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Druidstone The Secret of the Menhir Forest

 
Update Notes for Version 1.2.12Sep 10, 2021 - Community AnnouncementsBug fix: Game fails to recreate config file if the file has a syntax error Bug fix: Game may crash when rapidly interacting with the imp after solving his riddle in The Basement Bug fix: Game may crash under rare conditions when an enemy is killed by fireball launcher trap in The Prisoner Bug fix: Rare crash in final battle when the map is very crowded Bug fix: Final boss' Space Distortion special ability could fail when the map is very crowded Update notes for 1.2.10Aug 2, 2021 - Community AnnouncementsBug fix: game may crash when using Forest Remembers to rewind time in Battle of the Sanctuary mission Bug fix: Smoldering Crossbow's Oil Shot ability has a double word "Deals 2 fire fire damage" Update 1.2.7 released!Dec 11, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsDetails: Fixed rare crash bug in the necromancer mission, which could happen when a Skeleton Boss and Necromancer where killed by the same action. Fixed bug which could cause the screen to be rendered with wrong aspect ratio in windowed mode. Added option to send bug reports to the error dialog. If you encounter a bug, please send a bug report by clicking the Send button in the error dialog. Thanks for the feedback and have fun!The best strategy games on PCNov 6, 2020 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Looking back at it now, 2020 doesn’t feel like a banner year for strategy games, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t been a few gems. The list below – gathered by a panel of experts and regularly updated – contains games from as recently as 12 months ago alongside classics from as far back as 28 years ago. They’re all games we think you could play and love right now. (more…) The best strategy games on PCJan 29, 2020 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun For a time it looked as though strategy games had sunk into a kind of deathly malaise, unsure which territory to claim next and which ones it should leave well and truly alone. Fast forward to 2020, though, and strategy games have never looked healthier, which is why we’ve compiled this best strategy games list of all time. Whether you want to conquer the depths of space, wage historical warfare or hulk around in big mechanical robots, there’s a strategy game for you below. (more…) The best strategy games on PCNov 25, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun You’ll ocassionally find someone on the internet sounding off about how the strategy genre is dead. If you see such a person in the future, send them this list of the best strategy games ever made. (more…) Daily Deal - Druidstone: The Secret of the Menhir Forest, 40% OffAug 25, 2019 - AnnouncementToday's Deal: Save 40% on Druidstone: The Secret of the Menhir Forest!* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Thursday at 10AM Pacific Time Major Update: Level Editor!Aug 21, 2019 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33939820/91c8ce78f53dd708a255647fcd4a3980eac8d216.png Druidstone just got a built-in level editor & modding support! Build new levels, add new weapons and equipment, create custom monsters and abilities. When you're ready publish your mod on Steam Workshop. With full Lua scripting support with over 2000 functions, the only limit is your imagination. https://youtu.be/yzEuug0hm5M Tutorial videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY5OZPsccbrWooeM8sHzo17TM79FJhJu1 Official modding documentation: https://github.com/ctrlaltninja/druidstone_modding/wiki Happy modding! Wot I Think Druidstone: The Secret of the Menhir ForestJun 5, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Developer: Ctrl Alt Ninja Publisher: Ctrl Alt Ninja Release: Out now On: Windows From: Steam, GOG, Official Site Price: 19.50/$24/ 21 I can go one of two ways with turn-based tactics games. Give me something like XCOM, where you re thrown situations full of random variables and asked to make the best of them with inadequate resources, and I ll go at it like John Henry, digging away in a doomed attempt to beat the machine. Give me something like Into The Breach, however, where there s less element of chance and victory is achieved via careful planning and well, I ll love it. Until I realise I m being tricked into enjoying chess, that is, at which point I ll drop it like someone who s found an eyelid in their burger. (more…) Build 1.0.18 released!May 19, 2019 - Community AnnouncementsA new build with cinematic skipping as a new feature, along with some bug fixes. Changelog