Desktop Dungeons: Rewind news & patch notes

Not convinced yet? Well, let us convince you!

Things that Desktop Dungeons: Rewind guarantees:

🐐 Brain-teasing fun-geons! (I will admit that's a stretch) 🐐 Daily tests of your skill in D.E.R.P missions 🐐 Losing your D.E.R.P streak as Goatperson

Things that Desktop Dungeons: Rewind does not guarantee:

❌ The accurate and persistent balancing of the Goatperson ❌ Economic stability ❌ Your safety Oh, and here's the teaser we promised. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/042ee22294cc1a1f9ca9c336aaa6fe2edd7bd057.gif That is all. Have a good day! - QCF Design

We're not lying about getting 30% off of Desktop Dungeons: Rewind. We would never do that (and we don't think Steam would let us...) What we're lying about is that it's not really winter. If you didn't know, QCF Design is based in South Africa. We make games here, and it's the middle of summer! Sunny days, ice-creams, braais, and beaches. Southern Hemisphere stuff at this time of year. And we're NOT about to make winter assets when it's 28°C (83°F) outside. Because that feels silly. So enjoy the "winter" sale, spread the love, and give the gift of Desktop Dungeons: Rewind for 30% off! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/c5d4397384f4a0528106b318a70b60f5884a502a.png Lots of love from the sunny southern hemisphere, - QCF Design 💖🌞👒

Hark, Kingdom Administrators, Ye olde Steam Awards are upon us again and we’d love your support! Nominate Desktop Dungeons: Rewind as the “Best Game you Suck At” using the button above. Given that only 1.4% of our players have managed to complete their kingdom, we think you all know how brutal this game can be. Heck, only 60% of you have managed to kill an enemy 1 level above you and that’s the easiest in-game strat. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/6a5686978e4c8316da668421b6bdbaa7439474b3.png Follow us on Twitter and join our Discord! See you round, Administrator.

Hello Administrators! We’re excited to announce that Desktop Dungeons: Rewind has been updated with Japanese language support! The great and illustrious Bliz volunteered to translate the game, all 65,000 words of it… We’re not kidding. It’s a mammoth task, and this contribution to the Desktop Dungeons community is amazing. Being able to launch the result of such hard work to the rest of you is a privilege, thank you Bliz! We’re also opening our kingdom gates to other community driven translations! If you’re serious about bringing your language to the table, join our Discord and we’ll talk from there! We look forward to hearing from you. - QCF Design {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/e0b8789c30257cde2e0514a2c1b5a554a4b2b8a7.gif

“Who is the Goatperson? For the hungry, they are water. For the sick, they are a broken kettle. For the sad, they are a kick to the shin. For the poor, they are late stage capitalism. For the debtor, they are a well aimed blunt instrument to the knee.” {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/b8858dec465752118a2b17961a542456fabf7737.png My time has come. Today is the day I write about… the Goatperson. The Goatperson was a sick joke for people who complained that the game was “not roguelike enough,” and a way to thank everyone who supported the game during development (we say thanks in strange ways.) And now I’m going to “explain” how to play this beautiful abomination of a class. Here’s a GIF showing what it feels like to play Goatperson: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/8bcaa2b70dc13bc1ddb8037a92771ef64562e749.gif

Abilities

🐐 Scapegoat - Randomly worships a new god per level, no conversion or desecration 🐐 Prototype - No restoration effects on level-up, gold instead of trophies 🐐 Herbivore - Eats food while exploring. Killing enemies yields more food So let’s sum it up: you can die of starvation, have no choice in which God you worship, and don’t heal when you level up. Great. Scapegoat is by far the strangest trait in the game. Starting a run, you’ll automatically be worshipping a God and their altar will be revealed on the map. You won’t get any piety for the initial worship, and will not gain any of the glyphs they'd usually give you. When you level up, your worship will be forcefully changed to another God. You’ll have 3 gods in total that will be switched between. Something worth keeping in mind is that Gods can give boons that will make other Gods ruin your run. If Dracul gives you Life Steal through Blood Hunger, you better pray that Glowing Guardian isn’t in your pool. Otherwise, well, uh… BG I guess. Prototype hampers you immensely, forcing you to reveal tiles or quaff potions to heal up. Bye bye, well timed level ups! To somewhat make up for this, your conversion bonus is a full health and mana restore… Except it costs 100 conversion points which increases by 10 every time you use it. Oh, did I mention that it doesn’t cure mana burn and poison like levelling up does? Yeah, you’ll need potions or a divine intervention to help you with that. Herbivore is just here to make your life even more difficult. Whenever you reveal a new tile, you’ll heal up as per usual and eat one goat food. However, if you don’t have goat food you’ll take damage and drain mana instead. You start with 90 goat food, and gain 9 every time you kill an experience-valuable monster. This means using Imawal is usually a bad idea because you’re petrifying your food. “Eating rocks is not recommended.” - local health care professional. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/1fce463b17cf9db5f6a9c7d371724b9e3367c1d3.gif

Prayers for the Goatperson

When playing the goat person, there are only 2 things you can do: play as well as you can, and pray. Here are some prayers I would recommend: 🔪 Taurog, grant me the strength and fortitude to slay my foes, for I am meagre. ✨ Mystera, provide me magic, for Burndayraz was in the corner of the map. 🌲 Earthmother, forgive me for consuming monsters, for I am hungry. Bah. 💸 Tikki, thank you for accepting cash, for I have nothing else to offer. 👀 Jehora, please don’t randomly poison or mana burn me, for I have no potions left. 📜 Glowing Guardian, bestow on me your Prayer Beads to restore my faith, for I have no hope. 🩸 Dracul, I beg that you are by my side when fighting the boss, for I am weak. 🤝 Pactmaker, give me a slight edge in this dungeon, for I am a pillow in a sword fight. 🗿 Binlor, I am a mere pebble, give me the resistance to least be a small rock. Please. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/c5c9d3c34328844843bc40ccb80889282cc7b81e.png (Thanks to Eable on our Discord for the ideas!)

Glyphs

🐐 Wonafyt - The Goatperson’s food delivery service of choice! Wonafyt teleports an enemy next to the player and slows them. It first teleports monsters that are the same level as the player, and then will teleport lower levels when there are none. Use this to make sure you don’t starve™. 🐐 Pisorf - How do you b(l)eat two bosses at once? You headbutt them into each other! If you can line them up, use this glyph to damage both bosses at once while converting your other items for refills on your health and mana. 🐐 Burndayraz - As you might have guessed by this point, the Goatperson is more parts prey than predator. You’d also be a lot more scared of your prey if they could throw fireballs at you. While you have no bonus to damage like other classes, Burndayraz scales linearly with your level and is almost always useful. It’s worth preparing Flame Magnet to make sure you can get through the first couple levels. One other very useful glyph is Bludtupowa. Bludtopowa costs health to use, reveals tiles, and restores mana. The great thing is that it reveals 3 tiles but only costs one food. This why you can peak into the fog while saving your snacks for later. As per usual, using what you find is important. Getindare will eventually save you from getting hit and therefore save food, Halpmeh can help with using your tiles efficiently, and Weytwut can get you out of tight spots. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/2a3ff075fb4f833279b9b5d42d6c0a69d3ea0ed8.png The Goatperson actually has some awesome lore behind them, and existed before any other Kin! If you join our Discord and ask, we have a local lore fanatic who'll gladly tell you about it ːbleatyː Otherwise, that's all we have for today! Here are some chilled goats to make your day. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1976950/Desktop_Dungeons_Rewind/ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/55db3c274ee8e68f0bde8546ac08bcf5da90b78a.gif Follow us on Twitter and join our Discord! See you there, Administrator... or else... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/11dc88f83fda99363265f91d9dfef8755bc96ae4.gif (You are seeing double: this is a repost from the Daily Demo page ːbleatyː)

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/04d120fc2acdd6060f434e9dbf8c0b5fc7e8b7e1.png “Transmuters are members of the ancient and powerful Order of Change. Their mastery of inner force is a complete mystery to other magic users: they channel their power through glyphs, yet seem to do so without any techniques outlined in the Standard Magical Primer.” Greetings Administrator, and welcome back to another class post! Today we’ll be giving you the basics on how to play the Transmuter. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/420cafaf792b00e97ffc3b48f9a2b7add9d3b4a0.gif

Abilities

🌟 Dungeons Lore - Starts with a Lemmisi glyph 🌟 Inner Focus - Using glyphs gives free conversion points 🌟 Spirit Sword - Hitting the conversion threshold adds temporary damage based on max mana Before explaining the Transmuter’s abilities, let's lay some groundwork. Conversion is the ability of all adventurers to turn items and glyphs into power. This power depends on their Kin. When converted, an item will give you a number of Conversion Points specified in its description. Once your Conversion Points reach your conversion threshold, you’ll gain the bonus and start working towards the next threshold. Transmuters are the masters of conversion. Inner Focus provides you with conversion points equal to your mana spent whenever you cast a glyph, and Spirit Sword gives a massive spike in damage when you hit a conversion threshold! This makes Transmuters an excellent choice in long dungeons where you’re bound to cast plenty of glyphs and convert plenty of items. The base damage given by Spirit Sword is equal to your maximum mana. This means that finding sources of bonus damage through your Kin, items, or glyphs can go a long way in making you stronger. Much like the Sorcerer, you’ll have a very diverse damage profile, which can make finding fightable enemies a lot easier. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/39b073d239ed7c128c4e4d17f97e91e065c3b703.gif

Kin Choices

🌟 Human - Humans gain 10% bonus damage when they reach a conversion threshold. Along with having the best scaling power, this synergises well with Spirit Sword! Human Transmuters can deal truly monstrous damage, and will shine later in a run. 🌟 Elf - Elves gain one maximum mana when they reach their conversion threshold. This obviously synergises with Spirit Sword to give you more damage, but there’s something even better… You have the lowest conversion threshold in the game. You’ll deal more damage, more often, and receive a permanent increase to your mana. 🌟 Dwarf - Dwarves gain +10 max HP per 80 conversion points. This is another cheap threshold, and can lead to a Dwarf Transmuter becoming incredibly tanky. In Desktop Dungeons, the amount of damage you can deal is effectively how much health you can afford to trade without dying. More health, more effective damage. Dwarves become powerful faster than Elves and Humans, but don't scale when enemies start dealing lots of damage. You’ll be reaching conversion thresholds often as a Transmuter, and so your Kin choice makes more of a difference than most other classes. Below is a table showing each Kin’s conversion bonus and how many conversion points are needed for a threshold. Happy theory crafting! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/ca91533add58580dc3f05a8003b39f79c739cb79.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/02126b860fff49b0cf7c87696865233aabf753f0.png

