Bearly Brave news & patch notes

Happy Lunar New Year!

To celebrate 2026 as the Year of the Horse, we're riding in with a big discount! This sale will last throughout the Lunar New Year Steam Event and will be available until Wednesday the 25th of February, 10 GMT-8 (13 GMT-5). Hope to see you at the toy shop soon! - The Bearly Brave team

Hello everyone! This is just a quick update, fixing some new bugs intorduced with the new patches.

🧸 Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Piggy Bank would trigger whether you had the patch or not.

• Fixed a bug where Spooky Ghost would trigger whether you had the patch or not.

• Fixed a bug where Energy Saver would not take extra energy from green brands into account.

That's it for this one! Stay tuned for the next update,and as always, thanks for playing and for all your feedback!

Hello everyone! ːsteamhappyː

We’re back with another update with new patches, more balance changes, and bug fixes!

New Patches!

We’ve added a new selection of patches that should open the door to some new strategies. Need some late stage scaling with your skills? You got it. Want to fill your deck with a lot of junk cards and have your power grow? Fill it up! Want to buff your buffing cards so they can buff as buffing as possible? Buff away!

Wisdom Potion

Permanently gains +0.5 Multiplier for each Combo played with only Skill cards

Agility Potion

Permanently gains +0.5 Multiplier for each Combo played with the same amount of Weapons and Skills

Peace Symbol

Your first Non-Damaging skill in Combo will activate twice

Spooky Ghost

Your first Skill card with Banish each Combo will not be banished (It goes to your discard pile)

Piggy Bank

Lose up to 4 buttons each Combo. Permanently gains +0.25 Multiplier per button lost

Pocket Aces

X0.1 to Multiplier for every card in your deck

Broken Glasses

Permanently gains +0.2 Multiplier for each Skill card played in Combo

Coin Charm

Gains +3 sell value after each Combat

Fortune Dragon

Grants +1 Hand Size, +2 Discards and +2 Max Energy

Please let us know what you think of these!

🧩 Balance Changes:

Starting Deck: We’ve made some changes to the starting deck, particularly to the skills included in the set. Uppercuts were not the most interesting skill and they didn’t push you to try them out or make use of skills and green brands. We hope these changes make for more interesting playstyles from the get go, and hopefully they also open up new early game strategies. Starting Deck no longer includes 3 Uppercuts. They have now been replaced with: 1x Phantom Strike, 1x Healthy Plush and 1x Short Circuit. Patch Balancing: Baseball Multiplier increased from 2X to 3X.

🧸 Quality of life improvements and fixes:

• The confirmation checkmark no longer covers card text when selecting a card in various UI’s.

• Fixed a bug that crashed the game when discarding certain Negative Cards from your hand.

• Fixed a bug with Berserker not working as intended on higher difficulties.

• Fixed a bug with energy displayed when the current energy value was too high.

• Fixed the display of cards in hand when you have a large amount of them.

• Fixed the display of Brand reward dials when you have a large amount of them.

Stay tuned for the next update, which will focus on introducing some new skill cards to the roster. As always, thanks for playing and for all your feedback!

Hello everyone! We hope you all had happy holidays! 🎉 This is the first update of the year, focused mainly on balance changes, along with some fixes and important improvements.

🎮 Controller Support

• Controller support is now enabled by default on the main branch. We’ve merged the controller branch into the main version, so no extra steps are needed to play with a controller or on Steam Deck. After this update, players should be automatically moved to the main branch.

• If you were previously playing on the Controller branch, please double-check that you’re now on the main branch, just in case.

Please let us know if you run into any issues — your feedback is very helpful here.

🧩 Balance Changes

• Patch: Picture Piece value increased from 0.25 → 0.5 per adjacent.

• Patch: Picture Piece rarity changed from Rare → Uncommon.

• Patch: Memento bonus increased from +12 → +15.

• The following Skills will no longer Banish when played: Swear Jar, Gravedigger, Skilled Assault, Replicator, Cherry Bomb, Fallen Star, Pea Whack, Water Balloon

• Skill cost changes:

  • Pain Wagon: 3 → 4

  • Replicator: 5 → 2

• Damage buffs applied to the following Skills: Gravedigger, Skilled Assault, Heavy Stuff, Thunder Strike, Cherry Bomb, Fallen Star, Pea Whack, Water Balloon

• Sugar Rush rarity changed from Rare → Uncommon.

