- Phobos Content Update! - 3 June 2025
Hi everyone, Oak here. I come to you with good news and bad news. Good news first: the Phobos update is ready! We have now released the update for the second faction, Phobos, to join the fray in the fight for Eol. It features Act 1 of their campaign, in their initial steps towards total war, culminating with the siege of Anchorage. Phobos features an entirely new set of character creation options, a roster of Champions with various Abilities and each of them having an unique backstory that you can discover. We hope that you will enjoy exploring the lands around Tenebrae, the capital of Phobos! And of course, any and all feedback is more than welcome, we appreciate all of your thoughts about the game, where ever you want to express them ^_^ And now for the bad news. We recently launched our second project, CraftCraft, and unfortunately it failed to meet our sales expectations, also faili…
- Next Steps & Help Needed! - 9 April 2025
Hello everyone, Wisak here. It has been almost 3 months after release and we have been working on the next content update. Due to us being a smaller team and being our first time doing Early Access, we haven’t been as productive as we would have liked, but we have learned a lot and we keep at it. The Phobos update is almost here. We are nailing some of the final elements for it. Due to our team size and due to the large number of permutations that can happen in our game, testing it becomes a little bit of a problem. For that reason, we wanted to offer the opportunity to work together with us. We have created an internal testing branch and we are looking for a few people to help us with the updates before they come out to the public. These people need to be owners of the game and be part of our discord to help us. They will get access to early builds and they will be able to help us shap…
- Broken Alliance - Patch v0.0.5 - 19 February 2025
Good day Commanders, Ramiro here. After the Early Access release we all took a short vacation since the days before leading up to it were so intense to the point where it affected our holiday break. We are already full steam ahead working on the Phobos update which will bring a whole new faction to play as. The playable content will be similar to Anchorage currently, focused on the first parts of their Act I. We are also working on the first iteration of the progression system for both Champions and Commanders and significant improvements to the AI, as well as QoL improvements regarding combat, and exploration. However, we wanted to push this patch with several QoL improvements trying to address problems reported by you, our community! Some of them are a still first step into improvement, which will lead into a bigger fix - but it’s something. - Fixed Energized card translations for Chi…
- Update 0.0.4 - Hotfixes! - 28 January 2025
Hello everyone! Oak here. I hope you've all been having a good time with the game so far! We've been going through quite a lot of feedback, and it reinforces a lot of what we already expected, which is an extremely good sign. We know for a fact that we must improve clarity and player feedback, and to make things a little bit more obvious and better explained in the game. Thank you for that! So, currently, we organized most of the crew to take vacation, because we all put in more hours in the run up to the Early Access release. On the 3rd of February, we will be back in full force again, so this patch is a smaller one, as we prioritize on what we want to bring to you next ^_^ So without further ado, here's the patch notes! #3054: (Combat) Fixed Regenerate card not healing Champion on end of turn. #3055: (Combat) Updated retaliation & range icons in Champion detailed tooltip. #3056: (Card…
- Strategy RPG Broken Alliance blends old with new, and you can try it free - 26 January 2025
If you've been itching to play a new fantasy strategy game, Broken Alliance is here to answer the call. With some of the most expressive and detailed pixel art I've ever seen in all my years writing about videogames, it's finally arrived via Steam Early Access. Borrowing from the old-school strategy games that defined the genre while integrating some more recent ideas, Broken Alliance is easily one of the most promising games on Valve's platform right now. If you're unsure, you can try the game for free before diving in. Read the rest of the story...
