24 May 2025Developer post

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is Out Now!

Hey everyone! Just yesterday, we at Questline released our second game – Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon ! To celebrate this milestone, we’re offering a special 80% discount here on Conquest! This might be a great way to enter the franchise, and maybe stay for longer! Here's wh

05 Feb 2024Developer post

DRAGON ECLIPSE - New deck-builder from Awaken Realms!

Hi Everyone! Today we come to you with something completely new, Avalon veterans! It's not a game from the Tainted Grail universe, but given that many of the mechanics you enjoyed in Conquest are also present here, we hope that you will like this title just as much. Moreover, due

Hi Everyone!

Today we come to you with something completely new, Avalon veterans! It's not a game from the Tainted Grail universe, but given that many of the mechanics you enjoyed in Conquest are also present here, we hope that you will like this title just as much.

Moreover, due to the STEAM NEXT FEBRUARY starting today, we have prepared a demo so that everyone can try their hand in this new world completely for free. We warmly invite you to check it out for yourself.

We're talking about Dragon Eclipse.

Choose your Tamer and fight dangerous creatures with the help of your companions - powerful Mystlings! Travel the mysterious world of Dragon Eclipse. Catch and train Mystlings to create your own team! Build a strong card deck and make efficient synergies of three Mystlings to fight your enemies.

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This is another game based on one of our board games with the same title, similar to what happened with Tainted Grail. You will experience a new, unique deck-builder roguelike with quite a twist! Discover and collect magical Mystlings, creatures you can befriend and then use in battle. You will not only craft your deck of cards - but also choose a team of 3 mystlings. Each with unique stats, active and passive abilities as well as a dedicated card. Battle enemies, get extra cards and other rewards. Your Mystlings will grow stronger too! Choose your team of Mystlings, utilize their passive / active abilities in deckbuilding, and create some great and fun combos with every run you play!

Unique take on great formula

Combining teambattler and deckbuilder brings tons of fun strategies and combinations. After every run, you will be rewarded with a new gameplay content like new Mystlings, cards and difficulty levels, making the game enjoyable for a very long time! And most importantly, create amazing combos, cross your skills, boost your statistics, engage each team member in their unique way to achieve the impossible!

Choose a tamer

Tamers will dictate your starting deck and pool of cards. Each tamer will have a very distinct, unique playstyle. Choose wisely and face the destiny that lurks around the corner.

Choose your Mystlings

Every Mystling has a unique statistics, abilities and starting card added to your deck. You need to be very strategic in balancing your team. Make them your loyal friends, travel companions to jointly free the world from the increasingly audacious evil spreading.

Train and evolve your Mystlings

Every Mystling can level up during combat and evolve - gaining new, powerful ability. Discover them and use their amazing potential. They may look overly sweet, but in the hands of the right trainer, they can become a deadly weapon and lead you to many victories.

Create your deck

As with classic cardbuilders, throughout your run you will construct a powerful deck full of great combos. Acquire new cards in various ways, engage in battles, complete side quests, encounter amazing characters on your journey—all to ensure that your deck is individualized, tailored to your needs and preferences in combat.

Explore the incredible world of Dragon Eclipse

Enter the magical world of mythical beasts and ancient dragons in Dragon Eclipse! Discover the secrets of the eclipse that changed everything, and explore the dangerous and treacherous world that awaits you from the very threshold, enticing you to delve deeper. The mysteries it holds practically beg to be unraveled.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2626860/Dragon_Eclipse/

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04 Oct 2023Developer post

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon with HUGE patch!

Hello Adventurers! You are already seasoned veterans of Avalon and excel in the world overrun by Wyrdness. However, the world of Tainted Grail still holds immense secrets! If you'd like to uncover them, check out our greatest and most ambitious game - Tainted Grail: The Fall of A

Hello Adventurers!
You are already seasoned veterans of Avalon and excel in the world overrun by Wyrdness. However, the world of Tainted Grail still holds immense secrets! If you'd like to uncover them, check out our greatest and most ambitious game - Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon.

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Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is a first-person open-world RPG deeply rooted in the dark myths of Arthurian legends. The world is shrouded in eternal autumn, legends are falling, and our decisions will have a crucial impact on the future of the Avalon world!
Today, we are releasing the largest patch in the game's history! It's the perfect opportunity to experience our biggest game and immerse yourself in this captivating universe.

You can think of this patch as the almost-final version of the first chapter - the next patches will focus much more on adding the next parts of the adventures ahead!
This update brings a lot of changes to the game, and here are some of the changes:

NEW LANGUAGES

First, in addition to English and Polish, we have 4 new language translations added to the game: German, French, Chinese Simplified, and Traditional. We are really excited to share our game with more people!

NEW CONTENT

We have added quite a lot of new content to find in the area of the Horns of the South. From wired, traveling merchants, to Red Priest representatives and even a whole new section with Galahad or hidden garden of the druids.

But there is much more to find - whole new areas and dungeons, items, and a lot of awesome secrets to discover. A lot of new loot too!
Our team has hidden a lot of smaller and bigger things to find, too ;)

BIG PERFORMANCE BOOST

We have worked hard on the technological backend of the game and we are happy to report that the game looks better, has better terrain, more NPCs and AI improvements optimization should be visibly better. It will greatly vary depending on your exact PC specs, from a few extra frames to even 30-40% better performance.

COMBAT REWORK & DUAL WIELDING

We have vastly improved combat. From visual and audio feedback, through new sets of animation up to enhancing Enemies' AI and move sets. Right now combat is challenging, but much more enjoyable!

We have also added dual wielding options in the game and it is really fun to play it this way! You can either use two 1-handed weapons or for example two spells. Or two shields :D

DUNGEONS RE-DESIGN

We have also redesigned almost all dungeons in the game so that all playstyles will be more viable. Now, you can very effectively play stealthy or at a distance.
Also, they look cooler and have a better placement of enemies and loot ;)

STEALTH / THEFT

As previously mentioned, we have increased the viability of the stealth playstyle. Want to rain some havoc as a sneaky archer or stab some enemies in the back? Now you can do it in style!
On top of that, we have introduced the first iteration of the theft system. While definitely not the final form - it changes the interactions and brings more realism to the game (no more stealing items in front of NPCs with no consequences :D)

REBALANCE OF ITEMS AND SKILLS

We have also worked through rebalancing the game. Some items got nerfed, some were upgraded and a lot was added. Generally, our target was to increase the number of different playstyles that you can enjoy and give us the ingredients that we could use to create some amazing combinations!

…and least, but most importantly:

ADDED FISHING

Yes, you heard it correctly! Now you can start your fishing adventure in Tainted Grail! There also MIGHT be some horse that you can find and ride… :D

Of course, the list of changes is much bigger, and here we're only giving you a taste of it! We deeply encourage you to play this refined version of Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon. Patch 0.6: Judgement of the Excalibur is OFFICIALLY OUT!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1466060/Tainted_Grail_The_Fall_of_Avalon/

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30 Mar 2023Developer post

Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon is now live!

Hello everyone, We have an exciting update about another game set in the world of Tainted Grail that we just launched in Early Access. To celebrate its release, we are offering a 70% discount on Conquest! Some of you may remember that Tainted Grail was originally supposed to be a

27 Sep 2022Developer post

The Kings of Ruin are here and Tainted Grail: Conquest is 50% off to celebrate!

Stop for a moment and listen, fellow travelers. It's not possible for us to share this information with you every day! We, as Awaken Realms, have a lot to celebrate, so we've decided to include you in the celebration as well. Now you can play Tainted Grail Conquest for lowest pri

Stop for a moment and listen, fellow travelers.

It's not possible for us to share this information with you every day! We, as Awaken Realms, have a lot to celebrate, so we've decided to include you in the celebration as well. Now you can play Tainted Grail Conquest for lowest price ever! We hope you enjoy it and share your gameplay experience with us! But what about all this celebration?

Some of you might know that already - but Tainted Grail originated as a Board Game. In 2018 we have run biggest crowdfunding campaign that funded Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon, alongside 3 extra campaigns: Age of Legends, Last Knight and Red Death. Game was well received by critics and players alike (currently 85 best Board Game in the world!). Today, board games adventures are coming back in new campaign - Kings of Ruin! And to celebrate, we have made a special 50% discount on Tainted Grail: Conquest ;)

YOU CAN SEE CAMPAIGN HERE!

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As creators, Tainted Grail's always had a special place in our hearts. Back when the original Kickastarter campaign for Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon launched, way back in the old times of 2018, we hadn't dreamed of what would eventually happen. The game became an overwhelming success, was played by players all around the world and further established Awaken Realms' place on the board game publisher map.

