The omen "Omen of Many [Weapon]" now has two effects instead of just one: the weapon appear more often and its level of rarity will always be above common
Added 4 new scrolls with the following skills: Moving Wall, Walls of Pain, Geo Cannon and Armageddon (DLC owners only)
Added more race restrictions on portrait face assets
Balancing
Perfect Guard gain stacks during Heroes' turn
Bug fixes
Fixed enemies health bar, now when a poison Runestone is triggered, the ennemies health bar turn green
Fixed the inability to hover the second row of medals in the metashop with a controller
Fixed Glintfein start button not being clickable in 1024x720 resolution
Fixed Heroes with "One armed" trait being visually generated with two arms despite the trait
Fixed a bug where enemies hit by "Earthquake strike" would display a panic icon
Fixed the magic circle seal color to orange to match Gildenberg
It's FINALLY here! We are so excited to release the very first DLC for The Last Spell! Creating this DLC was a big challenge for the team, and we hope you'll like it. And now, time for the traditional BIG blogpost with all the changes that we’re bringing with this DLC.
Enjoy 🔥
The first DLC of The Last Spell, Dwarves of Runenberg, is now available on PC!
Gather your team of dwarves, pick up the new weapons and use the Runestones to your advantage on the brand new map!
Dwarves of Runenberg includes:
Three new weapons
🔥 Gauntlet 🔥 War Shield 🔥 Cannon
New map: Runenberg
🔥 Runestones 🔥 Dwarves Statues
New race: Dwarves
🔥 Unique collection of Perks 🔥 Unique passive 🔥 Unique haircuts and faces
New items: Stone Medals
🔥 Unique new Perks available as wearable Trinket
New consumables: Beers
🔥 Stout 🔥 Amber 🔥 Pilsner
A free update is also available to every player of The Last Spell, which includes bug fixing and a few other features like the Weapons Selection! More details available below.
Dwarves of Runenberg
Three new weapons
Dwarves of Runenberg is adding three exclusive new weapons to the game. These weapons have been created to change the way you play The Last Spell, thanks to the addition of weapons' Perks. Not only will these weapons have unique spells, each one of them will also have a unique Perk:
Gauntlet: a magical weapon that morphs from a close range to a long range weapon when a certain threshold is reached
War Shield: a melee weapon designed to tank damages before letting you unleash your power as retaliation
Cannon: an extremely powerful range weapon paired with a risk of overheating, altering the cost of its abilities
Equip your Heroes with the magical Gauntlet, the long-range Cannon and the powerful WarShield. One new weapon per type of damage, available to all Heroes!
Runenberg
Welcome to Runenberg, a new map of 8 Nights set in the mountains. A gigantic cave will greet you from one side, as the large bridge built by the dwarves will allow monsters to come at you from another with a vast and powerful wave. Get ready, this dwarven map's difficulty will be set between Glenwald and Elderlicht and unique Runestones are located on the map with variable effects (ice, fire, poison).
On the Final Night, hell will let loose, Dwarves Statues will gradually be activated and Corrupted Runestones will randomly appear on the map. As you resist against the horde of monsters crawling and growing bigger each new turn, Dwarves Statues will make things even more difficult for you by empowering the monsters around them and targeting the Corrupted Runestones.
Dwarves
The dwarves are joining the fight! New haircuts, new faces but also new (and small) sizes. Get to know your new friends on the battlefield!
Dwarves have an exclusive Perks collection related to their race as well as one exclusive passive:
"Toss me!": Ask your lovely friend standing next to you to throw you across the map in order to effectively slaughter thousands of enemies. Talking about it, you may remember a particular scene between a human and a dwarf doing exactly just that...
Here are a few Perks examples of what you may find in the DLC:
Warcry: The more a Dwarf is injured, the louder he shouts, inspiring his comrades to fight that much harder.
Look at my Muscles: Dwarves expose their muscles to fight longer... It's a Dwarf thing.
Emergency Tunnel: Dwarves tend to jump headlong into battle... But they’re also able to quickly tunnel back to safety.
Dwarves may be smaller, but they are also tougher! This will be reflected upon their stats, as they will have less Movement Speed than humans but in return will gain more Block and more Health Regen.
By starting a run on Runenberg, your team will have at least one dwarf.
On other maps, you'll have a chance to have a dwarf in your starting team. By visiting the Tavern, whichever map you play, you'll get as much chance to have humans as dwarves Heroes.
Stone Medals
These new trinkets allow you to equip brand new Perks specifically created for it. The Perks available on the Stone Medals are all new and won't be available on the Perks page of your Heroes.
Beers
What would Dwarves be without their favourite Beers? Three new consumables are added to the game: Amber, Pilsner and Stout, and each one of those Beers has unique properties.
Stout Beer: Increases your Mana, reduces your Health.
