Playtest Round 2 Announcement for KumaWelt 1: Honey Frontier

Introduction

Today we are starting playtest round 2 for KumaWelt 1: Honey Frontier (version 0.5.0) on Steam.

Free playtest access will be granted automatically from April 16 to April 23.
You can find the “join playtest” button on the Steam store page.

Here are major changes we introduced in this version.

Artifacts: Select an artifact out of 3 options when completing a level.
Basic permanent growth: Get up to 20% crit rate and 40% crit damage as you gain commander mastery levels.
Chessboard-based progression: You can choose to fight more levels in a tour for a more filled backpack of artifacts. But beware, mobs will be stronger.

Join our Discord server and tell us your ideas.

Also, the Community Hub on Steam is a nice place to post your ideas.

In this round of playtest, we are particularly interested in learning new ideas on permanent growth, replayability, and combat style variations.

Here are some thoughts that we intend to explore in future.

Art style revamp: Towers and mobs may adopt the pixel style.
Mutators: In Hard/Crucial difficulty, daily challenge will have random mutators that give mobs specializations in various ways.
Climate-based effects: Climate will affect towers and mobs. For example, in a Snowland level, mobs will be slower.