It was a project filled with heart and passion and we wanted to give more players the opportunity to enjoy Avalon's vast and dangerous world. This prompted the creation of Tainted Grail: Conquest, a digial re-imagining of the board game. Now, 5 years after Fall of Avalon's campaign launched, it's time to introduce the next board game entry to the Tainted Grail franchise:

We're excited to announce that the campaign for Tainted Grail: Kings of Ruin is live now on Gamefound!

Kings of Ruin is a brand new, stand-alone adventure by the creators of original Tainted Grail. In this new entry, you'll discover the secrets of Claudyne the Unknighted, Amberqueen Vendeda and Nonus, Bishop of the Deep!

To learn more about it and to pledge, please head over to [url=
https://gamefound.com/projects/awaken-realms/tainted-grail-kings-of-ruin?refcode=dfCFCYKaf0aJwmzhEpv7iw]LINK TO GAMEFOUND CAMPAIGN[/url]

But that's not all, travelers. To celebrate the campaign's launch, Tainted Grail: Conquest is now 50% off until 30th of September! Get it for yourself if you haven't yet or tell your friends. It's always easier on the road when you have a trusted party by your side, after all.

As some of you probably know, we are still working on another title from the world of Tainted Grail, which is the open world RPG Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon. Soon we will share with you more information from this production, so stay tuned!
Link is right here: FALL OF AVALON

Thank you all for the continued support,

Awaken Realms

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21 Dec 2021Developer post

ANNOUNCING TAINTED GRAIL: THE FALL OF AVALON (AGAIN :D)

Hello everyone! You already know what's coming in today's update, right? ;) Yes, we're finally ready to show you bits and pieces of what we've been working on since we've wrapped up most of the development related to Conquest! But before we get to the main part of today's update,

Hello everyone! You already know what's coming in today's update, right? ;)

Yes, we're finally ready to show you bits and pieces of what we've been working on since we've wrapped up most of the development related to Conquest!

But before we get to the main part of today's update, let us say this: thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your faith and support. It's absolutely mind-blowing that so many of you played and enjoyed Conquest! That our first game as a studio was able to grab your attention and that you've been so kind that we're staying between 90-92% positive reviews on Steam. And, let's be honest here, YOUR opinions are the only ones that matter.

That said, we're sorry to say that we won't be able to bring more content to Conquest this year — we're planning a patch for Q1 2022 (and at least one big surprise related to the game). Still, we hope that you'll understand why we couldn't work on more stuff related to Conquest when you check out the things we've prepared for you today...

And what we prepared is the very first look at Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon.

Some of you were pretty impatient. Some even called it abandonware — but we'd like to tell you that... Well, certain things take time. If we were a "normal" game development studio, we wouldn't say a word about this game for at least another six months. We'd work on scheduling the announcement for some big event and whatnot.

But we just feel that we owe it to you, the players, to say what's happening — after all, it's your passion and support that makes it all possible. Here's our winter holiday gift for y'all :)

So, without further ado, we're really excited and terrified now... but here goes the teaser —

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So... Yes! Everything about the game's presentation has changed.

At the same time: no, we're not changing the game's core. Tainted Grail will be a dark fantasy epic full of meaningful choices. Only now we're able to make it even bigger and better than ever before.

Our goals for Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon were always pretty simple: we want to honor the choices of our players and give them as much freedom as we possibly can.

We want you to be able to customize your character, live with the consequences of your in-game choices, and let you play the game any way you want. We want this game to be a proper RPG — at least our first foray into this territory. We're pretty sure we're not going to succeed with everything we want to do! :D

This means that we're not following the storyline of the board game, and we're not making you play as characters from the board game. It's up to you who you want to be in the world of Tainted Grail and how you will decide to handle the problems you'll face.

And yes, what you see now is precisely the game we always dreamt about making but its scope… made us wonder whether we can make it.

But right now... we're really optimistic that we will. So what you see in this teaser — and we're going to show longer shots here and on our Discord — is just the start of our journey and we want to put so much more love into this game!

This means that we're currently in the really early stages of development: we have first versions of plenty of mechanics and systems, but not many of them "feel right" yet. That's going to take a while. But we just couldn't wait to show you bits and pieces of what we already have so that you know what's happening with the game!

And yes, even though the game's changed a lot and is a much bigger project than anybody anticipated, we're not changing the deal we've had with you. So all who bought Conquest before the cut-off date (27th of November 2020 on Steam and a bit later on GOG.com) are still getting The Fall of Avalon for free.

One last thing — every screenshot you see here was taken straight from the editor, we didn’t touch any single one with Photoshop. The only “lie” is that they were taken in 4K resolution (but if someone has a monstrous machine they’d be able to get this quality). Obviously, though, we’re still so early in development that things may change! We’re doing all we can in order not to downgrade the quality of the visuals :)

In the upcoming months, we will be talking more about the game, what will be unique about it, and we'll try to prepare you for (hopefully) an amazing, epic adventure in the dark world of Tainted Grail.

Our whole team is EXTREMELY hyped to create an unforgettable adventure and we hope you'd like to join us!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1466060/Tainted_Grail_The_Fall_of_Avalon

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29 Oct 2021Developer post

Patch 1.2b is live

Hi y'all! We've fixed a couple of issues this week, here's the list of what's been changed :) General: Fixed buggy "Continue" button on Runestones Loot screen while using Gamepad Switching save slots will no longer reset unlocked characters and a few other things Necromancer shou

Hi y'all! We've fixed a couple of issues this week, here's the list of what's been changed :)

General:

Fixed buggy "Continue" button on Runestones Loot screen while using Gamepad
Switching save slots will no longer reset unlocked characters and a few other things
Necromancer should be able to get Wyrdness Breach card after using Ultimate in the first turn.
Fixed Red Death cards behavior when playing Necromancer and activating Red Death in Lich Form
Maneuver cards with Exile keyword should properly go to Grave after the first Exile.

Cards and Passives:

Desperate Measures (Children of Morrigan's card) should properly give Armor.
Explosive Force (Wyrdhunter's mastery) heals the correct amount of HP.
Corpse Shield (Berserker's passive) should always give Armor.
Rapid Growth (Summoner's passive) correctly grants 2 Activations.
Mercy (Blood Mage's passive) should give Energy bonus in the correct turn after an automatic overcharge.
Path of Death (Blood Mage's mastery) shouldn't trigger another Path of Death into an infinite loop.
Need for Abomination/Fae/Golem/Wyrm (Necromancer's cards) will no longer summon Summoner's version of summons instead of Necromancer's
Future Shot (Watchers of Tuathan's card) now works correctly when used with Multishot
Concussion (Zealot's passive) should work even if the threshold is overflowing.

Localizations:

All runestones should display the correct rarity name.
Red Death and Scab descriptions tweaked.
Tier 2 Enemies renamed to new distinct names: Bounty Hunter to Head Hunter, and Mind-Bender to Spirit-Bender.
Many minor localization fixes and consistency tweaks.

Enemies:

Bounty Hunter (Tier 1 Enemy) has a distinct new model and icon again.
Sick Man (Tier 1 Enemy) interactions with Lich tweaked.
Sick Man (Tier 1 Enemy) minor tweaks to ease the higher difficulties:
1. Difficulty doesn't change the amount of Red Death cards given per Hit received.
2. On higher difficulties gives additional 1-2 Scab cards per Hit received.
3. Scab cost changed from 0 to 1 Energy.
Suffering Lady (Tier 2 Enemy) shouldn't hide the ghost before attack is performed.

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21 Oct 2021Developer post

Patch 1.2 — Chinese, Russian, Spanish + New Content + Soundtrack now available!

Hello everyone! It took us a while… but we’re back with a HUGE patch with a lot of cool things inside! But let us start by thanking you all for playing the game and being such an awesome community! Your support made it possible for us to work extra on the game and add a lot of aw

Hello everyone! It took us a while… but we’re back with a HUGE patch with a lot of cool things inside!

But let us start by thanking you all for playing the game and being such an awesome community! Your support made it possible for us to work extra on the game and add a lot of awesome stuff with Patch 1.1... But we are not done and today we are super excited to invite you to Patch 1.2!

There are three main things we’re bringing today —

new translations of the game
new content and balancing
official soundtrack!

So, let’s dive into the contents of this gigantic patch :)

THREE NEW TRANSLATIONS

You’ve been asking for this for a while now and we’re finally ready to update the game with Simplified Chinese, Russian, and Spanish.

We hope that thanks to those translations, a lot of new people will gain access to the game and have some good fun with it ;) We will really appreciate those of you who are in those regions to spread the word about the game being available in extra languages!

