Hi all, We have an important update about the future of Mythic to share with you today. Mythic was a passion project for us from the beginning, and we quit our jobs in 2022 to focus on finishing the game. We were hoping that we would earn enough money from the launch to let us pay rent and keep working on Mythic, and even hire an artist to help with future content. Unfortunately, that didn't happen. We are so grateful to everyone who supported us at launch by buying and playing Mythic. We made enough to just keep the servers on, but not enough to do more beyond that. The Mythic servers have been on since launch, but almost a year and half later, our funds have finally dwindled down to the point where we can no longer afford the server upkeep. So, we have made the very difficult decision to sunset Mythic. Mythic's servers will continue running till the end of this month and will be turned off permanently on May 1st. Thank you to everyone for supporting Mythic. Regards, Poro Abyssal Studios

Wanderers! The two of us here at Abyssal Studios are so thankful for all your support and we have great news for you... it is time to enter the maze because Mythic is out NOW! We started this project back in early 2020 and it's been incredible seeing how Mythic has grown from back when it had only placeholder art to the state where it is now. Over these past few months, we've also been lucky to have a growing community on Steam and Discord whose support has fueled us and kept us motivated every day. We're honestly so excited that the day we can explore this world together with all of you is almost here. We started as just two best friends who both loved the MMORPGs and Roguelike genres. We decided to create a fusion of the two, incorporating our favorite elements from each, and this is how Mythic was born. Mythic is an online dungeon crawler inspired by Realm of the Mad God and the classic Zelda games. Discover a world packed with puzzles, enemies, bosses, and treasure. Join forces with fellow heroes to hunt down the gods, or strike out alone and be the first to discover uncharted territory.

Features:

Wanderers! Craving your next dungeon crawl adventure? Looking for the next game to play with your squad? Very shortly you will be able to enter the world of Mythic that we have been building for almost 3 years! We started this project back in early 2020 and it's been incredible seeing how Mythic has grown from back when it had only placeholder art to the state where it is now. Over these past few months, we've also been lucky to have a growing community on Steam and Discord whose support has fueled us and kept us motivated every day. We're honestly so excited that the day we can explore this world together with all of you is almost here. If you want to discuss Mythic before the launch and hang out with us and the community, come join our Discord. Till then, please add Mythic to your wishlist. We'll see you on Thursday! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1752260/Mythic/ Cheers, Poro Abyssal Studios

Bug fixes:

• fixed a bug where players in EU could not Astral Project to the Frost Trials
• fixed a bug where scoring a high score in frost trials could remove your gauntlet score, and vice versa. Restored any scores we know of that were lost this way
• Fixed several small bugs with the Frost Trials

• Nerfed ring of alchemy at high waves of minigames. In its old state, it was possible to do infinite scores in Frost Trials. this should be less noticeable in the Gauntlet but it will be a nerf there as well.

• Reworked the Frost Trials lobby slightly so a new chest is available

Hi Wanderers, The Frost Trials minigame is now live and available to play! Compete with your fellow wanderers to secure the mysterious keystones - all in the name of Science. Will you make a name for yourself and secure a spot on the global leaderboards? The Frost Trials are held deep inside the Water Domain. For players with access to Mythic now, use the portal (Astral Projector) located in the Gauntlet lobby. It will open up a map - click on the portal icon on the map to be teleported to the new Frost Trials lobby! Note - you must have defeated the order boss already in order to access the Portal. We are so excited to finally share the Frost Trials with you - we have worked hard on this minigame and it's been a blast testing it out internally. We hope that you enjoy this new addition to the world of Mythic. As always, if you have any feedback, suggestions, or just want to hang out with the community, come join our Discord. Good luck out there! Cheers, Poro Abyssal Studios

Hi Wanderers, We hope you've been enjoying the new Water Domain room! I've been struggling to find a Winter's Bite these past few days but I'm sure I'll get lucky (with my divine infused Treasure Hunter's Flask). We have been working on the water biome recently, especially the new minigame we announced The Frost Trials! I want to try something new today and share a bit more of what goes on behind-the-scenes - specifically some of our work designing the Water Domain - let me know what you think! Also, please find the current Gauntlet standings at the bottom:

Recolors

Water boss

Gauntlet - Global Leaderboards

Hey Wanderers, This week we have been working hard on - you guessed it - the Water Biome! Since we had to delay our launch, we want to make up for that by providing what content is ready as early as possible for players with access. Please find detailed notes below on today's major update.

