Changes

• Void primordial will slowly decay it's max health over time (only outside of challenges run) to avoid softlock situation for player that lack damage but have enough survivability
  

QoL

• Console key is now rebindable
  
• Reduced Quickgame, Equipment and Talent tutorial text appearing time in game to 3sec, added a smaller tutorial text to tell that you can check tutorial text in the encyclopaedia
  

Fixes

• Protective Field giving bonus area size
  
• Event that give artifact as a fight reward giving "Item Name" insteaad of nothing
  
• Unstable Core Dash cooldown debuff not being properly removed
  
• Primordial Shard card requiring B-rank instead of A-rank final boss for unlock
  

Major Changes

• A-rank World

  
  Added A-rank world, requiring you to complete 20 challenges before accessing it
  Added Void Dimension zone
  Introduced Corrupted enemies, a rare and powerful variant of non-elite monsters.
  Swarm stage can now appear anywhere in A-rank
  
  

• B-rank and A-rank Survivors mode

  
  
  

• Reactive Card Weight based on player picks

  
  Cards that are not picked multiple times in a row will see their drop weight reduced the more they get ignored by the players.
  This should lead to the game more properly giving out cards the player is looking for.
  The reduced weight starts after not picking a card more than 4 times.
  Picking a card resets its counter.
  
  

• Run loops

  
  After completing certain events in the manor, you'll unlock run looping.
  Event: Get more than 500 corruption in the Mirror event in the manor, and you'll have the possibility to break the mirror, which unlocks the loop.
  After finishing a run, you'll then have the possibility to loop.
  You start back at the first zone with much stronger enemies and higher XP rewards.
  Each loop increases equipment quality dropped by 4.
  You cannot loop again if an enemy has reached infinity health during a loop.
  

New Challenge

• A-rank challenge "Rooted"

  
  Final damage applied to enemies' exponent is rooted (scales with challenge level)
  
  

• A-rank challenge "Vanilla"

  
  Disable Equipment
  Disable Talents
  
  

• A-rank challenge "Blood-Handed"

  
  Each enemy killed increases base corruption by 1
  Each elite killed increases corruption multiplier by 10%
  Each boss killed increases final corruption power by ^1.1
  Corruption reduces your damage (Applied after Purification effect)
  Game over if the corruption exceeds 10^38
  
  

• A-rank challenge "Soulless Champion"

  
  Disable Soul-Shop
  
  

• A-rank challenge "Pacifist"

  
  You no longer have a weapon
  All stages are survival stages
  Bosses slowly take damage over time
  You gain experience over time based on the stage you are in.
  
  

• A-rank Hardmode challenge "Rooted Cubed"

  
  Final damage applied to enemies' exponent is rooted (scales with challenge level)
  Final damage applied to player exponent is cubed (scales with challenge level)
  
  

• A-rank Hardmode challenge "Purist"

  
  Disable Equipment
  Disable Talents
  No Shop
  No Card pick-up at the end of stage
  No Artifact
  No Events
  No Chest
  

New Soul-shop upgrade

• F-rank, final damage based on enemy knowledge in bestiary

  
  Each skull on a monster will also increase the damage it takes by 1/2/3/4/5%
  Unlocked by completing 1% of the bestiary
  
  

• E-rank, reduced damage based on enemy knowledge in bestiary

  
  Each skull on a monster will reduce the damage from them by 1/2/3/4/5%
  Unlocked by completing 10% of the bestiary
  
  

• D-rank, exp drop on enemy knowledge in bestiary

  
  Each skull on a monster will further increase experience dropped by them by 5/10/15/20/25%
  Unlocked by completing 20% of the bestiary
  
  

• C-rank, Equipment quality per Bestiary completion

  
  Increase Equipment quality by 0.001/0.002/0.003 per bestiary completion
  Unlocked by completing 30% of the bestiary
  
  

• B-rank, power damage scaling based on bestiary completion

  
  Increase Power damage scaling by 0.25%/0.5%/0.75%/1% per bestiary completion
  Unlocked by completing 50% of the bestiary
  
  

• A-rank, Equipment quality per Bestiary completion

  
  Increase Equipment quality by 0.0025/0.0050/0.0075/0.0100 per bestiary completion
  Unlocked by completing 75% of the bestiary
  
  

• A-rank, Stat boost per challenge completed

  
  Increase Max health, Power, and XP Gain by 1% per challenge completed per level
  Unlocked by Blood-Handed challenge
  
  

• A-rank, Soul shop upgrade - Enemy health exponent

  
  Reduce enemy health exponent
  Unlocked by completing "Rooted" challenge
  
  

• A-rank, Rarity Reroll Count

  
  Unlocked by completing Vanilla Challenge
  
  