- Broken Alliance from the Death & Taxes dev is now in Early Access, a love-letter to Heroes of Might and Magic - 16 January 2025
Placeholder Gameworks who made Death & Taxes just released Broken Alliance into Early Access with Linux support. An indie love letter to pixel art, old-school adventure games, mythical creatures and fantasy storytelling. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/broken-alliance-from-the-death-taxes-dev-is-now-in-early-access-a-love-letter-to-heroes-of-might-and-magic/
- Broken Alliance is out in Early Access Now! - 15 January 2025
Hello! It is time! We now open the gates of Broken Alliance to the public! So excited to get people playing the Early Access version of our game that we have been working on for a bit over 3 years and will continue the development with the players feedback! If you are not sure whether you would like to get the game; try out the demo, it is not a fresh one - so some things have already been fixed in the EA release version but it gives a good idea of what you might expect from the main game! I think our team members experience of working on games like Death and Taxes, Disco Elysium, Pentiment and Heroes of Might and Magic series etc, have come together in a beautiful story filled fantasy world quite well and I am very proud of what we have achieved thus far! If you would like more info about our Early Access release, you can take a look at our last blog post. Enjoy and if you have time, p…
- Preparing for Early Access - 12 January 2025
Good day Commanders, Ramiro here. Before the release of the game in Early Access next week, Wednesday the 15th of January, we wanted to provide some information and set expectations, answer some questions, and give you mini-roadmap of things that are coming soonish. How much of the game will be playable? When the game releases on January 15th, Players will be able to play the prologue for free as in the demo that is available right now in the store with several updates and improvements, and the beginning of Act 1 out of 3 for our first Released Faction: Anchorage. Players will be able to recruit all 5 Champions from Anchorage, and proceed with the beginning of the story against their first enemy faction: Phobos. This already provides a several hours of gameplay, fighting, exploring and unraveling the story of the Anchorage faction. There will be 6 recruitable champions, 4 from Anchorage…
- Broken Alliance Gates Will Open In 1 Week! - 8 January 2025
Hi! Leene, the art director here! THE EARLY ACCESS RELEASE IS IN ONE WEEK??? Aaah I am so excited for the fantasy to come alive! We will post more solid information about it in a few days but I wanted to share some art of our first faction, Anchorage, because our Early Access release MOSTLY focuses on that with a glimpse to all of others too! As the Art Director I am so proud of our small indie team and what we have achieved in over 3 years of working on the game. This game is our love letter to pixel art and fantasy. Happy to share parts of it here: _________________________ ___________________________ ANCHORAGE faction is all about water and the humans/mermaids(who we have character creation for) and creatures that live around it. Its designs take inspiration from Japanese and Nordic European archidecture and mythology. We have Svein (the frog/fish people), Hroswal(yea.. a walrus with…
- Early Access Release Date announcement - 23 October 2024
Hello everyone, Oak here. I have some not-ideal-but-still-kinda-good news to share with you. We decided to postpone the release of Broken Alliance's upcoming Early Access release until 15th January 2025. Why? I'm horribly burnt out We were close to hitting our Early Access quality and content standards, but far enough to be concerned We need more time to test the game That's pretty much it. It really is as simple as that. I've been leading this project for about 3 years now, and we've had delays here and there, due to the project taking its shape and such. But it's been quite difficult lately. I've been ill for almost an entire year now, and only a month ago I found out what was actually the problem. I have had no time to recover, and while we've made great strides as a team, the whole production has suffered because of my illness and the lack of energy thereof. Thus, we decided to dela…
- Early Access Release Date announcement! - 4 October 2024
Hi everybody! Oak here ^_^ Broken Alliance will release in Early Access on October 24th 2024! Very happy to finally be able to announce this, since it's been a heck of a ride. We will release the game in Early Access with a base price of $14.99, and plan to increase it by around 20% for the full release. I hope you've already seen that we have now finally released our public demo here on Steam! Do try it out if you haven't yet, any feedback about it is more than welcome! Without beating around the bush anymore, let me get into the reasoning of us deciding to go for Early Access. As is sometimes the custom in game development, the vision and the scope of the game can change. Such was also the case with Broken Alliance. We started it out as a more casual, shorter, smaller experience, but we quickly realized that in order to make something unique and more aligned with the values that we ha…
- Broken Alliance Demo is now live + patch notes! - 3 October 2024
Hola everyone, Wisak here. First of all, thanks to everyone who has downloaded and played the Broken Alliance demo so far. We have been monitoring the feedback and we have been hard at work identifying problems, and trying to solve some of the most common issues players have had since the demo release. From now on, we want to try to make the communication with the community as open as possible. For that reason, we want to start sharing patch notes whenever we update content moving forward. These last 3 days we have been hard at work and we have made some fixes based on your feedback. We are committed to improve the game, and while some of these fixes address some of the problems, we will probably revisit some of those solutions once we have better ones. • We have improved the visibility of interactable objects in the adventure map. We realized that many players were having issues seeing…
