Cloud Keeper: Shrine of Dal news & patch notes

Cloud Keeper launches into Early Access tomorrow!

Thank you to all who gave their support and feedback and played the demo!

The game couldn't have gotten this far without everyone's help and it feels surreal that the day is almost here. I hope you enjoy the game!

Share the game to support!

Hello! This is a small patch to the demo build.

Just a reminder, I'm not planning on supporting the demo long-term, but meta-progress will carry over into the full game!

Changes:

• Updated Chestnut description

• Added missing localization for some UI text

• Fixed pickup range refresh

Hello!

Until Valve determines official Steam Deck compatibility for Cloud Keeper, I wanted to confirm that the game is supported on Steam Deck!

Currently, the game shows XBox glyphs and supports all game functionality with Deck controls, which can be reconfigured in-game. Text in all languages is meant to be easily readable with a minimum font size of 36. Performance on the Deck also has no issues according to my own testing and user feedback.

I will aim for at least "Playable" compatibility when Valve publishes the official rating and aim for "Verified" as a long term goal.

If you do run into any issues, feel free to reach out either through Steam Community or on Discord!

I'm happy to announce that Cloud Keeper is participating in Eastern Martial Artists Week 2026 hosted by Spiral Up Games from July 23-30!

Play the free Cloud Keeper demo and wishlist to get notified when Cloud Keeper launches into Early Access on Friday, July 31!

Don't forget to check out the other fun martial arts-themed games alongside Cloud Keeper!

Event Link: store.steampowered.com/sale/EasternMartialArtistsWeek2026

Hello! With 2 weeks left till Cloud Keeper releases into Early Access, I wanted to share some updates!

Cloud Keeper passed the Steam release review process on its first try! This means all I need to do now is hit the launch button to release (other than actually finishing the game, reaching out to content creators, etc).

Leading up to the launch, Cloud Keeper will participate in Eastern Martial Artists Week Festival from 7/23-30 on Steam! Feel free to check out the other games then too!

As a heads up, I plan to deactivate the demo from Steam on release day. Meta-progression progress (jades, moon runes, characters) should carry over to the EA build, but in-progress runs will not.

Thank you for all the support and feel free to share any feedback!

Cloud Keeper will release into Steam Early Access on July 31!

Check out the new Early Access trailer to preview the upcoming content!

If you want to support, feel free to wishlist and try out the demo!

Some minor updates to the demo!

What's Changed

• Updated to Godot engine v4.6.3

• Fixed issue where Shield cloud stats were not inherited

• Fixed issue where stats in description text sometimes displayed incorrectly

• Fixed issue where Bunny Ears buff sometimes carried over to next level

Here's another update for the Cloud Keeper demo!

I have added some new enemy types that now appear during runs! A short preview for each below!

Enemy attack telegraph animations and fireball projectiles have been improved for better visibility! Let me know whether the changes help!

Also, melee characters and clouds now deal double Crit DMG and the exact multiplier will appear in each unit's stat display!

Bulgae (불개)

A "fire dog" that leaves a trail of flames and creates hazardous burn zones.

Dokkaebi Giant (거대 도깨비)

This guy was reworked to enter an enraged state with faster movement speed at half health, so be careful!

Kaksi Mask (각시 탈)

A possessed mask that aims accurately from afar and fires a quick projectile at the player.

Gleeful Jangseung (즐거운 장승)

A totem that doesn't attack the player, but periodically heals nearby enemies.

What's Changed

• Added new Kaksi Mask, Bulgae, and Gleeful Jangseung enemies

• Reworked Dokkaebi Giant enemy

• Updated Dokkaebi boss attacks

• Updated telegraph animations for enemies to be more visible

• Updated enemy fireball projectile to be more visible

• Updated melee player and clouds to deal 2x crit damage

• Display player and cloud crit damage multiplier next to crit chance

• Animate level timer when 5 seconds left

• Fixed issue with Shield cloud blocking

• Refactored stats system for performance. Let me know if you run into any issues!

• Updated various relic weights and prices for balancing

• Let player reroll clouds when starting run

• Updated Moonbeam and Tiger cloud sprites

• Updated Farmer character passive for balancing

• Fixed various UI issues

Hello, this patch contains bug fixes for the recent game engine upgrade. Thank you for your patience if you ran into any of them!

