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Upcoming Friday the 13th Update.Jun 4, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsIt is almost time for a Nightmare to begin. In this case, you will be the one doing the haunting. Post release we've been pushing out update after update, multiple times a week, leading the game into a direction based on your feedback. But now, for our "1 month anniversary" we're saving up some time to bring you something with a little bit more "oomph"! On Friday the 13th of June (how could we ignore such a date...) we'll be releasing the biggest update for Deck of Haunts yet. Without giving away too much: there will be a new mode, where something "familiar" will be lurking about. Giving you a helping hand... if you are willing to offer up something in return. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/e32e08a4ccb5eb422c8f5bc40e1e38659c8f7ed8.pngUpdate V1.09 Fixes and Localization EditsMay 23, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsRight on time for the weekend: fixes! If you've encountered any other bugs or crashes, you're always welcome to log them in the Steam Discussions, we'll have a look at them. Changes Added missing Banish tooltips on balanced cards. Make card tooltips ignore hover. Added the option to look at the content of the unlocked Decks on the Deck selection screen. XP requirements for levels rebalanced. Updated localizations for all languages. Fixed Bugs Fixed more collisions to enhance pathfinding of humans. Adjusted Set Dressing to help enhance the pathfinding of humans. Fixed Mechanical Rooms adding extra health when loading. Fixed Hidden Trick not updating greyed out requirement on card played. Fixed Hidden Trick Upgrade not triggering the second effect when the requirement is met. Fixed Weight Of The World text highlighting bug when Body And Soul is active and the condition is not met. Sneak peek for next week: Hard mode 👀 If you didn't find the fix or addition you were looking for, check out our just released plan for the near- and further future: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3179730/view/518587145533785022 And again, a big thank you for playing and all your feedback. If you like Deck of Haunts, please leave a review, it helps us a lot! ❤️ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/ea23b395f66cdcc6036c312374f5b9f09e3f4ae2.pngUpdate V1.08 Bugfix and Quality of Life timeMay 20, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsAfter the major content push yesterday, we had a day of bug squashing today. You can check that content push here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3179730/view/643562764600607830 If you've encountered any other bugs or crashes, you're always welcome to log them in the Steam Discussions, we'll have a look at them. Changes Show the current deck on the save slot screen and the continue button. Balance: Card: The Bell: Make it banish upon use Added controller support for the Confirmation Dialog when restarting. Added plus icon on the play button if new decks were unlocked. Restarting from the Death screen keeps the active modifiers. Fixed Bugs Fixed Default Deck showing when inspecting the deck during the first card reward screen with other Decks. Fixed cards duplicating by discarding themselves when Encore is active and there are fewer cards in hand than would be discarded in total. Fixed Mechanical Room moving and removing effects on Heart Health. Fixed save slots overlapping buttons and going off screen by adding a scroll box. Fixed new save slot not being created when one was deleted from the middle of the list. Fixed save slot screen buttons stretching when using a controller. Fixed Echo Chambers audio bug triggering overlapping sound effects. First pass of polishing collisions on a number of props to help improve the navigation. Fixed spawning Humans getting stuck in rocks outside the house. If you didn't find the fix or addition you were looking for, check out our just released plan for the near- and further future: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3179730/view/518587145533785022 And again, a big thank you for playing and all your feedback. If you like Deck of Haunts, please leave a review, it helps us a lot! ❤️ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/208c6b5020cdf45ae92fbc663deebcb24d6db7b3.pngBiggest update yet V1.07 Including starter decks and newly curated runs!May 19, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsWe're very proud to push this update live, as we know it is something that a lot of you have been wanting since release day... Starter decks and a more varied run-system! Always wanted to try a Sanity or Damage driven deck? Time to try that out. Or, if you are a player that loves to give themselves over to the "luck of the draw", there is also a chaos starter deck now that will select cards from your unlocked collection. