Tower Tactics: Liberation news & patch notes

Highlights

• The deck tip that shows when hovering the deck's name in the Sanctuary now has larger text and makes better use of available space. https://i.imgur.com/sqCbX2t.png

Hi everyone! I'm happy to announce that the demo for Tower Tactics 2 has just been released! Check it out here: Link to Tower Tactics 2 Store Page This demo works well with controllers and on the Steam Deck! 🎮 I hope you like it! Please let me know all of your feedback through these ways, I'll be closely monitoring them!

• Demo Feedback forum
• Official Discord Server

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Balance Changes

Trinkets

• Healing Cloak
  • Health restored: 1 >>> 2
  https://i.imgur.com/JJZCXKx.png

Siege Mode

The Wanted Poster trinket can no longer appear in Siege Mode.

Bug Fixes

• Bug Fix: Fixed some areas of the game in which text wasn't showing correctly, concretely the Next Wave Preview during combats (the enemy names) and on some UI elements of Siege Mode . In addition to that, the font used for the Chinese Translation has been changed to Noto Sans SC.

Thank you for reading the patch notes and for playing the game! If you like the game, please consider leaving a review, it helps out a lot! Did you know? Tower Tactics 2 is in the works! Check out the Steam Page! Be sure to add it to your wishlist to not miss it! A demo is coming out this year! https://i.imgur.com/bSu0R9p.png https://i.imgur.com/lD3HTd3.png

Highlights

• The Tip for each deck that could previously be seen in the deck list by hovering the difficulty indicator, can now also be seen in the Campaign menu by hovering the deck's name. https://i.imgur.com/6iiBfbl.png
• The button that allows you to skip ascension levels by using a small amount of Astral Dust is now slightly more highlighted, to make it easier to see. If you feel like a specific deck is too easy, it's recommended to skip ascensions to reduce the time it takes to get to Ascension 10. https://i.imgur.com/v51TU5P.png

Thank you for reading the patch notes and for playing the game! If you like the game, please consider leaving a review, it helps out a lot! Did you know? Tower Tactics 2 is in the works! Check out the Steam Page! Be sure to add it to your wishlist to not miss it! A demo is coming out this year! https://i.imgur.com/bSu0R9p.png https://i.imgur.com/lD3HTd3.png

Balance changes

Trinkets

Small buffs to two slightly underpowered boss trinkets!

Compulsive Reader

https://i.imgur.com/4CZ4dYn.png

• Luck gained: 7 >>> 9

Black Feathers

https://i.imgur.com/xbfywa9.png

• Extra crystals gained: 25% >>> 30%

Thank you for reading the patch notes and for playing the game! Did you know? Tower Tactics 2 is in the works! Check out the Steam Page! Be sure to add it to your wishlist to not miss it! https://i.imgur.com/bSu0R9p.png https://i.imgur.com/lD3HTd3.png

Highlights

• A new trinket has been added to the base game, the Lucky Dagger! https://i.imgur.com/TOg4zq4.png Effects that increase based on the number of cards in your deck are fun!
• You can now see the damage that critical strikes deal in the stats panel. https://i.imgur.com/vjWmsMt.png

Balance changes

Trinkets

Red Cherry

• Luck gained: 3 >>> 4

Thank you for reading the patch notes and for playing the game! Did you know? Tower Tactics 2 has just been announced! Check out the Steam Page! Be sure to add it to your wishlist to not miss it! https://i.imgur.com/bSu0R9p.png https://i.imgur.com/lD3HTd3.png

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Announcing Tower Tactics 2!

The fusion of deck-building roguelike and tower defense returns, bigger than ever! Build your deck with powerful new cards, unlock unique trinkets, and deploy enhanced towers to overcome relentless waves of enemies and new strategic challenges. Check out the Steam Page! Coming in 2026!

Features

• Map Editor and Steam Workshop: Create your own maps and share them with the world on Steam Workshop, and download the ones you like made by the community!

