Once Upon a Rogue's Tale — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| Small Patch 06: Once Upon a Rogue's Tale - Early Access | 2025-07-28 | Bug fixes: Game breaks completely when wonder tendrils or fire tendrils are active on a character and target is defeated before trigger (Special thanks to The RBG for pointing it out and explaining it in detail) In some cases a hover over characters throws an error Swapping dice positions throw error when position is not suppose to be possible |
| Early Access Update 3: Quality of Life, new Artworks & Balancing | 2025-07-22 | Hey everyone! We know many of you are eagerly awaiting controller support, and we promise it's still in the works! In the meantime, we're thrilled to bring you a huge Quality of Life update filled with improvements, visual upgrades, and balance changes to make your experience even smoother and more fun. A huge thank you to everyone who sent us emails, comments, bug reports, and messages on Discord – your feedback truly helps us shape the game! New Added new artwork for the Steam library Added a preview button for event options – hovering over it shows a preview of the outcome Added a switch button on the character info panel and ability upgra |
| Small Patch 05: Once Upon a Rogue’s Tale – Early Access | 2024-11-22 | Bug fixes Frog Prince and Jack complete achievements swapped Complete achievements not triggering sometimes Last story parts not appearing after final battle Resetting status of characters triggers error right after a battle Some events not properly set up in chapter 3 |
| Small Patch 04: Once Upon a Rogue’s Tale – Early Access | 2024-11-19 | Bug fixes Scholar of fairy tales and legends achievement not triggering Fairytale hero achievement not triggering when having all characters in reserve Table-be-unset achievement triggering in basic fights where it's not suppose to I do things i like, the way i like them achievement not triggering at all Trip them up achievement only triggering on allies instead of enemies |
| Early Access Update 2: Achievements 🏆 | 2024-11-11 | This update for Once Upon a Rogue's Tale introduces Steam Achievements to make your adventures even more thrilling! A special thank you goes out to our amazing Discord community for their fantastic ideas and suggestions for achievements. Your input has helped shape this update, and we appreciate your creativity and support. Join our discord now! New Added 50 Steam Achievements (includes 7 hidden achievements) Changes The dice selection button now has three phases: Select Unused -> Select All -> Select None Exchanged some text with icons (Confirm, Return, Skip etc.) Changed Map icons for Red Riding Hood Boss 1 and 3 Updated legend images of bo |
| Small Patch 03: Once Upon a Rogue’s Tale – Early Access | 2024-10-02 | New Added a visual effect when an ability is changed Added missing visuals to Queen’s Minion Added a total card count to inventory Changes All different passive upgrade descriptions now also show what the upgraded passive will be Removed cards from trade-event that need a specific character to be useful Removed cards from shops that need a specific character to be useful When receiving a new character through an event you will now also be able to choose a new handcard for them Changed outcomes of character events to be balanced now that some options give additional cards Adjusted Spirit in Glass event outcomes Permanent card Cloud Giant's Wif |
| Early Access Update 1: Bugfixes, Balancing and QOL | 2024-09-11 | Once Upon a Rogue’s Tale Patch Notes – V 0.5.4 (11.09.2024) Thank you for your valuable feedback! With this update we fixed some important bugs, did some necessary balancing and added some quality-of-life stuff. New You can now open the character info panel by clicking on the character on the scroll in the map view When starting a new run while already having an active run a popup warning is shown Added a scrollbar to the character reserve box in the character selection panel Added description boxes for poison and block on the character card A text feedback is now shown when a character can’t be switched due to rooted Changes Every effect des |
| Small Patch 02: Once Upon a Rogue's Tale - Early Access | 2024-08-27 | Bugfixes: Fixed major bug where the book isnt closing after starting a boss battle Fixed magic fist triggering on allies Fixed Hansel using endurance on self not on target for special effect Fixed event "The bear and wren" answers being swapped Fixed event "Emporer's new clothes" text not appearing correctly Bunch of localisation fixes |
| Small Patch 01: Once Upon a Rogue's Tale - Early Access | 2024-08-23 | Bugfixes: Fixed major bug which caused enemies to run out of abilities to use and will no longer attack until players restart from the menu or re-open the game Fixed major bug when enemy trying to swap with another rooted enemy results in battle breaking Fixed Lizard Dragon and The Wind starting with no endurance making them basically useless in battle Fixed skipping event rewards with the character reward window still open results in an error Fixed inventory card window appearing behind reward card window |
| Once Upon a Rogue's Tale is out now in Early Access! ✨ | 2024-08-21 | Dear Fairytale-Fans! The wait is finally over - Once Upon a Rogue's Tale just launched into Early Access! 🎉 We've been working relentlessly for over a year to get to this day. We can't put into words how excited we are for your fairytale adventures! We also offer a Special Launch discout 💸 To celebrate the release, we’re offering a 20% discount for the first two weeks! Don’t miss out on this chance to dive into the adventure at a special price. What you can expect in the Early Access: 3 chapters of Red Riding Hood 3 chapters of The Frogprince 3 chapters of Jack and the Beanstalk 5 different acts with different enemies Lots of story Events 1 |
| Big Visual Demo Update | 2024-08-15 | Dear Fairytale fans, it's been a minute since our last update post, but don't let that fool you. We have been working overtime on the new update that we are proud to present to you! The Visual Overhaul Update is now live and shows Once Upon a Rogue's Tale in a whole new light. All UI elements have been completely reworked: Cards, buttons, backgrounds, intentions, and just about everything else in the game has been visually upgraded. Old visuals: New visuals: New Added window mode in settings menu Support for different aspect monitors New enemy: Herb Gentleman with Hazelnut New status effects: Rulebreaker, Acceleration, Rooted, Limping and Mag |
