• Fixed the Cultist deck level unlock text (level 9 -> level 10)

• New Features
  • Cultist Deck - This deck features a new Ruler with a whacky set of rules. Whenever you capture a unit, your unit is transformed into a new one with the same cost and faction. (unlocked at level 10)
  • Templar Unit - This 2-cost unit has some similarities to the Knight, but offers some unique vertical tactics.
  • Onyx Unit - A new 4-cost unit for Shogunate. Similar to Shogunate's other units, the Onyx is extremely aggressive in the forward direction, but is slow to retreat. (unlocked at level 5)
  • Turret Unit - A 3-cost unit combining the movesets of the Archer and Ranger. Follow the enemy Ruler while forking their units for a powerful tempo swing. (unlocked at level 6)
  • Oracle Unit - This 3-cost unit for Pharaonic is fast to reposition and can deliver a powerful attack, but only in the right circumstances. Can you use it to its full potential? (unlocked at level 8)
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the Expert achievement would sometimes not unlock properly
  • Fixed a bug where the Autarch boss would break if the player had no cards in their deck

• Fixed bug with music not looping properly
• Disabled challenge for Vampire deck: "Don't use all of a card's Reserves."
• Made various AI improvements, mostly related to avoiding check and placing of units

Happy Halloween! This is our first major content update for Usurper, including an all new deck to play in Campaign, with a unique Ruler (The Count) and rules. We hope you enjoy it!

• Features
  • Added new Vampire Deck (unlocked at Level 9)
  • Added Gameplay Tips to round won/lost screens
• AI Improvements
  • Made AI less likely to place units that could immediately be captured by Ranged units
  • Made AI less likely to miss checkmate
  • Added "Chess Familiarity" popup dictating strength of the AI before reaching level 3
• Quality of Life
  • Improved clarity of Overtime description in tutorial and rules
  • Specified highlighted tile for pawn placement in tutorial
  • Improved text readability of card pile hover boxes
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed Usurped achievement so that it is properly unlocked
  • Fixed Dealer's Gambit text overflow
  • Fixed bug where vsync was not enabled when uncapping framerate
  • Fixed bug where Decree 7+ Overtime would cause the board to disappear while reviewing

This is a minor patch addressing concerns about the intelligence of AI opponents in single player, both at low and high skill levels. Also included are various quality of life improvements and bug fixes.

• AI Improvements
  • On all decrees higher than 0, opponents now always try to play the best move on all rounds.
  • Opponents no longer consider player negative movement tiles (from Decree 6) to be defended
  • Opponents are more aggressive with checking the player Ruler
  • Opponents are more careful to avoid losing pieces to ranged attacks
  • Opponents are less likely to place a unit on a tile that the Ruler needs to move to in order to avoid checkmate
  • Opponents are now easier on Decree -1, and before the player reaches experience Level 3
• Quality of Life
  • Improved spacing of text in Gambit panel
  • Replaced word "pieces" with "units" in deck overview panel in deck selection screen
  • Pause button now closes card preview upon resuming game
  • Player Experience Rewards panel speed now scales with animation speed setting
  • History: Clearing recorded games now immediately activates "No Recorded Games Found" text
  • History: Clear recorded games button no longer clickable if no recorded games are found
  • Replaced "selectable" pulse effect for black pieces with a darker one in local and online multiplayer, in order to make them more distinct from white pieces
  • Updated tyrant description to make it clearer that it resurrects player units on capture
  • Removed mouse offset when dragging, so dragged cards/pieces are always centered on the mouse (should make dragging more precise)
• Bug Fixes
  • Demoter's Gambit can no longer choose a card that costs 0
  • Caliph now displays check when attacking player Ruler with jump attacks
  • "Negative Right" upgrade from Decree 6 no longer turns into "Negative Left" upgrade when loading save
  • Fixed bug where "Play X or fewer units" challenge would increase too quickly after rewinding
  • Hovering over the enemy Ruler no longer shows player ranged attacks from player upgrades if both rulers are the same (e.g. King vs King)
  • Savant achievement now properly unlocks when Index is filled
  • Playing practice mode no longer causes round panel in campaign to say "Practice" instead of the correct round
  • Full screen settings now properly load on game start
  • Losing in a tie due to Overtime now prompts the player to use a rewind in the campaign
  • Right clicking on Ronin boss now shows Jump Tile tooltip
  • Autarch can no longer place stolen units on tiles destroyed by overtime
  • Fixed bug where empty rooms were not immediately being closed in Online Multiplayer
  • Lookout, Marksman, and Strider can now do Ranged Attacks in Online Multiplayer
  • Resetting unlocks now resets player records
  • Custom deck button in deck selection screen is now locked if Custom Decks have not been unlocked
  • Disabled User Analytics (was leading to bugs resulting in soft locks)
  • Starting Gambit panel on Round 0 now says 1/1 instead of 1/2
  • Fixed bugs relating to overlapping upgrades when playing Precision deck in campaign

