Ahoy, players and welcome new Beta Testers! 🏝️

A new Closed Beta Demo version has been released, and we've granted access to even more players to test the game!

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The best place to leave your reports and suggestions is our Discord server, where you can report bugs and join the discussions.

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Please keep in mind that this is a Closed Beta of the game's Demo version, and it only includes a small portion of the full experience.

Now for the fun part! We've got a fresh batch of updates and improvements to share.

Changelog

✨ Features and improvements

• The game now features two different modes: Explorer and Survivalist.

• New game settings have been added, such as audio volume control.

• Added new dialogues with battle challengers.

• Forage packs have been added and can now be purchased on any island.

• The capture bonus is now more visible when holding a food card to tame a Deckling, along with an icon showing the Deckling’s food preference.

• Added hint text with information about status effects and stats when you hover over move cards and creature cards during battle.

• Added extra hints to the information window when hovering over specific cards, such as eggs, incubators, and the flying ship.

🧩 Gameplay Changes and balancing:

• Wild Deckling battles can now occur when exploring bushes. After the battle, a corresponding pack is given as a reward.

• Elemental Experience items have been replaced with Elemental Fruits. These fruits now have a very high chance of taming wild Decklings of the same element.

• Food now provides greater HP recovery.

• Resources no longer have a respawn cooldown, making resource management even more important.

• Several assets have been updated, including art, icons, UI, items, resources, recipes, and battle cards.

• Some interface elements have been repositioned for better usability.

• Unused items have been removed in this version.

• The inventory now has 16 card slots and opens automatically when hovering the cursor over the “open” tab while holding a valid card.

• The info box for starter Decklings no longer appears on the selection screen.

• The creature glossary now shows only creatures available in this version.

• Battle scaling mechanics have been improved.

• The equipment icon’s location on the creature card has been changed.

🛠️ Bug Fixes and Localization:

• General text and Brazilian Portuguese localization adjustments.

• Fixed a bunch of battle bugs, including bugs that prevented the battle from ending.

• Fixed a bunch of incorrect text tokens showing on the info window.

Thanks to everyone who’s been sending feedback and reporting bugs, as you can see, it really helps us keep refining the game!

🔧 Common Issues and Solutions:

When I run the game, it says Missing exe file. If you have issues running the game using the first option, but it works in Compatibility Mode, do the following. Go to your game library, right-click Decklings Playtest Icon and select Properties. On the pop-up window, select Installed files and click Verify Files Integrity. Please reach out to us on Discord if you keep experiencing the issue after this.

The game is locked on the Loading Screen with the Dark Lizard Games Logo. This issue is probably caused by incompatible or unupdated graphics card drivers. Try running the game in Compatibility Mode(the second option on the pop-up screen when you run the game) and update your graphics drivers.

Thank you, sailors, for all the support, feedback, and help keeping our ship on course! We remain focused on delivering the best for you. 

Thanks for supporting the project,

Dark Lizard Games