hey, It's a small update fixing a bug where touching a pushable boulder would sometimes freeze the game and doors and pyres would be unusable sometimes in the overworld after using empowered blood soaked scoria. Bartek

Hey all, This small update addresses game sometimes crashing after getting one of the endings. Cheers, Bartek

Hey, This small update fixes Elara not starting the fight if attacked from a long range. Hope you have fun, Bartek

Hey, I've uploaded a new version to stable branch:

• Added a safety net in Armory Fissure (the one with fire traps), the "arena" doors will open after some time regardless of killing all enemies in the area
• Added a safety net in deeper areas of Abysm - now there is a limit of how many enemies can spawn there (previously they would spawn endlessly potentially causing performance issues, or possibly freezes- although I did not manage to ever replicate this)
• Fixed Elara fight where in some cases Ivory Arbiters would protect Elara even in statue form (I also did not manage to replicate it, the damage protection should not be active at all, but I added a dummy check there - "if you are a statue don't protect anyone")

Hey, This is a small hotfix which fixes the game potentially freezing when opening a chest in a small locked area with not enough space for all items. Cheers, Bartel

Hey all, This is a small hotfix for amulet of antimagic and having over 100% of any elemental resist. Now the negative elemental damage that you get will not make the amulet have negative absorbed damage. Cheers, Bartek

Hey, This small update improves the balance of tentacles multiplying. Following things are changed:

• after getting hit by a tentacle you will spawn a few tentacles, potentially more than before, however you also get a short immunity from further spawns - so more than 1 tentacle hitting something in short window won't cause a horde of tentacles to spawn
• non-alive monsters won't spawn tentacles off them (e.g. golems, children of iphe)

Hey, A small hotfix for zoom setting not being saved between game restarts is live. Cheers, Bartek

Hey, This update fixes the game chat not working after recent update. Cheers, Bartek

Hey, 0.18.12c is live

• added back the zoom setting to in-game options
• mouse wheel should now browse through skills properly
• holding left alt will show you the details of all status effects
  
• fixed scroll of enchant item and identify sometimes fizzling without any effect
• fixed key-binding pop up being out of screen for items lower in inventory

Hey, A quick hotfix is live: * fixes issue when saving and reloading a game would make most of the skills stop working (if you just reload any save then it should get automatically fixed) * fixed an issue where shield stat could overflow with some highly synergistic builds (addded a very high hardcap for shield stat) Cheers, Bartek

Hey all, It's been a long time, but version 0.18 is released! It features new content, bug fixes and improved stability of the game. If you want to get involved in future beta tests of new content, or just chat about Lost Flame, please join the official Discord server

Character Stat Progression

• Endurance - increases your stamina by 1
• Vigor - increases your hp by 1
• Consitution - increases your encumbrance capacity by 10%, increases elemental resists by 3%
• Strength - increases damage of weapons scaling with strength, increases poison resist by 3%, increases fist damage by 1
• Dexterity - increases to hit chance by 1%, increases damage of weapons scaling with dexterity
• Intelligence - increases attunement by 1 (and attunement increases power of evocations and increases all elemental damage dealt by 4%/point - includes, weapons, wands, evocations, etc.)

Ivoryreach

Inventory screen rework

Game ported to LibGDX game engine

• zoom/scaling option - if the tiles in game are too small for you - as a workaround change the resolution to a lower one
• using mouse wheel to browse through available skills - no clean work around for that

Other small new content

• game playable without numpad - using shift+arrow will move your character in the next direction clockwise to the arrow (e.g. shift+up arrow will move you up-right, shift+down will move you down-left)
• autoexplore will show you the list of seen stairs once the map is fully explored and you will be able to choose which one to go to
• autoexplore now allows you to navigate to pyres once whole level is explored
• Silver Lake Cavalier now deal ice damage instead of fire
• added 4 new achievements, and removed achievements related to weekly runs

QoL improvements

• explode flesh will no longer be cast in auto-fight mode
• right mouse button will now cancel selected action
• added more details to the armor tooltip in inventory (e.g. what kind of damage gets reduced and how much)
• fixed autoexplore in Hideout ignoring some "events"
• when crafting last possible item, the crafting menu will get autoclosed
• selection boxes (e.g. pyre travel, or NPC interaction) now scale their size based on the number of options
• bottle knight will autohide to bottle if his maximum stamina gets drained to less than 8
• when dying on mainland, the message will now show the current location, not "Mainland"
• added an icon for broken square bottle + a sound/text notifications when this happens

Bug fixes

• fixed amulet of wardship giving negative shield when having resistance greater than 100%
• fixed most of the situations where autoexplore would go into loop
• fixed mouse cursor sometimes not appearing in menu
• fixed Rising Tide attack markers displayed wrong
• ctrl+movement will be stopped if gating to/from Neith
• fixed some spelling mistakes
• when finishing a run, sometimes wrong run is highlighted on the leaderboard
• fixed not connected back stairs between Abysm 1 and Abysm 2 (forge variant of Abysm)
• fixed encumbrance showing 10x the value in post game character log
• fixed sounds sometimes getting stopped mid play
• fixed the path to Abysm from Monastery spawning incorrectly with shallow ("red") variant of Abysm
• fixed Rianne being able to disappear after getting killed sometimes
• fixed crash when going to Neith in Abysm
• stability and performance improvements

Balance changes

• higher cooldown to Fireball
• increased Rain of Molten Wax damage
• Wretched Brute - bigger delay before he attacks, and longer window to hit him between his invulnerability
• reduced cooldown for tumble for lower encumbrance while increased it for higher encumbrance
• reduced the teleport enemy skill range for soulless witches mainland (previously they were able to teleport you from Istimid to Secluded Courtyard, which usually meant you were a toast)
• ring of rocks now applies to fist attacks

Hey, This is a small hotfix that sorts out the issue when log file is being spammed with error messages when Steam is in offline mode - that sometimes results in game crash. Cheers, Bartek

Hey, This is a small hotfix:

• fixed autoexplore getting stuck in Hythe
• fixed game sometimes freezing when traveling through Pyres
• fixed wrong order of single handed/2handed encumbrance in item description

Hey all! 0.17.18 is live! This is another big update expanding Lost Flame in several directions. Please join Lost Flame's Discord server if you want to chat about the game, get notified about much more frequent beta branch updates or just hang around!

