Hello Gods! Maybe youve heard it before, maybe its the first time you hear it: Next week on the 28th of May our newest game Reus 2 will hit the Steams! Were happy to see the lessons weve learned from Renowned Explorers and Godhood put together into Reus to create a true fresh new Abbey Game! Except what you can expect from us: depth, colorfulness, and a playful heart.

Take the next step with us

Previously we explored the Reus and Renowned Explorers era. It's time to take a look into the most challenging time of the Abbey. What happened between the cloister walls in that period? Godhood started as an offshoot idea of Reus. What if you could guide generation upon generation? What if you could really guide the people to create their own culture? Not only was this never done before, it was also of a monumental scope! Besides, it also had to be a game, not just a linear story! First it would be a Polynesian setting, with a very unique art style!
It looked great, but we had no game yet! But things were moving in different directions quickly. The development was hampered by illness and misunderstanding. Wonderful things were made by individuals, but we struggled to put it all together. The art didn't fit the design, the design didn't fit the tech, and the tech didn't fit the art. Were the monks cursed? Had we built our tower of Babylon to close to the face of God?
At some point, Godhood even was a pokemon battle game! It all came to big explosion at the Abbey. Monks left or were forced to leave the Abbey, even when the game was not finished at all. It was a very sad moment for everyone involved. The remaining monks took a good hard look into the mirror. We overshot our ambitions and needed to give attention to Godhood's core!
An Abbey Games Monk looking for introspection. 2020. The monks turned the game around with hard work and a great community that helped where it could. With that, the Abbey gained a chance to look at a future again! Still, from Godhood we take our love for culture, history and human development. It will surely pop up in the Abbey's coming project! Join us tomorrow with the last tale of the Abbey; the present and future! It will be posted on the Abbey Games Developer page, so follow us there to see it! See you tomorrow, as we peer into our crystal ball... P.S. If you want to chat with us, feel free to join our Discord!

• Fixed an unspecified bug.
• Fixed a few lines of text.
• Fixed a situation where the game would take a very long time to load for some network configurations.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the language setting was not always saved.
• Improved various smaller text errors.

• Added a workaround for entering Chinese names by using the clipboard. You can now give your religion, followers and disciples a name using Chinese characters.
• Improved a bug in text parsing that caused the introduction texts to be wrong.

Hello young gods! Two exciting events today; the game is available in simplified Chinese and Update 1.2: Monastery Life is ready for you to play!

Simplified Chinese

Monastery Life

Two New Traditions

Class Revamp

• Added the Excommunicate God Action, which allows you to boot Disciples after building the Sun Stone. It costs happiness and permanent faith though.
• NEW TRADITION: Monastery of Miracles. Enchant your enemies with miracles, and boost your young prospects!
• NEW TRADITION: Martial Arts. Control your initiative and Overpower abilities to perform devastating combos!
• NEW TENETS: Reclusion and Pain is Gain.
• Classes can now improve and penalize a variety of stats. For example, the Lust Priest will gain extra physical accuracy and target smarter, but will have -1 Fervor.
• Full Simplified Chinese translations

• Fixed missing Dedication (Aristocrat, Kickstarter)
• Fixed missing celebratory buildings for some Traditions
• Fixed Dream-exploit where a single dream assignment could be executed any number of times by abusing the button.
• No longer need to pick a tenet or tradition when you have enough points, but no available options.
• Fixed some content in enemy Sacraments
• Fixed a bug in which some characters would get less experience
• Fixed the Cultist passive "God of Magic"
• Fixed issue where leveling a disciple quickly would skip a passive tier
• Fixed some text issues.
• Fixed floating freckles and chest-hair in disciple portraits

• Order of Monks gives Monastery of Miracles instead of Hermit Pilgrimage.
• Promote Virginity gives Monastery of Miracles instead of Holy Marriage.
• Secret Society gives Monastery of Miracles instead of Burial.
• School of Philosophy gives Reclusion instead of Order of Monks
• Hermit Pilgrimage gives Reclusion instead of Holy Cats
• Revelations gives Reclusion
• Doom gives reclusion instead of Ritual Cleaning
• Madness starts with Reclusion
• Order of Paladins gives Martial Arts instead of burial
• Blood Sport gives Martial Arts instead of Might Makes Right
• The Holy Banana is back my dudes!
• Smite now has a different effect, since the last one was broken.

Hello young gods! We're finishing up on the newest update for Godhood, which has some new content and a new feature! Here's a sneak-peek of what's to come!

Excommunicate

New Tenets

Hello young gods! The year is coming to an end, and thus comes the ritual of reflecting on the past. As many of you have been following us loyally, we would like to share our thoughts with you! But first; some Godhood news!

Godhood Update 1.2 Coming Soon!

Reflecting on 2020

The Future

Best Wishes

Update 1.1 - Hotfix (game version 1.1.8) - Fixed Reincarnation not having the correct effect. - Fixed some text issues. - Made the "Third Wheel" a little bit less tanky on the first Lust island. - Fixed Massive Block from the Whale Totem - Fixed Leviathan and Great Owl Totem - Maximum Tenet cost is now 10 instead of 12 - Dev Sparks choice on first island up to 4 from 2 - Fixed Merciless to have unique passive - Fixed slowdown for some Legendary talents in the late game

Update 1.1 - Hotfix (game version 1.1.5) FIXED - Fixed Greed miracles that gave wrong pictures - Fixed issues with higher level Alchemy and Revelations - Fixed multiple Holy War miracles being possible - Fixed issue with Free mode not properly unlocking chosen Traditions, and not all Traditions being registered for your collection - Fixed Communicative Joy - Fixed a crash with the Shark Totem - brainwash tribute thresholds up to 3/8 instead of 2/6 - Fixed missing texts for some Traditions at end game. - Fixed some missing texts for miracles

Hello young gods! Today we bring you a new update packed with some requested features, fixes and some community ideas! Let's dive right into it!

Free Mode

New Traditions

• Revelations: Age your Disciples quicker, and give them one final revelation before their death. This will give you more Development Sparks and control over your roster!
• Brain Washing: Warn coming generations about the dangers of knowledge. This tradition focuses on Overpower abilities, and trades future Knowledge for Faith.
• Reincarnation: Your first Prophet doesn't die, but simply reincarnates in a new body! A powerful tradition that focuses on one Disciple to do the heavy lifting.
• Alchemy: Use the wonders of your science to turn Offerings into Materials, and assign an Alchemist that can give random buffs to your allies. A flexible and physical tradition!