• A-rank, Soul Coin Multiplier

  
  Unlocked by completing Soulless Champion Challenge
  
  

• A-rank, Elite Artifact drop chance

  
  
  

• S-rank, Area Size

  
  
  

• S-rank, Power

  
  
  

• S-rank, Defense

  
  
  

• S-rank, Max Health

  
  
  

• S-rank, Soul-coin Gain

  
  
  

• S-rank, Projectile Count

  
  
  

• S-rank, XP Gain

  
  
  

• S-Rank Enemy count increase

  
  
  

• S-rank final damage based on enemy knowledge in bestiary

  
  Each skull on a monster will also increase the damage it takes by 4/8/12/16/20%
  Unlocked by completing 90% of the bestiary
  

New Talent

• New Passive talent - Soul Expansion

  
  For the first 60 sec (+6 per level) of a stage, gain 1% (+0.1 per level) of your experience requirement per second
  At level 10, experience gain scales with the log10 of the experience multiplier
  Unlocked by completing Pacifist
  
  

• New Active talent - Protective Field

  
  Damage is absorbed by your talent charge before being applied to your character. (After Defense)
  Each Talent Charge point can block 0.5
  Damage blocked is increased by 0.8% per Card-Level.
  When active; reduce Talent charge rate by 50%
  Unlocked by killing 100 Protective spirits
  

New Artifact

• Unstable Core

  
  On Dashing, Gain Unstable charge.
  Unstable charge increases your Damage by 50% but also increases Dash Cooldown by 50% per stack.
  Unstable charges get reset if no charge is gained within 5 seconds
  Unlocked by killing Void Primordial
  

New Soul-cards

• Wormhole - Ascended

  
  Upon taking fatal damage, heal you by 25% of your health, and kill the damaging monster if it is a normal monster
  Cooldown: 60 seconds
  Exclusive to Void Plane
  
  

• Gravity Field - Ascended

  
  Greatly slow down enemies and projectiles as they get closer to you
  Exclusive to Void Plane
  
  

• Void energy - Heroic

  
  Each missing Talent charge increases your Damage Multiplier by 0.002%.
  Exclusive to Void Plane
  
  

• Nullifier - Heroic

  
  Nullify one instance of damage
  Cooldown: 15 seconds
  Exclusive to Void Plane
  
  

• Thermodynamic - Heroic

  
  Increase damage of projectiles based on their speed
  
  

• Accelerator - Ascended

  
  Every time a projectile hits an enemy, increase its speed by 15%
  Initial projectile speed reduced by 30%
  
  

• Energy Conversion - Heroic

  
  When your remaining dash charges are lower than 3, use 750 Talent charge to generate a new dash charge
  
  

• Energy Production - Epic

  
  Upon taking damage, increase your current Talent charge by 10.
  
  

• Soul Capacity - Epic

  
  Upon killing a monster, increase your Maximum talent charge by 5% for 60 seconds
  
  

• Friction - Epic

  
  Moving increases your Talent charge rate by 50%
  
  

• Energizer - Rare

  
  Increase your Talent charge rate by 10%
  
  

• Capacity - Uncommon

  
  Increase your maximum Talent charge by 10%
  
  

• Efficiency - Uncommon

  
  Decrease your talent charge cost by 5%
  
  

• Goblin's eye - Tainted

  
  Increase Critical Damage Multiplier by 0.25%
  Unlocked by killing A-rank goblin shaman
  
  

• Worm scale - Tainted

  
  Increase Defense Multiplier by 0.25%
  Unlocked by killing A-rank Giant Worm
  
  

• Bone dust - Tainted

  
  Increase XP Gain Multiplier by 0.25%
  Unlocked by killing A-rank Necromancer
  
  

• Magma Drop - Tainted

  
  Increase Damage by 0.40%
  Unlocked by killing A-rank Lava Titan
  
  

• Vampire's Blood Drop - Tainted

  
  Increase Max Health and Health Regen Multiplier by 0.20%
  Unlocked by Killing A-rank Vampire Queen
  
  

• Primordial's Shard - Tainted

  
  Increase Defense Piercing Multiplier by 0.25%
  Increase Defense Shredding Multiplier by 0.05%
  Unlocked by Killing A-rank Void Primordial
  

QoL

• Reworked the Modifier Encyclopedia

  
  Display more modifiers at once, allow searching, and display a bit more information than before, also more inline with the rest of the game.
  
  

• Reworked the forge menu on how equipment modifiers are crafted.

  
  You can directly choose which modifier to change in the forge menu without going through a separate menu that just added extra menuing.
  Should also make things clearer to craft modifiers (some players simply didn't understand how to do it)
  
  

• Added a Tutorial logs entry in the Encyclopedia

  
  
  
• Improved modifiers name/category displaying.
  