Autoexplore

Dynamic attack markers

Encumbrance system & mobility

Evocations

Hythe Monastery small rework and new alternate path

Shared leadeboard

smaller but still noteworthy:

• added the option to switch left-right weapon at no stamina and time cost (hotkey 'p')
• added a small area near Hythe with all tutorial tablets if you want to reread them after you've completed tutorial
• blessed scrolls of teleport allow you to select where you want to teleport
• cursed scrolls of teleport will teleport you to a nearby group of monsters (similar like soulless witch ability)
• improved the game stability significantly
• added a warning icon to enemies which have weapons with potential very high damage equipped (e.g. * of thirst, * of brutality, Smasher unique axe)
• more options for crafting - added some randomized crafts too, so crafting options are not the same each game
• randomized crafts and items for sale are now based on world seed
• bottle knight will no longer equip identified cursed items (unless you hand it to him directly)
• new randomized rooms in Abysm
• new Abysm monsters
• multiple new affixes, uniques, rings and wands
• rings and amulets are now shown in a separate row in inventory
• shades in Neith now attack anything that is not a shade, not only you
• ranged enemies will be less willing to run away and will attack more aggressively, so chasing should be slightly easier
• some of the staves affixes are more potent when not wielding other weapons or shields (you can still wield a ring or amulet in your offhand)
• shades will now charge up before cursing your equipment, now you have around 20 ticks to either break line of sight or kill them before your equipment gets cursed
• bottle knight will avoid acid and poison better
• removed the penetration stat from the weapons
• enemies will use their push back attacks less often and those attack have been tuned down noticeably
• shortened some of the game areas (Mage's Chambers by 1 level, poison vault by 1 level, Castle Istimid has smaller maps)
• reworked halberds abilities a little bit (all are faster, stab instead of halberd strike, halberd slash is much faster but no longer strikes nearby tiles)
• most weapon skills now take attack speed into consideration (so slow monsters will no longer attack faster with skills such as stab, also most skills will be faster now from player's persepective)
• parry is now bound to the same key for all weapons (default: 'w')
• new music for Calven Duning
• added on-screen notification for monsters and player standing on acid or web, or when getting petrified
• most ranged enemies will appear even outside of FoW when attacking or aiming at the player (e.g flamelobbers, Nixie, all shades)
• cooldown for skills which are on cooldown is now shown on the skills tab
• if you hover over an enemy (with mouse or 'l'ook ability) only their attack markers will be shown, so if you want to you can analyze which enemy is attacking where in a bigger fight
• added a bunch of new strong affixes to staves

less noteworthy:

• fixed Arthar Duning attack marker not being accurate
• added multiple missing sounds
• world seed is shown in bottom right corner when starting the game
• Gargoyle's Cuirass no longer pushes allies away
• added the ability to attack only with right hand weapon (e.g. useful when wielding two heavy weapons, for lower stamina cost), hotkey 's'
• updated tutorial with new info tablets
• shield maiden's amulet no longer hurts allies
• fixed Olivar Steros teleporting the player to Royal Dungeon instead of Neith
• new sprites for tentacles
• cleaned up some items descriptions
• fixed some of the tiles not showing properly on minimap (e.g. prison bars)
• changed order of skills to be more consistent with other items for long swords and great axes
• fixed ctrl+move stopping at front of allies (now it will swap with them into travel direction)
• fixed section selection in vendors being reset to "all" after buying or crafting an item
• fixed wrong attack marker for Cyclone unique halberd
• lowered the acid damage from tentacle a little bit
• one new scroll
• Calven Duning's sword now always has the subdual affix
• ring of fires changed to exploding when hitting something (so still pretty bad for melee combat, but can be useful with evocations, or other ranged builds)
• The Archmage now does not heal after [spoiler]escaping to Neith[/spoiler]
• staves now can parry
• cleared up some in-game text messages
• lowered the price for shields a little
• minor performance improvements (mostly when having lots of allies)
• mending stone now also heals all visible allies
• now monsters which are summoned in a distorted area/world will also get distorted
• fixed main menu not respecting keybindings from options.config
• multishot ability is now faster
• fixed some skill tooltips
• Ivar will spit back any key you try to feed him
• wands of summon monster will summon more powerful monsters with higher enchant
• Ngotraimuucs increasing poison level will displace items that were on a poison tile
• reduced the chance of enemies using shield bash attack
• fixed sparkling elixirs being generated from rings with affixes
• fixed swing and lunge being blocked by an enemy which died during swing part of the skill
• added ambient sound to the destroyed barrier near Abysm
• fixed arrows changing their enchant level randomly when being fired
• reworked gladiator's ring to being active when not wielding any shields
• children of Iphe will no longer transform into living obsidian
• reduced the size of the circular version of hungry caverns
• ctrl+move will no longer walk into acid or poison
• fixed mouse incorrectly showing which tile is aimed on smaller maps
• fixed polymorphed mobs not dropping their original equipment
• removed doors in Cadell's cell which could potentially hardlock the player if entering the room "from the back"
• fixed a bug which would freeze the game when quickly spamming enter near pyres
• living obsidian can no longer be randomly summoned in Hythe Monastery
• blood-soaked scoria is no longer destroyed in NG+
• fixed all campfires still accessible after moving to NG+
• fixed double kill notification appearing after killing a polymorphed unique monster

Added the option to force specific resolution. To do so:

• Open game console/chat (~)
• type resolution:WIDTHxHEIGHT e.g resolution:3840x2160
• Press enter

0.16.16 is a small update with a few fixes: * fixed an issue where player's character would sometimes freeze randomly * fixed mini map showing previous area after using scroll of travel * fixed a performance bug related to mini map rendering * fixed mini map sometimes slightly glitching when moving in a bigger area * fixed a few spelling mistakes * Nixie slightly less hp * fixed visited locations and experienced events being mixed up in post game character log * fixed no music being played in Prison Cells * removed reference to dexterity from disarm skill description * added a 16 tick delay to potion of polymorph effect, if the player cures during this period, the polymorph will not happen

Quick fix addressing game freezing sometimes when wearing both ring of vital burst (deal fire damage when healing) and ring of elemental siphoning (heal when dealing elemental damage)

Added a toggle to turn off the looped heavy breathing when out of stamina in in-game options

Hey all, Version 0.16 is going live! Join Lost Flame's discord if you want to follow the beta branch changes, or just chat! This is another big update containing changes from the past 3 months of work and I can imagine in 2 or 3 such updates the game will reach 1.0 state (so somewhere between december and march).