Thank you to everyone who has purchased a copy of Usurper, we hope you are having a great time with the game! We have some early balance changes and bug fixes we would like to share with you. Our next patch after this will likely target AI improvements to make the single player modes more fun at all player skill levels.

• Balance Changes
  • Vizier buff: Vizier moveset changed to be more offensively powerful (fewer movement tiles, more attack tiles)
  • Lender's Gambit rework: New effect is "Your lowest cost card costs 1 less Power permanently" (old effect: "Your 1 cost cards cost 0 Power for one round.")
• Quality of Life changes
  • Changed starting gambit to be based on reaching round 3 instead of beating round 3
  • Added text tooltip to gambit panel indicating that you need to reach the boss to receive different options before round 1
  • Added text tooltip to upgrade panel indicating that newly chosen upgrades overwrite previous tiles
  • Added grey cover behind deck panel when viewing deck at the end of a run
  • Deck Tutorials in Deck Selection screen can now be activated by preview button (right click or Y on xbox controller)
  • When using a controller, the cursor can no longer be moved outside the border of the screen
  • Added marker during "Reach opposite side of the board challenge" to show tiles
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed bug where player would not appear in check when attacked by Ronin jump tiles
  • Elite gambit and demoter's gambit no longer always promote lowest cost units
  • Fixed starting power and power-per-turn of Pharaoh Regent so that it now scales with Round
  • Fixed bug where history and pause buttons would be inactive after drawing cards
  • Added logic to make sure the same card can't be targeted by a special gambit (with a tag on the card) more than twice
  • Fixed UI bug where unlock panel for each card in Deck Creation would not fit to the size of the textbox
  • Fixed UI bug where Power and Reserves color in opponent panel would sometimes mismatch in local multiplayer
  • Cards can now be previewed in all deck selection screens, not just campaign
  • Fixed bug where board tiles were not getting cleared properly when doing a ranged capture with the Sacrifice deck
  • Fixed bug where Armorer's Gambit could give locked ranged units
  • Fixed bug where Jester's Gambit did not adjust reserves properly in Sacrifice Deck
  • Fixed bug where main soundtrack was not looping properly
  • Fixed bug where "win a run with X decks" achievements would not be immediately unlocked

Small update addressing issues found after updating the demo.

• Fixed bug where Banker's Gambit would not reduce cost after first round.
• Fixed bugs related to rewinds and optional challenges
• Fixed certain achievements unlocking prematurely
• Addressed occasional crashes when Gambit Panel is shown
• Changed Feedback button to redirect to a balance survey
• Fixed moveset art of Scarab
• Fixed some pieces not being draggable in tutorial
• Improved seamless looping of audio tracks
• Improved audio quality of some sound effects
• Fixed bugs related to certain items not being properly tracked in Index

This will be the final major content patch for the demo in preparation for the 1.0 release. Thank you to everyone who played the demo, and we look forward to showing off the full game on September 9th! Patch notes:

• Added Chieftain and Chancellor bosses available from the start
• Replaced Shield system with Rewind system
• Added gambit choice before round 1
• Added two starter gambits, the Lender's and Supplier's Gambits
• Replaced Hoarder's Gambit with Huckster's Gambit
• Changed Elite's Gambit to change reserves to 1 instead of increasing cost
• Buffed Steed, reworked Copper*
• Various visual improvements
• New music and sound effects
• Various bug fixes

In this update we want to address feedback and bug reports that arose during Next Fest, while also giving players a few new tools to play with to make drafting cards more enjoyable as early as Level 1.

