New features:

• Added "Threat timer" setting (ability to change how long it takes for the hourglass to turn)
• Added difficulty setting (affects starting stats for enemies)

• Increased AoE cap to 7
• Boss clears bad stacks when moving

• Fixed input rebinding not being saved
• Changes to stored window size management, attempting to prevent crashes and strange window position offsets

• Added a new gamepad mapping
• Implemented updated Steam SDK
• Upgrade Defold to 1.10.3

Features:

• Added "Explorer Mode" (available in Gameplay settings) - this removes the hourglass threat feature, instead each floor has a pre-determined threat level
• Added settings for FPS cap, Vsync, resetting tutorial, and reverting to default settings
• Made price red in Wraith Vendor when an item is unaffordable
• Added custom icon for Wraith Vendor on minimap

Balancing:

• Tweaked item drop rates (fewer drops as many items are collected)
• Tweaked reroll costs (item rerolls ramp up quicker)
• Buffed Thorns
• Capped AoE damage to affect at most 5 enemy units
• Tweaked enemy spawning behaviour to prevent enormous clusters in unexplored areas
• Don't reset threat hourglass between floors
• Added damage/dodge reduction to Rampage
• Reduced damage bonus for Zealot's Fury
• Reduced length multiplier for Iron Shroud
• Reduced amount for Ethereal Form
• Reduce damage bonus for Ash Husk

Bug fixes:

• Attempted fix for softlocking on squad recruitment screen
• Fixed bug associated with Bone Golem bone nova
• Made back button work in most menus
• Changed how volume settings work to make the sliders more intuitive
• Fixed bug which caused unit positions to be modified on hit

Sounds:

• Player taking damage
• Sound when an item drops due to Luck stat
• Flag bearer inspiration
• "To me!" bark and looping effect
• Updated pipe and mushroom destructible sound effects
• Ballista shot sounds
• Bone Golem hurt sounds
• Ability not ready sound

First of all - thank you to everyone who played our demo! We are so happy with the positive reception so far. We are hard at work on the game, and first out is a patch to address some issues we've discovered in the demo.

Change log

• In Squad Upgrade when upgrading Recruitment Rank, empty purchase slots are now filled for free

• Rebalance item economy: Drop rates reduce over time, but shop prices scale slower

• Update keyboard key names to be more legible (e.g. ALT and R-ALT instead of LALT and RALT)

• Increase project resources to prevent crashes and text failing to render

• Reset dungeon data in between floors to prevent memory leak

• Prevent player going out of bounds (previously caused by being overcrowded by enemies)

• Added dedicated reroll shortcut button (default R on keyboard)

• Input rebinding "hold to reset" bar should now start empty

• Hide enemy health bars when there are too many enemies

• Fixed double click exploit when accepting challenges

• Changed reroll costs for items (gift and shop), higher cap

• Prevent enemies going out of bounds

• Added ducat/corpuscle cap (999)

• Various minor balance tweaks (including changes to Rampage, Archer, Petard)

• Various minor bug fixes and performance improvements

If you encounter any bugs or issues, either use the in-game bug reporting functionality, post in our dedicated bug reports thread or post in our Discord.

Get ready to amass a horde of skeletons and take on the filthy flesh hiding in the Sewers!

If you encounter any bugs or issues, either use the in-game bug reporting functionality, post in our dedicated bug reports thread or post in our Discord.

If you want to be involved in the development, head on over to the forums or our Discord!

Play the demo now

We're happy to announce that the Skull Horde demo will be launching on Friday June 20th!

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