🚢 BattleTabs launches on Steam + free Mermaid ship
Ahoy, Captains! ⚓
On 11 August, BattleTabs goes somewhere it's never been before — Steam! 🚢
⏳ A looooong time coming
The first time Steam came up was back in 2020 (here's the message — yes, really). A couple of years ago Jamie sent me a picture of the game running on a Steam Deck via the website. It looked awesome, but we were heads-down on the mobile and Discord versions at the time.
It wasn't until earlier this year that I got to actually start on it. It's, well, not as easy as I thought! Getting the game to play nicely with a new native wrapper was a lot more work than I'd hoped, and juggling that with everything else the game needs (new content, new modes, bug fixes, performance issues... etc.) is quite a lot. But I'm glad it's finally nearly here.
⭐ Wishlist it now
If you haven't already, add BattleTabs to your wishlist — Steam will ping you the moment I hit that release button.
🧜♀️ Launch window: free Mermaid + 100 gems
Steam players get the brand-new Mermaid ship and 100 gems during the launch window — until 14 August, 5pm UTC.
🔹 Ability — Passive. When she's hit, she reveals up to 8 random non-rock tiles on your opponent's board — one for each ship still alive across both fleets. (So she pays out most in the early game, while everything's still floating.)
🔑 Before you link accounts
Make sure you've got a recovery email set up on your account first. If you hit any snags linking up on Steam, ping me in #bug-support on Discord and I'll try to help.
See you on the store page 🫡
(p.s. modelling the scales on the Mermaid was hard! I tried a bunch of techniques. Any Blender experts out there, tell me better ways to do this for next time 😅)