Gods

🌟 Jehora Jeheyu - The God of Madness appears again. What is change if not Chaos? Transmuters gain their power from casting spells, which Jehora will reward with Piety. Boost Mana will increase your maximum mana and make your Spirit Sword stronger. If you can save enough piety to become the Chaos Avatar, you’ll be rewarded with 100 Conversion Points, a level-up, and a cure for your ailments. 🌟 Mystera Annur - Change is made in a struggle for growth. Jehora and Mystera are two sides of the same coin: Mystera rewards you for casting spells, and can boost your maximum mana through Magic. They also offer mana refills for converting glyphs with Refreshment, and Flames can be picked up if you plan to go full fireball. 🌟 Glowing Guardian - Conversion returns you to order. Humility lowers your level by one without affecting your health or damage, which makes your Spirit Sword damage spikes effective at catapulting you to higher levels. Glowing Guardian will also reward you for converting items. This piety can be used to reach Enlightenment for a boost to maximum mana, damage, health, and conversion points. Most Gods are useful for the Transmuter. Tikki Tooki is helpful because you aren’t a regen fighter and they give you a free Getindare glyph. With Binlor, you can farm piety and conversion points simultaneously with Endiswal. Knockback damage also has synergy with Spirit Sword! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/f7b445523fe9886125652d810129c087a0ccac92.png

Glyphs

🌟 Bysseps - Spirit Sword gives you base damage for one attack, and Bysseps give you bonus damage for one attack. If you want to power up your swing as much as possible, this is the biggest it’s going to get! This combo is great for taking down higher level enemies to get you some bonus experience. 🌟 Getindare - As much as we like to believe whoever you’re spiking on will die instantly, sometimes they won’t. Using Getindare in these moments for an extra attack that converts their existence into… Non-existence. If you're feeling fancy, plan ahead and have the conversion points gained from Inner Focus push you over the threshold in the middle of combat! 🌟 Lemmisi - What this Glyph lacks in combat power, it makes up for in utility. Lemmisi reveals 3 random tiles, and the revealed tiles count towards your regeneration. You’ll heal for three tiles of health and one mana. It also has the special property of prioritising helpful tiles. Using it as a substitute for exploring to heal can help to reveal useful glyphs, hidden subdungeons, boosters, and God Altars. It will also give you conversion points through Inner Focus! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/2d2800b26553f148f30121ebb4584cb2d19c9fcc.png That's all for this post. Remember to be kind, and give your parents a call!

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"Rogues are mavericks with a touch of class. Although they inhabit the greyer areas of society, they put themselves above "common" criminals and hone their skills in preparation for all sorts of glory-seeking exploits. Their grace and poise in battle is unmatched. Their durability, unfortunately, is not." {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/99f7459ee04bf903ef7744ba374f7ccf1fd4854d.png Welcome back to another Class Post! Sneaking into the fray, today we'll be talking about the Rogue: the epitome of being able to dish it out but not being able to take it. They're a straightforward and versatile class that works around reduced health and quick hits. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/bea77a20de6ab119dad432a1a1217dfbae65bc00.gif

Abilities

🔪 Dangerous - -5 health per level, but start off with +40% damage 🔪 Dexterous - Permanent First Strike buff 🔪 Evasive - Starts with 20% Dodge Dangerous is the Rogue’s Defining trait, turning them into the glassiest cannon of Desktop Dungeons: Rewind. +40% base damage is an unrivalled boost to damage, but they gain health at half the rate of a normal class. This health penalty is sometimes offset by their amazing dexterity. Dexterous and Evasive can put you up by two hits in a fight: one because you might Dodge their hit, and a second because you have First Strike. This means that you have 2 more attacks worth of effective HP! There are two risks to this though: your dodge chance is only 20% which needs to be maximised by taking more hits, and enemies with First Strike will still hit you first! These can be manoeuvred around, which we’ll get into later. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/269f8a37ab67c7396be39a106e7db7d889d3f396.gif

Kin choices

🔪 Orc - Leaning into the full glass cannon, Orc Rogues can have truly massive amounts of damage. Their Conversion bonus grants them +2 base damage, which turns into a lot of damage after the Rogue’s 40% damage multiplier. Downside is… You’ll need health from somewhere otherwise you will likely die if you don’t kill your target in one or two hits. You can find this health in items or Deities. 🔪 Dwarf - Taking the safer route, Dwarves get 10 HP from their Conversion bonus. This allows them to survive up to two to three hits, increasing the chance of a dodge and still being up an attack from First Strike. You’ll have to find items to boost your base damage to get the most out of Dangerous though. 🔪 Goblin - Orcs and Dwarves are far and away the best Rogues… But an unconventional yet effective choice is the Goblin. Goblins gain experience from their Conversion bonus, and levelling up gives the player +5 base damage. This makes the Rogue’s multiplier more valuable, and on top of that, levelling will fully heal you. Combine this with a Cydtsepp, and watch as the boss takes five massive hits in a row! Who doesn't want to stab people with a pencil? {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/e0a601fec9b6743ee28c45e70fe95d1a70aa41f1.png

Glyphs

🔪 Cydstepp - Death Protection is amazing on Rogues as it guarantees you'll be able to take one last hit… And with Rogues, every hit counts. Not only this, but it can be cast before a fight ("precasted") which allows you to regenerate your mana before you fully engage. Combine this with any other combat focused Glyph and you’ll have a killer time! 🔪 Apheelsik - With its fairly low cost and ability to stop enemies from regenerating, you can use this Glyph to sneak in another attack without perishing like milk in a Vegan’s fridge. It’s a little worse than Cydstepp because it doesn’t last long on higher level enemies and isn’t precastable, but still a great pickup. 🔪 Weytwut - Weytwut inflicts the Slowed status effect. When slowing an enemy, you’ll get 1 additional experience for killing them and temporarily remove their First Strike. Goblins and Gorgons are squishy but have First Strike and lots of damage… Completely negating your First Strike and taking advantage of your reduced HP. Pull out Weytwut to turn the tables in your favour! All of these Glyphs help you to get an extra attack in one way or another. Other Glyphs that help with this are Endiswal for the physical resistances or Halpmeh for some healing. Burndayraz can also serve as a finisher or to mitigate some regeneration! We’ve talked about Glyphs before Gods in this post because the Glyphs you’re using will likely change based on who you’re worshipping. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/a2611d0038a48185689ccc93676d2dcdb39003c2.png

Gods

🔪 Tikki Tooki - The main downside of Tikki is that they punish you when you get hit a lot. Well guess what, you can’t get hit a lot anyways! Using Reflexes, you can have dodge prediction from the Quicksilver Potion, and get two attacks in one swing from the Reflex Potion. Dodging can further increase your dodge chance and Tikki rewards you for dodging attacks. Just be careful about using Cydstepp, as you’ll be punished for triggering a Death Protection. That will likely end your run. Use Weytwut and Apheelsik instead to get some free piety! 🔪 Glowing Guardian - Glowing Guardian synergises well with the Rogue on many fronts. Absolution gives you a beneficial health increase, and the downside of Humility lowering your regen doesn’t matter as much because of your low health maximum. Cleansing can turn your massive physical attack into a magical one, and Health Potions weren’t doing too much for us anyways so it doesn't feel bad to convert them. Just make sure to not use Apheelsik, as you’ll be heavily punished. Try Cydstepp or Weytwut instead! 🔪 Jehora Jeheyu - The god of Primordial Chaos appears again! Boost Health is great for the Rogue, as well as giving you a free Weytwut glyph when you begin worshipping them. Just make sure you have a plan to deal with the small punishments, as a level or two of Weakened can make your run a lot harder. Reaching Chaos Avatar is always a noteworthy spike Unlike with Kin, Rogues can make great use of many different Deities. Earthmother gives health with Vine Form and slows enemies with Entanglement, Binlor can help you build up some resistances, and Taurog can be dipped into early for armour and Skullpicker before converting out. Even Mystera can give you some bonus mana and lower the cost of useful spells! That’s the entire pantheon, so keep an eye out for cheeky conversions and play around the Glyphs that you find. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/16deeb9d2af9ea1d16321e598f03021f3392f635.png Rogues can tackle the hardest Dungeons your Desktop has to offer and now you know the basics of how to play them! If you want to play the Rogue ASAP, buy Desktop Dungeons: Rewind! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1976950/Desktop_Dungeons_Rewind/ Follow us on Twitter and join our Discord! See you there, Administrator. (You are seeing double: this is a repost from the Daily Demo page ːbleatyː )

The Cerebral Puzzle Showcase is a Steam event hosted by Draknek and Friends, Astra Games, and Thinky Games. If you enjoy titles like Fez, Baba is You, or Desktop Dungeons, then this event is for you! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/6d5c9791d13cd64a25dfe4ddaa05d2a086dcfabc.gif This event runs from the 3rd until the 7th of August, featuring the best puzzle games Steam has to offer. Packed with livestreams, interviews, and demos, you don’t want to miss out on this. You can stay up to date by following Thinky Games on Twitter! The Desktop Dungeons Anniversary Bundle will also have a 40% discount during the event. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/e53b935e992356f4fed3252450272b4d24eaa4e7.gif While Desktop Dungeons is a roguelike, did you know that it has 55 handmade puzzles to complete?? Not only this, but many of the mini-dungeons you’ll encounter will have puzzles in them, and many of the 45 class challenge maps have puzzle-like elements to them. That’s all outside the gameplay of normal dungeon runs. We’ll see you during the event! Make sure to join our Discord to talk to other puzzle enthusiasts and follow QCF Design and Thinky Games on Twitter to stay up to date!

