Hello Oracles,
I hope you have been enjoying the Astrea demo during the Steam Next Fest! A few days ago I announced Austra the 4th of the 6 playable oracles in Astrea. I want to take the time to recap the 4 oracles we have shown off as well as a couple dev logs about map pathing and sentinels. If you haven’t had a chance to try out the demo, be sure to check it out before Steam Next Fest ends.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1755830/Astrea_SixSided_Oracles/
Sentinel Dev Log
Sentinels are good, little buddies you can buy at the sentinel shop, pick up from random events or earn after defeating bosses! Each unique sentinel has their own unique die which you roll every turn. You can only have two sentinels active at the same time so picking the sentinels that fit your strategy is a must!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1755830/view/3614731806343429328?l=english
Map Pathing Dev Log
What does the map that you move through look like? What sorts of decisions can you make? Why might you choose some of the destinations on your journey? In this dev log we took the time to break down some of the nodes you will find on the map to better understand the path ahead of you.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1755830/view/3636124153041431264?l=english
Moonie
Moonie is a scholar using wisdom and intellect to enhance and manipulate her dice, Moonie's specialty in converting corruption to purification and undoing the curse of hex dice will carry you to victory!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4YmrM7Arr0
Cellarius
Cellarius is a heavy hitting berserker, dealing tons of purification but in return taking a lot of corruption as well. Managing that damage taken is the key to success with Cellarius.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5r8r5_rtMc
Hevelius
Hevelius, The Ancient Warden is a massively armored robot crocodile who protects and empowers his little sentinel buddies to make purifying the corruption in the galaxy a team effort!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xgLVwQTiDQ
Austra
Austra is about probability and manipulating odds to give you a favorable outcome. Their dice pool includes crit chances and dodge chances. Critical will increase the purification you will deal and dodging will, well dodge corruption that the enemy may apply.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr_bS-YCmfs
There are two more Oracles left to reveal, each with their new unique mechanics and dice that I can’t wait to dive into soon.
My good friend Buddy, the marketing lead for Akupara Games and self-proclaimed best Astrea player in the world, will be streaming Astrea on Steam this Thursday at 11am PST and Friday at 11am PST!
-riv otter