Changed

• Upgraded game engine to Godot Engine 3.3.2.
  
• Clairvoyance shows entire map but does not show locations of shrine and exit.
  
• Improved minimap visuals.
  
• Other minor visual changes.
  

• Added loop number to character screen.
  

• Sanity meter visuals fixed.
  
• Loop number display on win screen fixed.
  

In the House of Silence is now out of Early Access. I hope you enjoy it.


Added

• Achievement system added.
  
• Drop item key added.
  
• Display stats in game over screen.
  
• Display stats in win screen.
  
• Background image added to main menu.
  

• Mutation costs lowered.
  
• Bone reward formula modified.
  
• Less enemies spawn.
  
• Less powerful enemies spawn.
  
• Modified the spawn rate of items.
  
• Enemy Flame Head insight set to 0.
  
• Abyssal Core insight set to 0.
  
• Increased Predator Leg speed.
  
• Lowered Predator Leg attack.
  
• Newborn Heart health up.
  
• Snail Shell defense up.
  
• Improved visuals for chromatic aberration insanity effect.
  
• Other minor audio and visual changes.
  

• Ethereal/Vampiric interation fixed.
  
• Sanity reset on load fixed.
  

The penultimate update is here. This update adds a new soundtrack and post-game content.

Added

• Added loops. The end of each run will take you back to the beginning of a more difficult run with all of your items and abilities intact. Each loop has a different ending.
  
• Added 6 new songs that play on each biome.
  
• Added greyscale insanity effect.
  

• Lowered the difficulty of enemy spawn rates.
  
• Monster Hearts less likely to spawn.
  
• Other minor audio and visual changes.
  

• Removed that one god-awful song that started on the third floor.
  

The Item Update is out now. This new update adds 19 new items, improvements to enemy AI and more.


Added

• 19 new items added.
  
• New body part, the Cursed Arm of Cain, added.
  

• Bone Shrine spawns in Cathedral.
  
• Lowered several enemy-only mutation stats.
  
• Strength of surrounding enemies factored in to enemy AI decision making.
  
• Enemies can now use items.
  
• Minor graphical changes.
  

• Enemy health bars show on game load.
  
• Enemies no longer get stuck behind obstacles when pursuing player.
  
• Fixed ice stage broken map bug.
  

The Spare Parts Update is now available! This update introduces status effects and over 30 new mutations to the House of Silence.

Added

• 19 more mutations added.
  
• 10 enemy-only mutation added.
  
• Status effects added.
  
• Poison reintroduced to game.
  
• Message log added.
  

• Health regeneration removed.
  

• Start run with 100 bones minimum.
  
• New run bone reward formula modified.
  
• Made maps smaller.
  
• Run button now toggles between running and walking. No need to hold the key down.
  
• Monster Heart now heals all health.
  
• Enemy generation algorithm changed.
  

• Enemies no longer spawn within 8 spaces of player spawn.
  
• Made sure exit spawns on final floor.
  

In the House of Silence 0.4b is out now, adding keyboard controls and running. Full patch notes below.


Added

• Added support for keyboard input.
  
• Added running with Shift key.
  
• Added enemy death animation.
  

• Enemies no longer take turns simultaneously with player when in FOV.
  
• Modified Anti-Psychotic spawn rate.
  
• Minor graphical improvements.
  

• Removed custom turn times.
  

• Enemies only emit damage number if they're in player's line of sight.
  

Version 0.4a introduces small improvements including balancing and custom key bindings.


Fixed

• Enemies are less likely to flee.
  

• Anti-psychotics now bring your sanity meter to max.
  
• Lowered spawn rate of anti-psychotics.
  
• Decreased speed of predator legs and default legs.
  
• Enemies now regenerate 1 health every 6 turns they take no damage.
  
• Default Inventory hotkeys are now ( I ) and ( Tab ).
  
• Minor visual improvements.
  

• Added custom key bindings.
  
• Walking over stairs now opens prompt asking if you would like to descend to the next floor.
  
• Added body part icons to mutation menu and character screen.
  
• Added item images in inventory.
  
• Added additional information in character menu.
  
• Added ability to use items with number hotkeys and by double clicking in Inventory menu.
  

• Removed the hidden minimap insanity effect.
  
• Removed shader from water stages for performance reasons.
  

