Major Update

Hello again! This is the largest single update we've released so far, so I'll just get right into it.

We've added two major dungeons to the game, along with many, many small dungeons and secrets that spawn throughout the map. This is a massive change to the gameplay loop, and required a complete overhaul of the world generation system. We hope that exploration will feel far more interesting as a result. We've added lots of other content as well, detailed in the list below.

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Here's a list of the most notable additions/changes made to the game:

• The Frigid Priory, a new dungeon found within the Karmic (ice) biome.

• The Derelict Bastille, a new dungeon located in the Greed (ruins) biome.

• New cards for creating rooms, and demolishing walls.

• Card packs (and card pack packs).

• Fire-sale shops.

• Added keys and locked doors.

• Lots and lots of new special rooms to find.

• Redesigned the look of numerous cards.

• Enemies may appear with cursed traits, permanently hindering them.

• Bosses now appear at the end of their respective dungeons.

• Fusion cards now combine traits, mutate cards may bestow innate traits.

• Fusions can no longer lower unit stats.

• Mutations further increase stats, but repeated mutations may yield cursed traits.

• Lots of visual improvements, shader fixes.

• Heavily optimized the map view and zoomed-out views.

• Myriad of UI and card bug fixes, and sprite cleanup.

Additionally, there will be 3 more dungeons, bosses, and biomes included with the full release of the game. Thanks for all your support, and see you at Next Fest!

[ 2025-06-08 02:18:59 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey There! We've added more card VFX to accompany the card rarity/condition system, added lots of new units to miniboss fights, and added additional rewards for those fights. We also added a new card, Manifest, and a keybind for temporarily locking the camera view. The settings button is back, too.

Major Fixes:

Fixed new miniboss rings replacing old rings by default on equip. Fixed ranged weapons being nullified by friendly units within the same column. Fixed incorrectly labeled weapon stats.

Minor Fixes:

Fixed a camera zoom edge case within the map view. Fixed visual bugs with fusion card arrow. Fixed ring menu UI sometimes preventing clicking on units.

Additional Changes:

Added lots of new units to miniboss fights. Miniboss fights are rebalanced, contain much tougher units, and reward with a ring and card after each round (instead of just at the end of the 2nd round). New card, Manifest, with numerous distinct variants. Card holographic shaders, wear & tear shaders for card condition. Hold Left Shift while orbiting the camera to lock it in place temporarily. It's just handy for taking good screenshots. Added the previously missing settings button. Lots of small visual improvements to card sprites. Decreased teleportation gold cost again. Any feedback is greatly appreciated! You can post new threads in the community hub if you encounter bugs or just have questions/suggestions. Thanks for checking out the demo!

[ 2025-04-09 01:59:57 CET ] [ Original post ]

Patch Notes

Shrines (statue rooms) received a moderate rework, some minor balance improvements, and fixes for card bugs.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed numerous corrupted trait cards.
• Fixed corrupted max hp and max hand size increase cards.

Additional Changes:

• Shrines now only have 1 round to complete.
• Shrines now contain new varieties of enemies.
• Shrines have greater rewards and lower costs.
• Shrine units are now more powerful.
• Mutant spawn chance increases after defeating a major boss.
• Increased heal card drop rate a bit.
• Teleportation is cheaper, especially over moderate distances.
• Small increases to spawn chances for difficult enemies.
• Model and texture improvements for a few elementals.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated! You can post new threads in the community hub if you encounter bugs or just have questions/suggestions. Thanks for checking out the demo!

[ 2025-03-27 01:35:15 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey There! We've got tons of new card VFX, and you can now lock the card view to the screen to prevent it from auto-minimizing.

Bug Fixes:

Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented the abstraction card from being played. Fixed an issue with the affliction and capture cards that caused the wrong units to be highlighted. Fixed a missing background image for the heal card.

Additional Changes:

Overhauled appearance for captured/abstracted unit cards, and various trait cards. Slightly decreased cost of capture card. Moderately increased success rate of capture card. Yet another special thanks to Oslop for his feedback on the card view! Any feedback is greatly appreciated! You can post new threads in the community hub if you encounter bugs or just have questions/suggestions. Thanks for checking out the demo!

