Brave Hand just launched, and its now available on Steam! Brave Hand is my award-winning press-your-luck meets solitaire card game, and it's finally ready for you to play. Its releasing for just $1.79 ($1.99 with a 10% launch discount), and includes achievements, leaderboards, and Steam Trading Cards. Im excited for everyone to play and I hope the affordable price encourages you to check it out!
The game features 4 endlessly replayable modes, including a brand-new Zen Mode. In the game, you use the cards in your hand to challenge cards in 8 piles, and decide whether to press on challenging the same pile for exponential increase in points, or to stop and bank what you have. With randomized decks, pile complete bonuses, and special card rules to explore, youll find yourself playing over and over again. As you play, you unlock an epic story via 16 storybook pages. The pages double as customizable theme decks and backgrounds. You can expect Brave Hand to be a small, highly-replayable, solitaire-style card game where your goal is to beat your previous score, and unlock a light story along the way. I made it because I loved the simple yet replayable games that came with my first computer, and wanted something like them, but with just a little more strategy. If the main "Brave" mode is too hard or too random for your taste, you can try out the other modes! Boost Mode adds up to 3 legendary golden cards to your deck. The longer Jumbo Mode has 8 cards per pile and an epic 90 card deck. Finally, Zen Mode makes it easier to progress by letting you win ties and giving you more cards in your hand. Each mode is designed to cater to a specific type of playstyle and give you endless ways to play. You can buy it from our Steam store page. Feel free to contact me through Twitter, or our Discord if you run into any trouble or just want to follow along with development. I really hope you enjoy the game. -Scott Brodie

Brave Hand is ready to release, and its coming to Steam Friday August 6th! Brave Hand is my award-winning press-your-luck meets solitaire card game, and it's finally ready. Its releasing for just $1.79 ($1.99 with a 10% launch discount), and includes achievements, leaderboards, and Steam Trading Cards. I want everyone to play so I hope keeping the price low will encourage you to check it out.
The game features 4 endlessly replayable modes, including a brand-new Zen Mode. In the game, you use the cards in your hand to challenge cards in 8 piles, and decide whether to press on challenging the same pile for exponential increase in points, or to stop and bank what you have. With randomized decks, pile complete bonuses, and special card rules to explore, youll find yourself playing over and over again. As you play, you unlock an epic story via 16 storybook pages. The pages double as customizable theme decks and backgrounds. You can expect Brave Hand to be a small, highly-replayable, solitaire-style card game where your goal is to beat your previous score, and unlock a light story along the way. I made it because I loved the simple yet replayable games that came with my first computer, and wanted something like them, but with just a little more strategy. If the main "Brave" mode is too hard or too random for your taste, you can try out the other modes! Explore Boost Mode that adds up to 3 legendary special cards to your deck, the longer Jumbo Mode with a 90 card deck, or the new more forgiving and relaxing Zen Mode. Each mode is designed to cater to a specific type of playstyle.
It would be a big help if you'd wishlist the game, and feel free to contact me through Twitter, or our Discord if you run into any trouble or just want to follow along with development. I really hope you enjoy the game. -Scott Brodie Brave Hand was created by Heart Shaped Games, and can also be played on Google Play, iOS, and Google Play Pass. Our other games include Hero Generations, and We Are The Caretakers (now out and in active-development via Steam Early Access).

We're excited to release our first update in nearly 4 years to Hero Generations: ReGen! We're addressing one of our biggest player requests by adding a new, more forgiving play mode! "Easy Mode" games have two rule changes. [olist]

Town improvements (buildings around towns) do not decay. [/olist] Easy Mode offers a new way to play that lets you more easily make progress and explore all 6 biomes in a generated world. It also lets you more easily create some of the 20 town crafting upgrades. Give it a try and let us know how else we can improve this mode to fit your playstyle!

Call For Feedback And Reviews!

It's important to us that we address your feedback. If this update does that, we greatly appreciate you giving the game a positive review on our store page, or updating your existing review to reflect this! Doing this helps us reach more players, and justify development time away from our new game in development, We Are The Caretakers. We would love to spend more time continuing to improve and add to the game!

Full Version 2.21 Change Log

• New "Easy" Mode! Easy Mode games have two rule changes: Clouds do not reset on new generations, and town improvements (buildings) do not decay. A new way to play that lets you more easily make progress and explore all 6 biomes in a generated world.
• Mode Select option on new games. Choose Easy Mode or Basic Mode when starting a new game. Easy Mode save games will have a "present" icon on their entry.
• Bug fixes in menu flow that prevent blocking (quests, tech tree, etc) screens from overlapping.
• Special camera effects (Vintage and Black & White) are unlocked immediately for all players. Fixed bugs where players could not see camera effect settings and get stuck in a vfx mode.
• Upgraded the project to Unity version 2019.4, enabling bug fixes and easier future updates. Also gained some performance improvements in the process.
• Behind the scenes refactoring and adjustments to make debugging and updating easier.
• Extended the length of the upcoming Winter event (begins at the start of Dec)
• Heart Shaped Games Splash Screen added.

