Third Map: We have added a third map to the game! The new map is set in a city that has recently been hit by an apocalyptic event, causing you and the enemy cults to fight for control of the abandoned and empty city.

• This map is different not only visually than the other two but also features an infinitely long but narrow road

• This adds a new challenge for players that will require them to change how they play

Cult Families by Map: We have made it so maps now only spawn certain families.

• Each map now has two cult families assigned to it to pull enemies from

• For bosses, the first two bosses only will spawn from the assigned families, but the final two bosses will be randomly chosen from all the other cult families

• For the final boss, since we only have one currently, it will always spawn that one but once we implement more then this will be based on the map and families as well

New boss: We have added a new boss for the chronically online family! For the longest time it only had one boss so this one has been planned for quite some time. It has many unique mechanics that are completely new so we hope you have fun.

New game mode: We have added a 10 minute game mode!

• This is a faster paced game mode that is more challenging to complete as enemies and bosses are spawning in more quicker

• This mode is an alternative to the 20 minute game mode for when you want to play a quicker game and are on a time limit!

• We have cut the amount of times you need to level up a follower to reach its ascension by one.
• This allows us to make it so leveling up happens less often and there are fewer disruptions to the gameplay.
• As there are fewer levels before ascensions each level up feels more impactful to each follower rather than a small increase.
• These changes also allow the player to have more time with ascended followers as you will reach ascensions sooner than before.

• We felt the ascensions werent really packing a punch in some cases and for some followers one of the ascensions was clearly the better choice than other, so we have reworked nearly all the ascensions.
• All ascensions are now strong and vastly unique from each other.
• This allows for what we intended to do with ascensions in the first place, to customize your followers how you want them to play in the run.

• We have reworked status effects and how the status effect system works as we thought it was a little bit complicated.
• All status effects now are stackable, with more stacks leading to stronger effects, or in the case of bleeding the status effect triggering.
• It is now easier to apply status effects as well, as most followers have upgrades or ascensions that apply status effect with some even applying multiple stacks of it in one go.
• This standardizes how the status effects work, but also gives them a scale where if you have little status effect application on a run you wont notice it, but if you invest into status effects on a run you will see just how strong they can be!

• Rebalancing of experience gain and leveling up as a result of the changes made to followers level up.
• Rebalancing of the enemies scaling and boss scaling as a result of player level being lower. The scaling has been made a bit more aggressive as the leveling up system has slowed down but became more powerful.
• We have fixed a few bugs!

• We have added a new achievement system to the game that will lead to you unlocking whole sorts of things such as passives, boss passives, backgrounds, and other secrets for you to find out! These achievements will be based on various things such as damage dealt, killing certain enemies, and defeating bosses. We feel this system adds another layer of rewards for our fellow cult leaders.

• The Meta progressions and its screen has been fully revamped! The Meta progression screen is referred to as Ancient Library and the upgrades are now scrolls. The individual amount of Meta upgrades have been lowered but each upgrade is more impactful now. Additionally, each upgrade now also reveals a bit of the lore of that upgrade and the world that you are trying to take over with your cult!

• Shields have also been fully reworked now. Shields now drop from enemies instead of being picked while leveling up and now are usable only once! Additionally shields are now unlocked in the Ancient Library at tier 3. We have buffed the shield abilities and added more shields variants so they also feel more impactful.

• We have added a substantial amount of sounds to various things in game such as enemy hit sounds, weapon sounds, pick up sounds and more. These sounds add significant depth to the game and we will be adding more in future updates. Additionally, we have also added background music to the Jungle map and it is a certified banger!

• We added new backgrounds that can be unlocked through achievements and reworked some of the old ones that felt weak.
• We changed XP scaling to slow leveling up.
• We changed Boss HP scaling as well so its not as punishing but the bosses still feel tankier as you go along.
• We have also fixed quite a lot of bugs as well.

Bug Fixes