Howdy Muldorf!
Muldorf - a friendly necromancer and Meteorfall fan favorite - joins the cast of heroes in Krumit's Tale! Like the other heroes, Muldorf plays very differently. In particular, Muldorf summons skeletal minions to do his bidding. He also manipulates his health. Many of Muldorf's items and abilities have different effects at low health, and he also has a bunch of different ways to restore health as well with Lifesteal.
How do minions work?
One of the trickiest parts about the development of Muldorf was figuring out how minions would work. We went through multiple designs before settling on the current design. The key is Muldorf's starting perk, called 'Necrodude'.
Whenever Muldorf slays an enemy, they leave behind a Tombstone. You can pay 3 health to remove the Tombstone from the board and 'summon' a Skeleton minion, which is added to your inventory like an item or ability.
The basic Skeleton minion you can summon has 2 attack and 5 health, and can defeat many basic enemies on it's own. When you select a minion, it swaps places with your hero in battle. It deals damage just like your hero, and takes damage in place of your hero. Experienced necromancers will recognize the value of sending it a poor skeleton to take a big hit in their place!
Although most of the minions you summon are basic Skeletons, you can also summon Ancient Skeletons and Garbage Golems. It's also possible to buff the attack and health of your minions to make them stronger or more resilient.
New Boss, New Enemy
Besides adding a new hero, this update also adds a new dungeon, The Sanguine Grotto. The Sanguine Grotto features a new boss: Cardoso - a vampire and well-known associate of Muldorf. The dungeon also features the Wasteland Thug, a poisonous new minion that introduces a new 'Wound' mechanic
Carodoso and a Wasteland Thug - denizens of the Sanguine Grotto
Limited Time Sale!
This week we're doing a limited time sale in Krumit's Tale, as well as our iOS / Android game, Meteorfall: Journeys. Meteorfall is our first game and takes place in the same universe as Krumit's Tale, featuring many of the same characters. Like Krumit's Tale, it's card-based deck builder roguelite kind of game.
In addition to this release of Krumit's Tale featuring Muldorf and Cardoso, we're releasing an update for Meteorfall that adds Cardoso as an alternate skin for Muldorf, as well as a bunch of new cards, inspired by new abilities we added in Krumit's Tale. If you haven't checked out Meteorfall: Journeys before, this is a great opportunity to pick it up at a discount. Once this discount is over, the price will be increasing again as outlined in our Early Access overview. We've added a ton of new content to this release and we think it justifies the price increase. Buying early is a great way to support the game and get a great deal as well!
Check it out!
Meteorfall: Journeys (Android - Google Play)
Meteorfall: Journeys (iOS - Apple App Store)
Exclusive Portrait Unlock with Streamer Esty8nine
We wanted to do something really fun with content creators to celebrate this new release. We approached Esty8nine, one of the earliest streamers to check out Krumit's Tale. We instantly fell in love with his engaging personality and his supportive fanbase, the Misfits. What better way to honor Esty8nine than by putting him in the game?
Esty8nine is a fantastic streamer that covers mostly indie titles. Most recently, he's been streaming a lot of One Step From Eden & Slay the Spire - titles that fans of Krumit's Tale will no doubt be familiar with.
The only way to get this portrait is to tune into Esty's stream when he streams Krumit's Tale! Esty has a code that he can share with his fans. You can enter that code in-game in order to unlock the portrait. This is a cosmetic reward and won't impact gameplay at all.
You can see the portrait in the background, to the right of Krumit
We hope you'll love unlocking the portrait and enjoy watching Esty8nine as much we do! Follow Esty8nine on Twitch, Twitter or YouTube to find out when he's streaming Krumit's Tale!
@Esty8nine (Twitter)
twitch.tv/esty8nine
Esty8nine on YouTube
What's Next?
We're not stopping here! We're already hard at work on the next update, will implement Daily Challenges. Daily Challenges present the same dungeon and random choices to all players, providing a fair playing field to compete. Player's will be able to compete for a daily high score and see how they stack up compared to other players.
Daily Challenges will also feature a set of modifiers that change each day. Sometimes you might have a deck consisting of only treasure chests; other days, you might get a special starting perk or other twist. We think these unique and interesting daily modifiers will help keep the game fresh and interesting, even for veterans of Krumit's Tale.
We anticipate the initial beta release of Daily Challenges will be available in the next couple weeks.
Finally, we've begun prototyping the final hero that we plan to add before exiting Early Access - Rose. Rose is cleric / healer character, with a dangerous dual personality. Although she's best known as a priestess, Rose also dabbles in the dark arts - often with cosmic consequences. Once Rose is polished, we plan to finish the homestretch towards the 1.0 release.
We're almost there, folks!