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To celebrate our favorite season, we've put Hero Generations: ReGen on super sale! As part of the weeklong deal you can buy ReGen for 85% off through October 8th! We hope you enjoy the pumpkins, skeletons, haunted forests, gravestones, candy, and much more that will be in game until November 1st. Thanks for your support, and if you enjoy the game it is a big help to get your review on our store page! Please stay in contact with us through our new Discord: https://discord.gg/r7nnsAu All the best, Heart Shaped Games Team

Hi All! We're excited to announce Hero Generations: ReGen is a part of this week's Weeklong Deals! You can purchase the game for 50% off for a limited time. If you haven't been following along, we've updated ReGen a number of times since launch, with a variety of new content, polish, and special events. Definitely check out all of the changes and let us know what you think. Finally, if you're interested in taking your experience mobile, we also recently launched the game in full on Google Play! Check it out (as well as the earlier iOS release) for a new way to play. Thanks for your support, and if you enjoy the game it is a big help to get your review on our store page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/443260/ Take care, -Scott, Lead Designer, Heart Shaped Games

Hi All! We're excited to announce Hero Generations: ReGen is a part of this week's Weeklong Deals! You can purchase the game for 50% off for a limited time. If you haven't been following along, we've updated ReGen a number of times since launch, with a variety of new content, polish, and special events. Definitely check out all of the changes and let us know what you think. Finally, if you're interested in taking your experience mobile, we also recently launched the game in full on Google Play! Check it out (as well as the earlier iOS release) for a new way to play. Thanks for your support, and if you enjoy the game it is a big help to get your review on our store page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/443260/ Take care, -Scott, Lead Designer, Heart Shaped Games

Halloween is almost upon us! We're celebrating with an early update to Hero Generations that features a special Halloween Event, as well a number of big changes that we've wanted to make for a long time. Be sure to restart Steam client to trigger the update. Here's the full change list! [olist]

New Building: Bank. The World Bank will be added to all newly created worlds. It allows players to deposit gold for future generations, plus interest. Explore your world to find it.

High-Res Item Art: Added higher res images and changed all loot objects to have higher res images. No more grainy items in the UI.

Halloween is almost upon us! We're celebrating with an early update to Hero Generations that features a special Halloween Event, as well a number of big changes that we've wanted to make for a long time. Be sure to restart Steam client to trigger the update. Here's the full change list! [olist]

New Building: Bank. The World Bank will be added to all newly created worlds. It allows players to deposit gold for future generations, plus interest. Explore your world to find it.

High-Res Item Art: Added higher res images and changed all loot objects to have higher res images. No more grainy items in the UI.

Our latest Hero Generations: ReGen update is now live on Steam and will be coming shortly to our other platforms! This update includes a number of new additions to the game as well as changes that address common feedback we’ve received from players. Please let us know what you think!

• Combat sequence has been sped up (faster entry, faster exit, faster resolution animations).
• Heroes and enemy NPCs can achieve critical hits if their strength roll result is 50 or more above their opponent’s. Critical hits add 5 to damage. We spent some time looking for ways to make combat faster, more interesting, and less tedious later in the game. Critical hits reward you for building up your strength, and remove many repeat combat sequences later in the game when you have grown beyond most enemies in your world area.
• Sai, a new weapon that has a 25% chance of adding a +5 lifespan damage critical hit in combat.
• Raider, a new trait that enables hero to steal items from the enemy in combat.
• Gift of longevity now makes all cards in the mating flip game hold lifespan bonuses, if the item is held at the end of a generation.
• Added two special graphics modes (PC/Mac/Linux only due to performance impact on mobile): Black & White and Vintage. Modes can be toggled in settings and are unlocked by finishing (dying) games.
• Oracle now passes on wisdom about secrets in the game when it receives a letter.
• Improved clarity of deliver letter quest by highlighting the drop off destination with a cut scene.
• Clearing an Oasis has a different set of loot to drop, and is now more likely to give Keys.
• Gift shops now periodically have trait books for sale.
• Character items and traits now shown in save game slot.
• Fixed French language bug that caused crash after 2nd generation.
• Fixed crash bug with boss destroying barracks nodes.
• Fixed out of sync music bug.
• Fixed color animation text bug.
• Added new tip message about crafting towns for new players.
• Steam Achievement bugs should now be addressed.
• Reduced the size of the game package and reduced loading times.
• Minor improvements to translations across all supported languages based on feedback.
• Some objects in the game with low res sidebar portraits have been improved.

Our latest Hero Generations: ReGen update is now live on Steam and will be coming shortly to our other platforms! This update includes a number of new additions to the game as well as changes that address common feedback weve received from players. Please let us know what you think!