Many Quality Improvements

• Added a feature for Kickstarter backers to select their preferred holy site.
• Added a way to inspect traditions while picking tenets. Community Idea
• Added a small happening to celebrate the adoption of a new Tradition! Community Idea
• Extra information in the Sacrament Log about crits, interception, breaking and victory type.

• XP requirements down to 6/12/20/28/30 Community Idea
• Made easy easier.
• Removed "Any" style from the game. You now always will have some degree of control over the abilities someone learns. Community Idea
• Lowered HP of final boss encounter.
• You now get better totems faster for your Disciple.
• Divine Recipe now stacks "only" up to +100 faith.
• Holy Judge now gives a base of +1 tribute, and no longer has a faith penalty. However, it doesn't develop Devotion anymore.
• Made numerous balance changes to some sacraments.
• Medium difficulty no longer gives enemies a 10% penalty. This was a remnant of an old system.

• Fixed some spelling/naming errors
• Fixed cooldowns of certain Rituals resetting on game load or other actions. (e.g. XP Gain Ritual).
• The city turn timer is now placed above the Destined Trial preview when the latter contains multiple Sacraments to make more space for ritual and action buttons.
• Fixed rare crash when developing Rituals in the late-game.
• Fixed 'Perfectionist' achievement never triggering. Should also work for existing sessions.
• Fixed 'Explorer' achievement never triggering. Requires defeating all bosses with patch 1.1 or higher. Sorry :\
• Fixed a missing text for some higher level miracles.

Artbook

What's next?

Update #7 (1.0 release) - Hotfix #2 (game version 1.0.6) FIXED - Crash when closing happenings after loading a savegame. - Fixed rare crash when loading into a Sacrament. - Fixed crash when trying to close a window in two ways at once (Escape, right click, press close button). - Made the Tenet selection screen flow better with large amounts of tenets. - Fixed a bug where the "Perfected Mind" achievement would trigger for non-player disciples.

Update #7 (1.0 release) - Hotfix #1 (game version 1.0.5) FIXED - Crash when using horizontal scrollbars, f.e. in the Disciple Customization UI when customizing voice pitch. - Issue with Repeatable Mission in the first island not granting offering bonuses correctly. - Rare crash after closing city events (x2) - Fixed double negative in Cultist's Perfect Fodder passive. - Fixed Elemental Balance achievement triggering too easily. - Fixed crash when exiting the save menu, while game was still saving. Thanks for reporting. And enjoy playing Godhood!

Dear young gods and goddesses, What a journey it has been! Many of you have seen us rise from the ashes of our Early Access release. Now is finally the time to open a new chapter. First and foremost, we want to thank all of you who took a bet on our Early Access release. Without your help we could not have made this unique game! We thank you for your patronage, and hope you'll enjoy this update! So let's get to it! What's in your juicy update download?

Major New

• 3 new Islands added! This makes for an exciting finish of the game, where the 6th island will face you against Quetzalcoatl's chosen!
• You can now Finish a run! Every commandment has a unique World Religion and a Truth ending!
• Greed is now playable with the Charlatan class!
• Added 3 Greed Traditions: Bribery, God of Thieves, and Trade Missions!
• At the start of the game, you will be asked to pick Major Relic fitting your commandment. There are 2 relics per commandment. They give religion wide bonuses for all generations.
• Animals are back! Cats, dogs and llamas can now be spotted throughout your city, if you adopt the appropriate tenets.
• Achievements! Time for you to see if you can rise up to all the challenges Godhood offers!

Other New

• You can plan your next Sacrament in the City by clicking on the Sacrament in the bottom right. The Disciple UI will remember who you assigned for your plan as a memory aid.
• All traditions now lead to followers building a nice extra building to make your city look more unique.
• Added 4 dedication tenets for you to adorn your city
• Miracle stories are now random, but you can choose the permanent effect. Building temples unlock better miracle stories.
• The Sacrament now has speed controls so it can be sped up.
• Rituals are now upgraded by building temples. Every Temple unlocks and upgrade point for Rituals. You have full control over the upgrades.
• A Match Log is added in The Sacrament which gives details about performed abilities.
• Disciples in the Sacrament can be selected to inspect their stats, abilities and buffs.
• Action hints during city gameplay.
• Newly Improved Tutorial to be less text-heavy.
• Easy and Medium difficulty have been revamped to, well, actually not hard. Sorry for that one.
• Added a few extra happenings, like on "Teamwork" and "Blood Offer".
• Option to draw disciple names from your Twitch channel chat. Watch, guide, and bring your viewers glory!
• A small Disciple Memorial screen pops up when your disciples die.
• You can now see which Traditions are revealed from a Tenet if you have adopted the Tenet before.
• Added option to increase and decrease text size for tooltips and stories.

Fixes

• End turn button available when turn cannot be ended through inspiring a disciple.
• 'Favored Class' heuristic during class choice takes into account the character's Totem better.
• Fixed inability to rename dedications with long default names.
• Fixed elemental advantage not being calculated correctly for smart targeting.
• You can now more often easily access the Game Menu.
• Performance upgrades for the City phase.
• A bug where disciples would have too few or too many miracles available depending on Knowledge.
• Save game naming is more robust, disallowing certain characters and preventing loading of incompatible games.
• Fatigued effect now properly updates when updating Fervor.

Changes

• You can now keep the Sacrament details open while performing other actions.
• Missions are now started by a separate button, to always allow opening of trial details.
• Temple and temple upgrades are now global upgrades instead of miracle upgrades.
• An intercepting Disciple can never be broken due to interception - even on a crit.
• "When picking a smart target with Knowledge, Disciples prioritize:
• 1. Winning by conversion
• 2. Breaking an enemy
• 3. If killer, minimizing opponent HP. Else, maximing damage
• Similar buffs now stack in buff icon lists.
• The 'Manage City UI' better fronts ugrade availability.
• You can now close the acolyte selection window to make the decision at a later point before the next Sacrament.
• Power is now calculated differently, and much more accurate of actual power.
• Harbinger is now a Knowledge - Health class, instead of a Charisma - Health class.
• The totems of your first 2 acolytes can no longer be the same.
• Revamped Class selection UI. Players can now also delay this choice.
• Revamped 'Your Religions' overview UI.
• Revamped End Game UI to match the game's end.

