This update for Once Upon a Rogue's Tale introduces Steam Achievements to make your adventures even more thrilling!

A special thank you goes out to our amazing Discord community for their fantastic ideas and suggestions for achievements. Your input has helped shape this update, and we appreciate your creativity and support.

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New

• Added 50 Steam Achievements (includes 7 hidden achievements)

Changes

• The dice selection button now has three phases:
  Select Unused -> Select All -> Select None
  
• Exchanged some text with icons (Confirm, Return, Skip etc.)
  
• Changed Map icons for Red Riding Hood Boss 1 and 3
  
• Updated legend images of bosses to be better readable

Bug fixes

• Fixed camera shake not working anymore

Once Upon a Rogue’s Tale Patch Notes – V 0.5.4 (11.09.2024)

Thank you for your valuable feedback! With this update we fixed some important bugs, did some necessary balancing and added some quality-of-life stuff.

New

• You can now open the character info panel by clicking on the character on the scroll in the map view
  
• When starting a new run while already having an active run a popup warning is shown
  
• Added a scrollbar to the character reserve box in the character selection panel
  
• Added description boxes for poison and block on the character card
  
• A text feedback is now shown when a character can’t be switched due to rooted

Changes

• Every effect description now explains when the effect is reduced/used
  
• Increased wish gain so it is possible to unlock a new character after completing your first run
  
• The effect Rule Breaker is now reduced by 1 after being used instead of at end of turn
  
• The effect Magic Fist is now reduced by 1 after the next attack instead of at end of turn
  
• Increased the size of status effect numbers
  
• Changed old font in scroll
  
• Ability details of Magical Prison are now hidden
  
• Info texts for Rübezahl-Bear and Enchanter are rewritten to fit better

Bug fixes

• Fixed a major bug where strange things would happen if you lost a boss fight
  
• Many localization and text fixes
  
• Fixed a visual bug in the character reserve box of the character selection panel
  
• Fixed a bug happening when having Fire Tendrils together with Swing
  
• Removed the possibility to click multiple times on popup buttons resulting in getting negative wishes
  
• Fixed a visual bug when using the “Adventures of the Little Tailor” difficulty setting and receiving two card rewards

Balancing

• (Card-Snow White) Dwarfish Washing costs 2 -> 1
  
• (Card-Snow White) Dwarf Bed no longer give swing, now gives 2 Rule-Breaker
  
• (Card-Cloud Giant) General's Order Rule-Breaker 1 -> 2
  
• (Card-Gingerbread Witch) Reserve Dough costs 1 -> 2 and Endurance given 3 -> 6
  
• (Event-Card) Great Appetizer no longer converts dice into Joker, now gives Acceleration
  
• (Card-Rübezahl) Flash of Rage cost 5 -> 4, but also banishes itself
  
• (Card-Hunter-Brothers) Hunter Boots no longer gives Fatigue, now gives Rattled as Downside
  
• (Event-Card) Emperor's new Clothes Rule-Breaker 2 -> 3, Fragile 3 -> 2, costs 1 -> 2
  
• (Card-Jack) Backhand Beans created Extra Beans 2 -> 1, duration 2 -> 3 turns
  
• (Card-Jack) Milky White created Extra Beans 4 -> 3, chance of creating Super Bean 25% -> 15%
  
• (Card-Jack) Nimble Fingers now gives 4 -> 3 Tendrils
  
• (Rübezahl) 3. Skill now also stuns Rübezahl himself

We're still working on some other bugs and quality-of-life stuff, but we wanted to do a quick update because of the major boss bug. We're a small team and we're doing our best to make this game enjoyable, but please have a little patience with us! Thank you so much!

Bugfixes:

• Fixed major bug where the book isnt closing after starting a boss battle
  
  
• Fixed magic fist triggering on allies
  
• Fixed Hansel using endurance on self not on target for special effect
  
• Fixed event "The bear and wren" answers being swapped
  
• Fixed event "Emporer's new clothes" text not appearing correctly
  
• Bunch of localisation fixes

Bugfixes:

• Fixed major bug which caused enemies to run out of abilities to use and will no longer attack until players restart from the menu or re-open the game
  
• Fixed major bug when enemy trying to swap with another rooted enemy results in battle breaking
  
  
• Fixed Lizard Dragon and The Wind starting with no endurance making them basically useless in battle
  
• Fixed skipping event rewards with the character reward window still open results in an error
  
• Fixed inventory card window appearing behind reward card window

Dear Fairytale-Fans!

The wait is finally over - Once Upon a Rogue's Tale just launched into Early Access! 🎉
We've been working relentlessly for over a year to get to this day. We can't put into words how excited we are for your fairytale adventures!

We also offer a Special Launch discout 💸
To celebrate the release, we’re offering a 20% discount for the first two weeks! Don’t miss out on this chance to dive into the adventure at a special price.

