With our Kickstarter done and the game released, we have a bunch of overstock left. Now's your last chance to get these great items... now at a discount! Please help us clear our homes of these goods by accepting them into yours!
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Welcome to Sovereign Tea's permanent Halloween Update! We are so excited to finally release this much-awaited update to the masses. To start, this update comprises post-game content, unlocked after beating Level 25 and viewing the credits. Consider it a reward for our earliest players and motivation for our newest ones.
After the events of the main game, a spooky and fun costume party is underway. Attending this event in costume are Masala Chai as a witch, Silver Needle as a vampire, Mate as an angel, Yuenyeung as a devil, and Matcha as a pumpkin. Instant is also in attendance, though she is not in an outfit. Overall, a merry time is being had by all partygoers, full of laughs and love.
Instant reveals her real intention for showing up to the party: to warn everybody about a disastrous situation unfolding within the Milky Woods. The Milky Woods are unique in their ability to seemingly produce corrupt Coffee Minions without the direct influence of a Coffee Regent. These minions, unlike others, do not discriminate between friend and foe, only caring for one thing: destruction.
It is up to you in this new, Level 26, to brew an army large enough to deal with the threat before you. This level is very different from the others in the game in that your Tea Princesses (and Yuenyeung!) will leave the battlefield after the first turn. To compensate for this, you are given unlimited Brew and Move actions with your commanders, allowing you to place behind an extremely large force to deal with the threat.
A new slew of units are available to you, including the most demanded Tea Minion of all, the Pumpkin Spice Latte. The enemy also has a number of cute (and/or scary) new units to throw your way.
All in all, we hope this update gets you super duper excited about October and hyped for Halloween! Thank you so much for playing our game, and please enjoy this very special update.
It's been a bit since our last update when v1.3.0 of Sovereign Tea was released. Much has happened since, and much will continue to happen (despite our earlier predictions of updates stagnating...) so let's get right to it.
As you probably have seen on social media, there have been two updates to the game since we last spoke. The full, collected patch notes of v1.3.1 and v1.3.2 are below:
Features
Gameplay
Bugfixes
As you probably have seen, a fun and free content update is coming to the game. The Halloween Update comes out on October 1st! We are adding a 26th level to the game. There is a prerequisite to access this new content, however: You will have to beat the game first.
This is a bold move on our behalf, as not everybody has beaten the game yet. Even more, generally speaking, the number of people who beat your game is going to be less than the number of people who play your game. So this begs the question, why produce content that is likely to only be seen by a subset of all players, rather than content that will be seen by everybody?
Narrative is the main culprit. We want this new level to take place after the events of the main game. This cascades into gameplay, as it enables us a wider breadth of units we can use.
It's been fun watching this game get picked up by more and more people! We hope you've been enjoying the game, and we hope you look forward to playing Level 26 on October 1st!
Good day, everybody! The latest update to Sovereign Tea is now released! There's quite a lot that went into this update, too much to state in just this update, so please refer to our update notes on either Steam or Itchio for more information. The shortlist of most important updates are as follow:
A lot of our remaining inventory, particularly the teas, are now sold out, but we still have plenty of other overstock goods still available for sale! Please visit our overstock inventory store to place your orders. Once the items are sold, they're gone.
Time for something truly bizarre! Ads for our game are now featured in Food Delivery Battle, a VRoid-compatible bicycle delivery game. If it feels like a random addition to this update, that's because it is. Even still, pretty cool to see! We think the key art makes for a fun and cute billboard.
We're prototyping something. That's all we have to report for now. Stay tuned...
That's everything for now. For the Americans among us (which is most of you) we hope you have a relaxing Labor Day weekend!
Hello again, friends. Sovereign Tea has been out for a month now, can you believe it? We've also shipped out all our physical rewards, so what's left to say at this point? As it turns out, a lot more than we would have ever thought.
As alluded to in a previous update, we have a storefront available now to sell off our overstock inventory! We're still hosting it on BackerKit, ironically using their "pre-orders" system, since all the shipping profile information and banking information was already in place. You can visit the store now if you want to pick up some goods you may have missed out on. You'll have to act fast, as there is very limited remaining supply.
Some of you may inevitably be wondering why there's a sale when you, as backers, paid full price up front. That is a reasonable question, and we hope to provide an equally reasonable answer. When you backed the campaign, filled out the survey, and selected add-ons, you were guaranteed to receive those items. The quantity of goods we ordered, with ample buffer room, was based on your collective responses. With this store, we don't have a guarantee on these goods: once they're gone, they're gone.
It is specifically the aforementioned buffer we ordered that is being sold here. To incentivize others, especially those who didn't back the project, we are putting them on sale. As a bonus for backers such as yourself, we are notifying you first and foremost. Tomorrow we'll post news of this store going live on our social media, but for tonight you and only you know of its existence. Essentially, you get first dibs!
If you wanted more of our physical rewards, you can place your orders through BackerKit: https://sovereigntea.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
Originally, we were working on another patch to the game, the v1.2.1 patch. It was meant to include small, but useful, new features and fixes:
This already was a borderline v1.3 patch given those features, but those features were all reasonably small and easy to add. Unfortunately, life is not always so simple. Due to continued feedback that Level 16 is difficult, even after our initial fix in a previous patch, we took another, more dramatic, stab at the level.
There were two issues with this level:
As you can imagine, this is quite difficult to balance! Our broad goal design-wise was to always allow the player to "pop off" if they could figure out these killer combos, but we also don't want the level to be designed around needing to know how to do those combos with maximum efficiency. As this is Level 16 of 25, we do expect the player to know the basics of play by this point in the game. Our goals thus came down to:
We'll have more details on these exact changes when the patch goes out, which should be this week. We were aiming to release a few days ago, but due to personal and unexpected circumstances among team members, we had to delay. Thank you for your understanding.
What if we had a special Halloween update that did the following?
Would you enjoy something like that? Let us know! We're really considering it.
We hope you've enjoyed this update! Please let us know your thoughts on the above here or on social media. Until next time!