Drova - Forsaken Kin — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Welcome Polish, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese players! | 2026-04-23 | Travellers of the Otherworld!Today is the day. Drova is finally available on Mobile und you can also play Drova in Spanish, Polish and Traditional Chinese!We’ve also prepared a video where Chris shows you the content of todays Update. Feel free to take a look. As always the video is available in German with Subtitles. We also tried out the automatic english audio translation.Drova Mobile We tried hard to make Drova on Mobile the exact same fun experience you are used from the PC and Console versions. For that we’ve implemented some cool features which are exclusive to Mobile:Fully customizable controlsIf our layout doesn’t fit your needs you |
| Drova goes Polish and Spanish on April 23rd | 2026-02-19 | Dear Travellers of the Otherworld!Drova is getting the Polish and Spanish Language Update on April 23rd. And for those of you who have been waiting for the mobile release, we've got good news as well, because Drova will be made available on iOS and Android on April 23rd as well.On Mobile Drova is exactly the experience PC and Console players would expect it to be: an old-school RPG. No quest-markers, just an open world to explore for you. No microtransactions. Players just pay once while the first area of the game will be made available for free so that players can judge for themselves if the game is to their liking. No cut content for Day 1 |
| Work on Drova for mobile, first impressions of 'Project Topas' | 2026-02-11 | Dear travelers of the otherworldA new year has begun! And we can already tell you: 2026 will be one exciting year. In addition to working on Drova for mobile devices, we will be releasing additional languages for Drova and giving you a first glimpse into our work on Project Topas!We have prepared a video for you in which we are discussing all the topics from this update. Feel free to take a look. The video is in German, but as always English subtitles are available.Drova for Mobile is still in the worksIt won't be long before Drova is released for iOS and Android. In today's update, we'll give you an insight into the changes we've made to ens |
| Welcome Korea! | 2025-11-27 | Dear Travellers of the Otherworld! It’s quite the announcement time for us. After we welcomed players from China last week, today the Korean Update has been released for Drova after a successful headstart on Stove.We’ve partnered up with Smilegate for the Korean version and are super proud on what the team achieved with a top notch translation. We hope that the people from Korea can now enjoy the otherworld Drova even more!In the meantime, feel free to vote for Drova in the Steam Awards season, we're thankful for every additional review! Next up: Traditional Chinese, Polish and Spanish. We'll let you know more about the exact timings once we' |
| Welcome China! | 2025-11-19 | Dear Travellers of the Otherworld!Never ever could we have imagined what Drova would mean for us. Never ever could we have predicted how the game would blow up and never ever would we have been able to foresee the countries in which it would become that popular. We created a game for ourselves, a game we were missing since the days we played Gothic. We never made a secret out of our inspirations. Obviously that led to a situation where we knew that Europe and especially also eastern Europe (yes, Polish is still in the works and will follow in Q1) could be potentially strong markets. And sure, the USA because it is still one of the biggest mar |
| Drova Chinese Name Reveal | Chinese Version Live on Nov 19 | 2025-11-17 | Dear Travellers of the Otherworld!We are happy to announce Drova now has an official Chinese name 困兽之国.And the Simplified Chinese localization goes live on November 19th at 6:00 PM (UTC+8).Thanks so much to all our Chinese players for sticking with us! Your enthusiasm, patience, and feedback truly mean a lot.We look forward to meeting you again in 困兽之国. |
| Happy Birthday, Drova! New Languages, a Mobile Version and more! | 2025-10-15 | Dear Travelers of the Otherworld! Today Drova turned one. And to celebrate the birthday accordingly, we've got some major news for you!Yes, Drova as a project came to an end and we are working on something new. And yet, many of you requested a couple of things. Especially additional languages have been requested quite often. But also quite a lot of people were hoping for a physical release. And we've got some news regarding both topics! And more...In the following video Chris talks about all the news! The video is in German language but English subtitles and a generated English dub are available!Physical EditionWe've teamed up with Limited Ru |
| Spindle is out now! | 2025-10-13 | Dear Travellers of the Otherworld!We will have some news very soon regarding Drova. Give us two more days. But in the meantime, we would like to recommend another game which just released on Steam (And Nintendo Switch). Spindle from our friends from Wobble Ghost just released and if you love oldschool Zelda-experiences (especially Phantom Hourglass) you should give this one a try!There is now also a Bundle available so you can save a few percentages as well when you already own Drova.Read you all in two days! |
| Patch 1.3.3 is live | 2025-07-26 | Dear Travellers of the Otherworld! We have just released patch version 1.3.3. It contains small bug fixes, which you can read at the bottom. There are also some news about our next project: We are currently having a poll regarding changes to the Drova art style. If you want to get involved check the poll on our Discord. You can also find news about this in our new YouTube video. As always, the video is in German, but English subtitles are available: Change Log Fists now trigger the effects of Flowcatcher Talisman and Wind Talisman properly Automatically reading the letter when looting the Strange Relic in the mine with the missing people Clos |
| Future Plans | 2025-05-21 | Hello everyone, It's been 7 months since we released Drova and as a team we have now said goodbye to Drova (the support will not be stopped of course). We are now working on a new project. In these last months we have released 3 major content patches. Above all, we have learned through Drova what Drova means to you and what you want. During this time we have read and evaluated all of your feedback and started to brainstorm about our new project. Thanks again to everyone who left us feedback, every feedback was very helpful! We have uploaded a video for you where we talk about the new project, how Drova will remain and what our goals are as Ju |