What you can expect in the Early Access:

• 3 chapters of Red Riding Hood
  
• 3 chapters of The Frogprince
  
• 3 chapters of Jack and the Beanstalk
  
• 5 different acts with different enemies
  
• Lots of story Events
  
• 150+ different cards
  
• 22 playable characters
  
• 9 unlockable difficulty Settings
  
• A shop between runs with more unlockable content

Of course the journey doesn't end here. We are planning to use the Early Access to deliver more content and to involve the community to get their feedback as we develop. We want to improve the game experience for everyone and make the best game we can ✨

Thank you once again for your incredible support. We hope you enjoy playing Once Upon a Rogue's Tale as much as we enjoyed creating it. Your journey begins now!

Dear Fairytale fans, it's been a minute since our last update post, but don't let that fool you. We have been working overtime on the new update that we are proud to present to you!

The Visual Overhaul Update is now live and shows Once Upon a Rogue's Tale in a whole new light. All UI elements have been completely reworked: Cards, buttons, backgrounds, intentions, and just about everything else in the game has been visually upgraded.

Old visuals:
New visuals:
New

• Added window mode in settings menu
  
• Support for different aspect monitors
  
• New enemy: Herb Gentleman with Hazelnut
  
• New status effects: Rulebreaker, Acceleration, Rooted, Limping and Magic Fist
  
• Draw and discard piles are clickable for an overview window
  
• New dice button which only selects unused dice for the player
  
• Event Rewards and Punishments can now include status effect for the next battle
  
• Allowing players to re-open shops and rest sites before selecting the next map node
  
• New music track for the city
  
• Some new special effect animations for abilities

Changes

• Complete rework of visuals in main menu, battle scene and menus
  
• Attacks of characters can only be used a limited number of times during a turn
  
• Event battles now only trigger when clicking the book button after text is finished (thanks to all streamers that send in feedback <3)
  
• Handcard inventory now can be shown during battle and event rewards
  
• Number of cards in hand are now limited to 10 and everything drawn after will be discarded
  
• Basic hover over enemies now shows the target arrows
  
• More enemy set variety going from battle to battle
  
• Brave tailor now joins you in his event fight
  
• Randomization of event books buyable in Jeffini’s shop (yes, that’s her official name)
  
• Right click info panel overview for characters
  
• Buying or unlocking characters now shows the complete info panel for characters
  
• Changed some of the map layouts
  
• Healing in rest sites now heals 15 instead of 10
  
• Snow white event is now a character event
  
• One of the Musician event outcomes now gives players a buff for the next battle instead of a die
  
• Random ally and random opponent effects on cards and abilities now trigger without the need to select a target
  
• Balanced all Brave tailor abilities and costs
  
• Reworked Hansel and Gretel skills and added new abilities to their repertoire
  
• Reworked companions to be more useful and to include some of the new status effects
  
• Companions are now part of other classes like hunter, royalty and so on
  
• Energy now adds a dice overload when you got more energy than physical dice in scene (12)
  
• Nearly all handcards received a buff to be more useful in battle
  
• Stored energy effects are replaced with energy status effects
  
• Status effects now stop at a max value of 99
  
• A lot of small balance changes to enemies, characters, and handcards

Bug Fixes

• Fixed major bug that prevented playing handcards sometimes
  
• Fixed major bug that broke the game after an enemy is defeated in the passive state of battle
  
• Fixed handcards not playable when drawing new cards mid battle
  
• Fixed tutorial not starting new game after finishing boar
  
• Fixed goat hover still active when clicking goat in shop
  
• Fixed active passive of previous attempt stays for next run if not new passive selected
  
• Fixed wish lamp showing up in battle
  
• Fixed error message showing behind button text box
  
• Fixed rewards could be skipped while extra reward window is open
  
• Fixed some special attacks not showing the influenced values by weak or strength
  
• Fixed banish random card only banishing itself
  
• Fixed swing effect not using the correct neighbor of the target and reducing stack on each attack not only on single target
  
• Fixed passives of Hunterbrother and Rübezahl triggering multiple times when hit with a multi attack
  
• Fixed poison reducing thorns value without triggering it
  
• Fixed shop goat price not showing correctly after loading a game
  
• Fixed unplayable misery playable in battle
  
• Fixed helpless effect not working as intended
  
• A bunch of other small fixes to localization and gameplay

The Once Upon a Rogue's Tale demo has just received a major content update with The Frog Prince. Now is the perfect time to show off all the new features to as many people as possible!

• Play as Little Red Riding Hood or The Frog Prince
  
• Discover the first part of the story of both characters
  
• Try out over 10 different characters
  
• Unlock even more content between runs

Watch Sarah (one of the developers) play through the Frog Prince chapter and get an insight into the development of the game.