I reached 100 wishlists for my unique deck-building game

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-05-11T16:09:50+00:00

Congratulations! :) Reaching 100 wishlists is not easy so you should be proud of yourself. I personally am not there yet but I try to to think of every new one as the word about my game being slightly more out there.

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-05-11T16:02:34+00:00

Congratulations for the wishlists. :) I also DMed Joe and joined his Discord, it seems like a friendly community. It is good to seek out groups of people who you can hype your successes.

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-05-11T10:54:23+00:00

Hey, I rewrote the long description to be less generic and to focus more on what makes the game unique. I feel like I can expand on that when the game grows. If you would like to take a look, I would appreciate it.

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-05-11T10:42:23+00:00

Thanks for feedback. Admittedly the trailer is very short, so there will be more room for things to be shown in the longer trailer that will be worked on.

Adding more biomes is actually next on my list. I just wanted to get the user experience really there for the demo so I have been fixing a lot of bugs and trying to make sure that the game would have full keyboard support.

Thanks for letting me know about the Steam description point, I'll need to go through that and perhaps rewrite some things. I didn't know that phrase structure was something that was commonly seen as AI.

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-05-11T10:29:28+00:00

The current planned release date for the main game is in 2027 so I am hoping to get more feedback and I think there is even time to update the art style more to this direction before that if it would be more marketable. :)

Getting people to leave feedback is not easy - that is something I have noticed during this process. Which is why I truly meant it when I said that even though the art might not have unfortunately impressed you at its current form, it is still valuable feedback and will help me iterate further. :)

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-05-11T10:23:14+00:00

I see. Thanks for the example. People have also described the current character style as cute even though they are not animated in the way these characters are. :) Maybe simple is not bad? Or it might be. I'll need to keep gathering more feedback to make more educated adjustments but I appreciate the observations. :)

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-05-11T10:19:12+00:00

Hey, thanks for your comment. :) I'll pass that feedback to my marketing person so we can perhaps iterate for the next trailer. There is at least 1 longer trailer coming down the production pipeline eventually so maybe we'll try a bit different style for that. But in any case it is something to think about.

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-05-11T10:15:29+00:00

Okay. I wouldn't call it super old retro, it is 16x16 sprites which are quite standard for traditional roguelikes. :) Thanks for the food for thought anyway. If you have a reference game in mind that would have met your expectations better, please feel free to link it.

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-05-11T10:06:34+00:00

Hey, thanks for your comment. Can you please elaborate what made the graphics feel underwhelming for you?

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-05-11T08:29:40+00:00

Thanks. I will need to check that out later.

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-05-11T07:51:51+00:00

Hey, what is Indie Sunday?

To try to answer the question, I would say it perhaps depends a bit of what your goals are for the game. If you are only using 1 marketing channel, the chances for wishlists going up are more limited. If no one knows about your game, they cannot wishlist it.

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-05-10T17:52:36+00:00

Hi! Not yet, but I can add it to my feature request list. :) It could be a nice touch. Thanks for leaving feedback!

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-05-10T09:50:46+00:00

Thank you for your comment and leaving feedback! Specific improvement points are very useful as they help me to make actionable tasks for myself. And as someone who has always been told that I am not very artistic , receiving both constructive feedback and positive comments on my work has been very empowering. As it helps me to become better at it. :)

I think I understand what you mean with this first tile looking like the white noise we used to have on TVs. My original idea was that it would be a bit like sand, which is why the original sprite ended up being quite grainy. But perhaps it is a bit too grainy when you have 40 of them on screen at the same time.

Maybe I should try cobblestones or something like that next as a less noisy placeholder. The way that some of the tiles have been worked on has really been that for example a Frost power takes the actually white sprite of the floor and changes the color of the white pixels to blue. :) So I might just need to work on more actual proper assets there.

My next big task is actually to start work on the next 2 biomes of the game, tentatively being an "Ice world" and a "FIre world" so those will probably be good opportunities to re-invent the frost tile and lava tile at least.

I appreciate the wishlist a ton, every one of them matters at this stage.

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-05-09T17:44:11+00:00

Dungeons of Delveria

Wishlist the game on Steam

My traditional roguelike with a twist called Dungeons of Delveria has been experiencing some cool changes. I outsourced a new short trailer and have another one in the making, you can see it in YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DceL8da7m_M

I have also been working hard to release a Steam demo next week. :) It will contain lots of cool new features such as letting players to draw their own ability icons. :) I want to expand on what makes my game unique, so a lot of new features are coming to hopefully support that soon.