Amber Beer: Increases your Accuracy, reduces your Damage.
Pilsner Beer: Increases your Critical, reduces your Critical Power.
Free Update
New features
In addition to the DLC Dwarves of Runenberg, we're adding some free features for ALL players:
Weapons Selection: Before the start of your run, choose which weapons you'd like to wield in it
Old Medals: A new type of Trinket using the existing Tier 4 and Tier 5 Perks
QoL
Added a tutorial for the "Selection of Weapons UI".
"Total Damage" has been changed to "Perk Damage" for better understanding.
Bug Fixes
Perks
Fixed "Boom" Perk where the damage is not redistributed on the second target if it is on a trap.
Fixed "Poisonous" Perk where the poison is not applied on enemies standing on a trap.
Fixed missing action points and several movement points on characters with the Perk "Glass Cannon" activated after a reload.
Fixed "Glass Cannon" Perk: now the loss of current life cannot exceed the minimum value of 50.
The "Sadist" Perk now applies Opportunism bonuses as soon as the "Poisonous" perk inflicts his effect on one or more targets. Players no longer need to take additional actions to trigger this effect.
Fixed a bug on enemies affected by "BOOM!", "Human Ballista", and "Spiky Counter" Perks were not counted towards the "Harvester" Perk's kill count.
Fixed the "Relentless" Perk: now the player can no longer gain more movement points than the activation threshold (3).
Fixed the "Blood collector" tooltip: now it also displays the actual amount of health regenerated at the end of the turn, taking into account "Health Received".
Others
Fixed the randomization hair button in the customization panel.
Fixed the Apocalypse tooltip visible in the Omens menu when you hover at the bottom of the screen.
Fixed a bug when you played with a controller and destroyed the magic circle with a catapult: the circle animation froze and rendered the cursor immobile.
Fixed a bug where it was possible to use the spell "Contamination" on a non-targetable enemy.
Phew, that’s it, the first DLC of The Last Spell is now out! What a ride!
We can’t wait to read your discussions on Steam, Discord & Reddit and discover which new weapon will be your favourite or how many dwarves you were able to toss into battle.
Share your best strategies with us or the horrible moment you realized you couldn’t win this Night! Will you be the unbeatable player able to first try every new map?
Thank you for reading and thank you for your support! You can join us on Discord, Twitter & Instagram to chat with the team and other players!
Dwarves of Runenberg: Cannon
Hello Heroes,
Did you read the news? The Last Spell is getting a DLC!
Dwarves of Runenberg is the first DLC coming to The Last Spell, and with it comes multiple additions to the game, including three brand new weapons. Today, we're gonna give you a little more insight about one of them: the Cannon, a ranged weapon with explosive skills and a tendency to overheat due to its instability…
The Cannon is a simple ranged weapon, yet filled with enormous firepower. It could easily be in talk for a “weapon of mass destruction” title, but such a destructive tool should always come at a price. Thus, the Cannon demands careful resource management or it might lead you to dire consequences.
Cannon’s Skills
Cannon Ball
It shoots. Hard.
Rocket Jump
Have you ever dreamt of flying? Jump into the melee and unleash chaos upon the monsters.
Mortar
A long distance skill to slow down the horde. It has a high chance to Stun the primary target, and a lower chance to Stun its surrounding monsters.
Armageddon
Turn the air into hellfire with a very large multihit AoE. Probably the most powerful skill ever created by the dwarves.
Weapon perks
With the release of Dwarves of Runenberg, we are introducing Weapon perks, a new way to design and play the weapons at your disposal. Weapon perks are available on the Gauntlet, War Shield and Cannon.
Overheat
The price to pay to access such firepower.
Each skill of the Cannon will generate Heat, determined by the skill’s cost. Upon reaching Heat 7, the Cannon overheats, now requiring Health Points to use its skills in addition to their current cost. At the end of the turn, the Cannon begins to cool down, providing you a brief respite.
When the Cannon is overheating, firing it will trigger an explosion around you, damaging everything around them, monsters and structures alike. The Cannon will always survive the overheating, but your Hero might not.
Now that you know everything about this new weapon, we can't wait to see you using it on the battlefield! The Cannon is one of three weapons available in the upcoming DLC: make sure to wishlist it! Dwarves of Runenberg will be available on April 24th.
Thank you for reading and thank you for your support! You can join us on Discord, Twitter & Instagram to chat with the team and other players!
Dwarves of Runenberg: War Shield
Hello Heroes,
Did you read the news? The Last Spell is getting a DLC!
Dwarves of Runenberg is the first DLC coming to The Last Spell, and with it comes multiple additions to the game, including three brand new weapons. Today, we're gonna give you a little more insight about one of them: the War Shield, a melee weapon destined to crush your enemies with its devastating blows!