[ 2025-03-25 01:01:53 CET ] [ Original post ]

Patch Notes

New fixes coming out for various bugs and localization issues.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with the weapons not updating the correct values on the unit stat panel.
• Fixed an issue with APS (Attacks per Second) not being calculated correctly.
• Made Stat Modifier cards behave correctly for certain conditions.
• Fixed an issue with SFX on the Wisdom card.
• Fixed a performance bug with the quick view indicator.
• Fixed an issue with the room lifespan.
• Fixed issues with the context panel for cards disappearing the right side after hovering over a unit.

Localization Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where languages that typically have postpositive adjectives were displaying the adjective for creatures and weapons before the noun on cards specifically.
• Added a translation for the Blorg minion weapons (Spatula).
• Fixed translations in Spanish in the UI.

Additional Changes:

• Added the "Capture" card which works like abstraction but is more common and only has a percent chance to capture the creature it is played on.
• Camera can zoom in and out with the scroll wheel, can be reset by clicking in the scroll wheel.
• Card colors were corrected.
• Weapon stats balanced a bit.
• Rooms that have been traveled on no longer turn pure black.

Another special thanks to Oslop for catching the localization issues! Any feedback is greatly appreciated! You can post new threads in the community hub if you encounter bugs or just have questions/suggestions. Thanks for checking out the demo!

[ 2025-03-22 17:36:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey there! We've been listening to your feedback about the game being unclear and things like cards not being as straightforward as they should be, the map being hard to read, and shops being unexplained. We have some solutions in the works to those issues, and we also have a new UI that we think will help with visual clarity.
We've split the context menu into two sides now. This lets us slim down the total footprint of the UI depending on the thing you're looking at. So for things like the battle log, it now takes up half the space that it used to. Most of the interactable things that would show up in the context menu (card drop areas, shrine options, shop services, etc...) now show up on the right side. We also made some other states look a little nicer, like speech states:
Looks pretty good eh? You can also close those two windows now with the letters Z and X. Z will toggle the left side, X will toggle the right side. You can toggle both at once with Tab. We also removed the settings button in the top right and turned it into a keybinding on the Escape key.
Your room will now auto rotate your units to orient in the direction you're facing. This lets you set your team up in a specific layout and just keep that as you run through rooms. This should make things easier, but we're willing to add back the rotate room functionality through keybindings if need be. We hope you find the new UI a bit easier to use and more clean than the old. We're always looking to improve though so leave some feedback on anything you don't like about it. We have threads in the community hub or you can make a new one and let us know what you think. Thanks!

[ 2025-03-19 02:20:13 CET ] [ Original post ]

Patch Notes

New fixes coming out for various bugs and localization issues.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed tutorial bug where it wouldn't respect the quit button being pressed, causing random issues down the line for players.
• Fixed a particle system issue causing bodies to not disappear after they were killed, also causing issues later on for players.
• Various fixes for the shops and services (you can no longer go in debt).
• Fixed units that attack fast seeming to punch twice in one animation.
• Fixed an issue with mutated unit's bones causing errors.
• Fixed missing rewards on some bosses and shrines.
• Fixed issue with units not entering the waiting state when they deal 0 damage. Units that deal 0 damage and can move will now move up to the next enemy and enter the waiting state, allowing battles to end.

Localization Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where languages that typically have postpositive adjectives were displaying the adjective for creatures and weapons before the noun.
• Fixed tutorial parts that were not being translated to Spanish. Additional fixes for the tutorial in Russian and Ukrainian.
• Added translations that were missing for the Window Mode setting.
• Fixed an issue with the "Pay Unit HP" trait activator not being localized correctly.
• Fixed the battle log missing localization entries.

Additional Changes:

• Cleared rooms stay cleared out for longer now.
• Balance changes to combine/mutate.
• Balance fix for On Discard activator.

Special thanks to Oslop for catching the localization issues! Any feedback is greatly appreciated! You can post new threads in the community hub if you encounter bugs or just have questions/suggestions. Thanks for checking out the demo!

[ 2025-03-12 01:47:57 CET ] [ Original post ]

Patch Notes

We fixed a couple of bugs that were reported to us, no major changes at the moment.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with the creature card given to the Summoner during the tutorial.
• Fixed an issue where the map would stay zoomed out after leaving the world view.
• Fixed the Random On Battle Begin and Random On Battle End localization not showing up in the game.
• Cards behave better now on controller.

Additional Changes:

• Made the Demo button more prominent on the main store page.
• Opened up the store page for the Demo, you can now leave reviews there.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated! You can post new threads in the community hub if you encounter bugs or just have questions/suggestions. Thanks for checking out the demo!

[ 2025-03-08 21:42:40 CET ] [ Original post ]