Thea 2: The Shattering news & patch notes

And so it begins...

The world has ended - again. But you, Alloy? You are the one rebuilding it.

We are excited to announce that Project Thea is now available in Early Access. Step into a dark, Slavic-inspired post-apocalypse where fate, folklore, and forgotten magichines collide. As the Alloy, you will rebuild the last surviving colony, explore the Wasteland, gather resources, and face enemies using deep, tactical card-based combat.

What awaits you in Early Access right now

The current build features hours of gameplay and a complete playable loop. You can:

• Explore a retro-futuristic world scarred by the Fall

• Craft tools, cook meals, and manage your supplies

• Rebuild your city and unlock new buildings and research

• Meet companions with their own stories and skills

• Make choices that steer branching narratives

• Fight foes using tactical decks, skills, and quick decision-making

There is already plenty to do, experiment with, and survive through.

What is still coming

While the game is fully playable and filled with content, some features are still in development or planned for expansion. Early Access is the beginning of the journey, not the end.

Join us in shaping Project Thea

This world is harsh, strange, and often cruel - but it is also yours to remake. We invite you to dive in, explore, experiment, and tell us what works and what needs improvement. Early Access is a collaboration, and we look forward to building this game together with you.

Thank you for joining us at the start of this journey.

See you in the Wasteland.

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Camping Redesign

• End Turn is now separate from Camping, allowing you to end the turn without performing any other actions.

• Camping actions now require assigning party members to specific tasks — rest, cook, scavenge, repair, and more.

• Scavenging added: you can now assign units to gather materials anywhere on a cleared hex. (Resources appear after clearing a POI — i.e. after all its floors are complete.)

• Crafting Card Booster Packs added: craft a booster pack and choose 1 of 3 cards to add to your deck.

• Healing updated: each End Turn now heals d3 Wounds (if you have Supplies). Camping can improve healing for the most wounded unit, with no risk of regression as before.

• Equipment Screen redesigned for faster, cleaner access.

• Group View now displays which cards belong to which NPCs — so you’ll know what you lose if someone doesn’t make it home.

• Many new crafting items added, along with material rarity tiers.

• Meals now have their own screen, clearly showing bonuses and effects.

⚠️ Note: Because the Research/Tech Tree is not yet implemented, all item rarities are currently available from the start — this will change once the system is in place.

City Upgrades

• 3MD Printforge is now part of the Core Development Room.

• Tower of Commerce offers rotating trade items that change with each season and expand with higher tech levels.

• Research Lab added (non-functional for now).

• Council System streamlined: the PC Main and their Alloy Twin now preside at the head of the Council, with three Advisors drawn from the population.

• Council Skills are calculated like group skills for event checks.

• Each Councillor’s Domain determines their bonus type.

Map & Exploration

• Enemy list accessible at the bottom-left of the UI.

• Remote Access to the Project unlocks after your first visit.

• Scavengeable resources appear on cleared POIs.

• Hide Markers button now works — perfect for those cinematic screenshots.

Battle

• Run Away / Pause Menu option implemented — live to fight another day.

• Enemy cards are briefly displayed during combat; hovering over them extends viewing time.

• The Main/Expert Hand and Side Hand are now visually distinct — the side hand (MAX 3 cards, drawn each turn) includes Minions.

Skill Challenges

• Option to pay Supplies to increase success chance removed.

• Option to pay Supplies for a re-roll added.

Morale

• New events trigger when party members grow deeply unhappy — some may decide to leave.

• Added info pop-ups when morale changes due to personality traits (Believer, Progressive, Idealist, Pragmatic).

• Additional morale systems still WIP.

Other Updates

• You can now dismiss party members while out in the Wastelands.

• HUD warnings improved for clarity and readability.

Keep your scanners ready, survivors! A brand-new Project Thea trailer drops during Steam Next Fest on 13th October, where we’ll finally reveal the Early Access release date!

