Animations

• Book of Stabbing
  
• Darklings
  
• Fungi Beasts
  
• Nemesis
  
• Orb Walkers
  
• Shelled Parasite
  
• Snake Plant
  
• Snecko
  
• The Champ
  
• Time Eater
  

Rest Site Backgrounds

Hotfix

• Sentry/Darkling anti attack-at-once wasn't working. Fixed
  
• Fixes issue where Korean score bonuses were ugly.
  

Content

• Adding Cultist + Chosen encounter into City.
  
• Adding new Ancient Potion.
  
• All 3 Egg relics (Molten/Toxic/Frozen) are now reworked. New eggs are Uncommon.
  
• Frozen Egg: Whenever you add a Power card to your deck, it is Upgraded.
  
• Molten Egg: Whenever you add an Attack card to your deck, it is Upgraded.
  
• Toxic Egg: Whenever you add a Skill card to your deck, it is Upgraded.
  
• Removed Elixir Potion from the game.
  

Balance

• Awakened One buffed to be on par with other Act 3 bosses:
  
  
  
  • Soul Strike: 6 x 3 -> 6 x 4
    
  • Slash damage 10 -> 20
    
  • Echo damage 32 -> 40
    
  • Tackle: 10 x 2 -> 10 x 3
    
  
  
• All 3 Darklings can never do 8 x 2 dmg at once now.
  
• Backstab buffed: Cost lowered to 0. Damage decreased to 11.
  
• Bite is now a Colorless card.
  
• In the 3 x Sentry elite combat, all of the sentries will no longer attack at once.
  
• Reducing 3x Cultist spawn rate as there's a cultist + chosen encounter now.
  
• Shiv and J.A.X can no longer spawn from effects like Jack Of All Trades and Transmutation.
  
• Warcry tweaked so the unupgraded form is buffed (cost 0, draw 1 place 1).
  

UI and Effects

• Abandoning from the Main Menu gets a confirmation popup. Rather than the hacked label update button.
  
• Discard/Draw panels can be viewed during screens such as Survivor, Headbutt, and Gambling Chip now.
  
• Player and monsters now update while hand card select screen is up and the screen is now 50% (lets you see intent!).
  
• Removing 'Spend all [R].' from all X-cost cards for consistency.
  
• Skip button is moved from far left to the center for Card Reward screens.
  

Bug Fixes

• Bouncing Flask no longer loses bounces to dead enemies.
  
• Darkling AI now utilizes aiRNG.
  
• Fixed bug where cost X cards do not work with energy gain cards if played too fast.
  
• Fixed issue where Ascension Multiplier wasn't multiplied with Ascension Level.
  
• Fixed issue where Regret/Decay/Doubt/Burn fails to exhaust via Blue Candle and Medical Kit.
  
• Fixed issue where save/load after Neow would make some cards disappear.
  
• Fixed issue where thorns would secretly affect ModeShift for TheGuardian.
  
• Vajra flavor text typo fix.
  

Localization

• Turkish is now available!
  
• Updates for Chinese (Simplified).
  
• Updates for Chinese (Traditional).
  
• Updates for Italian.
  
• Updates for Japanese.
  
• Updates for Korean.
  
• Updates for Russian.
  

Performance

• Event images are now all JPGs.
  
• PNG compression for card textures.
  
• PNG Compression for Level BGs and Title Screen.
  
• PNG compression for most VFX textures.
  
• Torch VFX on Act 1 utilizes smaller textures.
  

Hotfixes

• Ascension Mode should unlock properly now. Sorry about that! (Exit Steam and Relaunch to force an update!)
  
• Pushed fixes for several odd crashes that prevented the game from loading for a few users.
  

Ascension Mode

More Languages

• Italian is now available! Meraviglioso!
  
• Chinese (Simplified) is updated + Localized Achievements.
  
• Chinese (Traditional) is updated + Localized Achievements.
  
• French is updated + Localized Achievements.
  
• German is updated + Localized Achievements.
  
• Japanese is updated + Localized Achievements.
  
• Korean is updated + Localized Achievements + New font!
  
• Russian is updated + Localized Achievements.
  

32-bits

Gameplay

• Cheater score penalty reduced as it's there for informational purposes, not fun ruining.
  
• Nightmare no longer retains "cost for turn" when copying cards (as you get the copies next turn).
  