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/e46eec5ded8d93541e145a24eddbc9be3de12c65.gif Apart from the starter decks (more of them to come as well in the future!), we've also spent some time on revamping the runs themselves. Added to the now "Classic" very first run, where you previously could only re-run pretty much the same thing (albeit with some minor variation in stats/human amount/traits), we now have a run-system that will, every night, pick from a selection of more curated nights. So, where in one run you might have a night where you get a solid group of high health regenerative humans with doctor bags that spawn in just 1 wave, in the next run that very same night might instead have you encounter 6 waves of fragile, steadfast humans with a compass. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/6e50b2c2e824c0709cdf236ed187b081ad24dfd9.gif The beauty of this system is, that we can keep on adding different curated runs into the mix to make sure you get an increased amount of variations in your runs! As a sneak peek: we're currently creating a set of new cards to add to the game, together with a new starter deck type. And as always, the changelog for this update: Changes Added starter deck selection: Default, Damage, Drain, and Chaos. Added a new run system, to include a variety of nights during a run, that will be differently configured every time you start a new run. Prevent the same cards from showing up immediately when rerolling. Balance: Card: Midnights Strike: Change from Any Human to Solo Human target. Balance: Card: Unending Madness: Change from being Uncommon to Rare. Balance: Card: Rumbling Lure: Banish now by default, Upgrade does not banish but now costs 3AP. Balance: Card: Cascading Mechanism: Default AP from 1 to 2, Upgraded AP from 0 to 1. “Solitary” achievement trigger now works if multiple Mirror Halls are used. Changed the "Play" button in the main menu to say "Continue" when a run is still in progress. Added a global limitation to the number of possible concurrent sounds. Fixes Fixed damage check for “Unseen” achievement trigger. Removed a mirror causing pathfinding issues in the Mirror Hall. Fixed German localization errors for “unheilvolles Omen”, “Nadelstiche” and “Wurzeln zurückerobern”. Fixed Storage Room icon tooltip showing “SACRIFICE” to now say "STORE". A big thank you for playing Deck of Haunts, and for all your wonderful feedback. As developers, we're not done with this game, and if you like our heading (and the game in it's current state of course ;) ), it would be great if you leave us a review, it helps a ton! {STEAM_CLAN_I...Update V1.06 Cloud SavingMay 15, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsThis latest patch brings in Cloud Saving for players using multiple systems to play Deck of Haunts on! If you've encountered any other bugs or crashes, you're always welcome to log them in the Steam Discussions, we'll have a look at them. Changes Enabled Steam Cloud saves. Save slot screen overhaul with statistics per save slot. Fixed Bugs Fixed Bell Tower duplication exploit on Day/Night 2. Fixed The Dreams Begin not triggering from cards that Banish. If you didn't find the fix or addition you were looking for, check out our just released plan for the near- and further future: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3179730/view/518587145533785022 And again, a big thank you for playing and all your feedback. If you like Deck of Haunts, please leave a review, it helps us a lot! ❤️ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/7fd7a433615beccd199aa8b2083cf6f81f53bf27.pngUpdate V1.05 Harvesting humans now removes them from the house, and more!May 13, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsWho else was tormented by piling up corpses? Well, now you can, if you have "Harvest" cards, explode alive humans and remove them from this plane of existence! Also, to all of you that were exploiting the save games to get infinite essence, your time has ended! 💔 If you've encountered any other bugs or crashes, you're always welcome to log them in the Steam Discussions, we'll have a look at them. Changes Harvest cards do not leave a corpse. Added a save icon to signify when the game saves. Fixed Bugs Fixed hexes not triggering on Stone Masons performing a ritual. Fixed Unending Madness not showing accumulated Drain on the Upgrade preview. Fixed essence gain exploit by quitting mid game. Fixed greyed out effects with unmet conditions on the Upgrade preview. Fixed Draw and Discard piles interaction for Ultrawide screens. If you didn't find the fix or addition you were looking for, check out our just released plan for the near- and further future: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3179730/view/518587145533785022 