Henriquejr spotted a new free DLC for Urtuk: The Desolation:

Free DLC available now!

I am pleased to announce that Urtuk gets a free DLC content!

Hello all!

After some time, and no updates in several months, I am really pleased that Urtuk is now getting a new content in the free DLC!
We have worked on it for some time now, so sorry for not posting any updates during that time.

So what's in the new content update?
In a nutshell:

• new faction - The Shattered
• new biome the Obsidian
• 30 minutes of new music
• new events, items, objectives, boss maps, game mechanics, and steam achievements
• lots of improvements, balances and fixes
• you can read all the changes and additions in the changelog located in the steam forum.

The new Shattered event is present already in first zone, and you will encounter them quite quickly!
I don't want to spoil the story behind them, so it's up to you to discover more.
However, after fulfilling a special event, you can even unlock them as playable faction!

Please note that the DLC content has been integrated directly into base game, so you don't have to do anything to get this update! Just make sure steam is automatically updating Urtuk.
Unfortunately, with this major update, your saves won't be backwards compatible (sorry!).
The version of Urtuk with the DLC integrated is 1.0.0+81.

With this special day we will be also running a 20% discount for several days!

I hope you'll enjoy the content, and please make sure you'll give us feedback on the new stuff, so we can improve it further! (Best place is steam forum or our discord)

David

Zim checked out Urtuk: The Desolation:

Should you play Urtuk?

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Explorminate reviewed Urtuk: The Desolation:

Urtuk: The Desolation Review

Urtuk: The Desolation (Urtuk) by David Kaleta (also known as Mad Sheep Studios) is a turn-based tactical strategy game where you play a character named Urtuk, who has just escaped from a lab after being subjected to horrific experiments that will eventually kill him. Now he is searching for a cure, and will steadily recruit allies from the world at large to use in tactical turn-based battles in pursuit of his survival. 
Overview

Urtuk begins with character selection, letting you pick three characters from one of the available factions. In the beginning, only the human faction is unlocked, but every faction in the game is available in one form or another once the conditions required to unlock them are met. Additionally, you pick three mutations to start with. The bulk of them are available from the start but winning with a faction unlocks three more, and some can be obtained through faction unlocks are found nowhere else in the game. 

Characters are defined by their class, stats, equipment, mutations, and their bonus capabilities vs. a randomized, specific unit class. Class determines a lot about a character, including what they can equip, starting and developed abilities, and what actions they can take. The mix of these is always unique, and no two character classes start from the same point, though some of them can end up at similar endpoints. For example, there are multiple classes that feature the billhook weapon and many of them have the ability to close a greater distance than is indicated by their movement rating, then locking down an opponent with the Engaging Strikes ability. Armor and weapons also determine what kind of damage the character will do, how effective they will be vs. armor, and finally how many bonus mutations their gear provides.

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Conclusion

Urtuk: The Desolation is very good. While it is not perfect, and that is perhaps philosophically impossible to achieve anyway, it does a lot of things right and is a very enjoyable experience. I have enjoyed my time with the game and fully expect to get dozens, if not hundreds, of more hours of the game in years to come. It is something I can easily suggest to most any turn-based tactical RPG aficionado, and will (hopefully) make many of them very, very happy.  

Thanks Henriquejr!

The turn-based RPG Urtuk: The Desolation has left Early Access. The Turn Based Lovers checked it out:

Urtuk: The Desolation | Tactical RPG | Gameplay First Look

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The TurnBasedLovers checked out Urtuk: The Desolation:

Urtuk: The Desolation Hands-on

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING URTUK

One thing is certain: Urtuk is not a lucky guy. Why?
Let’s start from the beginning.

I don’t think we need to say something about his name… “Urtuk” is one of the ugliest name you can imagine for a person, a name that even a minor demon should consider offensive. With a name like that his childhood can’t have been easy…

But, as I said above, the name is just the beginning (well, probably not the best one…), because the rest of the story is even worse.
Indeed we know that, at the beginning of the game, our dear Urtuk is imprisoned without a reason and not in a “model prison”, but in a gloomy, dirty a stinking cell.
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Enough? Absolutely not, because someone decides to do some sort of evil and obscure experiment with Urtuk’s poor body and, mind you, we aren’t talking about the “good old torture”; no way, I mean that kind of experiments that make you wish for death!
But, exactly when all seems lost and his death seems near, here comes a little light of hopes in the form of an unexpected help: an old friend breaks in the prison and free Urtuk!
Finally a bit of luck, are you wondering?
Not exactly, I have to give you one last bad news: in the world of Urtuk there are no women…

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The open world, tactical turn-based RPG Urtuk: The Desolation got a new character class:

Another week has passed and we are here with lots of improvements, balancing, tweaks and additions. Also we've added a new Vampire class which will wreck you if not handled in time!

-> The changelog what has been done for the last week.

DasTactic checked out the tactic RPG Urtuk: The Desolation:

Urtuk ~ 01 How to Play

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Urtuk The Desolation is an awesome indie title with great yet simple tactical battles and a beautiful art-style. Thoroughly enjoying my time with this game. The campaign map and tactical maps are all procedurally generated.

The Early Access version of Urtuk: The Desolation is now available on Steam:

Urtuk: The Desolation

Urtuk is an open-world RPG with tactical turn-based battles in a dark, low fantasy world.

Journey with a band of adventurers across an old, destroyed world. Fight your way through harsh environments. Recruit new followers, loot gear. Try to survive.