• Knight amulet allows players to craft any variant of it without any RNG.
  
• Bestiary now displays its completion (in both milestone and percentage)
  
• Vampire queen now has her own music track
  
• Reworked Bestiary description
  
• Added additional tutorial text about Talents, Quickgame, and Equipments
  
• Added tooltip to bindings
  

Other Changes

• After completing A-rank, you unlock the possibility to start seeded runs

  
  
  
• Player will no longer collide with enemies and crates during dash
  
• Gargoyle in Manor now has much lower health and damage, but MUCH MUCH higher defense, especially in A-rank
  
• Soul-coin gain from gold is soft-capped after 9999 (about 81 million gold coins)
  
• Soul-coin gain from gold is hard-capped at 99999 (about 10^14 gold coins)
  
• Enemies' levels now properly scale within the stage in a zone in Quick Mode
  Before, at stage 7 in quick mode, enemies were level 7, now they are level 11, since this is equivalent to stage 11 in normal mode)
  

Modding

• Stage rewards refactorization to be moddable like many other systems.
  
• Enemies can now cast multiple abilities at once, you can use the `MultiCastAbility()` function to cast an additional ability without altering the enemy's behavior
  
• New command "listEnemies"
  List all enemies alive and their ID
  New command "dumpEnemyInfo ID"
  Get info about an enemy with their ID.
  

Optimization

• Improved performance for Infinity end screen
  

Fixes

• Some elites being marked as normal enemies, causing some stages to softlock
  
• Bear Fang & Monster Hunter talent not properly applying their effect on stage start after a game load
  
• Knight amulet displaying the wrong weapon in the modifier crafting menu
  
• Challenge tracker having some challenges being displayed as completed (full bar) when it wasn't the case
  
• Band of Valiance not properly checking if a monster was an elite and never giving bonus XP
  
• Dynamic Difficulty not properly tagging elite enemies
  
• Bear Fang not properly giving the bonus from boss killed
  
• Singularity gland not properly applying its gravity on Elite monsters
  
• Pharaoh fang passive not working on Elite Monsters
  
• Challenge not being displayed in game history
  
• Challenge leveling not displaying the right rank
  
• Necromancer splitting projectiles becoming allied with players after splitting
  
• Procedurally planned objects having double collisions (especially crates since you would get sort of ghost collision until it was destroyed)
  
• Sage leaf cooldown buff duration being off due to corruption
  
• Pause/game menu not opening in Zone Selection
  
• Some enemies not appearing or appearing later than they should in a zone in quick mode
  
• Salamander hide damage being counted as Fiery Dash
  
• Creating new profile not properly resetting bestiary completion
  
• Enemies' defense calculation being done twice for part of damages (that also meant double defense shredding application)
  
• Sloth not working
  
• Vine of Time sometimes stopping working in Rog's mode.
  

What’s to Come?

Rogue: Genesia 1.0 will be released on March 7, 2025, with a 33% discount

Price increase on February 3, 2025, to the game’s final price

Additionally, there will be one final Early Access 25% discount from January 27 to February 3 your last chance to get the game at its Early Access price.

A-Rank World

The Void Dimension

Reactive Card Weight

Planned Changes

• Improved Equipment Crafting UX/UI

  
  
  Overhauling the confusing modifier system (especially Knight Pendant crafting) based on player feedback.
  
  

• Run Looping

  
  
  Post-B-rank, players can loop completed runs. Mechanics TBD.
  
  

• Custom Runs

  
  
  A post-launch possibility: runs with player-defined settings/parameters.
  
  
• Add a Tutorial menu in the Encyclopedia for revisiting guides in-game.
  
• Better Gamepad/Steam Deck menu navigation.
  
• Bestiary-completion achievements (unlocking cards/artifacts).
  
• The usual new cards, equipment, challenges, and soul-shop upgrades.
  

What’s Missing?

Why releasing on March 7 if the game is not ready?

Post-1.0 Plans

• Weekly Challenges
  Procedurally generated challenges that refresh every **Monday**, tied to the date, with leaderboard support. Designed to boost the game’s **long-term longevity**.
  
  
• Talent Loadouts
  Save and swap talent configurations—similar to Equipment Loadouts.
  
  
• Card Pinning (QoL
  Pin cards in the Encyclopedia to highlight them during selection.
  
  
• Boss-Specific Equipment
  Unique gear tied to defeating bosses.
  
  
• Cursor Menu Rework
  Revamp one of the game’s oldest menus for better customization and in-game visual previews.
  
