Try new stages during Steam Next Fest – today through March 3rd
Halifax, Canada, February 24th, 2024 – Board game creator Brueh Games and video game developer YarnCat Games have released a new limited time demo for their video game adaptation of Luís Brueh’s acclaimed strategy board game Keep the Heroes Out! Due for an early 2025 launch on PC, Mac and consoles, Keep the Heroes Out! raised over 22x its Kickstarter goal last year, with an ending tally of $224,556.
From now through the end of Steam Next Fest on March 3rd, you’ll be able to play an extended demo encapsulating the game’s tutorial and first four stages. After Steam Next Fest the demo will revert to a smaller section of only the tutorial and first stage.
Keep the Heroes Out! is an asymmetric, cooperative dungeon defense game for 1-4 players where you play as the monsters protecting their hard-earned treasures against invading hordes of “heroes” trying to steal it. This digital rendition of Keep the Heroes Out! offers the same asymmetric, co-op dungeon defense gameplay as its tabletop counterpart with a bevy of added extras.
Your goal as a team is to survive going through the Guild deck two times, protecting the treasures in each room. If the main treasure is taken, the game ends in defeat, but if you manage to protect your treasures for long enough, you all win. Monsters may die, which is tragic, but you can always bring them back to the dungeon, so you are never eliminated from the game. However, once the treasure is gone, it’s gone forever.
The digital game brings the tabletop experience faithfully to life, with the same art style and gameplay, only now being that the computer controls the nasty heroes invading our lair. This means you can play solo against the AI, or get a gaming going remotely with your friends from afar. Furthermore, YarnCat Games has boosted the visuals with fluid animation and a tutorial to help onboard new players. There’s never been an easier, more convenient way to get into hero thwarting!
The original board game version of Keep the Heroes Out! was a massive success, selling over 70,000 copies since its launch in 2022. It became a Golden Geek Best Cooperative Game Nominee at BoardGameGeek, where it’s currently ranked as the 473rd best board game of all time out of a database of roughly 156,000 titles. For thematic games, it’s even ranked as the 80th best board game out there!
“We’re thrilled that people are so eager to play this digital adaptation of Keep the Heroes Out!” said Luís Brueh, Founder of Brueh Games and solo creator of the board game version of Keep the Heroes Out! “We wanted to bring Keep the Heroes Out! to people who want to play with their friends from afar remotely, or play solo against the AI, so we’re very excited that YarnCat Games has joined us to make this vision a reality.”
For more information on Keep the Heroes Out!:
Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2592340/Keep_the_Heroes_Out/
About Brueh Games:
The brand of solo game developer Luís Brueh, a Brazilian Game designer & artist now living in Halifax, Canada. During the last 15 years Brueh has worked with many publishers and brands localizing their work to Brazilian territories and has expanded into designing his own games, of which he also does the art. Titles published so far include: Dwar7s (Fall, Winter, Spring, Duels), Covil The Dark Overlords, Valknut, and Keep the Heroes Out!
About YarnCat Games:
YarnCat Games is an independent game studio based in Halifax, Canada. It’s currently working on the digital version of the acclaimed tabletop dungeon defense game Keep the Heroes Out!
