These Doomed Isles

New features

• The Research Library can now be built. This allows you to gain Discovery cards, which can be used to increase the rate at which you will see specific cards in the Harvest shop
  
• 21 new objectives have been added, meaning that you will have to play differently each time in order to win the game
  
• You will no longer trigger events from connecting to islands, these will instead trigger at specific population thresholds and give you a side quest to complete. Success or failure will lead to consequences
  
• You can now discover houses, enemy camps and ruins on islands
  
• You can now choose the cards that make up your starting hand
  
• You can now set an additional challenge to complete a run within a certain number of years. Success will reward you with stars that can be used to unlock more powerful cards for your starting deck. Failure will lead to your island falling into the sea
  
• A new tutorial has been added, guiding you through a series of short missions in order to learn to different aspects of the game
  

Bug fixes

• Saving and loading the game will no longer reset the number of turns before an enemy wave attacks
  
• The red flash for when the enemy warning is off screen will now scale to still fill the screen edges even when zoomed out
  
• You will now get the red enemy warning flash on the edge of the screen when the warning icon is behind the resources at the top or the cards at the bottom
  
• All resource icons can now be right clicked on to see more information (previously it was preventing workers, stone and some others from loading and just started moving the camera instead)
  
• Followers will no longer fade out and disappear when working on Rice Fields
  
• Trees will no longer disappear beneath Rice Fields
  

Balance changes

• Updated the Greek card “Raised from Dust”. Its effect now reads: “When you redraw your hand this turn, the next card that you play has zero resource costs”
  
• Yet another tweak to how population works! It’s still affected by happiness, but now you get a range of followers depending on happiness level:
  
  
  
  • At 100%+ you will gain 2-5 followers
    
  • At 95%+ you will gain 2-3 followers
    
  • At 85%+ you will gain 1-3 followers
    
  • At 70%+ you will gain 1-2 followers
    
  • At 50%+ you will gain 1 follower
    
  • At less than 25% you will begin to lose followers
    
  
  
• You now start with 65% happiness
  
• Reduced the cost of the relocate card to 6 faith
  
• Reduced the iron cost of the Weaponsmith to 6
  
• Reduced the cost of Re-arm to 8 iron
  
• Reduced the cost of Build it Up to 6 stone
  
• The Haru, Natsu, Aki and Fuyu cards that Inari uses have had the ‘unplayable’ effect removed when it is the wrong season to play them. Now if they are played in the wrong season, they will instead discard and redraw your cards, giving faith for each card discarded in this way - please note that, as they are all single-use, the Seasonal cards (Torii Gate, Kitsune and Export) are still not playable in Winter
  
• Hokora now generate 2 faith per turn
  

Quality of life

• You can now zoom out a lot more (until you can see the whole map). However, for performance reasons, the game will no longer draw the health of all buildings when you mouse over a single building after you zoom past a certain level
  
• Palisades and Stone Walls can now be placed a single tile at a time
  
• You will now receive a warning of the impending enemy attack when placing a Wonder
  
• Added more relics to be unlocked
  

Brand New Features

• The Research Library will be available to build. This allows you to gain Discovery cards, which can be used to increase the rate at which you will see specific cards in the Harvest shop. This will hopefully reduce the impact of RNG and increase the control you have over your strategy!
  
  
  
• 21 new objectives will be added, meaning that you will have to play differently each time in order to achieve victory!
  
• You will no longer trigger events from connecting to islands, these will instead trigger at specific population thresholds and give you a side quest to complete. Success or failure will lead to consequences.
  
• You will discover houses, enemy camps and ruins on islands.
  
• You will be able to choose the cards that make up your starting hand. This is an effort to give you the ability to strategise more ahead of each run and have more control over your strategy!
  
  
  
• It will be possible to set an additional challenge to complete a run within a certain number of years. Success will reward you with stars that can be used to unlock more powerful cards for your starting deck. Failure will lead to your island falling into the sea
  
  
  
  

  Balance Changes

  
  
  
  
  • Yet another tweak to how population works! It’s still affected by happiness, but now you get a range of followers depending on happiness level:
    
    
    
    • At 100%+ you will gain 2-5 followers.
      
    • At 95%+ you will gain 2-3 followers.
      
    • At 85%+ you will gain 1-3 followers.
      
    • At 70%+ you will gain 1-2 followers.
      
    • At 50%+ you will gain 1 follower.
      
    • At less than 25% you will begin to lose followers.
      
    
    

Introducing the Deckbuilder Update - Releasing July 18th

Steam Summer Sale

We're in the Steam Tacticon Event

Tengu

Tanuki

Itsumade

Akurojin-no-hi

Kyuuketsuki

New stuff in numbers

• 1 new god!
  