Water Domain

• Ice puzzle - navigate the slippery terrain to access powerful rewards!
• Infuser - new upgrading station (similar to the Forge) that will upgrade the rarity of an item.
• Slime - unique mob to the Water Domain. Beware the bounce!
• A brand new npc, a new quest, powerful new items, and much more

The Frost Trials

Minor Balance and Bug Fixes

• Damage reflect now occurs after taking damage yourself, not before.
• Damage reflect on the fire set reduced by half.
• Low level mites nerfed
• Key room mobs nerfed. Should be easier picking up a key for new players.
• Load times upon game launch should be much faster.

Hi Wanderers, We have an important announcement today about the launch of Mythic: We have been working 12+ hour days every day to try to get everything ready in time for release. There's nothing more important to us than delivering what we promise. But it's become clear to us that we have to choose between not delivering when we wanted to and not delivering what we wanted to. We've made the difficult decision to delay the release (originally set for Aug 24th) rather than release something on time that isn't ready. Our new launch date will be Thursday, September 29th. Were sorry to make you guys wait but we promise its going to be worth it. An update on what we're working on: For the past 2.5 weeks, we've been working on networking. The good news is we've made huge progress, and large parts of the game are now playable even with 500+ ping. The bad news is, some parts are still not finished. We need to spend a little bit more time on this before we're happy with the result. For now, we're going to take a little break from working on networking and focus on finishing up the water biome. Mostly this means implementing animations, sounds, and quests. We also have some ideas about a minigame we'd like to add to the water biome, so we'll spend some time on that. We think all this should take about a week. Once we're done, the first room of the water biome will open up, and Mythic Origins players will have access to some new gear and a new crafting station! After that we'll get back to networking for (hopefully) another week. Finally we'll spend a week localizing the game into all the other languages and finishing controller support. Then we should be good to launch! Thanks for being patient, you guys are the best. Cheers, Poro Abyssal Studios

Hi Wanderers, It's been a really busy few weeks for the two of us here as we near the launch of Mythic! In the past few weeks we have been working on a number of big changes, some of which we have pushed out already. We've also shared current leaderboard standings for NA and EU at the bottom of this post! First for the updates: Here are the updates:

UI Updates

• Following this update, the text should be very easy to read on any screen/window size.
• We also made a number of improvements to menus. They should now resize smoothly, without forcing elements on top of each other. Scrollable elements should be scrollable by mousing over them (you won't have to click inside first like before).

Map Updates

• We have implemented a World View on the map - this is something we had planned for a while.
• There's now a button at the bottom-right of the map that lets you switch to this view. The World View shows a zoomed out view where you can see all the domains explored.
• This World View will be very helpful (and frankly necessary) as you can explore an infinite number of domains in Mythic.
• Also added a 'friend is here' icon to the map legend.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where holding down movement keys and opening a menu would keep you moving even while in the menu
• Fixed a bug where 'enter the gauntlet' objective would show up briefly even after you entered the gauntlet and then died
• Fixed a bug where the blood pact could prevent players from opening inventory to unequip

Future Plans

Global Leaderboards

Hi Wanderers, We have a wealth of new updates to share for Mythic! First we'd like to thank everyone again for playing these past few weeks. It brings us immense joy to see people in-game, doing quests, and competing for the leaderboards every day. =] We've also shared current leaderboard standings for NA and EU at the bottom of this post! First for the updates:

Features

• We have completely overhauled the instancing and loot system in-game. To summarize:
  • If no one has entered a room for 10-15 minutes, the room will now hard reset, meaning it will be procedurally generated again from scratch and will have brand new chest loot.
  • Rarity is now a feature of a room instead of being a feature of a chest, as it was previously.
  • Rooms have a chance to spawn as COMMON, UNCOMMON, or RARE.
  • Looting a room lowers its rarity rating: if it is RARE it is immediately lowered to UNCOMMON, if it is UNCOMMON it can be looted 50 times before being lowered to COMMON. Each chest looted in a room contributes towards this number.
  • Certain factors can increase base rarity when receiving an item, including using a Treasure Hunter's Flask and/or a chest being gold (this can stack).
  • The rarity of a room will not reset just because the room resets
  • The rarity of a room will always upgrade once per day, from COMMON > UNCOMMON or UNCOMMON > RARE. This upgrade will never bring the rarity of the room higher than the original room rarity when it spawned.
• Added brand new death screen. Now, upon death, there will be a pop-up detailing what killed you as well as a relevant gameplay tip.

• Added customizable keybinds to the settings menu.

• Added a checkpoint in the gauntlet lobby. This will now be visible to people who have killed the first boss.
• Added automated crash reporting. Crash logs will now be sent to us automatically instead of us needing to ask for them.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where checkpoint icon wouldn't show up in the map
• Fixed a visual bug with the lever puzzle
• Fixed a bug where champion's mail could permalock players in the boss room

Global Leaderboards

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2018990/Mythic_Origins/ Mythic Origins is out now! This is a free, content-limited version of Mythic. Mythic Origins is an action-packed experience filled with enemies, loot, a cool boss fight, and a gauntlet minigame with a global leaderboard. For those of you who have already had a chance to try out the Mythic Demo that has been up for the past few weeks, please find below a list of changes in this official release. Also, at the bottom of this post, please find details of what's to come in the full version, Mythic.

Changes from the Demo

Features:

• Completely redesigned quest system
• Brand new tutorial quest line
• Multiple new NPCs with dialog and idle state animations
• Updated Gauntlet minigame with brand new item rewards
• New On-screen objectives for current quest added to HUD (below health bar)
• Improved UI (updated multiple buttons, text size optimizations, etc)

Bugfixes:

• fixed a bug where a ghost of a mite would flash for one frame after it was killed
• fixed multiple bugs related to new quest system
• multiple other smaller bugfixes

Other QoL updates:

• rebound dash from [Shift] to [Space]

Plans for Mythic

Mythic will have:

• an infinite, procedurally generated world where each room is a brand-new challenge
• 4 more unique elemental biomes
• 4 more elemental bosses to be conquered
• more unique enemies, quests, and puzzles
• over 50 more unique items to equip
• 3 more crafting systems
• multiple skill trees to customize your character with

Dear Wanderers, We have a few major updates to share! First of all, we want to thank everyone who participated in Steam Next Fest and tried out our demo. It was an incredible opportunity for us to see Mythic reach such a broad audience and we received some really useful feedback from you all. Coming up, please mark your calendars this week as our free prologue for Mythic titled 'Mythic Origins' is launching on Thursday! Mythic Origins will be a short, action-packed experience where you will play through a fully overhauled early game in the Order domain packed with enemies, loot, and the Order boss himself! Of course, the gauntlet minigame will make its return to give you a chance at a coveted spot on our global leaderboards. You can wishlist today and play when Mythic Origins launches here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2018990/Mythic_Origins/ Next, we have been redesigning the early game experience from ground up. This includes an entirely new tutorial quest line, Mythic's first NPCs with dialog, and new items, too! Here's a sneak peak at one of the first NPCs you'll meet in-game:
Here's some more details of what we changed: Features: - Completely reworked quest system - Multiple new NPCs with dialog and idle state animations - On-screen objectives for current quest added to the HUD (below health bar) - Added gate opening/closing and portal activation animations - Brand new Gauntlet item reward (tied to new Gauntlet quest) - Overall UI improvement (changed multiple button wordings, text sizes, etc) Bugfixes: - fixed a bug where a ghost of a mite would flash for one frame after it was killed - fixed multiple bugs related to new quest system - multiple other smaller bugfixes. Other QoL updates: - rebound dash from [Shift] to [Space] Finally, have you checked out our YouTube channel? We upload dev let's plays, trailers, and short videos there from time-to-time so if you're interested please check it out! We are really excited to see what you all think about this new early game experience. Join us this Thursday for Mythic Origins! As always, if you want to share feedback with us or just hang out with the community, please come join our Discord here. Cheers, Porogami Abyssal Studios

