Run, jump, and dash across a land inspired by Japanese mythology and experience a story of magic and queer romance in this follow up to Super Bernie World. [previewyoutube=2XBSBUlc5Es;full][/previewyoutube]

Classic Platforming, Magic & Queer Romance

• Classic platforming action set in a land inspired by Japanese mythology
• Explore five elemental worlds and various haunted houses
• Learn new elemental powers and use them to find secrets and optional story content
• Unlock a bonus ending by fully exploring the relationships between characters
• Use cute outfits to power up or stomp around by stealing a giant boot from enemies
• Defeat your haughty former mentor and her gang of foxy minions
• Stomp on pangos to make them curl into a ball, pick them up, and kick them around
• Carry lights through haunted houses to reveal secret doors and ward off ghosts

Ultra Hat Dimension, a puzzle game about adorable hats and getting punched for wearing them is out now! [previewyoutube=HFlzuabFw9o;full][/previewyoutube] Everything goes awry shortly after hat designer Bea arrives to accept her award for winning the annual hat design competition when the normally peaceful Spluffs turn violent and start punching anyone who wears a different hat! Featuring grid-based puzzles about maneuvering and displacement, Ultra Hat Dimension is a lovely jaunt through a gauntlet of fisticuffs.
Guide Bea through five seasonally themed floors consisting of 65 puzzles, and uncover the truth behind the terrible curse afflicting the Spluffs through the fully animated introductory cutscene and story intermissions between levels. https://store.steampowered.com/app/628830/Ultra_Hat_Dimension/

Its MidBoss' 2nd release anniversary, happy birthday MidBoss! Over the past two years MidBoss has had over 11 thousand players, which just blows my mind. Its been a hell of a journey, but were here to tell you that journey isnt quite over yet. Were excited to announce that were working on an upcoming aesthetics and randomizer DLC for MidBoss! This DLC will feature all new pixel art for all the monsters in the game, including idle animations. Itll also add a randomizer mode which should address one of the most common pieces of feedback we receive; that MidBoss isnt as replayable as other roguelikes. The randomizer mode will mix up the order of enemies in the game by randomizing their sprites, stats, and abilities. Therell be two ways to play the randomizer. One will add some sense of order to the randomness: you wont see late game abilities on early game monsters, and monster stats make sense thematically. The other mode throws all sense out of the window; the first monster you encounter could have skills like Bone Spear, Fireball, or Stomp. We dont yet have a fixed timeframe for when the DLC will be done, but it is currently in development. Were also planning to add two new features for everyone, including players who dont pick up the DLC. The first is special monsters, like the champion monsters in Diablo 2 and 3. These will have the same abilities and base stats as their kin, but will have special unique buffs that make them stronger and gives them access to unique powers. These buffs will transfer to you when possessing the creature, although they cannot be unlocked permanently.
The second is rank badges to incentivize playing New Game+ at higher difficulty through increasing the hazard boost option. Beating New Game+ at +20, +40, +60, +80, and +100 hazard boost will unlock a rank achievement and badge. These are bronze, silver, gold, master, and grandmaster respectively. Badges can be displayed on your death and victory cards to show the world what rank youve earned. To unlock master rank the game must be beaten on 1UP mode, and to unlock grandmaster the game must be beaten on hardcore mode. We also intend to add some more seasonal events thatll happen every year, and expand on the event system. We feel these changes will take MidBoss to a place where players can keep enjoying the game for years to come.

MidBoss version 1.4.0 is out now, marking the start of the Saint Patrick's Day event, which will run until the 31st. Collect 25 shamrocks which drop from random enemies to permanently unlock the new Shamrock card border. This new version also fixes several important bugs, including the return of the gold victory card border and the Soul Fatigue mechanic, and clarifications to tooltips for the Guard, Zap, and Shocking Grasp abilities. Read a full description of changes in this version in the changelog.

When we released MidBoss we wanted to run periodic events with unlocks for players. Today, on the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, we kick things off with our first event celebrating LGBT pride.
A majority of the people we work with at Kitsune Games are part of the LGBT community in some way. To celebrate them, diversity, and the queer community in general we've created a pride death card theme which you can use until July 30th. Additionally, you can unlock the theme permanently by showing your support for the LGBT community and sharing a death (or victory) card using the pride theme on Twitter. The unlock item is tradable but be warned: you'll probably not be able to get another one until the event repeats next year! We're planning to make more events going forward so keep an eye out for future announcements!

Hi everyone, looks like Twitter broke the death card sharing, but we fixed it, so you can share your cards and get the corresponding achievement again. Apologies for the inconvenience!

MidBoss celebrates its one year anniversary with a new update, introducing Steam trading cards, a sharp pixel art font, and a new room type. Trading cards of course come with a full compliment of cards, badges, emotes, and backgrounds. A new custom pixel art font was created for this update to address complaints of the font being too blurry. Check out the image below to compare the two fonts when seen at 1080p, with the new font at the top and the old at the bottom.
If you preferred the old font you can switch back to it through the options menu. Finally there's a new room type! I won't spoil how it works for you though, you'll just have to go and find out for yourselves.

Changes in v1.3.0:

• Bug Fixes
• Fixed typo in Staff Mastery tooltip.
• Fixed an occasional BGM related crashing bug in MidBoss Classic.
• Environment
• Added a new room type that contains an unbreakable adamantine chest with a glowing red lock.
• General
• MidBoss Pro experience level no longer disables the tutorial as some players were picking it the first time they played the game.
• Graphics
• Fixed a font rendering bug that could cause weird pointy stroke on death card text on Windows systems.
• Vsync will no longer be forced off for users who's AMD cards falsely claim to support adaptive vsync. If a crash related to adaptive vsync is detected a file "amd_disable_vsync.txt" is created, if this file is detected on load adaptive vsync is disabled and regular vsync can be used instead.
• GUI
• Added a new pixel art font which makes text in the game much crisper and (hopefully) easier to read. This will be turned on by default and the old font can be restored by checking "Use old font" in the Graphics section of the options menu.
• Because the new pixel font does not have italics, new icons have been added to the forms window to indicate whether an ability is active, passive, or innate.
• Steam
• Steam trading cards have been added!

A fix for a crash in the depossession/form mastery window that was supposed to be in patch 1.2.1.2 did not make it in due to Eniko messing up. This has been fixed in the latest version (1.2.2). Our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Changes in v1.2.2:

• Bug Fixes
• Fixed depossession/mastery window crash that should have been fixed in 1.2.1.2, apologies for the inconvenience.

A fix for a crash in the depossession/form mastery window that was supposed to be in patch 1.2.1.2 did not make it in due to Eniko messing up. This has been fixed in the latest version (1.2.2). Our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Changes in v1.2.2:

• Bug Fixes
• Fixed depossession/mastery window crash that should have been fixed in 1.2.1.2, apologies for the inconvenience.

Selling stacking tomes and throwing equipped weapons has been fixed. Please see the full changelog below.

Changes in v1.2.1:

• Bug Fixes
• Fixed a bug causing the game to freeze instead of crashing properly (and generating a crash report) when crashing during a save.
• Fixed a bug causing the game to crash when selling stackable tomes to the merchant.
• Fixed a bug causing the game to crash when throwing equipped items.
• Fixed a bug preventing players from throwing items that were equipped from item shortcuts.
• Fixed a bug which was causing the game to not save immediately if closing the shop through the close button.
• Fixed an issue which could cause a crash when exiting the options menu on rare system configurations.
• Graphics
• When throwing a stacked item, the items will no longer all land in the same spot.
• When throwing items onto the floor they will no longer all land in the same spot.
• Hardware cursors should now be the correct color on Mac and Linux.

Selling stacking tomes and throwing equipped weapons has been fixed. Please see the full changelog below.

Changes in v1.2.1:

• Bug Fixes
• Fixed a bug causing the game to freeze instead of crashing properly (and generating a crash report) when crashing during a save.
• Fixed a bug causing the game to crash when selling stackable tomes to the merchant.
• Fixed a bug causing the game to crash when throwing equipped items.
• Fixed a bug preventing players from throwing items that were equipped from item shortcuts.
• Fixed a bug which was causing the game to not save immediately if closing the shop through the close button.
• Fixed an issue which could cause a crash when exiting the options menu on rare system configurations.
• Graphics
• When throwing a stacked item, the items will no longer all land in the same spot.
• When throwing items onto the floor they will no longer all land in the same spot.
• Hardware cursors should now be the correct color on Mac and Linux.

