Patch Updates, Steam Sale & Discord Emojis!

Hello witches!

We've got a bunch of fun news to share with you all today, including patches for both REKA and the REKA Demo, a brand-new sale, and some adorable new Discord emojis!

Let's dive in.

Autumn Steam Sale 🍂

The Steam Autumn Sale begins today at 6pm BST, and we're happy to share that REKA will be 35% off until the 8th of October at 6pm BST!

If you've been waiting to begin your witchy journey, now is a great time to jump in. The REKA Soundtrack DLC will also be 20% off during the sale.

Thank you to everyone who has supported REKA since Early Access launched. Whether you've been with us from the beginning or are just discovering the game, we're incredibly grateful to have such a wonderful community of witches.

New Discord Emojis ✨

In the runup to 1.0 we wanted to do something a little special for our Discord community… We’ve worked with a wonderful artist to bring you some new REKA-themed emojis to use in our channels!

We hope you enjoy using these emojis, we had such fun seeing them come together. Be sure to stop by the Discord and give them a try!

REKA Patch📝

Bug fixes

We worked a lot on stability. We are not quite there yet but we hope you can feel the difference. We fixed more than 600 bugs in the past three months, so many things that we elected not to publish a comprehensive list here. 

Quality of life improvements/ balancing updates:

• Points of Interest / Quests:

  • Many village properties were broken up and redesigned into smaller farmsteads

• Exploration

  • All POIs got a big art pass, adding decorations and grass to blend them into the environment

  • Major rebalancing and tightening of all chapters, especially "Learning the Ropes"

  • Major improvements to the way maps are generated:

    • System will now intelligently track which POIs were already completed or seen and try to give you something fresh

    • Biomes are now more themed to the current chapter you are playing

    • Biome distribution now behaves more naturally

  • Major improvements to how loot is given out

    • Individual containers now have different loot tables and try to give you things you actually want

    • More diverse loot containers help with immersion

  • Improved map edge visuals

  • Terrain Flattening Improvements

  • Lighting and weather changes

  • Env Polish

    • Visually thicker Forests

    • Better biome Transitions

    • Duckweed

    • Per biome water and paths

  • Balance: Cabbages now give 2 items instead of 1 when harvested

• Sound & Music

  • New exploration music tracks

  • Different cat type sounds for different cats and reduced pet sounds

• New things for your home

  • Some basic furniture items are now given to each player at the end of the tutorial

    • old chair

    • simple table

    • sleeping bag

    • white candle

    • simple wall shelf

  • 'Mortar and Pestle Talisman' can now call the chicken hut to you (Right Mouse Button)

  • New insects you can find in the wild and collect at home on a new display table

  • Your pet cats can now act as familiars, following you around the map and occasionally showing you interesting things. Pick them up and set them down outside to start.

  • New recipe for the dish 'cabbage soup'

  • Improved 'Teleport Home' VFX, now with actual feathers

  • Most building blocks can now be placed on any surface, even the ceiling (and flipped to be aligned with that surface or stay upright)

• Character Customization

  • You can now unequip your shoes and go barefoot

• Accessibility Options

  • Content warnings can now be switched on or off individually

  • Added option for a more legible font

  • Added option for high-contrast colors in the journal

  • Added option for reduced motion

• UI & UX

  • Added a better dialogue camera and NPC animations

  • Minimap icons now disperse for improved visibility upon hovering over them

  • New UI for shopping at the Merchant and inspecting your food shelf

  • New UI for the bed

  • Reworked tutorial

    • Reworked lantern tutorial

    • Improved overall guidance

    • New UI

  • Added a lot of new map icons

  • Reworked settings menu with info texts on what things do and a better structure overall

  • Players can now delete save games in the pause screen

  • All English texts were proofread by an external editor (many changes)

  • Changed fonts for Polish, Ukrainian, and Russian

• Tech

  • Increased cloud save limit to 500MB and 600 files.(~ about 50 save games)

  • Added a steam cloud save warning pop up to the main menu if you’re close to or over the steam cloud save limit

  • Save games will now capture some of the player log file if something goes wrong improving diagnostics/ bug fixing (We only get this data if you send us a save game)

• Many improvements to guidance

• Performance improvements

REKA Demo Patch📝

Bug fixes

• fixed chinese demo end card text

• fixed some errors in Japanese, Chinese and Polish fonts leading to broken text in those languages

• fixed wrong localisation in journal titles

Changes

• added trailer to end card

THANK YOU! 💜

As always, thank you for your continued support, feedback, screenshots, artwork, and all the magic you bring to the REKA community.

-The REKA Team 🌿