Graphical overhaul

Semi-permadeath mode

Mouse control QoL

• added 'smart skills' when using mouse. When clicking an enemy that is 1 tile away your character will use the 'lunge' skill if it's available. If clicking an enemy that is 1 tile away and lunge is not available 'stab' will be used. When clicking behind a nearby enemy 'jump over' will be used if available. I plan to expand it with more skills in the future
• double clicking or right clicking an item in inventory will cause a default action to happen depending on item type (equip/unequip/use)
• when using mouse to walk around if any of allies stand in your way you will swap places with them instead of being stopped
• you can use mouse wheel to browse through your skills
• sped up the camera when using mouse controls
• hovering mouse on doors, chest or enemy, will properly mark the tile visually
• waiting using mouse (by clicking on your character) will rest until stamina is restored

Crimson pyre rework/Curse system

Abysm tunnels and new locations

Hurt boss tiles

New ending

Other changes

New content

• blood-soaked scoria can now be empowered with scrolls of power, using it will bring your character back to the Gray Shore and regenerate all areas with beefed up versions of monsters (NG+ style)
• achieving any of the game endings will show a text description of the consequences of the player's choices
• added flavor texts for all potions, scrolls and a bunch of other items
• scroll of travel now behaves slightly different, when used in some areas it will teleport you to other predefined places
• changed how cursed scrolls of travel work - now they will also grab all nearby allies and enemies with you
• Added a new type of "big" monsters [spoiler]abyss worms[/spoiler]
• Reworked the early game tutorial - the original tutorial level got removed, now when a new player starts a game their early levels will be generated slightly differently and will include stone tablets that can be read for some tips on how to play the game
• Added 2 new types of shades
• various mainland areas have names now - there is no "mainland" area name displayed anymore
• added a simple rain effect to the swamps before the Tower of Mirth
• added 13 new Steam achievements
• added much more webs in the Northern Tunnel
• blood-soaked scoria can now also be found [spoiler]deep in the Abysm[/spoiler]
• added a basic sea wave "animation" on the Grey Shore
• added a very basic campfire "animation"
• mages summoning flesh will no longer show blinking dots before the spell procs
• some minor changes around Arnet's Quarters
• when traveling through campfire you will appear on the other side of it, not top left corner every time
• changed slightly how player's stats are shown in the inventory
• added music to Sisterhood area
• updated sprites for Children of Iphe

Bug fixes

• added missing sounds to several different effects
• fixed Deflector short sword's name being shown wrongly when unidentified
• fixed ring of regeneration desription being shown twice
• removed the mini blink when opening the first door at Tower of Mirth 3
• fixed binding short cuts to items not being usable in the turn they were created
• essence will no longer be generated cursed or blessed
• changed the death message for automations to "crumbles to dust"
• cleaned up description for brutality affix
• cleaned up description for bleed effects
• changed font in player inventory to a more readable one
• bosses blocking stairs will now also block campfires (this only affects one area)
• fixed scroll of power and scroll of travel interaction
• changed the ladder tile to the correct one on passage between Hall of Candles 2 and Hall of Candles 1
• cleaned up descriptions, fixed some typos for a bunch of items
• Fixed a bug where sometimes you would hear the waves ambient sound in menu when quickly closing the game after start
• Now both [spoiler]Arnet and Grand Executioner[/spoiler] need to be killed to unblock the ladder at their area
• the small hp bar near player's character is no longer displayed
• fixed acid and web not being shown on an open door tile
• fixed distorted monsters not having full hp after an area reset
• Whirlwind spear no longer hits allies
• fixed some singular/plural text messages for plural items (e.g. trousers, greaves)
• fixed minimap not always scaling properly when changing resolution
• fixed the sea ambient sound starting before the game actually starts sometimes
• a small shadow no longer shows in the middle of a tile when standing below a "high" tile, such as a tree or Thayer's furnace
• removed any graphical artifacts that sometimes shown on some graphical scaling values
• killing children of Iphe will log them as children of Iphe, not whatever they were trasnformed into
• fixed some monsters having corrupted name when being distorted
• ring of blood spurt no longer harms allies
• fixed a bug where low-stamina heavy breathing would sometimes not stop on death
• fixed the color of feathered creature, depending if it's ally or not
• ring of fowl now works correctly if given to bottle knight and does not agro npcs in Hythe
• fixed a bug where game would behave weirdly if bottle knight had spear and rope and got disappeared when having a hooked enemy

QoL changes

• distortion level is shown near the area's name above the minimap
• when [spoiler]Calven Dunning[/spoiler] is killed all other nearby enemies will die 1 by 1
• essence is now autopicked up, like other consumables
• using 'l'ook command will start the cursor from the player position instead of the mouse's cursor
• Brokbrog's 'feed items' screen will no longer close after selecting an item, making it easier to feed him multiple items
• increased the size of the box around status icons in top left corner
• when carrying a shield and the shield is not readied, an empty shield icon will be displayed in the status area (top left corner)
• changed the color of the chat notification whenever someone wins the game
• lowered volume of poison damage and sword attacks slightly
• changed the high pitched hound yelp into a different sound
• added visual notifications for "petrifying", "stunned" and "confused" effects
• Smasher great axe now has a text notification when its effect procs
• changed the game default resolution, when starting it first time ever, to full screen borderless mode
• added option to clear F1-F12 binding

Balance changes

• reduced the weekly run score for the easier wins
• added a few more campfires throughout the game
• fixed the flame wave not disappearing when [spoiler]The Archmage escapes to Neith[/spoiler]
• Headguard of Frozen Dusk reduces sight even more, however enhanting it weakens the debuff
• executioner's essence can no longer be used to craft executioner's ring - changed to ring of punishment
• added petrification resistance for Archmage and Olivar Steros
• being invisible now grants a dodge bonus
• attacking from invisibility grants 20% to hit bonus
• increased the probability of scrolls of travel and scrolls of power to spawn
• sweep around greatsword attack no longer self stuns for 1 turn, increased stamina cost to 5
• soulless witches got higher cooldown for 'teleport enemy' attack
• scroll of antimagic - reduced the duration of the buff
• scroll of antimagic now also grants polymorph immunity
• when enemy disarms you, your weapon will always drop to the ground where you are standing. If any item was there before, the item will be displaced to a nearby free tile.
• eating Iphe's essence will cause a random debuff (similar as when attacked by ||Primordial Child of Iphe||)
• bottle knight no longer has a timer after which he disappears - he will only disappear when hurt heavily or after using square bottle again
• wand of ice storm - increased the damage
• executioner's ring - reduced the base percentage chance of beheading 20%->15%

This update fixes a bug where game would rarely freeze during world generation.

