Yomi 2 news & patch notes

Yomi 2 digital update dropped last night; a new replay feature to watch a player’s last played game, some changes to online gameflow, and bug fixes. Check them out below! March 24th, 2025 PATCH NOTES ------------------------------------------------------------------ NEW CONTENT You can now watch the replay for any player's last online match with a given character. On the leaderboards or on the profile screen, a new button lets you "Watch latest game" for that player. The leaderboards rows are character-specific and let you see the latest game played with that character, while the profile screen's "Watch latest game" just shows you the latest game overall. (This will only show games played starting today though.) Improvements —In live online games, the first rematch now always alternates who's the first player relative to the first game. —Forfeiting a live online game now lets you rematch, instead of quitting the entire set. Bug Fixes —Prismatic Shield now correctly avoids the block damage effect from the Lum item Coin. —Fixed the online score screen sometimes not correctly showing the results from the last game in a set. —Fixed Patriot Mirror incorrectly letting Quince use Dodge the Question (Z-bottom dodge) while knocked down. —Fixed Midori's knockdown animation not playing correctly. —Fixed the Patriot Mirror video playing twice when it would hit the opponent, but its damage is negated by Keep Away. —Replays no longer confusingly show timers (including their annoying sounds). —Fixed the discard viewer being accidentally left open over the game over screen if you deal lethal damage with Loyal Pets's 6 damage on knockdown. —The leaderboards screen UI's "Watch latest game" and "Profile" keys now work correctly and display correctly in mouse mode. —Fixed the "Click to stop spectating" yellow box being unclickable in the friends screen. —When you get promoted to master leagues, only the character who won the final match gets to continue that win streak. The others' win streaks are reset to 0. (Because the win streak is shared between all characters during student ranks.) —Valerie's stat card no longer incorrectly shows a "final normal" mark next to her E. —Career mode: Fixed "Your win record at this location" to include tournament games played there. —Career mode: Fixed several tweets that never triggered. Mostly those that encourage you to move on to the next location after placing in a tournament. —Career mode: Your Room no longer accidentally uses your *last* tournament placing to describe "Your best finish was #5 with Lum". It now actually describes your best placing. (Oops.) —Career mode: Tweets from beating opponents for the first time now award slightly more fans overall. (This change does apply retroactively to your existing career.) -------------------------------------------------------------- As always, come hang out with us on Discord to follow along with the development of all of our games. Thanks so much for being a fan!

Yomi 2 update; this time focusing mostly on fleshing out the “ranked” online queue experience; there’s now online rankings, leaderboards, player profiles, an XP system, and more. March 4th, 2025 PATCH NOTES ------------------------------------------------------------------ NEW CONTENT —Online rankings. In Live Play Online games, rankings are divided into Student leagues (Student 1 to Student 10), Master leagues (Bronze E to Bronze A, Silver E to Silver A, Gold E to Gold A, Diamond E to Diamond A), and the Legend league. Student leagues rank up all characters together, while Master and Legend leagues use character-specific rankings. You gain stars for winning, gain extra stars for consecutive wins, and in the master leagues, lose a star for losing a match. Fill up the stars for your current rank to promote to the next division. —New XP system, parallel to this ranking system, which mostly reflects your length of experience with the game - it only ever goes up. You gain +XP for every match you complete, for every match you win, for your first win of the day, and for the time spent in a match. The ranking badge and XP circles appear in the Play Online screen (next to the quick-queue toggle), the character select screen for live online games, the pre-match versus screen, the replay rows, and the friends screen. —New online info screen, a two-page overlay that explains how the online rankings work. It's shown when you click on the new (i) icon in top-right of the Play Online screen. —New online post-match score screen, which shows how your ranking and XP change after each online match. —Matchmaking now takes ranking differences into account, trying to match players within the same league first, then expanding the search to allow players of further-away leagues. —New Leaderboards screen, where you can look up your rank among the global online rankings, filtered by league, character, or your own friends. —New profile screen, where you can check various stats about yourself or other players. You can access your own profile from the Reference menu screen, or other players' profiles from the friends screen, the leaderboards screen, or by looking them up directly from the profile screen. —You can now set match timers in Single Player vs CPU and Pass and Play games. The new timer setting dropdowns appear in the difficulty select screen for Single Player vs CPU, and in the Pass and Play's setup screen. Improvements —When playing with timers enabled, a new timer sound alerts you when you're close to running out of time. —Updated the sounds for the career mode brackets screen. —When you or your opponent forfeits an online game, or your opponent disconnects and you "Claim Victory", you now get a saved replay of that game. Bug Fixes —Fixed Quince's Patriot Mirror accidentally being too slow: from speed 6 to speed 7. —Fixed a typo on Lum's strategy card (English): "whenever you dodge and hit back" => "whenever you dodge and *don't* hit back" —Fixed a French text typo for Gwen's Dreadlands Portal: "block" => "dodge" —Fix: When Rook has the orange gem storm active and gets his normal attack hit by a faster attack, Rock Armor no longer incorrectly stops his combo. (The orange gem storm is the stronger effect, letting Rook continue the combo to other normal attacks). —Fixed visual card mods, like green speed changes from having the edge, sometimes persisting for too long. —Fixed the gameplay music not playing when you get an online match with the " Mute menu music" option checked. --------------------------------------------------------------

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/ba67012678f6cb76c1039eb73d28c767189e552c.jpg Back in mid-January, we launched our Gamefound campaign for the physical, tabletop version of Yomi 2 and reached our funding goal in just under 14 hours! We went on to raise a grand total of $174,529.09, or 349.06% of our original $50,000 goal. We can’t thank you enough for believing in our game and our project! We’re hard at work making sure we can get the game to your doorstep as soon as possible. If you missed out on pledging for Yomi 2, don’t fret! Late Pledge is now available on our Gamefound campaign so head over there and check out the different tiers today.

Yomi 2 update; mostly some multiplayer game flow fixes, including a match timer option, but also some UI updates and bugfixes. Check out the full notes below. January 8th, 2025 PATCH NOTES ------------------------------------------------------------------ New Content Match timers for online games. When a match uses timers, each player has an on-screen meter of 3 bars of time. The timer depletes if it's your turn to act, and when it reaches zero, the game automatically plays a timeout move for you, which is usually "Done" or playing the leftmost hand card. "Live Online" matches (from the matchmaking queue) now use slow timers. Online friend matches default to not using timers, but you can now choose to use them anyway, setting them to Slow, Normal, or Fast speeds. Some details: —You start at a full 3 bars and can never gain more than that. —When you start your main phase, you gain +1 time bar. —When the opponent starts their main phase, you gain +0.5 time bar. —Whenever you play a meaningful move and you're still the active player afterwards, you gain a small +2s. —Whenever you gain any timer, you always fill up to at least a minimum of 5s. Improvements —The gem select screen now shows tooltips for the gem cards when you mouse over them, or when you zoom them. (Ex: Unsafe on block, knockdown, armored...) —QoL: Persephone's Dominance "fetch 4 cards" is now aware of your hand limit, so if you can only fetch 2 cards before hitting the hand limit, the UI will now say that you can fetch 2 more cards, rather than 4 (and so on). —QoL: When against River's stances, Bleeding Wounds no longer shows a popup claiming that "Bleeding Wounds: Nether Orb discards ", since Finesse stance cards cannot be discarded. (The Finesse card already correctly returned to hand, but it's less confusing to skip the entire Bleeding Wounds popup in this situation.) —Flash Heal (Gloria Z) now triggers to return to hand before Invigorating Winds (white gem storm) triggers drawing 2 cards, rather than after. (They both trigger "at the end of combat", but doing it in this order avoids the bad feeling of ever having Flash Heal fail to return to hand because of the hand limit.) —When Alternative Facts (Quince ability) fetches more cards than the player has space for in their hand (during Patriot Mirror), the player can now choose which cards to fetch. —When Grappling Mastery (Midori ability) fetches more throw cards than the player has space for in their hand, the player can now choose which cards to fetch. —Improved the computer performance of the AI. This especially improves Gwen's AI performance. —Gwen AI improvements. Bug Fixes —Fix: Mistress's Command can now correctly control the Tyrant Crusher on-hit effect phase. Not that this will ever happen on purpose to any human playing this game. —Fixed Final Authority's discard condition when it's a foreign ability during Ability Mismatch. —Fix: Research & Development no longer puts itself on top of the deck if it's no longer in discard at that point. —Fix: Yagami Counter now correctly deals damage, even when it's used when Keep Away