• Playtime is now calculated incrementally rather than end time - start time (unaffected by system clock).
  
• Sentry HP ranges updated to be wider (36 - 40) -> (35 - 41).
  
• The Collector respawns its minions considerably less often when certain criteria is met: (100% -> 25%)
  

UI and Effects

• If an anti-virus prevents the creation of a .copy file, the game will no longer crash.
  
• Improved card trail VFX to be more performant.
  
• Leaderboards Screen: No longer show the left arrow if filtered to friends with less than 20 friends.
  
• Mind Blast now shows you how much damage it will deal on the card itself.
  
• Updating description for Curl Up power to clarify it only triggers once.
  
• When saving sound settings, it is saved when you release the mouse now.
  
• You can now view your current run's playtime by opening the map.
  

Bug Fixes

• Accuracy wasn't working with Shiv+
  
• Achievement descriptions for non-hidden achievements now properly show how they're obtained.
  
• All files when saved now create backups. If a corrupt file is detected, they are now restored.
  
• Character info text in char select is now <- 200px to hide the flavor text for some languages.
  
• Cheater score penalty reduced. The bonus was meant to be informational, not a fun ruiner.
  
• Fixed bug where Centennial Puzzle doesn't trigger off of enemy thorns.
  
• Fixed interaction of Enlightenment + Eviscerate + Discard.
  
• Fixed issue where leaderboard scores weren't uploading properly.
  
• Fixed issue where Orichalcum will start flashing even if you have Block from Barricade/Blur/Calipers.
  
• Now preventing crashes when an audio file is not found. (how did this even happen?)
  
• Sadistic Nature no longer triggers twice from Shackles and Piercing Wail.
  

Leaderboards

Score System

Upgrade Colorless Cards?!

• Apotheosis now costs 2. Upgrades to cost 1.
  
• Bandage Up now has upgrade functionality (4HP -> 6 HP)
  
• Blind can now upgrade (Single Target -> All enemies)
  
• Dark Shackles+. -9 Str -> -15 Str
  
• Deep Breath+. Draw 1 -> 2 cards after shuffle.
  
• DramaticEntrance+. Damage 6 -> 8.
  
• Enlightment+. This turn -> rest of combat.
  
• Finesse+. 2 -> 4 Block.
  
• Flash Of Steel+. 3 -> 6 damage.
  
• Good instincts+. 4 -> 7 Block.
  
• J.A.X.+. 2 -> 3 Strength gain.
  
• Jack Of All Trades+. 1 random card -> 2 random cards.
  
• Madness is nerfed (costs 1 now). Upgrade cost 1 -> 0.
  
• Master of Strategy+. Draw 3 -> 4.
  
• MindBlast+. Gains Innate.
  
• Panacea reworked. Gain 1 Artifact. Exhaust. Upgrades to 2.
  
• Panache+ added. 10 -> 14 damage.
  
• Purity card rework. 2 cards -> 'up to' 3 cards -> 5 cards on upgrade.
  
• Sadistic Nature+. 3 -> 4 damage.
  
• Secret Technique+ and Secret Weapon+. Removes Exhaust on upgrade.
  
• Shiv+. +2 damage.
  
• Swift Strike+. 5 -> 8 damage.
  
• Thinking Ahead nerfed. Now exhausts. Upgrade removes Exhaust.
  
• Transmutation reworked. Cost X -> Gain X random colorless cards (+upgrades)
  
• Trip+. 2 Vulnerable -> 2 Vulnerable to ALL enemies.
  

Hotfix

• If your game can't start due to a corrupt save, we either load a backup or delete it now. Also, we automatically create backups now! Yay
  
• BUG FIX: Fixed issue where leaderboards were not submitting high scores after 3 - 7 games.
  
• BUG FIX: Even MORE effort to prevent file corruption.
  
• BUG FIX: Resetting variables for various score bonuses at more locations- some bonuses were carrying over.
  
• BUG FIX: Win Streaks should now upload as expected in the main branch.
  
• LOCALIZATION: Update to Korean localization.
  

Content

• Bottled Tornado relic added.
  

Balance

• Awakened One enemy updated HP 320/240 -> 300/300.
  
• Confusion power can now affect Colorless cards.
  
• Cursed Key relic no longer gives curses at Boss chests.
  