And again, a big thank you for playing and all your feedback. If you like Deck of Haunts, please leave a review, it helps us a lot! ❤️ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/e6b05adf91b303914ea8326e78dd1f9bb20dca72.pngUpdate V1.04 Including Card/Room Discovery during Endless ModeMay 12, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsLet's start off the week with a new update, including the much requested card discovery during endless mode! If you've encountered any other bugs or crashes, you're always welcome to log them in the Steam Discussions, we'll have a look at them. Changes Enable card discovery during endless mode. Enable XP-collection during endless mode. Add a Rest night to endless mode every 5 nights. Cards in the Collection and Unlocked Cards screens now show their tooltips when hovered. Phobia cards created by Propagating Nightmares no longer get added to the discard pile on end turn. Building card tooltip frame and text match the color of the cards. Fixed Bugs Fixed endless loop crash between adjacent Echo Chambers. Fixed achievement unlocks for actions that trigger multiple achievement unlock calls at once. Fixed Belle Of The Ball achievement unlocking without Bell Crush. Upgrade achievements will unlock when complete, but the progress is not tracked on Steam. Fixed Right mouse button being counted as selection in the upgrade, remove and pick a card screens. Fixed Legendary Rooms SFX. If you didn't find the fix or addition you were looking for, check out our just released plan for the near- and further future: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3179730/view/518587145533785022 And again, a big thank you for playing and all your feedback ❤️ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/5321a7f8b41352aecadd2baf38b3536ac94b8c21.gifJourney of Deck of Haunts and the 5-headed Mantis team, from prototype to 1.0May 10, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHello world... we did it, we made a game and shipped it! First of all, we cannot express our gratitude enough for all the players that joined us on this journey from prototype to Deck of Haunts 1.0. (And now beyond... V1.01-1.02-1.03-...) You have given us motivational and energy boosts along the way and are making sure we're going in the right direction with all the feedback that you're sharing on Steam, Discord and social media. We are still actively working on making Deck of Haunts better every day, and are committed to keep pushing out updates in the near future and beyond. For all of you that left all those nice reviews and messages on the discussions forum, a big thank you from the entire team! ❤️ Now, how did we get here? It started off in late 2019, where the very first concept of Deck of Haunts was laid out, right before the strangeness of 2020 came to haunt us all. We felt we were onto something with that concept. Mind you, it was a time before the market was flooded with a ton of deck builders. Of course it would have been nice to start work on Deck of Haunts right away, but at the time we didn't have the budget or ideal team configuration to bring it to completion. During 2020-2021-2022-2023 we, as so many other indie studios, went full throttle on work for hire for other companies and game studios. Starting off with all the assignments we could get (think VR training for factories to configurators for conventions), we luckily could transition fulltime into the games industry with all of our work for hire assignments. Then... at the turn of the new year, 2024, we felt we were finally ready to tackle that concept that we had been dreaming of since late 2019, Deck of Haunts. After securing the budget that was needed to sustain our 5-headed team during a little more over a year development, we released the breaks on the production train and started work on our haunted domain! The first publicly playable build of Deck of Haunts at GDC {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/cc6cf02cd3f08c60f8f961bd34f11bb0b5118570.jpg The important milestones we hit during 2024: GDC: The first publicly playable (by press & publishers) build of Deck of Haunts during a pre-mixer Publishing deal with Dangen Entertainment Game Force: The first player based convention where the game was playable for 2 days Release of the Steam store page Throwing out the first iteration of the demo into the world (scary!) Growing interaction on the Deck of Haunts Discord Deck of Haunts cards turned to life as business cards {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/8f0ed997031c4be7ed2820cfff60411363e7fe66.jpg Now, we've just passed our most important milestone... the Deck of Haunts 1.0 release! As a team we feel like we were able to make a fun core game loop, dressed up in a neat gritty Art Deco styling. We definitely want to steadily push