or Invisible (from Surprise Gift) is active. —In Slugger's Delight and Guard Staredown, which have "If you open with and don't get hit, draw a card", you now get to draw the card before playing your combo cards, rather than only draw it at the end of combat. —Fixed several cases where an effect icon that counts down over a number of turns (ex: Deathstrike Dragon or Fireworks) could temporarily get visually duplicated, especially when playing against the AI. —Prohibition no longer incorrectly goes to the Ongoing zone for one turn. Its effect also no longer stays pending indefinitely when it's affecting River in Finesse or Hyper Finesse stances. (Instead the effect fizzles and does nothing.) —Midori's Dragon Form transformation now happens before Invigorating Winds (white gem storm) draws 2 cards at the end of combat. (Dragon Form doesn't say to wait before transforming.) —When Geiger uses Echoes of the past to draw cards from powering up, the powerup pair now gets discarded before Geiger draws cards. —Gem storm particles no longer intermittently appear over the discard overlay. (It looked glitchy.) —Fixed Ability Mismatch foreign ability cards showing the incorrect card art. —Fixed Chains of Ice (Gwen Z)'s hit reaction and sound being accidentally delayed by 5 entire seconds. —Fixed the Event Hall tournament Ability Mismatch sometimes giving you a duplicate of your existing ability when you choose Random as your character. —Career fix: Don't show the "View Quests" pause button when playing at the Event Hall, which does not have any quests. —Fix: In Gem Bonanza, when Orange burst replenishes the extra gem storm, it now visually replenishes right away instead of only doing so at the end of the whole animation sequence. —Don't show "Knocked down: Lose the edge" when you lose your own edge by knocking down the opponent. (It's confusing because you're getting something better than the edge that way.) —Fixed the known-hand-cards failing to remember when you use Phase Out to fetch another copy of Phase Out, and other similar situations where you fetch cards during combat. —Visual fix: When you take an extra hit while knocked down (ex: Slots of Fun summons Coin), then instead of awkwardly standing up to play the get-hit animation, your knocked down character now flashes red to take that hit. —When Gwen plays Desperation and gets her life reduced below 0 during that combat, the life counter will now properly show negative values right away, instead of briefly showing 0. —Added hit effects to Rushing River's goldfish. —Don't show cards in a "penalized" red highlight when they can only be played as pumpers. (Ex: Bursts are red-highlighted after a dodge because they can't trigger their effect, but they are no longer red-highlighted when you can discard them to pump another card.) —The first Shadow Plague log icon now correctly appears after the first turn's turn start log icon, instead of before. —When Phase Out hits Argagarg and causes his Poison to get discarded, the "Phase Out hits back for 8 damage" message now appears first, and the "Poison ends after getting hit" message appears second, rather than the opposite. —The replay controls for "slower" and "faster" buttons now look like the actual ▸▸ double-triangle fast-forward symbol, instead of a >> double chevron. —Improved the visuals of one of the Chinese fonts. —Several localization fixes for text in the replays screen, and for "Fans" on career mode screens. —Fixed German typo for Bag of Tricks ("abund" => "ab und"). -------------------------------------------------------------- {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/ba67012678f6cb76c1039eb73d28c767189e552c.jpg We also want to shoutout our Gamefound campaign for the physical version of Yomi 2. It’s a high quality tabletop production of the same card game you’ve been playing on Steam and EGS! Head over to our page and “Follow” to be eligible for a free gift once the campaign starts! As always, come hang out with us on Discord to follow along with the development of all of our games. Thanks so much for being a fan!

Another big update for Yomi 2; we’ve added the final four venues to the Career Mode, so you can finish your journey of becoming the greatest Yomi player in the city! November 1st, 2024 PATCH NOTES ------------------------------------------------------------------ New Content {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/69cca1142fc0247f69665be83b47bf839b9c0d3b.png —The last four career locations are now available, along with their related quests, tournaments, and wacky rulesets in the Event Hall: Iron Claw Club, along with the Event Hall rulesets Knockdown Brutality, Yagami's Exhibition, and Dark Tryst Drummond Towers, along with the Event Hall ruleset Money Match Yomi World East, along with the Event Hall ruleset Yomi Counter Challenge Yomi World West, along with the Event Hall ruleset Gem Bonanza —Added sounds for Menelker and Dragon Midori's moves. Balance Changes —Gloria's Flash Heal (Z) damage 9 -> 6. Improvements —New "Versus screen", shown right before matches (for a few seconds) in single match vs CPU, in career mode, and in live online games. It also appears when we restore a career game that's in the middle of a match, to remind you of what you were doing. (You can press a button to dismiss it faster if you want.) —During the second step of power up, the pair that's on the table is no longer considered to be known-hand-cards, for purposes of the known-hand-cards display. (For instance, while the opponent is powering up a pair of throws, you could still see those throws in the opponent's known-hand-cards, even though they were no longer in the opponent's hand, which could be confusing.) —In the career tournament bracket screen, you can now hold any button to speed up the bracket animations. —In the career tournament bracket screen, you can now pan around the larger brackets with the gamepad's right stick or by dragging the brackets around with the mouse. —Career: You can now "like" and "repost" the feed messages by clicking on the relevant icons or by pressing the Accept or Done buttons on gamepad. This lights up the related icon and adds one to the count. (It doesn't have any other "real" effect, it's just for fun.) —Career: When an incoming message makes you gain new fans, there is now a new animation where particles fly from that message to the fans counter, showing your number of fans grow "in real time" instead of instantly and silently. —Clarified the Neutral Grounds quest "Perform 5 super moves" to "Perform 5 super moves (and see their animation)". —Improved CPU performance of gameplay and AI code by about 44%. This should especially improve performance when playing against the AI, which can sometimes take a moment to choose its move. —Merely mousing over the main phase's button will no longer hide your hand cards and show the gem storm card instead. Actually clicking the button will do that. (This doesn't change gamepad/keyboard mode play, where focusing the button will still show the gem storm card. Only mouse mode is affected by this change.) —The game now remembers your last character and gem selections for Single Match vs CPU, Combo Practice, and Pass and Play modes, instead of always defaulting to Red Grave and Blue Jaina. It also remembers your last chosen difficulty for Single Match vs CPU. —The gem select screen now has a button help to let you know you can zoom the gem cards. —Friend requests and challenges now stay on screen longer before disappearing (3s => 6s). —Gem storm cards now say "Red * Storm" instead of "Red * Gem" at the top. Bug Fixes —Fixed River's Riposting Flourish (Hyper Finesse 5-dodge) incorrectly knocking down Quince's Dodge the Question (bottom side of Z, during Two Truths or Patriot Mirror). —Fix: Coin will now correctly trigger its damage when it's spawned by a special block that hit the opponent during the Wild Night ruleset. —Midori's Dragon Form super now always plays its super animation, even if it doesn't hit the opponent. It also always counts for the career mode quest "Perform 5 super moves (and see their animation)". —The Prismatic Shield card now explicitly mentions: "(Rushdown characters can punish blocked unsafe moves with a full combo.)" —Fixed crash when you select "Random gem" at the start of the fifth tutorial section. —Fixed notifications from sending a friend match challenge not appearing at the correct time. —Fix: You can now correctly mouse-click on friend alerts while you're in the Friends screen. —Fixed especially long card tooltips (ex: Zane Y in Russian) overflowing the bottom of the screen. —Fixed Russian player names not appearing correctly in-game. —AI improvements. -------------------------------------------------------------- {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/ba67012678f6cb76c1039eb73d28c767189e552c.jpg We also want to shoutout our Gamefound campaign for the physical version of Yomi 2. It’s a high quality tabletop production of the same card game you’ve been playing on Steam and EGS! Head over to our page and “Follow” to be eligible for a free gift once the campaign starts! As always, come hang out with us on Discord to follow along with the development of all of our games. Thanks so much for being a fan!