Thea: The Awakening
Released Nov 2015
Thea: The Awakening is a turn-based strategic survival game inspired by the Slavic mythology and set in a procedural dark fantasy world infused with non-linear story and unique combat system.
85% positive · 3,779 reviews
Done
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Evaluation
Thea: The Awakening launched on November 20, 2015 and received all of its post-launch content within the first eight months. The four DLC packs — Return of the Giants (April 15, 2016), Thea: MultiPrayer (June 23, 2016), Story Bundle (June 23, 2016), and Coffee for Coding (June 22, 2016) — all shipped by late June 2016, and none remain unreleased. The developer's anniversary post from November 20, 2016 celebrated the game's first year and expressed general goodwill, but contained no announcement of new content for this game.
Since mid-2016, MuHa Games has shifted its attention to the Thea franchise's sequel, Thea 2: The Shattering, and most recently to a new entry called Project Thea, which launched in Early Access on November 20, 2025. The developer's March 9, 2026 post notes that Thea: The Awakening "recently received a language update" (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean support added in December 2025), which is a localization maintenance update rather than new gameplay content.
No new DLC, expansions, or content updates have been announced or released for Thea: The Awakening since June 2016. The developer's communications about the Thea universe are focused entirely on Project Thea. The game is complete as originally shipped with its four DLC packs.
Evidence
Coffee for Coding DLC released June 22, 2016. All four DLC packs are released with none remaining.
Developer post promotes the Thea universe during a Steam sale. Notes the language update for Thea: The Awakening and focuses developer energy on Project Thea (now in Early Access). No new content announced for Thea: The Awakening.
Content
4 of 4 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
MuHa Games
Achievements
31
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
Thea: The Awakening is a turn-based strategic survival game steeped in Slavic myth and monstrosity set after an apocalyptic force known only as The Darkness has engulfed the world. There are Strigas and Baba Yagas aplenty, but there are no heroes, no monster slayers, and no great armies capable of banishing them. You have only a few hopeless and starving survivors who are desperately trying to stay alive. You are their last and only true hope!
The game combines turn-based strategic gameplay with the tension and grit of a rogue-like, a captivating story you can uncover through a series of in-game events, and a unique combat system based on a complex card battle game.
The wide range of gameplay features allows you to proceed through the world of Thea the way you prefer. You can choose to stay in your village and build up defenses, or you can go out and explore the world. Conflicts can be resolved through assassination, stealth, diplomacy, hunting, and various other ways depending on the skills your people possess. Fighting is not your only solution to conflict!
Choose your game style and save your people from the Darkness!
Key Features:
The game combines turn-based strategic gameplay with the tension and grit of a rogue-like, a captivating story you can uncover through a series of in-game events, and a unique combat system based on a complex card battle game.
The wide range of gameplay features allows you to proceed through the world of Thea the way you prefer. You can choose to stay in your village and build up defenses, or you can go out and explore the world. Conflicts can be resolved through assassination, stealth, diplomacy, hunting, and various other ways depending on the skills your people possess. Fighting is not your only solution to conflict!
Choose your game style and save your people from the Darkness!
Key Features:
- Survival game in a dark fantasy setting with hexagonal turn-based strategic gameplay!
- Huge procedural world to explore – each play-through is a new adventure!
- Village management with a variety of structures to build, upgrades and technologies to discover, and items to craft!
- Over 4400 items that you can craft in your village or gather in the game’s world!
- Expeditions in which each member carries his or her gear and gains experience in battle, improving abilities like collecting resources, diplomacy, healing, black magic, and dozens more!
- Over 200 non-linear story events that can grant you riches or deprive you of all your goods including life!
- Exciting card battle game system that can be resolved by combat, diplomacy, curses, and more!
- Over 100 types of deadly creatures, many inspired by Slavic Mythology!
- Procedural creature instances – Each creature, even in a swarm of spiders, has its own skills and stats!
- Day & night cycle influence gameplay – Villagers can better recognize threats from afar during the day, and creatures become more aggressive at night!
- Multiple game endings depending on your choices with rewards and unlocks carrying over to your next play-through!
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Last evaluated Jun 21, 2026
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