- Addressing the Unity Vulnerability - 17 November 2025
Nothing exciting. Just had to rebuild the game with a newer version of unity
- How about a Monster Taming bundle? - 2 July 2025
Isle of Swaps is now part of a bundle joining some other monster taming games. Always wanted to collab with some devs making similar gamesInside the bundle you can grab:9th Dawn III9th Dawn RemakeDream CatcherFerromon TogetherIsle of SwapsPiMonSo if you've been on the fence about some of these games, or don't have any of them at all, it's a great time to get them all for a reduced price!
- Just announced: Critterrupters! - 26 May 2025
You may notice there's a little Critter universe going on with Isle of Swaps and Idle Critter Adventure and here's a new entry in the series; Critterrupters! This one is a true blue monster tamer. There's running around, there's downloading new Critters, theres battling other trainers, there's becoming the very best. It has it all. Critterrupters is set a little bit after Isle of Swaps and it features the next new craze Critter Chips. Critter Chips is an augmented reality game but after travelling to Holon Island to get your Critter Terminal you'll also choose a buddy to go along with it. These guys are hardlight (basically a solid hologram) so they can interact with the world and follow you around. As for the interactions they'll be learning movement abilities to help you cross water, dig holes and jump up high cliffs. Critter Buddies are super useful. Battles on Holon Island take plac…
- Check out a fellow deckbuilder: Perfect Hand of Nostalpix! - 13 February 2025
If you're into Isle of Swaps, there's a good chance you're enjoying the lighter side of deckbuilders, and so here's another one for you: Perfect Hand of Nostalpix. It's a chill card battler with lovely retro graphics. The game is complete and released but there's going to be a new expansion coming in April. As both of our games are similar and made by small teams we're partnering up and bundling our games together! Feel free to grab Nostalpix or the bundle if you haven't got Isle of Swaps yet (and surely you have?) https://store.steampowered.com/app/2345540/Perfect_Hand_of_Nostalpix_REMASTER And it seems that alongside this content update they're developing a new game too. With exploding clothes?! If that sounds interesting, give the game a helpful wishlist https://store.steampowered.com/app/2197330/CARD_NOVA_HYPER/ Here's that bundle link too: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/5015…
- It's my birthday so my games are on sale! - 25 January 2025
It's the 25th of January so it's my birthday and it's time for a sale! This is going to be the first time Isle of Swaps is 20% off, making this a historical low. It's not gonna be 20% off for several months after this so pick it up if you've been waiting. In addition Fuzz Force: Spook Squad is on sale for 40% off. And both the IoS and FF:SS OSTs will be discounted for the first time. So it'll be a great time to grab those bundles too. And maybe I'll have a new game announced before the end of February?! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2294160/Isle_of_Swaps https://store.steampowered.com/app/1422190/Fuzz_Force_Spook_Squad/ https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/44483/The_Fuzz_Force_Collection/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3140960/Isle_of_Swaps_Soundtrack/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3181880/Fuzz_Force_Spook_Squad_Soundtrack/
- A whole ton of battle rebalancing! - 16 October 2024
This update is bring the power level of attack builds and status effect builds more in line with eachother. From launch til now, it's looked like Defence is too strong, it lets you survive physical hits and also doubles to boosting your status effects (which ignore defence too). To counteract that, I've gone through all the Critters and been reducing defence and increasing HP, some have even had further balancing. The aim is twofold: Reduce defence so physical attacks can overall do more damage Reduce defence so status effects and heals take a bit more effort to stack up So hopefully this update is a positive change to getting all cards a bit more balanced, and increase the viability of attack cards. Another change was to reduce the power of the attack cards which hit all enemies. These cards were similar damage to those which hit one target which shouldn't be the case. Of course lots o…
- The tinest of all fixes - 7 October 2024
-Fixed cards that target lowest HP critter, and added a check that someone at full health but with lower max health than someone who is damaged isn't picked -Fixed the booster machine crashing the game if an unmastered pack is bought when theres only 1 common left
- v1.083 updates. Achievements may be fixed - 4 October 2024
Cards Fervelo stats changed to 20HP/10pow/0 def, ability changed from 1 dodge every 3 turns to every turn Kannablaze Delta changed from On Energy: 1 poison to all to On Energy: 2 poison to opposite Fugition stats changed from 36hp/2def to 38hp/1def. No longer has defence spot in its skills Kinecoo ability changed from 1 Status Immunity every 3 turns to every turn Randomanders will now take your equipped stickers into account when they decide their stats Heal Spot, Poison Spot, Target Spot, Soften Spot, Buff Spot and Debuff Spot energy cost reduced from 2 to 1 Immunity Spot energy cost reduced from 3 to 2 Burn spot increased from 2 to 3 burn Soak spot increased from 1 to 2 soak Shock spot increased from 2 to 3 shock Immolate energy cost reduced from 2 to 1. Self burn on user increased from 3 to 5 Blackout recoil damage reduced from def+2 to def+0 Chaos Armour is now On Hit: +1 def. Gain…
- Some fixes and secret difficulty options - 2 October 2024
