Patch notes · 4 October 2026

Patch 0.2.0, part 1: tutorial, online play, leaderboards and accessibility

Heroes, Patch 0.2.0 is here. It brings a tutorial for new players, online play with your friends, a new end-of-run ritual, leaderboards, twelve new languages and a full set of accessibility options. This is part 1. Part 2 covers gameplay, card changes and bug fixes.

In this update

New: Tutorial and How to Play

  • New players now find a Tutorial card on the first page.
  • Play the tutorial: a short guided start, then the island is yours.
  • Watch a video: a 6-minute How to Play video. Back or Esc closes it, and at the end you can start the tutorial or a new game.

The Game Mode page with the Tutorial card

How do you want to learn? Play the tutorial, or watch a video

A moment from the How to Play video: attacking a Marauder camp

New: Online Multiplayer

  • Play co-op with friends over Steam. Choose Host game or Join game, no addresses to type.

The Multiplayer page with Host game and Join game

  • Lobbies are friends-only.
  • Invite straight from your Steam friends list, with search. Offline friends are listed too.

The lobby with the Invite Friends panel

  • If you lose connection, the game reconnects you.

Lost connection to the host, reconnecting

  • The lobby shows which co-op mission you are about to play.
  • Joining a game nobody answers now stops after 20 seconds.

New: Twelve Languages

  • After Troy is now available in 12 new languages: German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
  • Every card, place, hint and menu is translated. Choose your language in Settings.

The Market in Chinese

New: Accessibility Options

  • Keyboard-only play. The arrow keys move a highlight and Enter uses it.
  • Number keys pick from choices, and the card keys can be rebound in Settings.

A card lifted with the keyboard highlight around it

  • Click to select. One click lifts a card and shows its buttons. No hovering needed.

Worn Sandals lifted, with three round buttons beside it

  • Subtitles for spoken lines, in three sizes, with optional sound captions.

Medea's line shown as a subtitle on the map

  • Colour shapes. Every mana colour gets its own shape.

Mana with a shape on each colour

  • Fewer flashes. Tones down the brightest spell effects.

The brightest frame of a lightning spell, normal and with Fewer flashes

Settings

  • Every setting now has a ? that explains what it does.

The ? next to Animation speed, open

  • The Graphics page shows a live preview of the map as you change settings.

The Graphics page with a preview of the map beside it

Wide Screen Support

  • Ultrawide screens up to 32:9 are now supported. The map shows the whole island, and your piles sit beside your hand.

The map on a 32:9 screen

New: The End-of-Run Ritual

  • Winning a run now ends with a ritual. The camera flies over the island to every place that scored, and its points rise from the map.

The camera flying from place to place as the points pop up

  • Every place shows its name and its points: +2 for an Oracle, +1 for a Marauder Camp.

Oracles and a Marauder Camp with their points

  • The cards and Companions that scored rise in a row and count up into your total.
  • Every point lands with its own sound, in time with the picture.
  • Click to go to the next step, or press Esc to see your full score at once.

The whole island with its points, and the scoring cards in a row below

The whole ritual, with sound.
  • The final score now counts Time left, Zeus' Law and upgraded cards.
  • Camps now score 1 each in Places taken.

New: Leaderboards and Ironman

  • Leaderboards for every mission, on Steam: My runs, World, Friends and This week.
  • Ironman is a new option when you set up a game. One save, kept after every move. You can't load back, but Undo still works.
  • Ironman scores get a shield on the leaderboards.
  • Leaving Ironman mid-run carries on as a normal run.

The World board for Standard Solo Conquest, filled with test scores

Pictured with test scores. The real boards fill up as you play.

Steam Achievements

  • 42 new achievements, including 4 harder ones for experienced players.

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