out updates for the game, and build on it, together with the player base. We have a ton of ideas of where to go from here, so, lets go! Some thoughts after we asked ...Update V1.03 Changes & fixes!May 9, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsRight before the weekend kicks off, it's time for another update! If you've encountered any other bugs or crashes, you're always welcome to log them in the Steam Discussions, we'll have a look at them. We'll be back for more after the weekend! Changes Added a skip button to the card rewards during the rest night. Holy Book no longer takes insane humans into account for the immunity check. Priests with Holy Book can no longer be invulnerable in a Mirror Hall. Added an unlock screen when leveling up between nights to highlight which cards are new. Added some animation to the XP bar on the unlock screens. Show health bar during rest night. Removed the summed up damage numbers (3+3+3+3) on cards that affect all Humans. Added a longer fade in/out duration for the ambient SFX of the special rooms. Updated card tooltips that were wrong or missing. Updated localizations for Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and German. Fixed Bugs Fixed Rumbling Lure crashing when there are dead Humans. Fixed traps not triggering for Humans moved by Rumbling Lure. Fixed traps not triggering for Humans with the Compass trait. Fixed Humans with the Compass trait not stopping in a Dark Room. Fixed Humans with the Compass trait ignoring corpses. Fixed Mnemophobia Upgrade duplicating when discarded. Fixed room ambient SFX looping after loading a save slot. Fixed certain sounds not being affected by the audio settings. Fixed animation trigger for the upgraded Outmaneuver card. If you didnt find the fix or addition you were looking for, check out our just released plan for the near- and further future: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3179730/view/518587145533785022 And again, a big thank you for playing and all your feedback ❤️ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/01acd8813c74f3d2fa49bb6fe8a9b7bf5a8f9c6e.gifPatch V1.02 - Including balancing and pathfinder changesMay 8, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsAnother day, another batch of changes! If you've encountered any other bugs or crashes, you're always welcome to log them in the Steam Discussions, we'll have a look at them tomorrow! Changes Pathfinders can no longer spawn in rooms adjacent to the heart. Lowered remove card cost from 50 to 40 essence in the boss reward screen Reduced the card reroll initial cost from 50 to 25, and increased the increasing cost per reroll from 10 to 20 Automatically disable tutorials after the first run. Increased Tension multipliers from x1, x2, x3, x5 to x1, x2, x4, x6 Balancing of the first 2 boss nights Fixed Bugs Fixed a crash resulting from the Helpline trait on nights where the first wave is empty. Fixed achievements stop triggering for all except “Dealer’s Choice” and “Evolution”. Fixed cards not saving when returning to menu after adding one to the deck or upgrading. Fixed Dark Room effect not triggered. Fixed inaccurate unlocked modifiers on end screen. Fixed boss intro screen layout for different resolutions. Fixed locked door SFX. Fixed a typo in the Kinship trait description. Fixed French Drain highlight color. If you didnt find the fix or addition you were looking for, check out our just released plan for the near- and further future: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3179730/view/518587145533785022 And again, a big thank you for playing and all your feedback ❤️ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/4736aa6bc85b6fefc12bb5578c9edfc9657dc0bc.jpgHaunted Domain ExpansionMay 8, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsWe hope you all are enjoying Deck of Haunts and finding your inner terror! Deck of Haunts has hit its full release and we don't plan on letting everyone's essence go without terrifying additions! We are reading reviews (thanks for that!) and posts on the discussions hub all the time and we hear you! Based on all your feedback we've drafted up a priority next steps plan that we are now carrying out: Debuff the Pathfinders to skip a turn on spawning, and also not spawning into a room right next to the Heart. Add in more UI elements to bring the meta progression a bit more to the forefront. Rework the saving system to be more robust. Smoothing out balance: Focusing on drain cards and tension to be more on par with damage strategies Smoothing out balance: Rebalance of the bosswaves. Make card rerolls cheaper. Introduce more card tuning special nights Remove the intro cards at the start after the first play. And of course, fix as many of the bugs and crashes we can that you've been throwing our way! Aside from all that, we also have a plan on the long term, which you can see in the image below. Mind you, this can change still as we are constantly engaging with everyone's feedback. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/b26b7cd74b2ee6ea15784489697920ee6d30dd87.png Whether you're a deckbuilder fan, a horror lover, or just ready to embrace your darker side, it's time to become the nightmare. Deck of Haunts is available now on Steam.First patch is live! V1.01May 7, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsThanks to all the players already letting their haunted heart beat in their new sinister domain! Time for a first patch. If you've encountered any other bugs or crashes, you're always welcome to log them in the Steam Discussions, we'll have a look at them tomorrow! V1.01 Fixed Bugs Fixed Pinpricks cost to not reset when Banished or Sacrificed. Disabled Mouse Smoothing. Changes Prevent pathfinders from going straight into the heart the turn after they spawn by implementing an idle turn. Unlock Bell Crush at level 5 instead of level 10. Added invalid target and not enough AP messages when playing invalid cards. Added notification icon for new unlocked items in the collection. Credits expanded and added speed up when left mouse button is held down. And again, a big thank you ❤️ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/1e18643df8c9632e0d8f027f488180082aca13dd.pngOut Now On Steam! Deck of Haunts Opens Its Doors With a Sinister New TrailerMay 7, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsWelcome to your own haunted domain! We are excited to announce that Deck of Haunts, the roguelike deckbuilder that puts you in control of a vengeful haunted house, has officially launched today on Steam! To celebrate the release, we have unveiled a brand-new launch trailer that beckons players to embrace their inner villain and head into the madness. Working on this project with our 5-headed team for a little over a year, we are thrilled to share this experience with you! If you like Deck of Haunts, please consider giving it a review! Thank you for all the support! - Mantis Games About Deck of Haunts "Terror has a new address. Your deck is your weapon. Your house, the trap. Deck of Haunts lets you build the nightmare, one room at a time." {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/5321a7f8b41352aecadd2baf38b3536ac94b8c21.gif In Deck of Haunts, you are the haunted house. By day, meticulously construct your mansion room by room, placing traps, spirits, and eerie anomalies to build a twisting, cursed domain. As night falls, lure humans into your lair and let the haunting begin. With a deck of fear-inducing cards at your disposal, you'll bend reality, shift hallways, summon specters, and drive intruders to the brink of madness. Once their sanity shatters, you’ll extract their essence to fuel your growing power and expand your mansion. But your rise in infamy won’t go unchallenged. The more essence you claim, the stronger your enemies become, from skeptical police to holy exorcists and the ominous Stone Masons who seek to end your reign of terror. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/ad315d327db4f787804482f0c06183227e091463.gif Critics are already singing the game’s twisted praises: “A hauntingly addictive deck-building roguelite that had me hooked for hours on end!” - Central Comics "Deck of Haunts is a roguelike deckbuilder where you play as a malicious haunted house, and everyone should play it. It’s utter bliss." - VICE "A deckbuilder where you play as a haunted house is such a brilliant idea." - PC Gamer “Deck of Haunts makes you a literal haunted house in a fun twist on deckbuilding roguelikes.” - PCGamesN “A delightfully ghoulish roguelike that lets you build your own haunted house.” - Tech-Gaming.com "A gruesomely haunted builder that will steal your essence with a whisper and have you coming back for more." - Digital Logik “Insanely gleeful, grim, and impossible to put down.” - The Gaming Outsider {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/01acd8813c74f3d2fa49bb6fe8a9b7bf5a8f9c6e.gif Whether you're a deckbuilder fan, a horror lover, or just ready to embrace your darker side, it's time to become the nightmare. Deck of Haunts is available now on Steam. Deck of Haunts - Dev Blog #4 - VFX by Philippe MesottenApr 22, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHey ho! Philippe here, VFX artist (among other roles in our small team) for Deck of Haunts. For those of you not in the know, when I write VFX, I refer to Visual Effects. ✨ I've been pumping out explosions, sparks and magic for some years now, but never in this dark grungy and almost isometric style. (You can find more about the art style here) Real time visual effects are not only the cherry on top of everything else, but are also used to better convey gameplay