The wait is over, Wizards! GemCraft Legacy Collection will be launching on October 21st at roughly 2pm GMT. The game will be $9.99 and discounted in a bundle with Chasing Shadows and Frostborn Wrath. Get ready to dive deep to earn all 385 achievements! The list of quality of life
The wait is over, Wizards!
GemCraft Legacy Collection will be launching on October 21st at roughly 2pm GMT. The game will be $9.99 and discounted in a bundle with Chasing Shadows and Frostborn Wrath. Get ready to dive deep to earn all 385 achievements!
The list of quality of life features, bug fixes, and performance improvements is too massive to list... but be prepared to experience GemCraft Chapter 1, GemCraft Chapter 0, and GemCraft Labyrinth like never before.
To all fellow wizards! We're so thrilled to let you experience the GemCraft - Legacy Collection for the first time. The demo will let you play the first few levels of all 3 games and remember how awesome they are... or experience their awesomeness for the first time. In addition,
To all fellow wizards!
We're so thrilled to let you experience the GemCraft - Legacy Collection for the first time. The demo will let you play the first few levels of all 3 games and remember how awesome they are... or experience their awesomeness for the first time.
In addition, you'll get to see the quality of life improvements we've made! Here's a list of some of what you're getting:
Fast Forward now goes up to 9x instead of 3x on all games
Click a building can auto-socket the first gem in inventory on all games
Drag a gem from inventory into a tower to combine it added for GC1 & GC0
Many other hotkey improvements to GC1 & GC0 like N key to call next wave, Ctrl+Click wave bar to call all remaining waves, Ctrl+Click a building to unsocket, Shift+B for rapid gem bombing, Shift+G for rapid gem combining
Added the ability to enable adaptive performance settings! When selected, the games will reduce visuals when FPS starts to drop, and restore them when performance improves
Under the hood improvements for lag reduction
More!
Grab the demo from the GemCraft - Legacy Collection page, and please wishlist as well!
Please let us know your thoughts! Do you like what we've been cooking? Are there features not present that we should add? Are you EXCITED FOR THE FULL RELEASE!
Y'all are the best! -Armor Games & Game in a Bottle
Fellow Wizards! The time has come to travel back and begin your journey anew. The first three GemCraft games together in one ominous package. Experience Chapter 1, Chapter 0, and Labyrinth again (or for the first time) on Steam! Wishlist now! View game page
Fellow Wizards!
The time has come to travel back and begin your journey anew. The first three GemCraft games together in one ominous package. Experience Chapter 1, Chapter 0, and Labyrinth again (or for the first time) on Steam!
Hey Everyone, I'm sorry for the mess with the initial Iron update, it contained an error that made too many skill points available, and all the fields were adjusted for difficulty with this error in effect. After fixing the error, Iron mode became unplayable, so in the last 6 day
Hey Everyone,
I'm sorry for the mess with the initial Iron update, it contained an error that made too many skill points available, and all the fields were adjusted for difficulty with this error in effect. After fixing the error, Iron mode became unplayable, so in the last 6 days all the 120 fields had to be playtested and adjusted again to set a "merely beatable" difficulty (for me at least, with my not great, not terrible GC skills). It's done now and included in v.1.2.1.
Difficulty is difficult to set just right for as many players as possible. Iron mode is meant to be hard, but it can be played to the end. You will need to go back and open those stashes, try different defense setups on trickier fields, redistribute your skills sometimes, consider calling the last few waves of giants early and then juggle with the walls, have some mana farm, exploit corrupted mana shards, use pylons, pause when picking where to drop strike spells and manage enhanced shots, and more.
Some of you might still find Iron mode too hard, or probably too easy, I hope you'll have some aha moments, and some moments of hard earned victory, and the feeling of being OP going back for a bronze stash to an earlier field.
