The Once Upon a Rogue's Tale demo has just received a major content update with The Frog Prince. Now is the perfect time to show off all the new features to as many people as possible!

• Play as Little Red Riding Hood or The Frog Prince
  
• Discover the first part of the story of both characters
  
• Try out over 10 different characters
  
• Unlock even more content between runs

Watch Sarah (one of the developers) play through the Frog Prince chapter and get an insight into the development of the game.

Dear Fairytale fans, not too long ago we released a major replayability update, but guess what... Another huge update has just dropped!

The Frog Prince Update is now live and introduces a new unlockable main character with a whole new chapter including new enemies, a new boss, new events, new playable characters, and much more.

• The first chapter of The Frog Prince

The Frog Prince wakes up one day with a strange feeling and notices that his skin has suddenly turned green. Not only that, but his entire body has been transformed into a frog! What has happened and how can he ever be a human again? It sounds like a new adventure is calling.

Notice: The Frog Prince is unlockable after your first run with Red Riding Hood. He will appear in Jeff's new Wish Shop when starting your new run - with a special demo discount!

• A new main character: The Frog Prince

The Frog Prince comes with two forms: A frog and a human form. You can switch between those two in battle, giving you more abilities to choose from! He works best against multiple enemies as he is very skilled with his sword (...and his frog legs).

• 6 new enemies
  
• 2 new playable characters
  
• 7 new events (including 2 character events)
  
• A new boss
  
• Over 30 new cards

Enemies
* Bat
* Mermaid
* Giant Dwarf Golem
* Multipede
* Grim Hermit
* Dripstone (?)

Playable Characters
* Brave Little Tailor
* Rumpelstiltskin

Events
* Three feathers
* Elves
* Snow White
* Brave Little Tailor
* Rumpelstiltskin
* Three Ways
* A trade in the cave

Boss
* Sophia (the crown princess of another land)

Handcards
* Magnificent Carriage
* Prince’s Shield
* Viscous Secretion
* Dive
* Servant of the Prince
* Servant’s Care
* Transformation Expert
* Negotiation
* Training
* 3 Iron Bands
* 2 Iron Bands
* 1 Iron Band
* Servant’s Joy
* Poison Misery
* I'll do that
* Quest Reward
* Tailor's Frivolity
* Royal Services
* Wild boar Test
* Unicorn test
* Giant Test
* The Tailor’s Belt
* Magical Feather
* Gold Spool
* Biggest Business
* Suitable Tinctures
* Installment Payment
* Confident Vendor
* Nasty Potion
* Great Equipment
* Straw to Gold

• Bug report button added to main menu
  
• Players starting the game for the first time receive 1 free wish
  
• Unlocking frog character costs 1 wish instead of 4 (in demo only)
  
• Misery cards always only give 1 status effect amount each
  
• After displaying all the event text a continue button shows up to trigger all the punishments and rewards
  
• The character selection now features a back button
  
• Some balancing changes
  
• Changed enemy behavior again so abilities aren’t repeated so often

• Fixed a major bug which caused events not to be able to close when a punishment get card and loose card is active and get card is selected first (Thanks Felix and user: “pooper32” (lol))
  
• Fixed a major bug that broke the game when too many buffs/debuffs are active on a character
  
• Fixed a major bug that at specific draw card moments the drawn cards are not interactable
  
• Fixed that sometimes the loop sound of targeting isn’t stopped
  
• Fixed a bug that breaks the tutorial at second turn roll on auto start up
  
• Fixed single card rewards not showing sometimes
  
• Fixed no image for poison apple
  
• Fixed localization bug of little high-born sir's third ability
  
• Fixed enemies getting defeated by thorns breaks action buttons of player characters
  
• Fixed intention displaying multiple attacks of enemies
  
• Fixed no triggers displaying in text when hovering alternative passives in shop
  
• Fixed that sometimes no character event appears on map
  
• Fixed transforming main character back doesn’t reset alternative passive
  
• Fixed character passive window showing up on start battle

Once Upon a Rogue’s Tale Patch Notes – V 0.3.0 (23.05.2024)

Dear Fairytale fans, a big demo update is waiting for you!
The Replayability Update is now live and, as the name suggests, comes with many new features and upgrades that will make your runs even more individual and offer new unlockable content.

