Slots & Daggers news & patch notes

It’s officially been one week since launch, and I still can’t quite believe how wild this first week has been. Thank you all for playing, sharing feedback, and helping me make Slots & Daggers better! ❤️

• Symbol cursing (some enemies curse one of the symbols on your wheels, disabling it for the rest of the fight -> encourages strategies with more than 3 symbols)

• Aggro meter (some enemies have an “aggro” bar that fills up with every re-spin of the wheels, triggering an interruption of the player turn when it’s full)

• Fixes for some rare cases where the game would soft lock 

• Fixed a rare issue that would corrupt & reset the save file & crash the game

• Various very minor balancing adjustments

Thanks again for the amazing first week, so happy to have such a lovely community around this game! 🎰🖤

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Hey everyone!

Day 4, and again: Thank you so much! There’s still so many of you coming in every day, it’s been so nice to see! The game’s review score has also slowly been ticking up, which is incredibly motivating for making updates, fixes new features. 

• Fast Mode (beta) – speeds up gameplay. This is an early version, expect minor bugs and please let me know what you think! Enable in Game settings.

• Resolution and windowed mode settings – you can now adjust these from the visual settings

• Fixed the bug where one of the dice disappears. Let me know in case it still happens! 🎲💀

Thanks again for all your support, it's been an absolute pipe-dream so far! I’ll try to keep the updates coming and hope you're having fun at the slots! 🎰

Day 3! Launch weekend is over, but things are still going strong. Again: Thank you all so much, it’s been such an amazing launch! ❤️

• (hopefully) fixed an issue that would freeze the game if your computer crashed during a previous session (if you’ve been affected by this, please let me know if this update fixed it!)

• Arena Mode score counter now shows K & M formats when your score gets crazy high

• Fixed a small bug where lifesteal wasn’t scaling correctly

• Fixed an issue where price display would wrongly indicate “red” color even if you have enough coins

• (EDIT) fixed the bug where you get 5k chips after a run

The build is live on the game's beta branch (Steam Library -> right click the game -> Betas -> select "beta" from dropdown) and will go to the default branch later today after some testing.

Thanks again, hope you have a great start to the week! 🎰

Friedemann here 👋

Day 2 and things are still absolutely wild! Thank you for playing, recommending, leaving reviews, feedback, bug reports and messages about Eggo. It’s really been incredible!

• Fixed starting life bug (where you’d start with 1-10 HP on a new run)

• Golden key isn’t offered any longer if you have all wheels unlocked

• Game remembers bomb-damage on quit & restart

• Respins slowly speed up, to decrease waiting time on massive combos

• Audio settings get applied correctly on startup

• Fixed a bug that led to some modifiers not being saved when quitting the game

Thanks again for everything, hope you’re having a great weekend and enjoying the game! ❤️

Hey everyone! 

Friedemann here 👋

Less than 24 hours since the game released and it's been a wild ride! I’m still completely floored by how many of you are playing Slots & Daggers and leaving all sorts of kind messages and feedback. Thank you so much for all the love and support ❤️

I’ve been busy fixing issues you have reported and just uploaded a new update (1.0.2) that addresses some bugs:

• Quitting & restarting the game while in Arena Mode now works properly

• Removing passive power ups from your inventory resets their bonuses correctly

• Chips get reset when wiping your game progress

• Fixed a bug that occured when combining Mirror power up and self-respinning symbols

• Some more minor fixes and QoL improvements

Should be an overall smoother experience!

The update is live on the game's beta branch (to access: rightclick the game in Library -> Properties -> Betas -> select "beta" from the dropdown) and will be moved to the default branch later in the day, after some testing.

If you run into any other bugs or balancing issues, or any of these issues keeps happening for you, please keep posting about it here or in the discussions, it helps a ton and I’m trying to read everything, even if I don’t have time to respond! 

Thanks again for all the support, hope you’re having fun at the Slots! 