• 74 new cards
  
• 5 new enemies
  
• 3 new bosses
  
• 5x difficulty levels
  

New mechanics

• Rice - a new resource that can be gathered from Rice Fields. It is required by certain cards, but can also be exported for gold or converted to food by a number of other cards and buildings.
  
• Nengu - Some cards have a Nengu cost, which is a tax paid in rice. This increases with each Nengu card that you play, making each future Nengu card require more rice to be played. There are a number of cards that interact with Nengu in other ways, such as reducing it or using it to affect how effective they are.
  
• Anshin - Some cards and buildings have the Anshin tag. Other cards and buildings are more or less effective depending on the number of Anshin buildings within range or on your island. Some buildings also trigger their effect when you play an Anshin card or place an Anshin building.
  
• Seasons - Some cards can only be played in certain seasons, whereas there are other cards that have different effects depending on the season.
  
  
  
  • Haru - These cards can only be played in spring.
    
  • Natsu - These cards can only be played in summer.
    
  • Aki - These cards can only be played in autumn.
    
  • Fuyu - These cards can only be played in winter.
    
  
  
• Frozen - Cards can now apply the Frozen status effect to enemies. Enemies that are Frozen do not move or attack on their turn, and can also be shattered if you have the right card!
  

Military units

• Ashigaru - Ashigaru units will return to your deck automatically when no enemies are present.
  
• Samurai - Samurai units can be trained by Dojos to increase their abilities, but require Samurai Houses to be built.
  
• Cavalry - Cavalry units attack at range and are very powerful, but they will automatically be returned to your deck each winter.
  

New enemies

• Akurojin-no-hi
  
• Tanuki
  
• Tengu
  
• Itsumade
  
• Kyūketsuki
  

• Shuten-dōji
  
• Kuchisake-onna
  
• Haradashi
  

Some standout cards

• Castle - Castles will generate gold and are required to build houses for your Merchants and Samurai.
  
• Dojo - Dojo are used to train your Samurai units and increase their abilities.
  
• Swordsmith - The Swordsmith increases the efficiency of your Dojo.
  
• Theatre - Theaters bring happiness to your followers and allow you to play the Noh Drama card if you need a sudden boost in happiness.
  
• Tranquil Garden - adds Rejuvenate cards to your deck after you play a set number of Nengu cards.
  

• Plague - Played on WET enemies, this will cause them to take damage based on just how wet they currently are!
  
• Shatter - Playing this on Frozen enemies causes them to take damage equal to their Frozen stack. If this kills them, then they will damage any other enemies who are stood adjacent or diagonal to them!
  
• The Wind Rises - This allows you to pick up and move an enemy to any empty tile on your island!
  
• Respite and Rejuvenate - These are cards that allow you to increase the number of uses that your unit cards have, so that they don’t disappear if they keep getting recalled to your deck.
  

Balance changes

• At 100%+ you gain 5 followers per year
  
• At 95%+ you gain 4 followers per year
  
• At 90%+ you gain 3 followers per year
  
• At 75%+ you gain 2 followers per year
  
• At 50%+ you gain 1 follower per year
  

Quality of life updates

• A warning now flashes on-screen to show you where enemies will attack from
  
• If that icon is off-screen, the edge of the screen will flash
  
• Militia now clarifies that it is its start health that is equal to the trees in range, not ongoing health
  

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue with resource bar where loading games could lead to the icons being mixed up
  
• Health of Wonders and Palisades will no longer appear through the Harvest shop screen
  
• Mouse will no longer disappear on loading screen
  
• Game will no longer crash if you check the Wood info after building a foundry
  
• Building a Wonder will no longer indicate a large scale attack on Ascensions 1 and 2
  
• Ascensions 12+ are no longer greyed out despite being available to select
  
• Fixed a crash when selecting ascension level 13
  

Check out our new roadmap

we want to make the core game experience the best it can be. Here's the upcoming changes to look forward to:

Follower growth has now been fixed!

We heard you - we've sorted the issues with follower growth and the fix has gone live in this latest update. Thanks so much for flagging these bugs with us, your comments have been incredibly helpful to us. If you notice anything else, please do let us know.

Discord challenges coming soon for the new Inari update!

Join us on Discord to take part in new challenges coming very soon. Chat with the team, share your strategy with other players, and meet new people. 😊

Thanks everyone and I hope you enjoy the new update!

Andrew

Inari's starting abilities are:

Inari's god power cards allow for some powerful synergies:

Base god power