OVER 100 NEW CARDS & PASSIVES

Well, who doesn’t like more free content and variety…? ;)

We were able to add over 100 new cards and passives to the game! This means - tons of new strategies to explore, more variety, and more fun! We hope you will be able to explore the new gameplay content and create some new crazy strategies with those new tools!

We’ve been working on giving all the classes the same possibilities — some of them had more cards and passives than others. Now they’re all mostly equal. This means that we’ve added A LOT of new cards to Watchers and Moonring, and a lot of new passives all over the board.

3 NEW ENEMIES

Since you have some new cards and passives… well, it would be good to also have some new enemies to combat as well, right? Good news! We were able to add 3 absolutely new monsters with unique designs and new interesting mechanics.

Again, this means more free content, more replayability, and variety! Hopefully, you will be able to defeat them without a problem ;)

OFFICIAL SOUNDTRACK

And, in addition to that, we’ve finally wrapped up work on something you’ve been asking for since the game was released:

You can check out the soundtrack in various places:

on Steam (and if you’re still buying music, then this is the full release – it contains tracks we’ve licensed for the game from Danheim.)
on Bandcamp
on Spotify
on Youtube

The soundtrack in various forms should be available everywhere else, too, so it’s up to you where you want to listen to it.

There's also some additional music available now — if you'd like to listen to tracks played by the Bard in the player's village, head here.

AND ON TOP OF THAT…

Last but not least, something for those of you, who like to travel through wyrdness with style! We have a bunch of new cosmetics for you all including hair, tattoos, and a new shiny armor (unlockable by levelling up with Watchers of Tuathan)!

Ok! That’s it! We hope that y’all will be happy with all the new stuff and good luck out there in the Wyrdness!

And here’s the rest of the patch notes:

Additions / Quality of Life / Requests:

Added 12 new music tracks
Ability to change sex during Character Editing in Class Selection menu (not available at the Seamstress)
Animation skips should work better (for all of you who want the game to be FASTER!)
Added gamepad controls preview in Settings
Limited passives on the right vertical bar in combat to 9, so that they don't overlap with other buttons
Small gamepad improvements
Shortcuts will no longer interrupt filling Bug Reports

Changes, Fixes:

Zealot Ultimate Charges gain changed from 1 to 2 per discarded card.
Shaman's Totems now properly scale their HP and healing values.
Reaver should gain 1/2/3 Hits per turn and properly lose them after being stunned - mimicking Faceless Hunter's behavior.
Fixed Path of Assassin reforge, now it should always correctly give 3 rune charges back from killed enemies
Achievement "I Don't Need Much" will no longer be completed when finishing the game in Lich Form and having more than 8 cards in Necromancer's deck
Quest description will no longer display "Lorem Ipsum..." when no quest is available
WyrdCard discard effect restored
Only 1 restock can be made in Scientist's Shop.

Gamepass:

Fixed character creator freeze bug
Fixed bug with fetching leaderboards

Items:

Bloodcandle HP cost decreased from 10% to 5% Max HP.
Bloodcandle price increased from 60 to 80 Wealth.
Wyrdness Mushroom minor tweaks (chances and values).
Sharpening Stone's chance increased from 20 to 25.
Meat price increased from 8 to 10.

Runestones:

Common Calc (Armor) healing decreased from 5/8/15 HP to 4/7/12.
Common Gar (Armor) damage decreased from 5/8/15 HP to 4/7/12.
Rare Eolh is now Common Eolh.
Rare Man is now Common Man.
Rare Ur is now Mythical Ur, scale changed from 100/175/300 + 5/4/3 to 100/200 + 4/3.
Rare Ken (Weapon) cards threshold decreased from 15/8/5 to 13/7/4.
Rare Ken (Armor) Combat Slots count increased from 1/2/3 to 2/3/4.
Rare Nyd (Weapon) bonus damage increased from 50/90/150% to 100/175/300%.
Rare Nyd (Armor) bonus cards increased from 1/2/3 to 2/3/4.
Rare Peorth (Weapon) bonus damage increased from 30/50/75% to 50/80/150%.
Rare Peroth (Armor) bonus Armor decreased from 30/50/75 to 25/40/75.
Rare Wyn (Weapon) bonus damage increased from 50/100/150% to 100/175/300%.
Rare Wyn (Armor) turns threshold decreased from 5/3/2 to 4/3/2.
Mythical Ing (Weapon/Armor) drop chance increased from 10/20 to 15/30.
Mythical Lagu (Armor) Barrier HP increased from 10/20 to 15/30.
Mythical Thorn (Weapon) Barrier HP increased from 2/5 to 3/6.
Mythical Thorn (Armor) Barrier HP increased from 200/500% to 300/600% of Offered HP.
Mythical Yr (Armor) cards threshold increased from 4/3 to 5/4

Children of Morrigan

Cards

Desperate Measures Armor gain reduced from 5 to 2 and added Exile keyword to the card.
Onslaught base damage reduced from 50% to 25%, bonus damage increased from 50% to 75%.
Crawling Fire base damage reduced from 50% to 25%, bonus damage increased from 10% to 20%.
Fortify Armor gain increased from 20 to 30.
All In damage increase increased from 50% to 100%.
Bladefury cost reduced from 2 to 1, base damage reduced from 150% to 100%.
Bloodied Frenzy base damage increased from 250% to 300%.
Meditation damage increase increased from 100% to 150%.
Last Resort Blocks amount reduced from 5 to 1, energy cost reduced from 2 to 1.
Raging Blade base damage increased from 50% to 75%.
Reposition card draw reduced from 5 to 4.
Shield Breaker Armor reduction increased from 10 to 20.
Short Pause Armor gain increased from 40 to 50.
Stronghold Armor gain increased from 15 to 20.
Berserk Damage increase increased from 25% to 50%.
Counterstrike retaliate damage increased from 50% to 75%.
Ultimate Attack cost reduced from 3 to 2.

WyrdHunter

Offensive Armor gain reduced from 10 to 7.
Haste Card draw increased to 2 from 1, cost reduction reduced from 2 to 1.
Physical Training card threshold lowered from 6 to 5.
heavy Opening damage increased from 100% to 200%.
Initial Impact armor reduction increased from 100% of damage dealt to 200%.
Thousand Cuts card threshold reduced from 10 to 9.
Fortification changed wording from "less than 3 cards" to "2 or less cards".
Manifested Ire Ultimate charge consumption increased from 50% to 66%.

Pathfinder

Prideful Stance Ultimate charges threshold increased from less than 8 to less than 9.
Opportunity Block Ultimate charges threshold increased from 6 to 9.
Tactics Armor gain increased from 5 to 10, damage gain increased from 10% to 20%.
Vigor Energy gain increased from 1 to 2 Energy.

Berserker

Trance activation threshold lowered from 50% to 25%, Energy gain increased from 1 to 2.
Calm Mind Hits duration increased from 3 to 4.
Fear Armor reduction increased from 25 to 50.
Frenzy damage gain increased from 75% to 100%.
Vitality Max HP increase lowered from 75 to 50.
Wide Swings Hit damage increased from 100% to 150%.
Vampirism Lifesteal increased from 10% to 20%.
Trembling Clash Armor reduction reduced from 25 to 20.

Moonring

Cards

Blinding Burst cost reduced from 2 to 1.
Druids Bane armor reduction duration increased from 3 to 5 turns.
Funeral Moon damage reduction duration increased from 2 to 3 turns.
Deprivation Bane Max HP Reduction reduced from 33% to 20%.
Deprivation Curse Max HP Reduction reduced from 33% to 20%.
Hammerhead Stun chance reduced from 25% to 20%.

Summoner

Alchemist Wealth gain reduced from 10 to 5.
Surprise Attacks damage gain increased from 200% to 300%.
Acidic Blood number of Hits increased from 1 to 3, Hit damage reduced from 300% to 100%.
Hindsight card draw reduced from 4 to 2.

Blood Mage

Close Leash duration increased from 4 to 3 turns.
Air Burst Overcharge threshold increased from 4th to 6th.
Numbness Armor gain reduced from 2 to 1.
Spectral Shield Barrier gain reduced from 3 to 2 times its rank.
Lesser Key of Punishment HP multiplier changed from 2 to 3.
Uncontrollable Growth now has a duration of 3 turns

Necromancer

Recharge Barrier gain increased from 10 to 15.
Total Intimidation - Intimidation effect duration increased from 3 to 4 turns.
Soul Division Barrier increased from 20 to 30.
Dream Army HP increase lowered from 50% to 33%.
Lich Essence - Life Essence Ultimate Charge gain increased from 2 to 3.
Stray Soul Ultimate Charge threshold increased from 3 to 4.
Leech Form Barrier increased from 20 to 25.
Path of Death Lifesteal reduced from 50% to 20%.