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/cb46bec22d3eca909557e20b5d7bc9dfe99bb93a.png Huge update for Yomi 2; FOUR new characters, two new languages, balance changes and bug fixes. Check it out below: September 20th, 2024 PATCH NOTES ------------------------------------------------------------------ NEW CONTENT {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/187709878bf71683123ba916bd70b880b69318a0.png{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/5eae93f7150766fa8e6e3abdafd88c5d91755388.png{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/3056aa7d8859bef16e398ac05ad8efb8ed34f0ec.png{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/5e5a52498de173fa0d364a5f1820b368cbdd6565.png —Zane, the Blood Guard Anarchist is now available to play. —Gloria, the Hopeful Healer is now available to play. —Gwen, the Doomed Wanderer is now available to play. —Quince, the Flagstone Chief Magistrate is now available to play. This means all 20 characters are now available to play! (Plus 2 more in the Renegades Expansion.) —The game is now playable in German and Spanish. (The Spanish "tweets" for career mode are still incomplete though, but we're working on it.) Balance Changes Setsuki: —Bag of Tricks (Ability) has an additional effect: "If you then have 4 or fewer cards, draw 4 cards." Green gem: —Crashing Rhino (Gem special move): "Armored." -> "Armored if you're not knocked down." —Breath of the Wild (Gem storm): Old: When you play a super, it costs no meter and instead GIVES you 1 meter. New: Your supers are free. Gain 1 meter each turn that you DON'T play a super. Black gem: —Shadow Tentacles (gem storm) no longer triggers on block damage. Troq: —Giant Growth (ability) changed: OLD: If your high and low blocks are in your discard pile, then this gets: Ongoing: Your moves do +3 damage each. Discard this from play: When you take 10 or more damage in a turn. NEW: Ongoing: Your moves do +3 damage / +3 block damage. Whenever you open with an attack, the opponent gets the edge. Discard this from play: When you take 10 or more damage in a turn. Onimaru: —The E attack no longer gives the edge. —During the green gem storm, the Martial Law super now only gets the level 2 or 3 effect if Onimaru actually had level 2 or 3, respectively (even though the super is free during green storm). Bal-Bas-Beta: —Junkshot (X) is now Can't Combo, rather than Starter. —It no longer returns to BBB's hand if Keep Away prevented damage that turn. Persephone: —On Your Knees (Super 2) is now unsafe on block. Improvements —New sound and visual effect for healing life. —New sound for triggering Persephone's Dominance (innate). Bug Fixes —During the green gem storm, Martial Law (Onimaru Super1) no longer incorrectly drains all meter when played after a dodge or as an unsafe-on-block punish. —Healing Potion is no longer legal to play when you have no blocks in hand. (Doing this would just discard Healing Potion for no benefit.) —Lum's Bamboo now correctly gets discarded when either player is hit by something else than direct moves, like Bubble Shield or Firestorm. —Acrobatics (Vendetta Y dodge) can no longer incorrectly be played when dodges are disabled by Rainbow Disc (Valerie Super 2). —Intimidating Roar (Dragon Midori Ability) can no longer force a River stance card to the top of her deck. It also no longer voids River's known-hand-cards if used while she's in a stance. (Because stance cards are immune to getting discarded.) —The known-hand-cards now correctly track the situation when Midori is the victim of Intimidating Roar (which temporarily wipes his known-hand-cards until he draws a card), then transforms to Dragon Form before drawing a card. —Fixed main phase buttons overlapping when your character has a fifth main phase button (like Bal-Bas-Beta) in some languages. —Fixed a possible AI hang during the AI's Mistress's Command. —Fixed crash when Blue Gwen applies both Prohibition and a throw or Chains of Ice effect at the same time to skip the opponent's main phase. —Fixed a bad layout for the big known-hand-cards when none of the hand cards are known (i.e. when they're all shown face down). —Possible fix for the "ghost character" character select glitch, where the animated character in center screen displays with glitchy textures from the background image. —Fix for friend match going into a bad flow (incorrectly showing the ruleset select screen) when you go into rematch character select, then press Back. —If you played the game before we added the "Known Hand Cards" remappable button, we now map that button to its defaults (R3 on gamepad, Q on keyboard) rather than leave it unassigned. —Fixed button configs not being saved correctly when using Steam Input. —The game no longer shows a "Random" button help (that does nothing when clicked) in the gem reference screen. —On MacOS, opening the Steam overlay (Shift-Tab) should now actually work. —When either Master Volume or Effects Volume are set to 0, super videos now don't play any sound at all, instead of incorrectly playing some very quiet sound. Text fixes: —Updated several character stat cards that were out of date. —Added some text explaining the definition of a "hit" to the third page of Quick Rules. —River's stances now mentions that while in a stance, you can't interact with your regular hand cards. —Fixed the career location screen's infopane about the tournament not correctly showing the location name. —Fixed "~~Final Authority~~" briefly showing up when someone plays Final Authority. —The gem select screen now correctly shows the blue burst's three lines of text —The friends screen no longer occasionally drops some mouse input when displayed over the gameplay pause menu. —The friends screen tabs now correctly get auto-placed and auto-sized according to the size of their localized text —Gwen throws now show their ability text in a bottom secondary gray stripe, rather than in a generic white ability box. ------------------------------------------------------------------ We’re always working on new features for Yomi 2, so hang out with us on Discord and stay up to date on further developments! Thanks for being a fan of our games.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/ba67012678f6cb76c1039eb73d28c767189e552c.jpg You've played the digital, early access version of Yomi 2 that you can play right now on Steam. But did you know that we’re planning a physical, tabletop version as well? We have a preview of our crowdfunding campaign of Yomi 2 on Gamefound! Click this link to head straight to our pre-release page!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/cb46bec22d3eca909557e20b5d7bc9dfe99bb93a.png Another update for Yomi 2; we’ve added two new characters to the base roster (free for everyone who owns the game!) and a new location for the campaign mode! Read more below: July 26th, 2024 PATCH NOTES ------------------------------------------------------------------ NEW CONTENT {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/20a7cf2e29350cdc19cb4810311ceac04afa2eb1.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/d72b2289e6330c582a6c65407053ed9e6ce4ee6c.png —Vendetta, the Undead Assassin, is now available to play. Vendetta often does pokes of single hits or small combos, hiding behind the safety of his speed, Acrobatics, and Frost Web, while biding his time to land a super to close out the game. —Persephone, the Nox Oracle, is now available to play. Her ability to control the opponent can be brutal when she gets fully set up. She gets a big bonus from knocking down opponents and keeping them down. —New career location: Matrix Future Cube. (There are now four different venues to conquer in Career Mode.) In this futuristic mega casino, you'll find yourself in the middle of a turf war amongst various colorful AI characters. Try to finish the quests, unlock the venue's tournament, and win it in order to unlock the Hyperspace Portal tournament at the city's Event Hall. —New Event Hall tournament ruleset: Hyperspace Portal: All starters and enders are linkers. Balance Changes —Research and Development (Geiger ability) now allows you to Exchange cards one more time, on top of its existing ability. —Changed Growth Surge (Green gem special): OLD: This turn, your openers deal +8 damage on hit and your opponent's openers deal -8 damage on hit to a minimum of 1. NEW: Fetch a super from your discard pile. This turn, your first hit deals +8 damage. —Changed Breath of the Wild (Green gem storm): OLD: Your supers don't cost meter to use. NEW: When you play a super, it costs no meter and instead GIVES you 1 meter. —Changed Inner Focus (white gem ability): OLD: Choose one: • Fetch a super card from your discard pile. • Draw 2 cards. NEW: Draw 2 cards, then discard a card. —Changed Prismatic Shield (Diamond gem special): OLD: When you block an attack, gain the edge. NEW: When you block an attack, prevent block damage, gain the edge, ignore lockdown, and draw a card. —Changed Healing Potion (orange gem ability): OLD: Discard a block (and this card) to heal 7 life. NEW: Discard a block (and this card) to heal 9 life. —Changed War Stomp (orange gem special): OLD: 4 damage NEW: 5 damage (Note: Green, blue, and black gems recently saw buffs which put them more in line with pick-rates of other gems, except the green gem still struggled to find a place on most characters. These changes are partly to increase the green gem's power level so it's closer to the rest, but also to adjust its role to be more clearly about gaining supers than the white gem. Meanwhile, the diamond gem's special block has been buffed to put its power level closer to that of the special moves of other gems, and the orange gem's Healing Potion ability is slightly buffed because it was hard to actually use the card at all given its high cost of requiring discarding a block.) Improvements —Added new card tooltips explaining the keywords Disabled and Item. —The orange gem storm card now shows a tooltip for "Armored". —Rainbow Disc (Valerie Super 2) now shows a tooltip for "Armored". —Added a VSync option to the options screen. Especially useful for portable devices like the Steam Deck, as a way to reduce battery drain from an overly-high framerate while the game is running. —When launching the game for the first time: —The game now defaults to your computer's language, if we support it (for French, Russian, Chinese). —It now has a language dropdown, so you can change language without going to the main menu. —It also has some protection against accidentally button-mashing your way through it. —Quality of life: When the round is effectively already over because one player has reached 0 life, the game: —Doesn't ask for a card to fetch for Purple Burst, Phase Out, and similar cards —Doesn't bother showing info badges for Lockdown or Unsafe on block —Doesn't ask to choose which Tyrant Crusher effect to use —Changed Keep Away (Bal-Bas-Beta ability) text for clarity: OLD: Long range. Prevent all combat damage you'd take (including block damage). The opponent can't combo or pump. NEW: Long range. If you would get hit or take block damage, prevent that damage and the opponent can't play more cards this combat. (Note: the wording consistently handles all cases the same way, so you don't have to worry exactly which type and timing of thing prevented block damage to know what is or isn't legal to play next. Regardless