Hello Dragon Hunters,
Dragonkin: The Banished is now available in Early Access!
It’s time to sharpen your weapons, harness your skills, and begin THE hunt!
Get a glimpse of what awaits you in the world of Dragonkin with our Early Access Launch Trailer.
To celebrate the beginning of the Early Access we are doing a 20% Discount for 2 weeks from now!
Get Dragonkin: The Banished now:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1863430/Dragonkin_The_Banished/
The team has been hard at work fixing the major issues and making last-minute tweaks to ensure the best possible Early Access experience.
A huge shoutout to our Discord community and players in our Steam forum for your feedback on the demo has been invaluable in identifying bugs.
What’s in Early Access launch?
At launch, you'll be able to choose from 3 playable classes: Knight, Oracle, and Barbarian.
Pick your Wyrmling from Fire, Ice, Electric, or Toxic types.
Explore the City of Montescail and upgrade it.
A prologue and the chapter 1 of the story.
Endgame content includes Dungeon Purification and the Hunting Board, offering replayable hunts and rewards.
You can also adjust the difficulty across 11 available settings to tailor your experience.
More information below:
Playable classes, Wyrmlings & Ancestral Grid
You'll be able to choose between 3 playable classes after the prologue. Each class has its own unique skills.
In the future, we'll be expanding each class with additional active skills.
- Knight
- Oracle
- Barbarian
To know more about it check:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1863430/view/516325296815734848
You'll be able to choose from 4 types of Wyrmlings, which act as a specialization for your characters, each with its own skill tree and skills.
- Fire
- Ice
- Electric
- Toxic
Fragments of varying rarities (commun, uncommon, rare, legendary and mythic).
A Fragment is made up of one to five hexagons. Each hexagon can contain:
- A character's skill or Wyrmling's skill : One per Fragment (a fragment can come without any skill)
- One or more modifier(s): which enhance skills using a “Keyword” system.
To know more about it check: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1863430/view/508444538590724447
Itemization & City of Monstescail
Equipment from common to mythic, along with divine and draconic items.
To know more about it check: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1863430/view/506195274633317929
You will be able to earn city XP and unlock developments as well as various bonuses.
Some city upgrades grant bonuses, such as the Abbey, which provides attribute points to all characters, or the Pythia, which increases the size of the Ancestral Grid.
Of course, more buildings and customization options will be added to your city throughout Early Access.
Here the list of all the services at Early Access launch:
- Crafting
- Jailer
- Ornamentalist
- Apothecary
- Jeweller
- Other services
- Dark merchant
- Training ground
- Bonus
- Abbey
- Pythie
- And more
To know more about it:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1863430/view/508445806184891240
Story, Endgame & Difficulties
During the prologue, you'll be able to play as the Knight, Oracle, and Barbarian.
The Tracker is also featured but is work in progress and isn’t playable outside of the prologue until a future update planned for the Summer.
At the start of Chapter 1, you begin as a young recruit of the Dragon Hunters at level 1. This is where your journey begins!
- Prologue
- Chapter 1
For the Early Access launch, you will have access to endgame content.
It includes the Hunt Board (offering unique rewards) and Chaos Hunts. These activities feature various missions and dungeon purifications. You’ll learn more about them directly in the game!
Dungeon Purification involves eliminating a certain number of enemies to access a room where a draconic rift will open, triggering a special battle.
The Hunt Board offers a variety of hunts for draconic creatures. Each hunt have settings, with different durations, modifiers, difficulty levels, and rewards.
Hunts from the Hunt Board are replayable, but rewards can only be obtained once.
Chaos Hunts allow you to create your own hunts using parameters unlocked on the board.
- Hunting board
- Dungeon Purification
You can adjust the difficulty between 11 settings, we plan to add 5 more later on.
- Hard - Unlocks draconic equipment
- Desolation 1 - Unlocks mythical equipment
- Desolation 3 - Unlocks mythical ingredients
- Calamity 1 - Unlocks divine items
About Steam Deck
We know a lot of our fans have been asking about Dragonkin on the Steam Deck. In a perfect world, I would be using this section of our dev blog to tell you that we’d been Steam verified, but we still have a little optimization work to do on Steam Deck throughout Early Access.
That doesn’t mean that Dragonkin isn’t playable on Steam Deck, you should be able to start your adventure without any major problems. There may be some cases where text may be a little difficult to read, or the framerate drops a little. If you notice any big issues while playing on Steam Deck, please let us know!
Thank you for joining us for Early Access
We're super excited to welcome you into Early Access. One of the things we wanted to do was reward users who joined us at different points during the journey. As part of that, we've created a cosmetic founders pack that can be added to your account. Grab it now to prove you were here at the start of Early Access!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3462450/Dragonkin_The_Banished__Founder_Pack_1/
Hop on the Discord server
We are excited to read about what your Ancestral Grid will looks like, skills you're going to use and Wyrmling you’ll pick on your hunts, so come join our Discord server and join our community.
What’s your favorite character? Have you discovered any cool builds you want to share?
If you have any questions about the game be sure to visit our F.A.Q.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1863430/view/508445172204307116
There is still much more to come!
