9th June 2025
NOMAD MONTHLY ROUND-UP - APRIL + MAY 2025
Hello again everyone!
April and May of 2025 were both massively exciting months for our small games studio, so we’ve decided to roll two months worth of updates together for you into a single, bumper Round-Up.
Alongside releasing our second remastered Classic expansion for Talisman: Digital 5th Edition and our first batch of remastered Classic characters, we confirmed the release date for the digital version of Alliances: Fate Beckons too!
But that’s only the tip of the iceberg, and with both April and May to cover, we’d better dive in!
On May 22nd, we officially confirmed that Talisman: Digital 5th Edition - Alliances: Fate Beckons would be launching on Steam on July 10th!
In Alliances: Fate Beckons, 2 to 6 players unite to tackle five unique Trials. Each Trial challenges players to complete challenges and defeat formidable adversaries. Successive Trials unveil new characters, cards, and objectives too. Exclusive to the digital version of Alliances: Fate Beckons, you can use the Deck Editor to customise each trail you face, adjusting the challenge or tipping the odds in your favour.
Alongside all the exciting announcements, April and May also saw us smashing through development milestones for the Talisman: Digital 5th Edition - Alliances: Fate Beckons Expansion! Our development team has been diligently working on implementing the unique mechanics that Alliances: Fate Beckons brings to Talisman. From shared fate pools to new cooperative spells and cards, we're ensuring that the digital adaptation captures the essence of the tabletop experience.
With us running through multiple online games on development builds and our art team doing an amazing job on taking the art from the physical expansion and digitising it, we’re super excited to show you what we’ve done between now and July 10th!
The biggest part of April was the launch of The Frostmarch Classic for Talisman: Digital 5th Edition! The second remastered expansion from our studio, we’ve seen tons of players enjoy this updated iconic expansion, with player feedback being especially positive in April.
With all the new cards added to 5th Edition through The Frostmarch Classic, we’ve also seen an increase in players using the Deck Editor both offline and online. One of the reasons we decided to adapt The Frostmarch as our second remastered expansion was specifically because of the range of adventure and spell cards that it added to the Talisman experience. It’s good to see that we were right to do so, as many of you have already picked out your favourite cards for your Talisman games.
We also saw many players bringing across their purchases from Talisman: Digital Classic Edition into Talisman: Digital 5th Edition to unlock The Frostmarch Classic. Given that the original version launched digitally over 10 years ago, it’s been great to see players who supported us all those years ago by picking up that expansion continue to support us in this new version of Talisman.
It wouldn’t be an expansion launch without some special streams and showcases, right? Well, not only did Tom take to our official Twitch channel to show off The Frostmarch Classic, but some awesome content creators also tried out the remastered expansion. Check out some of the highlights in the videos below!
On May 22nd, we rolled out an update for Talisman: Digital 5th Edition that added 5 classic characters to the game, including the iconic Druid and Minstrel - available in 5th Edition for the first time anywhere!
Alongside these two characters from the 4th Edition base game (available for all 5th Edition players entirely for free, by the way!), we also added remastered versions of The Jester, The Ranger and The Swordsman to the game. Just like with our remastered expansions, anyone who had purchased these characters in Talisman: Digital Classic Edition was able to sync their purchases across to Digital 5th Edition to unlock the new versions at no additional cost.
Community reception to these returning characters has been highly positive from what we’ve seen, with players appreciating the effort we’ve gone through to make them fit within the 5th Edition style. Just like with the expansions we’ve remastered, we massively appreciate the trust that the Talisman community has put in us to take these iconic characters and update them for 5th Edition. So to hear your positive feedback means a lot to us!
Something we’ve been working on in the background that we were finally able to roll out in April was the ability to purchase Talisman: Digital 5th Edition directly from us! We’ve partnered with Xsolla, and now we’re able to sell keys for Talisman: Digital 5th Edition directly here through our website.
And to celebrate the fact we can now offer this to you, we’re offering a special launch promotion until June 25th! All you need to do is use the code NomadNewsletter to get an extra 10% off your purchase of Talisman: Digital 5th Edition!
This new integration means more checkout and payment options – whether you prefer credit cards, PayPal, or local payment methods, we’ve got you covered. Don’t worry about missing out on the Steam version: you’ll still receive a Steam key for your purchase (it’s still the Steam version, not a separate DRM-free copy), so you can redeem and play just like normal. In short, it’s the same great game delivered via a smoother, more flexible checkout.
Best of all, buying directly from us means savings for you. Because we bypass the typical platform fee, our prices can be lower. We can also roll out special deals that weren’t possible before – think discount codes, multi-copy bundles, and exclusive promotions (like secret offers for our newsletter subscribers!). It’s all part of how we can give back to the community. We hope you enjoy these new buying options and perks!
Alongside all of the work we’ve been doing to make Talisman: Digital 5th Edition even better, we’ve also been working on something for everyone who’s not taken the plunge into the new version of the game yet - a demo!
Available now on Steam, you can freely download the Talisman: Digital 5th Edition demo now to play as either the Wizard or the Warrior in a local match against 3 AI opponents. There’s no limit on the number of games you can play to try out the new 5th Edition experience, and we’ve also included all of the 5th Edition tutorials too, so whether you’re new to the world of Talisman or not, it’s well worth giving it a try.