of whether the damage prevention triggered on an opener, or block damage from an unsafe move, or BBB triggering the red gem storm's damage just before openers are resolved, etc, etc, in all cases various kinds of followups from playing extra cards are disallowed, rather than some accidentally allowed and some disallowed.) Bug Fixes —The purple button to cancel your online matchmaking queue status is now correctly mouse-clickable in the character / gem select screen. —Fix for the purple matchmaking box and the yellow spectating box: When you move the mouse while holding down the E key (by default), the little timer circle that shows how long you still need to hold it no longer disappears. —When the game log shows a combat-reveal with a "hit" that was reduced to 0 dmg, because it was prevented by Keep Away, then it now says "DAMAGE PREVENTED" instead of "HIT" and "GOT HIT". —Fixed a confusing lifebar animation during the combo playback when you take damage from abilities during combat (ex: Firestorm) as well as from combo cards. —Fixed the Bare Your Soul UI showing the wrong player's gem icon when showing gem ability cards. —Fixed that same UI (target card icons) overflowing the "(Gem) Ability" text from the icon in non-English languages. —Fixed bad text "" being shown in infobadges and logs when using items in the Wild Night ruleset. —When Gimme a Jackpot (Lum ability) deals damage, the hit sounds will now be the same as for the Coin item, instead of incorrectly being those for the last combat card that Lum used. —Fixed a UI crash when a game ends in a time-over draw game (when both players have equal life). —Fixed Inner Focus (white gem ability) crash when it triggers a time out while drawing the final card of the deck. —At the end of the turn, the game now always visually updates any card mods for cards in hand, instead of first waiting for the opponent's play sequence to end. Ex: Attacks and throws showing as speed 10 for knockdown, or speed +3 for the edge. —When you kill with a dodge into super, or an unsafe-on-block punish super, that super's video is no longer accidentally skipped. —Geiger's Research & Development's effect icon tooltip no longer shows a broken text tag. —The purple gem's Phase Out can once more correctly fetch a card when it dodges an attack and deals 0 damage (because of the opponent's Keep Away or Invisible). Localization fixes, for things that previously always showed English text instead of the correct localized text: —Career tournament brackets' player handles —The Quick Rules p3 diagram (A > T, T > B/D, B/D > A) —The career map markers —The "Discard this from play" text from the cards Argagarg F and Bal-Bas-Beta F —Several tutorial images —Several popup messages from friend interactions —Several default player names: —"Player 1" and "Player 2" in Pass and Play —The combo practice dummy's "Practice Dummy" name —The generic "Yomibot" and "Yomibot (Hard)" names —The default Career mode name "YomiChamp" ------------------------------------------------------------------ We’re always working on new features for Yomi 2, so hang out with us on Discord and stay up to date on further developments! Thanks for being a fan of our games.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/20a7cf2e29350cdc19cb4810311ceac04afa2eb1.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/d72b2289e6330c582a6c65407053ed9e6ce4ee6c.png Mistress Persephone, Nox Oracle and Vendetta, Undead Assassin are the next two characters to join the cast of Yomi 2! They’re both enigmatic fighters with questionable motives and shrouded pasts. Learn more about them in today’s blog post below: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/a66a66cc5d0ad8178fa6deec10fdc7bb581f670d.png Mistress Persephone is an enigmatic character who seemingly has her hand in many of the affairs of the realm. She granted DeGrey his seeming immortality and retrieved the Stormborne Family Sword from Onimaru to return it to its rightful owners. She twists, manipulates and respects the inner strength of friend and foe alike. Persephone controls her opponents by restricting their actions and getting a huge bonus for knocking her opponents down. Her innate ability, Dominance, lets her recur cards from the discard pile when she scores a knockdown, and lets her get four cards when her Y Loyal Pets effect (a projectile “summon”) triggers on the same turn. She can even recur her supers with this to keep the oppression going. Most uniquely, her super Mistress’s Command is kind of slow and only deals 1 damage, but it allows her to control her opponent’s combat card selection on the following turn. This allows her not only to fully see the opponent’s hand, but also force them to use their Super moves, Block the wrong direction or break apart Pairs to prevent them from powering up. She has generally low damage on a lot of her options, so this is just one of the ways that she can slowly grind you out over the course of a match. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/e61b484f9e7c4cecb605d71377957141499c2906.png Can you resist the Nox Oracle’s temptations long enough to secure a victory? {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/6f249aac2fc82aa8a621776834c5436024cbbcf2.png Vendetta is one of the more mysterious characters in the Fantasy Strike universe; on the surface, he’s an undead mercenary working with Zane (we’ll meet him later!) and the Blood Guard, but he secretly serves a dark master from the Dreadlands. Gameplay-wise, he’s the premier “poking” character in the Yomi series. He has fast and varied normal attacks that can string to short combos, but they also draw him extra cards when he plays them and doesn’t get hit (when he outspeeds enemy Attacks, gets Blocked, or stabs into a Throw). Vendetta uses that card advantage to draw into his powerful special moves and gain fodder for powerups. He can also use his X Attack, Tumbling Strike, as a combo ender or Dodge follow-up to do 20 damage while discarding some of those excess cards. His Y Dodge, Acrobatics, is perhaps his most iconic move; it avoids Attacks and Throws, and can even be used while knocked down! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/45794f25fa12da3f6917c6317ff1a71baada4c23.png You’ll need to work hard to pin down this cold and calculating killer. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/84cc5a7ea7335cf72ab91f742fcf3c2022d1eb38.png One last thing! We’ve added the fourth location to the single player Career Mode, Matrix Future Cube. If you can fight through the ranks and win the tournament there, you’ll unlock another new wacky ruleset, Hyperspace Portal: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/f07ed9d1ee4e1413a14b63e447b99ee4a2709995.png There’s lots more to come for our single player career mode; keep fighting to see if you can become the most powerful Yomi player in the city! That’s all for now. Thanks so much for being a fan of our games. We hope to see you online or chatting with us about our games in our Discord channel. See you next time!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/ad862724fa20e9c50c36ece99e4d6707f3fb2d03.png The ChinaJoy x Game Connection Indie Game Festival is live! From now until July 29th, the digital early access version of Yomi 2 (as well as the Renegades expansion!) is available for 34% off! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/20a6853436a81e39db0a52fef690d01744134e7f.png Thanks so much for supporting our games over the years. Be sure to join our Discord server to follow the latest updates on our titles. If you want to get behind-the-scenes updates on what we’re working on next, be sure to visit our Patreon as well! Thanks for playing!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/cb46bec22d3eca909557e20b5d7bc9dfe99bb93a.png New Yomi 2 update; we’ve added one new character and language support for multiple languages! Read more about it below: June 12th, 2024 PATCH NOTES ------------------------------------------------------------------ NEW CHARACTER {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/a9dd7c1aad83508342ba7fb4141e8a9cc1b61c51.png —Bal-Bas-Beta, also known as BBB, is now available to play. He's a robot who uses keep-away tactics and is extremely strong when at long-range, but he does have one super move that he can use when close. MORE LANGUAGES —In addition to English, the game now fully supports Chinese, French, and Russian Bug Fixes —Master volume slider now mutes music/sounds at zero volume. —The backspace and arrow keyboard key icons are no longer displayed too low in the button help. —Fixed bad combat-reveal animation (missing reveal of the opponent's card, missing all on-openers-revealed UI animations) when an on-openers-revealed effect causes the combat to end prematurely. (Surprise Gift, Keep Away.) —Fixed a bad Career mode tweet trigger for winning or losing against bacon&eggs at specific locations, which could trigger the wrong win/loss tweet. —Grappling Mastery (Midori Ability) is no longer legal to play when Midori has no throw cards in discard. (Because then it would do nothing.) —Fixed crash when choosing random select in online friend matches. —Fixed Lum's Gimme a Jackpot ability so that it actually reveals the hand cards shown in the game log to the opponent. —When Bigby's Jail super kills the opponent as an opener, the game no longer plays the Jail super movie twice. —When a super dodge or super block kills the opponent, the game no longer shows its movie twice. —Fix to known-hand-cards: When you exchange to fetch a second known copy of a given card, your known-hand-cards will now show two of that card, not just one. —When Lum's item card Coin comes from a move whose hit was prevented (it dealt no damage because of Invisible, for instance), then that Coin will no longer incorrectly deal 6 damage. —When Onimaru has the green gem storm active, his Martial Law super is now always considered to be level 3, and using it no longer drains his meter. —Fixed some gamelog events such as "Hand Limit: Can't return Low Block" occasionally losing their text. —River's stat/strategy card now correctly says that Bladestorm goes to Finesse stance, not to Hyper Finesse stance. UI Improvements —The AI is better able to value dealing lethal block damage, and lethal damage mixups in general. —AI River expects attacks much more often while in Finesse Stance, and thus no longer mashes Counter Lunge (Finesse 4) quite as often ------------------------------------------------------------------ We’re always working on new features for Yomi 2, so hang out with us on Discord and stay up to date on further developments! We hope you had a fantastic holiday season and hope to bring you more Yomi 2 news throughout the year.