Meteorfall: Krumit’s Tale is launching on consoles!
We’re excited to share that Meteorfall: Krumit’s Tale, our beloved roguelike deck-builder, is launching on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4/5 today, September 25! Designed by Eric Farraro, with Evgeny Viitman’s vibrant art and Craig Barnes’ immersive soundtrack, Meteorfall: Krum
We’re excited to share that Meteorfall: Krumit’s Tale, our beloved roguelike deck-builder, is launching on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4/5 today, September 25!
[previewyoutube="LVYy5fLCquA;full"][/previewyoutube]Designed by Eric Farraro, with Evgeny Viitman’s vibrant art and Craig Barnes’ immersive soundtrack, Meteorfall: Krumit’s Tale promises depth, humor, and endless replayability. The console versions include the base game and the expansion Varfa the Ranger, offering players a complete experience from day one.
A huge thank you to our community for supporting Meteorfall’s weird, wonderful universe. We can’t wait for you to play!
As you can tell, Bramble Royale is quite different than Krumit's Tale but shares a lot of the core DNA that connects all the games in the Meteorfall series:
Bramble Royale is - by far - the biggest and most ambitious Meteorfall game yet, and we hope you'll enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it.
A big thank you to you for giving Meteorfall your love & support over the years: you made Bramble Royale possible.
In Bramble Royale, you'll build your team of 3 heroes and take to the arena to dominate your opponents. And of course, you'll be playing cards to do so.
Once you're finished in Bramble Town, it's back to the arena, where you'll fight your next opponent. You'll need tactics and strategy to become the champion of the Bramble Roytale!
The February update has arrived - apologies for cutting it a bit close! My Windows laptop had a battery swelling issue and I wasn't comfortable shipping an update unless I could standy to fix any Windows issues that came up. The good news is that I'm back online now!
This update features a new enemy that will show up in the final dungeon - Cococat! Cococat was one of the deadliest and most hated enemies in the original Meteorfall: Journeys game. In Krumit's Tale, in addition to having deadly quick and piercing attacks, Cococat also punishes you on the board by causing tiles in the same row to require health to pick up.
Rounding out the update are a couple new abilities, and a new perk, Magician, that adds a 'Push' action to all of your abilities that target enemies. It can be a difficult perk to make use of, but can be used to inflict more damage with burn as Greybeard, help trigger traps as Varfa, or isolate enemies as Mischief.
NEW
New Enemy: Cococat
"Acquiring a tile in the same row costs 2 health"
New Ability: Humility (Rose), 0 cost
"Instant. Restore 8 health and Repent. Can only be acquired if you have 0 gold
New Ability: Trick Shot (Varfa), 2 cost
"Deal 8 piercing damage, split among enemies in the same row. Exhaust"
New Perk: Magician (Greybeard, Mischief, Varfa)
"When you target an enemy with an item or ability, also Push them"
BUG FIXES
- #1617: Removed Stout from the Endless mutation
- #1641: The cost of Frenzy no longer shows up as '99'
- #1643: Battle Song now requires that there's a visible weapon
- #1645: Damage dealt by Healing Trap now works properly with Mark
- #XXXX: Arcanist no longer triggers when removing Curse tiles (including Megaton)
- #XXXX: Fix a bug where block was not removed for some enemies, after defeating a hero's minions
New Weapon: Snowpiercer (Greybeard): 1 cost, 2 durability, 3 damage
“Piercing when attacking Frozen opponents”
New Trap: Healing Trap (Varfa, Muldorf)
"Pay 2 gold to arm this trap. Trigger: Deal 6 piercing damage split between enemies in the same row, and restore 6 health split between you and your minions"
New Armor: Widow's Grasp (Bruno, Muldorf): 3 cost, 3 durability, 4 block
“When you parry, add a copy of Spider Bite to your inventory”
New Ability: Kick (Mischief) 1 gold
"Deal 8 damage to an enemy and push them. Can't be used in battle. Exhaust"
All of Orhu's abilities recharge after a certain number of rounds of combat. Depending on your playstyle and the deck you're building, you might choose to unlock different abilities for Orhu. For instance, some of Orhu's abilities add extra damage; others stun or block.
