I've always wanted to add gamepad support to Enso ever since I started making the game, and now it's finally here!

Gamepad support!

The game supports a lot of different controllers, but the button icons that show on-screen are for Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch. (Except for Linux where Switch controllers are not supported by the Unity Engine.) Playing with your mouse is still recommended, but completing Enso with a gamepad is a fun extra challenge! You'll find some obstacles a lot harder with a controller, and others a lot easier.

New achievements

I've added two new achievements to Enso:

• Complete the game only using Mouse & Keyboard.
• Complete the game only using gamepad.

Input Indicators

In order to give some feedback to players about what input has been used in the current play-through, I have added some indicator icons. They are displayed when you pause the game, at each "checkpoint", and upon completing the game. This will allow for different categories of speedrun: mouse, gamepad, mixed. Thanks for playing! Eddy :) P.S: Hopefully this will mean the game will work perfectly on Steam Deck also! But, I currently have no way of testing this.

[ 2025-04-04 11:20:10 CET ] [ Original post ]

Thank you to everyone who has been playing Enso and speed running it recently. I've had a lot of fun watching your runs over on SpeedRun.com/Enso This update adds a few quality of life improvements.

Accessibility!

A user kindly asked me if it would be possible to add an option to darken the background of the game. I can understand wanting to do this as in the lower portion of the game, even though the sunrise is beautiful, it is very bright! In the Settings Menu, you can now find a toggle to darken the sunrise.

Steam Recording Timeline

I have added support to display game events as markers when recording your gameplay directly via Steam. (This is now my preferred method by the way!)
Here is a list of the markers that will show up on the timeline, along with different coloured shading on the timeline to indicate when you are in the menu/paused and when you are playing:

• Run started.
• Checkpoint reached.
• Run completed.
• Achievement earned.

Bug fixes

• The game now pauses when you open the Steam Overlay.
• Fixed a bug where the cursor was not correctly locking to the game window when restarting the level.
• Fixed the "" not showing up properly in some French translations.

Thanks for reading! Eddy

[ 2025-02-28 00:28:59 CET ] [ Original post ]

Just a quick fix for some achievements linked to completing the game that were not unlocking properly. I put ">" (greater than) instead of ">=" (greater than or equal) like a dumb dumb so you needed to complete it one extra time to get the achievement.

[ 2025-02-26 11:03:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

First of all, thank you to everyone who has purchased Enso since it released a week ago! I hope you have been enjoying your time with the game <3 I've been working hard this week to fix some minor issues I had with the game, and also to add something new:

Achievements!

I've never implemented Steam Achievements into a game before so I'm crossing my fingers that all of this works! If you have any bugs please write to me here on Steam in the Community Hub or come and find me on Discord. There are now a total of 26 achievements, some are secret and might take a little searching to uncover ;)

Improvements

• Made the tutorial go back to the main menu if launched from the main menu.
• "Any button" no longer skips the congratulations scene, now the player must press escape. This should stop people skipping the stats screen by accident.
• Improved layout of the congratulations scene.

Changes to the level design

• Modify the right-hand passage of the dragon so that it is less scary and punishing.
• Modified the first high jump-up so that the ball naturally sits closer to the rock the player needs to bounce off and made the opposite side of the rock a simple ramp.
• Made the climb out of the cave more forgiving.
• Made it harder to fall into the cave.
• Added a sticky rock at the top of the right-most climb-up just before the temple.
• Fix little spot in cloud above windmill where players could get stuck.
• Fix little spot on dragon's back where the player should be able to sit but the ball would roll away.

Bug fixes

• Fix delay when pausing the game for the first time caused by needing to load the blur shader.
• Zoom back in if you pause while zoomed out.

Thanks for reading! Eddy

[ 2025-02-15 01:34:44 CET ] [ Original post ]