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Room size impacting humans and more. We need you as tester!

philippesteam_community_announcementsworkshop

20d ago

After a lot of player feedback, design discussions, and internal testing, we believe we’ve finally landed on a system that gives larger rooms a meaningful purpose without forcing us to rebalance the entire game.

With this new approach, bigger rooms will cause humans to spend more turns inside them, making room size a much more important strategic choice. It should also address one of the last major pain points we’ve seen from the community around mansion layout and room-building.

But, as we don't just want to release this system into the wild, as we -know- it will haunt people, we would love some community feedback!

Instructions as to how you can become a community play tester are located below all of these changes:

Changes

Changes to Human behavior:
- The Exploring intent (green walking icon) has been split into:
  - Exploring Room: The Human will stay in the room this turn and wander around.
  - Using Door: The explorer will move to the next room using the highlighted door.
  - Humans will enter the Exploring Room state for one turn per 8 tiles in the room. In rooms with < 8 tiles they will go straight to the Using Door state.
- Spill mechanic: Rooms have a maximum capacity of one Human per tile in the room. If this capacity is exceeded at start turn, all Humans exceeding the capacity will move to the next room. (You can disable this through a Totem)
- Skip single tile room: Humans will skip the next room if it only has one tile. They will not trigger traps. (You can disable this through a Totem)
Changes to Rooms:
- The cost of building tiles will increase per 10 tiles already in the room:
  - 1-10 tiles: 5 essence per tile
  - 10-20 tiles: 50 essence per tile
  - 20-30 tiles: 100 essence per tile (keeps increasing by 50 per 10 tiles)
- Rooms with <4 tiles are no longer valid targets for room targeting cards.

DISCLAIMER: The new system testing is only available in English, no localization has yet been done!

How to become a community tester?

The best way is to join our Discord: https://discord.gg/MhcDeypzne

Second best way: You'll have to go to Steam, navigate to Deck of Haunts and then right click --> Properties --> Betas --> And then enter the code "devtesting666".

In this build, you can also access the dev console with CTRL+ALT+D when in-game. There you can unlock everything, add essence, skip through nights, add specific cards to test, ...

You can report any feedback and bugs on the new changes mentioned above in this Google Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H2a9xg41ES9FoV2akU6XFV4UESdL1YQD4gly-cOENYU/edit?usp=sharing (Under Room size impact General Feedback and Room size impact Bugs)

If you have crashes and/or bugs you can replicate, feel free to upload your savefile here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qVODes5sDyVMPITvGhGZGVvN8KWaW-uw?usp=drive_link You can find it here: C:\\Users\\\\\AppData\\Local\\DeckOfHaunts\\Saved\\SaveGames

To all of you that take part in shaping the future of the game, thank you ❤️

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Room size impacting humans and more. We need you as tester!

philippesteam_community_announcementsworkshop

20d ago

After a lot of player feedback, design discussions, and internal testing, we believe we’ve finally landed on a system that gives larger rooms a meaningful purpose without forcing us to rebalance the entire game.

But, as we don't just want to release this system into the wild, as we -know- it will haunt people, we would love some community feedback!

Instructions as to how you can become a community play tester are located below all of these changes:

Changes

Changes to Human behavior:
- The Exploring intent (green walking icon) has been split into:
  - Exploring Room: The Human will stay in the room this turn and wander around.
  - Using Door: The explorer will move to the next room using the highlighted door.
  - Humans will enter the Exploring Room state for one turn per 8 tiles in the room. In rooms with < 8 tiles they will go straight to the Using Door state.
- Spill mechanic: Rooms have a maximum capacity of one Human per tile in the room. If this capacity is exceeded at start turn, all Humans exceeding the capacity will move to the next room. (You can disable this through a Totem)
- Skip single tile room: Humans will skip the next room if it only has one tile. They will not trigger traps. (You can disable this through a Totem)
Changes to Rooms:
- The cost of building tiles will increase per 10 tiles already in the room:
  - 1-10 tiles: 5 essence per tile
  - 10-20 tiles: 50 essence per tile
  - 20-30 tiles: 100 essence per tile (keeps increasing by 50 per 10 tiles)
- Rooms with <4 tiles are no longer valid targets for room targeting cards.