Using traps effectively requires you to master ways to manipulate the position of tiles on the board, leading to a very unique and interesting playstyle when investing heavily into traps. You can also make use of a new keyword 'Push' to push enemy tiles up on the board and trigger traps that way.
Marked enemies take additional damage from 'out of combat' abilities, such as Varfa's Quickshot or the Hunting Rifle. Compared to melee oriented heroes like Bruno and Mischief, Varfa excels at dealing damage outside of battle with ranged weapons and abilities. Marking your enemies gives your ranged arsenal a bit of extra power.
It's available immediately for all players and can be accessed when you start a new 'Mutation Mode' game. It'll also come up periodically during the daily challenge, including an extra spooky challenge on Halloween (Oct 31) where the Reaper's Curse is guaranteed to show up.
Fight monsters and acquire items & abilities as normals. At some point, stairs to the next floor will be revealed and you can proceed up to the next level - or, you can stick around on the floor for a bit, acquiring tiles or fighting enemies. However, once the stairs are revealed, copies of Reaper's Curse are shuffled into the deck. While on the board, your max health is reduced for each copy; however, you'll also be awarded more points. It's dangerous to keep them around, but it's also how to achieve the highest score.
As you ascend 7 floors to the top of the Haunted Spire to face the Ghost King, you'll face more and more difficult enemies. Hopefully you're well prepared with items and abilities to face the Ghost King when he appears on the top of the 7th floor!
It only takes 10 minutes to finish a complete round of Reaper's Curse, so it's great if you're looking for a quicker game mode.
We hope you enjoy this new content, and stay tuned for the Varfa DLC coming later this month, with additional free content coming after that!
A new, easier & more accessible mode is now live on the beta branch and will roll out to the default branch in the next couple weeks.
Choosing Explorer Mode brings up a dialog before you begin your run that allows you to pick a bunch of different buffs that help make the game easier. If you've tried the Easy Mode mutation in the past, all the buffs from Easy Mode have moved to Explorer Mode - with a bunch of new ones as well. If you just need a small boost, you can start with a little extra gold. If you want a truly easy experience to allow you to play from beginning to end, you can opt for fewer enemies and greatly reduced boss health. It's up to you.
The sync isn't quite the same as Steam or iCloud where data is synced constantly. Instead, this solution is optimized to copy over progress from one platform to another - for instance, if you're interested in continuing on Mobile but already unlocked all the heroes and tiles on PC. It's less ideal if you're interested in constantly switching between platforms. That said, we think based on the way unlocks and progress works in Krumit's Tale that this solution is a good answer for folks that are interested primarily in being able to carry forward their PC progress to mobile.
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Eric did the game design and programming, as well as other tasks not handled by the rest of the team (trailer, marketing, posts like these, etc... ) He was once a mobile developer but now manages teams as an engineering manager. Game dev helps keep his engineering skills sharp! You can follow him on Twitter 
From here, I started prototyping out the concept to see if it was fun. Compared to Meteorfall: Journeys, Krumit's Tale took *a lot* more iteration to get right. Meteorfall, at least, *looked* like games I'd played at the time, such as Dream Quest. Krumit's Tale, with its grid system and the way you acquire tiles, meant that I didn't really have a lot of other games to draw influence from and had to just iterate on different ideas to see what worked.
I again partnered with Evgeny Viitman (
We also complete reimplemented the encyclopedia. Most importantly, we added tabs for monsters, items, abilities, and special tiles. There may be some more features we add here later, but we think it's already much better than the current implementation.
She's finally here! Rose is now available on the beta branch! In case you missed our last post, we discussed Rose's new mechanics here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1073320/announcements/detail/2190384257594913025
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