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/a9dd7c1aad83508342ba7fb4141e8a9cc1b61c51.png We have some exciting news to share today; firstly, Bal-Bas-Beta, the Clockwork Guardian, joins the cast of Yomi 2, and we’re also adding support for French, Chinese and Russian languages (with Japanese, Spanish and German coming later). Full patch notes can be found here. Bal-Bas-Beta, the Clockwork Guardian {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/4998be139ac4b04cc3b34e3f268e1e5207442864.png Bal-Bas-Beta is a clockwork automaton created by Max Geiger. It is rumored that Geiger found a way to communicate with an ancient race who possessed technology beyond our own, and that perhaps some of “BBB”’s design is from another time period entirely. General Onimaru contracted Geiger to mass produce clockwork soldiers to bolster his ranks, but those automatons don’t possess the same degree of sentience and personality that BBB does. BBB hopes to someday reunite with Geiger and learn the true nature of his creation and his purpose. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/be24497c770acd8f2a3c40b19b6771d66f38af3d.png BBB’s archetype is the classic, runaway zoner. He has several ways of pushing his opponent to “long range”, and while he’s at long range he can recur his powerful special attacks to control the pace of the fight. His Keep Away ability recurs easily and prevents him from taking damage at long range while he’s spamming special moves, including a special throw that works from long range, breaking the usual rule of “no throws”. He doesn’t do much damage outside of his Super I (which can’t be used at long range), he has a limited ability to Dodge and his Throws are slow. If you can find your way through his steady barrage of projectiles, rocket punches and extensor grabs, you might stand a chance of taking down this plucky automaton! Language Support {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/9b0eb5af29f64bc9f6d5c23041344d0e6bce2883.png We’re working hard on adding more language support to Yomi 2; today we’re finished with French, Chinese and Russian languages and Japanese, Spanish and German are on the way. We hope that expanding the pool of available languages helps grow our community and give more international folks the chance to enjoy our game! --- That’s all for now. Thanks so much for being a fan of our games. We hope to see you online or chatting with us about Yomi 2 in our Discord channel. See you next time!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/bff9d0af46dfe260b19077b4bb4b210fed295f95.png The Steam Spring Sale is in full bloom! From March 14th to March 21st, you can grab the digital early access version of Yomi 2 for 35% off! We’re also putting our classic tabletop games (Yomi and Puzzle Strike) as well as the Fantasy Strike Core and Collector’s Packs at a whopping 50% off during the sale! Now’s the best time to grab these titles for yourself or as a gift for a friend. Thanks so much for supporting our games over the years. Be sure to join our Discord server to follow the latest updates on our titles. If you want to get behind-the-scenes updates on what we’re working on next, be sure to visit our Patreon as well! Thanks for playing!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/1342e4b54d4babc29c72ba60f694662d6d7da995.png{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/e8b8374b18e01809ddb2f41285de981f16c8d488.png Let slip the dogs of war; General Onimaru and Judge Bigby Hayes are the next two characters to join the cast of Yomi 2! They’re two of the high ranking officials who enforce the strict laws of the tyrannical Sirus Quince’s Flagstone Dominion. You can find the full patch notes here. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/7b239f5060e82478a6d0e401c8ab4eceeee31cbd.png Onimaru is an armored juggernaut who wields a giant, two-handed sword. He pummels his opponents with high damage normal attacks that can’t combo into anything else, but they give him the edge so he can keep swinging for the fences. While he has the edge, those same normal attacks also become faster and unblockable! These powerful, dominant moves help him control the tempo of a fight; he needs fewer cards in hand to take down his opponents, and he even has an unblockable level 3 super. His other super, Clockwork Soldiers, summons an army of robotic minions that help restrict his opponent’s options even further. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/1ac1f3812100531eec36f88f945288093ff6afe3.png Outplan and outmaneuver your opponents, then deal them a deadly, crushing blow! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/fc15339c473aaf0119d55a535bb72a3c4b0f6c04.png The “honorable” Judge Bigby is a grappler character with an emphasis on controlling his opponents, either with his powerful throw game or his innate ability, Injunction. Putting cards from your opponent’s discard pile on the bottom of their deck prevent them from exchanging for them later; this can even take their Low or High Block away for most of the game if they’re not careful. Bigby’s first super, Jail, essentially takes away your opponent’s turn until they’re able to discard a pair to get it back; that means they usually need to keep a pair in hand just to handle the threat of getting hit by Jail at all. Oppressive! His mechanical arm can even throw opponents when “throws are disabled”, which can happen a variety of ways. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/e8b8374b18e01809ddb2f41285de981f16c8d488.png Use the law and an iron fist to protect the integrity of the court! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/a7a9d6624ce673156945a048082f64ffb942ab8d.png One last thing! We’ve added the third location to the single player Career Mode, Neutral Grounds. If you can fight through the ranks and win the tournament there, you’ll unlock another new wacky ruleset, Wild Night: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/6a368914ba82fc815346d9134915a48be77ccec2.png There’s lots more to come for our single player career mode; keep fighting to see if you can become the most powerful Yomi player in the city! That’s all for now. Thanks so much for being a fan of our games. We hope to see you online or chatting with us about our games in our Discord channel. See you next time!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/bf766220ed99b5a6a3a2eb291414af49866f764c.png Hello everyone！ Yomi 2 is now participating in the Lunar New Year Sale 2024 with a 40% discount. Hope you can enjoy our game!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/cb46bec22d3eca909557e20b5d7bc9dfe99bb93a.png Happy New Year, happy new patch! Today we have some updates for Yomi 2, including a new visual game log, speed improvements across all animations (including a “Fast animations” option you can check in the menus), some balance changes, and more. Check out the full patch notes below. January 6th, 2024 PATCH NOTES ------------------------------------------------------------------ New Feature There's now a visual game log which is very helpful in looking up what exactly just happened at any moment. You can access the log by pressing the Triangle button if you're using a PlayStation controller or mouse clicking on the small log button at the top if you're using a mouse. The visual log then opens and you can scroll through all the events of each turn and see all the interactions and effects that happened. This is a very complete implementation that's packed with info and visuals to help you understand what's happening. Game Speed Changes --Many animations that happen throughout at turn have been sped up. For example, your own card exchange animation (as opposed to the opponent's), playing your own ability card (as opposed to the opponent playing one), the display of all "info badges" (the blue box with white text saying what just happened), the resolution of block vs block during combat, and more. --There is a new feature in the game options called "fast animations". If you check that, the entire game will play significantly faster overall. --During a super move, you can now hold the X button (on a PlayStation controller) to speed up the movie. On keyboard, whichever key you have bound to "accept" will do it (default is the Enter key) and on a mouse, you can right click to do it. Balance Changes --Lum Slots of Fun super, number of items it gives is reduced 4 -> 3. --DeGrey Final Arbiter super, combo point cost increased 2 -> 3. --DeGrey Tyrant Crusher (Y-special) revised effect. Now it beats ALL strikes of speed 8 or greater, rather than only "normal and special strikes of speed 8 or greater." It is now a "can't combo" move rather than a starter, but it gets another boost: when it beats a strike, you can choose to either return the Y card to your hand OR choose to have it deal double damage (including double damage from his innate ability). --Menelker: Dragon's Breath super damage reduced from 11+11 -> 11+7. UI Improvements --When Argagarg has two Poisons active at the same time, the game now gives just a single notification about 6 damage rather than two separate ones for 3 damage in order to speed things up. --In the main phase, when you focus one of the four main buttons (Exchange, Ability, Power Up, and Gem Storm) and it's grayed out, some red text appears that explains why it's grayed out. (This is the same red text that already appeared after you clicked on that button, but now it's visible directly on the main phase, saving you two clicks to figure out what's going on.) Bug Fixes --Fixed a minor visual bug where sometimes an effect that created a status icon (the icons on the far left or right of the screen) would show the card creating that effect travel to a spot below that icon, rather than to the appropriate icon. --Fixed an AI bug that caused the AI to sometimes choose moves 100% guaranteed to lose the game. AI now