- HoMM-like Broken Alliance from the Death and Taxes dev has a demo live now - 1 October 2024
Broken Alliance is an upcoming indie turn-based adventure strategy game with strong RPG elements, inspired by old school classics such as Heroes of Might and Magic, Age of Wonders, Master of Magic and Disciples with a fresh deckbuilding twist. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/homm-like-broken-alliance-from-the-death-and-taxes-dev-has-a-demo-live-now
- Steam China Showcase Demo + Broadcast! - 23 September 2024
Hi everyone! Oak here. We're happy to be part of the Steam China Showcase, and I have some exciting news for you! As soon as our demo page gets approved here on Steam, you will be able to play the demo yourself! Hopefully this will happen in the coming days. The demo will be available in English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. Stay tuned, and hope to see you playing soon! ^_^ PS: This recording of the demo does not have the voiceover yet, so you have to bear with me there, but for the demo release, all of the dialogue is voiced :)
- Broken Alliance at PixElated Festival! - 29 July 2024
Hi everybody! Oak here from Placeholder Gameworks. It know we've been quite silent recently, but we've been hard at work with both Broken Alliance and CraftCraft, and we're getting close to the finish line ^_^ It will be a stressful time to get everything done and polished, but we're giving it our darndest to provide you with a memorable experience! Tune in to the stream to see a sneak peek of the demo we've been working on. Join us now at the PixElated Festival, wishlist and buy games that pique your interest, and do give us feedback on what you see ^_^ Many thanks to our friends at Brave At Night studios in organizing this wonderful event, and a big thank you to them for including our little gem, Broken Alliance. I hope to have more to share with you as we get closer to release. We will have an official announcement soonish about when the game comes out (it's this year!), and we will…
- Broken Alliance from the Death and Taxes dev gives strong Heroes of Might and Magic vibes - 14 May 2024
Ready for more strategy games with a blending of RPG mechanics? Broken Alliance from the Death and Taxes dev gives strong Heroes of Might and Magic vibes. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/broken-alliance-from-the-death-and-taxes-dev-gives-strong-heroes-of-might-and-magic-vibes
- Broken Alliance -- Lunar New Year Festival - 7 February 2024
Hello everyone！ Broken Alliance is now participating in the Lunar New Year Festival 2024! Please wishlist our game, looking forward to seeing you again in the future!
- Broken Alliance at the Storyteller Festival! - 2 February 2024
Hello everyone! Oak here, pleased to bring you some MUCH NEEDED updates! The past *checks notes* quite many months, we have been hard at work to try and finish up the game. We're still a ways away from it, but we are hoping to get a playable demo soon (tm). Hopefully we will have something to share in that regard already next month! We have been cordially invited to participate in the Storyteller's Festival, so you can see our previous game Death and Taxes, and our other upcoming game CraftCraft around a fair bit. Do give us a wishlist and a follow to stay up to date with interesting stuff going on (the upcoming demo probably being the *most* interesting thing of them all. Meanwhile I'm happy to show you some more cool art from Broken Alliance ^_^ Here's some concept art for another Faction we have in the game, called Forge: These folks are extremely tech savvy, and have decided to try…
- Broken Alliance updates & ChinaJoy! - 27 July 2023
Hello everyone! Oak here from Placeholder Gameworks. We've been hard at work with both CraftCraft and Broken Alliance, and I thought I would share some updates with y'all! We've been setting up the stage for quite a lot of complex systems this year and it's finally coming to fruition. We've made significant leaps and bounds in both the adventure and combat parts of the game, having a lot of new specific skills and events in the game. Once we start pumping all of the good stuff in there, I will have more to share, but so far, here are a few sneak peeks on what we've been doing! Concept art for town buildings for the Paradise faction The Strawman, a Phobos unit, ready to wreak havoc on the battlefield Character creation options for the Human heroes from Anchorage And last but not least, our partner Hawthorn Games has given us the chance to participate in the ChinaJoy festival here on Stea…
- Broken Alliance DevLog 2: release date pushed to February 2024 - 20 January 2023
Hi everyone! It's Oak from Placeholder Gameworks. We have decided to postpone the release of Broken Alliance to February 2024. We took this decision because we felt like the game finally achieved the full direction that we want to take with it, fleshing that out took quite some time. We want to ensure that every game we release is at its highest quality in terms of content, stability and gameplay, which is why we decided to keep this one in the cooker for some more time :) We will start releasing regular updates very soon, as we have accumulated quite a bit of content to share! We have a sizeable chunk of the Champion lineup done, special creatures that you can recruit during your adventure and form relationships with. Currently we are figuring out the last remaining pieces of design and working hard on the content that has been decided to be included in the game. I hope you understand…
