Hello Heroes, we hope you're doing okay!
Here, it's summer, and we're still working hard on DLC 3 of The Last Spell, and we're making great progress! Now that we have more visibility on what we still have left to do for this DLC, we want to give you an update on the release window, and the future of The Last Spell.
So, DLC 3 when??
As we mentioned several times before, DLC 3 is VERY different from the Elves and Dwarves DLC. We can't give you specific details yet, but we're aiming to add brand-new systems that will give exciting new challenges for all players!
While working on the Dwarves and Elves, we wanted to enrich the existing systems we had spent so much time building. This allowed us to bring in new content without changing too much of what you already enjoy :) (well, we DID rework the whole Apoc system)
However, for DLC 3, adding new systems and challenges (that affect the entire game) means we need to work on THE WHOLE content of the game (Yes, our designers are crazy, don't get one at home). This is a huge task, but a VERY exciting one.
Finally, we want this DLC to be great for players. (more on that later) The last thing we want is to release a rushed DLC, because that's not something we'd be proud of.
This is why DLC 3 will be released early 2026. This will give us the time we need to fine-tune everything, and make sure it's up to the standards that we're setting for this game and our players :)
We thank you for your patience <3
DLC 3... will be the final DLC of The Last Spell
We also want to take this opportunity to make an announcement about the future of The Last Spell. We started to work on the game in early 2019, more than 6 years ago. And, as we've kept on working on the game after its 1.0 release, our goal was to bring as much new content for players as possible AND as long as it made sense for us, creatively speaking.
Although we're very proud of the work we did on the races, we decided to take a different direction for DLC3, one that brings more challenges to players. We’ve been reading the many comments, feedback, and reviews, and we made the decision to offer something different than Elves and Dwarves for DLC 3. We hope our players will like this new approach!
We've also made the decision that this DLC would be the final DLC of The Last Spell. There are several reasons for that:
The original plan was to make 5 races. However, after Dwarves and Elves, we realized that if we want players’ expectations to be met, new races would need to be made in a new game and not as DLCs.
For example, we’re aware players have been asking us for new enemies and bosses into the game, but that is not possible as it would have taken us a lot of resources because the base content of the game is very complex and high quality. And making new (and good!) content on top of a system that was not made to get new content requires a lot of work.
Making more DLCs for The Last Spell will end up being more and more costly everytime we want new ideas, because the game is not infinitely extensible, and we don’t want to produce content just for the sake of making new content.
We'll need people working on TLS to work on our future game (wink wink) next year.
This is why we took the decision of making DLC 3 the FINAL DLC of The Last Spell. This doesn't mean we will not release any more update after its release, but they will mostly be focused on bugfix and small balancing patches if there needs some.
We want to make it clear that even though this DLC will be very ambitious with a lot of work involved, it will be one that, we hope, will make our players proud of what we're doing. We wouldn't be here if it weren't for you, so thank you <3 We're definitely intending to go with a bang for this last DLC ;)
It's been such an honour to work on this amazing game, and we promise, this will be worth it.
Thank you for all the love and support <3