The War Shield is a melee weapon designed to tank damages before letting you unleash your power as retaliation. Built by the dwarves, available to everyone. Brace yourself, resist the monsters’ assaults and when it’s your turn, clean the battlefield with a handful of destructive skills. You’re not the pacifist Hero they think you are.
War Shield’s Skills
Breach
Smash down the shield to crush the monsters in front of you. Inflict pain for a limited cost.
Shield Up
Prepare yourself for the impending assault and strike your target to gain Block. Simple as that.
Moving Wall
Utilize this skill to reposition yourself and apply a debuff to the monsters struck by it, reducing their damage output.
Walls of Pain
A devastating skill in AoE to wipe all your enemies from the battlefield. The screams of your enemies can even be heard as you crush their souls.
Weapon perks
With the release of Dwarves of Runenberg, we are introducing Weapon perks, a new way to design and play the weapons at your disposal. Weapon perks are available on the Gauntlet, War Shield and Cannon.
Perfect Guard
Get revenge from your enemies with Perfect Guard: the more you get hit, the higher your damage will be on the next turn. However, this increased power will gradually decrease with each subsequent skill you use. Additionally, avoiding damage during a turn will halve your current bonus.
Now that you know everything about this new weapon, we can't wait to see you using it on the battlefield! The War Shield is one of three weapons available in the upcoming DLC: make sure to wishlist it! Dwarves of Runenberg will be available on April 24th.
Thank you for reading and thank you for your support! You can join us on Discord, Twitter & Instagram to chat with the team and other players!
Dwarves of Runenberg: Gauntlet
Hello Heroes,
Did you read the news? The Last Spell is getting a DLC!
Dwarves of Runenberg is the first DLC coming to The Last Spell, and with it comes multiple additions to the game, including three brand new weapons. Today, we're gonna give you a little more insight about one of them: the Gauntlet, a magical weapon with the power of throwing rocks around.
The Gauntlet is a magical weapon that morphs from a close range to a long range weapon when a certain threshold is reached, changing your approach to the battlefield. Lift the rocks, kill your enemies and reposition yourself to take advantage of its unique passive.
Gauntlet's Skills
Snap
Extract a stalagmite from the ground to pierce your target. Smaller stalagmites will hit the nearby enemies. This is a single-target skill taking advantage of Opportunism.
Shockwave
Project a shockwave of stalactites to nearby enemies, shattering their armor. This in an AoE skill scaling on Propagation.
Geo Cannon
Extract three gigantic rocks and throw them in front of you. A powerful attack, but easily dodged by faster enemies.
Perk weapon
With the release of Dwarves of Runenberg, we are introducing Perk weapons, a new way to design and play the weapons at your disposal. Perk weapons are available on the Gauntlet, War Shield and Cannon.
Geo Reservoir
Accumulate the runic energy in your Gauntlet and release it in a spell, enhancing its range and power.
To use Geo Reservoir, first you'll need to hit up to 6 enemies to charge it up. If you're lucky (or insanely good) and you hit 6 enemies with only one skill, you're ready to go to the next step!
Once your Geo Reservoir is up and ready, use your much improved range to punish enemies that were too far away from you just a minute ago.
Now that you know everything about this new weapon, we can't wait to see you using it on the battlefield! The Gauntlet is one of three weapons available in the upcoming DLC: make sure to wishlist it! Dwarves of Runenberg will be available on April 24th.
Welcome to Runenberg, a new map of 8 Nights set in the mountains. A gigantic cave will greet you from one side, as the large bridge built by the dwarves will allow monsters to come at you from another with a vast and powerful wave. Get ready, this dwarven map's difficulty will be set between Glenwald and Elderlicht.
Did we also say one side was randomly generated at each run? Because yes it is.
Runenberg will bring new and unique features such as Runestones and Dwarves Statues:
Runestones: They are made of three different types (ice, fire, poison) and destroying them inflicts damage on nearby monsters without harming Heroes. Once destroyed, they will regenerate in the exact same location.
Dwarves Statues: Four strange statues stand on the map of Runenberg, with two of them close to your Haven, and two of them quite far away. They mostly stay silent but everything will change once the final Night begins...
This time around, instead of a big terrifying boss swirling from the Mist on your final Night, Dwarves Statues will activate and use their mystic skills to empower a gigantic wave of enemies to crush you in no time.
On Night 8, hell will let loose, Dwarves Statues will gradually be activated and Corrupted Runestones will randomly appear on the map. As you resist against the horde of monsters crawling and growing bigger at each new turn, Dwarves Statues will make things even more difficult for you by empowering the monsters around them and targeting the Corrupted Runestones. You may be profoundly surprised by the turn of events happening during this final Night...