• Skills Deck changes:

  • Replaced 3× Skilled Assault with 2× Bearserker and 1× Sewing Kit.

🧸 Improvements & Fixes

• The game now clearly indicates from the start that there are 22 total stages.

• Boris now visually shows his 3 phases using three hearts that fade as you progress through the fight.

• Fixed a crash that could sometimes occur after cutscenes.

Stay tuned for the next update, which will introduce new cards and patches to help reinforce synergies. As always, thanks for playing and for all your feedback!

Hello everyone!

This will be our last update of the year! A small one, as we’re heading into the holidays. We’ll be back in 2026 with more updates and improvements!

We want to wish you all happy holidays and hope you have a great time with your family and friends (and if you’re playing Bearly Brave, even better!!).

Changes

• The Starter Deck now has +1 hand size.

• Made small numeric adjustments to a few Endless Pins.

Fixes

• Fixed a visual error when having 1,000+ Buttons.

• Fixed an issue causing Patches to keep the same tag from previous runs.

Thank you all for the incredible support this year, and see you in 2026!

Hello everyone!

This is our second update since the official release, and it includes several changes and fixes based directly on the feedback we’ve received so far. We’re listening closely — please keep sharing your thoughts and reports!

Changes

• Basic and Elite enemies now grant 2 extra Buttons per combat (10 total).

• Black Candle now correctly counts Banished Negative cards.

• Clown Balloon Skill now banishes itself after being played.

• DolphYin-Yang Patch is no longer deactivated by adjacent Patches.

• Alien Hand is back in rotation: Adds +1 to Multiplier if you own Bearly Brave on Steam.

• Added a new Easy Mode option for players looking for a more relaxed experience if the base difficulty feels too hard.

Fixes

• Fixed a softlock when using Jumbo Battery.

• Fixed an error with Skill Codex resetting some Boss cards.

• Fixed animation issues in the Boss rewards scene.

• Fixed several issues with Fix-It Joe abilities.

• Fixed issues with Chef Chomper abilities.

• Fixed multiple controller-related errors.

• Added new controller glyphs for better input clarity.

Thanks again to everyone playing Bearly Brave and helping us improve the game — keep the feedback coming!

Hello everyone!

This is our first update since the official launch of Bearly Brave!

Thank you so much to everyone who has played the game and shared feedback so far. Your support, bug reports, and suggestions are incredibly helpful and mean a lot to us as we continue improving the game.

Changes

• Added a new Achievement: Grandmaster — Win on Grandmaster difficulty with every deck.

• Removed 5 Patches with the lowest pick rate:

  • Artillery Cannon

  • Alien Hand

  • Rubik Cube

  • Black Horse

  • Barbell

Fixes

• Fixed multiple bugs across the game.

• Added missing translations.

• Small improvements to the German translation.

Thanks again for playing Bearly Brave and helping us make it better with every update.

Hello everyone!

We’re excited to announce that Bearly Brave is officially out now on Steam!

This release marks version 1.0, with the full intended experience, balance updates, controller support (Beta), and all core systems in place. We’ve put a lot of work and love into this project, and our biggest hope is that you enjoy the game and have a great time playing it.

The last year and a half has been quite a ride, and we’re truly thankful to everyone who has accompanied us throughout this journey. Your support, feedback, and encouragement made this release possible.

We hope Bearly Brave brings you many fun (and intense) runs.

The Barbaric Games Team.

Hello everyone! ːsteamhappyː

Here are the changes for the latest update for Bearly Brave — we are finally at version 1.0!

• Enemy scaling has been adjusted to be less aggressive, providing a smoother progression. (For players looking for a bigger challenge, there are 14 additional difficulties available.)

• You can now add Brands to cards directly from the Shop for 5 Buttons.

• Balance adjustments to the synergy system to improve build variety and consistency.

• Bug fixes across multiple systems.

• Translation improvements and fixes.

As always, thank you to everyone who tested, reported bugs, and shared feedback during development!

P.S. The official release is coming any moment now — stay tuned!

Hello everyone! We’re excited to announce that Bearly Brave launches on December 15!