| Hotfix 1.3.2.1 is live | 2025-05-14 | Hello, unfortunately with patch 1.3.2 in chapter 4, there was a cutscene with cay where the player got stuck and the game didn't continue. We fixed that. |
| Patch 1.3.2 is live | 2025-05-13 | We have just released patch version 1.3.2. It contains small bug fixes, which you can read about below. Furthermore, in the last episode of Behind the Pixels, we specifically addressed your questions and answered them (video is in German, but with English subtitles). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsDeWSUIOwI Perhaps we answered a question there that might interest you? Or you may have your own questions. Write them in the comments and we will answer them in a future video. What do we do now after Drova? What's next? We'll answer that in the next update video, which will come next week. Just2D Changelog Finally, here's a list of other bug fi |
| Patch 1.3.1 is live | 2025-04-04 | Travelers of the Otherworld! We have just released patch version 1.3.1. It contains small bug fixes, which you can read about below. Furthermore, we are currently having a campaigne where you can get Cay as a Plush, if you are interesting click here: https://www.makeship.com/products/cay-plush Have fun with Drova and have a nice weekend, Just2D ________________________ Changelog Finally, here's a list of other bug fixes, balancing changes and the like that we've done in the context of this update: Fixes Fixed a potential softlock in cutscene with Bertine Fixed a potential softlock when NPCs get knocked out by bleeding during cutscenes Fixed a |
| Update 1.3 "The Flesh Rises" | 2025-03-28 | Dear Travellers of the Otherworld! The wait is over! Update 1.3 called "The Flesh Rises" is now available! After two weeks of intensive Beta testing we ironed out issues which sneaked into the game. Thank you for participating and helping us out here! It was a pure joy to connect with you on Discord and via the Steamforum and hearing your thoughts on our new content and reading through your feedback on the Balancing. That really helped to get things right. Once again: Thank you for your support. You contributed in enabling us to create the Update in the best possible way! Since this is the last big Content Update for Drova, we want to give yo |
| Patch 1.3 Beta 4 is live | 2025-03-21 | Travelers of the Otherworld! We have just released patch version 1.3 Beta 4. Soon our beta will end, so if you want to check it out yourself before the official release, check out: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1585180/view/539973539856385765 Have a nice weekend, Just2D ________________________ Changelog Finally, here's a list of other bug fixes, balancing changes and the like that we've done in the context of this update: Balancing/Changes Battlecry now only increases physical damage Wind Talisman now only increases physical damage Increased HP of Jero/Molvina and Drivanius by ~20% on Insane among other slight adjustments Added 8 d |
| Patch 1.3 Beta 3 is live | 2025-03-18 | Travelers of the Otherworld! We have just released patch version 1.3 Beta 3. Some fixes from the last patches were not applied correctly and the entry to the new boss encounter was blocked. If you didn't play the beta yet, you can see here how to join it: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1585180/view/539973539856385765 Have a nice week, Just2D ________________________ Changelog Finally, here's a list of other bug fixes, balancing changes and the like that we've done in the context of this update: Fixes Fixed colliders that were active before the boss fight and blocked the entry Fixed some changes form last patch were not applied correc |
| Patch 1.3 Beta 2 is live | 2025-03-17 | Travelers of the Otherworld! We have just released patch version 1.3 Beta 2. I want to use the opportunity to thank everyone who has played the beta so far and reported bugs and gave feedback: these are insanely useful for us! If you didn't play the beta yet, you can see here how to join it: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1585180/view/539973539856385765 Have a nice week, Just2D ________________________ Changelog Finally, here's a list of other bug fixes, balancing changes and the like that we've done in the context of this update: Balancing & Changes Nature Touch - Reduced additional heal per point of Mind from 2 to 1 per tick and in |
| Patch 1.3 Beta 1 is live | 2025-03-14 | Travelers of the Otherworld! We have just released patch version 1.3 Beta 1. In case you missed it, we are having a beta branch for the next few weeks before the offcial 1.3 patch releases. If you want to help find bugs and give feedback, please check it out: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1585180/view/539973539856385765 Have fun with Drova and have a nice weekend, Just2D ________________________ Changelog Finally, here's a list of other bug fixes, balancing changes and the like that we've done in the context of this update: Balancing Ring of Blood - Decreased lifesteal rate by 50% Changes to new boss Added a short pause when player |
| Beta Patch 1.3 "The Flesh Rises" | 2025-03-12 | Dear Travellers of the Otherworld! The time has come! The last Content Patch for Drova is close. And today our Open Beta for Patch 1.3 begins! With the Beta we want to give you a chance to give us Feedback early about the new content. We hope that with your Feedback about balancing and the reported Bugs (if you find some) we can have an even better full release of the Patch. Since it is still in development, don't be surprised if some animations or sound effects don't seem to be finished just yet (or if they are even missing). Also the french localization isn't available just yet. It will be included in the full release of the patch though. W |
| Open Beta for Patch 1.3. soon! | 2025-03-09 | It's almost time: The patch 1.3 “The Flesh Rises” is approaching. We've been working hard on it over the last few weeks and are looking forward to showing you the new content soon and bringing Drova to a worthy conclusion! You'll even have the chance to play the patch before release. We want to invite you to an open beta! The main purpose of the open beta is to help us find and fix any bugs that we may have overlooked. We also want to get your feedback early so that we can incorporate it into the release! The open beta for the patch will start next Wednesday, March 12, 2025 on Steam. More information on how you can participate and what the pa |