Cheers, Friedemann 

Hey everyone! 

Friedemann here 👋

The launch of Slots & Daggers has completely blown me away! Thank you all for playing, sharing, and sending me kind words. It means the world. ♥️

Some of you mentioned that once you hit the mid game, things can get a bit too easy and a few of you have found game-breaking loadouts (💀💎💿, if you know you know). I want this game to be accessible, but maybe I oversteered a bit in that direction.

So I’ve put together a hotfix to rebalance the mid and late game and make fights a little more intense.

The update’s live on the Public Beta branch. If you’d like to help test it, here’s how: 

• Right-click Slots & Daggers in your Steam Library 

• Go to Properties → Betas 

• Select “public-beta” from the dropdown 

Once you’ve played, drop a comment here or in the discussions to let me know how it feels. Your feedback helps a ton! 

Thanks again for all the love and support, you’re making this an absolute dream to work on. 

Cheers, Friedemann

Hi everyone, I’ve got huge news:

Slots & Daggers is OUT NOW!

If you love weird fantasy worlds, strange little guys, old school crunchy hiphop drum machines, addictive arcade games that go “PLING PLING PLING” as they spit out little coins, and classic roguelike mechanics, then you’ll love this! 

Here are some really cool things that have happened since we launched the demo:

• Over 70,000 of you have wishlisted in less than three months!

• Future Games Show awarded Slots & Daggers a gold medal for best demo in Steam next fest!

• Northernlion played the demo and said he’ll definitely be playing the full game when it comes out!

• GamesRadar+ said it was their favourite roguelike in Steam Next Fest!

Thanks so much to all of you who played the demo and wishlisted the game, it’s been amazing to hear your thoughts so far! Now enough talk, more spins! I hope you enjoy the game as much as I have enjoyed making it.

Talk soon,

Friedemann

Hey folks, 

I have a super exciting announcement today!

Slots & Daggers will launch on the 24th of October!

Less than two weeks until my weird fantasy, slot machine crawler is all yours, so get ready to steady your blade and get spinning…

What you can look forward to:

🎰 Fun slot machine

🌍 Weird fantasy world

🧌 Crude drawings of strange little guys

🖥️ Retro visuals

🎹 Crunchy hip hop drum machines

🎶 Addictive arcade gameplay that goes “pling” a lot

‼️ Numbers! Fights! Goblins!

Since we launched the demo, over 1 thousand of you have wishlisted every day, which has been so cool to see! So to keep you entertained in the meantime, and to say thank you for all the love, I’ve updated the demo ready for Next Fest, which includes a brand new level, new playable items, a ‘quick kill’ bonus for defeating enemies in less than 5 turns, and even more that you can go check out right now!!

Have fun and I’ll see you on the 24th ⚔️

Cheers,

Friedemann 

Hey everyone, Friedemann here 👋

• Adjusted balancing for the Bow & Arrow and the Massive Sword (both were a bit too powerful)

• Fixed some localization issues with missing characters

• Added two new languages: Portuguese (BR) and Korean

Hey everyone!

Friedemann here 👋 It’s been a few weeks since the Slots & Daggers reveal, and the response has been incredible - I’ve received so many lovely messages from people excited to see more of this strange little game I’m making.

So today I’m delighted to share the demo with you all - go download it now if you haven’t already!

I also put together this little explainer video to give a better sense of what Slots & Daggers is all about: 

The demo itself is just intended to give you a little taste of what’s to come in the main game, so you’ll be able to play through the first two zones, and play around with a relatively limited set of weapons, abilities, upgrades and modifiers for now. The main game will obviously have tons more enemies to fight and stuff to unlock and play around with.

I hope you have a good time with Slots & Daggers - and let me know what you think of the demo! ♥️

Cheers, 

Friedemann

Hey everyone!

Friedemann here 👋 It’s been a little while since I announced my new game Slots & Daggers, so I thought it was time to give you all an update!

