We're almost ready to release the long awaited difficulty update, but in the meantime we have a small update for you!

To celebrate the Lunar New Year, we decided to add a new creature to the game!

The Equinos is horse-like creature that is notoriously difficult to control.

Since this is the year of the fire horse, we found it fitting to make a creature inspired by a horse while still making it unique and coherent to Decktamer's world.

This creature's moveset is pretty unique, we hope you'll find interesting!

But wait, there's more!

A lot of people have requested a way to disable the battle text boxes which can be quite long, especially in Endless mode where you can stack many abilities on your card.

Some people even managed to create cards that kill the enemy in a single turn, simply by placing the card on the board! As you can imagine, a lot of talents are involved in these scenarios, and thus, a lot of text boxes.

To fix this issue, we are introducing the Fast Forward button!

As it name suggests, the Fast Forward button (Shift on keyboard or Square / X on controller) will accelerate the speed of the game when you hold it down, allowing you to selectively choose to skip "boring" parts of the battle while continuing on normal speed when things get more interesting for you.

By default, you need to hold the button to enable the Fast Forward, but you can also make it a toggle-able option in the settings if you'd rather press the button once to enable/disable it.

Additionally, you can configure at which speed the game fast forwards (twice the normal speed by default)

We hope this will make your endless runs more enjoyable!

Selecting which boss to fight and preparing for it is a huge part of the deckbuilding strategy in Decktamer... But what if you wanted to be surprised by which boss appears at the end?

The dice button lets you select a random boss between those that you have unlocked.That's right, we've added the ability to select a random boss when starting a new run! This means that you won't know in advance what your last battle will be (if you select this option, of course) :)

And for the Boss Rush mode, you can choose to randomize the boss order too!

We hope you'll like this small update! Like mentioned earlier, we're almost ready to release the difficulty update so thank you for your patience in the meantime.

With that being said, thank you for your support and happy Lunar New Year! 🧧✨

Your Decktamer Team

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2870340/Decktamer/

The first Creature Contest was wild - and it’s officially paying off in-game. 🐛

The contest winners have arrived in Decktamer: Chompillar, Orcarill, and the Ouroboros Eel are now part of the world (with a few tweaks so they fit the roster perfectly). Huge thanks again to everyone who participated - seeing community ideas become real creatures was genuinely awesome.

Submit a brand-new creature concept, make it to the finals, and the winner gets implemented into the game. 🐉⚔️

1️⃣ Join our Discord[discord.gg]

2️⃣ Go to #creature-contest-2

3️⃣ Create one post per creature (you can submit multiple - just make multiple posts!)

4️⃣ Final winner will be chosen through a Discord-wide voting round

✅ Your creature must be a wild creature that can appear in regular encounters.

🚫 No special creatures (nothing like the former human / the aberration).

🚫 No evolutions (so no starters).

🧵 1 creature = 1 forum post.

🗳️ Round 1 runs until February 14 (Valentine's day how romantic 🌹)

👪 We (the dev team) will pick 3 finalists from Round 1.

📢 Round 2 will be a community vote to determine the final winner.

🚫 No AI in submissions. If your submission uses AI (especially AI images), it won’t be eligible. We want to avoid the final design being influenced by AI visuals in any way.

✅ You can repost creatures from the first contest - but if your original post included an AI image, repost it without the image to be eligible.

Mandatory

• A description of the creature’s design

• No AI (otherwise it can’t move to Round 2)

Optional (but encouraged!)

• Creature name

• References (art made by someone else is fine)

• Sketches

• Danger level (1–4)

• Wild behavior / bestiary-style info

• Move/talent ideas (anything that fits Decktamer’s style)

If your creature wins, we may adjust certain elements for production/balance — but we’ll stay in contact with you so your vision stays intact.

And just like last time: the winning creature will be drawn from scratch by us to match Decktamer’s art direction, so don’t worry if you’re not an artist. This contest is about concept, not execution.