What's Changed

• Fixed memory leak issue where stats carried over between runs

• Updated morale flag visuals

• Updated ysort issue with shrine visitor emotes

• Updated stage marker tooltip

• Fixed tilemap issue with forest map

Hello! Cloud Keeper has upgraded from Godot v3 to v4, which means this is a much larger update. The latest Godot version fixes several issues, including issues around fullscreen borderless, text wrapping/resizing, and graphics card settings. Since many areas had to be reworked, there may be some slight visual differences from before.

If you find any issues that I missed or if something seems off, please let me know!

What's Changed

• Updated from Godot v3.6.2 to Godot v4.6.2

• Updated Warrior character passive to grant 1 stack per 8 enemies defeated with max of 50 stacks

• Updated Ginseng relic to give +1 max health

• Added buttons in general settings for viewing save data and log files

• Various UI fixes

This is a small patch with minor updates. Thank you for playing and please feel free to share any feedback!

What's Changed

• Updated Korean localization text

• Updated Chestnut relic description

• Updated credits

• Fixed error with merchant NPC

The Cloud Keeper demo is now available in Korean, Simplified Chinese, French, German, and Spanish! Thank you to all the translators for their AI-free localizations!

• Korean - Super T (Minn, Sukhyun)

• Chinese (Simplified) - CatUp Localization

• French - Aurélien Folley

• German - Lena Schäfer, Chris Contreras

• Spanish - Chris Contreras

Thank you for playing and please feel free to report any issues with the translations!

What's Changed

• Added Korean localization

• Added Simplified Chinese localization

• Added French localization

• Added German localization

• Added Spanish localization

• Added setting to adjust delay when unpausing during combat

• Animate screen tint for visual indicator for unpause delay

• Updated delete save confirmation menu to require holding button to delete

• Updated crit chance stat description to show max of 100%

• Fixed minor UI issues

Hello, the Cloud Keeper demo and Steam page now have Portuguese (Brazil) localization! Big thank you to Thiago Mania for localizing and being a pleasure to work with!

Please let me know if you run into any translation issues and stay tuned for more languages in the future!

Thank you for playing and feel free to give feedback!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2065400/Cloud_Keeper_Shrine_of_Dal/?l=brazilian

What's Changed

• Added Portuguese (Brazil) localization

• Various UI updates to better handle localization

• Updated header font with custom font

• Exclude last biome played when generating random map, unless boss or Level 1

• Fixed issue where projectile trail lines were not affected by opacity setting

• Shrine visitors at lower friendship are more likely to appear

• Added short delay when unpausing during combat

• Made Codex accessible from Start menu

• Avoid showing whether visitor is gifted in Codex menu

• Avoid showing income notification if zero income

• Optimizations for game file size

Hello, this update contains more balancing changes, nice-to-haves, and bug fixes.

There is also a new achievement for completing Difficulty 10 with all characters, for those who want a challenge!

Since I'm shifting focus to Early Access, future demo updates may become more limited.

Thank you for playing and feel free to give feedback! Stay safe and take care!

What's Changed

• Updated shrine visitor dialogue and reduced line count

• Updated when new dialogue indicator appears over shrine visitors

• Updated Dokkaebi boss attack patterns

• Reduced Dokkaebi boss health from 120,000 to 110,000

• Updated General's Arrow relic stats and effect

• Updated Hand Cannon relic stats

• Updated Quiver relic stats

• Updated Fish cloud to scale with ranged damage

• Updated Cloud Plushie effect

• Added Keeper of Keepers achievement

• Set dialogue SFX pitch based on speaking actor

• Avoid displaying level victory banner when boss is defeated

• Fixed issue where enemies sometimes don't exit at end of level

• Fixed issue where projectiles sometime spawn at wrong position

• Fixed issue with skip cutscene button

• Updated various descriptions

• Minor UI fixes and adjustments

Hello, I hope you've been enjoying the Cloud Keeper demo for Steam Next Fest! This update contains more quality-of-life improvements and minor fixes.

Shrine visitors now have an ellipsis popup over them when they have new dialogue. They will also have new dialogue per appearance depending on their friendship level.

What's Changed

- Added ellipsis indicator for when shrine visitor has new dialogue

- Updated shrine visitor dialogue to advance per appearance based on friendship level

- Updated relics for balancing and updated descriptions

- Indicate when hitting min/max for relic stat previews

- Updated Moon Runes with text/icons to be clearer

- Added reset button to Difficulty Modifiers menu

- Fixed issue with cloud traits order

- Updated Kimchi Jar relic

- Allow player to pickup radish at full health when in shrine or pearl shop map

- Added new orb relics in pearl shop

This patch contains a new Stretch mode 2D setting as a workaround for a known issue regarding NVIDIA's anti-aliasing setting. Enabling this setting will help as a workaround in case players are not using default NVIDIA settings, which would cause the game to freeze during the loading screen.

