Roadmap
The road ahead
VAEL is in active development. This is where it's heading next, deepest last. It's a direction, not a set of dates: plans can change as playtests teach us what works.
- Next up
- Planned
- On the horizon
Planned features
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Next up
More tiers to explore
The descent goes deeper. New depths join the Cursed Forest, the Hollow Ruins, the Crypt and the Catacombs, each with its own look, its own dead and its own way out.
- New places to plunder below the current four
- Fresh enemies, hazards and loot for each one
- Longer runs for those who dare
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Planned
More skills
More to master beyond the nine skills you can level today. Like the rest, they'll train by doing and climb from Novice to Master.
- New ways to grow your characters
- More milestones to reach
- More reasons to keep every character busy
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Planned
More puzzles and obstacle courses
More trials join the six already hidden in the deep: new riddles to solve and new deadly courses to cross, with sealed vaults at the end of them.
- New puzzle rooms
- New obstacle courses
- More vaults to crack open
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Planned
Pets
Rare companions found in the depths. Pets will be rare drops, the kind of find you'll want to show off back at the Sanctuary.
- Rare drops from the depths
- Companions to bring home
- Bragging rights
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On the horizon
Persistent accounts and a player market
Online accounts that keep your characters, stash and progress, and a player-driven market where you trade gear and items with everyone else who's been down there.
- Persistent multiplayer accounts
- An online exchange for gear and items
- Prices set by the players
Already in the game
Recently shipped
- v0.61The Drake Matriarch, and lairs rebuilt
- v0.60Drakes take to the sky; fire that burns the ground
- v0.59The pouch, gold coins and real item icons
- v0.58Zombies, goblins, wendigos and drakes
- v0.57Carved depth portals, and the Climb
- v0.56A bigger Sanctuary and training yard
- v0.55The Play Together screen
- v0.53Chess in the courtyard
- v0.50Poker in the Gilded Ossuary
- v0.49The Ivory Pocket: pool and snooker
- v0.43Puzzle rooms and deadly obstacle courses
- v0.42Rings and necklaces, worn on your character
- v0.41Picking and eating glowing mushrooms
- v0.39Weather: rain, snow, the Blood Moon and blood rain
The newest of these, weather, trials and the fishing game, are on the home page.
Help shape what comes next
Ideas, wishes and bug reports all feed the roadmap. Join the Discord, or get playtest news by email and try each step as it lands.