This is a small update which hotfixes the key in Sisterhood not matching the doors

This small update hotfixes jump away and jump over skill freezing the game on activation.

Hi all, Newest update is on the default branch. This update is the biggest update yet, hope you find it fun. Join the discord channel if you want to be up to date with what's happening on the beta branch and access new content earlier, or just want to hang out.

Highlights

Hungry Caverns update

The Bog

The Twisted Chambers

Stealth

World seeds and Weekly Runs

New rare items

Istimid Compressor and new elixirs

Blood-Soaked Scoria

New areas

Arnet's Quarters

Violet Pepper's Hut

The Sisterhood

Crimson pyre event

Abysm's Depths

Parrying

Alternate endings

Iphe

Four witches

Other changes

New content

• added character log when they die, you can find the log in the game folder and it looks like this, last 5 character logs are stored
• 21 new achievements
• more variation to the destroyed buildings outside of Castle Istimid
• 2 new music tracks - Abysm and Poison Vaults
• big rocks can now be pushed - when pushed into water they allow you to pass through it afterwards, there some random rooms and areas where this could help you
• acid now disolves ice tiles
• some more random rooms in Hungry Caverns
• added a few really strong enchant effects for staves
• scrolls of jump and other jump effects can now be used to jump over water
• scroll of jump has additional effects if cursed or blessed
• using fire damage on tiles with acid will make it explode
• added ~20 new monsters and ~30 new items
• flying monsters can now actually fly over some of the obstacles
• introducing polymorph effect - you and enemies can be temporarily polymorphed into rabid frogs via potions of polymorph or abilities of some of the more powerful enemies
• with this update you can wield rings and amulets instead of weapon/shields which will grant you the effect of the ring/amulet, giving some more flexibility in how you want to build your character

Bug fixes

• added some missing status icons and descriptions
• fixed soulless torturers appearing sometimes in the cells in Tower of Mirth
• fixed "you feel better" appearing at start of the game on normal and easy difficulty
• fixed game sometimes freezing if Ivar would die to green mold acid mid-swing
• fixed the color of allies sometimes not being gray
• fixed the color of non-ally feathered creature being gray
• fixed ring of sight granting less sight range than in the description
• added missing sounds for some of the effects
• fixed ladder to the Traveling Laboratory not being red
• fixed columns in Castle Istimid 3 being ugly (Gargoyles' area)
• fixed cancelling of throw action making some time pass
• Tyrannical Stompers' won't play the *STOMP* sound when walking nearby automatons in Istimid
• "this is trousers" fixed a bunch of gramatical errors
• harming a webbed big enemy with fire will destroy a random web that holds them, instead of the one in the top left corner only
• The Blizzard's effect now won't hurt allies
• fixed the stone statues in Armory not appearing on mini map
• fixed the Furnace Flame effect not appearing after weapon skills on the skills list
• fixed/cleaned up how wielding 2 shields works - now the character will first block with his right hand shield and once it's "out of blocks" the left hand shield will take over
• Fixed bugmoon eggs and tentacles being able to be stunned
• Fixed Brokbrog taking an equiped item from you if it had the same as the one that you offered to him
• fixed items from chests sometimes appearing behind a nearby wall
• fixed shields in off-hand inreasing the character's AC
• fixed the Abysm stairs sometimes appearing too close to each other
• fixed butchered convicts sometimes exploding twice
• fixed issues with the "show item in game chat" functionality
• fixed Brokbrog being able to multiply your items if fed stackable items
• improved the performance of Annora Rise generation
• fixed acid damage not agroing the NPCs in Hythe
• fixed crafting items not working after save/load
• fixed crafting only taking one essence if it was cursed
• fixed being able to teleport into locked out areas in Armory
• fixed some chat messages not matching the VO
• dying to acid will display a proper message now
• fixed trying to use phial in the last ticks before death when petrifying not saving you
• fixed the description of statuses showing only after a delay when hovering mouse over them
• fixed too much time passing when traveling back from [spoiler]Neith[/spoiler]
• fixed children of Iphe dropping gold when dying transformed into something that has gold (they still will drop gold if you hurt them when they are transformed into gold golems)
• fixed ice aura monsters (e.g. ice golems) harming other enemies
• fixed some enemies not showing in black color when hovering an attack over them
• removed the chat action for non-talking allies
• fixed a bug when some of the door in Armory were not opened after defeating [spoiler]Hiedra[/spoiler]
• fixed the hidden passage to [spoiler]Abysm 3[/spoiler] sometimes not being generated
• fixed small areas sometimes not being displayed properly (one row of the tiles would be outside screen)

QoL changes

• after getting hurt movement and attack commands are blocked for a very brief moments (depending on damage but it's around ~0.5 sec) - should help in cases where you explore and something attacks you unexpectedly, say from out of sight)
• slightly changed the color of nothingness on minimap
• added red warning message when standing on acid/web
• added a tick sound when moving around the chat options when talking to other characters
• added a short cooldown before showing the name of the area after entering it, when walking on the edge of 2 areas back and forth
• damage received by your character is shown in red color in chat now
• when leveling up, all of the items in your sight range will be identified