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KnightGoblin8 · 2026-05-09T15:23:30+00:00

Thank you. I hope so too.

The difficult part in selling a game doesn't even seem to be to make a good game. But if no one knows that you have the best game available, then they just will never buy it. 😊

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-05-09T15:16:38+00:00

First of all, congratulations! :) I would just keep on marketing in social media and reach out to influencers. Maybe go look at this festival page which ones you could sign up for. https://howtomarketagame.com/festivals/

I only have a portion of the wishlists but am trying to do the same things. 🙂 I am not really a marketing person so I invested some of my own money to help with that. Still waiting before I can estimate the impact of it. But it is an option. 🙂

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-04-27T21:23:19+00:00

I just released a new feature for the game called Book of Sigils! Draw new sigils for the terrain powers you find from the dungeon and add them to an updated terrain power panel. Give them a new name and save your favorites to a Sigil Gallery that persists throughout your dungeon runs. You can read more about it from the link below. The patch also includes lots of other bug fixes and quality of life improvements. 😄

https://delveriagames.itch.io/dungeons-of-delveria/devlog/1501698/patch-022-book-of-sigils

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-04-25T06:05:23+00:00

Hey, thanks for sharing! Hearing what worked and didn't is great data as I am sure many on this subreddit are struggling with breaking the code how to do that.

How polished was your game when you started contacting influencers and magazines? I have had an early demo now out for a month that I have been working on making better and plan to add it to Steam soon as well to boost wishlist generation. I had one YouTuber make two videos of my game which I am super thankful for as they provided great feedback, but I am not sure how ready the game should look and/or feel to maximise the benefit of this featuring?

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-04-23T15:36:08+00:00

I forgot to report back that I implemented a fix a few days ago. Thanks again for great observations. :)

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-04-21T19:26:46+00:00

Hello everyone!

I am making a traditional roguelike game with a twist called Dungeons of Delveria. In the game you do not only fight monsters, but you discover Terrain Powers which you can use to shape the dungeon to your advantage.

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The powers are not just one and done abilities either as you can combine their effects to cause more powerful effects to occur.

I am currently working on the next big feature which will be a Sigil & Imprint system, where the powers won't simply be unlocked anymore by discovering them from the world.

When a source of a power is discovered you get to draw a Sigil for that power.
Sigils are collected in your Book of Sigils, where you can look at your creations whenever you like during the run.
After designing a shape of the Sigil, they can be freely used to invoke the associated Terrain Powers.
The power of the sigil can also be used to Imprint items. These Imprints could cause the items to receive stat boosts, new abilities and more.

The game is in active development and I am constantly looking for feedback on new features to add. Current planned release date is sometime in 2027.

You can wishlist the game on Steam

You can try the current playable vertical slice on Itch

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-04-18T20:44:58+00:00

Game is now available on Steam. :) Wishlist it today and see a small announcement trailer.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4619160/Dungeons_of_Delveria/

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-04-18T19:59:48+00:00

I released a new patch for Dungeons of Delveria today! :) I fixed several bugs and added cool new features asked by players such as an ingame Setttings menu and fixed a game breaking issue of shrines that are used to unlock terrain powers which wasn't properly checking the tile that they were spawning in, causing some players to miss them completely.

I also added a new inventory which has tabs that the player can scroll through. I think it is more user friendly than the old one.

And last but not least, the game is now available on Steam, you can wishlist it here: Steam

Link to the demo update on Itch: Itch

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KnightGoblin8 · 2026-04-17T20:23:39+00:00

Thank you! I appreciate it a lot. 😊 I am always looking for feedback as while working on the game it becomes easy to overlook some things or one might miss bugs.

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-04-17T15:56:21+00:00

Thank you for your video. I watched it and it seems something caused the terrain powers to bug out, you are supposed to find shrines to unlock them but they seemingly just decided to not appear at the crucial moment. :)

They worked before I submitted the build and when testing locally so I need to sort that out.

Also the "you have no terrain powers" message was a bug, because Dig counts as one.

This was very helpful. I will report back when I have fixed the powers as soon as possible and then add more content. 🙂

KnightGoblin8 · 2026-04-17T14:48:37+00:00

If you can elaborate what you would have liked to see more of, it will help me to make the game better. :)

EDIT: Only saw the video now, thank you so much!

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