The DLC Endless Battles adds a rogue-like mode to Black Book:

Endless Battles

The Endless Battles mode is a challenge to your tactical and strategical ability. Help Vasilisa reach the depths of Hell and face Evil itself, in just three days. There are a few paths down below, however, all changing during the night. Your journey will not be easy...and full of combat.

• Battle against foes of all kinds
• Develop strategies to defeat minions and bosses alike
• Plot your journey well
• Take one of the several branching paths towards your end goal and prepare accordingly
• Build your card deck
• Earn new cards and enhance your offense and defense card deck
• Collect trinkets for your character
• You will need every advantage possible to succeed on her journey, and trinkets will aid you greatly with this
• Unlock new powers
• Spend experience on unlocking new abilities, cards, and powers

The descent into the pitch-black darkness of Hell begins now! 

The Adventure RPG Black Book has been released:

Black Book

Black Book is a dark RPG Adventure, based on Slavic myths, in which you play as a young sorceress. Fight evil forces in card-based battles and explore the world, where humans live alongside mythological creatures. 

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A fusion of card-based RPGs and Adventure games, “Black Book” is a haunting tale of a young sorceress, who gave her life to serve the dark forces. Dive into the cold, yet alluring world of Slavic folktales - and uncover the secrets that hide in the darkness.

A young girl named Vasilisa, destined to become a witch, decides to throw her fate away and marry her beloved - but that dream is shattered when her betrothed dies under mysterious circumstances.

Aching for her lost love, Vasilisa seeks out the Black Book - a demonic artifact, said to be powerful enough to grant any wish to the one who uncovers all 7 of its seals. Join Vasilisa in her adventures across the rural countryside, as she solves the woes of common folk by confronting demons and performing exorcisms.

• Uncover the seals of Black Book
• Unleash hellish spells on your enemies! Collect spell cards and new skills as you progress.
• A Historic Adventure
• Solve riddles and complete side-quests as you learn more about life in the Slavic countryside.
• Lead a Demonic Flock
• Send demons to do your bidding, but be careful - idle demons will torture you if you don’t find them something to do!
• Myths and legends
• Explore a world based on Northern Slavic mythology. Learn from an in-game encyclopedia, created with the help of expert anthropologists - and find all folk tales hidden within the game!

Mrozie has interviewed Vladimir Beletsky about the Adventure RPG Black Book, which they are working on at the moment and is scheduled to be released early 2021.

EnklawaNetwork.pl: First of all, congratulations for your success on Kickstarter! Nowadays crowdfunding isn’t what it used to be and quadrupling your financial goal is something notable. What, in your opinion, was a key factor to drive such numbers?

Vladimir Beletsky: Hello, thank you! Well, I think that there wasn't one factor for a successful campaign, but several of them that clicked together. First of all: there was a long period of planning and preparation that we've made with our publishers HypetrainDigital. Then, there is a factor of the setting. There are some games that are dedicated to the mythology of unholy spirits of slavic countryside, but not nearly enough. And as far as I know, there are no games exploring northern mythology of Cherdyn' region. We have also published a playable version of the game that we've tried to polish and make as good as possible. The Prologue build showed our ability to ship the game and demonstrated our ideas in a tangible way.

EN: Well, it's actually not entirely true that there are no other games exploring mythology of aforementioned region. Mooseman, your previous title, is the next one, right? However, Black Book, at least after playing the demo, feels like another cup of tea. How would you define connection between these two games? Do you build Black Book on the back of Mooseman? Or maybe you envision them as completely different titles in terms of story and gameplay?

VB: Many creatures and beliefs from the game will be very similar and familiar to anyone from Eastern Europe, but there are some key differences. Our game is indeed bearing the connection to the Mooseman. Russian beliefs of orthodox christian colonizers of Perm in middle ages mixed with paganistic beliefs of indigenous finno-ugric people of Perm and created a very interesting mix. Our previous game tried to reconstruct the mythology of finno-ugric peoples from the time that the famous archeological findings were created called permian bronze casts. So this mixture of cultures persists and we explore this topic in a game, there are even some recurring characters from the finno-ugric past that are either happy or unhappy about christian changes.