There is currently a bug causing the game to crash when selling less than all of a stacking potion or tome. To prevent this bug, do not sell potions or tomes after getting the upgrade to stack them. Instead drop them on the floor. A hotfix can't be done today due to Thanksgiving, but this issue should be hotfixed tomorrow.

The big patch you've all been waiting for is finally here! There's too much to cover in depth so here's a quick list of things you'll be interested in:

• Upgrade system provided by the merchant. Scrap useless items into a single (sellable) pile, increase the number of slots in your inventory, and stack potions and tomes.
• Three brand new abilities! Throw lets you throw anything in the game at your enemies, Guard replaces the Rust ability and is a toggle which drains stamina every turn but increases your damage reduction, and Miasma which replaces Life Leech on warlocks which throws down a field that blinds anything that passes through it, lowering Evasion and Accuracy.
• Fast travel! Just right click on the map to travel to your cursor, the merchant, the cratefish king, or the stairs.
• Item quickbar for using, equipping, and throwing items easily and conveniently.
• Changes to game modes, there are now three to pick from. Hardcore mode is the default permadeath roguelike mode, 1UP mode gives you 5 lives with more to find along the way, and Narrative mode is for those who want to casually explore all the game has to offer with infinite lives and buffs to make the game easier.
• Each new game mode now comes in three lengths: quick (same as quick play), standard (a new faster mode between the old quick play and default), and extended (the same as the old default).
• Changes to make shrines more accessible. Gods will summon champions to punish you for trashing their shrines. If defeated these champions will drop icons belonging to their god, which you can use to gain the god's blessing. Additionally, pages of lore will randomly drop throughout the game, some of which contains information about the gods and how to interact with them.
• New Game+ enhancements. When starting a New Game+ you can start the game with a new random seed. Additionally there's a hazard boost option, this makes items and monsters stronger, allowing you to play through the game multiple times at increasing difficulty.
• Experienced players can now speed up animations by 25, 50, 75, or 100% through the options menu.
• Mastery procs and debuffs will be shown onscreen to make it clearer what's going on.
• Improvements to keyboard targeting prioritizes enemies over static objects, and selects targets in a more natural left-to-right fashion.
• The floppy disk item has been implemented. If you find and use it there's an achievement in it for you, and a glimpse into MidBoss' past!
• Improvements to controls and options for new players of all experience levels.

Changes in v1.2.0:

• Abilities
• Implemented new Guard ability, this ability replaces Rust on skeletons and reapers. This is a new type of ability, a toggle ability. It can be turned on and off at will and will drain stamina every turn until turned off or you run out of stamina.
• Warlock's life leech ability has been replaced with a new ability: Miasma. This ability drops a 3x3 field that inflicts the blind debuff on anything that passes through it, inflicting a 25 penalty to Accuracy and Evasion.
• Zap minimum damage increased from 60% to 70%.
• The imp now has the new Throw ability, which can be used to throw any item in the game that can be picked up. When the Throw ability is available to the player the item shortcut bar will prompt the player when a new shortcut is created whether the item should be used/equipped or thrown.
• Bug Fixes
• Clarified wording on Devyn's Aether Respiration blessing.
• Fixed a bug where Gravelord was applying its critical bonus as if it were an item, causing it to be scaled.
• Fixed a typo in Fear's description.
• Altar minimap icon is no longer off by 1 tile.
• Fixed a bug with Ethereal where it would keep its user alive until their mana depleted completely.
• Fixed a bug causing the drain soul option to never appear if you disable tutorials before getting the possessed form tutorial message.
• Fixed fester typo.
• Fixed a bug where the stats in the depossess prompt were not accurate with unmastered forms.
• Fixed an issue with downward slash graphics being randomly flipped.
• Fixed a bug where "items bought" in statistics was showing the number of items blessed, not bought.
• Fixed a bug which was causing the Apple II, Commodore VIC-20, and Pen & Paper retro mode potions to not report their unlocked status in their tooltips.
• Brood mother now has a status effect icon (oops).
• Fixed a bug where the merchant would spawn with increased stats if a floor with a merchant on it was generated while the player was effected by the Precision Engineering buff given by the god Stack.
• Fixed a bug which caused the final boss to have its passives duplicated on load.
• Fixed a bug causing titlescreen menu items to be slightly misaligned.
• Custom Game Options
• The custom game window now includes an extra lives slider, which can be set to a value between 0 and 15 inclusive, or to permadeath or infinite lives
• The quick play and default preset buttons in the custom game window have been replaced with the new presets of quick, standard, and extended. Quick is the same as the old quick play, while extended is the same as the old default.
• Added a 'Narrative mode buffs' option to the custom game window, to toggle the narrative mode buffs to stats, stamina/HP/mana, and damage reduction on and off for custom games.
• Death Cards
• Added an unlockable MidBoss Classic card border.
• Death card details now list unlocked upgrades (if any) and flags set by the game (if any).
• Death cards window now shows how many lives a player had remaining at the end of their game on victory cards.
• Environment
• The game now spawns additional weaker aggressive monsters for each floor.
• Gods will summon champions to punish you if you vandalize their shrines too many times. These champions can drop minor and major icons of their god, which can be used to gain the god's blessing.
• Torn pages may drop randomly, containing small snippets of lore. This lore may help players figure out how shrines work.
• Fast travel has been added. You can fast travel by right clicking anywhere on the map, and this lets you travel to where you clicked, the merchant, the cratefish king, or the stairs up and down.
• Game Modes
• When applying an exp multiplier in a custom game the amount of xp and form xp given when killing any monster cannot go below 1.
• New mode: 1UP Mode. This mode introduces extra lives, letting players respawn at the last stairs they took a limited number of times. Additional lives can occasionally be found in chests.
• New mode: Narrative Mode. This mode acts like 1UP mode but has infinite respawns, and buffs the player's meta attributes, HP, MP, stamina, and damage resistance.
• The titlescreen menu has been changed. New game now opens another menu giving you the choice of Hardcore, 1UP, Narrative, or Custom Game modes, which in turn ask you for a game length of either quick, standard, or extended. Quick corresponds to the old quick play mode, and extended corresponds to the old default mode. The quick play and custom game options have been removed from the main menu.
• General
• Optimized the save system to prevent framedrops that some users were experiencing.
• The last target selected using keyboard will be automatically re-selected when activating abilities using the keyboard.
• Keyboard targeting will no longer attempt to target static scenery if the current ability cannot target scenery.
• Keyboard targeting will now prioritize enemies over static scenery. This can be disabled in the options menu to revert to the old behavior.
• Keyboard targeting will now function in a more sensible left-to-right manner.
• Implemented new achievement "Yo dawg".
• Clarified damage types tutorial wording.
• Graphics
• Added custom hardware cursors.
• Added an option to show the mouse cursor in screenshots to the options menu, this option is off by default.
• Item labels now do not appear until after an item's drop animation has completed.
• Increased unique/legendary item glow size for small items.
• GUI
• The depossess prompt now equips the selected forms when you click yes.
• The depossess prompt now tries to add forms you had equipped as the imp before to the selected forms, as long as this does not lower your multipliers.
• You can now click yes on the depossess prompt when you're in imp form. This will only equip the selected forms, nothing else.
• The possession window no longer shows the keybinds under the buttons when onscreen keybinds are disabled.
• Learning the final Imp ability will no longer cause the mastered form depossession prompt to appear.
• The possession prompt now shows a mastery star if the form it's asking you to possess is mastered.
• Items
• You can now favorite items from the equipment menu. Favorite items will no longer show up on the cat merchant's sell list, and will display a minimap icon when dropped. Favorite items will always ask for confirmation when trying to salvage them.
• Added keybind to favorite items. Press the F key while mousing over items in your inventory to favorite them.
• Added bulk selling buttons to items which are stacked when trading with the merchant.
• Added keybind to salvage items and turn them into scrap. Press the Delete key while mousing over items in your inventory to salvage them.
• You can now identify and bless items directly from your inventory without having to go through the item select popup.
• Added an item quickbar. Drag items from your inventory onto the bar to use it. The bar can be used in two ways, by holding shift and then pressing the corresponding keybind for the item you wish to use, or by pressing and releasing the 'U' key, followed by the keybind. Both the key to hold or press in sequence can be modified via the options menu.
• The "Path (hold)" keybind functionality has been removed to make way for the item quickbar.
• The Floppy Disk item's functionality has been implemented.
• The cat merchant now sells various upgrades including the pocket library, potion pouch, large backpack, and bag of holding. These upgrades improve inventory management.
• The cat merchant now gives you the salvage-o-matic upgrade in his opening cutscene. This allows you to turn items into stacking scrap, which can be sold later.
• Weapons of rarity rare and higher now sometimes spawn with a chance to inflict a status effect on hit such as burning or poison.
• Legendary item abilities on weapons, armor, and shields will be different for seeds.
• Tome abilities will be different for seeds.
• Accuracy potions now cure blindness.
• Alchemist's Manual functionality is now implemented.
• You can now switch an either hand weapon to the other slot even if that slot is occupied by a non-either hand weapon, the non-either hand weapon will be unequipped.
• Epic weapons will now sometimes spawn with the Returning property, which returns the item to your hand or inventory after being thrown.
• New Game+
• New game+ now carries over upgrades.
• New game+ now includes a "hazard boost" option. Increasing this value will make monsters stronger, items more powerful, and cause more balls of yarn to be dropped.
• You can now start new game+ with a new random seed. Additionally, for 1UP victory cards the number of lives for new game+ can be kept or reset to 4.
• New Player Experience
• The game will now show a one-time prompt to players for their experience with turn-based dungeon crawlers when it starts, this modifies the movement duration, turn delay, delay on aggro option settings, as well as which tutorials and reminders are shown. Note that the MidBoss Pro option disables all tutorials and hints, and sets the 'Animation speed' option to 25% faster.
• A new controls overlay now appears on the 1st floor. This overlay shows how keys map to the directions of movement, and changes the cursor to one that indicates moving can be done using the left mouse button. It also allows players to change the orientation of the movement keys with a single click if using standard key bindings. The overlay can be hidden, either temporarily or permanently, and re-enabled from the options menu.
• The control orientation picker has been removed.
• Options
• Added an experience level option to the gameplay section of the options menu. This affects what tutorials and hints are shown.
• Minimum movement duration has been decreased from 0.13 seconds to 0.10 seconds.
• Added 'Animation speed' option, this can be used to increase non-movement animation speeds by 25, 50, 75, or 100 percent.
• Procs
• Added option to disable the flash step mastery sound.
• Mastery procs and status debuffs now have on screen text when they occur. Mastery procs are yellow and debuffs are purple.
• Added option to disable onscreen proc/debuff messages.
• The shield item mastery has been renamed to Block from Guard in order to prevent confusion with the new Guard ability.