Yes, the time has come, the Project Thea Demo version will be out, live on August 20th!

What to expect from the demo?

You’ll get 25 turns of awesome exploration across the post-apocalyptic Wastelands of Thea. Head out with your party to scout locations, gather vital resources, and hunt down roaming enemies — all in the struggle to help your fledgling settlement survive that terrifying first night.

Don’t forget to gear up! Manage the party inventory, craft equipment, and cook food to keep your crew strong and ready for whatever lurks out there. Each map hides stories of survivors — some you might ally with, others you might just… remove.

Most importantly, bring back those precious Energy Shards. They’re the key to powering up the Project, your home base, letting you build, improve, and secure the future of sentient-kind. Survival is just the start — what you do next is what really matters.

This is just a taste of what’s to come in the full game. If you enjoy your time in the Wastelands, don’t forget to wishlist Project Thea and be ready when the full release arrives.

Master of Magic Extended Roadmap and Sale

It's an exciting week here at MuHa, as we reveal the extended roadmap for Master of Magic. With this reveal, we hope to show our continuous commitment to the game and its improvements.

And to celebrate this reveal, there's a 30% SALE on Steam right now, from 10th to 17th of May. So, if you haven't had the chance to check it out, now is the perfect moment.

Thea 2: The Shattering - Rat Tales and More...

An upcoming free DLC update, featuring:

• New events: Including a rat-centred tale, a Thea dating game and an invasion of foreign wizards and their flock.
• New Rat classes: Just when you thought there’s enough rattiness in Thea, we give you the Tsarat, the Warrant, the Healrat, the Mystrat, and a cute, little baby rat!
• New Human class: The Berserker, a wild warrior whose power is gained from Destiny.
• New Dwarven class: Ever wondered what dwarven women do in the depths of their underground kingdoms? The Matrioshka answer that question and show just how powerful they are.
• New characters that can join your group: Gnolls, Polar Bears, old magicians...
• New pets to discover; eight new additions to our Thea menagerie
• New god Trait cards
• The Memorial Grounds: Finally, the many deaths and/or abandonments of Thea’s heroes are now recorded for posterity.

The DLC is an AUTOMATIC UPDATE, so you don't need to do anything more than update the game to get your free content!

The journey continues for Thea 2: The Shattering, this time, we are out on Xbox One!

Thea 2: The Shattering is now available on three different platforms, so check out our store pages to choose your favourite, as there are visual differences between versions.

Our friends at Lost Pilgrims have just launched Vagrus - The Riven Realms into full release here on Steam.

Feature list

• A DARK REALM A vast realm is yours to explore, filled with unique locations, strange factions, lurking dangers, and a slew of characters you can interact with. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/909660/extras/newgif-map.gif
• BRANCHING NARRATIVE A large selection of longer and shorter stories make up the game’s narrative in the form of events and quests. The choices you make in these can significantly affect the characters and the world around you. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/909660/extras/newgif-story.gif
• TURN-BASED COMBAT Take part in turn-based, tactical combat that involves your characters and a large variety of enemies, both humanoid and monstrous. Use a range of character skills and abilities to succeed. Fight against outlaws and monsters commanding your whole traveling company in pitched battles for resources. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/909660/extras/newgif-combat.gif
• RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Most journeys have to be planned and prepared for carefully, lest they end in disaster. Manage your supplies, cargo, and crew effectively to survive. Take on contracts and follow rumors or trade opportunities. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/909660/extras/newgif-management.gif
• UNIQUE COMPANIONS A wide variety of companions can work for you in versatile caravan roles, such as scoutmaster, guard captain, treasure hunter, or beast handler. Each companion comes with unique combat skills, background stories, and personal quest lines that can upgrade them further when you complete them. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/909660/extras/newgif-companions.gif
• POWERFUL FACTIONS Ally yourself with mighty factions that shape the Riven Realms with their influence on commerce, brutal wars, and constant scheming. From prosperous Trading Houses to criminal syndicates and religious organizations, these groups offer powerful rewards and boons to those loyal to their cause. But take heed - befriending a faction will more than likely antagonize others. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/909660/extras/newgif-factions.gif

Centurion Edition

Vagrus also has a FREE Prologue available here on Steam

We have some exciting news for you - we've been working on another cool DLC for Thea 2 and we hope to get it finished for you later this year.