Watchers of Tuathan

Cards

Returning Shot damage reduced from 150% to 100%
Reckless Attack's cost reduced from 1E to 0E.
Furious Overdraw's cost increased from 1E to 2E.
Stepping Stones damage increased from 20% to 30%
Flare Shot cost reduced from 1 to 0 Energy.
Bolas Shot damage reduced from 50% to 25%
Acid Shot Armor reduction reduced from 50 to 30
Spiritual Blows Arrows increased from 2 to 3, Ultimate Charge cost increased from 4 to 5
Arrows of the Past draw increased from 1 to 2
Somersault cost increased from 0 to 1
Double Somersault cost increased from 1 to 2
Triple Somersault cost increased from 2 to 3, Maneuver draw increased from 3 to 4, cost reduction reduced from2 to 1
Furious Overdraw damage gain reduced from 300% to 200%
David Barrier increased from 75 to 100, cost reduced from 1 to 0
Goliath Barrier reduced from 75 to 50, cost increased from 1 to 2
Pebble Throw Armor reduction reduced from 25 to 10
Distraction damage reduction reduced from 50% to 25%
Exposition damage gain reduced from 50% to 25%
Rising Action damage gain reduced from 100% to 50%
Climax damage reduction increased from 50% to 75%, cost reduced from 2 to 1
Rancid Battlefield Armor reduction reduced from 25 to 20, duration reduced from 3 to 2 turns
Pungent Cloud Armor reduction and gain reduced from 50 to 30
Acid Flood base damage reduced from 100% to 50%, cost reduced from 1 to 0 Energy
Fate-Breaking Shot base damage reduced from 100% to 75%
Lob Shot Hits amount reduced from 7 to 5
Splitting Shot base damage reduced from 150% to 100%
Ultimate Weaponry Arrow draw reduced from 4 to 3, cost reduced from 2 to 1 Energy
Spiritual Flurry cost reduced from 1 to 0 Energy
Corrosive Rainfall Arrow draw reduced from 4 to 3, cost reduced from 2 to 1 Energy
Unstable Mixture - Armor Gain for Hero reduced from 20 to 10, Armor gain for enemies reduced from 100 to 50
Treasure Hunt draw increased from 1 to 2
The Treasure draw increased from 2 to 3, cost increased from 0 to 1
Reckless Attack cost reduced from 1 to 0 Energy
Favored Enemy cost reduced from 2 to 1
Exhaustive Preparation damage gain reduced from 50% to 25%
Downward Spiral damage gain reduced from 200% to 100%
Heavy Protection Armor gain increased from 30 to 40
Quick Dodge Armor percentage reduced from 200% to 50%, cost reduced from 1 to 0 Energy
High Ground Armor percentage reduced from 150% to 100%
Middle Ground Armor percentage reduced from 100% to 75%

Sentinel

Calibration damage gain reduced from 5% to 3%.
Scales Armor gain increased from 50 to 75.
Terrifying Presence Armor reduction reduced from 2 to 1.
Rupturing Shot Armor reduction reduced from 10 to 5.
Full Cover Armor gain increased from 25 to 30.
Waiting for an Opening Barrier increased from 25 to 33.
Target Practice Armor reduction reduced from 100 to 30.
Perfect Shot damage gain increased from 50% to 100%.
Scattershot Armor gain reduced from 10 to 5
Path of the Assasin Ultimate Charge gain reduced from 3 to 2
Path of the Protector Barrier weakened from 50% to 75%

Zealot

Ruthless Draws damage gain increased from 25% to 50%.
Vital Point damage increased from 50% to 100%.
Shoot to Remember Hit threshold lowered from 12th to 8th.
Munitions Recycling damage gain increased from 10% to 20%.
Withdrawal Barrier gain increased from 5 to 10.
Panic Attack Barrier reduced from 10 to 5.
Spiral Hit threshold lowered from 6th to 4th.
Concussion Hit threshold lowered from 12th to 10th.
Vantage Point Cost reduction increased from 1 to 2.
Harbinger of Abyss - Void Shot base damage increased from 100% to 200%.
Aimed Shot damage increased from 200% to 300%.
Fixed Vantage Point when used with multishot cards

Apostate

Showtime Maneuvers threshold increased from 4 to 5.
Coping Mechanism Armor gain reduced from 3 to 2.
Damning Momentum Maneuvers threshold increased from 6 to 7.
Reluctant Hero Maneuvers threshold increased from 6 to 7.
Stunning Performance Maneuvers threshold increased from 6th to 7th.
Ante now instead of 1 draw for every Maneuver flipped, draws 1 for every 2 Maneuvers flipped.
Raise Amount of Maneuvers reduced from 50% to 33%.
Full House now works only with 15 Ultimate Charges.
Flipping Spree's maneuver card threshold changed from 2 to 4

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07 Sep 2021Developer post

Patch 1.1a is live!

Hi everyone! We have a fresh patch for y'all! We've finally had some time to work on a couple of issues you've been reporting for a while now. Including the full-screen mode! :D Here are the entire patch notes for version 1.1: ART - Removed unnecessary black screen in the endless

Hi everyone! We have a fresh patch for y'all!

We've finally had some time to work on a couple of issues you've been reporting for a while now. Including the full-screen mode! :D

Here are the entire patch notes for version 1.1:

ART

- Removed unnecessary black screen in the endless loop of Endless Power.
- Treasure Guardian and Legendary Encounters in the Endless Modes have new graphics.
- Ethereal minions stopped emitting a blinding light.
- Warped Lightseeker and Deranged Red Priest have their VFXes restored.

GAMEPLAY

- Left and Right Hand Path Reforges should show correct hands xD
- Death Magic card should be better at protecting minions from very high damage.
- Vantage Point passive should correctly work when the enemy is killed via a Maneuver card.
- Sentinel's Phantom will no longer break from its oath to Sentinel and stop helping him in battle after using Ultimate with certain passive skills
- Sentinel's Path of the Assassin should provide Ultimate Charges for each killed enemy.
- Mark of Blood visual duration fixed.
- Fixed issue with Calc Runestone and Haste passive, where cost reduction would persist between fights
- Fixed issue with Gravewalker's Protection where it wouldn't have Return after being brought back to hand

QUALITY OF LIFE

- Added the Fullscreen option
- Added upgrade level indicators in Blacksmith, Master at Arms, Seamstress, and Candlemaker Trade windows
- Restock and "Add 1 more item" options in Scientist moved to top bar as tabs

BUGS

- Disabled notifications on the intro video
- Fixed rare Endless mode freeze on black screen problem
- Fixed Provider's non-rising item cost
- Statistics changes in the story should now display real values with stat gain modifiers (like +25% wealth gain)
- Fixed bug where restoring Woolsey in a fight and then petting him on gamepad during story would block the game (?!!)
- Fixed transmute exploit in Blacksmith's shop
- Fixed necromancer bug, where after entering lich, you would get your normal cards instead of lich ones
- Can't pick 2 items for 1 in the Provider's story anymore
- Fixed health resetting to a lower value after loading Endless mode
- You can opt-out of data collection in the Steam version of the game now

TEXT

- Added missing translations for difficulty above 32.
- Minor localization fixes.
- Added missing Polish translation in the tutorial

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19 Aug 2021Developer post

Patch 1.1: Shattered Reality is LIVE!

Hey! After a safe beta-testing period (huge thanks to everyone who participated and shared feedback with us!), we are ready to post our very first MAJOR patch after launch. Welcome to Patch 1.1 - Shattered Reality! We are super excited to bring quite a big chunk of extra content

Hey!

After a safe beta-testing period (huge thanks to everyone who participated and shared feedback with us!), we are ready to post our very first MAJOR patch after launch.

Welcome to Patch 1.1 - Shattered Reality!

We are super excited to bring quite a big chunk of extra content to Tainted Grail. Before we will get to the “meat” of the patch that will bring you many hours of extra playtime - let us start with some of the things that might not be instantly visible.

First of all - our team worked on extra optimization of the game and we were able to get the game working better, especially at the lower-end specification. Nothing really groundbreaking, but hopefully a noticeable change ;)

Secondly - we did a lot of (really small) balancing tweaks, fixed quite a lot of bugs, and added some visual improvements here and there. Again, nothing groundbreaking, but the devil is in the details! ;)

NOW! Let's go to the big things!

Number 1: Weekly events!

We are extremely happy to invite you to take part in the weekly events. From now on, every week you will have a new challenge with some really crazy modifiers that will take a normal Conquest game to a new level.

We really hope that it will give you tons of extra fun for months to come - especially since events will be quite different from each other.

We are not talking about some small modifiers - we are talking some crazy stuff like "you start the game with 1HP, every card you play gets duplicated, monsters have doubled health", and so on!

