Developer Leonardo Interactive has taken to the Steam page of single-player deck-building RPG Shattered Heaven to outline some of its gameplay elements. While the previous dev diaries were dedicated to characters and their unique features, the new entries focus on dungeon exploration and progression.
The game will be arriving on April 19th, so it’s the perfect time to see how Shattered Heaven will be tackling its procedural dungeons. Be it a distant kingdom, an ancient city or the depths of the earth, you will have to face many perils and try to find the balance between greed and your own safety.
According to the blog post, the dungeons in Shattered Heaven are divided into several floors, each with their own unique conditions and challenges. You can even attempt to conquer some optional tasks for a chance of rarer loot. While exploring, you will also run into events:
- Simple Events usually offer both positives and negatives outcomes, often requiring you to take a leap of faith and hope for victory;
- Trap Events are going to deal direct damage to your characters, but you can try to avoid them or use your tools for a chance to disable them;
- Arcana Events are very powerful and rare events that will grant you a sizable advantage in your explorations: being able to see what lies ahead, healing your party, even giving you power loot like trinkets!
- Blasphemous Events are the most dreaded sight when you are delving deep in unexplored territories.
Pyres of Vesta will grant you a safe haven and allow you to refill your potions and heal your characters. And if you don’t need rest, you can also get rid of unwanted cards or draft new Neutral cards while you are resting close to the Pyre, helping you make your strategies more efficient.
When it comes to progression and power ups, it’s time to explore the Equinox Cathedral – the main hub of the game – and check out all the ways to further empower the characters! Here are some of them:
- Hero Cards – Every time you come back to the Cathedral after a successful mission, you’ll unlock a brand-new set of powerful Hero Cards varying in skills, rarity and cost;
- Skill Points – These precious resources will be spent in the Talents section to grant powerful active and passive abilities. You will also be able to improve your basic stats such as maximum HP and Shields;
- Dark Forge – This is where you will unlock a variety of helpful perks, such as improving the effectiveness of your healing items, adding extra slots for rare cards in your deck and so on! These upgrades are extremely impressive and can only be obtained with Dark Bones, the currency from challenging rewards.
ABOUT SHATTERED HEAVEN:
In the world of Shattered Heaven, only a select few have survived the fall of God. The only way to break the following curse is to offer a Vestal and a team of valiant warriors as a sacrifice for a ritual lost in time: a violent and bloody battle known as the War of Ascension. But which of the four factions will reach salvation and which are doomed to fall?