avoids these moves on all difficulties, if at all possible. --Fixed a bad game state that occur when Midori plays Prohibition (blue gem ability), then transforms to Dragon Form while Prohibition is still ongoing. --When Lum is knocked down, the "ZZZ" text above his head is no longer wrongly reversed on the player 2 side of the screen. --Removed a stray vertical bar of blue pixels on the left side of the single player menu background. --In Career Mode, the profile text boxes no longer show overlapping text for players who have 3 lines of profile text. --Fixed a case where the opponent's powered-up super card would be shown with the wrong card modifications. For example, the opponent knocks you down, then a combat passes where knockdown ends, then the opponent powers up and the super card returned to their hand would wrongly show speed changes as if knockdown where still in effect. --Fixed an issue where the "known cards" feature would be incorrect after cards were put on top of a deck from Midori's Intimidating Roar, Geiger's Research & Development, and purple gem's Future Sight. --Fixed issue where setting exclusive fullscreen (as opposed to borderless windowed fullscreen) on a secondary display would only show resolutions whose size fits within the primary display. --Fixed a slight visual error when scrolling through cards in the known-cards area. These cards slightly overlap each other on purpose, but which cards were in front or behind would suddenly change as you scrolled. --Tooltips (such as the definition of Recurring, Armored, etc.) now appear anytime you zoom a card to be fullscreen. Also, they appear when you scroll through cards in the known cards area. --Tooltips now also explain knockdown and the edge. --Fixed a slight visual issue where sometimes, combo cards and their associated combo point dots would appear on the wooden table slightly too soon. This would briefly show black combo point dots against a dark wooden table, but now they appear correctly, only after the table switches to the light colored wood version. ------------------------------------------------------------------ We’re always working on new features for Yomi 2, so hang out with us on Discord and stay up to date on further developments! We hope you had a fantastic holiday season and hope to bring you more Yomi 2 news throughout the year.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/d6a1626704289ad260d49a9a08a247e70e5c6699.png Happy Holidays! The Steam Winter Sale is here; from December 21st to January 4th, you can grab the digital early access version of Yomi 2 for 40% off! We’re also putting our classic tabletop games (Yomi and Puzzle Strike) as well as the Fantasy Strike Core and Collector’s Packs at a whopping 70% off during the sale! Now’s the best time to grab these titles for yourself or as a gift for a friend. Thanks so much for supporting our games over the years; we hope you have a fantastic holiday and new year celebration!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/8dd025933f388e7c5b8a876f635156a6ab0a2329.png Sirlin Games is a part of the Steam Autumn Sale! Save on the Fantasy Strike Core/Collector’s Pack, mainstays Yomi and Puzzle Strike, as well as the digital early access edition of Yomi 2 that we’re currently hard at work developing! We're also doing a tabletop sale for our physical games! You can check out all the details at our blog post, here.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/cb46bec22d3eca909557e20b5d7bc9dfe99bb93a.png Minor Yomi 2 patch, this time with many new UI (new card animations and tooltips) and AI improvements (we’re closer than ever to being able to play against a Virtual Thelo!). Check out the full patch notes below. October 25th, 2023 PATCH NOTES ------------------------------------------------------------------ UI Improvements --New card animations happen in several combat-reveal cases: Projectile hits Two projectiles negate each other Projectile gets blocked High attack hits a low block --Added a mouse-clickable button, for phases like Exchange, Ability, Power Up, and Gem Storm where you can go back one step by pressing the Back button. This lets you play with mouse only, without needing to press the Esc keyboard key to back out from these phases. --In many situations, when you try to play something invalid, you now get a small red popup telling you why it didn't work. --When you mouse over the character innate icons, the tooltip now tells you that you can click to view the character card. (This is for the mouse only, in gamepad mode the stats card automatically shows when you focus the innate icon, so the new tooltip text doesn't appear in gamepad mode.) --When using a 16:10 aspect ratio (rather than 16:9), the combo icons at the bottom of the screen during the combo playback are positioned better. --The mouse-clickable back button in career screens is now easier to see. --Two new tiny buttons in the bottom-right corner of the main menu, leading to our Discord chat and Twitter page. AI Improvements --Menelker's AI is now better at avoiding getting hit while his Deathstrike's countdown is close to killing the opponent. --When you play as Menelker and land Deathstrike on a bot, the bot is better at trying to survive and delay the countdown. --Jaina now wants to fetch back her blocks and disable Recklessness when below 35 life. --Bots now correctly understand that they shouldn't waste combo cards that do zero damage during the blue gem's Legal Limit gem storm. --The "circle with X" close button in the upper right of the deck viewer is now 4K resolution rather than absurdly too low res. Bug Fixes --Fixed a bug where undo was allowed (but shouldn't be) when Menelker uses special moves during combos. This triggers the Bleeding Wounds innate which causes the opponent to randomly discard, and undoing would give different rolls of that discard and also leaked info. --Fixed bad "" markup in the friends screen's player dropdown. Now it correctly shows the option in grey text (to show that it's disabled), instead of writing that markup on the screen. --Updated Menelker's strategy card because it had text that wrongly referred to an old version of his ability card. --Career: Fixed an incorrect priority between Patient Aaron messages, where he could send a message intended for when you lose to him after you win against him, or vice-versa. --When the AI opponent has to Wild Swing, its intents pie chart now correctly just reflects the remaining deck's composition, instead of showing the default fallback 40/30/20/10 chart. --Fixed a crash when viewing the opponent's known hand cards when they're all known, and the opponent's opener is face down on the table. --When you "Save and Quit" between tournament games in an unfinished set, you'll now resume at the correct place rather than wrongly resuming at the start of the first game. ------------------------------------------------------------------ We’re always working on new features for Yomi 2, so hang out with us on Discord and stay up to date on further developments!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/453fd68f285e97ada243151ab9946a8f303d27ca.png A dark shadow hangs over the realm as we add our 11th character to Yomi 2, Menelker, the Deathstrike Dragon! He’s the canonically most powerful fighter of the bunch, but also the one most likely to do what others won’t in order to win a fight. His tactics often feel “unfair” as a general theme; his innate ability Bleeding Wounds forces the opponent to discard cards at random whenever he lands his powerful special attacks, and the ability to destroy cards in the opponent’s discard pile, preventing them from Exchanging for them or using Power Up/other abilities to retrieve them. First, let’s talk about the strangest move in Menelker’s arsenal, his 3-meter Super move, Deathstrike Dragon; {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/8b9ec13924c18bfb9d303ae2a7dd8f6a335fd38b.png Deathstrike Dragon is Menelker’s “Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique”, in a sense. If you’re able to land this attack (which shouldn’t be too tough; it’s an 11 Speed Attack and you can even Dodge into it!), then the entire game warps from a normal Yomi battle to a race against the clock where Blocking becomes incredibly dangerous for the victim over time. To defeat it, your opponent must drain Menelker’s small health pool (70, the lowest in the game), but to do that they’re going to need cards in hand, Super meter to land their most powerful moves, and some key combat wins. That’s where the Bleeding Wounds passive comes into play for Menelker. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/b4534b42f1259af6a10fa7c30807c5810b4df8b7.png Landing these powerful special attacks (either as Combat cards, Dodge follow-ups, or within Combos) forces your opponent to randomly discard cards in hand. This will stifle their ability to mount a reasonable offense against you and you’ll be able to drain out the clock much more effectively. Maybe you can even catch their Burst! Shadowblast Nova, Menelker’s “reversal” attack, is notably powerful in that it knocks the opponent down on hit. When the clock is ticking and this move lands, not only will you advance the doomsday clock by one tick, but the Knockdown advantage means you’re much more likely the also win the next combat reveal! Menelker’s last disruption tactic is his ability card, Into Oblivion; {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/f9f27cee98fbeaf5a01a087dda205baa9cbe8fc1.png This Ability has the potential to remove key Supers from the game (like Midori’s Dragon Form) and make it difficult for the opponent to fight back against the ticking clock. This can be used as part of a general gameplan of winning the fight the normal way (which Menelker definitely has the high damage and combo potential to do) or the “forbidden” way through Deathstrike Dragon. Whatever way you choose, Menelker is a character for those ruthless folks who are willing to do whatever it takes to win. In his world, there are only predators and prey; which one will you be? Come hang with us on Discord and let us know what you think of Menelker! What Gems are you interested in trying on him, and how do you think he fares against the rest of the cast? You can also check out the official patch notes here.