elements towards the player. By combining elements from texturing, modeling, tech-art and animation, you can conjure up all sorts of interesting illusions to breathe life into the game world. The most important part doing VFX for Deck of Haunts, is that you have to put the emphasis on the player being the house. I had to keep this in mind with every particle effect I made, since it is really easy to fall into the trap of just making everything look "magical", rather than grounded in the house. To give you an example, this is the effect we had at the very early stages of the project, for "Shifting Hallways" AKA teleporting a human to a random room: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/764770fe79e58e580d2220a9c95881cd35b3d423.gif As you can see it has more something of a wizards finger snap & teleport, than the actual house doing something to the human. Here is a rework of the effect. Some planks coming out of the ground and pushing the human into another room: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/102c6820c595b91a8b8aca84c31ef162b1cd7581.gif Of course it all needs to go fast to not put a drag on gameplay. In our recently released "Release Date Trailer" you can see some of the effects that I loved making, for instance the dissolving of a card when it gets banished or the lightning storm towards the end of the video: Being a VFX artist, a lot of times that also means optimizing the game. Here you can see the before and after of a specific ground material. The less red, the better the performance. Profit! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/b404d3f0c0c19d1fb5749293913e12421de24f47.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/887f3049f4b5f715a43574d04c354252ea8792c6.jpg There are a ton more of effects I'd like to share with you, but... You'll have to play the game to find out what they all are, not spoiling any more ;). If you've made it until here, well done! Thank you for reading and I hope to see all your cool house builds on socials or on this hub, once the game is out 🖖 PS: Make sure to tell your friends to wishlist Deck of Haunts, it helps a ton! 🔔Blood Bar TycoonApr 17, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHey! Some friends of ours released their game, BLOOD BAR TYCOON, this February 2025! And guess what: it’s a super cool, darkly humorous tycoon game where you abduct humans to feed vampires! If you're into the DECK OF HAUNTS vibe, there's a good chance you'll love this too! They're an indie team, just like us, so be kind and show them some support. The game is currently on sale! Go check it out! Have a great day! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2776780/Blood_Bar_Tycoon/ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45227801/5be32aa6437385b6a577f532e17f62fe0c545aa8.jpgDeck of Haunts Releases on May 7, 2025!Apr 15, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsWe are excited to announce that Deck of Haunts will launch on May 7, 2025! Deck of Haunts is a sinister deckbuilding roguelike where players take on the role of a malevolent haunted house. In this eerie title, players build their mansion, lure unsuspecting humans into it, and terrify them into madness, or kill them, using a variety of haunting cards. A House of Horrors Await After refining its mechanics through demos and player feedback, Deck of Haunts is ready to unleash its frights for the full release, which includes a host of new horrors, including an expansive arsenal of haunt cards, a variety of mansion rooms to build with, human traits to exploit, and formidable new bosses. Features in the Full Version A Slew of Cards to Haunt With: A vast array of haunts at your disposal, from damage-dealing scares to tension-building tricks and cunning traps. Expansive Room Types to Build Your Mansion With: Design a nightmare maze with basic rooms like kitchens and bell towers, plus special chambers like the Phobia Room, Mechanical Room, and Sacrifice Room, each affecting gameplay in different ways. The Witch: Roaming the mansion, she inflicts terror on humans once she is summoned from the bell tower. Bosses Enter the Building: The Stonemasons return, but they won’t be alone. Three additional fearsome human adversaries will challenge your haunted rule. Human Traits and Items: Pesky humans bring more variety than ever, with traits like Pathfinder, Bleeder, and Frail, alongside new items like Pistols, Compasses, and Holy Books that alter their behavior in your mansion. Meta-Progression for Multiple Runs: Unlock new haunt cards, rooms, and human traits as you grow in power. Endless Mode: Unlockable after certain conditions are met, this mode lets you test your haunting prowess in an infinite nightmare. Reactions & Naming Visitors: Listen to their terrified quips as they navigate your cursed domain, and rename them