• Full controller support: Tower Tactics 2 was designed with controller and Steam Deck support in mind!

• New mechanics: Hero cards, powerful temporary effects, card items, new status effects like Burn, Poison and Frail, new combat types, new enemy abilities and much more! 

• Enhanced metaprogression: Collect dozens of decks and improve them between runs in multiple new ways!

• Tons of new content: New cards, enemies, tiles, decks, game modes, maps, trinkets...

• New challenges await: Will you be able to succeed in the new Sector 4? Sounds challenging, but you will have new tools at your disposal!

More information will be revealed as development continues. Be sure to wishlist the game now to not miss it!

https://i.imgur.com/lD3HTd3.png https://i.imgur.com/CVGnfVr.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/QxpA3iE.png https://i.imgur.com/o03a0PO.png Also, soon I'll release a small update for Tower Tactics: Liberation! Thank you for the support! Link to the Steam Page

Hi everyone! I'm glad to announce that the Early Access for Tower Tactics Arena is coming to an end, after 1 year and 3 months and dozens of updates! 🎉 I hope you like it! 😄 The game has improved a lot since the original Early Access release. If you liked Tower Tactics: Liberation, you may like this one too! Link to Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2727570/Tower_Tactics_Arena/ Thank you for playing and for the support! Be sure to stay tuned for the future projects I release!

Highlights

• The exact EXP needed to reach the next Siege Level is now shown in the progress bar. You gain 14 EXP at the end of a Siege Run for each day survived, and the EXP needed to get to the next level is equal to the level * 4, up to a maximum of 120 EXP from level 30 onwards. https://i.imgur.com/zhQ8UsW.png
• When playing on languages with wordier translations, cards now have a few extra pixels of space for card text.

Balance changes

Trinkets

Black Grapes

https://i.imgur.com/0umSeJd.png

• Health restore discount on forges: 40% >>> 60%

Knowledge Totem

https://i.imgur.com/HKEffuC.png

• Extra cards drawn per round: 1 >>> 2

Mysterious Candy

https://i.imgur.com/7x54Yud.png

• Health restored when visiting events: 1 >>> 2

Passionfruit

https://i.imgur.com/0AgYft2.png

• Health restored when starting boss fights: 4 >>> 5

Thank you for reading the patch notes and for playing the game! Be sure to follow me on my Steam Developer page to be up to date with the future projects I release! https://store.steampowered.com/developer/asraworks Also, check out the other games I've made! Thank you for the support! ❤

• Brawl Tactics: Origins
• Tower Tactics Arena

Balance changes

Trinkets

Buffs to niche trinkets!

White Silk

https://i.imgur.com/qKoGLRN.png

• Number of copies created: 2 >>> 1
• New effect: Now reduces the mana cost of the created copy by 1.

Golden Lamp

https://i.imgur.com/S8ATHj5.png

• New effect: Now reduces the mana cost of the returned card by 1.

Bug Fixes

• Bug Fix: The Warfare Drums trinket now resets correctly at the start of each combat.

Bug Fixes

• Bug Fix: You can no longer have one extra card over the maximum hand size in Horde fights.

Highlights

• A hand size counter has been added to the game, next to the card piles! https://i.imgur.com/RpDUa7x.png

Balance changes

Cards

Mini Inferno

https://i.imgur.com/9Io8uvr.png

• Range: >>>

Siege Mode

Now, after opening the gates and earning 15 crystals, the enemy health, armor, magic resist, speed and resistance against stuns and slows begins to increase slowly. Before this patch, only the enemy quantity and level increased, and it had an upper limit. This change is meant to make surviving indefinitely after opening the gates a bit harder. Survival Mode also functions similarly: after a certain threshold, the enemy stats also begin to increase. Thank you for reading the patch notes! Be sure to follow me on my Steam Developer page to be up to date with the future projects I release! https://store.steampowered.com/developer/asraworks Also, check out the other games I've made! Thank you for the support! ❤

• Brawl Tactics: Origins
• Tower Tactics Arena

Balance changes

Trinkets

Elastic Band

• Whenever a tower levels up by combining three of the same type and level, draw a card and reduce the cost of the card drawn by 1. >>> Whenever a tower levels up by combining three of the same type and level, draw a card. The first two times this happens each combat, reduce its cost by 1.

