Strategems and more playtesting!

Nini here with some more news.

We're excited to share that Tomebound will be part of Strategems, and we have a new build for you to playtest, Starting May 28th, 7pm CEST, you should head over and check out the awesome selection of strategy games.

https://store.steampowered.com/curator/46073222/sale/strategems2026

Massive thanks to Goblinz Publishing!

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Also here are the changes since the last playtest earlier in the month:

Changes

Spells

• New reward type "secondary" where you get to pick out of 3 secondaries to overwrite your cards

• Buffed all of the secondaries (whatever it takes to get folks to combine spells)

• Balanced a bunch of the spells

• Added 7 new spells, including a higher tier spell for each tome.

Steps

• You now start combat with 3 steps

• Default starting steps for base spells changed to 0

• Certain base spells given a number of steps (some have more than 1)

• All basic starting spells start with +1 Steps secondary component

• Cards now changed to no longer show steps by default

Curios

• Curios no longer all trigger on cast, now they have between 1 and infinite charges, charges are spent on spell cast

• Some Gristle curios are now "passive" (infinite charges)

• Added 6 curios for Shaegrin

UI

• Hovering enemies now shows their contribution to the overall damage

• "End turn" now glows when you are both out of cards/mana or steps.

• Add on hover effect for end turn when "end turn" is selectable

• Refresh tome curious on reward select so that you can see rarity when collecting rewards

• Create and implement pouch display UI

• Reduce parallax spin in pouch display

• Changed the tool tip sprite

• Slightly reduced forecast size

• Curio tooltips no indicate remaining charges

Other

• Minor visual changes to the card art for certain spells

• New sounds for certain spells

• Switched to another temporary music track which should stand out less

• Reworked the tutorial to reflect the changes to curios and steps

Bugfixes

• No longer saving state during tutorial

• Wipe save file during end of run

• Hide continue run if a blank save is present

• Fixed saving a blank save when you go to main menu and then exit

• New player can no longer "continue run" with no cards

• Leaving before selecting a second wing no longer leads to weird cross-pollination

• Card view should now be fixed. (Pour one out for one of our longest serving bugs)

• Fixed stutter caused by track changes

• Tooltips are now working on solo base cards