• Dual Wield card is now Uncommon (was Common).
  
• Nightmare+ card is nerfed. No longer adds 4 cards, just lowers energy cost.
  
• Storm of Steel+ reworked to give upgraded Shivs rather than lowering cost.
  

UI and Effects

• Added logic to prevent users from accidentally skipping Calling Bell relics.
  
• Adding a Settings button in the Main Menu and removed the Settings button in topright.
  
• Cards which are created and immediately discarded now show up on right side of center to prevent overlap.
  
• Main Menu buttons are now smaller and spaced closer.
  
• MainMenuButtonFont and ButtonLabelFont are merged. Decreasing load time and texture memory usage.
  
• Minor wording improvements for the Mysterious Sphere event.
  
• Polished art for Bottled Flame, Lightning, and Tornado relics.
  
• Removed two tips: Colorless can't be upgraded and Colorless cards always cost 0.
  
• Sounds in Background in Settings is now Ambient Sound Effects so its purpose is clarified.
  
• Updated death screen score display to support 2 columns if greater than 8 items on list.
  
• Updates for CN (Simplified), CN (Traditional), German, Russian, and Korean.
  
• Wording: Campfire -> Rest Site for Girya and Peace Pipe.
  
• Wording: Consistency in description for Ancient Tea Set and Eternal Feather.
  
• Wording: Levels are now referred to as Acts to prevent Floor/Level confusion moving forward.
  

Bug Fixes

• Saving files are now atomic, preventing corrupt files forever (hopefully)
  
• Fixed issue where Blood for Blood cost was permanently lowered if damaged at Neow.
  
• Fixed rare crash for RemoveSpecificPowerAction.
  
• Fixed several formatting issues for Japanese. We still need translators!
  
• Utilizing a saved RNG for several cards, events, monsters so that saving/loading shows the same content.
  

Back End Changes!?

Save Migration

Steam Auto-Cloud

Localization

HOTFIX

• The way writing files were written had a potential to corrupt the file if you quit while files were being written. Files are now written in a safer way (buffer + flush)
  
• The Awakened One actually heals to full HP now.
  

Balance

• The Awakened One gets many changes (spoilers blocked):
  
• > HP is increased from 300 -> 320.
  
• > Curiosity is nerfed from 3 -> 2
  
• > Form 2 HP 200 -> 240
  
• > Form 2 no longer cleanses buffs (Strength is retained)
  
• > Form 2: Dark Echo 40 -> 32
  
• > Form 2: 12 x 2 attack is now 10 x 2 attack
  
• > Form 2: 16 damage attack is now 12 damage
  
• > Form 2: Cleanse move is removed
  
• Bronze Automaton's Hyper Beam damage is increased from 40 -> 45.
  
• Feed no longer works on Minions (New Power: Minion to let you know who are minions).
  
• Golden Idol Event options are slightly harsher. 20% -> 25% damage and 5% -> 8% Max HP loss.
  
• Maximum gold score bonus now caps at 300 (was unlimited).
  
• Exhume card can no longer return an Exhume card to your hand.
  
• You can no longer get both a curse and card removal in the same Neow Risk/Reward option.
  
• Sentry enemy now gives you 2x Dazed instead of Wounds.
  
• Sentry enemy's max HP is raised by 2 (to compensate).
  

UI and Effects

• Localization: Several updates to CN (Simplified), French, German, Japanese, Korean, and Russian.
  
• Adding Win Streak and High Score into Statistics screen.
  
• Hex Power wording improvements.
  
• Energized Power wording improvements.
  
• Intangible Power wording improvements.
  
• Enchiridion relic wording improvements.
  

Bug Fixes

• Adding a used up image for Neow's Lament.
  
• Blue Candle and Medical Kit should now work with Choke and Thousand Cuts.
  
• Cloak and Dagger no longer appears in the card match event before it is unlocked, instead there is always a copy of Neutralize.
  
• Energy back end is overhauled. If you notice any new issues related to Energy, please let us know!
  
• Falling event can no longer target bottled cards.
  
• Fixed issue where bottled cards + Duplication event caused issues.
  
• Fixed issues where loading a save after receiving a relic from Neow wouldn't retain +Energy or +Card Draw effects.
  
• Fixed typo in Transmutation card description.
  