Balance changes

• buffed the duration of Obsidian Handguards of Infinite Rage and added enchant scaling to the effect's power
• reduced the power of gauntlets of power
• reduced the amount of potions of poison in Poison Vault
• more potions will drop in different areas of the world
• Tyrannical Stompers' damage now scales with enchant
• Bottle Knight slightly more hp
• The HP threshold when Bottle Knight will hide to the bottle is slightly higher now
• gladiator's ring now also works for dual wielding 1-handed weapons
• Mending stone now heals and restores stamina (but only for yourself) in addition to restoring charges in phial
• skull helmet now scales with enchant
• potions with negative effects (liquid fire, poison, etc) will now explode on throw affecting all nearby mobs
• some of the NPCs in Hythe are *MUCH* stronger now
• ice drakes will create more ice around them
• bloodsuckers slight rework - now they suck much more life and are slightly faster, but the effect can be cured
• increased push away effects' cooldown for a bunch of bosses
• [spoiler]Arthar Duning[/spoiler] - reduced the frequency of him applying blind
• amulet of life saving now grants short invulnerability after proccing (based on enchant level), but will always be destroyed afterwards
• potion of protection shield gain is additionally increased based on your permanent shield value
• the [spoiler]bugmoon infested Abysm[/spoiler] will always contain the [spoiler]Bugmoon Elder Queen[/spoiler]
• Dawnguard no longer grants protection from curses and the "destroy shades" effect is only proccing if the shield is not cursed
• Increased Liver's hp
• ring of jumping buff, now the jump range scales with enchant
• all attacks against stunned or confused characters are guaranteed to land
• stunned or confused characters won't be able to use their shields to block incoming attacks

Hi All, If you are looking for some new content please be invited to check out the Steam beta branch of the game and join the Lost Flame's Discord, where you will learn about any changes available for beta testing. The beta branch already has quite a bit of new stuff (81 tasks mark as done in my backlog) - you can read about the changes here. I will upload the full changelog to Steam once the update goes to the stable branch (ETA: beginning of March), but the major points are:

• parrying! With some help from the Discord community, we have managed to pull off parrying in a turn based game - all single handed weapons have additional skill "parry". When parrying you block all incoming melee attacks in the next 10 ticks damaging all attacking enemies and stunning them if more than 1 enemy was parried. Failed parry will result in a short selfstun.
• several new hidden areas in mid/late game (e.g. you can try to find the passage to Abysm 3 and try to explore its depths, and a bunch of others), those areas give 2 alternate ways to end the game
• lots of different small content changes and bug fixes, such as allowing the player to wield rings and amulets in hands instead of weapon to gain their benefits, or making acid explode when damaged with fire and of course new items and enemies

Hi all, This is a small update which fixes Bugmoon Abysm 2 generation which would sometimes put the stair to Abysm 1 in an inaccessible place. Cheers, Bartek

Just a small update adding the option to disable in-game chat (in in-game options)

This is a quick update which fixes the game crashing when swapping in and out The Leafbringer staff. It also reduces the chance to have your items destroyed when receiving ice/fire damage to roughly 1/3 of previous chance.

Hi all, 0.14.11 update is almost ready and will be published to stable branch within the next 24 hours. Your saves will not be compatible between current version and the one that I plan to release. If you want to get it faster, you can switch your Steam game branch to "beta". As always please be invited to Lost Flame's discord channel. There are three major points of this release and around 50 smaller changes.

Abysm rework

Late game clean up

1-handed weapon combo-skills

Other Changes

New Content

• Aerith the Green, Boneheaded Beldwin, Ngotraimuucs and all new minibosses give essence and have their crafts now
• 8 new achievements
• clubs/maces received new abilities: a small 2 tile slash strike and a lunge which attacks 2 tiles instead of one
• some more possible crafts by Brokbrok added, some more secret than other:)
• added some missing sounds
• there is another way to get [spoiler]the Cure[/spoiler] ending now
• the alternate plane where most of the souls went after the Sundering is accessible for the player now, this is just a first taste though, more of it is work in progress:)
• [spoiler]killing Arabelle in Hythe will have consequences now[/spoiler]
• 2 new non-level specific minibosses

QoL Changes

• lots of additional key rebind options via options.config
• stamina bar now shows how much stamina will be used by a skill when you hover it
• fields that are outside your vision will not show that an enemy wants to attack it
• you can force an attack by a new advanced action 'a'ttack
• fixed tutorial message not disappearing - this time for sure:D
• you cannot feed equipped items to Brokbrog anymore (as it was too easy to do it by mistake)
• message log will no longer show duplicate messages that are not relevant
• polished the hp bar a little when having a temp or permanent shield
• bottle knight will also identify item that he carries when the player levels up
• improved inventory control via keyboard a little
• improved error logging
• Brokbrok will not drop items under himself or other characters anymore
• after feeding items to Brokbrok the hover will stay on "feed item" chat opions, so it's more convenient to feed him multiple items
• all friendly monsters are shown in white colour now - previously it was impossible to distinguish them from enemies

Bug Fixes

• significant improvements in the speed of level generation
• when killing a big enemy with elemental attack the elemental icon was only shown on of the tiles the monster stood fixed
• if the game crashes in ladder mode - you should get some points back for your run
• mature sand dragons will not activate their lightning aura if they are not fighting anyone (i.e. they will not zap you over a wall if you haven't seen each other)
• fixed strange behaviour when traveling via stair when stuck in web
• fixed blinking icon after drinking elixir of regeneration
• mobs will not attack air anymore and should use their skills slightly better now
• mobs' abilities not working during the first tick after their spawn fixed
• fixed sound of throwing items always being iron (except potions, which were fine)
• fixed soulless torturer special attack staying on map after he got killed
• throwing potions incorrectly giving "%%monster drinks %%potion" message fixed
• flying mobs will no longer get hurt by acid pools
• flying mobs can fly over some of the obstacles now
• throwing an item and zapping a wand takes consistently 10 ticks now (for default speed)
• fixed mobs making ambient sounds too often sometimes
• fixed cursor not reappearing when going back to menu after it was hidden in the game
• fixed description for ring of damage

Balance Changes

• flamelobbers have higher attack delay now (12 ticks instead of 10)
• tower of mirth got harder - stronger native monsters and increased danger level of other enemies that can appear there
• big axes and axes - improved their attack speed
• nerfed heavy ring, ring of focus, absorption ring and ring of the slayer
• temporary shield decays much faster, especially for very high values
• soulless hybrids and soulless bugfiends will no longer use weapon skills
• Dismal Lowlife has slightly weaker weapons now
• bottle knight base stats got lowered (improved his scaling with enchant though)
• swap weapons takes 7 ticks now (so quicker than wielding a weapon from inventory)

Hi all, Today I have pushed all of the changes from the beta branch to the default stable branch. If you played on beta than you are probably familiar with most of them, but if not you can learn about what has changed from this post. Please be invited to join Lost Flame's discord server at https://discord.gg/cq4YkS946F

