I’m absolutely thrilled to reveal the Steam page and announce trailer for Blood Builder!

This is Growlery Games’ second title, and it’s one that I’m extremely passionate about. Life sim games are a genre that I love to play on my own time, and I’ve always been infatuated with vampires. So, bringing these two things together in this dark, yet cozy game is very satisfying.

This update adds new content, some effects, and a balancing fix. One of the focuses was providing a way to overcome the dreaded Bound effect, which prevents you from leaving the mine early. To that end, an event (Guardian Angel) and a card (Mysterious Scroll) were added as methods of removing the effect, but they’re not easy to come by.

It’s been one week since the release of Risk & Riches. Thank you to everyone who has purchased the game and supported Growlery Games!

Most of the feedback has been positive, but a major bug was discovered (situational, but it causes a crash), and there were a couple of design elements that I wanted to improve. So here’s the first post-launch update to Risk & Riches.

Grab your pickaxe or six-shooter, it’s time to delve into an abandoned gold mine infested with monsters, cultists, and folkloric creatures to gain gold, build up a thriving town to unlock characters and upgrades, and ultimately rid the mine of the evil within.

Risk & Riches releases today at 12:00 p.m. Eastern.

It’s been a long and eventful journey, but Risk & Riches is only two weeks away from its 1.0 release. Well, today, I am releasing the 1.0 version of the demo, which is, as you might imagine, in line with the 1.0 full release. So, the demo is an exact reflection of the upcoming release other than the content locked within the demo. Thank you to everyone that’s been a part of the journey so far in any capacity.

For the last regular update ahead of Steam Next Fest I’ve focused on balancing the Gunslinger. It was possible to complete the first Circle of Hell with her in the Demo, but she started to fall off a bit in later Circles so she got beefed up. Regular updates will go on pause until after March 3rd so that the Demo remains stable during Next Fest. At this point, there isn’t much more to do for the Demo anyway (maybe a rewrite of the Tutorial to reduce the amount of text). I’m continuing development on the rest of the game, and even that is almost done with the exception of Steam Achievements and a little bit of polish here and there. There is one known bug that I’ll be fixing, but it does not interfere with gameplay.

Changelog for Build 0.8.5.

To start things off in January, the demo is getting a few major updates. A new playable character has been added, a tutorial has been added, an intro scene has been added to provide some story, a new multi-slot save system has been implemented (which wasn’t originally planned for the demo), and many of the cards have been adjusted slightly for balancing, most notably, almost all of the Utility cards have had their energy costs adjusted.

I hope you’re having a terrific holiday season and end of the year! I’m here to tell you that Risk & Riches has entered its final phase of development and it’s all about polishing for the next couple of months. You can look forward to an updated demo early next year and the full release in March 2025!