• Fixing typo for Donu & Deca achievement description.
  
• Fixing typo in Matryoshka's flavor text.
  
• Slaver and Shelled Parasite combat in the city have their order swapped so the slaver will not apply Vulnerable before attacked by Parasite.
  
• The You Are Nothing achievement can be achieved on The Awakened One now.
  

Localization

• Chinese (Traditional)
  
• French
  
• German
  
• Japanese
  
• Russian
  

Content

• Neow now offers a new risk/reward option rather than Skip -> Replace starter relic with a random Boss relic.
  
• Neow now offers a new option: Neow's Lament.
  
• New green card, Alchemize. Description withheld for spoiler reasons.
  
• New green card, Nightmare. Description withheld for spoiler reasons.
  
• Two new weak encounters are added to the weak monster pool on level 1.
  

Balance

• Book of Stabbing elite nerf. Has 8 less HP and a new move that deals 21 damage. While doing this move, the multi-stab doesn't increase in stab count.
  
• Champ AI improvements. Minor heavy slash damage nerf. Should never gain Metallicize two turns in a row now.
  
• Corpse Explosion is now affected by Powers (Vulnerable, Strength, Pen Nib, etc)
  
• Elixir potion buff: Now also affects Curses.
  
• Explosive Power trigger is now resolved before other actions.
  
• For the 2 Orb Walker encounter they now attack left -> right.
  
• For the 3 Cultist encounter they now attack left -> right.
  
• Looter is moved from weak monster pool to regular monster pool (only appears after fighting 3 other 'weak' encounters on level 1)
  
• Now tracking win streaks and highscore (per character) in the backend.
  
• Offering card gets a minor change. HP Loss is now 4. Card draw upgrades from 3 -> 5.
  
• Spheric Guardian's heavy attack is now a multi-hit. 20 -> 10 x 2.
  

UI and Effects

• Centurion's animation is now a bit less 3D and slowed by 20%.
  
• Match and Keep event now has art.
  
• Spheric Guardian gets new animations.
  
• The Chosen gets new animations.
  
• The Mystic gets new animations.
  
• Wheel of Change event now has art.
  
• Actions such as shuffling your deck should now be faster as it no longer waits for the cards to fly into the deck.
  
• Calling Bell's relic reward screen must now be closed before proceeding. This prevents accidentally skipping them- also mimics Tiny House and Orrery's UI.
  
• Cards that create Wounds and others into your deck/discard now take considerably less time.
  
• Cards within Bottles should now show up if they appear on a grid-based select screen (such as upgrade screen)
  
• Clarification for Normality. Per turn -> This turn.
  
• Cleaning up some of the Neow reward language to be more consistent.
  
• Draw Pile is now Sorted by Rarity and card name when viewing (rather than randomized)
  
• Hotkey for Discard Pile added. Press S during combat.
  
• Hotkey for Draw Pile added. Press A during combat.
  
• Powers now expire 0.9 seconds faster (visually) than before.
  
• Prayer Wheel now says that chests also contain cards rather than 'contains cards' to avoid confusion.
  
• The character select screen now displays your unlock progress per character.
  
• Unceasing Top now clarifies that it's during your turn only.
  
• Unceasing Top now triggers 0.2 seconds faster.
  

Bug Fixes

• Black Blood, Burning Blood, and Meat on the Bone no longer heal you if you are dead.
  
• Capitalization of exhaust -> Exhaust. For card picking screens.
  
• Cards now teleport instantly (logically, not visually) fixing race conditions with Headbutt and Unceasing Top.
  
• Enemies that remove debuffs no longer keep the str gain portion of Piercing Wail/Dark Shackles.
  
• Eviscerate's cost now correctly decreases when it is discarded.
  
• Fixed bug where Achievements say they are hidden even when they are unlocked.
  
• Fixed crash when attempting to upgrade at an event when you have no cards that can upgrade.
  
• Fixed odd crash when loading into a boss room if it's your 3rd boss fight ever.
  
• Fixed typo for Cleric event. Wandering -> Wondering.
  
• Little gremlins no longer yell about escaping if they're dead. Corpses don't yell.
  
• Loading a save during combat should now show consistent HP, AI, and starting deck.
  
• Looter + Mugger fight no longer allows you to steal back extra gold if you ran out of gold.
  
