• Reduced the score requirements for Greed Beyond Measure from 800 to 500
  
• Slightly increased the amount of time you have to make it into the dark portal
  

• All characters have their health and mana values doubled
  
• Mana regens twice as fast upon killing enemies
  
• Par times are increased by 30%
  
• All characters have their attack values increased by 1 (This may sound small, but you're effectively twice as powerful in the early game!)
  
• Enemies are less aggressive
  
• Upgrades cost half as much in the shop
  

• Daily Challenge is temporarily disabled in Easy Mode. I'm working on a way to get this functional here, so stay tuned
  
• New leaderboards have been created for Easy Mode
  
• Re-wrote callback handlers for Steam functions. Leaderboard uploads/downloads should be faster and more consistent now
  

• Speedrunners rejoice, you can now disable boss death animations in the options menu
  
• The Reaper in now waits an extra 2 turns before coming active
  
• Berserker par times in the first region have been increased by 15%, and an additional 20% on the boss stage. No more forced misses on Slime Queen's Revenge.
  
• Fixed a bug with the Burninator achievement
  
• Fixed a bug with the Terror Awaits You in the Fjord achievement
  
• (Hopefully) fixed a bug resulting in a softlock when you attempt to upload a new score
  
• Secondary layered sound effects (stopwatch, weather, etc) should now respect the "Mute Sfx" option
  

• An invisible wall was removed from The Gardens
  
• Quitting the application should work universally now
  

• Berserkers no longer get mana potions. Any time a mana potion would drop, a health potion drops instead
  
• Berserkers no longer have useless mana regen floating text popups in combat
  
• The mana upgrade slot is now skipped on the upgrade screen
  
• The Dervish passive for Berserker no longer kills you when you attack a door
  
• Shield and Health are displayed separately in the UI
  
• Health values below zero are no longer displayed
  

• The Berserker passive "Dervish" no longer considers the player to be an active target
  
• High score/fastest time uploads should be a bit more resilient, and will log more information upon failure
  

Patch Notes

General Gameplay

• A mysterious portal has resumed appearing
  
• Fixed issues with the area and its rewards
  
• A new version of the final boss may appear under certain circumstances. Good luck beating this one! (This boss may be replaced with a more unique true final boss at a later date)
  
• Players brave enough to complete the game under the maximum level of difficulty will be rewarded with a special indicator on the leaderboards
  

Balance

• The Berserker Trait, "Axes of Evil", now has its countdown timer increased by 1 turn when hitting an enemy. This should make the stat requirements for surviving the second area's boss less stringent
  

Interface

• The tutorial text should no longer have formatting issues under certain circumstances
  
• The Druid and Dragon entries in the Codex now show the proper unlocked state
  
• The post-boss score screen now properly displays the PAR and NO DAMAGE bonuses
  

Other Bug Fixes

• Players who die before the first boss no longer will register a score of 0 on the leaderboards
  
• Killing the sub-bosses during the Fairy Queen had a small chance of causing a soft-lock, this should no longer be the case
  

Known Issues

• The time leaderboards were wiped due to a DB upgrade. Given the small number of people finishing the game, this is not worth restoring. Sorry about that!
  

Progression Changes:

• The "Level Complete" screen has been removed entirely. Transitions between levels in the same world now happen as soon as the player reaches the exit
  Monsters and treasures chests no longer directly reward experience or score
  
• Upon killing the boss of a world and exiting the arena, a new "World Complete" screen will appear
  
• The "World Complete" screen now gives you a grade, representing an evaluation of your overall skill in completing the levels in that world
  
• Grades range from "F" to "S".
  
• Your grade is determined by the number of levels in which you beat the par time, the number in which you do not take damage, and the total treasure you have discovered
  
• Grades confer bonus experience and score, with the "S" rank awarding a massive boost
  
• The "Level Up" screen now appears after "World Complete"
  
• The amount of experience required to purchase stat upgrades has increased substantially
  
• Purchasing traits continues to function as it did prior to this update
  
• The Dark World continues to award progression in the same way it did before
  

Balance Changes:

• Monster health has been reduced by 25-40% to account for player stats being lowered
  
• The Angel heals for less and no longer shields enemies
  
• The Bat's attack power has been reduced to 2
  
• The Slime Queen levels up more slowly when drawing magic from Slime Royals
  
• Spells gain potency or effectiveness with each individual point spent in Magic now, in order to reduce confusion
  

Gameplay/UI Changes:

• Upon completing a stage, the camera will rapidly fade out, starting from the farthest area away from the player. When the next stage loads, this effect will reverse. This makes it substantially easier to tell where the player is when starting a new stage
  
• The Slime Queen's Revenge and The Fairy Queen's Domain have been enabled under certain conditions
  
• An animation has been added to indicate an invalid move
  
• Character and enemy movement animations will appear more smooth during frame drops
  
• Characters and enemies will not display negative health values while dying
  
• Floating combat text will no longer render for uninteresting events
  
• A new "Ambush!" text appears when certain enemies attack the player
  
• Sound effects have been added to more actions
  
• Some screens have had their text reduced
  
• The tutorial has been updated to match the new game systems
  
• The Dark World's access requirements have been made slightly easier
  
• New entries have been added to the Codex
  
• The Slime Queen should no longer litter
  
• Storm of Greed now appears in 5% of stages
  
• Storm of Darkness now appears in 5% of stages
  
• Storm of Bones now appears in 5% of stages
  
• All magical storms can activate in boss fights
  
• Enemies under the effect of Time Stop will be revealed regardless of light during a Storm of Darkness
  

Unlocks:

• Complete the game once unlocks: Wizard, Magical Storms, Additional Bosses
  
• Complete the game as Wizard unlocks: A Temporal Distortion, Berserker