The game will release at a base price of $14.99 USD, with regional pricing automatically adjusted by Steam. To celebrate the launch, Bearly Brave will be 10% off for the first 7 days.

We’re getting very close to version 1.0, and we can’t wait for you to experience the full game. Huge thanks to everyone who has tested, supported, and shared feedback throughout development.

See you in the toy store!

This update marks the end of the 2nd edition of the Biggest Combo Event and the Steam Plush Fest! 🎉Huge thanks to everyone who joined, shared their runs, and helped us celebrate during the festival!

As Plush Fest ends, the special achievement “Steam Plush Fest – Win a combat during Steam Next Fest” is now no longer obtainable.

🏆 Biggest Combo Next Fest edition Results:

• 1st Place — DavidDavGamer

• 2nd Place — Lucerins

• 3rd Place — Lazyfred

• 4th Place — S.O.S.A.L.

• 5th Place — pulzz

Each of the Top 5 players will receive a key for the full game as a prize! 🎁

📹 Creator Spotlight

We’ve seen some great new videos from creators covering Bearly Brave. Thank you all for sharing your reactions, combos, and chaos! 💥

Thank You!

Thanks again to everyone who joined the event and played during Plush Fest! Watching your gameplay once more helped us uncover new ways to break the game (and a few bugs we definitely didn’t expect).

We’ll be using all the feedback gathered during the event to improve the full version of Bearly Brave. Expect news soon!

Bearly Brave just made it into Steam’s Popular Upcoming list during the Next Fest — and it’s all thanks to you! 🧸❤️

To celebrate, we’ve added a special limited-time achievement: 🎖️ Steam Plush Fest – Win a combat during Steam Next Fest

It’ll only be available while the event is live, so don’t miss it! Meanwhile, the Biggest Combo competition is heating up! We’ve seen some crazy scores already, and things are looking tight at the top. Keep those plushie punches flying — there’s still time to climb the leaderboard!

Thank you for playing, breaking, and loving this weird plushie world. Every run, every bug report, and every laugh helps us make Bearly Brave even better.

🔥 Highest Combo Competition Returns! 🔥

We’re celebrating Steam Next Fest with a brand-new community event! Your mission is simple: build the ultimate plush deck and land the highest Combo score you can.

Play during the event week and climb to the top of the leaderboard! The 5 players with the biggest Combos will each win a full game key for Bearly Brave at launch.

📅 Duration: During Steam Next Fest (October 13–20) — one full week of competition!

🌍 Everyone is welcome! Players from all around the world can join the competition.

🧩 How to Participate:

• Play the demo during Steam Next Fest.

• Press the event banner on the main menu and accept participation to join the leaderboard.

• Finish a combat to register your Combo score.

• Only your highest Combo counts (not total damage).

• All demo decks, cards, and patches are valid.

• By playing, you agree to have your Steam username displayed on the public leaderboard.

🏆 Prizes:

Places 1–5 will each receive a key for the full version of Bearly Brave!

📩 Claiming Prizes: Winners must join our Discord server and contact the dev team. You’ll need to prove ownership of the winning Steam account to receive your prize.

💬 Share your best scores! Join our Discord and post your high scores in the #event channel and show off your biggest Combos!

Join Discord

Good luck, plush warriors! 🧸🔥

Highest Combo Event Results

The highest combo community event has ended. Congratulations to all the winners, and thanks to everyone who participated!

Winners:

• 1st Place — Holy Shite : 2,052,769,791 (Yes, 2 Billion. Holy shites indeed!)

• 2nd Place — borange : 682,665,984

• 3rd Place — miragaia : 638,164,067

• 4th Place — Tabiasmoments : 625,999,52

• 5th Place — SpiritWeasel : 4,595,616

Big shoutout to Tobias, who made a video on how to break the game for insane numbers (with the latest changes, this info should already be dated tho).

Balancing & Changes

• Adjusted balance for many Skill cards: any Skill that deals no Damage will now be banished when played. This means they can only be used once per combat, making infinite combos no longer viable. Don’t get us wrong — pulling off massive damage is a lot of fun. But maybe that was a bit too much! We’re preparing so this won’t be possible in future events. (Though we’re sure you’ll still find other ways to break the game. 😉)

• The Skill deck also received adjustments so it’s not as strong right from the start.

