2025-08-26 16:31 UTC · Community Announcements · Troypc
A quick balance pass focused on outliers at both ends. Also we fixed the reroll button which caused problems for many players. Nerfs Omnicore Cost 12 → 13 Demoncore Cost 12 → 13 Isvasal Cooldown 8 → 10 The dominant giant gets nerfed. Tidalgrasp Cooldown 3 → 3.5 This should make it so building an aqualith makes sense. Hawkista Cost 4 → 5 Stonk Stripes Cost 3 → 4 This one might be weird, a money making cosmion getting more expensive? But it is the number 1 performing cosmion and even in builds that reach endgame, we can see multiple—which we shouldn’t. Ifry Cost 9 → 10 Dorangutan Cooldown 4.5 →
2025-05-12 05:29 UTC · Community Announcements · Troypc
Hey Duelists! NEODUEL Live Servers are Back Online 🎉 WE ARE SO BACK!!! After some issues with our server infrastructure, we had to turn NEODUEL into a single-player game, where the database was local. After separating from our previous publisher, Rogue Duck Interactive purchased all the rights to the game, and with their internal team, we got the servers back up! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44786371/3cbe359669001dc8a1e3fa4f855feb39690d8991.png Learn more: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2693940/view/525342544971695923 --- It has been a while and I missed making a patch and also a patch notes.
2025-05-12 05:20 UTC · Community Announcements · Troypc
Hello Duelists! We have great news to share; tl;dr WE ARE SO BACK!!! After some issues with our server infrastructure, we had to turn NEODUEL into a single-player game, where the database was local. After separating from our previous publisher, Rogue Duck Interactive purchased all the rights to the game, and with their internal team, we got the servers back up! We would like to deeply apologize for causing this, players purchased a game with live servers, and we will make sure to supply this service as best as possible. 🌐 SERVERS ARE ON! Welcome Back to Live Play Asynchronous multiplayer serv
2025-01-16 09:00 UTC · Community Announcements · The 4 Winds Entertainment
There have been some developments after this post, please check it out. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2693940/view/525342544971695923 We will keep this post up as an archive. --- Greetings Duelists! My name is Bahadir “Baho” Van, and I’m DiceHit Games’ Game Designer on Neoduel: Backpack Monsters, with a message on the future of our game. Since the conception of Neoduel: Backpack Monsters, creating such a game has been a significant task for us, and running an asynchronous multiplayer game server for the first time in many of our careers has made the past year especially difficult. De
2024-12-19 18:05 UTC · Community Announcements · The 4 Winds Entertainment
Happy holiday season Duelists! We're thrilled to announce the launch of NeoDuel: Backpack Monsters’ the "So much content it should be a remaster" major update. This follows November’s “Swamp” update, a major content drop for the highly-rated PvP auto-battler blending monster taming with strategic inventory management, from the Turkish indie duo of Rogue Duck Interactive and DiceHit Games. The Swamp Update (v1.1), released November 27th, introduced a fresh new fusion Element created by merging Nature and Water elements, with over 10 upgrades and Cosmions empowered by that same muddy power, alo
2024-12-12 08:55 UTC · Community Announcements · The 4 Winds Entertainment
Missed the Steam Autumn Sales? Well you're in for a treat, as Neoduel: Backpack Monster is part of the Weeklong Sales, with a 30% discount. Grab the full game and all updates included for less than 10$. Perfect timing to gift this game to your friends now before the holidays (prices are regionally adjusted, check your local store for exact pricing below). https://store.steampowered.com/app/2693940/NEODUEL_Backpack_Monsters/ Until then, for the most recent news, join the NeoDuel community by following us on Twitter or hopping into the T4W Discord server. Please contact our support channel on th
2024-12-02 17:26 UTC · GamingOnLinux
NeoDuel: Backpack Monsters from DiceHit Games, Rogue Duck Interactive and The 4 Winds Entertainment is an inventory management battler with a creature collecting / fusing twist and a fresh content update recently went live. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/inventory-management-battler-neoduel-backpack-monsters-gets-new-content-we-have-keys-to-give-away
2024-11-28 10:18 UTC · Community Announcements · The 4 Winds Entertainment
Tough love, anyone? You don’t master Cosmions overnight, but you wouldn’t want it any other way. Nominate NeoDuel: Backpack Monsters for "Best Game You Suck At" starting from today until December 4th... Unless you believe we deserve to be nominated in other categories as well? And while you're at it, we're currently taking part of Steam Autumn Sale, with a steal of a discount of 30%, perfect to gift the game to your friends. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2693940/NEODUEL_Backpack_Monsters/ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44786371/231e70b5abc7345452b759b3f664cf789420d440.jpg