NEW RACE: DWARVES
Having humans may not be enough to defeat the Mist, so the dwarves decided to join in! New haircuts, new faces but also new (and small) sizes! Get to know your new friends on the battlefield!
Dwarves will have an exclusive Perks collection related to their race as well as one exclusive passive:
"Toss me!": Ask your lovely friend standing next to you to throw you across the map in order to effectively slaughter thousands of enemies. Talking about it, you may remember a particular scene between a human and a dwarf doing exactly just that...
Here are a few Perks examples of what you may find in the DLC:
Warcry: The more a Dwarf is injured, the louder he shouts, inspiring his comrades to fight that much harder.
Look at my Muscles: Dwarves expose their muscles to fight longer... It's a Dwarf thing.
Emergency tunnel: Dwarves tend to jump headlong into battle... But they’re also able to quickly tunnel back to safety.
Dwarves may be smaller, but they are also tougher! This will be reflected upon their stats, as they will have less Movement Speed than humans but in return will gain more Block and more Health Regen.
By starting a run on Runenberg, your team will have at least one dwarf.
On other maps, you'll have a chance to have a dwarf in your starting team. By visiting the Tavern, whichever map you play, you'll get as much chance to have humans as dwarves Heroes.
NEW WEAPONS
Dwarves of Runenberg is adding three exclusive new weapons to the game. These weapons have been created to change the way you play The Last Spell, thanks to the addition of weapons' Perks. Not only will these weapons have unique spells, each one of them will also have a unique Perk:
Gauntlet: a magical weapon that morphs from a close range to a long range weapon when a certain threshold is reached
War Shield: a melee weapon designed to let you tank damages, then unleash your power as retaliation
Cannon: an extremely powerful range weapon paired with a risk of overheating, altering the cost of its abilities
NEW ITEMS: STONE MEDALS
In the same spirit, we are also adding new items called "Stone Medals", letting you equip brand new Perks specifically created for it. You read it right, Stone Medals can be equipped just like any other Trinket on your Heroes, giving you more specific and perfectly needed Perks to your strategy.
The Perks available on the Stone Medals are all new and won't be available on the Perks page of your Heroes. Stone Medals can be obtained just like any other items (Shop, Bone Piles, War Spoils...).
FREE UPDATE
In addition to the DLC Dwarves of Runenberg, we're also adding some free features for ALL players:
Weapons Selection: Before the start of your run, choose which weapons you'd like to have in it
Old Medals: A new type of Trinket using the existing Tier 4 and Tier 5 Perks
Veterans and lovers of the game, we cannot wait to let you get your hands on the DLC, and it's coming very soon! In a matter of weeks in fact, as Dwarves of Runenberg will release on April 24th at 7,99€/$7,99 .
Thank you for reading and thank you for your support! You can join us on Discord, Twitter & Instagram to chat with the team and other players!
The Last Spell released one year ago!
Hello Heroes!
Today marks a special day for all of us at Ishtar Games, but also for you! Exactly one year ago, The Last Spell launched in 1.0, almost two years after the start of the Early Access.
We've said it before but we'll say it again: our success has been possible thanks to you, the players. Even now, we see your messages on Discord & Reddit to discuss strategies, ideas and to welcome new players trying to beat this damn Cetusia on Lakeburg. Your support means a lot to us and we are always happy to answer your questions, detail our choices in our blogposts or go even further than what we initially ambitionned for the game.
But we know you've got one big question about what's coming after!
DLC?
You're waiting for it, we are profusely working on it, but we're not ready just yet to tell you more about it.
We read your messages every day and we're very much aware of the excitement that you all have for the DLCs, and trust us, we CAN'T WAIT to tell you about the VERY exciting things we've been cooking for you!
In the meantime, yay to The Last Spell being one year old and here's to a lot more!
Thank you for reading and thank you for your support! You can join us on Discord, Twitter & Instagram to chat with the team and other players!
The Last Spell is 30% off during the Digital Tabletop Fest 4!
Digital Tabletop Fest 4begins today and The Last Spell is part of it!
We are thrilled to announce that The Last Spell will be part of Digital Tabletop Fest–the Steam festival celebrating all-things related todigital tabletop games.
From today through the 11thof March, you can save 30% off The Last Spell. In addition to that, you will also be able to experience some of the latest and greatest digital tabletop-inspired titles and see what the future holds for the tabletop genre with coming soon games. The festival will feature deckbuilders, board games, and titles inspired by tabletop IPs.
The Last Spell has been nominated for Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year!
Hello Heroes!
We are absolutely thrilled to announce The Last Spell has been nominated for the Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year by the D.I.C.E. Awards!
Thank you so much to the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences for including us in this shortlist, alongside great and incredible games!
Take a look at all nominations here: https://www.interactive.org/awards/27th_dice_awards_finalists.asp