Balance

• Changed the balance to play more with XP and scale offerings more easily.
• Assign Elder cooldown is now 3 missions instead of 10. All other assign cooldowns are down to 8.
• Area of Effect damage penalty is now checked after all boosts. Most area of effect abilities have gain higher scaling.
• Holy Judge now triggers on its own the Judge's Reason abilities instead of the trialed Disciple's fear abilities. Trialed Disciple gains 2 clouded thoughts for 2 Missions.
• Heaven's bad happening only gives -10 faith now.
• Moved the abilities of the Cultist around a little bit: 1. Corruption now is a strong morale ability that also scales with Might 2. Aberrant Growth now lowers Evasion. 3. Words of Madness now removes enemy conversions. 4. Perfect fodder applies to all allies now. Very strong.
• Might makes right now gives a +40 faith bonus to the strongest, and the Impose god action will give you 3 Tribute.
• Grand Aberration can now learn the Summoning ability, and chests increased from 1/2/3 to 1/2/4
• Human Sacrifice chests lowered from 1/3/5 to 1/2/4.
• Carnival does now only develop 1x charisma for 3 random disciples, instead of 1x charisma and 1x cunning for all disciples.
• Turn the other Cheek now replaces ability with devout, and scales with Devotion. + and ++ abilities are also replaced with Devout + and ++.
• Cannibalism development up from 0.5 to 1 for Might, Health and Cunning.
• "Doom" God Action now only gives 1 clouded thought, gives +100% Offerings for next Sacrament, and develops charisma and knowledge.
• Boosted Philosophy Tenet gains to +25 Offerings and Materials
• Harbinger's Demoralize now gives -8 Morale Armor.
• The "Rally Troops" God action boosts now physical armor instead of physical damage.

In Early Access, Godhood had 7 big updates that vastly improved the game. We made many changes, and as some fans said - it feels more like playing Godhood 2! Here, we highlight the biggest changes weve made. View the extra fancy version of this post here: https://subsites.abbeygames.com/patch-notes-godhood/

Tenets & Traditions

From Update #6: Tenets & Traditions

Master Roster Management

From Update #6: Tenets & Traditions

Commandments: Madness, Generosity & Greed

From Update #2,4 and 7

Tactical Sacrament

From Update #5: Righteous Rituals

Island Campaign

From Update #4: Newfound Shores and Update #7

Other big improvements

• A new tutorial, explaining the basics and intricacies of Godhoods unique systems.
• Balance Pass, while we believe balance work never stops for a strategy game, the game is now at a point where all religions are viable in their own way.
• Class Unlocking, the player now has more agency in unlocking classes for their religion so that they choose their own path and strategy.
• Reworked Skill Trees, Each of the 17 classes now has access to 11 skills in their leveling tree, resulting in many interesting niches, let alone roster compositions.
• Sacrament Details and Speed Controls, the player can now inspect and analyse what happens in a Sacrament at their own pace, to gain the understanding they need for optimization.
• Faith rehaul, your disciples loyalty to your religion works differently. An important factor is that their growth in power, comes with a growth in arrogance
• Ability Styles, Each ability now has a conversion style (f.e. Fear or Grace). Carefully observe new recruits preferences to lay out a fitting destiny.
• Multiple interface rehauls to give the player all the info and freedom they need to shape the path of their religion.
• Economy Reworks, Offerings, Materials are now gained through Tribute Chests, gained in the Sacrament. Their purpose is more focused as well.
• Reworked Stat System, with the introduction of stat ranks a player now has valuable short term goals for the development of their disciples.
• Temple and city rework. We introduced new buildings for in your city and removed some obsolete ones. Their upgrades changed too.
• Consequences. Semi-random events will show your peoples reactions to your moral choices. There are multiple endings, depending on your commandment!
• Happiness. Cannibals, philosophers, whatever your people may be, keep them happy to make sure your religion thrives and doesnt fall victim to its darker side.

Were almost there, gods and goddesses! After more than a year in Early Access, were proud to present Godhood as a full product on the 11th of August! Let the nectar of the gods flow on that blessed day. Together with the help of some amazing players, were working on bringing a blast of an update to celebrate this milestone! Just to get a little bit excited, here are some more features were introducing!

Greed

Animal & Dedication Tenets

Game Balance

Greetings, young Gods! Our latest update was a great success! We've seldomly had so many people positively engaged with Godhood before! Thanks for all the feedback and support! We take this as an encouragement to make more interesting improvements to Godhood! So what can you expect from us in the coming months?

Moving to 1.0

The Ending(s?)

Achievements

...And More!

Ingame version: 0.18.20

FIXED

• Fixed double Acolyte upgrade on the Chastity Island
• Ascetic abilities now scale on Health and Devotion, no more Charisma: - Shame scales on Devotion (starting at basic) - Purify scales on Devotion and Health (starting at minor) - Purge has a higher chance to pick the weakest target instead of just the one in front.
• Fixed Baptism to do what it says.
• Fixed Hermit Pilgrimage to no interfer with Baptism and having the right requirements.
• Removed all Minus Happiness debuffs from happenings, since it could really mess your game up. Instead, there are other negative effects.
• Fixed flow of two later islands.
• Fixed the Burial Tradition to work properly
• Fixed Silence tree from the Cult of Silence tradition.
• Fixed all the Acolyte Sources to match the commandment better.
• Missing images now produce a placeholder sprite instead of crashing the game.

CHANGED

• Songsmith now uses the "Song of Life" ability instead of "Classic Song" - has a high scaler on Charisma, but lowers armor for 2 rounds.
• Beastmaster's Claw ability now scales Minor of Cunning

FIXED

• Fixed some Destined (purple) Totems.
• Fixed negative consequences that were marked as positive consequences.
• Fixed the end game text
• Fixed Icon for Beauty of Art
• A Disciple who's afraid of never finding true love now feels down.
• Fixed a missing macro (tr_faithless)
• Fixed people actually feeling bad if they get robbed.
• Fixed crash when triggering abilities that couldn't be targeted (Chieftain's Leader passive)
• Fixed tutorial crashing when clicking 'Back To Reference' in the Talent tutorial.
• Fixed crash when performing the Intense Passion miracle of a Lust religion.

