Arco news & patch notes

Hey there! 💪

We've been working these months fixing a few bugs that you have reported us along the way. This is the changelog for further information:

version 2025.08.11-01

• moved path on the right a little bit more to the left (for better legibility)

• added hard limit on wraith fungus count to avoid huge fps bombs

• fixed a dialogue trigger. Now if you come to Omen by right side instead of left side it also triggers the entrance dialogue

• prevented crash on empty save file

• fixed returning taken/hidden items only adds a single copy back, instead of all the ones you had

• fixed possible crash when mashing keys in inventory

• fixed death to red company missions failed instead of complete

• attempted to patch around move action crapping out with destroyed entities

• fixed shelf mushrooms, since they could kill you at 1hp, causing different issues

• fixed possible crash with inventory ui (eg shelf mushroom)

• fixed trading murzo for infinite profit in iyo act

• made mortar boss dying early trigger final phase

• fixed some labels in options overflowing with long text

• updated batteries, which reduces garbage generation from physics

• fixed name from ohtil -> ohtli

• fixed wrong order pause ui save slot time

• reworked waiting for the teleport particles

• return debug_pick for devs

Thanks again for your support ✨

Happy Arco's first year anniversary!🥳

Here's Bibiki talking! (The audio person of the game) 🎶 I just wanted to let you know how important Arco has been for us, and how much your support has meant all along the way 🫂

During this year, I've been working on a song that tells the story about an Iyo woman in Arco's world, and a year after Arco's release, now you can listen to it ✨

Again, thank you so much for your support all this time💖

Thank you everyone for your reviews! We've reached Overwhelmingly Positive which I officially puts us in the cool kids gang and will grant us entry to gamedev valhalla. 🫡 We're still working on localisation and expecting to deliver it soon™. Meanwhile we're pushing this patch with smaller changes and lots of bugcrash fixes. Switch has also received a patch recently and we'll keep updating it to make sure it's quality matches the steam version.

Patch Summary

Changelog

• New load/save menu with 5 manual and 10 auto saves, and fixed some graphics bugs there
• Added song subtitles
• Couple patches to player combat inventory, so killed characters drop ALL their items and also so it doesn't get duplicated if you win the combat and get back
• Added camera pan scaler so that people who are motion sick can turn it off
• Adjusted Itzae skill tree so the passive upgrades are visible right away
• Restored character HP in starting bar silently when they are re-added
• Now coins show correctly if you have 99+ coins
• Added healing loot before bog ambush so players don't get instakilled
• Made it so you don't have to have Atzi to dig up previously discovered gold and some other Atzi interactions
• Added flags to avoid accidentally skipping Holyground interaction
• Fixed various description inconsitencies and typos
• Patch so teleport works as dash on Mountain Temple
• Reworked Lamb logic so Zoka and Lamb are different events and trigger independently
• Ending Guilt threshold adjustement
• Nerfed Brace slightly.
• Nerfed mushroom spread mushrooms slightly
• Fixed goat mission and password box
• Fixed (some) infinite money exploits
• Fixed El Gallo fight not triggering animations
• Fixed line drawing cache potentially growing forever
• Fixed skeleton talking even if you killed him
• Fixed bug with fires in RC_HQ
• Fixed ending achievement
• Fixed clifftops watchtower crash
• Fixed El Gallo fight animations and ending explosions killing player
• Fixed crash in revive corpse action
• Fixed inv lost reference crash
• Fixed minecarts and fuel tanks so they can't be exploded with Explode Corpse
• Fixed quick_shot_dash action crash
• Fixed one of the temple combats not self-completing
• Added SetProcessDPIAware for Windows to hopefully avoid blurriness on high DPI screens
• Added high DPI window flag for Mac (separately handled on Windows)

First of all thank you everyone for enjoying Arco, and reporting all the bugs! If you played Arco but haven't left a reivew yet, please do, it helps 💕

Patch summary

• Lots of crash and bug fixes. Let us know if you find anything we missed.
• Demo! Some people asked so we brought the free demo back! It's important to notice that the demo is the first 2-3 hours of the game and that the saves carry over to the final, if you choose to buy, so it is the best way to see if you like the game!
• Assist mode in settings for players who care about the story but are struggling with combat. You can use it to blow stuff up, skip combat and turn off ghosts. We recommend experiencing the game without it, but we want to make sure everyone can get the most fun out of the game.
• Option to skip Act I when replaying the game. To make Obelisk hunting and looking for alternate paths a more pleasant process.
• Holding space previews bullet paths. Thanks for the suggestion.

What's next

• Localisation. Arco will be translated into 6 languages: - Spanish - LATAM - German - Simplified Chinese - Russian - Japanese - Portuguese - BR The translations are planned to release before end of the month on Steam.
• Switch patches. We realise Switch version of the game runs worse than PC and has additional bugs. There's a Patch on the way addressing the main issues. As we can't instantly push new changes to Switch, the fixes there will lag behind the ones here. Hope you understand. We hope that the upcoming Switch patch will be accepted by Nintendo in the following week.
• More and more fixes. Hopefully, most of the issues are now resolved, but we'll keep an eye out for more bug reports and tackle them asap.

Changelog

• Added Mac support
• Game is locked to 16:9 ratio now, which should prevent any elements from being out of the screen
• Some crashes and small bugs have been fixed.

• Learn Arco's simultaneous combat system thanks to a quick-start tutorial 🏹
• Explore the dense forest and a mysterious temple in a snippet of Itzae's story, a Kanek warrior that you’ll guide in the full version of the game! 💪
• Compete at Kanek’s arena, a place where you’ll be able to test different characters and skill trees against various enemies ⚔