2024-11-27 17:18 UTC · Community Announcements · The 4 Winds Entertainment
Brace yourselves for new Duels! We're excited to announce the first major free update to NeoDuel: Backpack Monsters (currently rated Highly Positive on Steam), our exciting PvP auto-battler that combines strategic inventory management with monster taming elements. This update, titled “The Swamp Update” (version 1.1), is now live on Steam and introduces a fresh new fusion Element by the same name, created by merging Nature and Water elements and on top of that we've done the prework on a bunch of new feature coming in the coming months including a soon™ to be released singleplayer challenges fo
2024-11-14 15:56 UTC · Community Announcements · The 4 Winds Entertainment
Salutations, Duelists! As of today, November 14th, 2024, a new patch has gone live for NeoDuel: Backpack Monsters. To experience the most recent and up to date build of NeoDuel on Steam, make sure you update your game. Here's what to expect in this patch note: NEW UPCOMING FEATURES While this is not technically getting implemented today, the patch does prepare the ground work for the game to host a new feature we had in mind for a while which is PvP custom games. While we have the casual mode to let Duelists do practice runs without fear of losing any Elo ranks, we always wanted to allow every
2024-11-07 15:34 UTC · Community Announcements · The 4 Winds Entertainment
Salutations, Duelists! As of today, November 7th, 2024, a new patch has gone live for NeoDuel: Backpack Monsters. To experience the most recent and up to date build of NeoDuel on Steam, make sure you update your game. Here's what to expect in this patch note: THE BIG UPGRADE PATCH DID SOMEONE SAY MAWR UPGRADES!? Yes indeed, and that brings a staggering amount of almost 160 Upgrades in the game with today's 13 new additional Upgrades. The new batch is just adds some missing pieces to the puzzle, and here's the full list including in order from left to right. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44786371/d36b290b
2024-10-31 14:30 UTC · Community Announcements · The 4 Winds Entertainment
Happy 1-month anniversary to all Dueslists! In today's dev blog, we're looking forward to the future after one month of launch. What were the highlights so far, some fun stats about our Duelist's performance, as well as to what to expect for the future of Neoduel: Backpack Monsters. Despite some of bugs and issues in the launch week, we are generally pleased with how the release went, and for that we'd want to take this time to thank everyone from your Duelists to our dev team and publishing partners. Everyone involved and our community has been incredibly receptive and transparent with questi
2024-10-29 15:28 UTC · Community Announcements · The 4 Winds Entertainment
Salutations, Duelists! As of today, October 29th, 2024, a hotfix patch has gone live for NeoDuel: Backpack Monsters. To experience the most recent and up to date build of NeoDuel on Steam, make sure you update your game. Here's what to expect in this hotfix patch: BUGFIXES AND KNOWN ISSUES Zone links: Fixed a bugged where zone links would not work as intended in some rare situations. Verdantclaw effects: Poor Verdantclaw keeps on being semi-unreliable these days. We've fixed an issue where Verdantclaw's effect would not trigger in a game. Game Freeze: We've seen reports of the game freezing fo
2024-10-24 14:35 UTC · Community Announcements · The 4 Winds Entertainment
Salutations, Duelists! As of Tuesday, October 1st, 2024, a new patch has gone live for NeoDuel: Backpack Monsters. To experience the most recent and up to date build of NeoDuel on Steam, make sure you update your game. Here's what to expect in this patch note: NEW FEATURES AND CONTENT New game mode: Casual runs: Last week's patch was the preparational work for introducing a new mode that allows Duelist to try new builds, combos and more without the fear of losing Elo. That mode is now live, called simply Casual mode: you'll be able to start a "normal" run (Ranked) as well as casual one, and ev
2024-10-17 13:15 UTC · Community Announcements · The 4 Winds Entertainment
Salutations, Duelists! As of Thursday, October 17th, 2024, a new patch has gone live for NeoDuel: Backpack Monsters. To experience the most recent and up to date build of NeoDuel on Steam, make sure you update your game. NEW FEATURES AND CONTENT: New game mode: Unranked - Coming Soon: We know most of you have been trying some new builds, but are worried about losing Elo while doing those experiments. We figured the Unranked mode was needed for that, for a more chill place to try and learn without the fear of dropping in ranks. The patch readies the game for it, but the mode will be coming in l
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