ADDED

• Clearer effects for picking difficulties. This should allow you a bit more space: - Easy Gives +2 Happiness per Island converted. - Normal Gives +1 Happiness per Island converted. - Impossible a little less impossible: from +50% stats to +25% stats.

FIXED

• Fixed old fashioned Skull rewards in the fourth island.
• Fixed that unlocking a class did not pay the cost.
• Fixed Skull rewards in high level Miracles.
• Fixed Sneaky Dream unlocks happening.
• Fixed the spaces in the Challenge Heresy tooltip
• Fixed the spaces in the Carnival
• Fixed nothing happening at a marriage
• Added some missing icons
• Happenings at temples no longer spawn people at the wrong places
• Miracle choices are now grayed out when unavailable
• People will not build their districts on top of natural features, like the small pond
• Fixed a bug where selection outlines were not shown for certain districts
• Fixed a crash when inspecting 'Your Religions' with old records present.
• Fixed a crash when disciples evaluated abilities with no possible targets present.
• Fixed a crash when using the Holy Trial god action.
• Fixed a crash when inspecting slotted disciples during a follow-up Sacrament within the same trial.
• Fixed a crash when a Hermit returned from their pilgrimage.

BALANCE

• Songsmith Base ability now has no Bonus scaler.
• Ambassador's "Peace for All" passive now also implies the AoE Hit penalty.

ADDED

• Added 4 new dreams; Extra initiative, Extra Crit, Extra Hit Chance and Extra Smarts.

Young gods! We're happy to present our sixth update: Tenets & Traditions! This is a Milestone update with massive game-changing features. We're still in Early Access, so if you find any bugs or major imbalances, please let us know!

Historic Discount

New Features

• Tenets: Removed the old Development trees. You can now more freely adopt tenets that boost your whole religion and changes the behavior of your followers.
• Traditions: Unlock Traditions through adopting Tenets. Traditions are game changers that give you new options and influence your society for generations!
• Happiness: Replaces the Crystal Skull mechanic. Keep your people happy, and good things will happen. Make them angry, and sin will spread!
• Consequences: Little stories will trigger in the Holy City based on your Tenets and Happiness.
• Crowds: Sacrament crowds now react to your Disciples' actions.
• Rituals: Disciples will perform upgradeable Rituals every day. Do a Ritual enough, and your Disciple becomes stronger. Miracles increase the effectiveness of Rituals.
• God Actions: Burn Offerings to do specific powers in your Holy City, like granting XP, boosting a Ritual, or something Tradition related, like arranging a Holy Marriage.
• Stat Ranking: Achieve stat thresholds with a Disciple to gain a powerful boost, giving you short term development goals.
• Blessings: Give out small blessings to improve your favorite disciple ever turn.
• Relic Choice: Instead of getting a random relic, you can now pick from a pool.
• Side Bosses: Optional Bosses that give a nice reward, but are hard to convert.
• Tribute Chests: Victory gives you Tribute Chests now, which you can influence and upgrade.
• New Temples: A new visual for Base Temples.
• Corruption: Disciple Power is now a strain on their faith.

New Content

• 40+ Tenets
• 20+ Traditions
• 90+ Consequence Happenings
• 30+ God Powers.
• 10+ Challenges
• 10+ Relics

Improvements & Balance

• A few tutorials have been added and improved.
• UI shows context for a lot of actions.
• Changed how Dreams work, flow wise. You can now assign all your dreams right before Sacrament.
• Changes some abilities of the lust priest to make some more sense.
• Passives that increase base damage (like the Weaver and Executioner) have been toned down a bit.
• All challenges have been adapted to the new balance
• Classes are now cheaper to unlock, but get more expensive the more you unlock.
• All old upgrades that targeted the whole religion have been removed in favor of standard unlocks or one of the new systems.
• Martyrdom now gives Tribute Chests, and goes up to 2. This is to avoid very wild gambles and snowball effects.
• Hp no longer scales of Devotion and Health. This was the main culprit of some pretty wack late game problems.

Fixes

• Today, June 24th, at 17:00 CEST (8:00 Pacific Time)
• Tomorrow, June 25th, at 18:00 CEST (9:00 Pacific Time)

Hello young Gods, We are a week into testing our new update, and we've been overwhelmed by all the positive responses! There is still plenty to fix, but you can expect the Tenets & Traditions update to arrive soon! Until then, let us dive into some of the other changes we made. There are too many to list them, so we'll go over the ones we think deserve some attention!

Crowds

Stat Ranking

Relic Choice

Content: Hermit Pilgrimage

More to come!

Hello young gods! Here we are with some new info on our upcoming update! This time, let's look at Miracles and Rituals! First, the old places like the Farm and Meditation Circle have been replaced by real temples. For example, the Farm has been replaced by the Temple of Harvest. Around the temple, other buildings will pop up. The harvest temple encourages more farms to be build. The harvest is blessed anyway!
It's still a place to improve your Disciples to become stronger. However, it's effects are a little bit different...

Rituals

Open Beta

Salute, young gods, In this Sneak-peak we want to show off one of our most exciting new features: Tenet Development! We had our fair share of feedback on how there is not enough Religion-making in Godhood. We agree. To support this demanding fantasy, we made some big changes to how your religion develops in Godhood.

Tenets

Philosophy: What attitude towards life is righteous? This will make your city more productive (ironically) [/olist] Besides their category effect, the Tenets all have their own unique consequences for the culture of your Religion. Picking "Religious Poetry" can trigger a burst of linguistical development, boosting the fame and fortune of your next mission. But it can also boost the Charisma of one of your more poetic Disciples! These consequences have a nice boosting (or punishing!) effect on your run. The happier your people are, the more likely you will experience the positive consequences of your religion. But let your happiness fall low by overtaxing your followers, and you might experience the downsides of your beliefs, even if that belief is just the beauty of poetry...
You can expect to play with over 40 unique tenets in the coming update, with 100+ consequences that roll out of them! yes, we went a bit overboard. What can I say, they were fun to make!