Dear wanderers, Steam Next Fest has begun in full swing and we are so happy that players have been enjoying our demo. Weve received some incredible feedback so far and look forward to welcoming more new players to our community! We also have some great new updates that we'd like to share:

Expanded demo - Includes brand new fire biome

Livestreams during Steam Next Fest

Dear wanderers, Steam Next Fest has begun in full swing and we are so happy that players have been enjoying our demo. Weve received some incredible feedback so far and look forward to welcoming more new players to our community! We also have some great new updates that we'd like to share:

Expanded demo - Includes brand new fire biome

Livestreams during Steam Next Fest

Dear wanderers, We are excited to announce that Mythic is taking part in the upcoming Steam Next Fest! We have some great new updates that we'd like to share:

Expanded demo - Includes brand new fire biome

Livestreams during Steam Next Fest

Dear Wanderers, We have an exciting update today - our second public beta is live now as a free demo! It is available on our Steam store page, so make sure to try it out! This new demo is fully online, includes all the content from the previous one, and features the much anticipated Fire Biome - this is a completely new region in Mythic filled with exciting new loot, quests, puzzles, the fire boss himself, and much more. This demo will remain live through Steam Next Fest, which is just around the corner. If you enjoy the demo and want to get more involved in the community or help us further improve the game, please come join our Discord. See you in the maze! Cheers, Porogami Abyssal Studios

Dear Wanderers, This has been an eventful week for us here at Abyssal Studios! We have successfully implemented localizations of our Steam store page in 7 new languages. This has been something that we have really been looking forward to for a long time. We also have a major announcement that we can't wait to share within the next few days, so stay tuned! We have continued to quash more bugs as well implement some cool new QoL features. You can find detailed patchnotes below. Features - Procedural death animations added for the player character and mobs in-game. - Quest Complete/Party Invite popups added. Now you can will get a notification as soon as someone invites you to their party and also upon completing a quest.
Bugfixes - Fixed a bug where the artillery firing sound wasn't audible if it was a certain distance away from you. - Fixed a bug where the artillery firing sound could continue even after it's killed. - Multiple other smaller bugfixes. Cheers, Porogami Abyssal Studios

Dear Wanderers, Our first free demo ended on Wednesday night and we couldn't be happier with all the amazing feedback and support we received from the community. We loved hearing what you think of Mythic, positive or negative, and are committed to incorporating as much of your feedback into the game as possible. There will be another free beta in about a month. It will include many more domains to explore, as well as new loot, enemies, puzzles, bosses, and more. You can expect the world to be 5-10 times bigger in the next beta than it was in this one! Stay tuned to our discord for regular updates on our progress. We can't wait to see you all there! We have already began making some fixes and adding new features to Mythic based on your feedback. You can find detailed patchnotes below. Features - Loot popups added. Now you can see the detailed stats of an item picked up from a chest and compare it to an existing item you have equipped.
- Added a setting to always show player nametags in-game. Bugfixes - Fixed a bug where you can't press Q during the quest popup notification. - Fixed a bug where the boss loot popup doesn't say 'Press shift to unlock dash'. - Fixed a bug where looking a different direction when entering a room can lead to unexpected behavior. - Fixed a bug on the party screen. - Fixed a bug where getting timed out in the boss room could cause permadeath. - Multiple other smaller bugfixes. Cheers, Porogami Abyssal Studios