• a new human class based on the Destiny stat, as you've told us the stat seems unloved and there's never enough new human options, right?
• a new and cool class for dwarven women - time for the men to let the world see why they keep their awesome women secret ;)
• several new quest lines and events
• rats have a new quest too, because there never are enough rat-centered stories in Thea...
• some new pets, perhaps even a new race
• tweaks and fixes in existing events

P.S.

The MuHa Games and All in! Games Turn-Based Adventure Bundle!

Thea: The Awakening

Thea 2: The Shattering

Fort Triumph

• Fix to the red cave, mental bandit challenge route (not all paths were taken into account in the previous fix),
• Halloween dlc, Forefathers; added a clone of adv node 14 and an extra win condition to node 13 to avoid an exploit,
• Added an option to change into the blue dragon as reward for Gosk,
• Added the young sniezynka to the list when you advance your chosen, so that the young one can also become elder now,
• Tweaked the light vs dark event (KS Events) to reduce its repeatability.

• Fixed groups staying in the same hex getting events not linked to them,
• Fixed the orc chosen advancement option where only male orcs could become warriors, also added a bloodtracker option for orcs (VOLH DLC; Chosen Advancement Id37; Node 9 &53),
• Fixed KS Events; Sea Haven 4b; added log10 in start node so that the event will now be marked as done in the logbook,
• Added a surrender dialogue option for the red cave bandit quest, so that you can avoid the challenge altogether, by accepting some mental damage (mChapter1;Id19;node109),
• Fixed Alpha Occupation and Slav Occupation events, where the Gosk quest could become looped,
• Fixed arena event where at one stage you could not invite other players/groups to join (Post Water DLC, id140),
• Added missing character variants for Human Zerca and Young Zerca (HumanClericM4) and Orc Slugger and Elder Slugger (OrcWarriorM6),
• Balancing changes to Net Shot skill,
• Fixed a number of spelling mistakes.

Hey folks! Our fellow devs and Friends at Lost Pilgrims Studio have just released the Open-World main campaign for Vagrus - The Riven Realms. And so we decided to show some support and share the goodness with you.

Feature list

• A DARK CONTINENT A vast realm is yours to explore, filled with unique locations, strange factions, lurking dangers, and a slew of characters you can interact with. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/909660/extras/gif-map-steam.gif
• BRANCHING NARRATIVE A large selection of longer and shorter stories make up the game’s narrative in the form of events and quests. The choices you make in these can significantly affect the characters and the world around you. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/909660/extras/gif-event2-steam.gif
• TURN-BASED COMBAT Take part in turn-based, tactical combat that involves your characters and a large variety of enemies, both humanoid and monstrous. Use a range of character skills and abilities to succeed. Fight against outlaws and monsters commanding your whole traveling company in pitched battles for resources. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/909660/extras/gif-combat-steam.gif
• RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Most journeys have to be planned and prepared for carefully, lest they end in disaster. Manage your supplies, cargo, and crew effectively to survive. Take on contracts and follow rumors or trade opportunities. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/909660/extras/gif-management-steam.gif
• UNIQUE COMPANIONS The player can recruit fully-developed characters into the caravan to serve in versatile roles, such as scoutmaster, guard captain, spellweaver, or slavedriver. Each of them comes with their own background and personal quests lines. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/909660/extras/gif-characters-steam.gif

Wishlist and follow Vagrus

Additions and changes:

• Villages and Camps have a new ability to increase their hiding over time, reducing the frequency of enemy attacks (this is a difficulty setting),
• Bows have acquired the ability to increase Delay of enemies hit and are faster to use,
• Clubs an mallets got a secondary attack that can target single enemy,
• Wand deal damage in all 3 forms of challenges and deal double damage to summons,
• Added a quest for goblins to be able to advance into chieftains,
• Added ice biome ruins,
• Added new characters to trait cards,
• Added a handful of ridiculously challenging end-game events for all of you OP players,
• Added chosen advancement option for sniezynka and rusalka and befuddler (VOLH DLC; Chosen Advancement; nodes 49,50,52),
• Added pet training for crab and parrot at spirit talkers (event id 73; nodes 35-42 and Woodlandkin; event 54; nodes 39- 46),
• Reduced equipment crating time for items using Tier 1 (takes about 30% of time) and Tier 2 (takes about 75% of time). Tiers 3+ are unaffected,
• Added Shift + Click functionality on event trade screen,
• Gahering screen now sorts items placing terrain artefacts and food at the beginning of the list, and resources from rariest to the least rare later. Additionally resources are next to each other if they are the same type,
• T2 resources craft from T1 no longer use coal,
• Resources can be downgraded from higher resources using 1 ingredient resource + 1 coal to produce 3 lower tier resources if the ingredient is NOT researched, or 4 if the ingredient is researched,
• Added turn notification when there are not enough resources for a task,
• AI improvements to better estimate skill tactical value,
• Increased the frequency of updates sent to all players in coop to ensure more up-to-date information is available about groups of other players,
• Added function to heal mental and spirit wounds when a chosen is resurrected,
• Sea ruins loot/reward tweaks and chance added so that you cannot choose the path available to explore.

Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where sometimes the guardian demon could leave the village,
• Fixed difficulty now displays 100% at easy, 150% in medium and 200% on hard difficulty,
• Text added to make it clear a weapon needs to be sacrificed and it may be an equipped weapon (Awakening; Id 34; node 3),
• Switched/changed descriptions of boatswain and pirate, to reflect that boatswain is the superior. Also changed the growing up event accordingly (Generic; id 38 +47; nodes 23,24, 5, 38),
• Fixed description for SUBSKILL-STRONG_INSPIRE_STANCE,
• Fixed description for SUBSKILL_BLOODY_INSPIRE_STANCE,
• Fixed a softlock when selecting a ranged target,
• Fixed overlapping icons on crafting screen on certain resolutions where there were 5 job slots available,
• Fixed target scripts to allow targeting hand if battlefield is empty, also added hand targetting option for a number of skills
• Fixed incorrect algorithm for calculation of conquered settlements,
• Fixed character's list on HUD not scrolling correctly,
• Fixed a bug in main quest Mroki event, where not having an item to trade could cause a softlock,
• Fixed secondary targets when a target is selected manually.

Important note:

HOTFIX 0649:

• Added the option to pay with a cosmic seed for special class when chosen human child grows up
• Modified pirate attack quests so that you may escape the encounter
• Fixed a few cemetery events where the rewards were too high for the challenge level
• Removed several unused events from Wrath of Sea DLC module (ones that were copies of events moved elsewhere)
• Added the baby troll growing up events on sea
• Added a 'leave' option to sea loot
• Added voiceover which was missing in the Mokosh god quest
• Fixed task slots when creating new tasks on water
• Group info on HUD will show details instead of portraits by default

New Stuff:

• Added several new sea-based events and land-based ones too
• Several unique characters to be gained via the new questline
• Added Orc Pirates race along with their race-specific skills
• Added new god Mokosh along with her divine quest
• Added new end-game questline (not for the faint-hearted)
• Added enemy groups roaming on sea
• Added Water Demon faction events (this faction is now guaranteed to appear on Ice Biome)
• Added non-player water settlements and locations ("ruins")
• Added two new pets - a parrot and a crab
• Added new resource - Seaweed - along with food recipes that use it
• Added two pirate ships which can be obtained from pirates
• Added new trait cards
• Players can now gather and craft while sailing (not possible on Raft/Stribog's Raft)
• Added story summary for game-ending scenarios
• Added group composition info on HUD
• Added notification for resources given by wells etc
• Added an additional end game event, for those who want to kill very hard enemies for fun
• Production screens can now be closed using Esc
• The level up system will now offer at least one skill to upgrade (if possible)
• Baby trolls will now have a chance to grow up into teenage trolls
• Pineconettes have a chance to become young leshy
• Added more glyphs to the font atlas (Chinese, Korean, Czech)

Fixes:

• Fixed a crash when doing rollover on group info screen during an event if another player has already started the card game
• Fixed a bug with ranged weapons made from gem essence not working properly
• Fixed god points awarded for the best character being calculated incorrectly, often resulting in 0 value)
• Fixed a bug where a group missing a boat was unable to disembark
• Increased the number of god points awarded for Advancement Points gained
• Fixed network game ID to allow only games of the same version to communicate
• Fixed difficulty "rogue spawn" parameter not working correctly
• Fixed maxed out skills being offered on level up
• Fixed RMB movement on sea
• Fixed icy biome not covering trees with snow except winter
• Fixed Sea Encounters:14 where gathering the same thing more than once could cause an error
• Fixed Pikulik consequence event, so that it stops popping up endlessly.
• Awakening DLC Inventor event fixed: the trading profile TRADER-BANDIT changed to TRADER-BANDIT_TWO
• Reduced the number of deserts and increased the number of forests on Ancient Forest biome
• Fixed incorrect damage icons for SUBSKILL-SELF_PROTECTION_M_S and SUBSKILL-PROTECTION_M_S
• Added child growing up at sea clone (as the sea growing up event has not been updated for a while)
• Show Equipped button is no longer is available on Trades screen if item-list provided for player to trade does not contain equipped items
• Fixed an issue where sometimes a trash can icon would appear on characters in Inventory

Technical info

• Research screen (Advancement screen) layout logic has been moved into scripts

• Generic; Borc growing up added id
• Slavyans, Occupation Slavyan, id; Capturing orc slaves, id; Nemoslav spwn 2, id;
• Spirit Talkers, Occupation Gob, id; Capturing gob slaves, id; Nemoslav spwn 2, id;
• Alphaclans, Occupation Orc, id; Nemoslav spwn 2, id;
• Earthbound, Occupation Dwarf, id;
• Woodlandkin, Occupation Elf, id;
• Scavengers, Occupation Scav, id; Capturing pine id
• Divine; Mokosh and __Mokosh
• Generic; id 32;33;34;35

• Divine module; event id 2, node 50 (plus, last output of node 10 that leads to node 50)
• Divine module; event id 2, node 51 (plus, last output of node 39 that leads to node 51)
• Divine module; event id 10, node 60 (plus, last output of node 36 that leads to node 60)
• Divine module; event id 11, node 67 (plus, last output of node 36 that leads to node 67)
• Divine module; event id 8, node 50 (plus, last output of node 15 and 16 that leads to node 50)
• Divine module; event id 9, node 58 (plus, last output of node 15 and 16 that leads to node 58)
• Awakening DLC; event id 10; node 31; (plus, last output of node 19 that leads to node 31)
• Awakening DLC; event id 23; node 22; (plus, last output of node 2 that leads to node 22)
• Sea Encounters; event id 6; node 48; (plus, last output of node 2 that leads to node 48)
• VOLH DLC; id 37; last two outputs of node 2

• Wrath of the sea DLC
• Water demons
• Sea Ruins

• Fixed a relatively common crash when doing concept challenges vs high-level groups,
• Fixed events in goblin villages not applying some results to groups of all players (i.e. healing in the villages).