Hey Everyone, After a long wait again, GemCraft Frostborn Wrath has finally got a new major update! The Iron mode, known from the previous GemCraft too, is now added, giving veteran wizards a new flavor of playthrough with the rules tuned for challenge. All previously missing tri
Hey Everyone,
After a long wait again, GemCraft Frostborn Wrath has finally got a new major update!
The Iron mode, known from the previous GemCraft too, is now added, giving veteran wizards a new flavor of playthrough with the rules tuned for challenge. All previously missing trial fields have also arrived for Frostborn and Chilling game modes.
Iron Mode features:
Beam skill is given at start
More waves, tougher monsters await you on every field
3 skill points are given for the first win on each field
You have to open iron, bronze and brass stashes to get more skill points and unlock skills
Hey Everyone, After a long silence, a new major update for the game is finally here! The initial difficulty of the game got a mixed reception, even after many smaller attempts to make the game's overall feeling less unforgiving. So now, in addition to the original "Frostborn" dif
Hey Everyone,
After a long silence, a new major update for the game is finally here!
The initial difficulty of the game got a mixed reception, even after many smaller attempts to make the game's overall feeling less unforgiving. So now, in addition to the original "Frostborn" difficulty, a new "Chilling" Game mode has been added for those players who just want to smash through the monsters and feel the mana flowing through their veins.
Existing Frostborn saved games can be switched to Chilling mode, so you don't need to start over again for a monster-shredding freezing-edge experience. (Going back to Frostborn is not possible though.)
Chilling Mode features:
Freeze spell is given at start
+3 gem damage at first grade (causes a dramatic damage increase at higher grades)
3 free buildings (except walls) can be built in every battle
+300 mana when a battle starts
3x shadow cores drop from monsters
2x xp on kills given by monsters in Journey battles
Reduced first wave hit points on later game fields (where first wave would be above 70 hp)
Other changes and fixes have been added as well:
Added many formerly missing trial fields
Range can be decreased for lanterns and pylons
Vital link trait power reduced from 10% to 3% per level
Hp multiplier per wave is set to 1.1 for all endurance fields (it was varying between 1.1 and 1.11)
Getting different slow rate gem hits works properly now
New option shows larger info panels when at higher resolution than 1920x1080
Disabling weather effects works now
Hatred and Awakening battle traits have been severely nerfed
Random special enemies have less hp, especially in later waves
Decreased strike spells' skill level charge time decrement bonus by half
Halved the hp percent loss taken by shrine strikes
Gems reach hit milestones sooner above 1.000 hits
Changed the redundant talfrag property to 'extra hp taken by ice shards'
Added range circle to the pylon placement helper
Fixed missing lines in the talisman summary list
Added all formerly missing journey note illustrations
Hello Everyone, Thank you for your support with both your purchases and your constructive comments! We are listening, taking notes, and thinking of ways to make GemCraft Frostborn Wrath the game you would enjoy playing more. On top of releasing several updates with bug fixes in t
Hello Everyone,
Thank you for your support with both your purchases and your constructive comments! We are listening, taking notes, and thinking of ways to make GemCraft Frostborn Wrath the game you would enjoy playing more. On top of releasing several updates with bug fixes in the coming days, we plan to make changes to the difficulty of the game and getting all the important loot out of the Trial mode wizard stashes. We see that right now the challenge aspect of the game is overwhelming, pushing the game towards being a "Dark Souls of TD", the goal is to make the game enjoyable if you want to feel the power and have the edge over the monsters, and make challenges optional, just like how the battle traits, early waves, and enraging mechanics work. Trial mode will stay but it will be your choice if you want to take on an unforgiving and puzzling challenge; you can get to the end of the game and reign over the waves of Endurance without ever touching Trial mode.
GC Chasing Shadows got a mixed reception back then before all the tweaking, and we didn't walk the long path bringing you Frostborn Wrath to just leave it as a bag of frustration. Working on the game is not over, we'll carry on to make the game have much less errors and a quite different feel to it in a matter of days.
Three bug fix updates have came out in the first 9 hours of the game's online life, and more will arrive tomorrow, thank you again for all the feedback!