The Mutation Update for In the House of Silence is now available! This update introduces the ability to mutate your body parts into monstrous appendages to fight eldritch abominations!

Full patch notes:

Changed

• Mutation system completely redone.
  
• Player gains Bones by killing enemies and can spend those bones at a Shrine to change a body part.
  
• Player stats now dictated by what body parts you have.
  
• Stairs and Shrine show up on minimap.
  
• Default max inventory size increased to 10.
  
• Sanity meter increased to 300.
  
• Enemies can carry items.
  
• Player regains 1 point of health every 6 turns damage is not taken.
  
• Changed several of the map generation alorithms.
  
• Number of floors increased to 18.
  
• Changed title image.
  
• Fonts changed.
  

• Added attack and defense stats which affect damage dealt in combat.
  
• Added speed stat. Entities gain an additional action each turn for every 100 speed.
  

• Removed all items except Monster Heart, Anti-Psychotics, and Mark of Cain.
  
• Removed stairs up.
  
• Removed fire and poison status effects.
  
• Removed fire and poison pits.
  
• Removed slow shaders from main menu, intro, and game over screens.
  

Version 0.3b re-enables crash logs while making a few minor changes.

Changed

• Minor audio and visual changes.
  

• Added sanity number to hud.
  

• Re-enable file crash logging.
  
• Background shader better optimized.
  

Version 0.3 modifies some mutations and fixes a couple of stubborn bugs.

Changed

• Mutation menu shows the rarity of each mutation option.
  
• Four Tails mutation changed from uncommon to rare.
  
• Sharp Teeth deals a half heart of damage if your sanity is less than half.
  
• Lightning Rod electricity animation plays less frequently.
  
• Changed color of minimap walls.
  
• Version number now only has major and minor number.
  

• Win screen now shows your time in bottom right corner.
  

• Fixed a memory leak which may have caused crashes for some users.
  
• Fixed bug where enemies would not follow if the player is to the left.
  

Version 0.0.2 features improved sanity and mutation systems with a few minor tweaks.


Changed

• Going insane now lowers your maximum sanity.
  
• You now die the third time you go insane.
  
• Sanity no longer decreases in the Cathedral.
  
• Anti-psychotics now regain 1/3 of your sanity.
  
• Mutation Runes are tiered with a greater chance of more powerful mutations appearing at higher tiers.
  
• Pulpit will always spawn a Mutation Rune.
  
• The Pulpit Mutation Rune's tier will be higher depending on how far you made it on your last run.
  
• Mutation Runes appear randomly on each floor.
  
• New Mutation Rune item images.
  
• Extra Heart mutation shows up less often.
  
• Less items spawn in swamp stage.
  
• Less items spawn in water stage.
  
• Less items spawn in ice stage.
  
• Less items spawn in final stage.
  
• Essence of Winter mutation looks nicer.
  
• Background image shader improvements.
  
• Slowed eyeball sphere movements in game over.
  

• Removed elite enemies.
  

• Fixed Cosmic Specter/Essence of Winter interaction.
  
• On death, all trees drop items in the space they occupied.
  
• No longer change floors when using or dropping an item while standing on stairs.
  
• Sanity bar only flashes when sanity is lost.
  

Hotfix to address the sanity bar visual bug with a few minor changes.


Added

• Added Kai Ruma Games Discord Server button in main menu.
  

• Fixed sanity bar visuals.
  
• Changed "Changelog" button to "Patch Notes".
  
• Fixed spelling in previous patch notes.
  

Added

• Added changelog to main menu.
  

• Fixed long hallway bug in cave stage.
  
• Tooltips for items and mutations appear sooner after mouseover.
  
• Clarified Predator Legs mutation description.
  
• Chromatic aberration insanity effect looks better.
  

• Enemies now drop a random item as well as a Monster Heart when the player has the Shining Icosahedron mutation.
  
• Increased Insight mutation now increases FOV by 2.
  
• Increased max sanity.
  
• Fire pits now only deal 1 point of fire per turn.
  
• Poison pits now only deal 1 point of poison per turn.
  
• A few more enemies spawn in cave stage.
  
• Less items spawn in water stage.
  
• A few more enemies spawn in ice stage.
  

• Slower lamp flicker.
  
• Slower cathedral lantern flicker.
  
• Quieter insanity warning.
  
• Quieter Shrieking Tree enemy.
  
• Quieter fire pits.
  
• Quieter poison pits.