2025-01-11 15:52 UTC · Community Announcements · Konstanty
Hello everyone, happy New Year! It’s time for our yearly roadmap post. The previous year was tumultuous, for both the gamedev industry and us with the launch of Hellcard 1.0, technology changes, and team shuffling. We are now well posed for a productive 2025, so let’s talk about Thing Trunk Past, Present, and Future. The Past Hellcard The biggest externally visible event of the past year was the launch of Hellcard 1.0 and Bruja DLC. Both performed well, which wasn’t a given. We launched during a period of many, many failed launches of good games that went under without even making a ripple. Af
2024-11-05 20:43 UTC · Community Announcements · Konstanty
The Archduck, often seen lurking next to adversaries in both Hellcard and Book of Demons. An innocent duck with the wrong friends? Or an evil mastermind, subtly pulling the strings from the shadows? Now you can also befriend this somewhat sinister fowl and see if you end up running your own paper dungeon. Don't blame us if a party of heroes kicks in your doors sometime down the road, though! We have joined forces with Makeship to see if there is enough interest in Archduck plushies. If there is they will bring Archduck plushie into the physical realm. They are the same guys who did Rimworld pl
2024-03-24 12:06 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
As of writing this, you've got around 24 hours left to claim Book of Demons as a free game over on GOG. A hack-and-slash dungeon crawler in the vein of Diablo, Path of Exile, and Last Epoch, Book of Demons also adds some light card deck elements to its paper-inspired visuals, while a unique system lets you set the size of your quests as well. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New games: Book of Demons mixes deck building with dungeon crawling
2024-01-16 18:08 UTC · Community Announcements · Konstanty
As you might already know, Book of Demons continues in our next game, a co-op deckbuilder Hellcard. Which, coincidentally, is going to leave Early Access in the coming weeks. All the heroes you know from Book of Demons are already in Hellcard and now we are testing the fourth class. Someone new who isn't present in the Book of Demons' line-up. Once we are satisfied with the balance we will lock in the launch date. We also thought it would be a good idea to bundle both games since it's the same universe. Not sure why we didn't do that earlier. Anyway, without further ado, the Hellcard x Book of
2023-02-23 15:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun
A new month is on the horizon which can mean only one thing: more gaming freebies. Amazon Prime members can snag seven free games throughout March, with 90s RPG Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition leading the pack, followed by the cute puzzler (and undercover horror game) I Am Fish. New games are available every Thursday, so scribble that day into your calendars. Read more
2023-01-30 17:06 UTC · Community Announcements · Konstanty
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/12639450/4f849f5475a48f51d3d02c6aaf950db030d42c54.png We went quiet for a while but for a good reason; the Hellcard's closed beta was raging behind the scenes. We had our hands full balancing and adding quality-of-life stuff to the game. At the same time, we were making plans for the launch. Finally, the time is upon us. Launching on 16 February Mark your calendars, wishlist, and tell your friends. This train can't be stopped: Hellcard is releasing into Early Access on the 16th of February. Why Early Access, some of you might ask. Those who participated in the Early Access o
2023-01-30 17:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun
It's been a hot minute since the papercraft Diablo-like Book Of Demons last stomped through these monster-infested halls, but developer Thing Trunk are back today with news of the next chapter in their dungeon-crawling fantasy series. Hellcard will continue the story of Book Of Demons when it launches into Steam early access on February 16th, but instead of slicing up devil flesh in traditional hack and slash fashion, this time you'll be building decks of cards to tackle each dungeon layer as a roguelike. Read more
2022-12-21 15:35 UTC · Community Announcements · Konstanty
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/12639450/28ee8ec713bc41c0706e58e8afde0e8c62164427.jpg Good news everyone! First of all, the game now includes the Czech language! This is thanks to the excellent community translator who took the time to translate the game and worked with us to integrate the translation. We also, finally, got the official playable verification for Steam Deck! The only thing holding us back from getting that green tick is the text size in the game, which is a tiny bit smaller than required for the Steam Deck. Aside from that everything works and the game runs perfectly. Since the text size pr