I’m very excited to announce, the demo will be out on the 22nd of September!!

The demo itself will just be a taster of what’s to come in the main game, so you’ll be able to play through the first two zones, and play around with a relatively limited set of weapons, abilities, upgrades and modifiers for now, but there should be enough to get a good sense of what the game’s about. The main game will obviously have tons more enemies to fight and stuff to unlock and play around with 🙂

Be sure to wishlist to stay updated and I’ll see you on the 22nd! ♥️

Cheers, 

Friedemann

As part of the Games Forged in Germany Steam event, I thought I’d highlight some German indie friends of mine that make amazing games! The local game development scene here is bursting with talent and creativity, so I’d love to introduce you to some of the games from German friends of mine.

Without further ado: 

Toukana

STAR BIRDS

(^ Click here to see it on the Store!)

Toukana is one of the most inspiring indie studios I know. Since releasing their debut smash-hit Dorfromantik in 2021, they have constantly continued building and giving their community more: A critically acclaimed boardgame spin-off, tons of extra content for Dorfromantik and now: Their next game SPACE BIRDS in which you mine little asteroids for resources to help a flock of spacefaring birds prosper and thrive. It’s an incredibly fresh take on the resource management genre, and manages to please both people who’ve played games like this for ages as well as complete newcomers. SPACE BIRDS currently has a playable demo, so you can fall in love with it yourself:

Also make sure to check out Toukana’s first game Dorfromantik which is currently 40% off!

Grizzly Games

THRONEFALL

(^ Click here to see it on the Store!)

This studio will always be special to me because I co-founded it and was part of the team for the first two games SUPERFLIGHT & ISLANDERS. I’m still good friends with these guys and the work they’ve done on their last game Thronefall is incredible. Top down medieval strategy meets the trademark GrizzlyGames minimalism, incredible sound design and super satisfying combat. I think Thronefall is one of the best (minimalist) strategy games out there, if you don’t know it already, definitely go check it out: 

If you haven’t played them yet, have a look at ISLANDERS and Superflight too, I’ve worked on both of those games and am still super proud of them!

RANDWERK

WANDERBURG

(^ Click here to see it on the Store!)

The guys at Randwerk have an incredible knack for visual appeal & satisfying game feel. Their first game Abriss was already gorgeous and I’ve been obsessed with their upcoming Wanderburg ever since they showed me a super early prototype. It’s such a good premise: a minimalist open world roguelike where you commandeer a castle on wheel, fighting and eating up other castles to grow bigger and more powerful! 

WANDERBURG is incredibly fun & juicy to play, looks gorgeous and I highly recommend having a look: 

There are many more, but I’ll leave it at these three for now! Let me know if you’d like to see more recommendations like these and if you enjoyed the games here <3 

Cheers, 

Friedemann

Hey guys,

Friedemann here 👋 Welcome to Slots & Daggers!

After my last game SUMMERHOUSE, I wanted to make something radically different. Something faster, with numbers, fights and goblins!

The result is this, a strange little blend of slot machine and fantasy RPG. 

To make this game I combined a lot of things I deeply love – weird fantasy worlds, crude drawings of strange little guys, old school crunchy hiphop drum machines and addictive arcade games that go “PLING PLING PLING” as they spit out little coins – with classic roguelike mechanics.

What to look forward to:

🎰 Fun slot machine

🌍 Weird fantasy world

🧌 Crude drawings of strange little guys

🖥️ Retro visuals

🎹 Crunchy hip hop drum machines

🎶 Addictive arcade gameplay that goes “pling” a lot

‼️ Numbers! Fights! Goblins!

A big shoutout and thank you to ‘Games Forged in Germany’ Steam Event who collaborated with me on this announcement, be sure to go check it out here. I was so happy to be included in this fantastic event showcasing German games!

I hope you have a good time with Slots & Daggers ♥️

Cheers, 

Friedemann