A cumulative set of bug fixes (including the Cheeky hotfix from the last update) while we work on some deeper stuff that we can't really talk about yet. Enjoy! Changelog 2023-06-01:

• Fix bug that added Cheeky badge for every kill after Cheeky failed.
• Minor typos fixed.
• Fix Piercing Wand predicting resist stripping on all simulated attacks vs just the first one.
• Prevent score screen from showing monster class names twice.
• Simulate Goatperson health and mana loss correctly when exploration is larger than current food count.
• Allow badges to be earned as new after rewinding.
• Prevent incorrect momentum predictions for reviving enemies.
• Fixed crash that could happen when killing The Firstborn indirectly from a small subdungeon.
• Prevent subdungeon stairs from spawning on un-walkable tiles.
• Stop Exploding Sign preventing item double-click pickup on the same tile.
• Preserve item size alterations across triple quests.
• Prevent Deathgaze accumulating beyond 100% in Triple Quest 3.
• Fix rare infinite loop in Triple Quest 2 generation.
• Prevent Rewinding from destroying active Triple Quest progress and preventing successful completion.
• Fix rewinding on a PQI preventing PQI completion.
• Make sure active quests stay active after rewinding.
• Prevent edge-case that could create a double PQI after rewinding.
• Fix nullref when rewinding with no active quest.
• Track PQI completion after rewinds when it wasn't the active quest.
• Prevent spam clicks from deselecting important buildings during advisor animations.

This update's biggest changes are displaying global quests on the map screen without attaching them to dungeons, a fix for late-game rewind desyncs with selling monster trophies during a run, and getting rid of that weird blue square that was haunting the map... As well as a host of other fixes and upgrades you can see below. Changelog 2023-05-12:

• Tea and Jadetooth's potion both invalidate Parched.
• Add failsafe to Kingdom progression that removes the Insurance Pamphlet after upgrading the Bank to level 2.
• Display simulation of multiple level gains off a single kill correctly.
• Fix issue with Halfdragons losing magic damage after hovering over Glowing Guardian's Cleansing.
• Remove Stone Sigil's piety prediction to prevent confusion.
• Make sure that monster trophy sales are recorded for rewinding correctly.
• Fix bug that caused slow and resistance effects to persist in attack simulation when they shouldn't have.
• Give Corrosion an effect count at all times.
• Prevent mouse input softlock if animation canceling prevented a transition animation from playing.
• Fix Assassin combat prediction applying certain effects too many times.
• Prevent Cheeky badge being removed after every kill after the first non-cheeky kill.
• Remove blue square from Gaan Telet tease.
• Make sure potion shop tendrils refresh the tileset correctly, prevents phantom walls.
• Fix Eeblis copying the player character graphic.
• Display quests that don't have a target dungeon on the map.
• Prevent the PQI from showing up on the map's default flag position.
• Make sure non-dungeon quest flags are correctly aligned, don't display quest flags for quests designed to appear offscreen.
• Prevent Goatperson from erroneously showing up as having completed quests.
• Fix Explorer's Guild sometimes having the puzzle notifiation indicator when it doesn't have new puzzles.
• Fix Explorer's Guild classes not appearing immediately after unlocking.

Our amazing community has done it again!

Laberca, Rewind playtester and veteran Desktop Dungeons player, has compiled every Dungeon and Quest into one guide. Each section contains details about bosses, map mechanics, quests, and strategies to help you complete them. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/ac53e4f20daa32ea3f96283d1a9b1e1e7fa5cb0e.png https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2967962296 As a preview of the guide, here is Laberca's break down of Havendale Bridge:

Hard Dungeons - Havendale Bridge

Difficulty

★★★★★★ (Hard - 105%)

Enemies

Goats, goblins, bandits, and one other common enemy. Rusalka: Attack: 100% Health: 100% Corrosive (inflicts 1 stack of corrosion when it hits you, permanently increasing all damage you take by 1 - the stacks are hard to get rid of. Also leaves a corrosive pool instead of a blood pool) Tokoloshe: Attack: 100% Health: 100% 50% physical resist Cowardly Trophy: Tokoloshe charm (small item that grants +5% magic resist) Druid: Attack: 80% Health: 80% Death protection Magical attack

Bosses

One random common boss Bridge Troll: (Optional level 5 miniboss, but guards the bridge. Can be bypassed by spending 20 gold or with magic) Attack: 19 Health: 70 Fast regen Berserks at 50% 50% resists Trophy: Sensation stone (lockerable item that can be converted for 150 CP) Zin Kibaru: Attack: 78 Health: 415 Magical attack 25% magic resist Undead Bloodless

Gimmicks

The dungeon is divided in half by a river, guarded by the Bridge Troll. You can skip the bridge troll by paying it 20 gold.

Recommended Classes + Races

Any can work, but Berserker will utterly trivialize Zin Kibaru, Bloodmage has an easier start than most, and Monk scales well due to the charms.

Strategy

This dungeon has a forgiving difficulty modifier, but the divided map can make the early game a bit tough. For new players, you might want to consider just paying the Troll Toll of 20 gold to get past him. If you are having a strong early game, it is definitely worth fighting the troll - he gives you 5 XP and an extra 150 CP, plus you won't have to spend 20 gold. Alternatively, if you find WEYTWUT or PISORF, you can use that to bypass him without spending gold and save him for later, when you are a higher level! This is basically always the ideal approach if you can do it. The monster set here is pretty varied. Rusalkas are tough for non-casters, as you don't want to get corroded. Tokoloshe's are tough but drop a charm that boosts your magic resist. Druids are very weak and super easy to kill, especially if you have some tokoloshe charms. Look for high level druids! Zin Kibaru is usually quite easy because of the charms, so usually you want to go after him first.

Quests

Troll Toll: Defeat Havendale Bridge. (Unlocks the Labyrinth and Magma Mines) ★★★★★★ All you have to do for this quest is win. Just follow the general strategy tips! Probably the most straightforward build here is an Orc Berserker. Unlikely Heroes: Forest Edition Win with a Halfling Wizard, Halfling Monk, and Halfling Rogue. (Rewards 500 gold) ★★★★★★★ This is part of the Unlikely Heroes quest line, which forces you to use suboptimal race+class combos. Fortunately, none of these combos are horrible - they just aren't very good. You don't really need any special strats for these runs. The wizard especially shouldn't be tough. The monk run is harder, but monk is a good class here - just look for some damage bonuses and prep a base damage item if you can. The rogue combo is a little unfortunate because rogue isn't the best class here, but if you just focus on getting your health up with items or gods like Jehora Jeheyu, you shouldn't have much of an issue. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/ff0eb16a02ec26cd489799b7ef32c79bd8701729.png And that's all! Make sure to join our Discord and thank Laberca yourself if you found this guide helpful.

Hark adventurers! Celebrate a decade of Desktop Dungeoneering with our Anniversary Bundle! Complete the set and save money on both games with this brand-new bundle! Begin your epic journey with Desktop Dungeons, the all-time classic award-winning roguelike puzzle adventure. Master tactical spells, heal by exploring, appease ancient gods, and smack a goat or two. Forge ahead with Desktop Dungeons: Rewind, a fresh approach to the groundbreaking title that revolutionized the world of roguelikes. Clear some dungeons, build your kingdom, die… and rewind! Seize the opportunity to immerse yourself in the enthusiasm and devotion lovingly infused in crafting this gem of a fantastical world. Available now on the Steam store! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/32172/Complete_The_Set__Desktop_Dungeons_Anniversary_Bundle/ Adventure awaits, QCF Design Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/NKBrHhRxwz Follow us on Twitter: @QCFdesign

Updates continue! The largest things to pay attention to this patch are a fix for a bug that could cause save files to balloon in size - all data should be salvaged after an initial long load. As well as the addition of your current badge status being visible on the menu screen during a run. Changelog 2023-04-28:

• Fix a specific curse pathway only ever adding 1 layer of curse despite allowing more.
• Fix quest info displaying class intro text even when there wasn't a valid class in the quest.
• Simulate Piercing Wand effect correctly.
• Fix extremely rare nullref in island generator.
• Make Pactmaker pacts display Piety Log when no other god is worshipped.
• Fix petrification graphic modifying particle effects on targets.
• Fix short rewinds getting stuck in the forward animation state.
• Fix rewind forward audio loop getting stuck on after finishing a rewind.
• Prevent animation canceling from bypassing the death popups and allowing players to move as ghosts.
• Refine animation canceling to allow certain transitional animations not to be canceled.
• Make all sources of dodge reroll dodge prediction, if active.
• Fix issue with temporary dodge removing permanent dodge if it went above max.
• Prevent compression seal from interacting with items with negative weight.
• Add badge status display to pause menu during gameplay.
• Fix edge case where players dealing damage before death protection saved them could not gain experience from kills.
• Fix bug that could cause save file size to balloon, auto-salvage data.

Greetings, mighty Kingdom Administrators! This week is Steam’s Puzzle Fest and Desktop Dungeons: Rewind is taking part! We’re extending our launch discount throughout this entire week, making it the perfect time to pick up the game if you haven’t already!

How is Desktop Dungeons: Rewind a puzzle game?

In Desktop Dungeons: Rewind, almost every single move you can make is pre-calculated for you, and you can see the outcomes for them. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/ded703c82aa9a01c053ebfd642c0c39f761919ac.png How much damage will you do? How much damage will the enemy do? How much mana will it take to cast that glyph, and how much experience will you get from that kill? This makes the entire game into one giant logic puzzle, where you just need to figure out the solution to win! If you get stuck on any part of the game, please drop any questions in discussions, or join our Discord! Our community is excited to help new players learn how to play the game. We’ll see you in the dungeons! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1976950/Desktop_Dungeons_Rewind/ Adventure awaits, QCF Design Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/NKBrHhRxwz Follow us on Twitter: @QCFdesign

We usually wouldn't update on a weekend, but with the game fully migrated to the new servers and fixes for some deep desyncs during Rewinding, we felt it was better to get this out sooner rather than later. Changelog 2023-04-23:

• Fix issue with certain speech bubbles not correctly progressing to the next loaded text line.
• Prevent speech bubbles with different keys from being read as multiple dialogs.
• Fix desync with default potions being added to all rewinds.
• Prevent animation canceling from injecting events before final combat responses (no more canceling cowardly).
• Prevent glyphs that haven't been unlocked yet appearing in runs directly after a daily.
• Fix issue with online save system that could invalidate backups if they were beyond a certain age.
• Fix softlock if the Adventurers Guild was upgraded to level 3 without completing the locker tutorial.