Dear Wanderers, Over the past week, we have made a number of changes and updates to Mythic based on all the great feedback we received in our Steam Discussions page and our Discord. As the Going Rogue festival nears its end, please continue posting there if anything is buggy or just unfun. You can find detailed patchnotes below. Features - Player nameplates added. Now you can see the names of people you run into in-game (which also means you can invite them to party!) - Players now allowed to help their party kill the boss, even if they have already killed it themselves - Wave counter added to the gauntlet Bugfixes - Fixed a bug where quests allowed you to turn them in multiple times and keep getting rewards - Several other smaller bugfixes Improvements - Increased instance caps everywhere, so the game will feel more populated - Stopped players from losing currency when dying in the gauntlet - Turned down the default master volume and the music volume in particular - Made it easier to walk through doors even if you aren't standing in the exact center Balancing - Buff to shield potions - Greatly increased the amount of loot near the spawn, making it easier to find your first sword As always, server resets cause the randomized rooms to reset with new level generations to explore and new chests to open. Good luck and we'll see you in the maze! Cheers, Porogami Abyssal Studios

Happy Sunday everyone, The Going Rogue: A Festival of Persistence event begins tomorrow on Steam and we are so excited to announce the launch of Mythic's first free demo! It will launch on May 2 at 10 AM PST - at that time you can download it directly from our Steam page. We can't wait to hear your feedback about our first ever demo! It will be will be available to play for a week and will be removed at the end of the Going Rogue event, on May 9th. However, if you enjoy the demo and want to get more involved in the community or help us further improve the game, please come join our Discord. We really hope you enjoy the demo and we're looking forward to your feedback in the Steam discussions forum or in our Discord. Cheers, Porogami Abyssal Studios

Hi everyone, Here at Abyssal Studios we are a two man team and PAX East this year was the first gaming convention both of us had ever been to (personally and professionally). It was also the first time we showed Mythic to the world and we couldn't have asked for a better audience. Hundreds of players got to fight the first boss and survive against the hordes of enemies in the minigame! Here you can see Secret_fish and me - together we make up the two man team at Abyssal Studios!


If we have any regrets, it's only that we didn't take more pictures!
Now that PAX East is finally over, it's time for the next step of our journey. We are launching the first free demo for Mythic on Monday, May 2, at 10 AM PST. It will be available to play for a week, so if you're interested please download and try it out! Stay tuned for more updates by wishlisting us on Steam, joining our Discord, and following @Play_MythicGame. Thanks for stopping by, Porogami Abyssal Studios

We are so excited to announce that we will be hosting a booth this year at PAX East in Boston! We are booth #16085, come visit us!

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Features:

• Roguelike: Fight, die, repeat.
  Encounter powerful enemies as you explore new areas. Earn valuable loot, if you survive. Danger waits around every corner, and death will send you back to the start of the region you're in.
  
  
• RPG: Build your character.
  Equip a limitless variety of items. Access powerful effects and combinations. Fully customize your build with five skill trees: air, earth, water, fire, and order. To which will you pledge your affinity?
  
  
• Exploration: Explore the infinite, procedurally generated world.
  The world is a maze and you start at the center. Better loot and riches may be found behind each door, but powerful enemies lie in wait as well.
  
  
• Massively Multiplayer: Work with other wanderers to take down the old gods and solve the mysteries of the labyrinth.

• OS: Ubuntu 16.10 64-bit
• Processor: Dual Core 2.4 GHzMemory: 4 GB RAM
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Graphics: 1 GB VRAMNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
• Storage: 500 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: Internet connection required to play.