Over the last two months, we got quite a few more questions from you all into our monthly mailbag, so thank you to everyone who sent in a question for the Nomad Games team!
From Frederic Soufflet via email
“I am following you just in the hope that Relic (Warhammer) will be localized one day.”
We appreciate your honesty and determination to see Relic adapted digitally! We know that it’s a game with a lot of fans (we’ve also got copies of Relic in the Nomad office too) and we’ve had quite a few people request we make a digital version over the years.
Keep the faith, because we’d never write off Relic: Digital Edition!
From Niall via email
“Hey guys! Me and my boys rarely get to see each other anymore, so playing Talisman together on mobile whilst we FaceTime is quite a ritual for us nowadays. We all just wanted to know when 5th Edition is coming to mobile? We’re excited to play it! Thanks, and keep smashing it!”
Soon™.
For a more serious answer, we’re going to be taking a look at our future plans for Talisman: Digital 5th Edition once we’ve launched the Alliances: Fate Beckons Expansion. This will include looking at our plans for ports onto other platforms, so we’ll have a more definitive idea of what the future of Talisman: Digital 5th Edition will look like, and be able to share those plans with you all.
One of the biggest things we can say currently is that we’re using historical data from Talisman: Digital Classic Edition (such as sales, purchase percentages for DLC etc.) to inform how we’d expect Talisman: Digital 5th Edition to perform on other platforms. So, if the Android version of Classic Edition sold 70% of the number of copies as the Steam version, we’re evaluating potential sales of 5th Edition assuming it’d sell the same ratio.
That’s a very long-winded way of saying that the better the Steam version of Talisman: Digital 5th Edition does, the more confident we can be that other platforms will be worth the development time, cost and resources. So if you want us to bring the game to more platforms, telling your friends about the Steam version currently available is one of the best ways you, as a player, can do that!
From Tenzing Gehlen via Twitter
“What's the progress on bringing Talisman 5th edition to consoles?”
Still soon™
For a more serious answer, please check out our reply above! When we’re evaluating console, we apply many of the same things as we do to our thought process for mobile ports. Consoles are a little more tricky as there’s a few more steps involved, but the basic principal of evaluating when we should make a port is the same.
Also, if there’s a particular console or platform you’d like to see Talisman: Digital 5th Edition on, letting us know directly is another great way to influence our decisions!
From Pipefenix619 via email
“Dear Nomad Games, I want to ask, are you going to do characters individually like you did on the 4th edition with unique art like the 4th edition expansions (such as The Reaper) transferred in the 5th edition?”
We most certainly are! In May, we’ll be showing off the first five characters we’ve remastered to bring into Talisman: Digital 5th Edition. Each one has unique art and a new digital 3D figure for the board, to match the rest of the 5th Edition characters.
Also, if you’ve already purchased an individual character in Talisman: Digital Classic Edition, you’ll be able to unlock their remastered version by syncing across your original purchase, just like we’ve been offering with the remastered Classic expansions.
From חיים נתנאל פרסי via email
“Will you update the digital classic edition in the future? Or the game will be transformed completely to the 5th edition?”
Eventually, we want you to be able to experience everything you would have had in Digital Classic Edition all in one single place. So we’re aiming reach a point where yes, there isn’t really a need for Talisman: Digital Classic Edition, because everything you could do in that game is available in Talisman: Digital 5th Edition.
However, with it being a game that’s been around for 11+ years, we know a lot of players have grown attached to the game for nostalgia reasons. So, our current plan is to keep Talisman: Digital Classic Edition as a legacy title, available via platforms like GOG while we remaster 4th Edition content into Talisman: Digital 5th Edition. On platforms that support it (like Steam) we’ll also give Talisman: Digital 5th Edition owners a copy of Classic, so they can still experience that 4th Edition content while we’re in the process of bringing it over to Talisman: Digital 5th Edition.
This whole process is going to take time, so it’s hard for us to give a fully definitive answer on something that’s years down the line, but we hope that answers your question!
From Patrick Coelius via Facebook
“When can I expect a new update for Talisman 5th Edition so that I can play it whenever I want without the random effect and without worrying that it might kick me out of the game again?”
If you’re having a specific issue with Talisman: Digital 5th Edition, we’d love to know what exactly it is! Our support team have been working hard to help the people who’ve had issues with the game due to their specific PC setups, and we’ve seen a steady decrease in crashes and bug reports since launch. However, we’re not naive - we know there’s always going to be people coming across new issues, so for anyone reading this (and to you Patrick!), you can reach out to support@nomadgames.co.uk anytime and we’ll do our best to help you out.
From Shao Chan via email
“The board game and answers on the internet and YouTube videos state that the Assassin can use it’s assassin ability in the Crown of Command. However, in the Digital 5th edition game, the ability cannot be used as far as I can tell. Which is correct?”
You should be able to use it against the elder dragon! When you sent in this in, us adding in The Frostmarch Classic and the inclusion of the Ice Queen had caused an odd issue where the Assassin couldn’t use their ability against the Ice Queen specifically - turned out that this issue also effected the Elder Dragon. As part of the update we rolled out on May 22nd, this is now fixed, so the Assassin can go back to happily using their ability against bosses.
And that’s the end of this month's update! Don’t forget, if you’ve got questions you want to ask the Nomad team, you can always send your questions to questions@nomadgames.co.uk, or fill in the form below!
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