So in general - there will be TONS of extremely… WYRD… interactions and some memorable moments ;)

For some of you, who like to compete for the highest score, we have also added a dedicated leaderboard for every event, so that you can compete for 1st place worldwide! ;)

Number 2: Endless Misery

Also, we have prepared 2 Endless modes for those of you who are interseted only in PURE GAMEPLAY without the story / exploration bits. In those modes, you are just fighting with enemies one by one until… Well, it is endless, so there is no end :D

After every combat you get some small rewards and choices to make, so you can quickly test a lot of different strategies. Now, why “Misery”? Mostly because this mode is the most hardcore one ;) There is no forgiveness on the enemy's side and surviving every fight can be quite a challenge!

Number 3: Endless Power

This is our “chill mode”. Is it raining outside and you just want to chill a bit with some silly combos and crazy fights? Endless Powers is here for you! In this mode, fights you are going to face are not your “usual” ones - so be prepared to face 3 golems at once or some other crazy combinations ;)

In this mode, your power level will grow to pretty absurd levels and you can do some quite crazy combos ending up in 1-shooting some extremely strong enemies ;D

Overall, we are quite proud of this patch and we really hope you will enjoy the new modes! If you will enjoy it - remember that spreading the word about the game or leaving us a positive review can go a loooooong way and we will really appreciate it! :)

QUICK INFO ABOUT NEW TRANSLATIONS

Now, time for another piece of news, that we hope some of you will be really excited about!
We’ve officially started translating the game to Russian, Spanish, and Simplified Chinese :)

This will be a professionally prepared translation with high quality - done by the same company that translated the game to German, French, and Polish (and we've heard a lot of good comments about our current translations!).

We hope these three new languages will be available within the next two months so we ask for your patience! :)

(And we’d kindly ask you not to use fan-made translations for pirated copies – over the past month we’ve received 49 million automated error reports (some are sent after every “frame”, meaning pretty much all the time when the game’s played) from these and our storage space for crash logs got pretty cluttered :D)

And here are some Patch Notes for those of you who like to see details ;)

The patch notes for this release are available in our last post (but this patch contains fixes to a lot of beta bugs and also some new fixes) so we're pasting them again here, with these new additions included:

MAJOR ADDITIONS:

Three new game modes
Optimization

OTHER FIXES AND ADDITIONS:

UI / UX / GAMEPAD

A nice surprise in the Title Screen ;)
Moonring minions have new models
New UI for leaderboards
Added Icon in trades that notifies you what a rune is equipped
New UI for context menu popup
Fixed a bug that made it impossible to select the first and the last card with a gamepad, when you had more than 10 cards in hand
While playing with a gamepad, targeting will select the last chosen target as default
Added support for left analog stick in character sheets wheel
Added quantity of equipped items in all trades
Fixed font issue with characters in the village
Added VFX for discarding a wyrdcard

STORY:

Ghost, added a lot of missing VO
There's a secret way to change the Bard's fate now.
Sola Fide should be fixed now for y'all
Shortened the time it takes for conversations with the Scientist to become available again during her quest (same with the Blacksmith)
All village NPCs should properly unlock in the journal (if they're not unlocked after recruiting them just have a chat with them in the village)
Minor localization tweaks and fixes.
Fixed missing art from elder archer's encounter

RUNESTONES:

Ethel runestones should properly remove armor bonus after slot change
Wyn runestones should properly work with Wyrdhunter's Shock passive
Thorn Runestone in weapon slot now correctly grants barrier
Runestone Yr updated visibility

GENERAL BUGS & FIXES:

All-mother's Altar should be finally available for everyone.
Fixed a bug that made tier bosses and minibosses not change after defeating
Fixed a bug that made it possible to use a card that is being discarded
Fixed a bug with Necromancer's Minions dealing damage before losing rank
Fixed an issue with Golem fight, where starting Moving Stones would have 1 hp
Made calculating score from final boss more precise
Quest cards -- fixed issue when in deck inspect card window would be that of a flip card
Fixed a bug with unlocking characters prematurely
Fixed an issue with flat damage bonuses not showing in character statistics
Woolsey no longer is promoted by Blood Mage cards
Fixed issue with Wyrdness Discharge not consuming HP
Deranged Lifeforce no longer regains their status if stunned for more than 1 turn
Various fixes to animation and VFX (Blood Carver got a new blood FX, Bone Idol has a new projectile effect, Blood Mage's Golem has a correct animation when evading, Deers in Hunter's Grove have proper attack animations)
Fixed some typos & translations
Wyrm, Abomination, and Fae now correctly show how much HP they will gain with each rank/level/tier
Soulblade now correctly reacts to all instances of damage
Candlemaker's milestone buffs should be applied correctly.
Candlemaker's reveal NPCs/Locations mechanic improved.
User Reports failures should happen less often now

ACHIEVEMENTS:

"It's Mine" Achievement fixed the issue with getting it too early while fighting with certain bosses
"It's Mine" Achievement now works correctly with certain minibosses

CARDS / PASSIVES:

Apostate's Ancestral Knowledge should really work only once per turn.
Apostate should discard Maneuvers that discard Manuvers.
Apostate's Glimpse of Possibility second side reworked.
Vantage Point passive fixed
Power Drop passive fixed
Apostate Idea initial card fixed
Berserker's Crawling Fire card should display proper damage value in deck view
Dance of Blades, changed visual effect effect to make it faster
Inhuman Uttering is now usable while having more than half Ultimate Charges
Fixed visibility on Delayed Punishment
New Beginning should properly reduce cost of additional cards

OK! That’s it! Hope y'all are going to enjoy our newest patch and in order to celebrate our first major update after launch, we're also offering the game with a 20% discount for a few days :)

See you soon, that's not the end of good news we have for Conquest! :)

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05 Aug 2021Developer post

Beta Access to Patch 1.1 - Introducing Endless Modes & Events!

Hi everyone! Long time no hear ;) We've been silent for a little bit, but this doesn't mean we weren't busy! We have prepared a small surprise for you all and we really hope that you will enjoy it. You've given us so much support during Early Access and the game premiere and we d

Hi everyone! Long time no hear ;)

We've been silent for a little bit, but this doesn't mean we weren't busy! We have prepared a small surprise for you all and we really hope that you will enjoy it.

You've given us so much support during Early Access and the game premiere and we definitely want to give back by creating some extra content that you will hopefully enjoy!

So, let's talk about Patch 1.1 - Shattered Reality.

This patch brings 3 totally new ways to play the game!

First of all, we have 2 endless climbs. These are modes which are 100% gameplay-focused. You will fight an enemy after enemy until you will (eventually) fall. We found it's super fun, especially for players who finished the main campaign and just want to play around with different strategies.

Endless Misery

This is our hardcore climb created for all of ye power gamers wanting to get some proper challenge.

Endless Power

This is our “chill mode”. It is raining outside and you just want to chill a bit with some silly combos and crazy fights - like 3 Golems? Endless Power is here for you :D

Weekly Events

This is a mode in which you will get tons of modifiers that will absolutely change some core things about the game. Every week, there will be new, unique events and leaderboards where you can compete for the best score with other players.

On top of it, with this patch we are also bringing some extra optimization (especially for low-end machines). It's nothing groundbreaking but our tests shown quite a few extra fps - and that's always welcome, isn't it? :)

Overall, we are quite proud of this patch and we really hope you will enjoy the new modes!

Anyway! We want to release this update to the public on the 17th of this month and we would like to invite you to the Beta to test if everything works as intended.

This means we're sharing access to our beta branch and if someone wants to join us there and check out the new things, well, we'd really appreciate all feedback!

One really important thing that needs to be said:

PLEASE BACKUP YOUR SAVE FILES BEFORE JOINING THE BETA

You can find info on how to do that on our Wiki - here.
Section "Bugs & Fixes" -> "Where can I find my save files?"

Please remember that since this is a beta build, then it might be unstable. It is a rough version of our next big release, and this means you might encounter some weird issues here and there (but it also contains a lot of fixes and additions)

HOW TO JOIN?

In order to join this branch you need to right click on the game on Steam, go to Properties, BETAS and use this password -> ZatanczyszZeMnaJeszczeRaz

We hope to make this patch public around the 17th of August. We'd really love to hear your feedback!