  
• Manual Melee Avatar
  A dynamic, high-skill avatar focused on melee combat—similar to Gunslinger but using default weapons.
  A rough prototype of the avatar can be download from this mod I've made
  
  

Fixes

• Ending game in survivors in pause menu not dropping equipments
  

Changes

• Stoned challenge starting level is lower for Shop-keeper, equivalent in sum experience to the level 95 on default character
  
• Stone challenge not properly dropping god stone
  

QoL

• Challenge now display the unique equipment it'll drop
  

Changes

• New D-rank Hardmode challenge "Stoned"
  Skip the first 2 zone
  Start at level 95 without any card
  Equipment level requirement reduced by 95
  Guarantee drop for any of the Basic God Stone
  

Fixes

• Shop keeper level counter always displaying 0
  

Changes

• Survivors mode now drop equipment and crafting materials similarly to rogs mode at the end of the run
  

Fixes

• Fixes Necromancer's Staff not having it own damage in damage summary
  
• Fixes many smaller bug related to multiple item selection in equipment tab
  

Fixes

• Fix Champion and Bosses not dropping artifact in Survivors mode
  
• Fix Necromancer staff preventing Red skull active talent from working
  

Major Change

Twitch Integration

Performance

• Greatly improved performance in Manor background in main menu (should also improve performance overall in manor biome)
  

QoL

• Weapons can be disabled in the game menu by clicking the weapon icon
  
• Updated the Artifact selection screen in Survivors mode to avoid text overlap (and to look nicer)
  
• Added a new option to automatically level up to enable auto card selection to automatically pick the highest rarity card
  
• Added the possibility to rename equipment
  
• Added the possibility to search options in game options
  
• Added the possibility to search bindings in control
  
• Moved Gamepad vibration from controls to Game Options
  
• Soulcard encyclopedia and artifact encyclopedia having the back button and previous page button position swapped
  

Translation

• Updated Japanese and Korean translations
  

Changes

• Reduced Dynamic difficulty scaling speed (again)
  
• Dynamic difficulty no longer affects Overkill threshold
  
• Dynamic difficulty also inversely affects an enemy's damage
  
• Basically, the greater the dynamic difficulty multiplier is, the lower the monster damage will be. Inversely, the lower the value is below 1, the higher the monster damage will be.
  The damage multiplier formula is : (1/HealthMultiplier) ^ 0.2
  This means that a health multiplier of 0.01 (1/100 of normal health) will multiply a monster's damage by 2.5
  While a health multiplier of 100, will multiply a monster's damage by 0.4
  The goal of this change is to prevent monsters from becoming a real danger in case of super high Dynamic difficulty value, but also to prevent the dynamic difficulty from being gamed so monster health only gets reduced.
  
• Dynamic Difficulty will very, very slightly affect mastery gain of talents
  Formula is (HealthMultiplier ^ 0.015)
  
• Reduced Equipment's Uncommon Modifier defense multiplier from 15% to 10%
  
• Increased Shield Rare Modifier defense gain per level from +0.05 per level to +0.125
  
• Increased Glove Uncommon Modifier defense gain per level from +0.0125 per level to +0.04
  
• Increased Chest Uncommon Modifier defense gain per level from +0.05 per level to +0.1
  
• Increased Secondary Uncommon Modifier defense gain per level from +0.01 per level to +0.025
  
• Added a new Secret achievement
  

Option

• Added new Option "Twitch Event Poll"
  
• Added new Option "Negative Twitch Event"
  
• Added new Option "Positive Twitch Event"
  
• Added new Option "Level-up Poll"
  

Fixes

• Area Pick up rare and legendary modifiers missing for accessories
  
• Concentration weapon modifier description not fitting its real effect
  
• Pick-up list in encyclopedia not handling multiple pages
  
• Explosive bow having Melee and physical tag
  
• Stage tooltip displaying some enemies that cannot spawn in stage
  
• Midboss stage in Cave Zone being skipped in Quick-Mode
  

Command

• Added "TwitchConnect" and "TwitchDisconnect" commands to connect to/disconnect from the Twitch integration
  

Modding

• New GameEvent "OnCardSelectionValidation". Used to validate if a card selection can happen or not.
  
• It has the following parameters: "BoolValue Cancel, CardType[], bool"
  
• New Event - OnPlayerStartHeal
  
• New Event - OnPlayerHeal
  
• Fixed some missing variable initialization for Custom SoulShopUpgrades
  
• Fixed modded collectible ignoring if custom name or description has been set
  
• Added basic API support for equipment
  
• Added an "Additional Text" string to rewards to add custom text after the reward text
  

Changes

• Slightly Reduced how hard dynamic scaling is working
  
• Dynamic scaling no longer apply during challenges
  
• Added Traditional Chinese (Some minor issues may still happen)
  

Fixes

• Some missing translation in Simplified Chinese (some artifact, Achievement description and monster names)