Developer posts and news about this game.
"Generate lore" on legendary gear works again. Thanks Jaxaloth. The mission summary now counts wounds from critical hits. It used to say "no injuries" while heroes were hurt. A severe critical-hit wound now also blocks Critical Success in dungeons you play yourself, same as auto-
- Heroes out on a contract can't be hired or offered a retainer until they are back; their card shows when. - Client negotiations have a Heroes button: see your retainers and the city pool, and who is away, without leaving the talk. - The quest report's Injuries count now include
- Auto-equip now upgrades: it swaps in the best guild gear for every slot, on the Armory button and a new Auto-equip button on each hero card. Replaced guild pieces go back to the armory; a hero's own pieces go to his stash. - The gear swap list on the Quest Plan is sorted best f
- Resting in a lair and clicking away from the result no longer skips the ambush. The fight comes either way. - New Game: starting gold is your call. Default keeps the 550-750 roll, or type your own amount, up to 99,999. - Relations tab: your own retainers always show their frien
- New games now start with 550 to 750 gold (was 350 to 580). The roll still leans a little higher with age. - Existing saves are not changed. Why: a new player signed two retainers on day one, which alone cost more than any starting purse allowed. The old bracket left no room to
- The world clock now pauses for every conversation, including the retainer talk from the "about to leave" alert and the hire chat inside a quest party. It used to keep running under those two. - New option in Settings > General: pause the clock on every notification, not only
Straight talk: the last two updates fixed the wrong screen. These are the real fixes, plus a sweep that found two more. - Quest supplies were being wiped when you waved the party off. If any item in your kit had to be bought at the moment of departure (pack animals always are), t
Follow-up to the last update, from a report sent through the in-game Report a bug button. - Quest location with a big party. With seven or more heroes, the hero list could push the room, inventory and action buttons off the bottom of the screen. The hero list now scrolls on its o
Fixes from your bug reports, all sent through the in-game Report a bug button. Thank you. - Gear you lend out comes back. When a hero borrowed a guild weapon or armor, their own piece could end up sitting in the guild armory instead of returning to them. Fixed on every path. - Ne
Hey, Sten here. Short one today. Hire is out. Not coming soon anymore. The real game, free, on Steam, right now. We expect a lot of bugs. Please report them in the discussions or with the Report a bug button in the game. We read every one and we will fix every single one. We hope
Hey. Sten here. This is the post I have wanted to write for two months. Hire releases on Steam on September 1 . Eleven days from now. And it is free. The two months part was not by choice. A lot of what this game does is experimental, and Steam had questions about most of it. Get
Hey. Sten here. Still waiting on Steam, the process takes time, not much we can do about it. So this week let me show you something from the very start of a new game. Before your world gets built, you can make one of the peoples living in it yourself. The world normally holds fiv
Hey, Sten here. I have real news this week, the biggest one since we opened this page. Hire will be free. Not a sale. Not free for a weekend. The whole game, free, for always. You download it, you run your mercenary guild, you never pay a thing if you do not want to. That is the
Hey. Sten here. Short one today. The demo is still in Steam review, and we are in a bit of back and forth with them. Nothing dramatic, but it looks like we might have to strip out some cool features we were hoping to have in the game. Steam rules are rules, and honestly they exis
Hey. Sten here. I will start with the DEMO update. Unfortunately, it has been delayed as STEAM is still reviewing it. We had a bit of back-and-forth. Fingers crossed for next week. This week, let's talk about negotiations. It is kinda a breakthrough feature of the game, looks lik
Hey. Sten here. Small update, but important. We now have a proper website: We also have a new contact email: [email protected] The bigger news is the DEMO. It is now waiting for Steam approval. If nothing catches fire in review, it should be available early next week. So yes, we a
Hey. Sten here. I want to talk about procedural generation, but not in the usual way. Usually this means the map is different. That is true in Hire, but it is too small, we took it to the max! The generator is not there to make a pretty background. When you start a new game, the