• New Features
  • 3 new Kingdom cards are draftable at level 1
  • Steed - This alternate variant of the Knight allows for quickly jumping over enemy pieces before making a tactical backwards retreat to get just the right fork.
  • Paladin - Combine the strengths of both the Knight and the Bishop to control the battlefield. Hop over units and switch from dark squares to light squares for the perfect attack.
  • Princess - This cheaper variant of the Queen may not be able to charge forward, but it still packs a punch. Force your opponent to the sides of the board and deliver a decisive checkmate.
• Balance Changes
  • Increased placement range of Legion
• Quality of Life
  • Improved soundtrack loop
  • Pieces can now be dragged to move
  • Mouse scroll wheel can now be used to quickly cycle through cards when viewing deck
  • Set target framerate to 60 by default
  • Added framerate toggle in settings
  • All 3 pawns on turn 1 of tutorial are now selectable
• Art
  • Replaced thin red outline for overtime highlight
  • Lightened board color for clarity
  • Darkened black pieces for clarity
  • Changed card color to match board
  • Added new card backs for each faction
  • Changed deck selection decks to show card backs
• UI
  • Added highlight for open tab in settings and index
  • Added hover text for Power and Reserves
  • Made improvements to opponent panel for clarity
  • Card pile art now changes based on faction
  • Spread out flags in upcoming opponents preview
  • Improved Enemy Details section for clarity
  • Enemy deck now shows card count
  • Change phrasing of "Special Unit" to "Elite Unit"
  • Cards disabled in tutorial no longer pulse
  • Added new faction icons to index
  • Fixed blacksmith's gambit textbox in index
  • Added more obvious skip button in tutorial
• Animations
  • Improved unit intro shuffle animation
  • Made more animations able to be sped up by clicking
  • Improved fluidity of enemy discard animation
• Bugs
  • Hover text now appears for recently chosen Ruler upgrade
  • Fixed bug where card could not be clicked after dragging it
  • Fixed bug where Index would reset upon closing game
  • Fixed bug where History would not record some games
  • Fixed bug where Experience UI would say Max Level one level too early
  • Fixed visual bugs related to skipping banner animation
  • Fixed bug where pressing ESC would not pause the game
  • Fixed bug where Send Data in settings would not be checked even after giving consent for user analytics
  • Fixed layering bugs related to check icon
  • Fixed bug where optional challenge XP could be gained after certain challenges even if the round was lost

• Learn the mechanics and strategies for Usurper from the developers.
• See how the Kingdom and Shogunate factions play differently.
• Watch as the developers try to complete optional objectives to create the best deck possible.
• Ask questions about the game's development, different tactics, or about what will be offered in the full game's release.

• Learn the mechanics and strategies for Usurper from the developers.
• See how the Kingdom and Shogunate factions play differently.
• Watch as the developers try to complete optional objectives to create the best deck possible.
• Ask questions about the game's development, different tactics, or about what will be offered in the full game's release.

• Play a shortened version of the campaign that goes up to round 6.
• Face off against 4 unique bosses out of the full game's 13.
• Master two different factions, Kingdom and Shogunate, each with their own distinct decks.
• Draft new cards, gambits, and upgrades to become strong enough to claim the throne.
• Take on optional challenges for extra rewards, like unique piece promotions.

Classic Game with a Modern Twist

Unique Pieces and Mechanics

Choose Your Playstyle

Local and Online Multiplayer

Roguelike Campaign Mode

• OS: Ubuntu 18.04
• Processor: Intel 64-bit
• Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+. Vulkan capable
• Storage: 300 MB available space