New

• A brand new shop in between runs

Our goat Jeff found life as a simple goat that only eats cards too boring and decided to open his own store! This store features new unlockable passive abilities for your main character, new unlockable events and special one-time run upgrades for your next run. Later this will be the place where you also unlock new main characters and their adventures.
Notice: The shop will appear for the first time after your first run.

• A new resource: Wishes

After each battle, in addition to the typical battle rewards, a new bar will be filled up. When it is full, you will receive a wish that you can exchange in Jeff's new Wish Shop!

• New enemies: Little Witch and Little High-born Sir

(Little Witch will also be available as a buyable companion in the chapter 2 shop)

• New event requirements

You will now come across events where certain selection options are linked to requirements. These can be: Coins, health, team size, specific hand cards, specific characters in the team or previous events.

• New event punishments

Some of your decisions in events can now lead to you getting Misery Card, losing a certain card or transforming your main character into an animal.

• New type of handcards

We added so-called Misery Cards to the game. These cards are supposed to be unpleasant and block your deck. You can banish some of them, but this comes at a price…

• New Map Point: Character Event

A new icon now allows you to see immediately which event gives you the chance to get an additional character.

• Added a new panel to the Help-Section

Changes
We have removed one of the 3 character abilities because you will be able to unlock them later in the Early Access version. This will further increase strategic planning and make runs more unique.

• Adjusted Hansel’s and Gretel’s second ability
  
• Updated Help-Section Tutorial videos
  
• Changed the outcome of some events
  
• Changed handcard prices in the shop
  
• Some balancing changes
  
• Changed enemy behavior so abilities aren’t repeated so often
  
• Changed cursor size

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where you could break the game through pressing enter repeatedly
  
• Fixed a save game bug
  
• Fixed a bug where an enemy could still attack you after being defeated
  
• Fixed inventory button showing up when receiving a punishment during events
  
• Fixed a bug that could occur very rarely where a die rolls indefinitely
  
• Fixed a bug where dice and money didn’t reset after starting a new run
  
• Lots of visual bug fixes
  
• Lots of localization bug fixes

Once Upon a Rogue’s Tale Patch Notes – V 0.2.1 (26.04.2024)

New

• Interactive tutorial!

An interactive tutorial will start the first time you start a run. You can always play the tutorial again from the main menu. It's skippable of course.


Removed

• Removed unusable status effects from cards that give random status effects (like tendrils or beans)

Changes

• Changed ability set of “The Wolf”
  
• Handcard “Improved Bowstring” counts as rare now
  
• Handcard “Gold Ass” now costs 2 dice
  
• Level 2 passive of “Wild Boar” now also gives block to the Wild Boar

Bug Fixes

• Fixed clicking fast multiple times at the restsite can give you multiple healing
  
• Fixed Voice Lines not stopping when entering settings or main menu
  
• Fixed lots of sound bugs
  
• Fixed lots of description bugs
  
• Fixed bug when scrolling while the book is opened
  
• Fixed enemy intentions not updating when receiving buffs or debuffs
  
• Fixed wrong enemy intention icon when they will parry

Hey everyone,

it's that time again. We can show off brand new gameplay, right in time for the steam deckbuilding festival. Join in and watch Sarah (one of the developers) playing the game and talking about the development!

Have fun and enjoy!

Hey everyone,

it's finally here. The official demo of Once Upon a Rogue's Tale is now available to play!
We hope that you will enjoy the game as much as we do. We will continue working on the demo while its online to get you new content and fix those nasty bugs you might encounter.

Have fun!