Today has been mostly server-side work, but wanted to push a quick additional update too: Changelog 2023-04-21:

• Fix audio sometimes being very soft after UI sounds were played.
• Fix item double-simulation when showing the item info immediately.
• Prevent item info display losing conversion text after mousing over an item that cannot be converted.
• Fix issue with error popups having unusable buttons when popping up "over" an existing popup.
• Defensiveness against possible nulls in simulated inventory events.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/bd29962c7cc18d76073de39e997a908a53233555.png Are the goats bleating you death? Or are the meat men mushing your under-leveled and ill-prepared adventurer? With these seven simple tips, you'll be showing them who the boss is! Eable2, long time Desktop Dungeons player and Desktop Dungeons: Rewind playtester, has put together an amazing guide to help out anyone who is struggling. Here's a link to the full guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2964276019 While you should read the full guide, here are some snippets of the seven habits:

#1: Don't fight your equals ❌

• Killing higher level enemies gives you bonus experience
• Monster that are the same level as you will attack first anyways and not give bonus XP
• If you don't punch up, you'll be too weak to fight the boss

#2: Leverage Levels 🔼

• Levelling fully restores mana and health, it also cures poison and mana-burn
• Levelling up during a boss fight can be incredibly potent
• Do this by eating your snacks (see #3)

#3: Save Snacks for Later 🍿

• You can kill low level enemies in 1 hit, we call them "popcorn"
• Use WONAFYT to make a popcorn bowl and munch for a spike
• Some enemies aren't good snacks

#4: Know Your Tools 🔨

• Glyphs help immensely with killing higher level enemies
• Class Abilities can help you find power in specific situation
• Find items that synergise with your strategy

#5: Explore with Intention 🥽

• Enemies also regenerate when you explore, so be careful!
• Wasting tiles by not regenerating something is usually a bad play
• Sneakily reveal small amounts of tiles while fighting to get kills

#6: Save Your Spikes 💪

• Save potions for a major fight, try not to use them on curing status effects (see #2)
• This also applies to items that give you a temporary boost
• Save your snacks! Patience!

#7: Eyes on the Prize 🏆

• Remember, you win by killing the boss. Don't get distracted!
• Power up before the boss fight as much as possible by buying new things and converting what you don't need

And that's it! Again, massive thanks to Eable for putting this guide together and helping out the fresh blood. If you want to say thanks personally, join our Discord! There are multiple magnificent and seasoned Administrators who are here to help! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/55db3c274ee8e68f0bde8546ac08bcf5da90b78a.gif

Hey there! So there have been a couple changes from the original Desktop Dungeons to Desktop Dungeons: Rewind. Over the years, we've become wiser goats and made some adjustments to past choices. Sorry it's a day late, but here's a list of all the design changes we've made!

Kin

Nomenclature

"There are better words in the English language, and we want to use them!" Nomenclature: Race >>> Kin

Orc

"Orcs were by far the most dominant Kin in Desktop Dungeons, so we're taking them down a notch. They're still good, just not quite as OP." Orc Conversion Threshold: 80 >>> 100

Dwarf

"The Dwarf conversion felt a little lacklustre because of its delayed strength, and on top of this they were a little weak. Let's fix both of those, and make them beefy earlier while scaling up to the same point." Dwarf Conversion Bonus: +1 Max HP per level >>> 10 Max HP

Classes

Fighter

"The Fighter is the first class you unlock, and it teaches you to play the game wrong. The old Fighter encouraged you to seek out and farm low level enemies, starving you of experience late game. The new fighter encourages you to hit higher level enemies, maybe even realise you can kill them for bonus XP!" Veteran XP bonus: +1XP per kill >>> Level difference in XP when first attacked by a higher level enemy Instincts: Same and lower enemies revealed >>> Sense enemies 1 tile further into the fog

Transmuter

"The idea for Transmuters is awesome: cast spells to gain Conversion Points, and get a massive spike when you hit a Conversion Threshold. Except... Only a small portion of the spells are efficient, and hitting that threshold drained you mana so you can't cast spells. We've moved some of their power around to make them more fun and slightly stronger." Spirit Sword: No longer drains mana on Conversion Threshold Spirit Sword temporary damage: Max mana + level >>> Max mana Inner Focus: Gives 3 Conversion Points on glyph cast >>> Gives mana cost as Conversion Points on glyph cast

Berserker

"Berserkers could use some more flavour, and now we have a new inventory system... Let's use it! Also, the Goblin Berserker showed their fashion prowess in Berserker Fashion Week, so we gave them a prize. You go, Gobzerker!" Inventory size: 30 >>> 35 Goblin Berserker start with a Golden Spork

Chemist

"Who plays Chemist anyways?" Potion resource restore: 10% >>> 20% Multiple casts of Bysseps now stacks erosion

Inventory

"This is more of a convenience change and fits better with the new UI. It also gives us something to play with (see the Berserker and a new item.)" No longer split into 5 slots, now a total of 30 size Small items have a size of 1 Large items have a size of 5

Early Game Difficulty

"Players found that the difficulty spike when fighting the bankers was too large. We don't want people to be put off by that and so there have been a couple changes to welcome new players. Some are direct (changed early enemy strength) and some are indirect (scouting and predictive combat logs.) Overall, new players should have a better time."

Scouting

"This applies to all classes, and should give players a better sense of which direction to explore. Also the looming presence of enemies is fun." All classes will now scout one tile into the fog, showing the presence of enemies and their levels Enemies with Life-steal will not be revealed in this way

Rewind Insurance

"He said the name of the game. Roll the credits." Defeating the Bankers will grant you Rewind insurance! Once per run when die for the first time, you’ll have the option to go back to about half way through your run

Simulated Predictions

"One of the biggest changes in Rewind is simulated predictions. In combat your damage may change from being weakened or corroding your enemy. The game now does the maths for you. Combat is now simulated, giving more accurate combat predictions that change based on status effects God punishments, random events, and some more complicated effects are not simulated

Banker difficulty

"The numbers on this are hard to describe. Just trust us, it's easier than it was." Dungeons leading up to and including the Bankers have been nerfed.

Dungeon Generation

"The purpose of Desktop Dungeons: Rewind was to bring fresh life into Desktop Dungeons, including better visual compatibility with wide ratio screens. Square dungeons on rectangular screens didn't feel great, so now the shape of Dungeons will adapt to your monitor (this doesn't affect difficulty!)" Dungeons will be 25 x 16 tiles for wide aspect ratio Dungeons will be 20 x 20 tiles for squarer aspect ratio

Goat Glade

"This used to be a part of the DLC that we didn't want to be mandatory for high level play. Now that it's part of the base game, we can make it better!" Item Lottery: removed Item Registry: After bringing an item to the Goat Glade three times, the goats will be able to make the item as many times as you want at prep cost. There's no lore behind this :bleaty: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/55db3c274ee8e68f0bde8546ac08bcf5da90b78a.gif And that's all the changes we made! Well, not all of them, we also added a new item. But you'll find it eventually :bleaty: We hope these changes make the game more enjoyable! Stay happy, stay healthy, and stay away from murderous goats! With love, The QCF Design team ❤ Oh, and leave a review 👀👅👀 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/44f4e8a87b610547008ce4de40d83e40aed5e97f.gif

Just a quick patch to address some issues that have been reported. If you've raised something else, don't worry, we're working on it! This is just a patch to deal with the things we've fixed right now so nobody has to wait. Changelog 2023-04-19:

• Fix issue that could get a Kingdom stuck in a never-applied saving state.
• Tweaked audio settings to try and alleviate quiet dungeon sounds in certain spaces.
• Prevent empty daily leaderboard names from sneaking through.
• Show loading notifier during initial login period if using DD.net saves.

Hark, Kingdom Administrators! Today is the day we’ve all been waiting for. Sharpen your blades and pack your anti-goat spray, it’s time to embark on your Desktop Dungeons: Rewind adventure. Our loving remaster of the original award-winning Desktop Dungeons is out now! TRAILER We’re launching with a 15% launch discount! And if you already own the original Desktop Dungeons, you'll get the new one for free! We'll be adding it to your library soon, so keep an eye out and we'll let you know as soon as it's out! Edit: If you don't see Desktop Dungeons: Rewind in your library and you purchased the original before it became free on launch day, please follow these steps:

Restart your Steam client.

Log out of Steam and then back in.

Check the Steam page for Desktop Dungeons: Rewind. If you see the Play Now button, you should be able to click it and download it this way. If none of these options work, please get in touch with us at [email protected]. Thank you! So, what are you waiting for? Dive into the world of Desktop Dungeons: Rewind today! And please don't forget to leave a review if you enjoy the game. It really helps us out! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/44f4e8a87b610547008ce4de40d83e40aed5e97f.gif Adventure awaits, - QCF Design

Not only is this a double threat class post, it’s a double double threat! (Double threat)^2, if you will. Today is a little different: we’ll be giving a general overview for all of the tier 1 classes, and talk tips on how to play them. We’ll also be giving hints for their class challenges, as they’re a load of fun and unlock items for your normal runs. We’ll be finishing off with some other basic tips for advancement if you get stuck. Let’s get into it!

Fighter

Abilities

💪 Instincts - Can sense enemies farther away in the fog 💪 Veteran - Gains XP when attacked by higher level enemies, and less XP needed per level 💪 Pit Dog - Dungeons runs start with 1 level of standard Death Protection on the character. Don’t let the name deceive you, Fighters are very versatile. They make great use of spells and while also being fantastic strikers. Poke higher level enemies for XP, maybe realise you can actually kill them! You’ll be able to level up and get stronger, faster. Better. Harder. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/bd74c538049696ec7245473851e1a6230b750249.gif

Kin

💪 Dwarf - Dwarves were buffed in Rewind, and they’re great if you want a forgiving experience in early dungeons. +10 max HP can help you roll the early levels, so get a conversion in early. 💪 Goblin - Fighters are good at levelling up, Goblins are good at giving experience. What a match. While you won’t have any combat bonus from conversion, using level ups as heals is great, so keep an eye out for them! 💪 Elf - As we’ve said, fighters are not just focused on hitting things and can use spells well. Burndayraz’s damage scales with level, and Elves can help you get more casts off! There’s an early quest that’ll have you playing this way, so you’ll see the strength. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/a635277f3096ea2ac8f210d65460d7ecde3efe5e.png

Class challenges

The first fighter challenge is fairly simple: use Wonafyt and Imawal to get enough levels and then take on the boss. Using Imawal on an enemy that is slowed from Wonafyt will give you one bonus XP, and the next enemy you kill after using Imawal will grant 50% more XP. 💪 Use all of your mana before exploring 💪 Use Imawal on slowed enemies for more XP 💪 Convert your items before fighting the boss for an extra edge The second challenge is a little harder because you’ll be dealing with Goo Blobs, which have high physical resistance. Kill them with Burndayraz when you find it, and make sure to get value out of Veteran XP. The boss deals tons of damage, and attacks back when you Burndayraz. Potions are your friend! 💪 Get Veteran XP value from enemies you can’t kill 💪 Pay attention to your glyphs and where you can use them 💪 The boss will require many health and mana potions to beat