DISCLAIMER: The new system testing is only available in English, no localization has yet been done!

How to become a community tester?

The best way is to join our Discord: https://discord.gg/MhcDeypzne

Second best way: You'll have to go to Steam, navigate to Deck of Haunts and then right click --> Properties --> Betas --> And then enter the code "devtesting666".

In this build, you can also access the dev console with CTRL+ALT+D when in-game. There you can unlock everything, add essence, skip through nights, add specific cards to test, ...

To all of you that take part in shaping the future of the game, thank you ❤️

V1.40: Seven new missions and rewards!

philippesteam_community_announcements

27d ago

Apart from the changes you can find below, we are working on something big...

After a lot of player feedback, design discussions, and internal testing, we believe we’ve finally landed on a system that gives larger rooms a meaningful purpose without forcing us to rebalance the entire game.

More info on this later, including steps to join the community playtesting of the new system. Doing so, you will actually have an impact on how the game evolves!

Changes

7 new sequential missions (34-40)
Added new cards
- Fear Manifest
Added Positive Totems:
- You Have No Power Here
If a mission requires a certain room type to be built that is already present in the house, it will automatically be completed.
Clicking the escape warning now centers and highlights the escaping Human that is closest to the entrance room.
Show creature card tooltip when hovering the card of the room that spawns it.
Added the explanation of the “Act” keyword in the glossary.

Fixed Bugs

Fixed Fortified Walls totem can cause a softlock when a night would only contain pathfinders.
Fixed Mission UI appears with placeholder text when resuming from pause menu during the tutorial.
Fixed creating a new Nightmare mode run overrides the difficulty of the last played run to Nightmare.
Fixed Totems (including those from nightmare mode) stay active when creating a new run.
Fixed blacklist resetting.

If you found a bug or a crash that we haven't caught yet, let us know in the Steam Discussions, we'll have a look. (Or on our Discord, even better! https://discord.gg/MhcDeypzne)

If you like the game and the direction we're headed in, feel free to leave a review, as this helps us more than you think!👻

And again, a big thank you for playing and all your feedback ❤️

V1.39: New missions and rewards, such as story and content!

philippesteam_community_announcements

42d ago

Ever wanted to know more about some creatures or extend your card back cosmetic library? Now is your chance! If you can complete all ten new missions...

Or, if you want a new room like the "Tinker" room, you'll have to kill 3 humans in the Weapons room and drive 3 humans insane in the Bathroom to gain access! Once unlocked and built into your house, you can Drain and Damage 1 more here per 3 tiles in this room.

If you missed it, we recently had a big Quality of Life update as well:

All items from this v1.39 new missions update:

Changes

10 new sequential missions (23-33).
Add click and drag to build multiple tiles of the same type at once.
Added new cards:
- Cast Away
- Survivor’s Guilt
Added new Room:
- Tinker Room
Added Positive Totems:
- Fortified Walls - Disable Pathfinders. (We know a few players that had this on their wishlist!)
- Witness - Reduce Health and Sanity of any human witnessing your Heart to 1.
Allow for panning room navigation with controller. The room under the cursor will count as hovered and can be selected. This improves the UX of retrieving cards from the Storage Room.
Disable the rest event option to upgrade cards if all cards in the deck are upgraded.
Updated the game engine to Unreal Engine 5.6.
Update localization for the Human sorting dropdown.
Added hover tooltips to the auto Human sorting and the unexplored Room fog of war toggles.

Fixed Bugs

Don’t create a new run in the save file until it is started. This avoids the run manager filling up when going back and forth to the deck selection screen.
Fixed hovered highlight lingering after returning to the cards with a controller. This also prevented selecting a card until moving to another one.
Fixed clawing stone VFX location with controller.
Fixed story reward screen stays open when pressing A on the night end screen with a controller.
Fixed Mission UI appears with placeholder text when resuming from pause menu during a custom scenario.
Fixed the fence entrance not being created after loading an overlapping entrance pathway.

