Greetings!

It is time to raise the Order of the Griffin’s fortress into the skies once more. Stones Keeper: Director’s Cut is now available on Steam as a major free update for everyone who owns the game!

Director’s Cut completely transforms the original campaign. We have moved it to the upgraded engine behind Stones Keeper II: Chaos Lord, rewritten the story and dialogue, overhauled the visuals, added full animations, and significantly expanded the gameplay systems.

The story you know returns—but you have never seen it like this before.

• A rewritten story campaign — a revised narrative, reworked dialogue, redrawn cutscenes, and stronger ties to the events of Stones Keeper II: Chaos Lord;
  
• A world brought to life — new animations for every unit and character, as well as world map objects, the fortress interior, and the main menu;
  
• Enhanced gameplay — reworked controls, new Zone of Control and Backstab mechanics, expanded progression, and updated balance;
  
• More to discover in the campaign — new mercenaries, additional battles and rewards, reworked missions, and the opportunity to lead Princess Elizabeth into battle;
  
• New localizations — French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Italian, and Korean.

You can find the full list of changes in our previous announcement.

For us, Director’s Cut is an opportunity to make Stones Keeper the game we always wanted it to be—and to thank every player who has supported us from the very beginning.

We hope this renewed version gives longtime players a chance to rediscover the story of the Order of the Griffin while offering newcomers the perfect introduction to the series ahead of the release of Stones Keeper II: Chaos Lord.

The fate of the Order is once again in your hands. Raise the fortress into the skies—and prepare for battle!

If, for any reason, you would prefer not to update to Director’s Cut, you can still play the original version of the game.

To do so, select the original beta branch.

• Open Steam and go to your Library.
  
• Right-click Stones Keeper: Director’s Cut and select “Properties.”
  
• Select “Betas” from the menu on the left.
  
• From the list of available beta branches, select original.
  
• Wait for Steam to download the required files, then launch the game.

Hello everyone!

We’re excited to announce that Stones Keeper is getting a major free update on September 14. Essentially, it will be a remaster of the original game ahead of the release of its sequel — Stones Keeper II: Chaos Lord.

Our goal is to bring both games in the series up to the same standard of quality while finally giving something back to everyone who supported us by buying the original.

While working on the sequel, we made major improvements to the visuals, animations, gameplay, and storytelling. Now, we want to bring those improvements to the original Stones Keeper. You can look forward to fully animated units and a story campaign rewritten entirely from the ground up.

Technical changes:

• The entire Stones Keeper campaign ported to the upgraded engine used by Stones Keeper II;
  
• New mechanics: Zone of Control and Backstab;
  
• A complete overhaul of the controls to make them more intuitive and user-friendly;
  
• Unit progression expanded from 3 levels to 6;
  
• The number of talents increased from 9 to 15;
  
• Equipment available to the human faction in the campaign expanded from 1 tier to 3, with tier 3 unlocking midway through the game.

Visual changes:

• Full animation sets for every unit;
  
• Additional animations for unique units from the original game;
  
• Animated portraits for every character in dialogue scenes;
  
• Animated objects on the world map;
  
• An animated castle interior scene;
  
• New main menu animations.

Story changes:

• All story text and dialogue rewritten from the ground up;
  
• The story reworked to tie it more closely to Stones Keeper II: Chaos Lord and further expand the game’s lore;
  
• A new story character;
  
• Redrawn cutscenes.

Gameplay changes:

• Rebalanced in-game economy and resource distribution across the world map;
  
• Rebalanced experience point rewards across the world map;
  
• Enemy units rebalanced around the updated progression system;
  
• New repeatable battles in Chapter 3, allowing players to earn additional resources and experience points;
  
• Three new campaign mercenaries, recruited through new allies;
  
• New reward chests in nearly every campaign mission;
  
• Reworked gameplay in select missions. For example, the more difficult stealth missions featuring the Ranger will now allow players to make 2 or 3 mistakes, depending on the selected difficulty;
  
• Updated level design for select missions;
  
• The ability to play as Princess Elizabeth in 4 pivotal campaign missions. Because of a branching story path, only 3 of these missions will be available in a single playthrough;
  
• Numerous smaller gameplay adjustments, from ability stats to the debuffs inflicted by poison pools;
  
• Additional pirate ships on the world map, appearing earlier in the campaign;
  
• Earlier access to castle upgrades at the Workshop.

We can’t wait for you to see the update. We hope this revamped version will let longtime players experience the story of Stones Keeper anew, while giving newcomers the perfect introduction to the series ahead of the release of Stones Keeper II: Chaos Lord.