Esports28 Apr 2023Soulash 2 AnnouncementGreetings fellow gods, As many of you may know, I've been able to commit myself fully to game development for the past year, and I've been hard at work on the sequel to Soulash. I've decided to begin a new project to redesign it from the ground up with all the features I had in mind during the failed Kickstarter in 2021, with all the stretch goals we had at the time - procedural world and histo…
Greetings fellow gods, Quick hotfix today to address the crafting menu crash. Changed - Resting and sleeping no longer closes the Crafting Screen. Fixed - Fixed crash in Crafting Screen when hovering over Heavy Crossbow. Edit: Hotfix 1.0.12.2 fixes the issue related to rest until healed and sleep not being canceled correctly.
Greetings fellow gods, Today's update addresses some bugs and improvements reported on the official Soulash Discord server, as well as a new unique item - Deck of Entities, a single-use item designed by Sinful, one of our Patrons , that can provide a random benefit or disadvantage. See the full changelog below: Added - New unique item Deck of Entities designed by Sinful. - The delete key will n…
Greetings fellow gods, We have a new update today, with a unique item designed by Sinful, one of our Patrons , a bunch of fixes, and QoL improvements. Changelog below: Added - New unique item, Gauntlet of the Lich Lord - designed by Sinful. - Added Unarmed, Improvised, and Natural weapon types to available ability requirements. - Added the possibility to increase or decrease the craft counter…
Greetings fellow gods, Today as we start the Going Rogue Festival on Steam with a 20% discount on Soulash, we have some very special treats for you in our latest v1.0.10 update. This new patch brings 2 major additions - Difficulty Settings before starting a new game, and data tables for modding. We have 4 tweaks that you can customize for both Easy and Hard difficulty modes. For easy difficulty…
Greetings fellow gods, Soulash v1.0.9 is now live and it features Mushman, a new playable race designed by one of our Patrons - Thorvall, a Lizardman race buff, crafting improvements, auto pickup of shot arrows, and other fixes and improvements. Full changelog below: Added - New playable race - Mushman, designed by Thorvall! - Added Clean Up action icon on the equipment screen when a liquid con…
Greetings fellow gods, It took me a while, but I finally got to implement the font selection and sizes in the options, including support for adding additional fonts through mods. There are a couple of other important changes in this patch, like leveling multiple times at once now provides an ability for each level. Thank you all for sticking around and I hope you're enjoying the game! Added - A…
Greetings fellow gods, A couple of QoL improvements, buff to Bear Trap & Flame Pillar, and a bunch of fixes in today's patch. Added - Added Dialogues tab in the message log to filter out other messages than dialogues. - Added Cheat Console key to Keymap in Options, requires a printable character. - Added ability bar second tab, togglable with left ctrl key (available in Keymap settings). Change…
The next update brings 2 new artifacts, new actions allowing to sleep through the day/night, buff to staves, and lots of fixes. As usual, some of the changes will not apply to already generated worlds. Added - New Artifact: Hood of a Thousand Eyes - designed by one of our Patrons - OccultOnion! - New Artifact: Smid's Hammer - New actions "Sleep until small hours" and "Sleep until evening". - Ad…
Greetings fellow gods, A very important hotfix today, addressing some of the major issues! Added - Added more inks and papers to some enemies. - Added Thorvall to available dwarf NPC names. - Added a list of unique physical features for mutant NPCs. Changed - Increased default tile dimensions on higher resolutions. - Iron Bars no longer leave iron ingots upon destruction. - Fishmen no longer In…
Added - Support for numpad keys in crafting screen input. - Added information about tool quality on crafting recipes. Changed - Changed tiles for Cave Ascent, Cave Descend, Dirt Wall to help identify them easier. - Wheat flour and bread recipes are now available from the start. - Abilities and items with neutralize effect, like Cleanse or Antidote can now be used when under fear effect. - Chang…
Changed - Improved durability of some early game melee weapons. (applies only to new games) - Necromancer starts with a Command allies ability on action bar. - Crafting count limited to 1 - 100 on Crafting screen. Fixed - Reduced time to craft Linen. (applies only to new games) - Changed the old "Only death would await you there!" message to a more accurate message. - Clicking drag action butto…
Greetings fellow gods, v1.0.1, a quick hotfix has just been deployed targetting mainly some of the issues with graphics mod setup, more to come. - Fixed rare crash on god death. - Fixed core gfx mod not loading by default in some cases when only the demo was played before. And added additional checks to make sure core gfx is loaded after core. - Fixed Army of death achievement to unlock with 30…