If you found a bug or a crash that we haven't caught yet, let us know in the Steam Discussions, we'll have a look. (Or on our Discord, even better! https://discord.gg/MhcDeypzne)

If you like the game and the direction we're headed in, feel free to leave a review, as this helps us more than you think!👻

And again, a big thank you for playing and all your feedback ❤️

V1.38: Big QoL Update

philippesteam_community_announcements

55d ago

While we've been working to improve the general feeling of the game, we also made time to create new missions... that will be released in the coming week(s)!

Changes

Added more parameters to the Human sorting such as distance from the heart and the option to toggle between ascending and descending.
Added a “fog of war” type effect on rooms where no humans have entered yet, to make it visually more clear the rooms are unexplored.
Added a beam of lightning between the start and end positions of a teleporting effect (ex.: Shifting Hallways) to better visualize where the target ends up.
Balance Card: Bell Crush: Change from Rare to Uncommon.
Change victory screen "End run" button to "Return to menu”. The run no longer resets and is still available to continue in the main menu or the run manager.
Auto sort is now off by default instead of on. (Sorting will automatically happen when the toggle icon has the arrows displayed next to the list/lines)
Added controller support to cycle sorting and toggle auto sort.
Added a confirmation screen when playing a Damage or Drain card on the Pumpkin Patch.
Added controller support for petting Azrael. Either by pressing up on the D-pad and cycling through the different types of selectables until Azrael is highlighted or by selecting the Entrance room when hovered.
Added a tooltip to and highlighting to Azrael.
Increased the Essence option on the Boss reward screen from 50 to 100.
Added the option to view the deck during the Boss reward screen.
The Architect achievement now only triggers on End Building.
Updated the Glossary text for Creatures.

Fixed Bugs

Fixed Crash that could happen in rare cases when completing a mission out of order.
Fixed the rest event with the building and playing card shops does not progress the night count and show another event night right after.
Fixed the SFX when hovering or clicking a locked game mode ignoring volume settings.
Fixed the Dominion achievement triggering with effects that are not nightlong.
Fixed In Despair’s Grip condition being fulfilled a turn early.
Fixed cancel on controller does not exit the current selectable hover mode.

If you found a bug or a crash that we haven't caught yet, let us know in the Steam Discussions, we'll have a look. (Or on our Discord, even better! https://discord.gg/MhcDeypzne)

If you like the game and the direction we're headed in, feel free to leave a review, as this helps us more than you think!👻

And again, a big thank you for playing and all your feedback ❤️

Deck of Haunts' Birthday Update 🥳: V1.34 Completely updated human navigation!

philippesteam_community_announcementsworkshop

83d ago

Bring out the haunted candles, for Deck of Haunts has just become 1 year old today!🕯️

And instead of receiving gifts, we're giving them out ourselves.

The 7th of May 2025 is when the haunted domain first opened its gates to let in hapless humans and feed off of them. Since then, the game has grown immensely and we still have some things to come like the changes you can read about below. Thank you for haunting with us, for your feedback, reviews, workshop scenarios, videos, articles, shout outs, thumbs up and everything else. We read and watch practically all of them, and you have helped shape the game since release day. We hope this shows in all of the updates since then, including this one!

The biggest change is the human navigation/pathfinding. When a room only has explored neighboring rooms, humans no longer take the room closest to the heart by default. They now have a random chance to take any of the other neighbors they have not visited before. This will avoid the “always beelining for the heart” behavior some players have reported. Also, humans now have a higher chance to split up from a bigger group.

Another ask from a lot of players has been to nerf Pathfinders in the Easy mode, and so we have. They are now reduced to a bare minimum.

Changes

Updated Human behavior:
- Humans have a higher chance to split up from a bigger group.
- When a room only has explored neighboring rooms, Humans no longer take the room closest to the heart by default. They now have a random chance to take any of the other neighbors they have not visited before. This will avoid the “always beelining for the heart” behavior some players have reported.
Reduced the amount of Pathfinders in the “Easy” mode to a bare minimum.
Added the option to navigate Rooms with a “cursor” using the right joystick on controller when selecting a target for a card.
Only show the red X when there are unconnected rooms in the layout. Only show it on the rooms that are not connected. Also show it on the Entrance Room and Crypt when they are not connected.
Lighting optimizations.
Allow selection of room targets with controller by hovering the cursor over them.

