welcoming a little girl! 🍼💮

We’ll be taking a short hiatus from active development and community presence while we adjust to life as new parents. This game means the world to us, and so does this community. You’ve always been so supportive and kind, and we’re deeply grateful for all the encouragement you’ve given us. 💜

We’ll be back once things settle down a bit. In the meantime, here’s what’s still on the roadmap:

🧷 Pinning

 🛠️Better Modding Support

 🎮 Control Improvements

 😠NPC Moods

💖 Better Favorites

Thank you for understanding, everyone! 💜

Bloody Mary:

Wow, you lot are sure are HILARIOUS, HAHAHAHA.
I've read all of your tea, and now it's time to spill on my favorite bits from your dirty, dirty laundry.
Here are your winners, picked by me:

Deadborg on Discord:

"I make cartoons about animals. One tip I received to improve my craft was to "get inside the animals". On my drive back home, I encountered a dead deer and decided to cut it open and wear it's skin while running all over the road until I eventually saw a large truck heading right towards me and instead of getting out of the way, I just screamed and was hit. The driver checked up on me and was horrified at the sight of me covered in deer blood and flesh. I told him I wasn't expecting that and just walked away. I think he liked me."

Yog-Sototh on Discord

"I had a strange dream, locked between my other "lovely night visions of chaos". I think I was a soldier dressed in black (I'm playing a lot of video games :p), walking along other warriors in a dark city in flames, during a strangely peaceful night enlightened by the stars. Of course, when they were visible through the smoke.

I was a bit behind, with my gun in hand. Back from a fight. Suddenly, I felt something behind me and before I could utter a word: a strong hand clamped itself over my mouth. Feminine, yet strong and great. Also sweaty and tasting like salt. At the same time, I saw a glowing piece of metal close to my eyes, lowering itself to my neck. Followed by a venomous yet hypnotizing "shhh, a word and I slit your throat."

Then the dream fractionated into different scenes: being dragged forcefully behind my friends, repeating "Hush, not a sound" like a mantra printing itself in my head. Then I got pinned against a wall and I saw her. My size more or less, very short hair, a white full face mask and with daggers in the eyes, a golden tanned skin and quite toned too. I struggled until I realized that in fact, I didn't really want to fight. Even though I sensed that my resistance was fueling her desires and inner demons-and that was the best reason to keep fighting.

Then-fraction.

Me and her fighting in the streets, in the middle of total chaos. Sometimes I took the upper hand, sometimes she took it back. But the best for me was the following: fighting alongside her. Against our enemies. Slaughtering, killing, destroying and worse. Two demons unleashed into hell: our own home. And hunting the ones who didn't belong here. A carnival of agony and...delights.

And ultimately: a short moment of peace.

Her coldness melted. Her Eyes sparkling—passion? Love?

I reached for her mask, lifted it slowly…

Then I woke up. Tear on my face.

I don't know who this demoness was. But if you hear my call : Come join me in the shadows."

Alucard on Instagram

"I once unplugged someone’s phone at 2% just to charge my own. He had a business meeting later that day, he never got the call i wonder why.

(side note can we put evil geoff in the torture chamber once tormentor comes out)"

@enrico_uccastrog on Instagram

"#confesstomary Short sad story: one day my girlfriend was marinating some chicken and put in the fridge. That night I was looking for dinner, alone and desperate, found the chicken, toasted some bread, put on the chicken and ate ( i was sure it was cooked, it wasn't.)"

Bloody Mary:I will see you all next Stream, look forward to tomorrow! Slice you later!

Oh, what's this? Wishlist Tormentor now?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1493440/TORMENTOR/