Toll: The Ferryman's Ledger

Steam News · 5d

TOLL 1.6 — The Rivers Run

Update 1.6 New The Water Moves All five rivers run now, each with its own temper: the Styx easy, the Acheron heavy, the Lethe almost still, the Phlegethon boiling, the Cocytus barely crawling rises into the bone frame as she speaks, breathes while she talks, and withdraws from it before the plate goes The dead cross from the pier to their seat when you call them, and lift off the deck when the boa...

Steam News · Sep 1

TOLL 1.5 — The Ledger Keeps Records

Update 1.5 New The Records Page The left page of the Ledger turns now: as before, and beside it Twelve rows: fastest ransom, best crossing in souls and in obols, cycles completed, tributes paid, curses suffered, vows kept, spills gathered, faces remembered, bargains struck, promises made, truths told Most of it the game had been counting all along with nowhere to show it; the rest starts at nothin...

Steam News · Aug 25

TOLL 1.4 — Vows and Voices

Update 1.4 New Vows of the Omens A fresh omen over a river you have reached now asks for carried through it A vow kept adds to the fare for the rest of the run, up to four vows () The river tile counts the crossings; the tribute clears the bonus, the weather keeps its window A Deeper Upgrade Tree 82 -> 148: ten upgrades with the step halved and the ceiling doubled ~266,000 -> ~507,000 obols: the s...

Steam News · Aug 23

TOLL 1.3 — Eleven Languages, One Voice at a Time

Update 1.3 New French and Polish The whole game translated: the last words of the dead, the questions of the rivers, the achievements and the store page Eleven languages in all One Voice at a Time 10 seconds of quiet now sit between any two conversations A gilded soul, a branded one or a passenger asking to be carried back now waits while your hands are busy, instead of expiring behind a window Th...

Steam News · Aug 20

TOLL 1.2 — Death Spills, the Lethe Remembers

Update 1.2 New Death's Spill Every 12 minutes Death empties their purse onto your boards: 60 coins, 30 seconds to lift them Lift every coin and the dead pay up to x2.0 for 3 minutes Lift nothing at all and Death takes 10% of your obols instead The first spill comes 6 minutes in; with the game closed the boards stay dry The Waters of the Lethe Every 18 minutes the Lethe washes the faces you carried...

Steam News · Aug 19

TOLL 1.1 — The Tribute Pays You Back

Update 1.1 Balance Adjustments The Tribute Rivers you have opened now stay open through the tribute — it no longer closes everything but the Styx and now take effect the moment you buy them, not at the next tribute Shadows from the tribute: divisor 150 → 50 (about 1.7x more shadows per tribute) The Halls of Hades stay open after the tribute is paid, so the shadows are spent there and then The butt...

Steam News · Aug 18

TOLL Is Out Now

You are Charon. The whole crossing is open. TOLL is out now on Steam. All five rivers of the underworld, the tribute owed to Hades and a price on your own freedom — about three hours from the first coin to the last, and then it finishes. Five rivers, five rules. The Styx is fast and cheap. The dead of the Acheron have weight. On the Lethe they forget they are dead and wander off the boat. The Phle...

Steam News · Aug 12

The Demo Is Live

You are Charon. The dead don't care that you weren't ready. The TOLL demo is live on Steam, completely free, no time limit. It covers the first two rivers of the underworld exactly as they play in the full game — nothing simplified, nothing held back. What's in the demo: The Styx and the Acheron, playable for as long as you want to row. The full upgrade tree for both rivers — oars, hull, crew, the...