If you'd like to read a small interview with the devs, you can do so here:

If you're a long-time Deck of Haunts player, what is an update to the game that you feel was a good addition or change? Or if you're just new to the game, what do -you- like about it?

If you found a bug or a crash that we haven't caught yet, let us know in the Steam Discussions, we'll have a look. (Or on our Discord, even better! https://discord.gg/MhcDeypzne)

A big thank you for playing, all your feedback and reviews ❤️

May your domains be forever haunted 👻

V1.33: One Year Anniversary Update - New mission system, story and content!

philippesteam_community_announcementsworkshop

85d ago

First off, thank all of you wonderful players that have been haunting with us since day 1, and of course all those that are opening up their haunted domains for the first time.

We've got something special lined up for Deck of Haunts' one year anniversary: A free update containing a brand new mission system that brings more meta progression into the game and contains a boatload of content including a long awaited backstory!

The mission system is something we think will greatly add to the meta-progression feel, while also giving players specific targets to achieve apart from surviving/growing.

Rewards for missions will not be linked to your current XP-level, so any unlocks you get through missions, you'll be able to immediately play with.

We'll have two different systems:

Curated missions: These will be very specific missions that are paired with permanent unlocks. For instance, the mission could be "Kill a Master Stonemason in the Heart room.", and the reward for that would be a positive gameplay totem “Witness”, which reduces Health and Sanity of any human witnessing your Heart to 1. Unlocks for the curated missions could be cards, rooms, story, totems and more.

Generic missions: These will be less specific and will activate when you've completed all the curated missions (and will deactivate again if there would be an update of the game containing more curated missions.). They are paired with in-run rewards. For instance, the mission could be "Raise Tension to max for 5 humans in 1 night.", and the reward for that would be "Next night all humans spawning skip their first turn.".

Missions that are not completed will carry to new nights/runs. There currently is a batch of 22 curated missions, with more to come later this month!

Story

Going through reviews and feedback, this seemed like an area that a lot of players found they needed more, so now, there is more!

Story unlocks will be linked to the Curated mission system, for instance the first time you drive a human insane in the same room as the Witch, you'll get her backstory as a reward.

(FULL CHANGELIST BELOW!)

As this is the games' anniversary, we've also compiled some thoughts from the team at Mantis Games about the one year that has passed since release:

What are your thoughts and feelings about Deck of Haunts as a project to work on and as a game, one year after launch?

Philippe - Producer & VFX Artist I think not only did the game grow after launch, but our team became more tightly knit as it was our first -own- project together, and I am very grateful for both! I think we can be proud of Deck of Haunts both as a game and a project, and think back on it someday in the far far future with positive nostalgia.
Tim - Senior Programmer I am very happy to see how far Deck of Haunts has come in the year since launch. At the time of release, we felt like there were so many things we still wanted to do. By now, pretty much all these things have been added and then some. I didn’t expect we could keep adding so much content.
Willem - 3D Artist & SFX I am proud of what we have achieved with Deck of Haunts as a team. It was our first IP with this team, and the game itself was challenging to create. We all loved the game, but also for our own specific reasons which I think made the design process much more effective. Those early meetings were a great foundation for Deck of Haunts.
San - Senior 3D Artist I think it’s amazing to see what has been achieved in such a short timespan. A lot of design issues were solved very practically and we had a great workflow with such a small team. Everyone had their specific roles in the project but it was also nice to meet together and talk about every aspect and how we could improve it together. Also seeing our game being played by so many people and streamers on a global scale was amazing to witness.

What is something you would have done differently and something you think worked out well?