Entire patch notes:

MAJOR ADDITIONS:

Three new game modes
Optimization

OTHER FIXES AND ADDITIONS:

UI / UX / GAMEPAD

A nice surprise in the Title Screen ;)
New UI for leaderboards
Added Icon in trades that notifies you what a rune is equipped
New UI for context menu popup
Fixed a bug that made it impossible to select first and last card with gamepad, when you had more than 10 cards in hand
While playing with gamepad, targeting will select the last chosen target as default
Added support for left analog stick in character sheets wheel
Added quantity of equipped items in all trades
Fixed font issue with characters in village
Added VFX for discarding a wyrdcard

STORY:

Ghost, added a lot of missing VO
There's a secret way to change the Bard's fate now.
Sola Fide should be fixed now for y'all
Shortened the time it takes for conversations with the Scientist to become available again during her quest (same with the Blacksmith)
All village npcs should properly unlock in the journal (if they're not unlocked after recruiting them just have a chat with them in the village)
Minor localization tweaks and fixes.
Fixed missing art from elder archer's encounter

RUNESTONES:

Ethel runestones should properly remove armor bonus after slot change
Wyn runestones should properly work with Wyrdhunter's Shock passive
Thorn Runestone in weapon slot now correctly grants barrier
unestone Yr updated visibility

GENERAL BUGS & FIXES:

All-mother's Altar should be finally available for everyone.
Fixed a bug that made tier bosses and minibosses not change after defeating
Fixed a bug that made it possible to use card that is being discarded
Fixed a bug with Necromancer's Minions dealing damage before losing rank
Fixed an issue with Golem fight, where starting Moving Stones would have 1 hp
Made calculating score from final boss more precise
Quest cards -- fixed issue when in deck inspect card window would be that of a flip card
Fixed a bug with unlocking characters prematurely
Fixed an issue with flat damage bonuses not showing in character statistics
Woolsey no longer is promoted by Blood Mage cards
Fixed issue with Wyrdness Discharge not consuming HP
Deranged Lifeforce no longer regains their status if stunned for more than 1 turn
Various fixes to animation and VFX (Blood Carver got a new blood FX, Bone Idol has new projectile effect, Blood Mage's Golem has a correct animation when evading, Deers in Hunter's Grove have proper attack animations)
Fixed some typos & translations
Wyrm, Abomination, and Fae now correctly show how much HP they will gain with each rank/level/tier
Soulblade now correctly reacts to all instances of damage

ACHIEVEMENTS:

"It's Mine" Achievement fixed issue with getting it too early while fighting with certain bosses
"It's Mine" Achievement now works correctly with certain minibosses

CARDS / PASSIVES:

Apostate's Ancestral Knowledge should really work only once per turn.
Apostate should discard Maneuvers that discard Manuvers.
Apostate's Glimpse of Possibility second side reworked.
Vantage Point passive fixed
Power Drop passive fixed
Apostate Idea initial card fixed
Berserker's Crawling Fire card should display proper damage value in deck view
Dance of Blades, changed visual effect effect to make it faster
Inhuman Uttering is now usable while having more than half Ultimate Charges
Fixed visibility on Delayed Punishment

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02 Jul 2021Developer post

Patch 1.01a is live (and it restores the All-mother's Altars!)

Patch 1.01a is live and - among other things - it restores the All-mother's Altars. Changes in 1.01a: - All-mother's Altar should be finally available for everyone. - Altars should be visible on the minimap. - All balance changes listed in the main update should be in place now -

29 Jun 2021Developer post

German, Polish, and French - now available! Version 1.01 is live :)

Hello everyone! Today we have a really big patch for you, and - if you're in a hurry, here's a tl;dr! It contains The pre-final version of Translations A lot of fixes and improvements Plenty of balancing-related changes But before we get to that: we'd like to THANK YOU once again

Hello everyone! Today we have a really big patch for you, and - if you're in a hurry, here's a tl;dr!

It contains

The pre-final version of Translations
A lot of fixes and improvements
Plenty of balancing-related changes

But before we get to that: we'd like to THANK YOU once again for your support. We've passed 2000 reviews on Steam this week and we're still at Very Positive... We honestly couldn't be more thankful! Thank you all for supporting us and being here with us - it means A LOT. And we hope that even a brief look at the changelog of today's patch will show it that we take your feedback seriously!

(And even if sometimes we might seem slow with addressing reported issues - well, that's probably because the issues are harder to tackle than it might seem.)

Also, we'd like to take this opportunity to send our thanks to all the YouTubers and Streamers who decided to cover our game. We really appreciate your willingness to cover less known titles and actually play indie games together with your audiences.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

The biggest news: three language editions are now available.

Please note that German, French, and Polish are still NOT FINAL and we're still working on them. Please report any issues on our Discord on appropriate channels - we're monitoring them every day and we're quickly changing things that don't work.

We're making these translations public, though, because many of you are asking for them and are afraid of moving to a beta branch so - here they are on the public branch :)

Just change the game's language in the game's Properties on Steam.

Our translators are also doing a Localization QA run this week so expect some fixes to translations soon :)

Optimization in combat - skills execution should run smoother now
Overhaul of Intent icons
Improved card playing experience (especially with a lot of cards in hand)
Triggering range of an encounter should slowly appear when hero approaches the enemy
Added setting to scale hovered card in fights
Burning Follower should properly burn

Major Issues

Fixed problems with unlocking Journal Entries (If you were triggering location interactions with gamepad or keyboard, entries weren't unlocked)
Fixed starting game for players without Media Foundation Pack on theirs PCs
There's always 1 altar (of various kinds) at each Tier.
Multishots should be smarter at selecting targets for their effects.
Apostate should be less likely to reduce Maneuvers Energy cost forever.

Other Fixes

Stun should no longer be applied to the player
Ultimate in fights now shines brighter and brighter when gaining charges
Summons Base Damage is now properly displayed
Added indicator for quest items in inventory
Many cards and passive skills now have clearer descriptions

Minor Fixes

Seamstress HP upgrades provide the correct amount of starting HP (not only maximum HP).
Fixed runestone trade with a Shadowy Presence
Retreating from a fight in Lich form doesn't add lich cards to your deck anymore
FIxed a bug that caused Wooden Flute to increase Armor until the end of the fight instead of until the end of the turn.
Pride cards should provide Armor one last time before being transformed.
Fixed a bug that prevented proper resolving of the last use of Quest cards
Fixed Arrows of the Past behavior
Wrath now shows what Wrathful Edge does
Magic Wind should take correct (displayed) amount of HP
Exhausting Shot card should properly apply debuff
Spiritual Blows card should no longer consume incorrect amount of ultimate charges
Apostate's Full House fixed and restored!
Sentinel's Shattershot should update Ultimate tooltip
Sentinel's Path of Assassin should always trigger its effect
Accelerate now correctly grants Ultimate Charges
Devastating precision will no longer unlock one of Zealot's Ultimate cards
One Man Army fixed issue where Armor bonus would trigger on different
Devastating Precision now correctly grants Ultimate Charges
Path of the Keeper now works correctly after Sentinel's Ultimate Ability
Wyrdcandles passive now works correctly
Special passives from Tainted Altar should work and be visible correctly
Stunning Performance's counter should reset properly at the end of turn
Loaded Weapons passive should work properly
Faceless Hunter and Reaver now really deal a maximum of 10 Hits.
Fixed Undead Spawn's too many attacks issue
Fore-Dweller Overlord fixed issue with missing special card
Dullahan's poison is no longer considered a Hit (doesn’t trigger your modifiers)
Insane Worshippers should no longer lose their intents
Soul Shifter now has correct color on his buff intent
Runestone Ur now works correctly with Moonring classes

Children of Morrigan

Cards

Chain Attack damage increased from 100% to 125%
Inhuman Utterings cost reduced from 2 to 1
Draw card draw increased from 3 to 4
Protections from Evil duration increased from 2 to 3 turns
Short Pause Armor gain increased from 35 to 40
Stronghold Armor gain increased from 10 to 15
Sacrificial Dagger cost reduced from 1 to 0
Eternal Control cost reduced from 2 to 1
Degrading Armor Armor debuff increased from 5 to 10
Distancing Blow damage reduced from 80% to 75%
Disruption cost reduced from 3 to 2
Hot Iron damage increased from 350% to 400%
Lopsided Pairing blocks gain increased from 2 to 3
Mark of Blood Armor reduction increased from 50 to 100
Pure Luck cost increased from 1 to 3 Energy
Pure Luck damage increased from 100% to 300%
Pure Luck block gain increased from 1 to 2
Raw Power damage buff increased from 50% to 100%
Desperate Measures heal reduced from 5 to 2.
Desperate Measures Armor change reduced from +1 to -5.