Thief

Abilities

🔪 Stabber - Deals an extra 30% damage to enemies with full health 🔪 Hoarder - +33% more items on dungeon map 🔪 Survivor - All Health Potions and Mana Potions restore both health AND mana You scale incredibly well with Stabber and can spike super hard for a boss fight with potions! Make sure you hit enemies before you Burndayraz them to not lose your bonus damage from Stabber. This class gets better as you unlock items, so do the class challenges! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/45d1b0afa12a7a5af761b67076d668853b6198d6.gif

Kin

🔪 Halfling - Having more health potions for synergy with Survivor is super strong. This will focus more around attacking 🔪 Gnome - Much like the halfling, more potions gives more value from Survivor. However, you’ll be more focussed on spells like Pisorf and Burndayraz. 🔪 Orc - Gaining base damage from their conversion bonus, Orcs focus more on getting value out of Stabber. Glyphs like Getindare and Bysseps will be super useful. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/b3f048dd1ce1112d97de9bf56d510a09fe815092.png

Class challenges

This class has the strangest and most difficult challenges. In the bronze challenge, you’ll be playing around Getindare to take out bandits, collect their charms for health and damage, and then take out Trapped chests for their loot. The chests hit hard, so make sure you can regen enough! 🔪 An enemy with First strike will always hit you first, unless it is slowed 🔪 You’ll always be level 1 in this challenge, so your HP regen will be very slow 🔪 Take out the trapped chests ASAP! The 5th one will help you with the final boss The silver challenge is ROUGH, but it will teach you how to use Lemmisi and Weytwut effectively. You’ll find the trapped chests again, but the enemies are far stronger. Use Lemmisi to reveal more tiles, and Weytwut to swap positions with revealed enemies. 🔪 Weytwut can be used on enemies that are far away 🔪 Lemmisi will always restore 1 mana when cast, use it to get out of sticky situations 🔪 While you’ll need potions for the final boss, using them to level up is also a good choice

Priest

Abilities

💒 Good Health - An extra 3 health is gained per level 💒 Good Drink - Health Potions are 100% effective 💒 Good Golly - Physical damage against Undead is +100% Good Health and Good Drink alone make this class super strong. Every potion is a full health restore, and you have massive amounts of health. This combined with picking off high level undead enemies (vampires and zombies preferably) can turn you into a powerhouse. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/ecf75644ef1272bf7e011c34976bb7c9874127ce.gif

Kin

💒 Halfling - More health potions to make use of Good Drink is a monstrously strong combo for taking down bosses, particularly in the Eastern Tundra 💒 Orc - Increased base damage will help you to kill some high level undead early, and scale up into some crazy damage late game 💒 Elf - This is more of a fun choice that ends up being a strong and balanced experience. You’ll be slinging spells more than other Priests, so enemies with high physical resists don’t get you down. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/d316869d858f86a74682ac31b2875340ed7ed447.png

Class challenges

This class has the most simple challenges to complete, but the second challenge will be locked behind finding Gods (don’t worry, you’ll run into them.) The bronze challenge is fairly simple: kill undead, and find a chainsaw and shotgun to help you out. I’m not joking. 💒 Look for kills on higher level undead to boost your levelling 💒 Find tools to help you get that job done The silver challenge is similar to the bronze challenge, except you won’t have as many undead enemies to pick off and Goo Blobs will have physical resistances. The boss is also incredibly tough, so make sure to save all of your health potions. 💒 Burndayraz and regen fighting Goo Blobs is the best way to take them down 💒 Save health potions and a level-up for the final boss. Frank has an unreasonable amount of health and damage.

Wizard

Wizard is fun if you like slinging some spells, and they work well with 2 other kin that have mana synergy (Gnome and Elf). And for my money Sorcerer is one of the most enjoyable classes in the game, so getting them early is fun!

Abilities

🧙‍♂️ Magic Sense - Can see locations of all glyphs from level start, all glyphs are small items. 🧙‍♂️ Magic Affinity - Skills cost -1 mana, glyphs donate 10 points to other conversions. 🧙‍♂️ Magic Attunement - Starts with Burndayraz, double burning stacks See those little blue marks in the fog? Those are Glyphs! Make your way towards them to get value from Magic Affinity value ASAP. You don’t need to worry about holding them and clogging your inventory because they’re small. Magic Affinity will give you 2 Burndayraz casts from level 1, but the second part needs some explanation: holding more glyphs makes your conversions better. This means you can hoard Glyphs and convert bought items for massive amounts of conversion points. This makes your choice of Kin important. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/c99552abc89f606af3f23fe7d4699fa52ee8b282.gif

Kin

🧙‍♂️ Gnome - Mana Potions are great for spiking against bosses in a way that having more mana sometimes can’t match. Having more mana potions can also make getting Mana burned less of an issue. 🧙‍♂️ Elf - Don’t get me wrong: having more max mana can help your early game tremendously, and it comes at a super low conversion cost. However, once you reach a point where it takes 18 tiles to fill your mana bar, things can get awkward. Still strong though! 🧙‍♂️ Orc - Do you know of Punchomancy? It’s not a tale the Wizards would tell you. The Orc’s conversion bonus is +2 base damage… Pisorf’s damage scales with your base damage and costs less mana than Burndayraz. Not to mention having more base damage great for synergy with Getindare and Bysseps. Go get em’ and be the best Punchomancer around. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/822ed73162bcff6f7df64b02353c05fbdd93580c.png

Class challenges

The bronze wizard challenge is very easy as long as you read your spells. The guards can be bypassed. Things are going to get weird into the silver challenge though, don’t worry. 🧙‍♂️ Read your spells! 🧙‍♂️ Front gates are… Optional. The silver challenge, aptly named “Malfunctionarium,” is a strange and difficult dungeon. Every enemy, and I mean EVERY enemy, will shuffle their positions on the map whenever ANY enemy takes damage. Not only this, but enemies with lifesteal will chunk your health when revealed. Luckily, there is a way to stop blinking enemies: slowing them. Use this to try to get monsters to stick around for 2 hits. 🧙‍♂️ Use Weytwut and Wonafyt to slow enemies and disable their blink 🧙‍♂️ Move towards the glyphs revealed by Magic Sense 🧙‍♂️ Wonafyt prioritises enemies in this order: Monsters that are not slowed, monsters that are the same level as the player, monsters that are a lower level then the player. There’s a trick you can do with this to slow the same monster multiple times. You’ll figure it out though, Harry. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/c99552abc89f606af3f23fe7d4699fa52ee8b282.gif

Basic tips for advancement

Alright, this section should be short and sweet (don’t tell the Gnomes I said that.) Here are some hints on how to progress in the more “meta” sense.

Puzzles

Puzzles are the tutorials of this game. Unlock a god? Play the puzzles to see how they work. No idea how attack priority works? Play the puzzles to get all the details. That Kin you unlocked seems bad? Play the puzzles to see how they can be useful. You’ll also get rewards to upgrade your kingdom!

Class Challenges

As we’ve discussed, each class has challenges that teach you how to play them. Finishing the bronze challenge will give you gold, and finishing the silver challenge will give you an item that will start appearing in shops. Speaking of which…

Unlocking Shops

While out and about, you might find a funny looking scroll. It summons a demon that serves an interdimensional being called Bezaar. Don’t, worry they have the best bargains in town! You’ll have to do a quest or two for them to get better items, so keep an eye out for those. The Witch is another character you’ll come across. They’ll sell you potions and send you on weird quests for more potions. This will help you in dungeons.

Unlocking Gods

Subdungeons are useful finds. They can contain gold, items, challenges, and snippets of lore. Sometimes, however, you’ll find one with an altar… Be wary of these rooms as they can be deadly, but overcoming the challenge or solving them will reward you with the presence of a God. These gods are fickle beings, and we’ll be writing a post on how to use them sometime soon! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/15af6723e0b61d7c703895b656254b339a1c93d8.gif That's all for today! Release day is coming up fast, and we hope you're excited. Remember that if you own the original before 18th April, you'll get Rewind for free! If you want to check out the game before buying it, you can get small bites of it with our Demo... Daily! https://store.steampowered.com/app/226620/Desktop_Dungeons/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2232060/Desktop_Dungeons_Rewind__Daily_Demo/ Love you all! Stay hydrated, call your parents, and remember to breath deep!

Venerable and Cunning Desktop Dungeons Kingdom Administrators! The hourglass of time is swiftly draining its sands, as the momentous launch of Desktop Dungeons: Rewind approaches! With only a week to go, we wanted to spend a few precious grains of time-sand to express our appreciation for all of you, our loyal players. This year marks ten years since the original Desktop Dungeons was released, and you’ve been with us every step of this thrilling adventure. Could we have done it without you? No. You cheered us, you challenged us, and you supported us. Without you, the sands of time would have buried our beloved game. To show our gratitude, we're offering an incredible surprise to those who have played and loved Desktop Dungeons. Do you want to know what it is? Are you ready for a spoiler? Then continue! We’re going to be giving away Desktop Dungeons: Rewind for FREE to everyone who owns the original Desktop Dungeons when the new game releases. Yes, you read that correctly! FREE! https://store.steampowered.com/app/226620/Desktop_Dungeons/ Our community is really important to us, and this is our way to say thanks for all your support. Don't forget to add Desktop Dungeons: Rewind to your wishlist, it really helps us. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1976950/Desktop_Dungeons_Rewind/ Only one week to go! See you - and your friends, your neighbours and everyone else you’re going to tell about this game - next week! (Or else we release the goat.) - QCF Design Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/NKBrHhRxwz Follow us on Twitter: @QCFdesign

Attention, Kingdom Administrators, We’re pleased to announce that Desktop Dungeons: Rewind will be launching on Steam on April 18th, 2023! It’s been 10 years since the award-winning puzzle roguelike first hit Steam, Desktop Dungeons: Rewind adds a new wrinkle to our beloved gameplay: Insurance! Oh, and the whole game is in 3D now too https://youtu.be/XdOGWEp6rf0 Mark your calendars and wishlist Desktop Dungeons: Rewind now and be among the first to send adventurers to their doom, retirements, and successful retraining opportunities! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1976950/Desktop_Dungeons_Rewind/ Stay up to date with the latest development news in the run-up to launch by following our socials: Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/NKBrHhRxwz Follow us on Twitter: @QCFdesign Take care, The QCF Design team {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/a0e43b95a089e0b540eb0222c30b10a60a7bc9b8.gif