Philippe - Producer & VFX Artist It is always easy with hindsight, but I would have definitely released in Early Access first, especially knowing that we have grown the game to probably become 2-3x larger/more complex than it was at 1.0 release. It would have probably cut us some slack with reviews 👀. The combination of growing/building the house and crafting your deck/haunting the humans has worked out rather well, as players that do not like deckbuilding games did like deck of haunts, which is awesome.
Tim - Senior Programmer The building system went through so many changes, both big and small. By now it has become a huge cluster of old and new things and it would be nicer to just remake the parts we truly need. The card system on the other hand has proven to be very robust and flexible when it comes to adding new functionality.
Willem - 3D Artist & SFX With hindsight a more solid foundation and system from the start for our characters and their interaction with the world would have been nice. We are not specialised in this area which meant we had to learn on the go or work with the little experience we had with it. It was something that needed a lot of adjustment and changes, but with a limited foundation this was a challenge. “You are the evil haunted house” This idea has worked out very well. I think it is what has drawn a lot of our players to the game, it’s a fun twist that worked well with our game.
San - Senior 3D Artist Adding statistics tracking and in-game bug reports. Right now we look at feedback and forum posts but sometimes it’s hard to know if the silent majority agrees with that.

What is your favorite review you’ve gotten from a player?

Philippe - Producer & VFX Artist “A terrific turn based haunted house game. Best in class.” - Coming from a player that had 410 hours of playtime when they wrote the review a month ago, and has a whopping 545.9 hours in total now 👀💖.
Tim - Senior Programmer Seeing any review from a player with more than 50 hours in the game always blows my mind.
Willem - 3D Artist & SFX “I have never been a house before, but I think I like it.” Seeing players enjoy the twist that Deck of Haunts brings is always a pleasure.
San - Senior 3D Artist I love the extreme short ones “good”, “+1”, like a waiter asking if you’re enjoying your meal but your mouth is still full.

What is something you would like to tell all past, current and future players?

Philippe - Producer & VFX Artist You’ve been amazing for all of your Steam Discussion and Discord posts, where you have actively thought about Deck of Haunts’ design and actually helped to shape the direction of the game since launch, it has been very motivating to read! And of course, reading all those positive reviews, especially from players that spent tens or even hundreds of hours in the game, was a salve for the soul. (Well, a haunted soul.)
Tim - Senior Programmer Thank you for your feedback and bug reports. This has allowed us to make Deck of Haunts into the best version it could possibly be, not just for us, but also for the people actually playing our game.
Willem - 3D Artist & SFX Thank you for giving Deck of Haunts a go and for forming the game with us. Your input and feedback is important and is a huge form of motivation for us as a team.
San - Senior 3D Artist I’d like to thank everyone for their passion, playing the game, providing feedback. It’s amazing to see something you made being enjoyed by so many.

As a team, we're also interested in your thoughts about Deck of Haunts, on how it currently plays and how you've seen it evolve since its release. So, feel free to comment on this post, we'll be reading!

Changes

Added new cards
- Moment of Calm
- Before the Veil
Added new Rooms
- Inverted Room
- Trapdoor Room
Added Positive Totem:
- Bad Vibes
Added Human Trait:
- Blessed - Reduces AP by one while alive, but double essence when killed. (Only one per night max)
Added a mission system:
- 22 sequential missions.
- 11 randomized mission that appear after all sequential missions are completed.
- A tab in the collection where you can view the missions and their rewards.
- Story rewards that provide extra lore about the House and it’s Creatures.
- Card back cosmetic rewards.
- Permanent (across runs) Room upgrade rewards.
Made the “End Turn” keybinding (’E’ by default) compatible with the continue buttons during gameplay. For example on the night overview screen with the calendar.
Secret custom portraits will show up in the intro newspaper for a boss night when the name of the unit marked as “boss unit” is on the list of secret names.

Fixed Bugs

Fixed a crash that could happen when loading a custom layout from the scenario builder that contains an upgraded room adjacent to the entrance room.
Fixed Cubic Stone totem not applied when starting a custom scenario with a custom house layout.
Fixed a navigation issue with props blocking doors in the Laboratory.
Fixed subscribed scenarios not updating in game after an update on the workshop.