Traditions

There is one other big effect of picking a Tenet: A tenet might inspire a Disciple to come with new Tradition!
If you like their idea, and you have developed your religion far enough. You'll be able to adopt that tradition. These traditions are rare, and you'll only pick a few of them per run of Godhood. They are of big importance, however! Every tenet gives you a new way to interact with the Disciples and the followers. For example, after picking a violent tenet, you might want pick up the Tradition of Human Sacrifice! This will allow you to perform Human Sacrifices, which will greatly boost the tributes you'll gain from Sacraments - provided you have Ancestral and Divine Disciples! Human Sacrifice makes your religion more about the glory of death for the divine. Surely the Smiteswords, Zealots and Rage Prophets would agree! Look forward to mix and match more than 20 unique Traditions! Which combinations will help you achieve glorious Godhood?

Thanks for Reading!

As you can see, we're very excited about our next major update! If you like what you see or have ideas, let us know! The age of Early Access is slowly coming to its end, and we're making ourselves ready for ascension! If you want to see more and smaller sneak peeks or have a chat with us, please join our Discord! Hope to see you soon! - Greetings from the Abbey

[ 2020-05-28 15:06:24 CET ] [ Original post ]

Dear religious leaders, I bring you more good news: Godhood is moving full speed towards its ascension out of Early Access! As promised in our roadmap, we still had a few things we wanted to see improved. Today I bring you a little peek into our 3 major features for the upcoming update, aimed in improving those points. let's pray for skill and diligence to make it work!
The 3 major features are: [olist]

Inspirations & Repeating Rituals: Disciples will have their own ideas of what to do in the Holy City. Guide their choices! [/olist] They will be accompanied by more changes, small and big. These will, again, bring massive changes in the way you play the game. Our goal is to make the game more replayable, more religious, more tactical, more strategical, and bring you more surprises. Let's dive into one!

Consequences

From now on, your actions will matter more for your followers. Keep them happy, and they will do things that are in harmony with your religious choices. Disappoint them, and they might lose faith or sin... For example, what happens if you run a secret society, and someone is having loose lips? Well...
We already have dozens of these small consequences, and are planning on making a lot more! Some bring a minor boost or penalty to your religion, but other consequences might make a deep impact on your little religious society. Who knows what crazy ideas the Disciples might have...?

Thanks For Reading!

Like what you see? Have some (crazy) ideas on what consequences could be in the game? Let us know! You can also join our Discord, where we sometimes spoil a few secrets. Hopefully those angry villagers won't come after us... - Greetings from the Abbey, Adriaan & the Monks

[ 2020-04-30 13:52:28 CET ] [ Original post ]

Thanks to you playing Godhood and reporting problems, we fixed a few problems! (version 17.5) (version 17.2 --> 17.3) - Fixed save game compatibility crash for saves from version 16. (version 17.3 --> 17.5) - Fixed the defender's passives of the Guardian, Smitesword and Ascetic. - Fixed some tooltips that weren't correct anymore. - Fixed crash after Sacraments where the Guardian performed his Great Guardian passive (follower conversion through intercept) - Fixed save game compatibility crashes for saves from version 16. - Fixed issue where a disciple would leave your religion twice at the same time, once for being angry, and once for being dead. - Fixed crash when closing the Sacrament tutorial after starting Sacrament preparation from the world map. Happy Godhooding! - Greetings from the Monks

Hey young gods! Hopefully you're all safe and healthy. Today, we're happy to bring you another update for Godhood! Due to the great postive response to our last update, we've decided to supercharge our update scedule. Today, as a bit of a surprise maybe, we continue our efforts to make Godhood shine! With this update we're further improving the quality of Godhood on all fronts, while preparing ourselves for our next big update! The key features are:
NEW FEATURES: - Ritual Customization: Help developing the rituals your Disciples choose to bring you glory, and them strength! - Fervor: Disciple use Fervor to do missions. Carry-over HP is removed. - Martyrs: You can make your Disciples suffer for extra converts in Sacrament! - All New Passives: A serious rehaul of the passives of ALL classes. More than 30 new passives, and countless new strategic options arise! - Blessings: Gain one-time powers to trigger an event to change your Disciples with small stories. - Flow Improvements: We improved the way some UI changes were handled. - Assignment Faith Bonus: Every time you're in your Holy City, three random disciples will gain faith bonuses if assigned. They need to feel special! MINOR: - Miracle buildings now scale in cost and required followers to unlock. Choose wisely! - It's now easier to train disciples in stats for which they have talent.. and harder for those who are challenged. - You can now send old Disciples to their last pilgrimage, giving you more control over how aging affects you. - All versions of the first two islands have received a good amount of love. - Changed the damage formulas to scale better with (morale) armor - Nice little connecting lines have been added to the Island Map. - Executioner now scales on Health instead of Cunning. - Cultist now scales on Might instead of Cunning. - The Patron Saint Development's options are now more expensive. - Updated the Tutorial a bit. - Special battles trigger special music! - Disciples' clothes are now colored by their elemental attunement. - You can now inspect disciples during stories where you need to choose among them. - UI in the Sacrament was changed to make it easier to read important information. FIXED: - Altruism giving the Temple of Peace - Cook's Nurse ability is now actually Divine - Fixed the naming of some abilities - Probably fixed a bug where miracles were not upgraded properly - Fixed "Fasting" description - Fixed issue where you couldn't pick an upgrade even when you had the resources for it. - Fixed some Passives and Totems - Fixed many more UI issues. - You can delete incompatible Save Games again. We will continue improving Godhood further and work on the roadmap presented before! We always appreciate your feedback, and hopefully have shown to try to work with it. You can help us out improving Godhood even more by playing the game and giving us your feedback! We hope you'll enjoy playing this new version as much as we did! Kind Regards, - The monks from the Abbey

Hello aspiring gods! It's been almost 2 weeks since we launched our biggest update yet with "Newfound Shores"! We're now looking forward to our next update: "Righteous Rituals"! The update is planned for this month! This update will again bring you a set of improvements and features worthy of your religion. Lets take a look at two of the changes we're bringing in:

Martyrs

Fervor

Newfound Shores released at game version 16.2. We've pushed some patches to address bugs, suggestions and feedback that we've received in the days after launch. You will find the following changes in the small patches released on February 28, March 1st and today: NEW - Added some nice clouds to the New Island animation. CHANGES - Changed HP bar to put up a divider each 50 hp instead of 10. FIXES - Fixed save game issue with previous hotfix. - Fixed tooltip of "Cannibalism" buff. - Fixed the Marauder's Blade and its event - Fixed HP showing wrongly when at 1 hp. - Fixed a crash when you wanted to do a Madness Miracle but didn't have the required offerings. - Fixed the Thorny Rose relic. - Fixed the Food Kitchen "Community Elder" passive. - Fixed the "Forbid Sorcery" special enemy passive (was working as intended, but the text was wrong.) - Removed the option to switch to the city while selecting a new island, preventing crashes. - Fixed that autosaves were created in between sacraments of the same mission, resulting in unusable/crashing autosaves. - Fixed a crash when triggering Honor Duel or Fierce Duel from the War commandment developments. - Fixed a crash when using the Sacrificial Temple.