• El Oso was having issues with his second ability. For now, he’ll keep only one ability until we can bring it back properly.

• Marking Counter has been removed from Shop Specials. It’s no longer possible to add Brands to cards in the shop, but you can still gain Brands as rewards after defeating certain enemies.

Thank You!

Thanks again to everyone who joined the event and played the demo! Watching how you all approached the challenge helped us discover many ways to break the game that maybe shouldn’t exist — and quite a few bugs we would’ve never found on our own.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on these changes, so please let us know what you think!

Demo Update V 0.9.1 – Patch Notes

🔥 Highest Combo Community Event is Live!

The competition has begun! Climb to the top of the leaderboard with your biggest Combos and win prizes. Join our \(your link here) to share your scores and claim rewards!

⚠️ Important Note To make sure the event works properly, we had to reset player run data. This means the game will start from zero, as if you were playing for the first time. 👉 You can skip the tutorial after the very first conversation, or turn it off anytime in the Settings menu.

⚙️ Changes & Fixes

• Fixed Slinky bug: incremental Patches no longer scale twice.

• Skills Deck now includes a starter Trophy.

• Victory screen now shows unlocked Decks after winning.

🎉 Bearly Brave Community Event – Biggest Combo Competition! 🎉

It’s time to put your plush skills to the test! The Biggest Combo Competition has officially started!

📝 Rules:

• Your goal is to achieve the highest Combo score possible.

• Only the score of individual Combos counts — not total damage dealt during a run or combat.

• The Combo score will be recorded automatically when you win a run.

• All demo cards, patches, and decks are valid.

• To participate, you must agree to have your Steam username displayed on the public leaderboard. The Top 100 scores will be shown.

• All scores will be reviewed. Any+ user suspected of cheating will be disqualified.

🌍 Everyone is welcome! Players from all around the world can join the competition.

📅 Duration: Monday, September 15 → Monday, September 22

🏆 Prizes:

• 1st place: $50 Steam Wallet

• 2nd place: $30 Steam Wallet

• 3rd place: $20 Steam Wallet

• Bonus: Places 1–5 will also receive a Bearly Brave game key at launch!

📩 Claiming Prizes: Winners must join our Discord server and contact the dev team. You’ll need to prove ownership of the winning Steam account to receive your prize.

💬 Share your best scores! Join our Discord and post your high scores in the #event channel and show off your biggest Combos!

Join Discord

Good luck, plush warriors! 🧸🔥

Hello everyone! And thanks for playing! We’ve been listening to your feedback and patched things up with tweaks, fixes, new boss powers… and even Chuckles joining the fight. Let’s dive into what’s new:

Balance & Adjustments

• Enemy HP scaling adjusted — enemies now have more HP.

• Enemy base damage now increases to 2 starting at Stage 7 (was Stage 8).

• Whale Patch nerfed: 1 per 2 empty slots → 0.8 per 2 empty slots.

• Gravedigger Skill nerfed.

• Boss powers updated: Grimora, Fix-It Joe, and Melody.

And yes, we know the Skill deck is kinda OP right now… don’t worry, it’ll get some love (and some nerfs) in future patches. 😉

Quality of Life

• All Brand rewards now play a sound when the dial is filled.

• Added a tutorial skip popup.

• Tutorial shortened slightly by removing a few steps.

Enemies

• Chef Comper left to prepare more of his signature Spécialités, so Chuckles is taking his place.

Fixes & Bugs

• Fixed issues with Shamrock Candy.

• Grimble will no longer block your deck in the tutorial (he sends his apologies).

• Fixed issues with settings not saving on first launch.

• Fixed sounds playing when sound settings were off.

• Addressed several other errors (and added a few new ones, of course).

• We received several reports about the invisible mouse — we did something for that, hopefully it works now!

Events

Later this week we’re kicking off our first community event!

Compete for the highest-scoring combo and win prizes. More info coming soon — stay tuned!

Dev Log

We’ve been working hard on new features for the full version of Bearly Brave! More Patches, boss powers, weapons, cutscenes, endless mode, and even a final boss are on the way.

In the coming weeks, we’ll be starting the first rounds of playtesting. If you’d like to take part, keep an eye on our Discord!