A big thank you for playing, all your feedback and reviews ❤️

May your domains be forever haunted 👻

V1.29: New content, a card shop and QoL updates.

philippesteam_community_announcements

131d ago

Spring has almost arrived in the Northern Hemisphere, and we have a bunch of updates to come with it!

A few highlights from todays' update:

The Asylum room and Lunatic.

You now have the ability to build the Asylum room, which will turn humans that you drive insane in that room, into Lunatics. The Lunatics will then run like a maniac straight to the Heart room to die there, and will do Sanity damage to every Human they come across while moving there. The Sanity damage will be equal to the amount of rooms they have crossed since they've left the Asylum.

A card shop.

We've added a card shop to the possible event nights to buy extra room and playing cards with essence.

Quality of life updates.

Frequently not spotting those pesky Pathfinders entering your domain? You'll get a warning from now on!

You can now also play room cards on Human portraits, and they will play in the room they're in, scroll through the Human portraits without zooming in/out of the house and see all the cards you've Banished this night.

There are more changes, as you can read here below:

Changes

Added new Room:
- Asylum
Added new Creature:
- Lunatic
Added a card shop to the possible event nights to buy extra cards with essence.
Fixed some of the hair meshes on the female characters to improve performance.
Make sure the hover tooltip window is in a fixed location when using a controller.
Added the option to see all cards that were Banished this night.
Cards sacrificed using the Sacrificial room now also count as Banished and will trigger any Banish synergies.
Added a warning popup when Pathfinders enter the house.
Add new card frame for upgraded cards.
Room cards can now be played on the portraits of Humans and will apply to the room they are in.
VFX:
- Added some VFX to the Rehearsal Room to indicate there will be an effect triggering next turn.
- Reworked the Hidden Corpse (Trap), Endless tolling (Trap), Collective toll (Trap) and Outmaneuver (Trap) VFX so its more easy to see that the room is trapped.
- Fixed Amplify Agony VFX not showing on the rooms.
Fixed some prop collisions to optimize performance.

Fixed Bugs

Fixed card selection and highlighting when discarding using a controller.
Fixed the tooltip staying active during the intro camera sweep.
Fixed an exploit using the reaper ability.
Fixed scrolling through the LOG or Human portraits will zoom when reaching the end.
Removed the AP gain from playing upgraded Deepening Shadows. It only applies when discarded like the description says.
Repaired normal maps on the window walls meshes.

Missed our previous "Deck of Haunts future" post? Check it out here:

If you found a bug or a crash that we haven't caught yet, let us know in the Steam Discussions, we'll have a look. (Or on our Discord, even better! https://discord.gg/MhcDeypzne)

If you like the game and the direction we're headed in, feel free to leave a review, as this helps us more than you think!👻

And again, a big thank you for playing and all your feedback ❤️

Deck of Haunts future

philippesteam_community_announcements

139d ago

While you are trying your best to kill or drive every visitor you get insane, we're working on more tools for you to do so. We thought it would be nice to lay out a few things that Deck of Haunts will be getting in the future, through free updates!

A few big things

Mission system

The biggest thing we're working on at the moment is a mission system. It's something we think will greatly add to the meta-progression feel, while also giving players specific targets to achieve apart from surviving/growing.

Rewards for missions will not be linked to your current XP-level, so any unlocks you get through missions, you'll be able to immediately play with.

We'll have two different systems:

Missions that are not completed will carry to new nights/runs.

Story

Going through reviews and feedback, this seemed like an area that a lot of players found they needed more, so, there will be more!

Story unlocks will be linked to the Curated mission system, for instance the first time you drive a human insane in the same room as the Witch, you'll get her backstory as a reward.

A few other things

Card shop

We'll be introducing a card shop where you could buy cards in exchange for Essence, during a random "?" event night.

Quality of Life

Including for example:

A popup that warns you of Pathfinders that just entered your haunted domain.
New card frame for upgraded cards.
Room cards will be able to be played on the portrait of a human, and then they'll play out on the room that that human is in.

Content

There will be a ton of new content including cards, rooms, totems, story and even card deck skins.