The big patch you've all been waiting for is finally here! There's too much to cover in depth so here's a quick list of things you'll be interested in:

• Upgrade system provided by the merchant. Scrap useless items into a single (sellable) pile, increase the number of slots in your inventory, and stack potions and tomes.
• Three brand new abilities! Throw lets you throw anything in the game at your enemies, Guard replaces the Rust ability and is a toggle which drains stamina every turn but increases your damage reduction, and Miasma which replaces Life Leech on warlocks which throws down a field that blinds anything that passes through it, lowering Evasion and Accuracy.
• Fast travel! Just right click on the map to travel to your cursor, the merchant, the cratefish king, or the stairs.
• Item quickbar for using, equipping, and throwing items easily and conveniently.
• Changes to game modes, there are now three to pick from. Hardcore mode is the default permadeath roguelike mode, 1UP mode gives you 5 lives with more to find along the way, and Narrative mode is for those who want to casually explore all the game has to offer with infinite lives and buffs to make the game easier.
• Each new game mode now comes in three lengths: quick (same as quick play), standard (a new faster mode between the old quick play and default), and extended (the same as the old default).
• Changes to make shrines more accessible. Gods will summon champions to punish you for trashing their shrines. If defeated these champions will drop icons belonging to their god, which you can use to gain the god's blessing. Additionally, pages of lore will randomly drop throughout the game, some of which contains information about the gods and how to interact with them.
• New Game+ enhancements. When starting a New Game+ you can start the game with a new random seed. Additionally there's a hazard boost option, this makes items and monsters stronger, allowing you to play through the game multiple times at increasing difficulty.
• Experienced players can now speed up animations by 25, 50, 75, or 100% through the options menu.
• Mastery procs and debuffs will be shown onscreen to make it clearer what's going on.
• Improvements to keyboard targeting prioritizes enemies over static objects, and selects targets in a more natural left-to-right fashion.
• The floppy disk item has been implemented. If you find and use it there's an achievement in it for you, and a glimpse into MidBoss' past!
• Improvements to controls and options for new players of all experience levels.

Changes in v1.2.0:

• Abilities
• Implemented new Guard ability, this ability replaces Rust on skeletons and reapers. This is a new type of ability, a toggle ability. It can be turned on and off at will and will drain stamina every turn until turned off or you run out of stamina.
• Warlock's life leech ability has been replaced with a new ability: Miasma. This ability drops a 3x3 field that inflicts the blind debuff on anything that passes through it, inflicting a 25 penalty to Accuracy and Evasion.
• Zap minimum damage increased from 60% to 70%.
• The imp now has the new Throw ability, which can be used to throw any item in the game that can be picked up. When the Throw ability is available to the player the item shortcut bar will prompt the player when a new shortcut is created whether the item should be used/equipped or thrown.
• Bug Fixes
• Clarified wording on Devyn's Aether Respiration blessing.
• Fixed a bug where Gravelord was applying its critical bonus as if it were an item, causing it to be scaled.
• Fixed a typo in Fear's description.
• Altar minimap icon is no longer off by 1 tile.
• Fixed a bug with Ethereal where it would keep its user alive until their mana depleted completely.
• Fixed a bug causing the drain soul option to never appear if you disable tutorials before getting the possessed form tutorial message.
• Fixed fester typo.
• Fixed a bug where the stats in the depossess prompt were not accurate with unmastered forms.
• Fixed an issue with downward slash graphics being randomly flipped.
• Fixed a bug where "items bought" in statistics was showing the number of items blessed, not bought.
• Fixed a bug which was causing the Apple II, Commodore VIC-20, and Pen & Paper retro mode potions to not report their unlocked status in their tooltips.
• Brood mother now has a status effect icon (oops).
• Fixed a bug where the merchant would spawn with increased stats if a floor with a merchant on it was generated while the player was effected by the Precision Engineering buff given by the god Stack.
• Fixed a bug which caused the final boss to have its passives duplicated on load.
• Fixed a bug causing titlescreen menu items to be slightly misaligned.
• Custom Game Options
• The custom game window now includes an extra lives slider, which can be set to a value between 0 and 15 inclusive, or to permadeath or infinite lives
• The quick play and default preset buttons in the custom game window have been replaced with the new presets of quick, standard, and extended. Quick is the same as the old quick play, while extended is the same as the old default.
• Added a 'Narrative mode buffs' option to the custom game window, to toggle the narrative mode buffs to stats, stamina/HP/mana, and damage reduction on and off for custom games.
• Death Cards
• Added an unlockable MidBoss Classic card border.
• Death card details now list unlocked upgrades (if any) and flags set by the game (if any).
• Death cards window now shows how many lives a player had remaining at the end of their game on victory cards.
• Environment
• The game now spawns additional weaker aggressive monsters for each floor.
• Gods will summon champions to punish you if you vandalize their shrines too many times. These champions can drop minor and major icons of their god, which can be used to gain the god's blessing.
• Torn pages may drop randomly, containing small snippets of lore. This lore may help players figure out how shrines work.
• Fast travel has been added. You can fast travel by right clicking anywhere on the map, and this lets you travel to where you clicked, the merchant, the cratefish king, or the stairs up and down.
• Game Modes
• When applying an exp multiplier in a custom game the amount of xp and form xp given when killing any monster cannot go below 1.
• New mode: 1UP Mode. This mode introduces extra lives, letting players respawn at the last stairs they took a limited number of times. Additional lives can occasionally be found in chests.
• New mode: Narrative Mode. This mode acts like 1UP mode but has infinite respawns, and buffs the player's meta attributes, HP, MP, stamina, and damage resistance.
• The titlescreen menu has been changed. New game now opens another menu giving you the choice of Hardcore, 1UP, Narrative, or Custom Game modes, which in turn ask you for a game length of either quick, standard, or extended. Quick corresponds to the old quick play mode, and extended corresponds to the old default mode. The quick play and custom game options have been removed from the main menu.
• General
• Optimized the save system to prevent framedrops that some users were experiencing.
• The last target selected using keyboard will be automatically re-selected when activating abilities using the keyboard.
• Keyboard targeting will no longer attempt to target static scenery if the current ability cannot target scenery.
• Keyboard targeting will now prioritize enemies over static scenery. This can be disabled in the options menu to revert to the old behavior.
• Keyboard targeting will now function in a more sensible left-to-right manner.
• Implemented new achievement "Yo dawg".
• Clarified damage types tutorial wording.
• Graphics
• Added custom hardware cursors.
• Added an option to show the mouse cursor in screenshots to the options menu, this option is off by default.
• Item labels now do not appear until after an item's drop animation has completed.
• Increased unique/legendary item glow size for small items.
• GUI
• The depossess prompt now equips the selected forms when you click yes.
• The depossess prompt now tries to add forms you had equipped as the imp before to the selected forms, as long as this does not lower your multipliers.
• You can now click yes on the depossess prompt when you're in imp form. This will only equip the selected forms, nothing else.
• The possession window no longer shows the keybinds under the buttons when onscreen keybinds are disabled.
• Learning the final Imp ability will no longer cause the mastered form depossession prompt to appear.
• The possession prompt now shows a mastery star if the form it's asking you to possess is mastered.
• Items
• You can now favorite items from the equipment menu. Favorite items will no longer show up on the cat merchant's sell list, and will display a minimap icon when dropped. Favorite items will always ask for confirmation when trying to salvage them.
• Added keybind to favorite items. Press the F key while mousing over items in your inventory to favorite them.
• Added bulk selling buttons to items which are stacked when trading with the merchant.
• Added keybind to salvage items and turn them into scrap. Press the Delete key while mousing over items in your inventory to salvage them.
• You can now identify and bless items directly from your inventory without having to go through the item select popup.
• Added an item quickbar. Drag items from your inventory onto the bar to use it. The bar can be used in two ways, by holding shift and then pressing the corresponding keybind for the item you wish to use, or by pressing and releasing the 'U' key, followed by the keybind. Both the key to hold or press in sequence can be modified via the options menu.
• The "Path (hold)" keybind functionality has been removed to make way for the item quickbar.
• The Floppy Disk item's functionality has been implemented.
• The cat merchant now sells various upgrades including the pocket library, potion pouch, large backpack, and bag of holding. These upgrades improve inventory management.
• The cat merchant now gives you the salvage-o-matic upgrade in his opening cutscene. This allows you to turn items into stacking scrap, which can be sold later.
• Weapons of rarity rare and higher now sometimes spawn with a chance to inflict a status effect on hit such as burning or poison.
• Legendary item abilities on weapons, armor, and shields will be different for seeds.
• Tome abilities will be different for seeds.
• Accuracy potions now cure blindness.
• Alchemist's Manual functionality is now implemented.
• You can now switch an either hand weapon to the other slot even if that slot is occupied by a non-either hand weapon, the non-either hand weapon will be unequipped.
• Epic weapons will now sometimes spawn with the Returning property, which returns the item to your hand or inventory after being thrown.
• New Game+
• New game+ now carries over upgrades.
• New game+ now includes a "hazard boost" option. Increasing this value will make monsters stronger, items more powerful, and cause more balls of yarn to be dropped.
• You can now start new game+ with a new random seed. Additionally, for 1UP victory cards the number of lives for new game+ can be kept or reset to 4.
• New Player Experience
• The game will now show a one-time prompt to players for their experience with turn-based dungeon crawlers when it starts, this modifies the movement duration, turn delay, delay on aggro option settings, as well as which tutorials and reminders are shown. Note that the MidBoss Pro option disables all tutorials and hints, and sets the 'Animation speed' option to 25% faster.
• A new controls overlay now appears on the 1st floor. This overlay shows how keys map to the directions of movement, and changes the cursor to one that indicates moving can be done using the left mouse button. It also allows players to change the orientation of the movement keys with a single click if using standard key bindings. The overlay can be hidden, either temporarily or permanently, and re-enabled from the options menu.
• The control orientation picker has been removed.
• Options
• Added an experience level option to the gameplay section of the options menu. This affects what tutorials and hints are shown.
• Minimum movement duration has been decreased from 0.13 seconds to 0.10 seconds.
• Added 'Animation speed' option, this can be used to increase non-movement animation speeds by 25, 50, 75, or 100 percent.
• Procs
• Added option to disable the flash step mastery sound.
• Mastery procs and status debuffs now have on screen text when they occur. Mastery procs are yellow and debuffs are purple.
• Added option to disable onscreen proc/debuff messages.
• The shield item mastery has been renamed to Block from Guard in order to prevent confusion with the new Guard ability.