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/9b4a0adc8c99f28f5413f4c9633fe9dcf8d1ed6f.png You wanna learn how to stack momentum? How to stack those profits? How to stack the heads of anyone that’s in your way? You’re in the right place. Crusaders are an unstoppable force, chain pulping losers that could never get where you are. Are you ready to learn the ways of the Crusader? (if you somehow don't find this guide helpful, check out this link for better explanations) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/3b19a960587454d2941d8a614054163368a720ab.gif

Abilities

💯 Scars - Poison Immune, Mana Burn Immune, Curse Immune 💯 Momentum- Successive kills add 15% bonus damage. Levelling up or losing momentum halves bonus 💯 Martyr- Extra altar spawn Momentum. Speed. Power. This is what the Crusader is all about. Stack 'em tall, knock' em down. When you land the killing blow on a monster, momentum will give you 15% bonus damage. Hitting a monster and not killing it, or levelling up, will halve your momentum. It’s all about the momentum. Kill a couple of popcorn to get to bonus damage, and smash the boss’s face in. Level up, build more momentum, more speed, more power. Smash the boss’s face again. Boss? More like, “hold that loss.” Because they’re a loser and you’re not. We’re tough. Real tough. We’ve got Scars. No more poison, no more mana burn, no more curse. Only Momentum. These other classes need to get on our level. We can fight Serpents, Wraiths, and Thralls without even caring, they’re so scared of us I’m surprised they even hit back. We can take out the toughest they have and not give a damn. We’ve got momentum. We’re gonna die for a cause. We’re Martyrs, and our cause is momentum. You know we ride in the big leagues, with extra Deities around us. If they can’t give us anything, we disrespect them. Yeah, we’ll make our way through the punishment and take that Piety. Fast. We’ve got better options, bigger fish to catch. Momentum. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/71f9ba9959f530e810e5b7f2d6b6f5391b6214e7.gif

Kin Choices

💯 Orc - Momentum is a product of mass and velocity, and Orcs bring the mass. Hit harder. Stack those gains and then stack those profits as you sell the head of that chump they call a “boss.” Loser. We’re using mathematical formulas over here. Our base damage is multiplied by our bonus damage. That means we get value from momentum with base damage. Yeah, we’re smart. We know how to grow conversion investments. 💯 Halfling - Halflings have that grind-set investor lifestyle. Potions give us mass, our mindset gives us speed, and therefore we get that momentum. Halflings are trading entrepreneurs. They’re artists at it, really. Invest your Health Potions in Reflexes with Tikki T, or in Piety with the Glowing G, or supplemental Health Boosters with big man JJ. They’re visionaries, really. 💯 Goblin - If you’re not levelling up on the daily, you’re gonna lose at life. Crusaders don’t lose. Goblins level up. Every. Single. Day. Their conversion is supreme. You’ll lose your momentum, but pick yourself back up. Take that heal, rebuild your momentum, use that power. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/79ca2f013b0ea6380c84181e3dad4b669275f95e.png

Gods

💯 Taurog - Our main man Taurog has force. That’s why we like him. We stack the bodies of losers and Taurog gives us the drip we need to do our job. We’re out here doing damage to these dungeons while looking good in Gloat and Will. Smashing people with Skullpicker and the Wereward. Momentum. With Taurog, we’re an Unstoppable Fury. Literally. 💯 Dracul - Drac knows everyone is below us. Drac also knows that there’s no point feeling bad for them. This is our world, they're just living in it. Levelling up makes us lose our momentum, but gives us health. Drac cuts out the middleman and heals us straight up with Blood Swell so we can keep our streak. You know we’re hungry for success, and Blood Hunger keeps us full. It’s called “life steal,” but we think of it more as “life repurposing” because they weren’t doing much with it. 💯 Tikki Tooki - Power is work divided by time. Tikki makes work happen in no time. That’s right, the amount of power is undefinable. He likes it when we take out the little guys. He knows that’s what they weren’t going anywhere, just wasting space on your dungeon floor. In return, we get the speed to dodge attacks, the Reflexes to hit harder, and Tikki’s Edge to learn how to level up faster. That’s momentum. Never forget it. And for those Gods that have nothing to offer us… Disrespect them. Desecrate their altars. Earthmother? Yeah we’ll take that 30 piety and chug a Burn Salve to get rid of the corrosion. Binlor? Yeah take my resists, I didn’t have them anyways. Just make sure you don’t mess with the Glowing G - actually, nevermind. Try it and let us know how it goes lil' bro. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/d5e97b2d3642a68ff11e02aa28b107d54ffba05d.png

Glyphs

💯 Pisorf - You know what doesn’t kill momentum? Getting people out of our way. Pisorf! We’ve got things to do, and your face needs to meet that wall. Damage? Check. Momentum? Also check. 💯 Bysseps - It’s all about the numbers. The numbers don’t lie, and they spell disaster for your enemies. Bysseps gives us more numbers, 30 of them to be exact, which are all added to our bonus damage. If they’re trying to resist you, you’ll slowly take that away from them as well. We got a 144 2⁄3% chance of winnin'. Most Glyphs are useful to us, but be careful with Burndayraz as it’ll break your momentum. Now that’s not fire. Make sure to use Glyphs to hustle some Piety for your main G(od). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/b76e2d84c769c0452b9617972029f3f929915ca1.png And that's all there is to it. Remember to subscribe to the Crusader newsletter and buy our online course to get more in depth advice for only 999 499 gold! This is a limited time offer. Use your momentum to get it. Check out the Daily Demo for bites of the full game... Daily! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2232060/Desktop_Dungeons_Rewind__Daily_Demo/ Follow us on Twitter and join our Discord! See you there. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43475627/a2566e11a8058814fbca4e3f2f17ca2dc863e6bf.gif

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/b4bd64b1006a7773702b57cf51cf78b3be5851c0.png We’ve done it! We’ve reached 10 class posts! Thanks for reading them and we hope they’ve helped you get your Dailies done. Speaking of Dailies, we’ve just pushed a patch that fixes a lot of issues and buffs up the functionality of the leaderboard, so make sure to check it out. To celebrate, we’re looking at a monster class voted on by Twitter. This week, slithering into the mix, is the Gorgon! They're simple to explain but hard to play, with an irresistible gaze and an amazing hairstyle. Let’sss get into it. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/6e0b6a7921860c094c9a74dbb184c3f395d3221b.gif

Abilitiesss

🐍 Azure Body - Starts with 25% Physical resist, Death Gaze Immune, -50% bonus damage 🐍 Sapphire Locks - Natural Poisonous strike, petrifies enemies, starts with ENDISWAL glyph 🐍 Amethyst Stare - Starts with Death-gaze 10%. Death-gaze effect deals unresistable damage upon attacking enemies with low health. Much like we sssaid with the Monk and Paladin, the physical resistances from Azure Body make you better at regen fighting! This combined with your naturally poisonousss strikes from Sapphire Locks means you can often take down high level physical damage enemies. As a Gorgon, you are immune to Death Gaze and have your own Snake Stare (thanks Serafs!) Amethyst Stare gives you Death Gaze, and your conversions increase the % at which you’ll execute. When enemies are below your threshold your next attack deals unresistable damage. If this kills them they'll be petrified, leaving their remains behind. You’ll need to get rid of their remains with Endiswal. -50% bonus damage from Azure Body is a hefty penalty, but can be overcome with some items (or a very fun Binlor strategy!) You can also bypass this by holding onto Burndayraz, which will switch up your damage profile, slow regen enemy with Burning to make poison last longer, and deal damage that increases with your level. Before we continue, here are some notes on Poisonous Strike:

• For each stack of Poisoned, enemies will not regenerate one health.
• Exploring to heal will remove Poisoned stacks from enemies.
• Undead enemies cannot be poisoned.
• Poisonous Strike inflicts Poison stacks equal to five times your level.

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Godsss

🐍 Binlor Ironshield - Starting with the Endiswal Glyph, we can easily build up some Piety for Binlor. What are we going to do with this piety? We’re going to buy Stone Form! (This irony is not lost on us.) Stone Form will give us Might whenever we destroy a wall, counteracting the -50% bonus damage penalty. Stone Fist can also be bought to knockback enemies into walls, and with Poisonous Strike you don’t need to worry about them regenerating while you chase them down. Your petrified enemies near Binlor’s altar will be destroyed when you buy Boons. 🐍 The Earthmother - Most regen fighters enjoy Earthmother because of the damage reduction from Vine Form, and the Gorgon is no different. Greenblood is also useful, as corroding enemies will significantly boost your damage throughout a fight. There is some slight anti-sssynergy as your petrified enemies block Blood Pools for Plantation. 🐍 Mystera Annur - Mystera will reward you with piety for casting glyphs, and you’ll be using Endiswal plenty! Mystic Balance will reduce the cost of Endiswal and Burndayraz, and Magic is always useful. However, Weakening will take away your physical resistance and Flames will render your attacks almost uselesss. Two other Deitiesss to keep in mind are Taurog (for more resistances and damage) and Dracul (for the usual Dracul late game spike.) Whatever you do, don’t worship Glowing Guar-... actually nevermind. Just try it and see how it goes. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/3bb55fde6f8554d1dab23f2b9040448d7ef83a8a.png

Glyphsss

🐍 Imawal - Because you know what we need? That, right, more petrification! Because your main strategy is hunting down high level enemies that deal physical damage, using Imawal on a low level enemy will give you a pretty big experience boost. Fully worth the 5 mana, and you already have Endiswal to clear the remains. 🐍 Burndayraz - Fireballs mix up your damage type, bypass the penalty from Azure Body, and apply Burning. Burning makes enemies heal as if they were one level lower. Less regen means that your stacks of poison last longer! 🐍 Halpmeh - Healing up in the middle of a fight can help you to build up more poison on higher level enemies, which in turn lets you explore for more health and mana. Keep that train going and they’re going to be the ones needing halp! Obviously you’ll be using Endiswal all the time when cleaning up leftoversss and making your way around the dungeon, while using the Stone Skin it gives you to tank big hits. Getindare and Weytwut lose a bit of value because of your Death Gaze pseudo-execute. They're still useful in some situations, and Weytwut can be used to line up the Binlor combo. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/c372b587ffc593dab4c3c28bce1ae02d7ff5f08f.png

Strategiesss

So which prey are you going to be looking for as a Gorgon? Here are the best snacks around that you’ll be able to munch on: 🐍 You win the mirror match with Gorgons. (This irony is not lost on us.) Your immunity to their Death Gaze combined with their physical damage and relatively low health makes them easy pickings. 🐍 Meat Men are defined by their large health bars and low damage. This is great for building up your poison and outhealing them with exploring. 🐍 Lessser snakes, called Serpents, can be handled with ease so long as you have a level up or Halpmeh ready to clear their poison. You’ll struggle more with undead enemies who can’t be poisoned and enemies that deal magic damage. Zombies hit hard, but at least they deal physical damage which you can resist. Wraiths on the other hand will deal magic damage, can’t be poisoned, resist physical attacks, AND will mana burn you. Do not engage unless you have Burndayraz. Bandits are manageable, but will Curse away your physical resistances for a while. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/3b000631865ab7a8b96b733ed11a168576da0f10.png That'sss all for today! My "S" key on my keyboard has been acting up, sorry about that. Wishlist Desktop Dungeons: Rewind here! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1976950/Desktop_Dungeons_Rewind/ Check out the Daily Demo for bites of the full game... Daily! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2232060/Desktop_Dungeons_Rewind__Daily_Demo/ Follow us on Twitter and join our Discord! See you there.

