Hi folks, DemonCrawl's tropical Summer Event is now live! Check out the announcement post for more details. In addition to a ton of new seasonal content, this patch marks the debut of Arena, our online multiplayer gamemode! Arena is officially in Open Beta - we plan to monitor server performance carefully in the coming days and deploy any fixes as needed. We're keeping our fingers crossed for a smooth launch, but please bear with us should we encounter any technical issues. Thank you! Full patch notes are available below. Have fun! ---

Summer Event

• Complete the holiday questline to earn 4 new avatars and a new inventory skin
• 11 additional avatars are available through Prizeboxes
• Participate in summer tournaments to earn a ton of Tokens
• Each run, you will encounter one of three summer afflictions
• The Shopkeeper has stocked up on summer items
• The Shopkeeper's handing out free water, what a cool guy
• Added unique holiday stage
• Reskinned menu graphics
• Added Summer Special Chest
• New holiday Mythic Emblem
• New seasonal boss: Trixie - "Play Beach Ball like your life depends on it, because it does."

Arena

• DemonCrawl's new online multiplayer mode is now in Open Beta
• Choose between Manual and Autosweeper division depending on your playstyle
• Added Season 1 avatar rewards
• Implemented Arena Plus DLC for extra online perks

New Features

• New magic item: Beach Ball - "[20 Mana] Throw at a stranger and be prepared to have a radical time, dude!"
• New consumable item: Water - "Gain 50 mana."
• New consumable item: Sunscreen - "For 100 turns, you are immune to burns."
• New consumable item: Shark - "Cook by removing Burning from a random visible cell, then gain the ability to powerchord any cell until the end of the stage. Or sell raw at an Item Shop for 40 coins."
• New omen: Sun Burn - "Every 100 turns, remove all Frozen auras and get burnt."
• New omen: Dry Spell - "At the end of each stage, lose half of your mana."
• New omen: Hurricane - "Each stage has an additional Wishpool. You cannot activate Wishpools. Whenever a Wishpool gains a charge, drop your other items on the ground and destroy any objects in the same quadrant as the Wishpool."
• Added blueprint for Wishing Coin

Quality of Life

• Updated visual effects for Fishing Pole
• Updated color of Discord button to match their new branding guidelines
• Adjusted appearance of main menu labels
• Changing the difficulty on the quest selection screen no longer restarts the music

Balance Changes

• War Paint nerf: "Whenever a living object dies, solve 3 cells."
• Updated several item recipes to utilize the new Starfish artifact
• Lowered the chance to encounter a seasonal boss from 50% to 33%

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the price of treasure chest Nomad not increasing with use
• Holiday bosses can no longer override special encounters like Ego
• Magic Dice can no longer target the Metagate
• Fixed a couple bugs related to Ectoplasm
• Fixed an issue related to the sigil that procs on death
• Fixed a rare crash related to Novice Doll
• Fixed Ghost not being able to interact with the Dimensional Portal while dead
• Fixed expiration of Plum status effect