Trope Tales Playtest

Released: Mar 8, 2024
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Last updated: 15 Sep 2026, 08:40 GMT

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14 Jun 2025Developer post
Pre-Demo Test Launch
In preparation for the demo launch in a couple of weeks, there has been several iterations on the battle system: Martial Arts skills are now fully fleshed out. You can apply marks and proc them using auto-attacks, or enter stances for self-buffs or auras that affect the party All
In preparation for the demo launch in a couple of weeks, there has been several iterations on the battle system:

Martial Arts skills are now fully fleshed out. You can apply marks and proc them using auto-attacks, or enter stances for self-buffs or auras that affect the party
All skills and spells have mana costs, are learned at certain levels, and have their behavior coded
Enemies have been added to chapters 6 and 7
Balance has been tweaked to ensure the game is possible (though challenging) if you skip all random encounters
Improved the auto-battle AI
Planning to do a few pass-throughs and ensure the story is up to par and then we'll get this demo out with the first 7 chapters!
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17 Nov 2024Developer post
Back to work for me
After a couple of months focusing on family and work, it's time to pick up Trope Tales development again. I'm sure there's some minor improvements in this build over the previous one, but it's all stuff I added to the game months ago and I don't recall what's new and what isn't.
20 Apr 2024Developer post
Mac OS version should be available now!
It's my first time doing an upload with 2 depots, so I'm sorry if it doesn't work
20 Apr 2024Developer post
Update notes for 4/20/2024 - Weapons Upgrade
Fixed some bugs related to the Sprite Forest and Einstein's Tower (re-entering the Sprite Forest after entering Einstein's Tower made the RPS puzzle impossible) All cutscenes now rely on variables instead of switches, which should reduce a lot of bugs around cutscenes - particula
Fixed some bugs related to the Sprite Forest and Einstein's Tower (re-entering the Sprite Forest after entering Einstein's Tower made the RPS puzzle impossible)
All cutscenes now rely on variables instead of switches, which should reduce a lot of bugs around cutscenes - particularly if you use the debug menu
All chapters are now limited to 9 switches plus the global chapter switch, meaning 1 chapter per page on the debug menu
The story is completed all the way up to the flying castle (chapter 9)
There two new swords and two new armor for sale in the early shops
You now start with 125/192 XP towards your first level so you don't have to kill as many bats
New icons for all items, weapons, skills, and armor
New descriptions for many weapons and items
Added a secret sword you can find on the first continent
Rewrote all of the logic for the "waiting in line" cutscene to streamline it and make it less buggy... also added dialogue to the people waiting in line!
Unobtainium Sword will now be listed in the shop tables for all stores (added to first continent so far)
While not obtainable in the game yet, there are about 15 new unique swords that I'll be slowly scattering throughout the world
Updated NW.js to 0.69.1 for the Windows version (Mac crashes on this NW.js version) - improved performance and stability
I haven't done the full combat re-balance I want yet, but it's been long enough since I made an update I figure I might as well push this out.
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12 Mar 2024Developer post
Catching up to Beta branch
With the official Trope Tales Steam page launching today, updating the playtest build to match the latest beta version of the game available to internal developers. Going forward I will direct friends and family to utilize the playtest build, rather than the internal beta build,

Updates & announcements

Pre-Demo Test Launch

Back to work for me

Mac OS version should be available now!

Update notes for 4/20/2024 - Weapons Upgrade

Catching up to Beta branch