The tolling of the bells has been answered by Death.
One month after releasing Deck of Haunts, we're now ready to unleash the largest update yet.
It contains something a lot of you have been wanting, a higher difficulty!
Before we start off with giving you all of the info, we want to express a big thanks to our community, you give us motivation and energy to keep pumping out all of these updates.
And as always, if you like the game, a review is greatly appreciated, as it helps us a lot!
Some of the highlights:
New game mode: Nightmare (Unlocked through playing a 28-day run first).
New trap cards and trap starter deck.
Crypt room and Grim Reaper (Unlocked through completing Nightmare).
New achievement.
Portraits of dead humans now disappear to make room.
New traits.
Raised the level cap from 10 to 12.
Most importantly, we added "Jason" to the pool of names for humans, it is Friday the 13th, after all.
For those that want to know more, let's dive a little deeper.
Nightmare
Instead of just scaling some numbers to make the game more difficult, we've made an entirely new game mode: Nightmare.
In Nightmare, you will have to survive 13 Nightmares consisting of 13 nights each.
During those nights you will encounter increasingly difficult curated groups of humans, some of them even containing new traits.
To make matters even more dangerous, every Nightmare will have a specific new modifier applied to it, which will carry over to the next Nightmare.
A new mechanic & professional scythe wielder has also been introduced in Nightmare: the Grim Reaper.
Whenever you kill or drive a human insane, you will collect a soul.
Once you've filled up your meter to 13, you can exchange those souls for a visit from the Grim Reaper, who will Harvest a human in your house of your choosing.
If you can survive the final Nightmare, 13, you will have won over the confidence in your haunting skills of the Grim Reaper, and you will be able to permanently add them to your house in other game modes with the Crypt room that you'll unlock.
These are the extra unlocks you can achieve in the Nightmare mode:
Upon finishing the first Nightmare: - Card: Corpse Explosion.
Upon finishing the final Nightmare: - Room: Crypt. - Card: Sleep Paralysis. - Achievement.
Trap deck
Upon reaching XP-level 12, you will unlock the new Trap deck.
To make trap decks more viable, we've added 5 new trap cards:
Leaking Rust
Improvised Snare
Collective Toll
Amplify Agony
Dragged Under
Some smaller additions
For some quality of life and more polish, we've added some other things to the game, such as:
Death animation of the heart, when you lose a night.
Removal of portraits of dead humans.
Setting a counter of turns on humans with the "Helpline" trait.
The full changelog.
Changes
Added Hard mode with curated nights.
Added Nightmare mode with curated nights .
Added Trap Deck to deck selection.
Added new Cards:
Leaking Rust
Improvised Snare
Collective Toll
Amplify Agony
Dragged Under
Corpse Explosion
Sleep Paralysis
Added Crypt Room.
Moved modifier/totem selection to the Deck selection screen.
Added an Achievement for Completing Nightmare mode.
Removed portraits of dead Humans.
Added death animation for the heart.
Balance cards:
Deepening Shadows: Is now a rare card instead of uncommon
Unending Madness: Now costs 2 AP (From 1)
Triskaphobia: Upgraded version now costs 2 AP, Drain 2 thrice instead of 3 AP, Drain 3 thrice
Cascading mechanism: Now costs 1 AP (from 2)
Added new traits:
Martyr: Adds a useless card to your deck for the rest of the night when killed.
Destined: Dies upon reaching the Heart, takes max 1 damage 1 drain per turn.
Wary: Flees at the sight of insane humans.
Bell Crush ignores Traits that limit damage.
New basic room floor material during the day phase, also increasing its performance.
Update the amount of turns until an extra Human spawns for the Helpline Trait in the Human portraits.
Raised Level cap to 12.
Added “Jason” as name to the name-pool.
Fixed Bugs
Fixed an issue where undo didn’t always work properly for room upgrades.
Fixed Panicky trait not working properly.
Fixed the Bell Crush animation not playing on the upgraded card.
Fixed Slasher achievement tracking not resetting on the start of a new night.
Fixed a bug where insane people were not always properly targeted by some card effects (For example Guttural Pain, with Body and Soul active).
Fixed Storage Room not being selectable with a controller for cards that don’t already target it.
Fixed Under Fate’s Spell Hex count requirement is not the same as indicated on the card.
Fixed a French translation error for The Dreams Begin upgrade.
Fixed Guttural Pain also including diagonal adjacent rooms.
Fixed Helpline trait still spawning new Humans after the Human with the trait is killed.
Fixed controller scrolling on Unlocked Cards screen.
Fixed Card selection highlight disappears when going beyond the last card in the Upgrade Card screen if the Deck already contains upgraded Cards.