| LIVE: Developer Broadcast | 2024-06-21 | We are part of the Baked in Germany Event! The Once Upon a Rogue's Tale demo has just received a major content update with The Frog Prince. Now is the perfect time to show off all the new features to as many people as possible! Play as Little Red Riding Hood or The Frog Prince Discover the first part of the story of both characters Try out over 10 different characters Unlock even more content between runs Watch Sarah (one of the developers) play through the Frog Prince chapter and get an insight into the development of the game. |
| LIVE: Developer Steam Next Fest Broadcast | 2024-06-11 | We are part of the Steam Next Fest! The Once Upon a Rogue's Tale demo has just received a major content update with The Frog Prince. Now is the perfect time to show off all the new features to as many people as possible! Play as Little Red Riding Hood or The Frog Prince Discover the first part of the story of both characters Try out over 10 different characters Unlock even more content between runs Watch Sarah (one of the developers) play through the Frog Prince chapter and get an insight into the development of the game. |
| LIVE: Developer Steam Next Fest Broadcast | 2024-06-10 | We are part of the Steam Next Fest! The Once Upon a Rogue's Tale demo has just received a major content update with The Frog Prince. Now is the perfect time to show off all the new features to as many people as possible! Play as Little Red Riding Hood or The Frog Prince Discover the first part of the story of both characters Try out over 10 different characters Unlock even more content between runs Watch Sarah (one of the developers) play through the Frog Prince chapter and get an insight into the development of the game. |
| Big Demo Update: The Frog Prince | 2024-06-06 | Dear Fairytale fans, not too long ago we released a major replayability update, but guess what... Another huge update has just dropped! The Frog Prince Update is now live and introduces a new unlockable main character with a whole new chapter including new enemies, a new boss, new events, new playable characters, and much more. New The first chapter of The Frog Prince The Frog Prince wakes up one day with a strange feeling and notices that his skin has suddenly turned green. Not only that, but his entire body has been transformed into a frog! What has happened and how can he ever be a human again? It sounds like a new adventure is calling. No |
| Big Demo Update: Replayability | 2024-05-24 | Once Upon a Rogue’s Tale Patch Notes – V 0.3.0 (23.05.2024) Dear Fairytale fans, a big demo update is waiting for you! The Replayability Update is now live and, as the name suggests, comes with many new features and upgrades that will make your runs even more individual and offer new unlockable content. New A brand new shop in between runs Our goat Jeff found life as a simple goat that only eats cards too boring and decided to open his own store! This store features new unlockable passive abilities for your main character, new unlockable events and special one-time run upgrades for your next run. Later this will be the place where you also un |
| Small Update: Bugfixes | 2024-05-08 | Once Upon a Rogue’s Tale Patch Notes – V 0.2.1.1 (06.05.2024) Bug Fixes Fixed a bug where some cards didn’t discard themselves, leading to bugged cards in hand that can’t be played Fixed new handcard inventory button overlapping the goat in the shop Fixed new handcard inventory button visible after boss or event fight when the book is open Fixed some wrong text descriptions |
| Interactive Tutorial + some changes and bug fixes | 2024-04-26 | Once Upon a Rogue’s Tale Patch Notes – V 0.2.1 (26.04.2024) New Interactive tutorial! An interactive tutorial will start the first time you start a run. You can always play the tutorial again from the main menu. It's skippable of course. Removed Removed unusable status effects from cards that give random status effects (like tendrils or beans) Changes Changed ability set of “The Wolf” Handcard “Improved Bowstring” counts as rare now Handcard “Gold Ass” now costs 2 dice Level 2 passive of “Wild Boar” now also gives block to the Wild Boar Bug Fixes Fixed clicking fast multiple times at the restsite can give you multiple healing Fixed Voice Line |
| LIVE: Sarah plays (as developer)! | 2024-03-25 | Hey everyone, it's that time again. We can show off brand new gameplay, right in time for the steam deckbuilding festival. Join in and watch Sarah (one of the developers) playing the game and talking about the development! Have fun and enjoy! |
| Demo release! + Regular update: saving, balancing, new visuals and more | 2024-03-23 | Hey everyone, it's finally here. The official demo of Once Upon a Rogue's Tale is now available to play! We hope that you will enjoy the game as much as we do. We will continue working on the demo while its online to get you new content and fix those nasty bugs you might encounter. Have fun! Once Upon a Rogue’s Tale Patch Notes – V 0.2.0 (23.03.2024) New More fairytale events including “The poor and the rich”, “Rübezahl” and a bunch more Punishments for some event decisions Requirements for health and coins in event decisions Save-system that automatically saves after each finished map node Intro animation Tutorial slides in pause menu and ma |
| LIVE: With Sarah, one of the developers! | 2024-03-02 | Hey everyone, it's time for our first stream of Once Upon a Rogue's Tale gameplay! Join in and watch Sarah playing the game and talking about the development! Have lots of fun! |
| Regular update: Music, Chapter 2, German Localization and lots of balancing | 2024-02-27 | Once Upon a Rogue’s Tale Patch Notes – V 0.1.9 (27.02.2024) New Chapter 2 of Red Riding Hood Sound & Music (still prototype) New Language: German German voice lines for intro and outro texts Main Menu with simple settings Rest site: Character Selection End of Battle rewards New Event: Meet the Gingerbread Witch and Hansel & Gretel Lots of new handcards Handcard inventory New Enemies: Angry Villager, Village Warden, Shield Guard, Spear Guard, Guard Commander, Little high-born Sir, Gingerbread Man, Tidy Rat, Little Witch, Snow white Visual clues for thorns and parry Popup when you want to skip rewards Some new particles and effects Turn-banners |