Tainted Grail – Seeds of Corruption Update Live

Awaken Realm Digital launched their narrative-driven open-world RPG Tainted Grail into Steam Early Access roughly three months ago. Since then, the game has received numerous fixes and updates, all leading up to the recent major Seeds of Corruption content update.

The new update introduces a story layer to the Conquest mode, revamps the game’s UI and visuals, and adds a new tutorial, cards, skills and systems, as well as a good deal of fresh content. Apart from all that, the game should also soon be getting its first campaign demo.

So, here’s the official Seeds of Corruption trailer:

And a quick look at some of the new features:

Now, what exactly is Seeds of Corruption?

It changes the whole dynamic of Conquest. First of all – it brings a whole new story layer to this mode and explains all the madness that is happening! We don’t want to spoil anything: but there are new characters, new voiceovers, new story encounters on the map, and many more surprises waiting for you!

Save-games wipe

Let’s start with one bad piece of news before we get to the positive updates. Changes in this patch were so big that keeping previous save files was, unfortunately… impossible. We are pretty sure that once you guys will test all the upgrades you will understand why – but this is still not ideal.

To somehow make up for it, we will be adding special cosmetics items for every event you were participating in – and for playing before the update!

We really hope that this update will make up for everything 😉

Learning the basics

We also prepared a special story intro and tutorial, so that you are not thrown right into the extremely hard difficulty level from the very start. However, don’t worry, we didn’t nerf the game… We finally improved the Corruption system, which makes the game progressively harder as you successfully finish your runs! Just wait for Corruption 5! 😀

This should make mastering all the game’s mechanics an understandable, and relatively easy to learn, process!

Ending run with a BANG!

In our earlier version finishing runs was a bit… anticlimactic? Well, not anymore!

Right now at the very end, you have to survive 10 rounds with a really powerful Fore-Dweller. JUST surviving is too easy for you? Well, don’t worry – you can always go for the biggest amount of DMG you can deal to him in set limit of time… and get yourself the highest ranking on our leaderboard!

On top of that, you will get a cool summary of everything new that you have seen that will be saved to your journal as well as unlocks:

• New cards added to your pool
• New passive skills
• Cosmetics for your character
• And more…

Journal – track your progress!

Speaking of journeys… we have created a single place to track all your progress and how much of the game you have actually seen. It tracks all the enemies you have faced, NPCs that you have meet, and faction cards and skills!

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What about the campaign demo?

Ok, so one thing that you will notice is that the story campaign demo is currently not available. Don’t worry! It will come back in about a week or so, once we will implement all the changes from this patch ; ) So you will be able to enjoy the story demo with all the features of 0.95 patch!

Uffff…. Ok, those are major things… there are TONS of smaller things here and there but we guess this update is already way too long. As you can see, we were working quite hard those past months and we really, really hope you guys will enjoy the fruits of that work!

If you will, please remember to leave a nice word, feedback, or a steam review. This will really help us out, as well as motivate us to develop the game further and further!

In addition, to celebrate this huge patch (this is a really big milestone for us), we decided to announce 25% discount on the game, starting soon!

Ok, this is it! Make sure to try this totally new experience out and have a lot of fun slaying through corruption levels!

Take care!