for 1.0.18: Cinematics can be skipped by pressing ESC twice Clarified Eight Winds description Added missing description for Oghmi's special ability Bug fix: game sometimes (rarely) crashes when a mob received elemental damage (e.g. fire, lightning or cold damage) Bug fix: enemies with Steal Spell ability target invisible heroes Thanks to all for the feedback!Build 1.0.17 released!May 17, 2019 - Community AnnouncementsA new build with bug fixes and balancing tweaks. Thanks to all for the feedback! Changes: Show a friendlier message in case there are no audio devices enabled in Windows Locked doors which should be locked in Deathtrap Dungeon and The Dark Ritual Balancing tweaks to Willow Flute Balanced spellbooks Added missing range to the description of Regenerate Bug fix: Dodge ability's Counter-attack powers deals incorrect damage Bug fix: it's possible to melee attack through portcullises in The Oak Shield's Demand under certain conditions Bug fix: game crashes when Stirling uses a potion on himself Bug fix: game crashes with "render.lua:0: material not defined: default" error sometimes when a mob has multiple conditions Bug fix: game crashes in The Void in certain conditions Bug fix: In The Young Usurper the explosives will go off even after they have been disabled Bug fix: the health of Darkness Orbs in Ritual of the Moon is inconsistent after restarting the mission Bug fix: game crashes when a Shido commits suicide by whilwinding an exploding barrel Bug fix: shortcut for tactical mode does not work while an ability dialog is displayed Bug fix: "Unused Action Point Warning" and "Confirm Friendly Fire" options don't work Bug fix: fixed warning "undefined animation 'stand_up' for object 'xxx'" when using focused revive Bug fix: fixed "can't invert a singular matrix" error, which can occur in The Shido in Trouble in certain conditions Build 1.0.15 released!May 16, 2019 - Community AnnouncementsChanges in 1.0.15: Addressed issue with NvAPI_D3D11_SetDepthBoundsTest failing (please report if you still encounter this!) Added option for disabling screen edge scrolling (default off) Bug fix: game crashes with error "Could not get path for user document folder" if the Documents folder does not exist Bug fix: scrolling the view with arrow key cancels targetting mode Bug fix: game crashes in The Dark Ritual in certain conditions when Pocket Watch is used Bug fix: crash when Frost Hammer's Ice ability is used on an unoccupied square Bug fix: Magebane's AI gets stuck in The Young Usurper and other missions Thanks to everybody for the feedback and bug reports! We are working on the skip cinematic feature which hopefully will be added in the next patch. Have fun!Now Available on Steam - Druidstone: The Secret of the Menhir Forest, 5% off!May 15, 2019 - Product ReleaseDruidstone: The Secret of the Menhir Forest is Now Available on Steam and is 5% off!* A tactical, turn-based RPG from the makers of Legend of Grimrock games. Every action, every turn counts as you control your party of heroes through challenging, handcrafted missions in the ancient, mist-clad Menhir Forest. *Offer ends May 22 at 10AM Pacific Time Grimrock vets launch turn-based tactics 'em up DruidstoneMay 15, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Some of the team behind ace dungeon-crawler Legend Of Grimrock have broken John (RPS in peace). That’s John Walker, renown strategy disliker, who said that Druidstone: The Secret Of Menhir Forest felt “like something special”. Those words and more are in his Druidstone preview, which has blown my initial misgivings out of the water and made me want to devote my whole evening to it. That’s convenient, because it just came out. (more…) The Legend of Grimrock devs are back with Druidstone, a new tabletop-inspired tactical RPGMay 14, 2019 - PC GamerI was surrounded on all sides. I'd managed to rescue the prisoner, but now we had to fight our way back out of the dungeon. Reinforcements poured in from the south, so I sent my beleaguered party north. When we made it to a room with pressure plates and fireball-spewing statues, more reinforcements spawned at the entrance and quickly closed in. Druidstone owes much of its tactical gameplay to tabletop RPGs and board games, such as Dungeons & Dragons and HeroQuest What followed was a harrowing, tense turn, as I carefully positioned my warden for a whirlwind strike, blasted out a fireball with my acolyte, and tried to figure out what I could do with a useless unarmed prisoner. That’s when I remembered the pressure plates, and smiled as I noticed the bad guys were standing pretty close to those statues. He may have been unarmed, but