Hi everyone, here's an update on the big 1.2 quality of life patch which should be out in 3 to 4 weeks. It took longer than we expected because we decided to add more features you've requested. Check below for a highlight of stuff that's coming. Keep in mind this isn't everything that'll be in the patch, just what's most important!

• Fast travel
• Throwing items system and alchemist's manual functionality
• Item shortcuts
• Upgrades that let you increase your inventory size, salvage items into a stack of scrap to sell later, and stack potions and tomes
• Item favoriting to prevent selling or scrapping of items. Favorite items will also display an icon on the map if dropped
• Identify and bless items directly in your inventory without an extra menu
• Hazard boost option for new game+ to make monsters stronger, items more powerful, and yarn more plentiful
• New 'Guard' toggle ability, drains stamina every turn but increases damage resistance, replaces 'Rust' ability on skeleton and reaper
• New 'Miasma' ability on the warlock, which creates a field which blinds all creatures that enter it, reducing accuracy and evasion
• Weapons which inflict status effects such as poison or burning on hit
• Mastery procs will show on screen making it much clearer when they happen
• Additional spawns, especially later in the game, to make combat more unpredictable and dynamic
• Minimum movement duration reduced
• Option to increase animation speed for non-movement animations
• The gods spawn champions to punish you for ransacking their shrines, defeat them to get a special favor from the gods
• Optional 1UP and narrative modes for more casual players, as well as new game length options
• Floppy disk functionality now implemented, with a new related unlockable card border
• New controls overlay on the first floor that helps new players with controls and allows for on-the-fly rotation of controls
• Optimized the save system to prevent framedrops on some (rare) systems
• Improvements to the depossess prompt, including equipping the forms selected
• Bulk selling options at the shop

Hi everyone, here's an update on the big 1.2 quality of life patch which should be out in 3 to 4 weeks. It took longer than we expected because we decided to add more features you've requested. Check below for a highlight of stuff that's coming. Keep in mind this isn't everything that'll be in the patch, just what's most important!

• Fast travel
• Throwing items system and alchemist's manual functionality
• Item shortcuts
• Upgrades that let you increase your inventory size, salvage items into a stack of scrap to sell later, and stack potions and tomes
• Item favoriting to prevent selling or scrapping of items. Favorite items will also display an icon on the map if dropped
• Identify and bless items directly in your inventory without an extra menu
• Hazard boost option for new game+ to make monsters stronger, items more powerful, and yarn more plentiful
• New 'Guard' toggle ability, drains stamina every turn but increases damage resistance, replaces 'Rust' ability on skeleton and reaper
• New 'Miasma' ability on the warlock, which creates a field which blinds all creatures that enter it, reducing accuracy and evasion
• Weapons which inflict status effects such as poison or burning on hit
• Mastery procs will show on screen making it much clearer when they happen
• Additional spawns, especially later in the game, to make combat more unpredictable and dynamic
• Minimum movement duration reduced
• Option to increase animation speed for non-movement animations
• The gods spawn champions to punish you for ransacking their shrines, defeat them to get a special favor from the gods
• Optional 1UP and narrative modes for more casual players, as well as new game length options
• Floppy disk functionality now implemented, with a new related unlockable card border
• New controls overlay on the first floor that helps new players with controls and allows for on-the-fly rotation of controls
• Optimized the save system to prevent framedrops on some (rare) systems
• Improvements to the depossess prompt, including equipping the forms selected
• Bulk selling options at the shop

The first part of the quality of life changes to MidBoss, version 1.1.7, is out now! Read on for highlighted changes, our v1.2 roadmap, and the full changelog.

QoL part 1 overview

QoL part 2 roadmap

• Item throwing system. This means the Alchemist's Manual will finally have an effect.
• Inventory upgrades. These include a way to scrap unwanted items, turning them into a stackable scrap pile in your inventory that takes up a single slot, additional inventory slots, and stackable potions and tomes.
• Two brand new abilities. The first is Guard, which replaces Rust on the skeleton. This will be a toggle ability that drains your stamina over time but increases your damage reduction values. The second is Miasma, a ground targeted ability that will replace Life Leech on the warlock, inflicting a blind effect which causes a penalty to accuracy on anything that passes through it.
• New status effect qualities on weapons, giving some weapons a chance to proc blind, poison, burning, or slowing debuffs on hit.
• An item hotbar which lets you use items much like abilities, without having to go through the inventory, and item favoriting which prevents favorite items from being scrapped or showing up in the merchant's sell tab.
• An optional hand pixeled replacement font for the current default font, to address complaints of the font being blurry.