• Added 40 new events,
• Added 8 god traits,
• Added Inventor character class along with its class trait and skills,
• Added a summary screen where all characters can be inspected from anywhere - just press F1,
• Added tooltips to recipe screen for essence and skill level bar,
• Added more Chinese glyphs to the font atlas, also added Greek, Korean and Japanese glyph sets.

• Fixed Replace Idol ritual that would sometimes cause a crash,
• Fixed Dwelling speed boost not being applied in the first turn after leaving the village,
• Fixed CONST_NIGHT_MOVEMENT_RANGE where speed boost would not be applied in the first night turn,
• Fixed challenge difficulty for concepts and challenges above lvl 10 not being displayed correctly,
• Fixed a bug that would prevent health being permanently recovered following a challenge when the player started a fight with a wounded character and used a weapon with life leech effect,
• Fixed targeting bug in co-op challenge.

• Fixed KS Events/Fli Catapult Spwn2, Cemetery/Cemetery Goblin D3 and Cemetery Orc D5 as their requirements would not let them trigger on Pangea,
• Fixed Woodlandkin:27 where TradeNode would not have the option to cancel,
• Fixed Misc Encounters 2/HeresyQuest tag deletion which could block main quest progress,
• Fixed mChapter 1/Bandits3 which would mark the quest as complete on the logbook at an incorrect point,
• Fixed mChapter 1/TrappedDwarf6 where a spiritual challenge with Ail'yleth would cause an error (added ChallNod82 as a copy of ChallNod37 but without entry requirements),
• Fixed mChapter 1/Scavengers4 which could spawn another red cave when a child was returned,
• Fixed Earthbound/DwarfKillMEdOrcSkel where one option would not have a group assigned,
• Fixed Generic:28 where Lada path would make girls grow up to be befuddlers instead of rusalkas,
• Fixed Scavengers:51 where the player would not receive loyalty points to Scavengers faction,
• Fixed Generic:5 where mythical path would cause a missing group error,
• Fixed mChapter 1:21 - support from demons after killing them is no longer an option,
• Fixed trade node in SpiritTalkers:27 that could cause a crash when cancelling,
• Fixed Misc Encounters 2:19 - missing group in deal damage node that could cause a crash,
• Added the inventor class as an advancement option for the chosen - localization change: Volh DLC, event 37, node 2 last output: Become an inventor.

Additions:

• Added characters' current task icon to inventory and equip screens,
• Show/hide resources and minimap toggle buttons should now work after one player ended their turn and is waiting for other players,
• Switching pages on various screens can now be done using arrow keys,
• Added tools filter to Inventory,
• Added missing Ukrainian glyphs (ґ, Ґ, є, Є, і, І, ї, Ї) to the font atlas.

Fixes:

• Fixed a problem where a Scavenger Volh would have no portrait and throw errors when starting a fight,
• Fixed a crash on fight info screen when the joining player still has group info screen open when the fight begins,
• Fixed challenge queue that would not let you switch to the previous page,
• Fixed a bug with being able to select a gender for the chosen even if that gender should not have been allowed.

Events:

• Changed the event ID 45 'nonhuman cabbage patch' in Children module, so that any two adult characters of any race and gender can find a child in a cabbage patch when they have less than 4 characters in total,
• Fix for Stingers, Army ID 5; Node 11 - wrong loyalty changed,
• Change in Volh DLC module - changing the class of the chosen resets half of the character's level,
• Changed to Earthbound event - added Mental Return to the large village,
• Fixed GroupTroll event (Generic module) - added group to end node that receives a blessing.

Hotfix 0612:

• Fixed a crash in multiplayer games caused by the halloween module not initialising correctly for the client,
• Fixed a bug in Trick or Treat event,
• Added em dash glyph to font atlas,
• A hardcoded text on HUD is no longer hardcoded.

Hotfix 0614:

• Corrected the Halloween event to allow other players to join in the final boss fight,
• Fixed an issue where only the main player would get RP from events in co-op,
• Fixed Chinese glyphs not showing correctly.