• Potential fix for fast drag and drop card play not triggering card effects sometimes.
  
• Reaper now heals as part of the attack now, not after (you heal before thorns hit you).
  
• Runic Cube now triggers off of Thorns as intended.
  
• slime like -> slime-like.
  
• Thievery Power now has correct name being applied to the Power.
  
• View Upgrade toggle now line breaks (as some languages the text goes off screen).
  
• When abandoning a run from the Main Menu, fixed an issue where Neow wouldn't bless even if you reached the boss.
  
• When abandoning a run from the Main Menu, it now counts as a loss in your statistics.
  

Chinese (Simplified) Community Translation

Holiday Time Off

Balance

• <50% hp logic becomes a bit more consistent, potential fix for Red Skull not triggering.
  
• Book of Stabbing is completely reworked. Lots more stabbing, and a lot less random.
  
• Bronze Scales damage increased from 2 -> 3 to better match The Guardian.
  
• Bullet Time now affects all cards currently in hand, works with Madness, and no longer applies a Power to you.
  
• Card Crippling Poison+ gets buffed from 4 -> 5 Poison & Weak.
  
• Card Dash+ gets +1 damage and +1 Block.
  
• Card FlameBarrier+ gets buffed. Deals 2 more damage back.
  
• Forgotten Altar now gives you the Max HP before damaging you. This way you won't die if the damage hits you first.
  
• Guardian boss buff. When it rolls into defensive mode, gains more initial block (20).
  
• Knowing Skull event gets reworked. Die to your greed now.
  
• Nemesis elite HP lowered from 200 -> 175.
  
• New Potion, Elixir.
  
• Panache card gets nerfed (4 card trigger -> 5 card trigger).
  
• Pen Nib and Double Damage (Phantasmal Killer) now stack as they're separate powers.
  
• Red Slaver's AI is updated to not apply Vulnerable on turn 1.
  
• Taskmaster's AI is reworked to be more straightforward.
  
• You can no longer encounter Shops in ? nodes after a Shop.
  

UI and Effects

• Lots of work to make character based line breaking available for certain languages (CN, JP, KR).
  
• Experimental letterboxing is no longer experimental! When fullscreen with an unsupported aspect ratio, the game is letterboxed.
  
• Bird-Faced, Well-Laid, All-Out, Self-Forming gets hyphenated.
  
• Block and Deck count are now in a bolder font.
  
• Cultist no longer has a move name for Dark Strike (just attacks).
  
• Envenom card gets a wording update for clarity.
  
• Innate keyword now says 'start each combat with' rather than 'start combat with'.
  
• Raising the Slaver's position a bit for Slaver + Parasite combat (power hidden by card).
  
• Removed the 'items in red aren't implemented' msg in Settings as there are no unimplemented settings in there now.
  
• Removing +X Gold text which appears when gold rains from the sky.
  
• Slightly changed how patch notes are rendered.
  
• Text for resolution, fps, and language togglers are now centered (was left aligned).
  
• Updating description for Envenom power to mention unblocked dmg.
  
• Wording update for Juzu bracelet to specify regular monster encounters (as events can have enemies).
  
• Centurion gets new animations.
  
• Mode Shift Power gets a new icon.
  
• Painful Stabs gets a power icon.
  
• Pen Nib power gets a new icon (temporary).
  
• Sharp Hide Power gets a new icon.
  
• Thorns power gets a new icon.
  
• Vajra gets updated art.
  

Bug Fixes

• Achievements unlocked while Steam wasn't running now unlock when you open the stats screen.
  
• Blue Candle relic's flavor text typo fix.
  
• Dazed and Clumsy now exhaust even if retained via Well Laid Plans (all Ethereal cards).
  
• Fix for markup language formatting appearing for Neow options (due to brackets).
  
• Fixed a new line character placed incorrectly for dead adventurer's event.
  
• Fixed issue where energy icons weren't wrapping if overflowed onto a line for char line breaking fonts.
  
• Fixed issue where the POWER ID was used when powers were wearing off.
  
• Fixed odd mouse movement scaling when game was letterboxed.
  
• Fixing ~ symbols in accursed blacksmith event.
  
• Floating point rounding error fixes for MagicFlower sometimes healing 8.
  
• Insect-controlling -> typo in The Library event's text.
  