Changes in v1.1.7:

• Abilities
• Added soul drain. When the possession prompt pops up you have the option of draining the target's soul instead, healing yourself for 10% of their maximum HP + 10% of your maximum HP.
• Colossus splash damage is doubled. Splash damage now also pierces defense.
• Depossess now pulls up a depossession window that previews your stats as the imp, allowing you to mix and match forms and see how your stats would change with those forms equipped in imp form.
• Ethereal now also absorbs half of incoming magic damage.
• Staff Master ability now adds 30% of the magical damage bonus of equipped wands and staves to physical/melee damage.
• Accessibility
• The blips indicating entities on the minimap now change color when using different color blind profiles.
• Bug Fixes
• Added safeguards to prevent soft-locking on the final floor because of portcullises not opening correctly between stages.
• Added some code to prevent item duplication bugs from occurring when picking up items. Additionally the game should be more robust when dealing with duplicated items on load and should no longer crash.
• Fixed a bug causing walls to overlap objects or vice versa after changing resolutions while in game.
• Fixed a bug where an item's stack label was still visible in its slot while click-dragging it around the inventory.
• Fixed a bug where the minimap would disappear when opening the options menu if it was maximized.
• Fixed a bug where the spiked shield's damage bonus was not unidentified, but the flavor text describing it deals damage was.
• Fixed a bug which caused the header font in credits to not be high contrast when high contrast fonts were enabled.
• Fixed a bug which was causing a full crash if an error happened during save load instead of going back to the title screen and notifying the user of the save load error.
• Fixed a bug which was causing monsters to not use various certain skill tomes even when available to them.
• Fixed a bug with holy water that would mistakenly apply every uncursed bonus to the player, causing all sorts of weird effects.
• Fixed a bug with the minimap minimize/maximize button not updating its graphic if keyboard was used to toggle the size.
• Fixed a bug with using holy water on an item that had both a cursed version of an attribute bonus, and a normal version, where one of the bonuses would not apply after turning the cursed bonus into a positive.
• Fixed a crashing bug related to monsters that use skill tomes, causing certain tomes to crash the game when used.
• Fixed a rare crashing bug affecting Blink ability.
• When an ability kills a monster with the vessel condition as well as the player, and the player is not in imp form and possesses the monster, a redundant imp will no longer be left behind.
• Entities
• Flying creatures are no longer affected by pools of acid.
• Ghoul's violence attribute reduced slightly.
• Replaced Envenom ability on Hell Rat with Flame Strike.
• Environment
• Added map markers for stairs, merchant, cratefish king, shrines, and valuable items (legendary/unique).
• Bookshelves can now be destroyed in a single hit. Bookshelves now randomly use one of the two available sprites.
• Cratefish king rewards are now spread across multiple tiles when possible.
• Smashing object animation is now 40% faster.
• Stack now blesses all your items, instead of only your equipped items.
• General
• Added a "Form mastered!" sliding notification.
• Cratefish rewards now take 60 cratefish per reward (up from 50).
• Due to the way armor and shield damage reduction bonuses are generated, the merchant's inventory for any given seed will now be different than it was before.
• Focus attribute has been renamed Precision.
• Force attribute has been renamed Affliction.
• Game now remembers item labels toggle setting.
• Power attribute has been renamed Sorcery.
• GUI
• After mastering a form a window now pops up asking you if you would like to depossess to imp form. This window is like the depossession window and previews your stats as the imp with the best multipliers you could have.
• Discarding a death card now brings up a prompt that makes it clear the player is forfeiting their chance for grave goods.
• Mastered forms in the equipment window now show a mastery star in front of their names.
• Meta attribute value font is no longer blurry.
• Status effects at the bottom of the screen are now sorted by whether they are a buff or debuff, and by name.
• The equipment menu now has a collapsible sidebar showing an overview of your stats for convenient reference.
• The item select window that pops up when using an ID scroll or holy water will no longer be able to accidentally select an item instantly when double clicking to use.
• Titlescreen social widgets revamped. Now contains links to the wiki, and Kitsune Games Discord, Twitter, and website.
• You can now use and equip items from the floor. If your inventory is full when equipping an item, any unequipped items that won't fit in your inventory will be dropped on the floor.
• Items
• All armor and shields now come with damage reduction values. This damage reduction is applied after incoming damage is reduced by resistance or toughness, but before any other damage scaling status effects.
• Potions now have both a fixed value effect and a percentage based effect, in order to maintain their use in the late game.
• Retro potions now indicate when the mode is already unlocked in their tooltip.
• Options
• Added an option to change the fullscreen map opacity to the graphics section.
• Added an option to disable the depossession prompt upon mastering a form to the gameplay section of the options menu.
• Added drain soul keybind option.
• Tutorials
• Added an additional tutorial that explains that soul fatigue is not "locked in" until exiting the menus, allowing players to freely experiment with what forms they want to have equipped as long as they don't close the menus.
• Changed the soul fatigue tutorial and added an extra tutorial to make it clear that changing multiple forms at a time only incurs one stack of soul fatigue.
• Clarified wording on the grave goods explanation message.
• The low health tutorial and Mid reminders have been updated to mention the soul drain feature.
• There is now a tutorial message explaining the defense negating effects of piercing damage and criticals.

The first part of the quality of life changes to MidBoss, version 1.1.7, is out now! Read on for highlighted changes, our v1.2 roadmap, and the full changelog.

QoL part 1 overview

QoL part 2 roadmap

• Item throwing system. This means the Alchemist's Manual will finally have an effect.
• Inventory upgrades. These include a way to scrap unwanted items, turning them into a stackable scrap pile in your inventory that takes up a single slot, additional inventory slots, and stackable potions and tomes.
• Two brand new abilities. The first is Guard, which replaces Rust on the skeleton. This will be a toggle ability that drains your stamina over time but increases your damage reduction values. The second is Miasma, a ground targeted ability that will replace Life Leech on the warlock, inflicting a blind effect which causes a penalty to accuracy on anything that passes through it.
• New status effect qualities on weapons, giving some weapons a chance to proc blind, poison, burning, or slowing debuffs on hit.
• An item hotbar which lets you use items much like abilities, without having to go through the inventory, and item favoriting which prevents favorite items from being scrapped or showing up in the merchant's sell tab.
• An optional hand pixeled replacement font for the current default font, to address complaints of the font being blurry.

Changes in v1.1.7:

• Abilities
• Added soul drain. When the possession prompt pops up you have the option of draining the target's soul instead, healing yourself for 10% of their maximum HP + 10% of your maximum HP.
• Colossus splash damage is doubled. Splash damage now also pierces defense.
• Depossess now pulls up a depossession window that previews your stats as the imp, allowing you to mix and match forms and see how your stats would change with those forms equipped in imp form.
• Ethereal now also absorbs half of incoming magic damage.
• Staff Master ability now adds 30% of the magical damage bonus of equipped wands and staves to physical/melee damage.
• Accessibility
• The blips indicating entities on the minimap now change color when using different color blind profiles.
• Bug Fixes
• Added safeguards to prevent soft-locking on the final floor because of portcullises not opening correctly between stages.
• Added some code to prevent item duplication bugs from occurring when picking up items. Additionally the game should be more robust when dealing with duplicated items on load and should no longer crash.
• Fixed a bug causing walls to overlap objects or vice versa after changing resolutions while in game.
• Fixed a bug where an item's stack label was still visible in its slot while click-dragging it around the inventory.
• Fixed a bug where the minimap would disappear when opening the options menu if it was maximized.
• Fixed a bug where the spiked shield's damage bonus was not unidentified, but the flavor text describing it deals damage was.
• Fixed a bug which caused the header font in credits to not be high contrast when high contrast fonts were enabled.
• Fixed a bug which was causing a full crash if an error happened during save load instead of going back to the title screen and notifying the user of the save load error.
• Fixed a bug which was causing monsters to not use various certain skill tomes even when available to them.
• Fixed a bug with holy water that would mistakenly apply every uncursed bonus to the player, causing all sorts of weird effects.
• Fixed a bug with the minimap minimize/maximize button not updating its graphic if keyboard was used to toggle the size.
• Fixed a bug with using holy water on an item that had both a cursed version of an attribute bonus, and a normal version, where one of the bonuses would not apply after turning the cursed bonus into a positive.
• Fixed a crashing bug related to monsters that use skill tomes, causing certain tomes to crash the game when used.
• Fixed a rare crashing bug affecting Blink ability.
• When an ability kills a monster with the vessel condition as well as the player, and the player is not in imp form and possesses the monster, a redundant imp will no longer be left behind.
• Entities
• Flying creatures are no longer affected by pools of acid.
• Ghoul's violence attribute reduced slightly.
• Replaced Envenom ability on Hell Rat with Flame Strike.
• Environment
• Added map markers for stairs, merchant, cratefish king, shrines, and valuable items (legendary/unique).
• Bookshelves can now be destroyed in a single hit. Bookshelves now randomly use one of the two available sprites.
• Cratefish king rewards are now spread across multiple tiles when possible.
• Smashing object animation is now 40% faster.
• Stack now blesses all your items, instead of only your equipped items.
• General
• Added a "Form mastered!" sliding notification.
• Cratefish rewards now take 60 cratefish per reward (up from 50).
• Due to the way armor and shield damage reduction bonuses are generated, the merchant's inventory for any given seed will now be different than it was before.
• Focus attribute has been renamed Precision.
• Force attribute has been renamed Affliction.
• Game now remembers item labels toggle setting.
• Power attribute has been renamed Sorcery.
• GUI
• After mastering a form a window now pops up asking you if you would like to depossess to imp form. This window is like the depossession window and previews your stats as the imp with the best multipliers you could have.
• Discarding a death card now brings up a prompt that makes it clear the player is forfeiting their chance for grave goods.
• Mastered forms in the equipment window now show a mastery star in front of their names.
• Meta attribute value font is no longer blurry.
• Status effects at the bottom of the screen are now sorted by whether they are a buff or debuff, and by name.
• The equipment menu now has a collapsible sidebar showing an overview of your stats for convenient reference.
• The item select window that pops up when using an ID scroll or holy water will no longer be able to accidentally select an item instantly when double clicking to use.
• Titlescreen social widgets revamped. Now contains links to the wiki, and Kitsune Games Discord, Twitter, and website.
• You can now use and equip items from the floor. If your inventory is full when equipping an item, any unequipped items that won't fit in your inventory will be dropped on the floor.
• Items
• All armor and shields now come with damage reduction values. This damage reduction is applied after incoming damage is reduced by resistance or toughness, but before any other damage scaling status effects.
• Potions now have both a fixed value effect and a percentage based effect, in order to maintain their use in the late game.
• Retro potions now indicate when the mode is already unlocked in their tooltip.
• Options
• Added an option to change the fullscreen map opacity to the graphics section.
• Added an option to disable the depossession prompt upon mastering a form to the gameplay section of the options menu.
• Added drain soul keybind option.
• Tutorials
• Added an additional tutorial that explains that soul fatigue is not "locked in" until exiting the menus, allowing players to freely experiment with what forms they want to have equipped as long as they don't close the menus.
• Changed the soul fatigue tutorial and added an extra tutorial to make it clear that changing multiple forms at a time only incurs one stack of soul fatigue.
• Clarified wording on the grave goods explanation message.
• The low health tutorial and Mid reminders have been updated to mention the soul drain feature.
• There is now a tutorial message explaining the defense negating effects of piercing damage and criticals.

Read below for the patch notes.

Changes in v1.1.6:

• Abilities
• Scythe no longer affects abilities with a base range of zero such as Stomp.
• You can now self-cast Stomp by pressing the hotkey twice, like other zero range abilities.
• Bug Fixes
• Acid reflux and acid puddle will no longer crash when targeted right underneath the player.
• Fixed a bug causing equipped abilities on forms to change on their own sometimes when scrolling the forms window.
• Fixed an uncommon titlescreen crash.
• Resolved an issue with players being able to despawn themselves by possessing the cat merchant before his intro triggers in new game+. The intro cutscene will now no longer trigger if the merchant is dead, missing, or possessed.
• When the game generates a card with favored form "lich lords" it no longer generates a message reading "Loved to be a lich lords".
• You can no longer cast possess on the chimera.
• Zombie minions no longer trigger the zombie tutorial.
• Entities
• Chimera's power and strength reduced slightly.
• Environment
• Cratefish per crate decreased again.
• GUI
• The shop's buy and sell tab now only use a single column. The buttons to sell all epic, legendary and unique equipment have been removed.
• Miscellaneous
• A forced garbage collection now occurs when switching game modes and when zoning between floors. This should help mitigate intermittent framedrops from garbage collection.
• Added code which will (hopefully) detect crashes on load on some systems with certain AMD GPUs which falsely report support for WGL_EXT_swap_control_tear. This code will force run the game with the '-novsync' command line argument the next time the game runs after this type of crash.
• Options
• Pixel perfect rotation option now defaults to off.
• Tutorials
• Added a tutorial that explains destroying bookshelves completely does not yield any additional loot but is fun.
• Form mastery tutorial rewritten.

Read below for the patch notes.

Changes in v1.1.6:

• Abilities
• Scythe no longer affects abilities with a base range of zero such as Stomp.
• You can now self-cast Stomp by pressing the hotkey twice, like other zero range abilities.
• Bug Fixes
• Acid reflux and acid puddle will no longer crash when targeted right underneath the player.
• Fixed a bug causing equipped abilities on forms to change on their own sometimes when scrolling the forms window.
• Fixed an uncommon titlescreen crash.
• Resolved an issue with players being able to despawn themselves by possessing the cat merchant before his intro triggers in new game+. The intro cutscene will now no longer trigger if the merchant is dead, missing, or possessed.
• When the game generates a card with favored form "lich lords" it no longer generates a message reading "Loved to be a lich lords".
• You can no longer cast possess on the chimera.
• Zombie minions no longer trigger the zombie tutorial.
• Entities
• Chimera's power and strength reduced slightly.
• Environment
• Cratefish per crate decreased again.
• GUI
• The shop's buy and sell tab now only use a single column. The buttons to sell all epic, legendary and unique equipment have been removed.
• Miscellaneous
• A forced garbage collection now occurs when switching game modes and when zoning between floors. This should help mitigate intermittent framedrops from garbage collection.
• Added code which will (hopefully) detect crashes on load on some systems with certain AMD GPUs which falsely report support for WGL_EXT_swap_control_tear. This code will force run the game with the '-novsync' command line argument the next time the game runs after this type of crash.
• Options
• Pixel perfect rotation option now defaults to off.
• Tutorials
• Added a tutorial that explains destroying bookshelves completely does not yield any additional loot but is fun.
• Form mastery tutorial rewritten.

This version rebalanced critical, evasion and accuracy stats and has changes to the blink ability when using the temporal ring. Please see a list of all changes below.

Changes in v1.1.5:

• Abilities
• Conscription mana cost increased from 35 to 45.
• Fireball burn chance increased from 30% to 67%.
• Fireball max damage decreased from 200% to 100%.
• Fireball range decreased from 4 to 3.
• Targeting the Blink ability through the use of the Temporal Ring now costs 20 mana and has its range reduced from 5 to 4. Self-casting while the Temporal Ring is equipped will still Blink randomly and cost the default 4 mana.
• Bug Fixes
• Fixed a bug causing non-monster drops on floors loaded from saves to be too weak.
• Fixed a linked destructible object crash that could happen to forges being destroyed.
• Entities
• Aether bats are now small size.
• General
• A notification of changes that can take the player to the changelog has been added.
• Critical, evasion and accuracy have been rebalanced. Bonuses to these stats from items are now scaled non-linearly. Bonuses to these stats from abilities are not scaled in this way. This means that +10 critical from the Wicked ability actually adds 10% more chance to crit, whereas +10 critical from an item may add less.
• Items
• Guard mastery on shields now also nullifies magical attacks.

Changes in v1.1.4:

• Bug Fixes
• Fixed a bug which was causing death cards to not be opened in detail view when importing death cards either on the title screen or in game.
• Fixed a bug which was causing the grave goods window to remain visible after importing a card on the title screen.
• Fixed a crashing bug which would occur when importing a card while the death card gallery was open.

MidBoss 1.1.3 is out now with various fixes and balance tweaks. Read on for a full list of changes.

Changes in v1.1.3:

• Abilities
• Magic missile maximum damage reduced by 10%.
• Bug Fixes
• (Hopefully?) fixed a crashing bug affecting the merchant related to his item use.
• Fixed a bug causing replaying death cards to make the engine's seed get stuck and repeat when starting new games normally.
• Fixed a bug causing the Magic Arrow ability to not count for the 'I'm attacking the darkness!' achievement.
• Ravinder now also identifies items in the player's equipment slots.
• Entities
• Aether bat power reduced slightly.
• Magic bat death card message changed to "poked to death".
• Warlock power multiplier reduced slightly.
• GUI
• A crash dialog now pops up when crashes happen explaining how to report the crash.
• The game now prompts you if you want to overwrite your current game when starting a new game while a save is already present.