Portable Anvil

• Now it can't reduce card costs below 1.

Cards

Sniper

The Sniper didn't scale very well when leveling up, especially compared to its Basic version. Let's improve that!

• Range: >>>
• Fire Rate: >>>
• Damage: >>>
• Armor penetration: >>>

Bug Fixes

• Bug Fix: You can now select the resolution equal to your current screen resolution in the Options Menu.
• Bug Fix: Fixed many incorrect translations for cards and trinkets in Russian.

Thank you for reading the patch notes! If you like the games I make, be sure to follow me on my Steam Developer page to be up to date with the future projects I release! Thank you for the support! ❤ Link: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/asraworks

Highlights

• A new Progress Panel has been added to the game, inspired by the ones in Brawl Tactics: Origins and Tower Tactics Arena! https://i.imgur.com/Y1DJ0Hg.png To open it, click the "Total Progress" text in the Game Mode Select window. https://i.imgur.com/L75PzbR.png Please let me know if you find any bugs with it!

Balance changes

Maps

This map in Sector 3 has been reworked to make it less unfair. Before https://i.imgur.com/qkdu1fd.png After https://i.imgur.com/QzWazlR.png Also, a few other maps in Sector 3 now have a few extra tiles.

Boss Trinkets

Buffing the weakest boss trinkets to make them all more similar in power level!

Ancient Knowledge

• Start each combat with one extra mana. >>> Start each combat with one extra mana. Towers gain 8% range.

Berserker Sword

• Towers attack 10% faster. >>> Towers attack 11% faster.

Compulsive Reader

• Draw one more card each round. Gain 4 luck. >>> Draw one more card each round. Gain 7 luck.

Kangaroo Plushie

• You can pay 2 mana to discard your hand and draw a new one. >>> You can pay 1 mana to discard your hand and draw a new one. The cost increases by 1 after each use until the end of combat. Start each combat with +1 mana.

Fairy Wand

• Gain 12 luck >>> Gain 18 luck

Heart Catalyst

• Reduce the overload threshold by 1. Gain 2 max health. >>> Reduce the overload threshold by 1. Gain 4 max health.

Sapphire Gem

• Increase maximum spell mana by 1. Gain 25% more crystals. >>> Increase maximum spell mana by 2. Gain 25% more crystals.

Spell Elixir

• Increase maximum spell mana by 2. >>> Increase maximum spell mana by 3.

Shattered Emblem

• Draw an extra card each round. Add a random emblem to your deck. >>> Draw an extra card each round. Combat Start: Add a random tower to your hand. It costs 1 less mana.

Cards

Mana Lightning

Reworked to avoid easy infinite combos with Lightning Shuriken

• Mana Cost: 1 >>> 2
• Range: 45 >>> 65
• Magic Damage: 100 + 10% enemy current health >>> 200
• Stun: 0.2s >>> 3.0s

Bug Fixes

• Bug Fix: The card "Void" is no longer logged twice in the Dispel pile when used.

Warning: This patch could break your saved Endless run due to the changes in the RNG seed. Sorry for the inconvenience. There is a fix in case this issue happened to you and you'd like to continue your saved run: Link to the Steam forums

Balance changes

Towers

Dark Magician

• Fire rate: (0.55, 0.6, 0.65) >>> (0.75, 0.78, 0.8)
• Range: (140, 150, 160) >>> (160, 170, 180)
• Magic Penetration: (100, 100, 100) >>> (100, 150, 200)

Unstable Reactor

• Now it always displays its range. Even though the range is shown as 0, it does have range, but it's unaffected by all range modifications.