2022-04-19 14:14 UTC · Community Announcements · Konstanty
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/12639450/9475e9b87f57346eba854adafd87c2f04c102321.png Although we work hard on the next titles in the series, we of course keep maintaining and updating Archdemon's dungeons. Like we could stop ːarchduckː Ukrainian translation Without any further ado, the first and the biggest news of this update is the addition of Ukrainian community translations! Other stuff (read: bug fixes) We have also found and fixed multiple minor issues with other languages. There were also some controller issues and crash bugs that are no more. Full changelog: Ukrainian language is now available tha
2022-03-01 15:35 UTC · Community Announcements · Konstanty
Update 18.3.2022: We posted this statement and raised the price in order to draw the attention of Russian players to our statement so they could see what is happening in Ukraine in their name. It worked. We received a lot of angry and grateful feedback both from Russians supporting and hating this war. Since then we have joined other studios and halted sales of Book of Demons in Russia and Belarus until further notice. Owners of the game will continue to be able to play it. Supporters will still receive all the content. Again, this is not an action aimed at Russian and Belarussian players, alt
2021-10-26 15:13 UTC · Community Announcements · Konstanty
https://i.imgur.com/nintCMW.gif It's October so the Town is also celebrating. You would think they had enough scary stuff going on with the Archdemon and the whole undead invading the land but apparently, there is always room for more! Pumpkins, last year sweets, spider nets, and paper skeletons are dragged out of cellars and dusted off. Coincidentally, this all is also done by paper skeletons! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/12639450/f6c7b53d4b04f890f5b506ead8597a4cf70d1733.png This also means that “Limited Edition Spooky Challenges” are back starting from 10/26 until 11/2. Here is a rundown: 7th sense: k
2021-10-21 12:17 UTC · Community Announcements · Konstanty
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/12639450/c18e5bce439dd557cf4791c819ccbb8719c6fa54.jpg It's been a while since we have released an update. Rest assured, though: we are committed to the long-term support of the Book of Demons. We are simply bundling fixes in larger batches. Without further ado, This Update's Highlights! Better backups, safer saves! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/12639450/66c46e9408fd178fe616201aa204436d405216f5.jpg There have been issues with saves being corrupted due to power outages. Each time we tried to recover the saves by hand and sometimes we succeeded. Now we are adding a two-tier automatic back
2021-08-11 18:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Konstanty
Hello! It's been a while since the last progress update and we are sorry it took us so long to write them. Matt opens a new era of regular updates with a lenghty blogpost on why making games takes so long and what is our current status. As I said it's lenghty but there are also concepts and renders from new projects sprinkled in there, so hopefully it will be a worthy click and read! You can find the full post here, on our blog. And here is a taste of these new images and concepts ːarchduckː {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/12639450/5a17fb1784a21f60453867c41ce9b34ea5056ae4.png As I mentioned this post usher
2021-01-29 14:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Mathyou
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/12639450/242ff6ac5b98d77053ab505fb07c7474c20dbabf.png Our last roadmap began with the words ‘2019 was a particularly chaotic time for all of us here.’ Oh boy, were we in for a big surprise, because we all know how 2020 turned out. But was it really all that bad? Let’s find out! In the roadmap for 2020, we announced not one but two new projects: Hellcard and Book of Aliens. Internally, we had big (not to say brazen) plans: to find and onboard five new team members and finish moving into the new office. What we didn’t exactly plan for was abandoning our new office pretty much
2020-12-29 18:01 UTC · Community Announcements · Mathyou
Liven up your Steam profile with brand new animated frames and backgrounds to stand out among other players! The Steam Points Shop allows you to spend your hard earned points on emoticons, profile backgrounds, and avatar frames related to various games, including Book of Demons. While we already had some items in the past, such as the lovely archduck emote ːarchduckː or paper skull ːpaperdeathː, they were static and didn't do much (apart from looking good, of course). This time we've added something more lively that will bring your Steam profile to life! https://i.imgur.com/zLDrikl.gif The new
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