“Paladins are state-sanctioned spiritual warriors who can smack foes across the head with either sword or scripture depending on what the situation demands. They tend to be unbearably smug about it.” {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/77b4da5e51ea57c06cf0f715baaf5e4aea55aa74.png Returning for another class post, lead by a higher power, we're talking about the Paladin! Are you a fan of commitment? Do you like carrying out the will of divine beings? Well this week’s class is for you! Play the Paladin, pledge your allegiance to your one true Deity, and do their bidding to win your run. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/fe61a8731111086a9fb20aa914b9f74fd67a6b57.gif

Abilities

📜 Holy Work - Cannot switch religions. God boons are 20% cheaper. Gods do not punish. 📜 Holy Hands - Starts with the Halpmeh glyph, regains +1 HP/level with it. 📜 Holy Shield - Starts with 25% Physical resistance. Let's start with a short writ about Gods in Desktop Dungeons: Rewind. When you worship a God you have access to their boons, which cost piety. You can gain piety by taking actions your God likes and lose piety by blaspheming. If you go below 0 piety, you will be heavily punished by your God. You can also desecrate the altars of other Gods to appease your own, or convert to worship them instead. Converting costs half of your piety and you must have at least 50 piety. Holy Work is the defining feature of the Paladin class. While most other classes waltz around the pantheon and make Gods work for them, Paladins know what’s right: monotheism. They’re rewarded with cheaper boons and forgiven for their sins when at 0 piety. Playing around not being punished is essential and makes the Paladin very flexible. Holy Hands and Holy Shield work together to make the paladin a formidable force for delivering divine retribution. Healing with resistances gives more effective health, and regen fighting is a strong option as you can convert the mana you gain into health with Halpmeh. Pick off higher level enemies that deal physical damage with ease! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/ad69d94f3b81f89669dd5821358cf2dd7f320445.gif

Kin Choices

📜 Elves - Elves make for amazing vassals due to their conversions giving them mana. Being able to cast Halpmeh three to four times in a fight will give you two health bars to play with, taking down the fiercest of foes. Does an enemy have physical resistance? No problem! Use your bonus mana to burn them with holy fireballs. Just make sure your Deity appreciates your Glyph casting habits and you’ll be set. 📜 Orcs - Orcs bring a little muscle to the Paladin’s holy house. With bonus base damage from conversion, regen fighting can make them a menace at all points in a Dungeon. As strikers, they excel at worshipping Gods like Taurog or Binlor that help you hit things. Glowing Guardian can also help you break through high physical resistances with Cleansing. 📜 Halfling - Bringing their own potions to their dungeon pilgrimage, Halflings can play in creative ways while worshipping. Glowing Guardian and Dracul will usually punish you for drinking potions, but Paladins can ignore this downside if they have no piety to lose. These extra health potions can also be given to Tikki Tooki for Reflexes or to Jehora Jeheyu for Boost Health. Having more health from worshipping Earthmother will make health potions more effective, and having them available after Taurog reduces your mana makes both great Deities a great option. As per usual, Humans can be played much the same way as Orcs. Gnomes create mana potions, and can be played similarly to Elves or Halflings. Dwarves are alright, but Halpmeh’s heal does not scale with maximum health so there isn’t much synergy outside of having more health for resistances. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/635ed73eb69b9de4356297d570505d6ed0780356.png

Gods

📜 Glowing Guardian - Being punished by GG will remove everything in your inventory and often end your run… But no longer! As a Paladin, you can farm piety by healing poison with Halpmeh to grow your collection of prayer beads and reach Enlightenment for a massive late game spike. Cleansing, Protection, and Absolution will keep you healthy. All at 20% off! 📜 Taurog - Wrath is your path, trodden by many and survived by few. But with Taurog at your side, you’ll be armed to the teeth with weapons of war and given the gift of becoming an Unstoppable Fury! With the reduced cost of boons, picking up Taurog’s gear is fast and simple, turning you into a powerhouse of violence. Be careful, your fire is fierce but can often be short lived, and you might struggle with less mana later into the run. 📜 Pactmaker - This is a new face to the pantheon! Pactmaker isn’t “someone” you “worship,” they are simply a force to be bargained with. When certain conditions are met, they will take your piety and provide you with a bonus. For example, Body Pact will give you resistances whenever you are damaged, and will cost you 4 piety. No piety, no bonus. As Paladins have more piety than other classes, Pactmaker can passively ramp up their strength through a run. Drinking potions? Alchemists Pact. Converting Items? Spirit Pact. This is for your own strength… Right? While we’ve highlighted these three Gods, there are many ways to worship each Deity, and each will come with a different way to play. Some deity choices are better suited to different Kin, so if you aren’t preparing an altar, keep your mind open to the possibilities! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/a256604203910b5f222360689f9352d47bc8fe7a.png

Glyphs

📜 Halpmeh - The butter to your holy bread, Halpmeh is your defining glyph. When cast it heals you for 5 health per level, letting you fight longer and take down higher level monsters. That’s really all there is to it! Remember that each mana you gain effectively heals your level in health, so you’re regening as if you were one level higher. 📜 Bysseps - If your strategy is hitting things over and over again, bigger arms always help. Bysseps can be cast in between each hit for a 30% damage boost, and will also shred through enemy resistances by 3% with each hit. This will help whittle down enemies with high physical resistances. These two Glyphs are useful for most gods, and after that you’ll see your Glyphs change based on Deity. For example, you’ll use Pisorf while worshipping Binlor, some Burndayraz casts to give Glowing Guardian a burnt offering, or Imawal to make the Earthmother’s forest permanent. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/15fb33c026e096c2c7cca0280d494119766c673c.png That's all for today! While all Paladins worship their own Deity, they realise that each faith is valid and respect each other for their choices. 💕 Wishlist Desktop Dungeons: Rewind here! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1976950/Desktop_Dungeons_Rewind/ Check out the Daily Demo for bites of the full game... Daily! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2232060/Desktop_Dungeons_Rewind__Daily_Demo/ Follow us on Twitter and join our Discord! See you there.

“Bloodmages are the mad scientists of the magic-using world: essentially the Sorcerer gone a little bit rotten. Not rotten enough to be considered un-heroic, but still not the sort of person you'd want to meet in a shadowy alchemy lab.” {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/3b4ee85f537338b13b5685de63d5064043c98532.png Welcome to the 8th Desktop Dungeons: Rewind class post! Let’s dive into the class with the fastest way to your heart… The Bloodmage! Corrupted by magic and driven insane by a thirst for power, they’re guaranteed to find a way under any enemy’s skin. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/fff7c125a4f4839f97eeb6c4f8ffd365c9687064.gif

Abilities

🩸 Power Hungry - Mana Potions are 60% effective and boost Sanguine 🩸 Sanguine - Starts with Sanguine 20% buff, drinking blood restores 1 mana 🩸 Insane - Starts with the Bludtupowa glyph, -3 max mana Bloodmages unlock a new resource to play with: blood pools. Killing an enemy that is not bloodless will leave a blood pool on the dungeon floor. With the Sanguine trait, Bloodmages can consume them to regain 20% of their health and one mana! This can be used mid-fight to heal up for another hit or get enough mana for a Glyph cast. Either way, the rivers will run red. Power Hungry makes Mana Potions the Bloodmage’s second favourite drink (after a home-made Bloody Mary.) Instead of restoring 40% of your mana they will restore 60% to balance out the penalty from Insane. More importantly, they increase the amount of health restored by Sanguine by two percent! This can make saving your blood pools until after drinking Mana potions an efficient choice if you don’t want to clot your run. Insane gives the Bloodmage a free Bludtupowa Glyph at the start of each run. Bludtupowa is a unique Glyph: it reveals tiles without healing monsters, deals damage to your character, and restores mana. Trading your health for mana and making use of Sanguine can allow a Bloodmage to unleash a string of fireballs like no other class. This comes at the cost of having -3 maximum mana, but this can be played around. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/97b4b402ef83f0f6a243589d058f1ecc7f3c7c9d.gif

Kin Choices

🩸 Human - Ah, humans. Always the versatile option! Humans are good at playing with what they get, they really are universal receivers. They can spike well in the late game with their conversion bonus and damage items, while letting Burndayraz and Pisorf help them through the early game. Once you’ve run out of tiles to explore, you’ll often be able to convert your Glyphs and pummel bosses in between blood sippin’ sessions. 🩸 Dwarf - Bigger bodies means more blood. Pretty simple! When Dwarves convert items they gain health, which works fantastically with Sanguine. With more efficient blood pools, you can repeatedly throw yourself at anything in your way and probably win. Dwarf Bloodmages can get so tanky that the only blood monsters will draw is with a red crayon! 🩸 Gnome - I guess they are called Bloodmages, so let’s talk about a Kin that plays around Glyphs. Gnomes can create their own Mana Potions when converting items, which doubles down on synergy: you have more mana to cast spells because of Power Hungry, and you regain more health from the improvements to Sanguine. Anything that stands in your way is going to bleed and burn as you switch between fireballs and fists, all while restoring large chunks of mana and health. In general, Bloodmages are a very versatile class and can be played however you want. In the same vein as the Human, Orcs can make a good choice of Striker with a better early game but more of a reliance on Pisorf. Halflings are a similar type to Dwarves, making HP out of nowhere with Health Potions. Finally, Elves can make great casters in place of Gnomes as their bonus mana can clot the penalty of Insane. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/f0cd012ba59b35aa344f8ffe42bd7b0a91520a2c.png

