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The deckbuilding brawler. Backdraft is a hero vs hero roguelike battle for board control. Draft your deck, summon your minions, and unleash game-flipping combos. Conquer the six realms solo, or challenge your friends online.

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Backdraft v1.2 - Turn up the Heat

Nov 11

Heat Level Rework
- Expanded Adventure difficulty from 5 Heat Levels to 10.
- Heat Level can be selected when choosing Random Heroes.
- Heat unlocks are now shared across all heroes.
- Win at your highest unlocked Heat Level to unlock the next level for everyone.
- Each hero keeps their own completion record, shown in Adventure setup and the Collection.
- Existing progress carries over. Completing the previous maximum of Heat 5 unlocks Heat 6.

Heat Levels
1. Opponents have 15% more health.
2. Opponents have more card upgrades.
3. Opponents carry an extra artifact.
4. Opponents deal +2 damage while below half health.
5. Player starts with 1 less life.
6. Opponents can have rarer cards.
7. Opponents can carry stronger artifacts.
8. Opponents have a second companion.
9. Opponents play more strategically.
10. The final opponent has an extra life.

Adventure Setup
- Redesigned setup with collapsible Hero, Difficulty, and Companion selections.
- Improved keyboard and controller navigation, transitions, and layout.
- Clarified Companion Element selection and the unlock rewards.

Balance Changes
- Standard Adventure is slightly harder overall, with stronger opponent decks in later realms.
- Adjusted opponent calculation to place slightly more value on defeating Minions.

Shop & Card Removal
- You can now leave the Sacrifice encounter without using every removal, including the second removal from Chopping Block.
- Keyboard and controller focus now starts on shop offers.
- Selected shop offers now have a clear gold outline.
- Unaffordable offers remain selectable so you can inspect them.

Visual & UI
- New chest opening effects and animation.
- Enemy ember effects now appear only against opponents in Endless.

Bug Fixes
- Fixed UI overlap in the map headings.
- Fixed excess spacing when viewing unowned heroes in the Collection.
- Fixed controller defaulting to the FIGHT button.

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Nourish enchant

Is it intentional design that nourish healing isnt applied if the enemy hero dies?

tycrus

2 hours ago

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Backdraft v1.1 - Endless Mode Arrives

Nov 6

Endless Mode
- After conquering all six realms, choose Continue on the victory screen to enter Endless with your deck.
- Follow a new red portal route beyond the final chest, with your total wins and next opponent shown in the shop.
- You have one life. Extra lives do not carry over, and Lifeline is no longer offered.
- Endless is intentionally quite hard. Consider it a success to even get a few more wins.
- Opponents start with two lives and gain another every three Endless wins.
- Their decks and artifact collections grow stronger as you progress.
- Endless opponents follow the same difficulty progression at every Heat Level.
- Attacks and Minions can now be upgraded beyond Legendary between fights, gaining +1 damage per additional level.
- Your normal victory rewards are secured before entering.
- The Heroes Collection now shows each hero's Endless Record across all Heat Levels.

Save Compatibility
- We recommend finishing your current run before updating.
- Unfinished runs from the previous version may fail to resume or resume with different cards or upgrades.
- Your collection, unlocks, achievements, and run history are preserved.

Hero & Element Progression
- Winning with an owned hero now unlocks a random remaining hero at any Heat Level.
- All five secondary elements are now selectable for owned heroes without needing a prior win with that pairing.
- Completed pairings now show checkmarks in Adventure setup and the Collection.

Pack Changes
- Enchant Pack: Added Arctic Voyage and Counterfeit.
- Shard Pack: Removed Snowball Effect. (Bug Fix)

Visual & UI
- Added a "Screen Shake" option in Settings.
- Large numbers of remaining lives now use a compact heart counter.

Bug Fixes
- Fixed Two Peas giving future Magic Mirrors unintended upgrades.
- Two Peas now explains its upgrade effect in the duplication screen.
- Fixed clipped bottom card rows in Magic Mirror, Wishing Well, Monster Lair, and card removal.

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Backdraft Content Roadmap: What's Coming Next

Nov 5

Backdraft is in active development. Here's what we're working on next: Endless mode, Versus draft mode, Steam Deck support and more.

Longer runs are one of your biggest requests, so Endless mode comes first: win all six realms, then keep going against tougher and tougher rivals.

Tell us what you want to see next on our Discord: https://discord.gg/Vc7FBh9gzZ

See the full roadmap any time at https://backdraft.gg/roadmap

Thanks for playing!
The Legacy Labs team

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2 people found this review helpful

Recommended

2.1 hrs on record

Posted: November 11

Eh... I'll be honest... I'm not really seeing myself...

...putting this one down any time soon - It's great!

Backdraft has unexpectedly nice polish - charming art style, nice animations. Gameplay wise, plenty of options and synergies to experiment with. Matches can swing wildly depending on card draws and combos. The minion system seems well done and unique for the genre. Has many familiar roguelike deckbuilder features you've come to expect, but differentiates itself enough to stand on it's own.

My only current gripe is - I would love to see more game modes; especially one with path choices like you'd typically see in StS types. Other than that, no real complaints. Hope to see more content in the future (cards, heroes, modes, etc.).

Capraticus

1,438 products in account

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Wraith

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5 people found this review helpful

Recommended

2.1 hrs on record

Posted: November 5

New to deckbuilder games - Bought this for Adventure mode as the demo was really fun! love the pacing of Adventure mode. The combat lengths real good, and the shopping between rounds is really fun. I also really like that cards can be upgraded multiple times and have multiple enchants on them. Makes broken runs extra broken.

Y.Liu

4 people found this review helpful

Recommended

12.0 hrs on record

Posted: November 4

I like it so far, enjoyed the demo getting to heat 3 or 4 on the two characters. Played mostly on the Lenovo Legion Go S (SteamOS) and it runs great. I do think that price wise it's a little high for the current feature set (vs STS or Monster Train) - though I don't play multiplayer and that seems to be more of a focus. There are great combos to find and a good strategy opportunities. Personally I think it needs a big bad at the end to round out the fights, and more cards that interact with minions with other effects than command or give block. Would love to see something like the ability to combine minions, stacking them into powerhouses for instance.

JaLeRo

326 products in account

Achievements are not counted outside the game

Hej there. I completed two runs of the game and gained three achievements for it. I can see them in the ingame menu, but they are not synced into my steam account. Here i still have no achievements gained. Furthermore if i could get it correctly: i think i get a crash exit every time i exit the game. Everytime i close the game i see a quick unity crash report blinking into existence trying to collect the crash log report?...

Raziel

Nov 4 @ 9:10am

Bugs & Suggestions

NO MINION PACKS?

I think your "randomization" of pack/non-pack options in the store between rounds needs to have a guaranteed number of minion packs. I had 0 problems with this in the demo. How can I be expected to beat anything if I only ever have 1 friggin minion? $20 of stupid. Ok. rant over. I'll check back after a few more runs to update this....

theillusionary

4 hours ago

General Discussions

is it really just the same 1 act?

this info probably saves a lot of refunds :(

voodoov

Nov 3 @ 3:33pm

General Discussions

Character playstyle differences/uniqueness?

I want to start off by saying that i like the game. I knoiw that there are different elements/factions, each with their own card pools/specialties. I am wondering if the dev team has considered/are open to the idea of making characters (even in the samne faction), play differently. Something like making each characters starter ability be different/more impactful. That and maybe even being able to improve it in one of several directions/branches as a run goes on. I personally think this could be quite fun,...

Hujulius

Nov 9 @ 1:33am

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