Vicious Vindicator

Reducing the fire rate a bit to improve performance when you have many copies of this tower at level 3 and also nerfing the DPS at level 2 a bit to make it a bit harder to reach level 3 unscathed.

• Fire rate: (1.0, 2.0, 3.0) >>> (1.0, 1.5, 2.0)
• Damage: (10, 20, 30) >>> (10, 20, 45)

Bug Fixes

• Bug Fix: The event that gives you a choice among three trinkets can no longer offer you duplicate options.
• Bug Fix: When starting Endless Mode after winning a Campaign run, the seed is now modified internally to avoid RNG repetitions.
• Bug Fix: Fateful Trident now correctly gives luck at the end of each combat after continuing a saved run.

Balance changes

Towers

Electric Banshee

• Before this patch, the "Deactivate 1/3/9 towers" effect prioritized towers that can be deactivated, but didn't consider towers that are protected by EMP Walls and towers that are placed in tiles that prevent deactivations. Now those factors are considered.
• Fire rate: (1.0, 1.2, 1.4) >>> (1.2, 1.3, 1.4)

Bug Fixes

• Bug Fix: The texts of the achievements given when unlocking Ravenous Reaper and Punished Martyr are no longer incorrectly swapped.
• Bug Fix: When Crimson Disruptor and Crimson Pyramid converted tiles into red tiles, the towers that were in tiles that restricted repositions can now be moved again.

Highlights

Siege Mode

• There is now an easy way to see your record with each Siege class before starting a new run https://i.imgur.com/xeQOxRF.png

Balance changes

Towers

Mechanical Spider

https://i.imgur.com/yCwGAhv.png

• Mana cost: 1 >>> 2
• Range: (60, 90, 120) >>> (100, 110, 120)
• Fire rate: (0.8, 0.8, 0.8) >>> (1.2, 1.2, 1.2)

Bug Fixes

• Bug Fix: If you begin a Survival mode combat just after ending an Endless Campaign, the Endless difficulty modifier is no longer carried over to Survival mode.

Balance changes

Siege Mode

• Decreased the maximum amount of crystals you can gain for waiting before closing the gates by 25%
• Increased the rate at which you obtain crystals for waiting before closing the gates by 15%
• Siege Level Exp gained for each day survived: 12 >>> 14

Bug Fixes

• Bug Fix: Engineer's Monocle now prevents tower level-ups outside Utility Plug-In tiles correctly.

Balance changes

Siege Mode

• The Crimson Vanguard class now has +17.5% fire rate and range when you have Very Low morale, instead of +15%. https://i.imgur.com/GRX6MXM.png
• Damnation can no longer appear in Siege.

Towers

Nebula

Even after these changes, this tower should remain very strong.

• Fire rate: >>>
• Stun duration: >>>
• Bullet spread +40%

Balance changes

Siege Mode

• The Leading Legacy class now starts with +7% fire rate and range. https://i.imgur.com/i4c6YAC.png
• Siege Level EXP gained for each Day survived: 10 >>> 12 (+20% exp!)

Balance changes

Siege Mode

• The Leading Legacy class now starts with one extra Archer and Bomber in the deck. https://i.imgur.com/ijit4BY.png
• Fateful Trident and Metal Chains can no longer appear in Siege mode.

Enemies

Evil Giant

• Speed: >>>

Bug Fixes

• Bug Fix: When switching from Endless mode to Siege mode, the Endless modifier no longer carries over to Siege.

Highlights

• A "Paused" tooltip now shows whenever you're in combat and the game speed is set to 0x. https://i.imgur.com/mRI5T3H.png

Balance changes

Siege Mode

• Increased the maximum amount of crystals you can gain for waiting before closing the gates by 50%
• Increased the rate at which you obtain crystals for waiting before closing the gates by 14%

Towers

Nebula

• Stun: >>>
• Fire rate: >>>

Lightning Catalyst

• Fire rate: >>>

Bug Fixes

• Bug Fix: The achievement for unlocking all classes in Siege should now only unlock when the condition is met.
• Bug Fix: When you're playing "The Negotiator" class in Siege mode, the enemies now disappear correctly in all cases when closing the gates.