• Keywords for cards now cleared on upgrade (Limit break was showing exhaust tooltip post upgrade).
  
• Loading a game post combat was disallowing elites from dropping relics afterwards. Fixed.
  
• Meat on the Bone, Red Skull, Slime's Split, and Berserk all trigger on less than or equal to 50% HP and desc are updated to reflect this
  
• Nloth's relic choices were alphabetical. Now it's random.
  
• Potential Fix for an edge case Bottled Tornado/Lightning issue.
  
• Potions now save using their ID rather than their NAME (wasn't loading in other languages).
  
• Previewing cards via Armaments wasn't applying powers. Fixed.
  
• Purity and Pact achievement should now trigger more consistently.
  
• Removing smoke VFX when enemies take damage as it was behaving oddly and adding little.
  
• Singing Bowl flavor text typo fix.
  
• Text on cards should look a bit more crisp when they are hovered over now.
  
• Transmorgrifier -> Transmogrifier.
  
• TriggerOnOtherCardPlayed() for cards is no longer triggered by end turn end-turn auto play cards (curses).
  
• Vampires event dialog option is slightly shortened so it fits in the option.
  
• You can no longer open the potions dropdown if you're holding a card.
  

• Chinese (Simplified)
  
• Chinese (Traditional)
  
• French
  
• German
  
• Japanese
  
• Russian
  
• Spanish
  

Content

• Adding new relic Darkstone Periapt.
  
• Adding new relic Frozen Eye.
  
• Adding new relic War Paint.
  

UI and Effects

• Clumsy curse now has the Ethereal keyword.
  
• Energy icon is no longer rendered if a card is Unknown.
  
• Hidden achievements (Steam) are now properly hidden in the in-game Statistics screen.
  
• Post combat saving returns!
  
• When changing Settings that require you to restart, the message is now rendered above everything + gets a black box behind it.
  

Balance

• Added a special RNG that is utilized for a few relics so they give consistent results if you load a save.
  
• Bloodletting card buffed.
  
• Calculated Gamble card nerfed.
  
• Common relics now have a base of cost 150 (previously 200)
  
• Shop relics now have a base cost of 200 (previously 150)
  
• Discerning Monocle is deprecated until it gets a new effect.
  
• Discerning Monocles price reduction is now an additional effect on the Courier relic.
  
• Level 3 Elite, Nemesis has been reworked.
  
• Multiple small changes to the Level 2 Boss, Champ.
  
• Neow now uses an RNG + save occurs when entering Neow's room.
  
• Nloth now appears in the City instead of the Exordium.
  
• Orrery is a boss relic again.
  

Bug Fixes

• Added a period at the end of Regen potion's description.
  
• Adding number formatting (commas) to large numbers you see when facing the heart.
  
• Adrenaline finally gets a period at the end of its description.
  
• After Image card's large portrait now renders.
  
• Boss victory music now plays when loading a game that is the rewards screen for a boss.
  
• Bottled Lightning and Bottled Flame icons no longer appear during combat.
  
• Capitalizing the word 'Skill' for Escape Plan's description.
  
• Debug hotkeys for screenshake were exposed, oops. Fixed.
  
• Eternal Feather grammatical fix.
  
• Evolve should no longer trigger even if No Draw power is active.
  
• Fix rare crash with Feed card.
  
• Fixed odd crash in Neow room.
  
• Fixed rare crash for Dark Shackles card.
  
• Fixed rare crash for Heavy Blade.
  
• Fixed rare crash for HeelHook card.
  
• Fixed rare crash for Opening Action (again).
  
• Fixed rare crash in Achievements when manipulated.
  
• Fixed rare crash with game deck glow + fixed offset for its particles.
  
• Fixed typo where a quote mark was blue for match and keep event.
  
• Fixing typos for Ancient Tea Set's flavor description.
  
• Fixing up quote typos in Wheel of Change event.
  
• Fixing up some issues with loading into Neow room save.
  
• Forgotten altar displays correct HP loss for the Silent now.
  
• Incorrectly using wavy text in JAX event fixed.
  
• Pantograph no longer heals double on Donu and Deca boss.
  
• Removing two incorrect game tips about ? rooms and Elites.
  
• The word "Status" was not showing up for status cards in large card view. Fixed.
  

Performance

• Font glyphs are now created on the fly, improving load times.