his legs were working just fine. That wasn't the first dungeon escapade I just barely scraped through in Druidstone: The Secret of Menhir Forest, a new tactical RPG from the creators of Legend of Grimrock. Druidstone is out on May 15, and though it's not a first-person, grid-based dungeon crawler, it shares much of the DNA that made the Grimrock games so good . The lush fantasy art style, stirring orchestral soundtrack, and carefully balanced level design all survived the transition to a strategic top-down RPG. The Legend of Druidstone For Druidstone to be born, The Legend of Gimrock had to die. Or at least be shelved for the time being. "Grimrock 1 and 2 took over four years to make, and we poured our hearts and souls into those games," says Juho Salila, art director for Druidstone and the Grimrock series. "It would be a massive task to make Grimrock 3 and improve the game as Grimrock 2 improved Grimrock 1. We needed a break from that world." The team at Almost Human began to break up, with many developers moving on to other projects. "At some point Petri and I started talking about prototyping games just for fun," says Salila. "After doing several prototypes it got more serious and we started a new company to make Druidstone. We didn’t feel the pressure of doing another Grimrock game with the new company." The Grimrock games sold well enough to help fund the development of Druidstone. As with Grimrock the developers avoided Early Access, and crowdfunding remains difficult in Finland. "We were also not that keen on the overhead caused by the crowdfunding process," says Salila. "We want to make games, not post t-shirts and stickers all over the world." During Druidstone’s early stages the gameplay evolved substantially. The biggest change: Every level was once procedurally generated. "We really wanted to make the game work with procedurally generated levels," says Häkkinen."I guess we fell into the old ‘Hey, let’s make a level generator and we don’t need to do any level design’ ...Druidstone, a new RPG by Legend of Grimrock devs, releases next monthApr 28, 2019 - PC GamerFollowing a stint in beta, Druidstone: The Secret of the Menhir Forest will release on Steam on May 15. It's an isometric RPG with tactical, turn-based combat, created by a small team with experience working on the Legend of Grimrock series. Andy seemed pretty keen on the idea back when the game was announced in 2017. In addition to the usual grid-based, stats-oriented combat, there's quite a bit of puzzle-solving in the world of Elo Shpaera. Centred around protagonists Leonhard, Aava and Oiko, these adventurers are tasked with investigating a disappeared Archdruid, as well as the menacing proliferation of weird purple cysts throughout the Menhir Forest. The game is available to pre-order if you like. There's a new trailer below: Druidstone: The Secret Of The Menhir Forest is making me take RPG battles seriouslyDec 12, 2018 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun The last thing I was expecting Druidstone: The Secret Of The Menhir Forest to remind me of was a deck-builder. Not least because it doesn’t feature any decks. And yet, there’s something about this deeply tactical isometric RPG, from Legend Of Grimrock’s creators, that contains the same spirit of gradually gaining a deeper and more refined understanding of a limited set of tools, through repeated failure, and incremental improvement. This is at first glance a very traditional turned-based RPG – much as Grimrock recalled the glory days of the first-person dungeon crawler, this visually suggested memories of late-90s BioWare-ish battling. But playing it, it quickly becomes apparent this isn’t going to be a game that lets you spam your most powerful attacks at repeated mobs, but rather something that’s going to demand a lot more planning, a lot more forethought. This is going to be tough. (more…) Druidstone is a tactical RPG from ex-Grimrock folk due early 2019Nov 15, 2018 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunBlimey, there’s lots of RPGs with turn-based tactical combat around lately, and Druidstone: The Secret Of The Menhir Forest (from Ctrl Alt Ninja, some of the folks behind Legend Of Grimrock) looks especially interesting. It’s a story driven, party-scale isometric RPG with a focus on grid based combat, minus the statistical bloat common in the genre. The game was first announced back in April last year, although its final scope wasn’t quite clear back then. Now it’s set to launch in spring 2019, only a few months off. Take a peek at it in action in the trailer below. (more…)

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