Gods and Goddesses, our new update is finally here!

The beta for "Newfound Shores" came to an end, and we're happy with both the help we received and the result! First, we want to thank all the testers that helped us both here and on our own forums! May your blessings be many. In this beta we tested many of our new features and new content. The overall response to it was very positive, but we do have a few things to work through! Here's a take from our to-do list before we release the new update!

• Increase the stability of the game.
• Some relics, passives and ability tags have become less useful. We're trying to solve this with a new "Conversion Style" mechanic!
• The tutorial needs a bit more attention, although we're not going to finalize it yet.
• There are some balance and content issues the testing gods have found. We'll need to solve those.

Hey young gods! For those who want to get your hands on an early version of the Newfound Shores update: The beta is here from 14-02 on! All you have to do is right click on your game in your library, go to properties, and select the beta. We have quite a few changes that we want to show off, e.g.:

• A new world map
• The Generosity Commandment
• The Human Sacrifice Tenet

More news on the "Newfound Shores" update! We've been extensively looking on how to fundamentally improve the game. The answer from the community seems to be clear: More content, more depth, more ways to build on your religion! In "Newfound Shores", our focus is on depth and content, while laying a foundation for more religious interaction.

Generosity

Conversion Power

For our upcoming Milestone "Newfound Shores" we listened to the feedback of the players and integrated as much as possible in our roadmap. We found many positives (thanks everyone!) and places where we could improve even more. One of those has been the Sacrament. We're working hard on making them more diverse and interesting. In "Newfound Shores", you'll be actively converting the followers instead of damaging an HP bar. If The better your disciples do, the more followers you'll convert. But can you win in a religious debate with these philosophers?
We're also working on balance and content. One thing we wanted is to make every commandment have more special miracles that fit the theme. In "New Shores" you can expect every commandment to have 2 special temples, all with their own set of miracles. Like the miracle below. Why is that turtle so.. miraculous?
The next milestone will bring a lot of new content, balance and quality of life improvements. You can expect the "Newfound Shores" update to be ready for conversion in January 2020!

Hello young Gods! We would like to give you some info on the next milestone update of Godhood! The update, titled "Newfound Shores", will follow the next step of our roadmap. One of the key features of this update is a new way of converting the world of Godhood. A big change is that instead of having multiple anonymous islands, the game will allow you to choose what rival deity you will face! All rival deities present you with different challenges and rewards. How will you convert the shady cannibals of the Island of Death? Will you incorporate part of their madness, or keep your religion pure?
"The Newfound Shores" update is a big Milestone. It will have more changes to the game's pacing, economy and Sacraments, and introduces new content! Expect the update early next year, and keep an eye out on the news page for more news on the update!

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The "Create Your Own Religion" Milestone Update launches: October 24, 19:00CEST!

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• Expanded Recruitment Mechanics: Recruiting new Disciples has been radically expanded!
• New Buildings: Several Religious Developments will unlock special buildings.
• New Relics: Several Religious Developments grants special Relics.
• Economy Overhaul: We've streamlined the ways resources are spent and rebalanced the whole economy, all so you have many more meaningful choices as you expand your religion!
• Expanded and Overhauled World Map: Lots of new encounters now populate the expanded World Map!

The Create Your Own Religion" Milestone Update launches October 24!
The update features: New System: Religious Development Inspire your Worshippers to develop your religion by guiding them through Religious Developments in different 'Religion Trees'! Each Commandment comes with it's own unique Religion Tree, which include branching choices as to how your religion develops. New System: Religious Tenets Religious Tenets allow you to further define your religion in addition to Commandments. Each offers a unique Religion Tree, smaller than those of a Commandment, with it's own special benefits, buildings and religious choices! We are currently adding 2 Tenets: Animism and Funeral Rites. New System: Crystal Skulls & World Map Challenge Godhood will challenge you in a new way as you progress across the World Map! For each Sacrament, your Religion must ritually sacrifice a single crystal skull. They are a rare and limited resource. If your Religion ever runs out, they have to win the Sacrament! If they lose the people lose faith, and your religion ends! New Sacrament Rules: More Tactics! The ancient rites of the Sacrament are forever evolving. The following new rules now apply:

• Thou shall only attack the opponent directly across from you. You can definitely use this rule to your advantage! Place high Physical Defense Disciples across from that enemy Rage Prophet! However, if a Disciple has enough Knowledge, they might be able to attack the most effective target, instead...!
• The two teams shall no longer act after the other. Instead all Disciples, on both teams, shall act based on their Cunning stat! Be sure to get high Cunning on your Disciples using debuffs, so they can get in front of the enemy's turn!

• Expanded Recruitment Mechanics: Recruiting new Disciples has been radically expanded!
• Not only do your Religious Development improve and modify your new Disciples in many new ways, but we've also included a system for Personality & Character Traits!
• New Buildings: Several Religious Developments will unlock special buildings.
• Cremate your dead at the Funeral Pyre or pray to the tree spirit of the Hallowed Tree!
• New Relics: Several Religious Developments grants special Relics.
• Have fun looking at the pictures of the Big Book of Bodily Bliss or bravely wield the Paladin Blade!
• Economy Overhaul: We've streamlined the ways resources are spent and rebalanced the whole economy, all so you have many more meaningful choices as you expand your religion!
• Expanded and Overhauled World Map: Lots of new encounters now populate the expanded World Map!