Major changes

Brokbrog, the giant from Hythe

Soul essence

Bottle Knight update

Other changes

Changes in existing content

• Grand Executioner level and fight slight rework
• Calven Duning fight slight rework
• some enemies will pick up items
• all summoned monsters will grant you exp when killing enemies
• removed Infested Tunnel level (Hungry Caverns now connect directly to Abysm)
• monsters summoned by scrolls of summon monsters will usually be friendly and will fight for you
• scroll of teleport is usable when webbed now

QoL changes

• added new option in the in-game menu for changing zoom/scale of the display
• alt-tab will not force the game to revert to windowed mode
• all rings, amulets and wands will have icon in the inventory - similiar to potions and scrolls - so that is easier to recognize them in the inventory
• improved the visibility of item counts in inventory for stackable items
• you can enable/disable chat sounds in in-game menu
• you can enable/disable borderless mode in in-game menu
• some clean up in text messages
• added status icon and text notification when fighting unarmed
• the game will load it's data differently, so launching your first game should no longer take as long
• added the possibility to rebind the chat key (via options.config file)
• improved the visibility of which item is currently selected in inventory
• added the visual indication of items' enchant level when in inventory (let me know if it makes the UI messy/too convoluted)
• you can press shift+space to hide/show ui (e.g. if messages cover the area too much)
• killing istimid gargoyles will give a notification in chat
• changed how the results of the ladder mode are displayed
• added status and text notification when fighting unarmed

Balance changes

• slightly more drops on easy and normal difficulty on early levels
• slightly more drops in early levels and slightly less drops later
• bottle knight will last much longer before disappearing and he can also follow you between areas
• butchered convicts will now explode also on death
• significantly reduced the amount of gold you get from sacks
• charred behemoths now deal much more damage with their melee attacks
• some other small balance changes that I didn't note down

New content

• new special type of potions - grant you permanent buffs, at a cost
• ~30 new items
• added 3 new achievements (crafting an item, getting an item from brokbrog, defeating Arnet, the Honest)
• added a little more variety to Dismal Lowlife's den

Bug fixes

• bug fix for some messages in tutorial not disappearing
• fixed duplicating item glitch when having 2 stacks with the same cursed/uncursed/blessed status
• axe attack - swap places will move you even if you kill enemy
• added some missing sound effects
• fixed a bug when sometimes inventory would open with menu and the player would not be able to close the inventory.
• fixed rune of leech crashing the game
• blighted Spikeshield now works properly and grants weapons the on-hit bonus
• player does no longer move when typing in chat and movement is bound to hjkl
• fixed game crashing when using cursed wand of fires
• improved error handling in general - even in case of errors the game is more likely to handle it without crashing
• fixed some issues with giving/taking cursed items to/from bottle knight
• added some missing sounds
• fixed Moonsword not increasing the lifesteal strength with enchants
• added missing status icons and descriptions
• fixed a small bug when displaying to hit bonus for weapons

Hi People, I have a biig update for you - currently on the beta branch. It adds some new content and three new mechanisms which hopefully will make the game more interesting, varied with a little more control if you know what you are doing:).

Brokbrog, the giant from Hythe

Soul essence

Bottle Knight update

Other changes

New content

• new special type of potions - grant you permanent buffs, at a cost
• a bunch of new items

Changes in existing content

• Grand Executioner level and fight slight rework
• Calven Duning fight slight rework
• Some enemies will pick up items

QoL changes

• alt-tab will not force the game to revert to windowed mode
• all rings, amulets and wands will have icon in the inventory - similiar to potions and scrolls - so that is easier to recognize them in the inventory
• improved the visibility of item counts in inventory for stackable items
• you can enable/disable chat sounds in in-game menu
• you can enable/disable borderless mode in in-game menu
• some clean up in text messages

Balance changes

• slightly more drops on easy and normal difficulty on early levels
• slightly more drops in early levels and slightly less drops later
• bottle knight will last much longer before disappearing and he can also follow you between areas
• Butchered convicts will now explode also on death

Bug fixes

• bug fix for some messages in tutorial not disappearing
• fixed duplicating item glitch when having 2 stacks with the same cursed/uncursed/blessed status
• axe attack - swap places will move you even if you kill enemy
• added some missing sound effects

Hi all, I've pushed a new version to the default branch. The update contains a bunch of bug fixes, here is a list:

• player does no longer move when typing in chat and movement is bound to hjkl
• Blighted Spikeshield now works properly and grants weapons the on-hit bonus
• using rune of leech no longer crashes the game
• fixed a level generation bug on Abysm 2 when stairs to Infested Tunnel would not be generated properly
• fixed a bug when sometimes inventory would open with menu and the player would not be able to close the inventory.

Hi all! After some testing on beta branch the new content arrives on your standard, default branch. This update includes:

New content

• A bunch of new monsters, and minibosses
• expanded poison vaults, which now sometimes can appear instead of Castle Istimid (including 2 new bosses)
• much more variety in early levels (Hungry Caverns)
• some new achievements

Bug fixes

• fixed bug with throwing readied items crashing the game
• fixed a number of mapgen bugs
• fixed bug which would allow opening inventory and game menu at the same time
• fixed plenty of bugs that were added with the new content:P
• a bunch of other bugs that I haven't noted down

Hi all, It's been some time. Check out Official Discord server. There are new changes on beta branch:

New stuff

• New side level with new environment, enemies, boss and new item type
• New elite monster in Istimid
• Hythe monastery map generation slightly more varied
• all axes get a new skill - "hit&swap with enemy"
• all sabres get a new skill - "hit&jump away"

Bug fixes

• fixed a bug with autopicking consumables when full inventory
• fix for lunge and jump over bugging out and hitting yourself in some scenarios
• fix for missing path between Secluded Underpass and Annora Rise
• there should be much less "teleport traps" (you shouldn't get stuck in some remote space if you use teleport scroll which could happen, for example, in overworld and Tower of Mirth)
• duplicate grab and pull for some axes removed
• some bug fixes - honestly I don't remember, I fixed them some time ago and didn't note it down
• some fixes to high res play - fixed some visual glitches and adding graphics scaling, so you should be able to play normally in 4k

Balance changes

• throwing rebalanced - heavy weapons have very short range for throwing
• first Royal Warden has ~25% more hp

Hi all, The newest update is on live branch. It contains some bug fixes and some new stuff. New stuff:

• 5 new early game mini bosses
• 2 new monsters
• improved Hungry Caverns 3 generation a bit (some more variety in the level layout)
• 9 new items (rings/amulets) some with completely new effects and builds possible,
  