Once Upon a Rogue’s Tale Patch Notes – V 0.2.0 (23.03.2024)

New

• More fairytale events including “The poor and the rich”, “Rübezahl” and a bunch more
  
• Punishments for some event decisions
  
• Requirements for health and coins in event decisions
  
• Save-system that automatically saves after each finished map node
  
• Intro animation
  
• Tutorial slides in pause menu and main menu
  
• Ability for players to change dice use order by dragging in dice bar
  
• Splash screen with collaborators
  
• More sound effects
  
• Finalized custom music
  
• Volume settings for music
  
• Exchanged all prototype graphics with awesome artworks
  
• Scrolling in map with mouse wheel
  
• Visual indicators for status effects on characters
  
• More playable characters
  
• More different rewards for fights and events
  
• "Select all dice" button
  
• Right click on characters for more information
  
• Credits

Removed

• Enemy cards with prototype graphics, Little Witch, Little high-born Sir
  
• Some hand cards with prototype graphics
  
• Strength status effect (do +50% damage)
  
• Weak status effect (do -50% damage)
  
• Vulnerable status effect (receive +50% damage)

Changes

• MASSIVE overhaul of status effects (Trigger and use)
  
• Incentive and disarmed have new names: strength and weakness
  
• Balancing of characters and handcards (costs, effects, requirements…)
  
• Shop has now only one purchaseable die per act
  
• Reward visuals
  
• Handcards can be inspected on start turn
  
• Character defeat now kicks them out of party and can only be used again after healing
  
• Detailed description windows of characters passive ability

Bug Fixes

• Fixed game freeze at boss fight
  
• Fixed scrolling map through menus
  
• Fixed characters sliding after ability use
  
• Fixed defeated enemies still attacking
  
• Fixed burn card effect restarting when two characters are defeated in short succession
  
• Fixed book not closing after pressing button
  
• Fixed cards not being discarded after play

Hey everyone,

it's time for our first stream of Once Upon a Rogue's Tale gameplay! Join in and watch Sarah playing the game and talking about the development!

Have lots of fun!

Once Upon a Rogue’s Tale Patch Notes – V 0.1.9 (27.02.2024)

New

• Chapter 2 of Red Riding Hood
  
• Sound & Music (still prototype)
  
• New Language: German
  
• German voice lines for intro and outro texts
  
• Main Menu with simple settings
  
• Rest site: Character Selection
  
• End of Battle rewards
  
• New Event: Meet the Gingerbread Witch and Hansel & Gretel
  
• Lots of new handcards
  
• Handcard inventory
  
• New Enemies: Angry Villager, Village Warden, Shield Guard, Spear Guard, Guard Commander, Little high-born Sir, Gingerbread Man, Tidy Rat, Little Witch, Snow white
  
• Visual clues for thorns and parry
  
• Popup when you want to skip rewards
  
• Some new particles and effects
  
• Turn-banners

Changes

• Complete overhaul of all characters, enemies and handcards
  
• New starter deck for Red Riding Hood
  
• Normal enemies are now purchasable in the shop
  
• Special playable Characters are only obtainable through boss or event battles
  
• Goat in shop can now eat cards
  
• Reworked dice display on the left: Now there’s one die icon for each class and a small counter of how many dice you have of one class
  
• Most cards that gave you joker dice now give you random dice
  
• Detailed descriptions of handcards that spawn perma cards now show the perma card effect

Bug Fixes

• Fixed targeting system of enemies after swapping characters
  
• Fixed enraged and fearful not working for players
  
• Fixed all bugs related to character swapping
  
• Fixed wrong button highlights in events
  
• Fixed perma cards not banishing themselves
  
• Fixed lots of overlapping or wrong text
  
• Fixed dice scene not freezing when no dice available
  
• Fixed characters sometimes turning into other character at end of battle
  
• Fixed Quit Game button not working
  
• Fixed ending screen not showing when dying in boss- or event battle