Finally, the ancient gods have graced us with their maddening presence. The Old One has Risen! Update #2 introduces the new Madness commandment. Our main goal here is to add more content to the game so you can create different kinds of religions, and experiment with a broader strategical toolset, especially in the Dark elemental corner. This is a free content update as part of Godhood's regular Early Access updates. If you update your game here on Steam, you'll have access to:

• The new Madness commandment choice, including
  • The Cultist disciple class
  • The Temple of Madness building
  • The Corrupting Grounds building
  • A new look for your cultist followers.
• The Harbinger disciple class
• Two new Dark relics
• New customization options for your god avatar
• New dedication statues to place in your Holy City

More info

Patch notes

Early Access roadmap

Old One Rising Launch Stream

"The Old One Rising" is a free content update as part of Godhood's regular Early Access updates. It launches tomorrow, Wednesday, September 4th at 13:00 CEST, 04:00 PDT

New Class: The Harbinger

New customization options

Join us at Launch

"The Old One Rising" is a free content update as part of Godhood's regular Early Access updates. It launches Wednesday, September 4th.

New Building: Temple of Madness

New Building: Corrupting Grounds

More Madness Content

Join us at Launch

Take a first look at the 'Madness' Commandment with the Cultist class! Read more about it on our Community Forums! What other maddening revelations await us as we delve ever deeper into the new content of the 'Old One Rising Update'!? Find out as we approach the release on September 4! Join our Release Stream September 4, 7PM CEST / 11AM PDT! - Rick

Hey young gods, Today we launched the very first major update to Godhood in Early Access. Our goal for this update was to add more strategy & choices and increase the challenge of Godhood. In order to meet this goal, we're introducing a number of brand new features!

• Worshipper Enthusiasm: Keep your flock happy!
• Holy Tribute: Sanctify your resources!
• Updated Faith Mechanics: Manage your fickle flock!
• New Construction Mechanics: You choose what to build!
• 8 new support buildings: Expand your Holy Site!
• New final island: Challenge Quetzalcoatl!
• Difficulty Settings: How do you like to play?

Just a quick reminder :)

We talked about it at length in the past weeks, but this week it's really happening: the Will Of The People Update arrives this Wednesday! The update will launch at 1PM CEST/5AM PDT, and we'll do a special launch stream - showing off all the new stuff - at 7PM CEST/11AM PDT!
The Will of the People update introduces the following improvements including:

• New Enthusiasm mechanic, giving the players Worshippers more autonomy with them demanding their gods attention more forcefully.
• New Prayer system, allowing the player to listen and react to their Disciples invocations.
• New buildings, including four new Commandment buildings such as the bathhouse for Chastity gods, a bordello for Lust, as well as power-boosting shrines and five additional holy buildings. A new building mechanic allows the player to choose what to construct.
• A rework of the Faith mechanic expanding the needs and wants of the players Disciples. A large number of balance changes to existing classes, buildings and enemy encounters.

Hi there young gods, Last week, we told you all about the "Will of the People" Update that's coming in two weeks and improves the game in a couple of core gameplay aspects. We also briefly mentioned that we'll do three streams in the run-up to the release of this update.

• July 24th, 7PM CEST / 11AM PDT - Questions Stream: Rick will play through the Early Access build of Godhood one last time will talking through the main points of feedback we've received from the community and players over these past two weeks. If you have any questions you feel haven't been answered yet: bring them along!
• July 31st, 7PM CEST / 11AM PDT - Preview Stream: Rick will stream a preview build to show off some of the new features the Will of the People update is going to bring! So if you want a sneak peak, this is your chance!
• August 7, 7PM CEST / 11AM PDT - Will of the People Launch: If you haven't gotten your hands on the game yet, and feel curious, or if you just want to hang out with Rick in the stream and see him play through this newly updated build of the game: join us in the stream!

Thanks!

These are the most common points of feedback we've heard from you:

• A lack of mechanical depth in the gameplay experience; there arent enough strategic options and the choices that you make dont feel meaningful enough - this also discourages multiple playthroughs.
• There are no consequences from failure and no sudden challenges to overcome.
• There is a disconnect between the fantasy of being a god and what you actually do in the game.
• The world doesn't feel alive, where you're the only active force.
• The Sacraments are unbalanced; forcing you to focus on quick, high damage, or grind for a long time.

Coming Soon: The 'Will of the People' update

• It introduces Enthusiasm, which shows how excited your worshippers are about your religion. Go out on the Sacrament while they are excited to get a boost, but wait too long with a Sacrament and the people's enthusiasm will plummet, causing bad things to happen for your religion!
• Tied to this is Tribute. Resources gathered in your temple site are placed in your tribute, and only by winning a Sacrament will you earn your (and the enemy's!) tributes. Lose, and the enemy gets their pick of your tribute...!
• We have a couple of other exciting features planned for this update. Divine intervention in the Sacrament, many more building options to expand your temple site at the cost of materials, a reworking of the Faith system, and boosting your disciples abilities for the next Sacrament, to name a few.

See the stream here.

Wow, young gods! Woow! After almost three years of development, Godhood is ready to launch into Early Access... TODAY! If you want to be among the first to get your hands on the early access version of the game, be sure to refresh the Steam store page stores at 1PM CEST / 4AM PDT!
To celebrate the release, we'll be streaming on Twitch, Youtube, and right here on Steam twice today!

• 1PM CEST / 4AM PDT: Launch Celebration! Playing Godhood & Taking Questions
• 7PM CEST / 11AM PDT: Playing & Explaining Godhood

Only one week left before Godhood releases in Early Access! We hope you are all as excited as we are.
You can read a more extensive update and how you can help us during launch day right here.

Highlights of this update:

• Final Beta Build
• Streamlining of the start of the game
• New Commandment: Chastity
• New Coming of Age and Disciple Levelling
• HUD Overhaul
• Info about the final stretch towards the Early Acces Release on July 10th
• Stream of the Beta Build later tonight!

We've previously said June 19th, but please throw out your calendar and buy a new one: It's June 12th instead. As always you can expect:

• A new beta build for all randomly selected beta testers and backers of Chieftain tier and up.
• A gameplay stream over on our Twitch channel of said beta build.
• An update right here to read up on Godhood's development.

• Late-backing will no longer be available after June 12th.