Gods

🩸 Jehora Jeheyu - Unsurprisingly, the God of Madness is a good fit for the Mad Mages. Boost Health lets you trade a Health Potion for more maximum health which makes Sanguine more effective, and Boost Mana can help balance out the penalty from Insane. Losing a Mana Potion from Boost Mana can feel bad unless you’re playing a Gnome, but it’s usually worthwhile. 🩸 Dracul - The God of Undeath himself, and the only way other classes can gain access to Sanguine. Late game, you’ll be playing around your blood pools anyways, so a Dracul conversion can be a good choice for Strikers to access Life Steal and buffed Sanguine. Blood on blood, baby! 🩸 Binlor Ironshield - As per usual, resistances are great for adventurers that restore health. Pisorf is also a good damage spell, and its lower cost fits well with the Bloodmages reduced mana pool. However, winning with Binlor late game is like drawing blood from a stone, so it’s usually wise to build up Piety and resistances before converting to another deity like Mystera or Dracul. Whatever you do… Do not worship Glowing Guardian! He’ll punish you heavily for using Bludtupowa and slurping on your favourite forbidden sauce, which means you’ll likely end up losing all of your items. Just don’t do it. Mystera can be a good choice for Elves and Gnomes who can spam fireballs, and Earthmother is a useful god as Vine Form and Entanglement can make your run a lot smoother. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/e78a80dfa3a9fd93b41f1217ef4276c22e19a89d.png

Glyphs

🩸 Bludtupowa - It’s time to talk about Bludtupowa. Let’s talk about exactly how it works: on activation it deals damage to the player equal to three times their level. It also reveals the three nearest unrevealed tiles and restores three mana. Monsters and the player do not regenerate from the tiles being revealed by this Glyph. Trading health for mana is useful when your health doesn’t matter. For example, if you’d die on a monster’s next hit, you can cast Bludtupowa to land the final blow with a Burdayraz or cast Getindare. This trade is also worthwhile if your main strategy is casting Glyphs for damage, and allows you to use Bludtupowa and Sanguine as an engine to pump out damage. 🩸 Getindare - Both Bloodmage Casters and Strikers can benefit from Getindare. As a Caster, cast Getindare before combat and explore to restore mana before beginning. Start the fireball fiesta and use the saved Getindare to make the last attack from safety. Getindare is the perfect mana cost for the amount restored by Bludtupowa, and so it can be used for important final hits when playing in a Striker style. 🩸 Weytwut - Making the Glyph list for its synergy with Pisorf, Weytwut can be used to set-up an enemy next to a wall or another enemy before sending them into the grinder. Orcs work best with this strategy as their base damage from conversions powers up Pisorf. Against two bosses this combo can win a dungeon, so hold on to Weytwut if you find it! As usual, Burndayraz and Pisorf are the Glyphs at the heart of your attack strategy. Wonafyt can function similarly to Weytwut in a pinch, and Endiswal can help with set-up. Bysseps can be used effectively on Strikers, but casters will find little use for it. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/034f33808b5fd50f343aa8ba8493895103084f5e.png That’s it for today! If you're healthy, remember that donating blood saves lives. World Blood Donor day is in June, so get started early 💓 Wishlist Desktop Dungeons: Rewind here! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1976950/Desktop_Dungeons_Rewind/ Check out the Daily Demo for bites of the full game... Daily! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2232060/Desktop_Dungeons_Rewind__Daily_Demo/ Follow us on Twitter and join our Discord! See you there. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/ac125d700d195f007acadacf55609b8cac41f0be.gif

Wait… Did you hear that?

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/0e511c7299d5d3d727103d294358405bc8cf1ebc.png Of course you didn’t! Welcome back to another Desktop Dungeons: Rewind class post! This week we’ll be looking at the Assassin: a poisonous professional with a propensity for dispatching plebs. Sneak your way around enemies and slice 'em to pieces! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/9a3f185aae1fe74983f6f8077ff982da437a2057.gif

Abilities

🐱‍👤 Poisoned Blade - Free Glyph: APHEELSIK, 40% bonus damage vs poisoned monsters 🐱‍👤 Light Foot - Exploring the area around a monster grants First Strike 🐱‍👤 Swift Hand - Starting attack penalty, attacking lower level monster is instant kill Assassins are a hit squad all on their own that can be played in a variety of ways. They can be played as Strikers, relying on their regen fighting prowess, or Casters, making the best of their ability to oneshot lower level enemies. Being flexible and going for a Hybrid of these two is also viable. Poisoned Blade gives the Assassin a free Apheelsik glyph at the start of each run. Apheelsik poisons enemies, which stops their regeneration for an amount of health based on your level. This helps the Assassin to attack enemies and explore without enemies regenerating health! Apheelsik synergises well with Light Foot, as you’ll want to reveal the area around an enemy to have access to First Strike. As a final nail in their coffin, you’ll deal bonus damage to poisoned enemies. Swift Hand is the Assassin class's defining feature: attacking any enemy that is a lower level than you will instantly kill them, regardless of how much damage you have. Interestingly, this ability is what makes a Caster build viable! Most Casters will neglect their attacks in favour of spell damage, which can make killing lower level enemies (nicknamed “popcorn”) cost health for attacks or mana for Glyphs, and therefore cost black space. Swift Hand can also make levelling during a fight for the healing very easy, as killing popcorn is automatic. On the flip side, Swift Hand also gives a penalty to your starting attack bonus. This means that you rely on poisoning an enemy to deal more damage with attacks. Playing around this usually involves your kin choice, which we’ll get into now! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/5475596c9d718a7683ba14aeea0b5fdd86139b48.gif

Kin Choices

🐱‍👤 Human - Make for a great choice when planning to play a Striker build, as their conversion bonus of 10% damage can offset the attack penalty from Swift Hand. You’ll still need Glyphs like Apheelsik, Bysseps, and Burndayraz to take down tough foes, so stay flexible throughout your run and be willing to play a Hybrid depending on what you find! 🐱‍👤 Elf - Elves favour a Caster build with their conversion bonus providing a boost to your maximum mana. Finding a Burndayraz during the mid levels of your run is important, so you might consider preparing Flame Magnet. Instead of poisoning enemies to regain your health, you’ll be doing it for mana to fling fireballs. Instantly killing lower level monsters means you don’t need to worry about wasting space to heal or restore mana! 🐱‍👤 Goblin - Welcoming a new Kin to the Class Posts, we have the Goblin! Goblins are a very unique Kin, as they gain experience from converting items. This sneaky boost to your levels makes Swift Hand incredibly strong. Goblin Assassins can set themselves up to level up many times in a single fight, giving them refreshers on their health. Watch a boss deal with that! As an alternative to Humans, Orcs can make for great Strikers at the cost of versatility. Orcs don’t do very well with Hybrid Assassin builds. If you don’t feel like playing an Elf, Gnomes make for a decent substitute. It’s a bit of a downgrade, but if you can prepare items that synergise well with potions like Trisword it can be a slight upgrade. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/03c7931365cbe16581c1b3133d8046eff12c0905.png

Gods

🐱‍👤 Tikki Tooki - Well if we’re killing for something, it’s probably money (or experience, in the case of interning Assassins.) Tikki is a difficult god to manage early into a run because he’ll punish you for being hit multiple times by the same enemy. No regen fighting for you… What makes him good to worship is Tikki’s Edge, which gives you bonus experience on kill. When you’re snacking on your popcorn with your Swift Hands, this stacks up fast. Any piety you have left over can be spent on potions to spike for a boss fight. 🐱‍👤 Mystera Annur - Assassins can make great casters because of their ability to kill lower level enemies with a snap of their fingers. Getting mana from Mystera through Magic can make for a couple more spell casts, and using Weakening to crack through resistances is amazing! And just like that, they disappear… Magic! 🐱‍👤 Dracul - We haven’t talked about Dracul in a class post yet. This is mostly because he’s a big scary vampire man, but it’s also because he’s used as a late-game transition to kill a boss. Blood Tithe allows you to drink blood pools for health, and Blood Swell can provide you with a full health refresh if you don’t care about being cursed. Having access to blood pools is guaranteed as the Assassin because of Swift Hand, and refilling with health during a boss fight is very valuable. However, assassins are terrible at using Life Steal (insta-killing things has a downside, who would have thought!) and so Blood Hunger isn’t useful. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/906f4fcd31c9a0bf68993f88760183992bc0f75b.png

Glyphs

🐱‍👤 Apheelsik - This Glyph is so important for the class that you start with one for free! Use it frequently to unlock your full potential. Poison, attack, regenerate, attack. Rinse and repeat until your target is nothing but a pile of poisonous chunks! They’ll never see it coming... 🐱‍👤 Burndayraz - Ah, good old Fireballs. Assassins are the sneakiest demolition experts, and can use fireballs as finishers or consistent damage depending on their build. Undead enemies can’t be poisoned, and so using Burndayraz as your heal negation for these enemies will help regen fighting and damage. 🐱‍👤 Wonafyt - Wonafyt summons a monster from the dungeon that is the same level as you and slows them. If there are no monsters the same level as you, it will teleport lower level monsters… And we know how fights go for lower level monsters! This Glyph has amazing synergy with Tikki Tooki: he rewards you for casting it, and further rewards you for killing experience valuable low level enemies. Slowed enemies are considered to be experience valuable… So get to summonin' and slicin’! Having innate first strike from Light Foot devalues Glyphs like Getindare and Weytwut, so don't be afraid to convert them early (although Weytwut can get rid of an enemy's First Strike!) Imawal is always useful when trying to level up, especially if you're taking down higher level enemies. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42753242/4fac0be2e20a29154b0f16c14a501e083a55e85b.png And that's it for this week. To play the Assassin ASAP, wishlist Desktop Dungeons: Rewind! Also make sure to follow our Twitter, join our Discord, and play the Daily Demo. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2232060/Desktop_Dungeons_Rewind__Daily_Demo/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1976950/Desktop_Dungeons_Rewind/ See you next week!

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