October 11th, 2023 PATCH NOTES ------------------------------------------------------------------ NEW CHARACTER Menelker is now available to play! He's a brutal fighter and the strongest martial artist in the realm. His Deathstrike super puts a countdown timer on the victim and they die at the end of that countdown no matter how many hit points they have! Career Mode Career mode gets a big boost here with better UI for story content, new AI opponents, and new quests, and new unlockable tournaments with special rules. --A second venue is now open in career mode: Golf Dragons. Lots of new opponents. --The quest system has been revisited and has better looking UI. Both locations (Lou's Card Shop and Golf Dragons) have this new quest UI. --The social media feed in the game has new UI. Now, the tweets from various AI opponents appear in a less obtrusive way. They appear automatically when the opponents have something to say, they scroll up when needed, they disappear automatically over time. You can still get to a history of these messages (Triangle button on a PlayStation controller) if you miss them. Because the tweets no longer require you to press a button to dismiss them, you can now navigate the various things to do at each venue while the tweets are appearing. --Fixed a bug that caused too many tweets to appear at once. Before, it was common to have about twice as many tweets appear than were intended. --At the Event Hall, you start with the ability to enter 4 different wacky-rules tournaments (that's not new in this patch). Now, you can unlock a 5th and 6th tournament, each with new and different wacky rules, by winning the tournament at Lou's Card Shop and the one at Golf Dragons. --When you place in tournaments at any location other than the Event Hall, you win trophies. When you place at tournaments in the Event Hall, you win medals. You can now see these trophies and medals at the "Your Room" location in career mode. UI Improvements --Added "Strike" and "Projectile" labels on the third page of Quick Rules, when we first introduce their symbols. --Valerie's Rainbow Disc (Super 2) now has a red glow around the card when you try to use it as a non-opener. This is to hint to you that it's a bad idea because you won't get its special effect. --In Combo Practice mode: You can now drag your hand cards to the discard or deck icons. This lets you quickly discard them or put them at the bottom of the deck. The dragged card shrinks down when you hover over the discard or deck icons, to hint that you can now do that. --When you use Undo during a combo, the focus will go to the just-undone combo card (that returned to hand), instead of going to whichever leftmost legal hand card you have. --When Arc Shot makes Dragonheart safe on block, the game now announces that after the combat reveal, rather than just before. --Clarified the wording on Lum Bomb's icon tooltip. Instead of saying "You can still play Z or Super #1 without penalty", the tooltip now says "This Bomb's owner can still play Z or Super #1 without penalty". Bug Fixes --Lum's Bomb now correctly allows pumping the opener, even if it stops the rest of the combo. --When Lum's bomb explodes, it now correctly uses the bomb explosion sound, rather than using a sound from the opponent's opener. --Hand cards no longer vibrate when you place the mouse cursor at the bottom of the game window. --After a rematch, the first turn's openers no longer sometimes show up with incorrect green buffs or red nerfs from the past game. --As a spectator, you can no longer drag hand cards to the table to "play" them. (This has no real effect on the game being watched, but it was confusing.) --As a spectator, mouse-clicking on the blue button will no longer play the associated sound (since you can't meaningfully click it as a spectator). --As a spectator, pressing the Esc key while there's a gameplay-back command possible on screen (ex: Undo during combos, backing out of the Exchange phase) will now bring up the pause menu instead of doing nothing at all. (It would try to play the "Back" command, and fail because you're a spectator.) --Slightly tweaked the trajectory of the opponent's power-up fetched card, so that it stays fully on screen during its travel towards the hand icon, instead of having its right edge go slightly off-screen during travel. ------------------------------------------------------------------

September 8th, 2023 PATCH NOTES ------------------------------------------------------------------ New Feature You can now watch a friend play Yomi 2 with the spectator feature. From your in-game friends list, you can already click on anyone to challenge them directly. The new thing is you can now "Watch" their games, too. More info about this feature: --When you click "Watch" on a friend, if that friend is currently playing online, you immediately jump into that match from the friend's perspective. You see things as your friend would, except that you can't actually take any gameplay actions. (The pause menu replaces "Forfeit", "Restart with new character", "Quit Friend Match" with "Stop Watching".) --If the target friend is not currently playing online, you instead go into a pending state, with a yellow box on screen reminding you that you're pending to watch their next online match. This box lets you click it to cancel your pending-to-watch state, or with a controller you can hold the square button to do that too. --You will continue watching a friend indefinitely, even after they finish a game and start the next one, until you leave the spectator mode. --Friends that are currently playing online have their friends screen big "action button" turn into an eye icon, to watch them. (Instead of the crossed-swords icon, to challenge them.) If you're already watching someone, it turns into a red eye icon, to stop watching them. --The friends screen now has a Spectators tab, where you can see all friends who are currently watching you. You can kick them from here, which prevents them from watching you for the rest of this play session. --Whenever someone is watching you, a tiny yellow box appears in the bottom-right of the screen, showing how many spectators you currently have. Click it to open the friends screen to the spectators page, and see who it is. Bug Fixes --Lum item cards no longer appear in his discard view. (They still appear in his deck view.) There is no discard pile for the items in this digital version, so this reduces confusion about that. --When Lum has two active Fireworks, they can now both hit the opponent on the same combat reveal. --Fixed Geiger's Time Spiral Hurricane card having an extra box that hides the ability text. --Lum Fireworks now deals 4 block damage, rather than wrongly dealing 5. --Lum's Gimme A Jackpot, for one-of-each, now correctly gives the edge for 1 turn, rather than 2 turns. --You can now correctly play a "Wild" as the third or fourth card when revealing four-of-a-kind for Lum's Gimme A Jackpot, not just as the first or second card. --When you play Lum's Bamboo from the Gimme A Jackpot ability, you now correctly gain the edge right away for that turn. --Lum's bomb no longer makes his attacks incorrectly win combat against faster attacks. --Lum's bomb now actually damages you when you get hit by an attack opener. --When you dodge into Slots of Fun (Lum Super 1), and you get Coin items from that, these Coins now correctly deal their 6 damage. --When Setsuki's Invisible prevents a recurring card from getting hit, that card now correctly returns to hand. --Fixed a game freeze in the Knockdown Clash Event Hall tournament, when the opponent applies the +10 damage from knockdowns. ------------------------------------------------------------------

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/583a03e7ccc0d6221610f5de6ca480b2af2d428b.png We’re excited to add our 10th character to Yomi 2, Lum Bam-foo, the Gambling Panda! He’s one of our trickier oddball characters so he’s sure to shake up your matches in some crazy ways. In Yomi 2, Lum has a standard deck like everyone else, but also a special item side deck that triggers when he Dodges enemy attacks or plays certain moves: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/19d7f1798a38f70ff2d1912000805737136836cd.png Some of these items only help Lum, like the Bamboo which gives him “the edge” or the Bell which draws him a card, but some items like the Cake or Cherries can accidentally give his opponent free super meter or extra health. These effects may be “random”, but they can warp the next round in interesting ways! Here’s Lum’s new Special Move and Super card art: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/c4bce18f460d71b5035cb1ba9b3c3b02acd692b8.png Lum’s new Gimme A Jackpot! ability works like a slot machine; Reveal 4 cards from your hand and check the symbol in the bottom left corner. If you match four of any symbol (or get all four symbols) you get some powerful rewards! Be a panda, make stuff happen, win or lose! We hope you enjoy messing around with Lum! Come hang with us on Discord and let us know what you think! You can also check out the official patch notes here. Also, be sure to check out our weekly developer streams at on our Twitch page, live every Friday at 2pm PDT!