MidBoss version 1.1.0 is out now, and marks the game’s full launch! This means the game is now available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The Steam launch also comes with the option to buy the original soundtrack by yuzuki. It’s been a hell of a long road, but we’re finally here. A big thank you to everyone who has supported us for so long, either through testing the game when it was in free beta, buying it on itch, or covering it during the long years it took to get here. This game probably wouldn’t have made it without your support.

Changes in v1.1.2:

• Miscellaneous
• Disabled welcome message. Oops.

Changes in v1.1.1:

• Bug Fixes
• Fixed a bug where the cheats menu would not work upon resuming a save that had cheats set to enabled.
• Fixed a death cards gallery and grave goods crashing bug related to fonts.

Changes in v1.1.0:

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• Achievements
• Added 3 hidden achievements.
• Added 'Do you feel lucky, punk' achievement: Get a lucky drop with a x16 multiplier.
• Added 'Form grandmaster' achievement: Master every form in the game in a single run.
• Added 'Full house' achievement: Start a game with 6 pieces of grave goods.
• Added 'Iconoclast' achievement: Vandalize 50 shrines.
• Added 'Let me show you how it's done' achievement: Import a death card.
• Added 'Misery loves company' achievement: Share a death card on social media.
• Added 'Revenge is a dish best served cold' achievement: Kill the skeleton and zombie from the intro cutscene.
• Added 'Stop! Hammer time' achievement: Pretend to be a smithy 200 times.
• Added 'The nuclear option' achievement: Kill 6 creatures with a single attack.
• Added 'Void keeper' achievement: Beat the game.
• Added 'Yarnballs for the yarnball god' achievement: Accumulate 5,000 yarnballs in a single run.
• Retro modes must now be unlocked by drinking retro potions. Unlocking all modes will grant an achievement.
• Bug Fixes
• Fixed a bug with healthbar rendering which was causing translucent healthbars in PNG screenshots.
• General
• The damage types tutorial message has been updated to tell the player that magical damage weapons only add their damage when using magical damage abilities.
• The game has a new icon.
• GUI
• Mid's reminder tutorial is now delayed until he has 3 reminders and the player has reached the second floor.
• The Mid reminder icon in the bottom right corner of the screen has been moved slightly away from the edge of the screen.

Changes in v1.0.12:

• Bug Fixes
• Fixed a bug causing the Animated and Noatun's Inventory buffs to not have a status effect icon until the game is reloaded.
• Fixed a bug which was preventing most potion related status effects from showing the appropriate icon.
• Magic arrow was mistakenly labeled "Magic Missile", which is in fact the name of a later, different ability. This has now been fixed.
• When using an item with an innate mastery as well as the relevant mastery ability the game was only giving the player one roll against that mastery instead of two. This has been fixed.
• Environment
• Certain gods now appreciate certain potions.
• Copper chests on the 1st tutorial floor are now scaled and will give poorer loot.
• Cratefish per crate increased.
• Number of crates decreased.
• GUI
• Empty drop down combo boxes in the forms and equipment menu now instruct the player to click them to select forms or abilities.
• Medium and large damage fonts now have a high contrast version.
• Message telling the player cutscenes can be skipped with the escape key now lasts twice as long.
• Items
• Bone Armor now clarifies you must have the Reanimate ability equipped to benefit from its bonus.
• Multipurpose jewelry now counts as 'Misc accessory' for the purposes of statistics.
• Skin boots, swamp boots and gore boots now count as their respective boot types for mastery purposes.
• Sorceror's Codex now says 'magic missiles and arrows' to clarify it applies to both the Magic Missile and Magic Arrow abilities.
• Miscellaneous
• Added -novsync command line option to force disable vsync from the command line before the game starts.
• Tutorials
• Added 'Reset all tutorials' option.
• All tutorials and conversations now have a short pause on the first bit of dialogue that prevents the user from accidentally skipping important information.

Changes in v1.0.11:

• Bug Fixes
• Fixed a bug where the player wasn't prevented from buying items with a full inventory, causing the items to vanish.
• Removed a one frame delay between the start of the player's turn and the start of the player's movement if the player kept moving.
• The way filenames are generated for death cards is now more robust and won't crash due to invalid characters.
• Zap no longer has an insane range (reduced from 10 to 1).
• Entities
• Acid, magic and lightning bat are no longer aggressive.
• Aggressive variety monsters (cultist and flaming sword) will no longer spawn in the first room on floor 2 or the rooms directly adjacent to it.
• Larva and flying shield are no longer aggressive.
• Lowered cultist and magic bat cast chance.
• Magic bat and cultist will now keep their distance at 2 tiles away from the player instead of 3.
• Miscellaneous
• The tutorial message when going down the stairs on the 2nd floor now warns the player that there may be aggressive monsters.

Version 1.0.10 is out now, with a fix for persistent stutter/frameskip on rare system configurations related to saving the player's statistics.

Changes in v1.0.10:

• Bug Fixes
• (Hopefully) fixed a bug causing the chimera to not flicker dramatically upon death.
• Fixed a bug which could cause menus to be open while dying causing them to be visible on death cards.
• Fixed a bug which was causing the tiles moved statistic to be incorrectly calculated.
• Fixed an issue where naming your death card more than once would not stick.
• General
• Added '-nosave' and '-nostats' command line options.
• If the name in the name field for your death card does not match the card's current name when you save or share the card, the name will be updated.
• Statistics are now saved in a background thread unless '-nothreadsave' command line option is used. This fixes a stutter that could be experienced on rare system configurations.
• The game now highlights the tile your mouse is over with a glowing border. This can be disabled in the controls section of the options menu by unchecking "Highlight mouse tile".

Version 1.0.9 is out with drag and drop inventory, other UI improvements, and some improvements to tutorials.

Changes in v1.0.9:

• GUI
• Added an on screen button for toggling item labels on and off.
• Added clicky sounds to various menu options and on screen buttons.
• Added tool tips to the health, stamina and mana bars at the bottom of the screen. These can be disabled with the new 'Disable health/stamina/mana bar tool tips' in the gameplay section of the options menu.
• Consumable items now have a line in the tool tip explaining they can be used by double or right clicking.
• Inventory items are now drag & drop capable. All old systems for inventory management still work.
• The minimap now has a button to maximize and minimize it using the mouse.
• When left and right alt, shift or control are both bound for an on screen button, the 'L' (for left) is no longer shown.
• Tutorials
• Added tutorials for the map, Mid's reminders, resting, damage types, and the turn order indicator.
• Tutorials should no longer trigger while being prompted to possess an enemy.
• Updated the item dropping tutorial message to mention the key binds for showing item labels.
• Updated the item rarity tutorial message to mention the key binds for showing item labels.
• Updated the loot tutorial message to mention the new on screen button for toggling item labels.
• Updated the low health tutorial message to mention that possessing requires mana, and that mana can be regained by passing the turn or resting.

This update contains 7 new early game monsters, and grave goods! When starting a new game in this version you may be asked if you wish to select grave goods. Every saved death card can be used once to select one item from the card’s inventory to start your new game with.
This will help players get back up to speed more quickly after dying, and the new monsters will help vary up the early game. You can start a new game with up to 6 grave goods.

Changes in v1.0.8:

• Bug Fixes
• Fixed a bug causing Rust to only proc poison 10% of the time instead of the stated 20%.
• Fixed a bug causing Shocking Grasp's electricity effect to be applied twice to the attacker, rather than once to the attacker and once to the victim.
• Fixed a bug with statistics not saving/loading properly when using -userpath command line option.
• New game+ forms that weren't mastered will no longer have negative form points.
• Death Cards
• Death cards gallery should no longer cause frame rate stutter when opened.
• Grave goods have been added. This is a system where you can choose one item from a death card's inventory to start a new game with. Death cards can only be used in this way once, and afterwards will be marked with a clipped corner in the death card gallery. Victory cards cannot be used for grave goods.
• New game+ runs will no longer generate death cards.
• When starting a new game if there are cards eligible to be used for grave goods you will be asked if you wish to use grave goods or not.
• Entities
• Rot maggots now know the new Fester ability.
• General
• Added 7 new mobs that will sometimes spawn instead of rats and bats, to give more variety to the first floors. These monsters have 5 brand new abilities.
• Bouncing magic missiles caused by having the Sorceror's Codex equipped will no longer bounce to the merchant unless the player has aggroed the merchant.
• Due to grave goods you can no longer start a new game from within the game, you have to first return to the title screen.
• The cat merchant now points out the stairs to go down when he greets you.
• The credits no longer congratulate you on beating the game if started from the title screen.
• GUI
• Form window scroll buttons are no longer blurry.
• Items
• Added the 5 new abilities to skill tomes.
• Options
• Added an option to switch from lossy jpg screenshots to lossless png screenshots called 'High quality screenshots'.