for an extra bit of fun! 40 Steam Achievements: Prove yourself as the ultimate haunted house master with a variety of challenges. Prepare to haunt your victims with sinister strategies while growing your deck of cards and the mansion itself, ensuring every run is a different nightmare for those who dare to enter.Deck of Haunts - Dev Blog #3 - The Audio by Willem VerheugheMar 12, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHello there! I am Willem, a 3D Artist for Deck of Haunts, but alongside that, with our limited capacity, I have had the opportunity to delve deeper and work on something that has interested me for a while, Sound Design. It was a challenge but also a fun experience to learn while working on the Sound Effects in Deck of Haunts, so let's take a deeper dive into the process of making these creepy and twisted sounds you will hear in our Haunted Mansion. The process Starting off with no experience, I relied heavily on library sound effects. I slowly started building a library from free sfx (Sound Effects) I gathered online which I usually mixed together with some instrument plugins in Reaper and added sound effects on top of, such as equalizers, delays, reverbs, and so on. However, relying only on library sfx has its limitations. As the experience grew, so did my confidence in recording my own sounds. I started using props such as deck cards to create the sfx for the hover, selecting, and playing of the cards in game. I even started using my own voice. At the beginning it was a real challenge to not cringe when I started doing this, but using your own voice gives you more freedom. I used it to add some grunting noises to the human when they die, take damage, or when you turn them completely insane. However, my favorite recordings are the whispers of the house when playing your cards to torture or scare the humans inside. These whispers need to feel mysterious, spooky and scary. To achieve this, I recorded myself whispering some sentences in Latin or some gibberish. Usually I would record the same sentence a few times with different tone, speed, and loudness and throw these together in Reaper. There I overlap them, reverse some, and to make them all sound a bit more spooky, I add some pitch variation, some reverb, and delays on them. It's a fun process when you get the hang of it. Preventing chaos Working on the sound effects from a top down perspective, with an overview of the entire playing field, was quite the challenge. We have the awesome music tracks created by Aleks, the atmospheric background loops both indoors and outdoors, you have all the different rooms, the humans, and on top of that, you're playing cards, these also cast effects and VFX and so on... There is a lot going on, and that requires some balancing to prevent chaos. The main mechanics that helped me to create this hierarchy of sounds are the zoom and hover mechanic. The zoom is used to distinguish most of the ambient sounds inside of the house from the ambient sounds outside of the house. There are however too many rooms inside the house to play all of them at once, so for this we used the hover mechanic. Each special room has their own unique ambient loop in order to strengthen their identity that can be heard when you hover over these rooms Back to work! Now it’s time for me to return to the microphone and get creative with some newspapers and magazines, making some sounds for a ...Small demo patch including localizationFeb 25, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsFixed Bugs Fixed language setting dropdown displaying English instead of current language. Fixed tutorial toggle resetting when resetting the save file. Changes Nerfed pathfinders. Chinese and Dutch Localization update. Small patch for the Big demo update!Feb 21, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsChanges Nerfed pathfinders. Japanese, Chinese, German, and French Localization update. Fixed Bugs Fixed a text jitter issue for certain cards and languages. Fixed building card tooltip alignment. Card-based roguelike Deck of Haunts has a beefy new demo on SteamFeb 21, 2025 - PCGamesNThe beautiful thing about deckbuilding roguelikes is how much variety there is in the genre. Balatro proved that you can even take a classic like poker and turn it into a whole new thing, but sometimes you might want something a little more out there, and Deck of Haunts does just that. Right off the bat it'll remind you of tabletop games like Mansions of Madness, where you're trying to navigate a haunted house, except in this time around you are the haunted house. Neat twist! And it just got a beefier demo ahead of Steam Next Fest. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Play as a haunted survival horror mansion in Deck of Haunts, demo out now
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