• Fixed (hopefully) ladders, campfires glitching from time to time randomly
• Numpad can be used to navigate main menu
• Hungry Caverns 3 should no longer generate the stairs in the middle of water
• Current equipment popup only appears when looking at items with mouse fixed

Hi all, Live version is updated. Last week I didn't manage to polish the end game as much as I wanted, it's a little better but still needs more work. Patch notes:

• new optional end-game area - obsidian mine
• 4 new achievements
• 2 new alternate ways of winning the game
• fixed game crashing when you throw a shield
• fixed one of the causes of "random" game crashes
• Abysm levels are much smaller now
• Hungry Caverns 1 are smaller now
• Petrification debuff will stop any long actions (like ctrl-move or mouse-click move)
• Fixed monsters not always getting agroed by bottle knight
• Specters are petrification resistant now
• Fixed Giant shaman summoning too many Living Rocks

Hi all, I have updated the default branch, changes are following:

• added ladder mode
• added another skill for 2 weapons combination (small axe/short sword) - Grab and Stab, you pull the enemy towards you with your small axe and stab him with your short sword; my aim is to have all possible 2 weapon combinations covered
• added auto pick up for potions, scrolls and any ammo that you are already carrying
• fixed Grand Hall of the Candles 1 generating without stairs to next area (I am like 86% sure it is fixed, if you ever encounter it again, please let me know)
• all grabbing skills (grab and pull, grab and stab) won't work in melee anymore

Hi all, I am testing a small fix for leaderboard display bug and it should be available on beta branch within like an hour. My main aims for next week will be to:

• polish the leaderboard a little bit and make it good enough for live branch
• write dialogues for end game and find voice actor to record them

Hi all, I've been playing around with a leaderboard system for Lost Flame and I have pushed a very rough version of it to beta branch. The system is inspired by the ELO rating system and it measures your performance across multiple games, here is how it goes: 1. Starting a ladder game reduces your score by 10% 2. When you finish the game (die/win) your score gets increased by a number of points (currently mostly based on your total experience gained) So basically the higher your overall score/rank is, the better you need to play to gain more points, since first you need to 'gain back' the lost 10%. Losing very early could even reduce your overall score if your score was previously high. I've used a similiar system in one of my previous games "Madness of Little Emma" and I think it worked quite well there. To try it out you need to be on the beta branch of the game and start a new game with 'Hard (Ladder)' difficulty. The ladder is very rough right now, so use it at your own risk. Although I would really appreciate some feedback on the system. Some remarks: 1. Top 10 of the ladder is shown when starting new game/loading previous game. Full ladder can be viewed via Steam. 2. Your rank and score is shown in the bottom right corner of the menu 3. If Lost Flame crashes during ladder then you might lost your initial 10% of points and gain 0. 4. Ladder games cannot be saved/loaded for obvious reason.

Hi all, It's been some time but there is a new update going live. List of changes is below:

• changed mouse controls a little - now RBM anywhere on the screen performs the current default action (same as 'enter' key), LBM on character performs 'wait' command
• added a large version of mini map - press 'm' or access it via clickable menu in the 'advanced' section in the bottom menu
• added a slight red glow to identified cursed item, so it's easier to see what is cursed at quick glance
• changed kb controls when managing inventory, let me know what you think about it
• changed 'r'eady to be the first/default action for arrows
• added some missing skill icons
• rebinding movement keys will affect the controls for aiming
• changed Tyrannical Stompers so they only play the 'stomp' sound when you damage an enemy with them

Hi, Version 0.8.2 is live. Patch notes:

New stuff

• new dialogues and voice overs for 3 NPCs in the later part of the game
• more flavor texts added to items
• new mini boss that can randomly appear
• 19 new achievements
• new powerful magical affixes that can appear on staves
• from level 20 all items are identified right off the bat
• being stunned/confused produces a message in message log until the effect ends
• muckling shamans have a limit on how many mucklings they can summon
• changed the color of some wands due to visibility issues (black->gray)
• magical effects which are based on % of dealt damage are limited by monster hp now (if you overkill a monster, the % will only be taken from monster hp not full damage)
• shield decays much quicker for very high values of shield
• you can rebind more controls now (using options.config file in the game folder, it is generated when you start the game)

Bug Fixes

• you should no longer receive experience for nothing on mainland (previously it happened from time to time)
• cursed amulet of saving is now properly getting destroyed after proccing the effect
• summoned mucklings no longer give experience
• the Pestilence long sword now works properly
• the game should no longer crash when in offline mode

Hi! This weekend you can try out Lost Flame for free and get it 20% cheaper as well! Have fun! Bartek

Hi, Version 0.8 is live. Patch notes:

Content changes

• Hall of Candles 2 reworked
• some missing sounds and icons added
• new potion type
• changed description for dying shades
• changed sound for dying sand golem
• flesh colossus deals slightly more damage now

QoL changes

• added possibility to rebind movement (via config file, see discussion here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/856570/eventcomments/2619338771815004946)
• petrification sound is played less often for enemies getting petrified

bug fixes

• shield maiden's amulet not giving exp fixed
• fixed some spelling mistakes
• stairs to Cadell's cells have proper color now
• truding automations/destroyers not getting disabled sometimes fixed
• fixed mouse not working correctly on tutorial level

Hi, So it's been quite quiet recently and to be honest I haven't worked on Lost Flame for almost 3 months (sep-nov). The reason was quite simple, a new, mentally demanding job and really bad sales were a total downer. Now I got used to my new job so I have some mental capacity to work on Lost Flame in the afternoons and weekends, also I got over the other issue, so expect some regular updates in the next weeks/months. Going back to 0.7. I worked on the update for around a month and the focus was removing tedious stuff and giving some options to protect yourself from lucky powerful blows that can land on you. With the recent changes I have managed to "win" the game as it is now, for the first time ever just a few hour ago. Content changes:

• Castle Istimid is much shorter and has more treasures worth collecting. The change is really significant, I always considered this area pretty boring and now it is no longer the case
• some new handcrafted rooms in Castle Istimid
• [spoiler]new mini boss level in the middle of Castle Istimid[/spoiler]
• I have reworked most of the boring amulets and added some new, now there are some options which can protect you from powerful blows (for example they grant you a huge temporary shield when a hit can kill, or almost kill, you)
• now the character has two amulet slots, my rule of a thumb is to save one slot for a defensive amulet and use the second slot for whatever you want
• buffed a number of rings, which previously felt bad/useless
• stab can harm the monster in the back even if the first one survives the strike
• very minor change in bandit fortress generation
• buffed a number of rings, which previously felt bad/useless