That's right, young gods, we finally have a release date! Two moons from now Godhood will be available for everyone to play! On July 10th we will launch our strategy god game into Early Access here on Steam. This will be the first opportunity to play our new strategy god game. We're incredibly excited to move to this next stage of development. From July 10th onward, we'll be using community feedback to improve Godhood in our continuing monthly updates. Exciting times for sure! To prepare for release with us, make sure you wishlist the game on the store page. This will send you a notification once the game releases, and also helps bring the game to a bigger audience! If you know anyone you think would be as into Godhood as you are, we'd really appreciate if you could share the game with them, for example by sharing our launch-date tweet: https://twitter.com/AbbeyGamesNL/status/1134110185402884096 Follow our development updates here https://community.abbeygames.com/threads/godhood-available-in-steam-early-access-on-july-10th.188/ ~ Abbey Games

For the Hindus of times past, the Flower Moon marks a time of increasing fertility and temperatures warm enough to safely bear your young. It's no surprise that the enterprising Abbey monks put a lot of focus on the Lust Commandment for this FULL MOON UPDATE! Highlights:

• Mac & Linux
• A New World Map
• Religious Relics
• The Lust Commandment

Oh young gods! We genuflect before your altars bearing the greatest gift of all: a rad party. That's right, Godhood just got groovy. Highlights of this week:

• God Powers
• And... a brand new Disciple Class?!

Let's look at some of the new stuff we've created in the last couple weeks!

• Sacrament Victory UI
• Ages and ending a playthrough
• Religious Relics

We've decided to delay Godhood's Early Access release until July. Read more about why in the following update (hint: It'll make the game that much better!)

For the ancient native Americans, the PINK MOON heralded the blooming of the first spring flowers: the 'pink moss'. For us, it heralds the blossoming of the second GODHOOD FULL MOON UPDATE!

Rick is back bearing prophecies of another weekly update. Let's jump right in!

Read about new customization options, a new class and changes to the in-game economy!

Learn about the new Songsmith class, prettier environment, and the Sacrament passives that will make their way in to the next update!
Click here to check out the update post!

Every full moon we update (the alpha version of) the game. Today it's time for the first Full Moon Update, the Worm Moon!
Click here to check out the update post!

Read on what's going on in development of Godhood this week over here: https://community.abbeygames.com/threads/weekly-update-2-stretch-goal-classes-unlocked.110/#post-419

Read on what's going on in development of Godhood this week over here: https://community.abbeygames.com/threads/weekly-update-1.107/

The Godhood Kickstarter has succeeded! Now what? Read about Kickstarter processing, Late Backing, our Update Schedule and community links right here: https://community.abbeygames.com/threads/the-godhood-kickstarter-has-succeeded-now-what.105/

Wow! Thanks everyone for backing the campaign so far! We've just hit the 100%, announced a stretch goal for the last day and a half of the Kickstarter, and... we're going live in a Twitch Stream in 15 minutes. Check it out! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/abbeygames/godhood/posts/2429402

Hi young gods! Let's take a look at this week's 2 morally opposed god commandments: Greed & Charity! Read all about it in this Kickstarter Update.

Yes! You heard it right. Because of a great community effort to spread the word about Godhood, on Reddit, Youtube and Twitter, 20+ Kickstarter backers of Godhood now get a free copy of both Reus and Renowned Explorers! That is, if the Kickstarter succeeds, of course. You can still help make it happen and get your hands on those free copies as well! Check it out on the Kickstarter page, right here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/abbeygames/godhood

Hi young gods! Let's take another look at 2 morally opposed commandments you'll be able to pick for your religion in Godhood: Lust & Chastity! Read up on how they work in this Kickstarter Update! Happy Valentines Day ;)

We want to thank our loyal backers who've supported us since the project launched and welcome those of you that have recently joined up! We just reached 60% of the funding goal, and are readying ourselves to start revealing stretch goals! Thank you so much for coming on this incredible journey with us! A bit back we revealed the first 4 disciple classes. Let's take a look at the final 4 in this Kickstarter Update!

First of all, thanks a bunch for helping us get to 50% towards our funding goal! Every day we're getting a little bit closer to having that certain eldritch god wake up from the depths and appear in Godhood! But while they slumber in the depths, we're noticing the Kickstarter is also starting to hit that mid-campaign slumber. That's why we would like to call on you for help once again, not directly with funds, but by joining us in a prayer. A prayer to the Social Stretch Gods! Social stretch.. gods? Yes, social stretch gods. Let us introduce you to: Twixl, the Blue Wave (goddess of Twitter), Rednir, of Upwards Vote (god of Reddit), Yutteph, the Recommender (god of YouTube)!
Spread the word on Twitter, Reddit and YouTube to light that god's pyre, and they will reward us all handsomely with neato avatars, wallpapers, in-game dedication statues or as playable gods! So far, a free copy of Reus for all 20,- + backers has already been unlocked. And we're pretty sure that they'll even throw some free copies of Renowned Explorers down from the sky if enough of our prayers reach all three of them. You can read up on how it works exactly, right here.

Godhood lets you create your own religion, but we also want to give you the chance to help create Godhood! You can do so by backing the Kickstarter campaign for the game, that just went live. If Kickstarter is not for you, but you do want to help us out: there are other ways! We talk about it in this post over on our community forum. Thanks for your help! From the Abbey, Sincerely, -Joni

In the sixth episode of our blog series about the game, we talk about why we're actually making this game and give a little bit more background story to the development of Godhood! Read up on it over at our community page.

In the fifth episode of our blog series about the game, we talk about sending your disciples out in the world on the Mission! Read up on it over at our community page.

A successful Kickstarter campaign could help us get closer to fulfilling the fantasy of creating your own religion in Godhood. Development is well under way at this point and the game is going to realise that fantasy in a way we're incredibly excited about. However, our ambitions are big, and we want to push the game all the way to meet them. And that's where the Kickstarter campaign, that starts on January 30th, comes in. To really let you go wild with creating a religion, the game needs to provide a lot of options. Options for different Commandments, numerous religious buildings, unique options for dedications and - if possible - epic avatars for your god. There will of course be plenty of these kinds of options in the game no matter what, but making the Kickstarter goal will give us the funding to really go all out. And there won't just be more, we'd also like to give you (yes, you!) the chance to tell us what you'd like to see in Godhood. As a prime example, we know that a lot of you would love to be your own version of a certain tentacly elder god... With the Kickstarter funding we can make sure you can! With Commandments like Madness, Ritual Dedications like the Deep Sea or the Tentacle and a unique Cult Sanctuary building you could build the ancient secret cult you've always dreamt of. You could even choose from a variety of tentacles to equip your god's avatar with... do you see where we are going with this? You can get more detailed info and find out what you can do to help us prepare for the campaign on our community page, right here. From the Abbey, Sincerely, -Joni