A new game+ mode where you replay with your items, abilities, or both, has been added to victory cards obtained when beating the game. Inspect the victory card in the death cards gallery and click the 'NG+' button to start a new game+.

Changes in v1.0.7:

• Bug Fixes
• Fixed a bug which was causing menus opened by tutorials to not be opened.
• Fixed a bug which was causing tutorials to be blocked.
• Fixed a crashing bug when using consumable items.
• Entities
• Plague rat form spirit multiplier slightly increased. This lets the player cast possession or envenom after possessing their first rat without having to pass their turn or rest to regain mana, after which the mana regaining tutorial will trigger.
• Death Cards
• Added new game+ mode for victory cards, allowing you to replay with all your items, forms and abilities, or both. Inspect your victory card in the death card gallery and click the NG+ button to start a new game+.
• Death cards will now accurately display the player's level and meta attributes for cards generated in this new version.
• Victory cards now show the correct cause in the info tab.

Contains a fix for cards shared to Twitter not containing the encoded data. This only applies to cards shared directly from the death screen, not from the gallery.

Changes in v1.0.6:

• Bug Fixes
• Fixed a bug which was causing cards shared via the in-game Twitter share interface to not have the save's data encoded properly.
• Fixed a crashing bug relating to using items.

Version 1.0.5 is out, primarily containing a fix for crashes when opening the death cards gallery if unnamed cards are present.

Changes in v1.0.5:

• Bug Fixes
• Fixed a bug where death cards were not listing the correct equipped forms.
• Fixed a crashing bug when opening the death card gallery related to unnamed cards.
• GUI
• Added instructions to naming cards on the death card screen (enter to confirm, escape to revert).

MidBoss version 1.0.4 is out now, containing detailed stats, new Steam achievements, and most importantly the new death cards! These cards are generated upon death (or beating the game) and contain detailed data about your run and how it ended. They even contain your entire inventory! You can share these images with your friends or on Twitter, and import them into the game to view the detailed information and replay the game with the same seed and settings.

Changes in v1.0.4:

• Abilities
• Fixed weirdness involving unidentified/cursed items when the player had item appraisal via the Mimisbrunnr buff.
• Poison damage now inflicts Force x0.2 damage (down from x0.25).
• Bug Fixes
• A bug in FNA was resolved which was causing a black screen after closing the options menu with certain settings.
• The dropdown menu for equipping forms will no longer overflow off the bottom of the screen and instead will expand in width to accomodate new items.
• Death Cards
• Added death cards option to the titlescreen's menu, here you can view death cards and their embedded information.
• Added option to import death cards. This can be done by drag & dropping a death card image file onto the game, or right clicking a death card image in your browser and selecting copy image location/address followed by focussing the game.
• Beating the game will show the card screen after the credits with a special gold victory border.
• Dying now takes you to the death card screen where you can customize, share, and save your card.
• Entities
• Monsters should no longer be able to move onto cutscene trigger tiles.
• The rat in the first room will no longer use Envenom.
• When sprung from traps by non-player entities, animated arsenals and animated armors will now target that entity instead of the player.
• Environment
• Chance of yarn ball drops increased.
• When lucky yarn ball drops occur the message log now says so and notes the multiplier.
• General
• Added stat tracking for:
• Tiles moved
• Form equipped turns
• Dropped item count by rarity and category
• Consumabled used total and per type
• Doors opened
• Times died
• Times depossessed
• Times possessed
• Minions created
• Creatures summoned
• Traps sprung
• Items bought
• Items dropped
• Unidentified items dropped
• Monsters killed total and by type
• Items uncursed & blessed & identified
• Cutscenes skipped
• Yarn balls spent identifying and uncursing items
• Containers opened total and by type
• Items smashed total and by type
• Altars used
• Divine favors received
• Minor blessings received
• Major blessings received
• Times cursed
• Number of shrines vandalized
• Times pretending to be a blacksmith
• Number of lucky drops
• Highest/total lucky drop multiplier
• Mana/stamina spent
• Damage done total and by type
• Damage taken total and by type
• Damage against inanimate objects
• Amount healed
• Mana gained
• Number of critical hits
• Number of mastery procs
• Attacks missed
• Attacks dodged
• Times cheated death
• Credits are now functional from the title screen menu and after you beat the game.
• Skippable cutscenes now show a message explaining they can be skipped.
• Your save is now deleted when you finish the game.
• Graphics
• Nausea particle effect is now removed properly when the effect ends.
• Particles that are out of line of sight should no longer be visible.
• GUI
• Can no longer increase meta stats after death.
• Can no longer open menus when player input is not accepted.
• You can now view all tracked stats via the statistics menu option.
• Items
• Added Floppy Disk unique item. This item is stubbed and currently has no functionality.
• Alchemist's manual now mentions its effect is currently unimplemented.
• Reduced cratefish king reward potency slightly.
• Options
• Added option to disable checking for death card image links in the clipboard.
• Steam
• Added 6 Steam achievements.
• Added -resetachievements command line argument. This will launch the bundled 'ResetSteamStats.exe' command line utility which will wipe all your Steam stats and achievements.
• User Files
• Added -userpath command line option, when followed by a path (surrounded by double quotes if it contains spaces) the game will use the provided path to store user files.
• All user files are now kept in the MidBoss subdirectory of the My Documents folder. The game should auto detect if you have older files and migrate them automatically to the new system.

MidBoss is now on version 1.0.3. Please check the changelog below for changes.

Changes in v1.0.3:

MidBoss is now on version 1.0.2. Please check the changelog below for changes.

Changes in v1.0.2:

Version 1.0 of MidBoss is now live, and with it the Steam closed beta has started. Owners of the game on itch can redeem a Steam key to gain access to the game now! Additionally, players who play during the closed beta period will receive an exclusive platinum death card border. Scroll down to see what it looks like. What are death cards? They look like trading cards, but they summarize your run and your death, and you can share them on Twitter. Death cards are not yet working; they’ll be in the game later in the closed beta. When they arrive, however, they’ll have embedded data that can be loaded in-game to show more information about the run, or let you replay the game with the same seed and game settings. To request a Steam key:

• If you made an itch.io account: Look at your purchase history and find MidBoss. The Steam key should be available from the downloads page.
• If you did not make an account but you did keep the digital receipt: The email is from itch.io with a subject line of "Your purchase of 'MidBoss." Follow the download link included in that email; the Steam key should be on that page.
• If you did not make an account and did not keep the digital receipt: You'll need to go to itch.io's support page and use the "Recover Games" option with the email address you used when you purchased the game.

Features

• Possess your enemy and gain their strengths and skills with over 60 unique abilities to discover and learn.
  
• Permanent death, if you die your save is gone!
  
• Randomized potions every game. Who knows what's in these mystery bottles! (optional)
  
• Traps as well as unidentified and cursed items.
  
• Dynamic music system that ups the musical excitement when enemies are about.
  
• Quick Play mode for shorter, more condensed play sessions.
  
• Custom Games so you can play the game exactly the way you want to.
  
• Shareable death cards document your run and how it ended. Load these in the game for stats or to play using the same seed and settings. Customize your cards with unlockable themes!
  
• Spend death cards to start your next run with items you had when you died.
  
• Beat the game and get a special card which unlocks a new game+ mode. Start over with your items, abilities, or both!
  
• Lots of crates, chests, and other containers to pillage. Find the royal chest that spawns on every floor for extra sweet loot!
  
• Playable with mouse and/or keyboard. Pick whatever control scheme you like!
  
• Color-blind modes, optional high contrast font, and adjustable brightness.
  
• Multiple monitor support and borderless windowed fullscreen.
  
• 12 retro mode filters to find and unlock.
  
• Cratefish.

• OS: glibc 2.17+. 32/64-bit. S3TC support is NOT required.
• Processor: Dual Core 2.0 GHzMemory: 1 GB RAM
• Memory: 1 GB RAM
• Graphics: OpenGL 3.0+ support (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)
• Storage: 300 MB available space