BONUS: If you find Isle of Swaps too easy; press Home/End on the title screen to change a bonus level for the enemies. This applies on top of their default level and will increase their stats and HP accordingly. This is purely a quick and unofficial implementation of difficulty and generally 'I haven't really tested this, it may be unfair/impossible. Use at your own risk'. It's a hidden option, so you'll only know about it from reading these patch notes! Every time you return to the title screen it'll reset the bonus to 0 but it will be saved if you save and quit mid run. Short Sign damage increased from 10 to 15 damage to critters over 50HP Taunt removed from list of random debuffs spectral critters can inflict Fixed Nasty Shock applying shock to the user Fixed a bug where a trainer would lock up the overworld cards Clamped enemy hp so that the max can only be reduced to 1, not 0 Fixed…
- v1.036 hotfixes - 30 September 2024
-Bully now correctly targets the opposite critter. Energy cost reduced from 3 to 2. Damage increased from Buffsx2 to Buffsx4 -Mental Fortitude changed to give 1 defence up to all critters, energy cost reduced from 3 to 2 -Energetic cards now show the energy they'll use when hovered over a critter and also have a line to say 'Consume X Energy' -Common Spot Sticker reduced from 10HP, 2pow, 2def to 4HP, 2pow, 1def -Uncommon Spot Sticker increased from 5hp to 6hp -Fixed a softlock on picking a mastered Randomander/Prickelurge to start a run with -Fixed the text appearing incorrectly in Chevo's Chievements when playing in Korean, Japanese or Simplified Chinese -Updated some cards text in Simplified Chinese to correctly match the effect -Steam Cloud should now be enabled (I left it in developer only mode, sorry)
- Isle of Swaps has now released! - 27 September 2024
Hi everyone, just to confirm that Isle of Swaps has released into v1.0 (or v1.035 specifically) so no Early Access here, the game is complete! Please have fun on the Isle of Swaps, trading cards, ripping open booster packs and conquering everyone with your masterful battle deck. And when you make silly decks to beat the championship, I want to see them! Join the Discord and show them off. Bundles Isle of Swaps will be released in 2 bundles. The first is Isle of Swaps and it soundtrack. If you like the battle tunes you've heard in the demo, be sure to pick that up. The second bundle is Isle of Swaps, Fuzz Force: Spook Squad and both of their soundtracks. Fuzz Force: Spook Squad is the first game I made and it's another roguelite deckbuilder but with dice! You'll play as ghost hunters on their journey through a board game to stop the Polter Prince. This game is the origin of Finn, Dotty,…
- Big Bumper Balance B-update - 24 September 2024
It's been quite the busy week, right? The coverage embargo for Isle of Swaps ended on September 19th, so that's why there's been lots of videos since then. Thanks to all the new people who have discovered, followed and wishlisted the game! Another cheeky benefit is that watching other people play reveals lots of issues for the game that need to be fixed so here's a big list of all the changes I've done. Thankfully there hasn't been a lot of bugs and most of them were issues that weren't even spotted. If you've played the full game already, this is an update since then (v1.032>v1.034) and if you've only played the demo then this is a huge update as the demo was last updated in June! Card changes Hangolin ability changed to gain 1 thorns on energy gain Lepivice stats lowered Shampoise changed from 6 pow 2 def to 7 pow 1 def Trilodril Thorns on hit increased from 4 to 5 Solol ability chang…
- Lets meet the other artists for the cards - 23 September 2024
Last time we met the first half of the artists so here's part 2 where we look at the other half. Ben Bliss Ben is a guy who does spooky pictures most of the time so he was asked to do the spooky ghost types. You may recognise his Staraphim illustration for when that card starts doing 7 damage to everyone every turn but I've picked out his Cremectre illustration. It's one of the few that's got a 'real world' background and some actual crime! Cremectre is one of the genuinely evil critters. Fun fact: All of the critters Ben has drawn are on the same page of the binder! Hayden King Hayden has drawn a lot of bug pokemon in the past so we asked if he wanted to draw some bugs and he was totally down. He's drawn the dynamic Trilodril illustration and this beautiful Lepivice too. The front page of the binder is green nature cards with green nature critters so the pink blossom really stands out.…
- The game is finally beyond v1.0, v1.02 specifically - 6 September 2024
Hello to everyone who has played up to this point. I've been working on a few extra fixes and changes that have been fedback to me. Here's the list Cards -Spikey Spot Damage reduced from 3 to 2 -Thorny Vine reduced from Thornsx2 to Thornsx1 damage. Energy cost reduced to 1 nature energy -Energetic Healing increased from 1HP per Nature energy to 2HP per Nature Energy -Sapping Heat increased from 1 Power Down to 2. Burn increased from Def -1 to Def. Energy Cost increased from 1 to 2 -Volcanic Water change from Heal Def+4 to Heal Defx2 -Swampy Wave damage reduced from Pow+5 to Pow+3 -Drench damage increased from Pow+6 to Pow+7 -Energetic Shocking increased from 1 Shock per Volt energy to 2 Shock per Volt Energy -Best Offense energy cost reduced from 2 to 1 -Golf Flag instantly defeats enemy critters with 4 or less HP, increased from 3HP -Plaster Pack, Taunt, Randobuff/Randodebuff now requi…
- Isle of Swaps is releasing on September 27th! - 4 September 2024
You read it right, Isle of Swaps will be launching into 1.0 at the end of the month. No Early Access, the game is done so you'll get the full experience from the beginning. The game will have 2 Bundles. The first is Isle of Swaps and it's OST. And the second is Isle of Swaps + OST and Fuzz Force Spook Squad + OST. The FFSS OST wouldn't have been on Steam before, its my first time uploading soundtracks, so I hope you'll give them a listen. And that's the post! Wishlist now to be notified of the release.