Highlights

• The deck view in the Campaign menu has been revamped, with the deck level now shown! https://i.imgur.com/7JcxnY8.png

The second expansion for Tower Tactics: Liberation, Astral Siege, has just been released! I hope you all like it! ❤ It's much bigger than Celestial Dawn, both in content and the new game mode: Siege! Comes with:

• 1 new game mode: Siege! Build your card collection and keep your morale high to survive as many days as possible in the endless siege! Buy card packs to grow your collection, build towers in the Crystal Mine to increase your income, visit the Sanctuary to restore your morale, and much more! At the end of each day, you will face a combat in which after the last wave you'll have to open the gates to unleash an endless wave of enemies! You can close the gates at any time to stop more enemies from appearing, but if you do it too soon you'll lose health and morale! On the other hand, if you survive for more time than needed you'll receive a reward... but don't get too greedy, since even though enemies stop spawning after closing the gates, you still have to deal with the ones that are alive! Siege has:
  • Its own metaprogression! Go up in Siege Level and increase your power for future runs!
  • 9 classes with unlock challenges!
  • Dozens of hours of gameplay!
  • Three related achievements!
• 7 new decks!
• 50 new cards!
• 50+ new trinkets!
• 4 new enemies!
• 24 new maps!
• 60 new wave types!
• 10 new achievements!

Link to Astral Siege: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2986180/Tower_Tactics_Astral_Siege/

Hi everyone! I'm glad to announce that the game now has Steam Trading Cards! 🎉🎉

https://i.imgur.com/IWi594z.png https://i.imgur.com/P1VvC9E.png https://i.imgur.com/uMle70i.png There are now:

• 7 trading cards
• 5 emoticons
• 3 profile backgrounds
• A badge with 5 levels and a Foil version

I hope that you like them all! Thank you all so much for playing the games I'm working on! ❤ Keep an eye out for Astral Siege, the second expansion for Tower Tactics: Liberation! The release is coming closer! Be sure to add it to your wishlist! Link to Tower Tactics: Astral Siege https://store.steampowered.com/app/2986180/Tower_Tactics_Astral_Siege/

Highlights

• The "Choose a Deck" screen now has a short loading screen when you open it! Until now, when this screen opened, there was a small freeze that could last for a noticeable time depending on the machine. Now it opens instantly, and loads the decks in the following frames, improving a lot how it feels. https://i.imgur.com/sg9urj7.png
• Decks included in the Celestial Dawn expansion now disclose their origin in the top right corner. https://i.imgur.com/SCxXgvA.png

Balance Changes

Towers

Sniper

• Armor penetration: >>>

Bug Fixes

• Bug Fix: The English text for Sledgehammer now fits properly. https://i.imgur.com/QvoNMs6.png
• Bug Fix: Towers no longer show their stats for a single frame in the top left corner of the screen just after being dragged from your hand.

Balance Changes

Enemies

• Enemy minimum possible speed: 20 (only for final bosses) >>> 5 * level (all enemies)

Decks

Nuke Town

• Now starts with x3 Little Ghost instead of x3 Spike Thrower

Cards

Little Ghost

• Fire rate: >>>
• Now reduces enemy regeneration on hit.

Forest Elder

• Fire rate: >>>
• Magic penetration: >>>
• Now slows enemies on hit.

Armor Aura

• Range: >>>
• Armor penetration given to towers in range: (unchanged)

Magic Aura

• Range: >>>
• Magic penetration given to towers in range: (unchanged)

Iron Maiden

The Iron Maiden is too efficient at slowing all enemies. This nerf is focused on toning down the slowing power a bit.

• Fire rate: >>>
• Damage: >>>
• Slow: >>>

Highlights

• An option to disable all screen shakes (e.g. when placing towers, casting spells, receiving damage) has been added to the Options menu.