A sneak peek of one of the new items: The Lunatic and the Inverted Room. What O what could they do 👀:

What are your thoughts on these incoming updates to Deck of Haunts? We'd love to hear some feedback!

A big thank you for playing, all your feedback and reviews ❤️

May your domains be forever haunted 👻

V1.26: Scenario Builder Public Beta Release with Steam Workshop integration!

philippesteam_community_announcementsworkshop

166d ago

The scenario builder allows players to completely customize a run and upload it to the Steam Workshop. So from now on, you can share your own and play other people's haunted creations.

Our team will also go through the Workshop weekly, looking for cool scenarios. Starting next week-ish, we will be selecting player created scenarios, for a new "Custom" game mode! So do not forget to vote on your favorite scenarios. FYI: We've also uploaded a custom made scenario by us, to the Workshop just now: Now, what can you do in said scenario builder?

Create a custom starting layout for the house. Rooms can be marked as not removable.
Pick any starting deck.
Set the amount of starting essence.
Option to disable the building phase, forcing the player to use the defined house layout.
Set any forced Totems for your scenario.
Completely customize the nights, waves and Humans in the scenario:
- Add rest or boss nights.
- Add custom newspaper intro text for boss nights.
- Customize the name, class, health, sanity and traits of the Humans.
- Add a custom text when someone wins or loses your run.
- Drag and drop to reorder nights and waves.
Set a title, description and thumbnail for Steam Workshop.
Play any scenario you subscribed to in the Steam Workshop.

It is as stated still a beta version, so expect some hiccups still!

Apart from the scenario builder, there are a few changes/fixes in the update:

Changes

Torment and Phobia rooms only show up in card rewards when the player already has a Thorn or Phantom room or card respectively.

Fixed Bugs

Fixed christmas tree collisions in the heart room
Fixed the size of the Chilling Cold Decal
Fixed heart death animation for the support room
Fixed collisions of the golden statues in the support rooms

If you found a bug or a crash that we haven't caught yet, let us know in the Steam Discussions, we'll have a look. (Or on our Discord, even better! https://discord.gg/MhcDeypzne)

If you like the game and the direction we're headed in, feel free to leave a review, as this helps us more than you think!👻

And again, a big thank you for playing and all your feedback. We cannot wait to play your creations ❤️

Deck of Haunts news & patch notes

After a lot of player feedback, design discussions, and internal testing, we believe we’ve finally landed on a system that gives larger rooms a meaningful purpose without forcing us to rebalance the entire game.

How to become a community tester?

To all of you that take part in shaping the future of the game, thank you ❤️

Deck of Haunts news & patch notes

After a lot of player feedback, design discussions, and internal testing, we believe we’ve finally landed on a system that gives larger rooms a meaningful purpose without forcing us to rebalance the entire game.

How to become a community tester?

To all of you that take part in shaping the future of the game, thank you ❤️

Apart from the changes you can find below, we are working on something big...

Ever wanted to know more about some creatures or extend your card back cosmetic library? Now is your chance! If you can complete all ten new missions...

If you missed it, we recently had a big Quality of Life update as well:

All items from this v1.39 new missions update:

While we've been working to improve the general feeling of the game, we also made time to create new missions... that will be released in the coming week(s)!

Apart from this small batch of fixed bugs, we're also working on some new missions for a future update 👀

As we're heading into a long weekend (at least in Belgium!), we first want to unleash some changes and fixes.

Bring out the haunted candles, for Deck of Haunts has just become 1 year old today!🕯️

And instead of receiving gifts, we're giving them out ourselves.

First off, thank all of you wonderful players that have been haunting with us since day 1, and of course all those that are opening up their haunted domains for the first time.

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As this is the games' anniversary, we've also compiled some thoughts from the team at Mantis Games about the one year that has passed since release:

As a team, we're also interested in your thoughts about Deck of Haunts, on how it currently plays and how you've seen it evolve since its release. So, feel free to comment on this post, we'll be reading!

A few big things

Mission system

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A few other things

Card shop

Quality of Life

Content

Steam news for Deck of Haunts