- Lets meet some artists! - 29 August 2024
Isle of Swaps is a game about a trading card game and one of the best parts of a TCG is all the artists that work on the cards. A whole binder full of a set can be stuffed with loads of cool illustrations and the variety it brings. I've been collecting cards IRL for a while and I have a binder collecting together the cards from my favourite artists. I love the vibrant cartoony kind so lets start off with: FUZZ I'm FUZZ and I've drawn lots of the cards in this game! It's been a lot of work both making the game and doing so many illustrations. The art from FUZZ varies a bit as some of the cards were made back before Isle of Swaps was a roguelite and in the 18 months since then, I feel my art has improved! I made sure to put extra effort into the Critter cards as they're the most important, like Charjk here. Juan Zambrano Juan is the artist who has done the most illustrations for Isle of S…
- Demo updated to v0.151. - 30 July 2024
-There's a shiny new title screen so the first view of the game is less intimidating -Choose Manual energy will now only bring up the box if you have more than 1 type of energy -Hovering a wild critter will now show it and its signature skill big for easy viewing -Hovering a card when trading will show it bigger -The battle deck skill cards and stickers will now be ordered based on their binder number -Battle deck skills and stickers will show their energy and SP cost on the lil panel -Skills that affect everyone will now affect the users side first, then the opponents side (previously always hit players side first) -All skill cards have their images done -All rare skill cards have a holo effect -Balance now affects all your critters instead of just the user -Dumbell + Scary Mask (common stickers) are now power up/down for 3 turns (instead of power +/-1) -Pan Helmet + Softener (common s…
- Do you have what it takes to complete the Chievement Chart? - 23 July 2024
Thanks to everyone who has played, wishlisted and followed Isle of Swaps during Next Fest (and to those who did it before NF too). The game gained lots of wishlists over the event, so I'm pretty happy with that. It was the first Next Fest I've done so it was a delight that everything ran smoothly, there weren't any game ruining bugs, or at least not common ones! Now onto the new features since Next Fest, the Championship, Nuzlocke and Randomiser modes are all being tested and the new big one is Cheeky Chevo. Perhaps you saw him in the demo? As you earn the Steam Achievements for Isle of Swaps, you can visit Cheeky Chevo and he'll give you a unique card that you'll only get from that achievement. This card is instantly mastered so you can use it in your Master Decks for the Critter Championships or start a new run with them! Pretty cool, right? There's 8 achievements for finishing a run…
- Welcome to Isle of Swaps at Steam Next Fest! - 10 June 2024
Welcome to the Isle of Swaps, I hope you've got your sunglasses, it's a wonderful day! Isle of Swaps is in the Steam Next Fest, so as a first time player, how about some tips to get you started? In short, Isle of Swaps is a roguelite deckbuilder. You'll gain cards which go in your binder, then you'll make a battle deck that you can change at anytime. If you want new cards you'll need to swap for them from other characters when you beat them in a Critter Battle. A battle deck is made up of 3 types of cards: Critter Cards The stars of the show, you can start with either Hangolin, Wallablaze or Aguatto. Who will you choose? When deckbuilding, you can use 1-3 Critters to battle with. Each Critter is from 1 of 6 types, and those types all have unique abilities so it's going to be a tough choice choosing which types to use. Along with a type, each Critter can have a weakness and resistance wh…
- Let's swap LIVE! Q&A with FUZZ #2 - 10 June 2024
Live Play Come one, come all and bring your cards with you too. FUZZ will be playing through the Isle of Swaps demo giving you some tips&tricks and some extra development secrets. Live Chat As this will be a livestream, I very much welcome any questions you have and I'll answer them for you (be patient for the stream delay!). And when the stream is all wrapped up, I hope you'll dive into Isle of Swaps for your own challenge run. Any Feedback? If you've played the demo already, and want me to answer some feedback then be sure to come along and let me know in the chat. I'll do my best to answer. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2294160/Isle_of_Swap
