Update: it’s 9pm now so we’re going to clock out. Thanks for your questions! We’ll drop by again in the morning and may be able to answer a couple more.
Hello! We’re Failbetter Games, and we just launched our new game on Kickstarter, so it seemed like a good day to do an AMA!
Mask of the Rose is a romantic visual novel which takes place in Victorian London, not long after the city was carried away by bats.
Mask of the Rose is a love story. It’s also a game in which you explore the city, create disguises, investigate a murder, and work as a census-taker on behalf of the Mysterious Masters of the Bazaar, who now seem to be in charge.
If you’ve played our previous games, you might recognise the setting – Mask of the Rose is a sort of prequel to Fallen London, Sunless Sea, and Sunless Skies. It’s the first time we’ve made a visual novel, though! Fallen London is a text-based browser game, and the Sunless games are RPGs where …
With the latest patch, Legends of Runeterra released a single-player mode called “Lab of Legends”. You start with one of 8 pre-con decks and a random power and you have to beat a series of AIs with special abilities. You add and upgrade cards in your deck after each win.
This is experimental and it’s VERY far from Slay the Spire or Monster Train at this time. There’s only a single path with the same 9 enemies. There’s only one difficulty level and it’s not too hard to beat. The enemies mostly play like bots playing a card game rather than the enemy AI in the more polished roguelikes. But it does share the experience of creating powerful combos with random powers.
The best part is this is completely free. Your card collection (or lack thereof) has no effect on this mode and there are no microtransactions for it. You will even earn …