Greetings fellow gods, The time has come to conquer the world! Soulash v1.0 is now available on Steam and Itch, with the long-awaited graphics mod, Steam Workshop, Leaderboards, and Achievements! Below is the full changelog for the 1.0 release: Added · Core gfx mod with pixelart tileset. Both core and core_gfx should be enabled unless someone would like to continue to play ASCII. · Steam Worksh…
Greetings fellow gods, This is the last planned minor patch before the 1.0 release scheduled for the 4th of March, introducing a new playable race designed by DeltaBoss, one of our Patrons! The patch focuses on quality of life updates, and overall polishing. If you've missed the new trailer, you can watch it below Just 3 more weeks to go! Below are patch notes that are relevant for the demo: Ad…
Greetings fellow gods, The time of reckoning is upon us! The long-awaited Soulash v1.0 will be released on Itch and Steam on the 4th of March 2022, including the graphics known from the Steam demo, Steam Workshop integration, Leaderboards, and Achievements. The price will be set at 14.99$. It's been a long road to get here, and the date is very special to me personally, as almost exactly five y…
Greetings fellow gods, A long overdue update to the demo has just been released, bumping the October v0.6.0.7 version to v0.7.2.1, matching the latest alpha released today. Below are some of the more significant changes that happened along the way: Added - Two new playable races Djinn and Abomination - Crop goblins are lurking in the wheat fields. - Added switch for "Directional" movement based…
Greetings fellow gods, Today I have for you a little preview of our world in Soulash that you will get to conquer when the game releases on Steam in early 2022. The video contains minor spoilers, as it reveals two major areas in the game. Our overall progress remains on track and we'll be announcing a modding contest very soon, for access to Steam Closed Beta. We hope to get a couple of people…
Greetings fellow gods, This patch updates the demo version with the latest alpha version fixes introduced in v0.5.4 and v0.6.0, including the Golem playable race designed by one of our Patrons . The patch also fixes some stability issues in the demo related to missing entities, which we were able to catch thanks to your crash and bug reports. You can find the patch notes here: - v0.5.4 changelo…
Greetings fellow gods, As some of you might be interested to know more about me, my plans for the game, or how Soulash came to be, there's a very nice interview I had with Blind. If you don't know Blind, he's an amazing content creator on YouTube. He has plenty of long-form interviews with many great developers, he has a lot of news about the upcoming Dwarf Fortress Steam version you will proba…
Greetings fellow gods, This patch updates the demo version with the latest alpha version fixes, including 3 new playable races designed by our Patrons: Demons, Bone Wraiths, and Lizardmen. This patch includes fixes from the following patches: - v0.5.1 changelog - v0.5.2 changelog - v0.5.3 changelog - also v0.5.3.1 and v0.5.3.2 hotfixes. I would like to thank everyone who tried the demo and subm…
Greetings fellow gods, Path notes for the demo v0.6.0.3 update can be found below: Added - Added info about looking at tiles on cursor position that will display at the start of every game until the look action is performed at least once. - Added back the use key in the backpack for items that give access to abilities. It will assign the ability to action bar either in the first empty slot or o…
Greeting fellow gods, We have reached the final 3 days of our Kickstarter campaign , and we're still missing ~34% of our funding goal to create the graphics mod for the full game of Soulash. Finishing this graphics mod will be a necessity to release the game on Steam, and we could use your help. If you've been enjoying the demo, consider contributing to the campaign, maybe pick up one of the un…
Greetings fellow gods, As there's a lot of questions about where the game is and what needs to happen before we get to the 1.0 release, I've prepared a draft of a roadmap to clarify what's before us. Where is Soulash now So starting from where we are. Soulash has been developed over the past 4 years and it's in an alpha state for the past 2. It's available in ASCII only version right now, and w…
Greetings fellow gods, As this is the first announcement related to the game, let me explain what is Soulash about. In this game, you'll be playing as a long-forgotten god who came back to the mortal world to destroy it. At the beginning of your game, you'll be relatively weak. You just took over a host body of a mortal (or kind of a mortal, when we look at a vampire or lich) to sustain your pr…
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