Features

• Survival RPG with focus on combat and world exploration in a dark fantasy world
• Tactical turn-based combat with large maps, and environmental tactical options and carefully throughout class/skill system
• Procedurally generated survival campaign
• Upgrade your characters with extracts from fallen enemies
• Hand-drawn graphical assets, from the world-map to battlefield, along with all characters and map objects

Story

The world in the game is a place of pain, suffering and darkness, set with (light) fantasy features. Urtuk is the name of main character. His story begins when he escaped from the Senatorium, a place where medical experiments take place on common people.

Urtuk has suffered a mortal disease, a mutation in the Senatorium. With every day, his health condition worsenes.. Now he searches for a cure in the world. It's only a matter of time, when his mutation evolves to a level, when he finally dies.

The world is set into dark, grimy theme. There are no classic fantasy beings like elfs, dwarfs or dragons, nor powerful magic, although there are some light magical features involved.

Many centuries ago, there were powerful Giants roaming the world. They lived peacefully with humans until a war between Man and Giant began.

Now the Giants are extinct. Some years ago, few librarians studied the bones and remains of ancient Giants. They did experiments and found out, they can extract a mystical fluid from their remains - Life Essense. With this, they could add many beneficial elements into human body. Not yet known, what exact impact this fluid on a human has, the experiments continue.. Very often, instead of improving the health condition of the targe, an opposite effect would take place, inflicting a mutation or lethal disease. This was the case of Urtuk.

Northernlion checked out Urtuk: The Desolation, which will enter Early Access on Friday:

Tactical Strategy RPG - Urtuk: The Desolation (Northernlion Tries)

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Urtuk: The Desolation now has a Steam page.

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Urtuk is an open-world RPG with tactical turn-based battles in a dark, low fantasy world.

Journey with a band of adventurers across an old, destroyed world. Fight your way through harsh environments. Recruit new followers, loot gear. Try to survive.

Features

• Survival RPG with focus on combat and world exploration in a dark fantasy world
• Tactical turn-based combat with large maps, and environmental tactical options and carefully throughout class/skill system
• Procedurally generated survival campaign
• Upgrade your characters with extracts from fallen enemies
• Hand-drawn graphical assets, from the world-map to battlefield, along with all characters and map objects

Story

The world in the game is a place of pain, suffering and darkness, set with (light) fantasy features. Urtuk is the name of main character. His story begins when he escaped from the Senatorium, a place where medical experiments take place on common people.

Urtuk has suffered a mortal disease, a mutation in the Senatorium. With every day, his health condition worsenes.. Now he searches for a cure in the world. It's only a matter of time, when his mutation evolves to a level, when he finally dies.

The world is set into dark, grimy theme. There are no classic fantasy beings like elfs, dwarfs or dragons, nor powerful magic, although there are some light magical features involved.

Many centuries ago, there were powerful Giants roaming the world. They lived peacefully with humans until a war between Man and Giant began.

Now the Giants are extinct. Some years ago, few librarians studied the bones and remains of ancient Giants. They did experiments and found out, they can extract a mystical fluid from their remains - Life Essense. With this, they could add many beneficial elements into human body. Not yet known, what exact impact this fluid on a human has, the experiments continue.. Very often, instead of improving the health condition of the targe, an opposite effect would take place, inflicting a mutation or lethal disease. This was the case of Urtuk.

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A new update for Urtuk: The Desolation announces an updated demo and shares some world lore.

World's lore and Karwla

In Urtuk, the world is an old, destroyed and hostile place. Centuries ago, after the Giants' Extinction, a conflict arose because of the new Trilium resource - a mysterious liquid from the remains of the dead Giants. Since then, this valuable extract has been used to improve physics and health and for all kind of drugs.

There were 4 main factions which inhabited the world - pesky Scavengers, mutated Swampers, proud Valdor Empire, and mysterious Necrons. 

Besides all of these, a new hostile race emerges from the Undergrounds - the Karwla. 

Little is known about the Karwla, but rumor is that once they were normal people living under the surface and mutated to insect-humanoid species. 

When player begins his journey, the Karwla becomes active and erupts to surface, devouring everything in its way.. The appearance of this species expands from zone to zone and player must take great attention to where he wants to go next to avoid the hostility of Karwla.

Karwla continues to expand from west to east within world, the exact way how the player travels.In other words, the player is forced to move quickly to east but he might revisit old locations or even travel to undiscovered nodes back even when occupied by Karwla.

By normal circumstances, the difficulty of the enemy in the current player's zone is balanced but the Karwla is much more harder to defeat. So it poses a great risk for any encounter with this hostile species.

The second news is that we have updated our demo on itch.io! 

Major changes:

- UI/UX improvements

- Graphics improvements

- Gameplay mechanics updates - mainly new abilities, tweaks and balancing

 We also removed any dependencies like Java, C++ runtime, etc.. from the build! So when you download the game, you just run it.

Also we made builds for Linux in two versions - 32bit and 64bit.

That's it folks!

The devs of Mad Sheep Studios are working hard to finish their tactical open world RPG Urtuk: The Desolation:

RPG Urtuk: The Desolation

Urtuk is an adventure, turn-based tactical game, set in a dark fantasy world. The world is open and the player can travel freely with no limitations. The game contains two main parts - one is the world map, where the player holds a party of adventurers and travels freely across the map. The other part is the combat, introducing hex map with turn based tactical options, where the two opponent sides execute (in free order) units' actions. The world in the game is a place of pain, suffering and darkness. Urtuk is the name of main character. His story begins when he escaped from the Sanatorium, a place where medical experiments take place on common people. Urtuk's escape was successful thanks to his fellow old friend - Eldric. Urtuk has suffered a mortal disease, a mutation in the Sanatorium. Now he searchs for a cure in the world. It's only matter of time, when his mutation evolves to a level, when he finally dies.

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