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Press release:
Moscow, June 3rd, 2020 – AYGames, Buka Entertainment and WhisperGames are today very happy and excited to announce that their hardcore story-driven RPG/card game “Deck of Ashes” is coming to Steam on June 9th.

The game by the Russian studio AY Games has been in development for two and a half years and while in Early Access the dev team added a plenty of adjustments and improvements – many of them through the constant contact with the game community.

To celebrate the long-awaited full release of the game on the 9th of June, the developers agreed to share their experience and to reveal the background of Deck of Ashes in the form of the “diaries” while carefully respecting the self-isolation and quarantine measures.

In the first of two parts, you will:

Learn the game basics,

Find out where the developers find their inspiration

Get a glimpse of developing process

Discover the special Day one bonuses for fans!

Deck of Ashes. Developer Diary – Part I https://youtu.be/isMSF2WyiKg

Deck of Ashes has been in Steam Early Access since April 2019 – and is increasingly popular among the card battler fans keen to share with the developers a huge amount of feedback!

The release version of the game brings you many improvements including:

New character with a new story campaign and three card archetypes

The epilogue to conclude the game story

Full Russian localization

The special “Day one Edition” will be available for only two weeks following the release on June 9. This edition comes with digital bonuses such as the expanded art book, HD wallpapers, all character skins and the personal gratitude from the dev team!

Deck of Ashes on Steam — https://store.steampowered.com/app/1016730/Deck_of_Ashes/

About Deck of Ashes:

Deck of Ashes is a hardcore story-driven RPG with a procedurally-generated game world and the card-based tactical combat system. The player takes the role of one of four antiheros and he finds and creates new cards in order to collect the powerful deck of cards and to defeat enemies in the turn-based tactical battles.

Every character’s story is unique so there are four separate story campaigns and starting each of these campaigns generates a new game world! It is up to you do decide where to go, which enemy to fight next and what resources to collect to create cards. There are more than 100 cards in the game and players can mix them to create the unique decks and combat styles!

Key features:

The eerie world of dark fantasy. All character, monsters and locations are hand-drawn!

Four main characters – four story campaigns.

Incredibly replayable! Every new game will be unique due to the procedurally generated game world.

Insanely huge number of card combinations. Collect and create cards to fit your play-style.

Biomes with various monsters: each biome affects the gameplay differently and inhabited by unique foes!

The death is permanent in the finest tradition of a roguelike genre. Once dead you’re dead forever unless… you use the Black magic

Background:

Before the fateful event known as the Ash Curse, the Rogues had been the most dangerous gang out there. The whole world despised them and they were not hesitating to return the favor.

They had been relentlessly killing and plundering with no mercy to the rich nor to the poor. Spoiled by their luck, gold and impunity they quickly delved into the deep of madness. Then the Rogues wished to obtain the most powerful artifact – the Ash Box.

Their search brought them to the Valley of Death. However, once they were so close to the artifact no one agreed to share it with others! One of the Rogues managed to grab the box but it slipped out his hands and shattered on the floor.

The cloud of Ash raised to the skies poisoning and spoiling every living thing on the face of the world. Each of the Rouges is yet to pay biggest price for their ignorance though. As the whole world suffers greatly under the Ash Curse – only the Rogues can break it…