One of last year’s best card games was a fantasy deckbuilder by the name of Pyrene. This innovative new roguelite card game has a distinctive Basque setting, and a great gameplay system that involves moving around dungeons made of cards. In short: I think it’s excellent.
Pyrene launched with a deep and involving campaign backed up with oodles of content, but if you’ve been playing it to exhaustion, you’ll delighted to hear that there’s a massive update due on June 7th.
The expansion is themed around Breton mythology, with the following flavour text shared over on the YouTube video embedded below.
A mysterious wind stirs in the village of Pyrene with the arrival of Malo, a young boy fleeing the sunken city of Ys. His grandmother, the shapeshifting druid Dahud, has vanished — and the search for her leads players deep into the heart of Breton legend.
I’ve grabbed the most important details from the post shared on the Pyrene Steam page, including the info shared about some of the game’s fresh-faced characters. First, the new biomes, as described by developer Two Tiny Dice:
- Whispering Woods – So eerie, it might even bring monsters back to life.
- Wild Moor – A place that will keep you stuck in its pouring rain.
- Granite Shore – Wade across the tide, but beware of the electric eels.
- Twilight Field – Only the bold and the well-prepared will survive this endless night.
On top of the new biomes, we got a little intel with regards to three of the five new characters (the other two are secrets for you to discover for yourselves in-game).
- Malo the Mana User – A young sorcerer wielding a mana-powered hand of cards.
- Dahud the Shapeshifter – A legendary druid channeling the power of her animal forms.
- Margot the Bone Doctor – An imperious fairy using bones to heal and to hit.
Want more? Well, there are more than 50 new equipment cards and relics respectively, as well as a bunch of new monsters and even Herensuge challenges for everyone. Considering how the expansion is free, that’s a lot of new content (it unlocks after the main campaign),.
Finally, the devs are interested in knowing how much you’d pay for Pyrene on mobile, ahead of making a port for Android and iOS devices. You can let them know what you think over on their Discord.