September 1st, 2023 PATCH NOTES ------------------------------------------------------------------ New Character Lum, the Gambling Panda is now available to play! Some of Lum's moves can summon an item from a separate deck of item cards. Try to get lots of items going to create exciting gameplay! Minor Card Adjustments --All dodges now have text with “You may” about the option to punish so that the cards are more clear that the punish is optional. --Argagarg Z’s now says “If you get hit” rather than “If this gets hit” for consistency. ***--Midori’s blocks clarify that he doesn’t return them to hand if he used them as an honor throw. Adjusted font size, too. --Valerie Rainbow Disc (Super2). Wording changed to “When you open with this and don’t get hit” to be consistent with similar wording on other cards. --Updated the stat reference cards for Jaina S2 and Geiger S1's recent changes. Bug Fixes --The game no longer asks you to "rejoin matchmaking queue" when your opponent disconnects during a friend match. --Fixed cards sometimes having blank art at the start of online matches --Fixed Midori sometimes showing blank art cards during his Dragon Form transition --Implemented a more sensible error message if you search for a YomiTag that doesn't exist. --When you start a friend match and the opponent disconnects before you've chosen your character, trying to back out of that character select screen will now allow you to leave the aborted match directly, instead of forcing you to choose a character then leave the match from there. --Fixed a tutorial soft-lock where the opponent Valerie would refuse to play her move (when she's forced to end a combo in E to teach about the edge, but she lost her E card beforehand). --Sound: In combo practice mode, when opening or closing the R1 quick controls panel at the right side of the screen, the swoosh sounds are now correctly coming from the right channel, rather than from the left channel. --Tutorial: During part 4, on the turn where you're forced to knock down with a throw, disallow powering up with a pair of throws. This prevents getting accidentally forced to wild swing two turns in a row. If you try to do it, the throws are highlighted in red, and a red tooltip says "Normally these are legal to power up with, but let's save them to throw." --Fixed a case where dodges that auto-hit with some damage (Eight-Point Counter, True Power of Storms, Phase Out) would mess up the combo display of the next combat by adding the dodge's own hit again. --Fix: When you dodge into Dragon Form, or play it to punish an unsafe-on-block attack, you now correctly transform. --Removed all quests from the Event Hall career location. (They weren't supposed to be there.) --Fix: Jaina's Dragonheart's self-damage no longer help the opponent's black gem storm (Shadow Tentacles) to trigger. (Because the black gem storm says "If *you* deal at least 10 damage in a turn ".) --Visuals: When opening the big known-hand-cards overlay, the cards now immediately appear at the correct place, rather than appear elsewhere then move for a second towards their correct place.--Updated the red gem storm card text so that the damage taken on block is "block damage". (This was already the case rules-wise, so this update is just a visual fix.) --Updated the status effect icon for the white gem storm (Invigorating Winds) so that it mentions the updated effect (draw 2 cards, rather than fetch up to 3 combo cards). --On the gem select screen, if you have the mouse over one of the cards then use the keyboard to zoom (defaults to spacebar, rather than the mouse's right button), you'll now zoom that moused-over card. --Gameplay fix: The purple gem storm, Hyper Tempest, no longer lets both players have the edge at the same time. --When a player's deck is empty, we now implicitly reveal that player's entire hand as known-hand-cards. --Midori's known-hand-cards now recovers correctly after transforming into dragon form, then back to human form. --When an ability like Hot Coals deals damage through an animation, we no longer have the victim play their "get hit" animation if they are knocked down. (The animation only makes sense if they aren't knocked down.) --When Arc Shot forces the end of the combo, skip the "Continue combo" phase, even against Slow Time Spiral. (Since you can't actually continue your combo then.) --When you use Time Spiral Hurricane in a situation where you can't combo afterwards (e.g. after a dodge, as a block punish, or when the combo gets stopped by something like Arc Shot), then you no longer get a message telling you that you can combo into infinite Time Spirals. --You can now see Dragon Midori's cards in the character reference screen. Open Midori's deck, then press the triangle button, as shown on screen, to switch to Dragon's cards (or click on the button help with the mouse). --The character select screen now shows characters' starting life. --Minor visual fix. Specials and supers below 10 speed now correctly show the speed watch icon without a ground shadow. (Normals still show the ground shadow.) --Gameplay visuals: When you combo into a super move, the victim now plays their "get hit" animation at the end of the super move video, rather than hidden underneath the video. --Jaina's Arc Shot ability now plays an impact sound effect when the flame arrow comes down and hits the opponent. --Card mods for cards played on the table now stay fixed at the moment they get played on the table, instead of incorrectly getting updated afterwards. For instance, under Legal Limit, a single Grave throw that's played on the table will no longer claim to deal 3 damage (because Legal Limit caps *future* cards' damage to 3), and a normal attack played after it will no longer claim to deal 0 damage. Instead, the initial throw will claim 7 damage and the normal will claim 3 damage, correctly. --The career mode's feed history can now be opened by mouse-clicking on the button help in the top-right corner. This used to work, then was broken, now is fixed.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/cb46bec22d3eca909557e20b5d7bc9dfe99bb93a.png July 31st, 2023 PATCH NOTES ------------------------------------------------------------------ New Feature Known cards in hand. You can now move to (or mouse over) the hand card icon for the opponent or for yourself to get a popup. For the opponent's hand card icon, you'll see the cards that you know for sure they must have in their hand. For your own hand card icon, you'll see the cards the opponent knows that you have. This feature isn't revealing any new information to anyone, it's just showing what both players should know anyway if everyone is paying attention. Balance Changes --Geiger's Time Stop Super changed from 0 combo points and 1 damage to 2 combo points and 10 damage. --Jaina's Dragon's Breath super changed from speed 14 to speed 8. --White gem storm's effect changed to "At the end of each combat, if you hit the opponent, draw 2 cards." Bug Fixes --Super moves no longer sometimes cost too much meter in combo practice mode. --The input settings' remapping blue box no longer has a big white box to its right for no reason. --The pause menu's "Leave Online Queue" button now uses title case like the rest of the buttons (instead of "Leave online queue"). --Fixed a recent bug that made the Power Up button light up during your main phase even after you already power up. --Fixed a crash that could happen when loading Career mode from an older save file. --Fixed a game crash when a player has 7+ status effects to display at the same time. --Dragon Midori's X (Toxic Breath) is now actually recurring, as it claims to be on its card text. --Jaina's Y (Dragonheart) text changed: "Lose 5 life when you play this" => "Take 5 damage when you play Dragonheart". This damage does count toward the blue gem storm's Legal Limit of 10 damage per turn. --Mouse-clicking on the button help in the character select screen now works correctly to switch between Midori and Dragon Midori's stat cards. --Fixed an annoying grinding noise when an AI opponent plays an ability card that it just drew on that same turn. --The Future Sight ability card no longer gets stuck on screen when you play it when the deck is empty. --Grave's Wind Summon empowered projectiles (Lightning Cloud and Fireball) now correctly beat Valerie's Rainbow Stroke (Z), which "Beats level 1 projectiles". Also adjusted the AI to take Wind Summon's projectile level change into account. --Fixed some crashes related to memory usage problems. --Fixed an AI bug where the AI's combo plan could accidentally get ignored. --Fixed an AI bug with Geiger where the bot would have its Slow Time Spiral blocked, then not understand that it should throw the opponent guaranteed. --Fixed an AI issue where the AI was so afraid to decline to punish an unsafe-on-block move that it would waste its burst as a punish (where it does only 1 damage with no extra effect). --Fixed an internal crash of the AI system that could cause the AI to hang indefinitely. Performance Improvements --Optimized several technical things to speed up draw calls. Though performance was already good, this will help low end computers run with smoother framerate. --Greatly improved memory usage. Reduced the amount of RAM the game needs by over 65% (in other words, the game uses only 35% of the RAM it used to use). --Improved load time. Launching the game now happens much more quickly. --Loading screen. When launching the game, the brief wait time now has a loading screen rather than a blank screen. --Performed deep magic on the the large info cards with each character's stats and strategy info. They now take up 1/10th the disk space, yet appear at 4x the resolution (twice as many pixels wide, twice as many tall) as before.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43108098/20a6853436a81e39db0a52fef690d01744134e7f.png Hello everyone! Leontes here. We hope you enjoyed playing our Demo over the week of Next Fest! We're excited to finally launch Yomi 2 in Early Access! The game is available now with 9 playable characters (with 6 gems to augment them!) online play, friend challenge, spectator mode, a single player campaign (with more locations to come!), combo practice and more. Be sure to join us on Discord to find opponents, keep up with news and just hang out and chat about the game. See you on the server!