Wyrdhunter

Explosive Force heal increased from 7% to 10%
Physical Training cards countdown reduced from 7 to 6
Haste cost reduction increased from 1 to 2
Armor Crusher Armor debuff increased from 2 to 3
Killing Spree starting Ultimate Charges increased from 6 to 10

Pathfinder

Combat Sequencing cards countdown increased from 5 to 6
Delayed Punishment damage bonus increased from 300% to 400%
Precision damage buff increased from 100% to 200%
Slayer card draw increased from 2 to 3
Tactics damage buff increased from 5% to 10%

Berserker

Power of Sacrifice HP threshold decreased from 50% to 25%
Trembling Clash Armor debuff decreased from 50 to 25
Soul Trap HP gain increased from 2 to 3
Remorseless Assault cards count reduced from 3 to 2
Rampage base damage reduced from 125% to 50%
Rampage bonus damage increased from 25% to 50%
Division Cleave damage increased from 15% to 20%
Bloodoath damage buff increased from 100% to 200%
Chant of Doom Armor buff increased from 5 to 10

Moonring

Cards

Druids Bane duration increased from 2 to 3 turns
Enraged Flailing damage buff increased from 200% to 300%
Two Pillars cost reduced from 2 to 1
Oversaturation cost increased from 1 to 2
Grim Fae HP Offered increased from 2% to 5% max HP
Grim Golem HP Offered increased from 2% to 5% max HP
Grim Wyrm HP Offered increased from 2% to 5% max HP
Grim Abomination HP Offered increased from 2% to 5% max HP
Animated Fae summon level decreased from 5 to 4
Animated Golem summon level decreased from 5 to 4
Animated Wyrm summon level decreased from 5 to 4
Animated Abomination summon level decreased from 5 to 4
Resurrected Fae summon level decreased from 3 to 2
Resurrected Golem summon level decreased from 3 to 2
Resurrected Wyrm summon level decreased from 3 to 2
Resurrected Abomination summon level decreased from 3 to 2

Summoner

Alchemist wealth gain reduced from 20 to 10
Surprise Attacks damage buff increased from 100% to 200%
Golems Aura starting Barrier reduced from 20 to 15
Hindsight card draw increased from 3 to 4
Last Layer Barrier reduced from 10 to 5
Protective Spells Barrier increased from 10 to 20
Whispering Stones Golem Barrier reduced from 10 to 5
Glyphs of Shielding Retaliate reduced from 100% to 75%

Blood Mage

Greater Key of Chaining Overcharge magnitude increased from 800% to 1200%
Spectral Shield Barrier gain reduced from 5 times its rank to 3 times
Lifesaver minions max Hp increase increased from 12 to 15

Necromancer

Senile Bones tier threshold lowered from 2 to 1
Dream Army minions bonus HP reduced from 100% to 50%
Deadly Protection Barrier reduced from 20 to 10
Recharge Barrier increased from 5 to 10
Leech Form Barrier increased from 10 to 20

Watchers of Tuathan

Cards

Sharp Shot damage reduced from 150% to 125%
Piercing Shot damage reduced from 125% to 75%
Shot of Hope damage reduced from 125% to 50%
Future Shot cost increased from 0 to 1
Acid Shot damage reduced from 150% to 50%
Blind Fury damage reduced from 100% to 75%
Agile Draft Energy cost reduced from 1 to 0
Wyrdfiber Shots Barrier gain nerfed from 20 to 10

Sentinel

Constant Motion Barrier gain reduced from 25% of Armor to 10%
Deadly Force damage buff reduced from 10% to 5%
Terrifying Presence Armor debuff reduced from 5 to 2
Keeping Distance Barrier lost increased from 75% to 90%
Target Practice hits required increased from 4 to 6
Target Practice Armor debuff duration reduced from 3 to 2
Walking Fortress Barrier gain reduced from 50% of Armor to 20%
Path of the Protector now instead of Barriers being 100% Stronger, they are 50% weaker

Apostate

Showtime Maneuvers threshold increased from 3 to 4
Showtime Maneuvers cards draw reduced from 3 to 2
Damning Momentum Maneuvers threshold increased from 5 to 6
Reluctant Hero cards used threshold increased from 5 to 6
Can’t Stop Flipped card threshold increased from 10th to 13th
Flimsy Hands Maneuvers threshold increased from 6th to 11th
Back to the Origins now works only once per turn
Ancestral Strength damage buff reduced from 100% to 25%
Ancestral Resilience Armor buff reduced from 25 to 10
Root of All Might Barrier gain reduced from 50% of Armor to 20%
Pleasant Surprise flipped threshold increased from 4 to 7
Call Maneuver card draw increased from 1 to 2

Zealot

Shot to Forget bonus damage increased from 20% to 25%
Shot to Remember bonus damage increased from 200% to 300%
Delayed Punishment damage buff changed from 10% for 2 turns to 5% for 3 turns
Unarmed Defense Armor buff changed from 2 for 2 turns to 1 for 3 turns
Herald of heavens: Energy Shot Barrier gain reduced from 25 to 15
Harbringer of Darkness: Dark shot damage reduced from 200% to 150%
Ultimate Survivor Barrier granted reduced from 10 to 3

Neutral

Wyrdness Discharge Energy cost increased from 0 to 1
Wyrdness Discharge HP lose increased from 5 to 10 HP
Looter bonus Wealth reduced from 100% to 25%

Locations & NPCs

Witch discard 5 cards cost changed from HP to maximum HP (now it reduces your max HP by 75%)
Blood Altar discard 1 card cost changed from 20% to 33% of full HP

Fights

Easy Difficulty, Tier 1: 2 fights changed
Easy Difficulty, Tier 2: 1 fight changed
Difficulty 1-2, Tier 1: 2 fights nerfed
Difficulty 1-2, Tier 2: 1 fight nerfed
Difficulty 1-2, Tier 3: 1 fight buffed, 2 fights nerfed
Difficulty 3-5, Tier 2: 1 fight changed
Difficulty 3-5, Tier 2: 1 fight nerfed
Difficulty 3-5, Tier 3: 5 fights buffed
Difficulty 6+, Tier 3: 1 fight changed

Enemies

Tier 1

Perverted Lifeforce damage nerfed from 8-10 to 6-8
Perverted Lifeforce buff changed from 100%/125%/150% damage to 50%/75%/100% damage and 10/15/20 Armor
Infected Human HP buffed from 60 to 80
Forest Sentinel damage buffed from 6-8 to 7-9
Forest Sentinel Armor gain per Ally buffed from 5/10/10 to 10/15/20
Soul Harvester (Tier 1) damage nerfed from 14-17 to 14-16
Harvested Soul (Tier 1) damage nerfed from 5-7 to 4-4
Ravenous Rat HP buffed from 60 to 70
Ravenous Rat damage buffed from 4-4 to 5-5
Rat Queen damage buffed from 10-10 to 12-12
Rat King damage buffed from 12-14 to 14-16
Vran's Magical Buffing Axe should last only 1 turn (instead of lasting till the Barrier is broken)
Vran's Unbridled Frenzy strength source changed from Magical Buffing Axe lifetime to Magical Buffing Axe count (not how long the buff stays on character, but how many buffs were placed in a combat)

Tier 2

Phase Shifter HP nerfed from 200 to 150
Phase Shifter damage nerfed from 16-19 to 15-18
Soul Harvester (Tier 2) damage nerfed from 14-17 to 12-15
Harvested Soul (Tier 2) damage nerfed from 10-10 to 6-6
Bone Idol buffed from 10-10 to 15-15
Blood Carver damage buffed from 10-13 to 12-15
Bloodstone healing buffed from 10% max HP to 20% max HP
Bounty Hunter Armor buffed from 0 to 20
Bounty Hunter damage buffed from 14-17 to 15-18
Dullahan damage buffed from 18-22 to 20-24
Other Being HP buffed from 50 to 75
Other Being damage buffed from 10-10 to 12-12
Yawning Portal Armor buffed from 0 to 20

Tier 3

Juggernaut HP nerfed from 300 to 200
Blooddrunk HP buffed from 210 to 240
Blooddrunk damage nerfed from 10-14 to 8-12
Tormented Shaman Armor nerfed from 20 to 15
Tormented Shaman's Totems HP changed from 80 to 60
Stalker HP buffed from 300 to 400
Stalker damage nerfed from 23-27 to 20-24
Wyrd-Bear HP buffed from 280 to 400
The Preacher HP changed from 500 to 600
The Preacher damage changed from 18-22 to 20-24
Burning Follower Armor buffed from -25 to 50
Burning Follower damage increase on death buffed from 20% to 25%
Bone Abscess HP buffed from 200 to 250
Bone Abscess damage buffed from 26-30 to 33-37
Fore-Dweller on Stun inserts Wyrdness Discharge into your hand

Foredwellers

Fore-Dweller Overlord Corporeal Form everyturn Armor bonus buffed from 20 to 50
Fore-Dweller Overlord Spectral Form Barrier HP buffed from 25 to 100
Fore-Dweller Overlord Spectral Form everyturn Barrier bonus buffed from 0% to 100%

Items

Gnawed Foot price reduced from 120 to 80
Stagfather's Charm price reduced from 120 to 60
Berserker Potion price reduced from 150 to 70
Sharpening Stone price reduced from 90 to 50
Unstable Powder price reduced from 120 to 60
Bloodcandle price reduced from 120 to 50
Wyrdness Mushroom price reduced from 90 to 60

Original post

18 Jun 2021Developer post

Plans for the future & Remembering a year of Early Access

Hey everyone! As it turns out, today is the anniversary of the game's first appearance in Early Access! Looking back, it feels really crazy how the game's changed since that time - and that we've been able to finally release it and hear so many positive things from you about it!