• Combat sequence has been sped up (faster entry, faster exit, faster resolution animations).
• Heroes and enemy NPCs can achieve critical hits if their strength roll result is 50 or more above their opponents. Critical hits add 5 to damage. We spent some time looking for ways to make combat faster, more interesting, and less tedious later in the game. Critical hits reward you for building up your strength, and remove many repeat combat sequences later in the game when you have grown beyond most enemies in your world area.
• Sai, a new weapon that has a 25% chance of adding a +5 lifespan damage critical hit in combat.
• Raider, a new trait that enables hero to steal items from the enemy in combat.
• Gift of longevity now makes all cards in the mating flip game hold lifespan bonuses, if the item is held at the end of a generation.
• Added two special graphics modes (PC/Mac/Linux only due to performance impact on mobile): Black & White and Vintage. Modes can be toggled in settings and are unlocked by finishing (dying) games.
• Oracle now passes on wisdom about secrets in the game when it receives a letter.
• Improved clarity of deliver letter quest by highlighting the drop off destination with a cut scene.
• Clearing an Oasis has a different set of loot to drop, and is now more likely to give Keys.
• Gift shops now periodically have trait books for sale.
• Character items and traits now shown in save game slot.
• Fixed French language bug that caused crash after 2nd generation.
• Fixed crash bug with boss destroying barracks nodes.
• Fixed out of sync music bug.
• Fixed color animation text bug.
• Added new tip message about crafting towns for new players.
• Steam Achievement bugs should now be addressed.
• Reduced the size of the game package and reduced loading times.
• Minor improvements to translations across all supported languages based on feedback.
• Some objects in the game with low res sidebar portraits have been improved.

Hi everyone, We have just released our first update to Hero Generations: ReGen (v1.02)! Restart your Steam client to trigger the update. This update contains a number of minor bug fixes and gameplay enhancements.

v1.02 Full Change List

• A new camera Cutscene plays to highlight the end bosses' special attack. A new "toast" message with a clue also appears.
• Highlight effects on mates could sometimes not appear when selecting them in towns.
• All clear style quests (Oasis, Lairs, Sword In The Stone, etc) now behave as expected, and do not continue to give fame at the start of new generations while in the cleared state.
• Oasis quests in the Island world now clear individually, instead of when all Oasis nodes are cleared.
• Fixed situation where "Traits Full" option window would stay present past town screen.
• Added error catching for any save game loading issues. A message box appears with more info and instructions on how to report bugs.
• Removed debug command for toggling the UI on/off from production.
• World quests such as "Kill All Bosses" now track/reload properly. Existing save files will update to track existing progress.
• Special Events list for new generations save properly, so events that are chosen are consistent.
• Backend changes that should improve reliability of Steam achievements. For some players, this seems to fix the issue of many achievements unlocking at startup unexpectedly. Continuing to investigate the need for further fixes.

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Hi everyone, We have just released our first update to Hero Generations: ReGen (v1.02)! Restart your Steam client to trigger the update. This update contains a number of minor bug fixes and gameplay enhancements.

v1.02 Full Change List

• A new camera Cutscene plays to highlight the end bosses' special attack. A new "toast" message with a clue also appears.
• Highlight effects on mates could sometimes not appear when selecting them in towns.
• All clear style quests (Oasis, Lairs, Sword In The Stone, etc) now behave as expected, and do not continue to give fame at the start of new generations while in the cleared state.
• Oasis quests in the Island world now clear individually, instead of when all Oasis nodes are cleared.
• Fixed situation where "Traits Full" option window would stay present past town screen.
• Added error catching for any save game loading issues. A message box appears with more info and instructions on how to report bugs.
• Removed debug command for toggling the UI on/off from production.
• World quests such as "Kill All Bosses" now track/reload properly. Existing save files will update to track existing progress.
• Special Events list for new generations save properly, so events that are chosen are consistent.
• Backend changes that should improve reliability of Steam achievements. For some players, this seems to fix the issue of many achievements unlocking at startup unexpectedly. Continuing to investigate the need for further fixes.

PDF Art Book Free For All ReGen Owners!

Thank You Coupons

• A giant overworld map to explore, all viewed through a new dynamic camera.
  
• Blazing fast frame rate, high resolution artwork, beautiful lighting and particle effects, and smooth character animations.
  
• All new user interface redesigned from the ground up.
  
• Tons of new items, traits, buildings, characters and quests, including a brand new end-game, generational events, and final boss.
  
• Online leaderboards and Achievements.

Gameplay Details

Key Game Features

• Limited Lifespan and Permadeath: Each turn your hero takes = 1 year of their life.
  
• Generations, Mating, and Having Children: find a mate, start a family, have a child. Then take control of that child in that same world!
  
• 6 Strategic Paths and Meaningful Choices: grow in Strength, Exploration, Love, Wealth, Fame, and Wisdom.
  
• City Crafting System: build great towns and morph their cultures.
  
• Expansive Overworld: explore a connected grid of 6 unique biomes, each with their own unique tileset (Volcano, Desert, Island, to name a few)
  
• Meaning: a surprising and thought-provoking experience, that explores themes of death, legacy, family, love, and more.
  
• Gorgeous hand drawn art style.

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