Creator Spotlight

We’re always excited to check YouTube for new content about the game, and we try to watch every single video — crossing our fingers that nothing breaks, of course! Thanks to your coverage, we’ve seen a bunch of new players jumping into the demo — welcome aboard and thank you! Here are a few of the latest:

Bearly Brave – Demo Update V0.8.8

Hi everyone! ːsteamhappyː

First of all, thank you so much to everyone who has played the demo so far. Your feedback, bug reports, and creative combos have been incredibly helpful. We've been reading everything and working hard to improve the game with every update.

This patch brings a round of balancing, fixes, and a little surprise for Jumbo Battery users. Here's what's new:

🔧 Balancing & Changes

• Enemy HP reduced by ≈20% across the board. This should give players more room to experiment with builds and potentially open the door for no-hit runs.

• Fix-It Joe was hitting too hard, so we adjusted his second ability:

  • Before: Deals +1 Damage for each "Scrap" card in your deck

  • Now: Deals +1 Damage if you have "Scrap" cards in your hand

• Some players were getting stuck while using Jumbo Battery and running out of resources. Now, if you run out of Candies, Discards, and Energy while holding Jumbo Battery... stuff will happen. (Let us know if it works — yes, it's a pun.)

• 2 new Patches have been added to the pool.

Patch Scaling Buffs:

• Gray Plane: 0.2 → 0.25

• Pink Plane: 0.25 → 0.3

• Pain Wagon Skill nerfed:

  • Damage per Brand reduced from 15 → 10

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a rare bug where enemies looked alive at 0 HP. Wrong game genre, guys.

  • If this ever happens again, please use the "Copy my build" button in the ESC menu and send us the .res file

• Fixed multiple translation issues

• Fixed various smaller bugs (and probably introduced new ones, as tradition dictates)

🏆 Community Event Coming Soon!

We're preparing a community event where players will compete for the highest combo score, with cool prizes for the top players. Full details coming soon — stay tuned, and start training those combos!

Thanks again for playing and supporting Bearly Brave! If you're enjoying the demo, consider leaving a review or joining our Discord to share feedback.

We’re thrilled to announce that the demo for Bearly Brave is now officially available for everyone on Steam! This is a huge milestone for our small team, and we truly couldn’t have done it without your support.

To everyone who tested early builds, sent us feedback, reported bugs, or helped spread the word, thank you!

What’s in the Demo?

This version lets you explore the core mechanics, build wild one-turn combos, experiment with Brands\ and Patches, and face off against twisted plushie enemies in a smaller slice of the full experience.

There’s no time limit, take your time, try different builds, and push your combos to the limit!

Tell Us What You Think!

Found a bug? Got feedback? Pulled off a ridiculous combo you need to brag about?

Come hang out in our Discord and let us know, we’re always listening.

Let’s Watch Some Bearly Brave!

Hi everyone!

We want to send a big thank you to everyone who’s been playing the Bearly Brave demo during this early preview window. Your feedback has been amazing and incredibly helpful! This update includes a few hotfixes from the past couple days, plus new adjustments in preparation for the public launch of the demo next week.

Community Videos & Support

We’ve been super lucky to already see some YouTube creators jumping into the demo and sharing their runs! Your videos, streams, and feedback — especially from our Discord community — are a huge source of inspiration.

These early impressions are helping us shape Bearly Brave into something even better, and we’re so grateful to have you all along for the ride.

Patch Notes

• A couple enemies in the demo have been replaced for better overall balance

• El Oso's abilities were fixed and slightly nerfed

• Bambino’s ability was fixed

• Text for several scaling Patches has been rephrased for better clarity

• A few more Patches have been activated for the demo: Pirate Ship and Picture Pieces

• Fixed various audio issues

• Added a button to access the Quick Reference

• Fixed several translation errors across multiple languages

• Fixed UI issues and various typos

• General bug fixes and polish

Thanks again for playing, testing, and being part of the development.

Stay tuned for more updates next week as we get ready for the official public demo launch!

The Bearly Brave demo launches on August 7th!

Get ready to stack cards, break combos, and fight for your spot on the shelf. Stay tuned and add us to your wishlist so you don’t miss it!