Hey everyone! As it turns out, today is the anniversary of the game's first appearance in Early Access! Looking back, it feels really crazy how the game's changed since that time - and that we've been able to finally release it and hear so many positive things from you about it! So thank you for being with us back then - and if you weren't, today we have a quick ride down the memory lane to the early state of Conquest - and an amazing wrap-up written by lMaltel on our Wiki page.

But before we get to memories and more details about our plans for the future, here's a VERY SHORT tl;dr of what's currently happening with Conquest:

Soon: a big patch with fixes, changes, balancing, and first translations. It's available NOW on the BETA branch of the game for members of our Discord server.
Within the next few months: a big update containing optimization (making the game run better/smoother), new content (cards, passives, enemies, etc.), and game modes.

For more info about what's coming: check the section for "plans for the future" below.

BUT getting back to the retrospective...

So, originally, Tainted Grail PC was announced as a bonus for backers of the Kickstarter for Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon in 2018. It started slowly - with one programmer, one artist, working on the core of it all - and the game was slowly growing in scope because Awaken Realms didn't want to make a simple board game conversion. By April 2019 the team kept growing and so in December 2019 we've released a 2-3 hour long pre-alpha demo of the digital game's story campaign. It was available to Kickstarter backers and we wanted to share it mostly to hear what they think - and it was generally received very, very well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7d0Hl3S7VU
After receiving literally thousands of comments about the campaign and reevaluating what we can and what we should do, we were going home for the Holidays to think about how to approach the development of the game in the new year. However, before the year was over, we came up with a new idea: to make a separate game mode, something similar to a boss rush, which will contain only the battles and release it in order to get as much feedback as possible and balance the combat systems.

The only change we wanted to make was to move the entire combat into 3D. And so, in January 2020 we've started working on the game's campaign AND what eventually became Conquest. We knew there's a lot we want to change and fix in the way that the game plays and feels, so, essentially, we've started rebuilding the entire game from scratch.

We've moved from a sculpted map into a generated tile-based map. We've changed the scale of the world. We started our shift to 3D combat. And so on... And as we were fixing and changing, well, the "game balancing mode" kept growing.

By April we've had "some" things already "working". Here's the first version of our 3D combat - damn, this brings memories! :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBEyFqf4qT4
But we knew that the work on the game's campaign will still take a long, long, looooong time - and that our tools weren't ready to handle this task. We wanted to release the balancing mode, though, and this brings us to June 18th 2020 - exactly a year before today when we released Conquest to the public.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gontIzASDp8
Conquest kept growing. And when it was growing it kept breaking the game's campaign. We've been rebuilding and fixing the same campaign demo a couple of times - and at some point we decided to just let it go. We couldn't maintain it and we had no plans to expand it in its state - and since Conquest was getting really big, we felt at some point that it truly deserves to stand on its own. And so, late last year, we decided to split the products into two different things on Steam.

We've learned a lot, we've grown, and now we know what we're able to do. It's been an amazing ride and we have YOU to thank for being here with us, and supporting us on that journey.

And, as promised, I'll redirect y'all to our Wiki for more detailed info and a lot of cool stuff compiled by lMaltel.

Check it out HERE!

Seriously! It's full of amazing data, memories, anecdotes and some really old screenshots :D

And here's a quick breakdown of what's happening with Conquest right now.

First translations are available as a beta to folks on our Discord server - we've given access to a beta branch containing German, French, and Polish translations to the members of our Discord server. The translations are almost done (still missing around 200 texts in German/French) but they still requires some polishing.
We're hard at work on making the game run smoother - we finally had some time to sit down and look back at things we've been doing in order to find mistakes in our approaches to certain things. I'd have to throw here a lot of technical jargon in order to explain this, but all in all, we're currently in the process of making the game run smoother and being less taxing on various PCs. This means that we're tweaking pretty much every model we have in the game - so this will take a while, but we're already seeing a lot of improvements performance-wise.
We're fixing and polishing various things - there are some things in the game which we aren't happy about and we're currently in the process of fixing or improving on them. These can be rather small (we're differetiating summon models between Moonring classes so you'll get a skeletal wyrm for your Necromancer soon!) or quite big, as in "rewriting a part of the codebase to work with [something that programmers understand & will be crucial in the future].
We've started thinking about some new content - we want to add new cards, passives, and enemies to the game - but it's going to take a while!
We've started working on small events - in the coming months we want to add very simple events to the game - simple rule changes that will make it surprising and challenging for players who've maxed it out already!
We've started working on a new game mode - but I'm not going to spoil it just yet, but what we can say right now is that it will be tailored to the needs of people who couldn't care less about the game's storyline and aren't all that much interested in map exploration.
We've started work on the SOUNDTRACK - based on the popular demand we've already started thinking about releasing the game's soundtrack. HOWEVER this will take A LONG WHILE because our in-game tracks need to be adapted to the "soundtrack format", and we don't want to rush it. And our sound designer is taking some well-deserved time off soon, so, you know. But it is coming, eventually! And, since we can, we want to release quite a lot of music, not something like "5 tracks and we're done", but - for example - also an "ambient-like" album for y'all tabletop RPG folks who need some background music and were asking us about ambients from Tainted Grail :)
We've started researching what needs to be done in order to make the game available on different platforms - for now, we're waiting for GeForce Now to accept us into their service (hopefully soon!), and we're researching what needs to be done in order to run the game natively on Mac and Linux. We've also started chatting about possible console ports but please note that this WILL take a LONG while so we're not promising anything yet! (It's not entirely up to us.)

And we still have some more things to talk about, but we're going to wait a little while before writing about them :)

So, once again, thank you all for being here with us and for your patience! Remember to join our Discord server if you want to check out the BETA branch or just chat with us & all the amazing people in our community who are there!

Original post

10 Jun 2021Developer post

Quick Hotfix - Performance on High-End PCs & Small Fixes

Hi everyone! We're pushing a small hotfix today containing a couple of things -- but one of them may be really important for some of you. We'd really appreciate your feedback about one particular change we've made. So the most important thing in this small patch is: We've been lo

Updates & announcements

Hey everyone!

We're talking about Dragon Eclipse.

Unique take on great formula

Choose a tamer

Choose your Mystlings

Train and evolve your Mystlings

Create your deck

Explore the incredible world of Dragon Eclipse

NEW LANGUAGES

NEW CONTENT

BIG PERFORMANCE BOOST

COMBAT REWORK & DUAL WIELDING

DUNGEONS RE-DESIGN

STEALTH / THEFT

REBALANCE OF ITEMS AND SKILLS

ADDED FISHING

The following improvements have been added with this patch:

### PATCH NOTES:

Consoles!

Plans for the foreseeable future

General:

Cards and Passives:

Localizations:

Enemies:

THREE NEW TRANSLATIONS

OVER 100 NEW CARDS & PASSIVES

3 NEW ENEMIES

OFFICIAL SOUNDTRACK

AND ON TOP OF THAT…

Additions / Quality of Life / Requests:

Changes, Fixes:

Gamepass:

Items:

Runestones:

Children of Morrigan

Moonring

Watchers of Tuathan

ART

GAMEPLAY

QUALITY OF LIFE

BUGS

TEXT

Number 1: Weekly events!

Number 2: Endless Misery

Number 3: Endless Power

QUICK INFO ABOUT NEW TRANSLATIONS

This patch brings 3 totally new ways to play the game!

Endless Misery

Endless Power

Weekly Events

PLEASE BACKUP YOUR SAVE FILES BEFORE JOINING THE BETA

HOW TO JOIN?

The biggest news: three language editions are now available.

Major Issues

Other Fixes

Minor Fixes

Children of Morrigan

Cards

Wyrdhunter

Pathfinder

Berserker

Moonring

Cards

Summoner

Blood Mage

Necromancer

Watchers of Tuathan

Cards

Sentinel

Apostate

Zealot

Neutral

Locations & NPCs

Fights

Enemies

Tier 1

Tier 2

Tier 3

Foredwellers