• you can enable borderless mode - type "debug:borderless" in game console, type it again to disable it
• added the possibility to change some keybindings (explained at the end of the post)

• some long monster names were not displayed properly
• "The" is no longer shown for identified uniques (so you won't see "+2 The Spider's Bite")
• ring of adroit strike now works properly with lunge
• some missing tooltips, descriptions and icons were added
• fixed showing potential enchant effect for fabled and legendary items
• fixed showing potential enchant effect for shields
• fabled and legendary prefix properly affects to hit chance now
• bucklers work as expected when restoring stamina (previously they did not work in the following turn after restoring stamina from 0)
• ring of cobweb works properly now
• fixed killing enemies by poison/bleed not granting experience
• arrows can longer be generated "penetrating" (this effect was useless on them)
• Istimid stalwart now attacks properly over chests

Hi, I got back from vacation yesterday and there is a small update for Lost Flame. A small 0.5 update was deployed to stable branch and 0.6 was deployed on beta branch. The patch is not backwards compatible for saves. If you want to finish your previous game you need to switch to 'oldstable' branch. This branch wll always be one version behind main branch. After that don't remember to switch back to default branch! Patch notes for 0.5: New stuff: 10 new rings For the 0.6 version on the beta branch the new stuff is rework of how poison and bleed work - now you can check how much damage you are going to receive. Poison deals much less damage in total, but it does it much faster. I've also made most of the magical afixes and unique items scale with enchantment level, so there are even more reasonable possibilities when designing your character. Some weapon types also scale better with enchant level (for example greatmaces get +2 to damage per enchant level). Also a new option was added to in-game options - "show time" - setting this to 'Yes', shows the current tick of the game world and the number of ticks last action took - this is another step in making the game mechanics more transparent. Detailed patch notes will be provided when the version goes to main branch. roadmap can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nYjSvi_5SJ7kMHYnjgDv0l1yzBHBvgTB7wBZ7nrAlRA

Hi, 0.4 was deployed to stable branch and 0.5 was deployed on beta branch. The patch is not backwards compatible for saves. If you want to finish your previous game you need to switch to 'oldstable' branch. This branch wll always be one version behind main branch. After that don't remember to switch back to default branch!

Patch notes for 0.4:

• added description for some monsters
• you can now "win" the game, added a first and very rough version of last area (Royal Dungeons) - later there will be some more stuff between dungeons and Annora Rise
• added a little challenge before Annora Rise
• added a very rough first version of second mini hub location

• added a sound effect for petrification (the sound is played when you begin to petrify+every 10 ticks - you will hear it 3 or 4 times before you die)

• Royal Guardians' weapons are always magical
• Sand Dragons lightning AOE does not hurt monsters to which the dragon is not hostile
• fixed some spelling mistakes+ring descriptions
• fixed wrong enchant description when hovering over a weapon with elemental damage

Hi, 0.3.2 was deployed today morning on beta branch and in an hour or two I will deploy it to main branch without waiting, due to the fact that it fixes some critical bugs. The patch is not backwards compatible for saves. If you want to finish your previous game you need to switch to 'oldstable' branch. This branch wll always be one version behind main branch. After that don't remember to switch back to default branch!

Patch notes:

• Annora Rise almost completed - it's definitely playable right now, I will add some more details to the map in the next days - this is right now the latest area in the game
• one new ring
• one new late game monster (also found in Annora Rise)

• current pyre is no longer shown in the list when attempting to travel
• unvisited pyres are marked in yellow colour (there is one event which unlocks a pyre in a different area)
• new option in in-game settings - 'exit to menu'
• nothingness in the Abysm has different tile (no longer looks the same as fog of war)
• improved logging a lot - crashes will always leave a separate file, which is not overwritten by starting a new game, also crashing will always attempt to save the current game (you might be able to restore the save and continue the game and if not, you could send the save to me with the crash report)
• tutorial becomes optional after reaching level 3 (previously was 4)
• global chat notification for level up is every 4 levels now (starting level 8), instead of every 5. Previously level ups pretty often aligned with killing bosses, which made them kind of pointless
• when you receive 0 damage it is not shown in chat anymore

• Effect of Obsidian Handguards of Infinite Rage is longer now (70 ticks, instead of 50)

• fixed crash when trying to enter Grand Hall of the Candles 2
• fixed some spelling and formatting issues
• when entering chat or pyre no longer moves the selected option if entered directly from top or bottom
• fixed not getting death pop up and not sending global notification when dying from acid or petrification, right now it temporarily shows "killed by something" - will be changed later
• Inventory is limited to 110 items now, previously picking too many items caused the inventory to bug out
• Royal Guardian's wield 1-handed weapons only (it was a bug for them to wield 2-handers)

Hi! First update is here. Not much new stuff, since I've spent most of the time working on the Linux version, which is here and confirmed that it works from 2 different sources. The patch is not backwards compatible for saves. If you want to finish your previous game you need to switch to 'oldstable' branch. This branch wll always be one version behind main branch. After that don't remember to switch back to default branch!

Patch notes:

• Linux version is ready.
• 3 new late game monsters (mostly to be found in Annora's Rise)

• messages received in chat stay there after you die
• numpad works when chatting with NPCs

• fixed bug with trudging automations not being awaken when hit with lightning
• fixed wands working even when out of charges
• fixed some spelling and formatting issues

• increased armor for some monster types

Lost Flame has been released as Early Access! Linux support is delayed, however it will be added this weekend. You can check out the initial roadmap here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nYjSvi_5SJ7kMHYnjgDv0l1yzBHBvgTB7wBZ7nrAlRA The roadmap covers only big things, stuff like "more monsters", "more items" is not covered there, but more content will be added with almost every update. If you want to contact me you can do it on:

• Steam Lost Flame discussion board
• lost flame subreddit
• my twitter

• open your Steam library
• right click Lost Flame
• select properties
• switch to "betas" tab
• select "beta" in the drop down list

• finalize Linux release
• stabilize the game after EA release, resolve any issues you might encounter
• finalize Annora Rise - one of the game areas, right now it's the final area of the game.