Big thank you to Famol for helping to troubleshoot!

What's Changed

- Added setting to set stretch mode as workaround for graphics card issue

- Adjusted pause menu font color

Hello, this patch contains bug fixes and updated text and icons to help communicate to the player.

Cloud Keeper is currently in Steam Next Fest, so feel free to try out the updated demo!

Thank you for playing and feel free to share any feedback!

What's Changed

- Added setting to skip loading screen

- Updated Rush moon blessing to max of 3 stacks of 10% dash cooldown reduction each

- Updated game mode descriptions

- Updated instructions for Difficulty Modifiers menu

- Added instructions text to Moon Runes menu

- Added assistive text for Traits menu

- Added collected item counts and text in Pause menu

- Fixed issue with Work Phone relic in casual mode

- Fixed issue with pearl and rice wine counts across runs

- Fixed issue with Tiger visitor interaction

Some more minor improvements and bug fixes!

What's changed

- Updated menu tab visuals in game menu, codex menu, and settings menu

- Updated attack and dash cooldown icons

- Updated loading screen sprite

- Ignore cloud opacity setting in shrine map and pearl shop map so that clouds are more visible

- Adjusted some relic prices and weights

- Fixed minor UI issues

Happy Lunar New Year from Cloud Keeper!

새해 복 많이 받으세요!

Here's another last minute patch for bug fixes and balancing.

What's changed

- Updated HUD to display input hint for pause menu

- Updated loading screen to display progress bar and tip for visibility options

- Updated menus to not play focus SFX when opening

- Adjusted volume of various SFX

- Fixed Work Phone relic description

- Updated Work Phone to round up in setting health

- Fixed gamepad input issue in end game menu

- Lowered Aristocrat character starting income to 15

- Updated game mode text

- Increased Tiger cloud base DMG and ATK SPD

- Minor performance improvements and bug fixes

Cloud Keeper will be participating in the upcoming Steam Next Fest from February 23 to March 2!

Since the demo release, there have been several updates including new content:

• New Archer character

• New Moonbeam cloud

• New Celestial and Meditation cloud traits and abilities

• New moon runes meta-progression system

• Multiple new relics

Thank you to everyone who has played the demo and given feedback! Early Access release is scheduled for May 2026, so if you'd like to support the game, feel free to wishlist and leave a Steam review!

A small patch for some bug fixes.

What's Changed

- Fixed issue for enemies where attacks and telegraph VFX were not handled correctly from freeze and fear statuses

- Fixed issue where cloud sprites sometimes covered damage numbers

- Fixed issue where boss enhanced mode activated at wrong health with enemy health difficulty modifier

- Fixed and adjusted various UI issues

- Updated Intimidation trait VFX

- Updated visitor relic weights and prices

Hello, this update will likely be the last before Steam Next Fest, which starts on Feb 23! To prepare for Next Fest, I'll been focusing mostly on polishing, bug fixes, and balancing.

I'd be very interested in any feedback or suggestions! Thank you for playing and have a great day!

What's changed

- Reduced total level stages to 12

- Updated Meditation trait to have 3 levels

- Updated Icicle cloud ability

- Updated run progress popup visuals

- Adjusted stats for characters, clouds, and relics for balancing

- Added notification for coins gained/lost from income

- Updated moon rune descriptions

- Updated credits

- Fixed issue where Bomberfly enemy drops coin at end of level

- Fixed various UI issues

Hello, here's a new update to the Cloud Keeper demo!

This version contains some big UI enhancements and various bug fixes and improvements. For example, you can now view the amount of damage dealt by the player and each cloud in the last level.

Also, there is a new Level Time stat, which can affect the total level duration. Some relics have been updated to use this stat too.

Thank you for playing and feel free to share any feedback or suggestions. Have a great day!

What's changed

- Revamped game menu to move run stats into Inventory menu and player info into Team Stats menu

- Track and display damage dealt last level for player and clouds

- Updated relic icon visuals in Inventory menu

- Updated cloud fusion VFX

- Updated Meditation circle visuals

- Added gamepad support to scroll in end game menu

- Improved Moonbeam cloud attack behavior

- Updated stage icons and renamed Encounter stage to Merchant

- Added total pearls to Run Progress panel

- Added Level Time stat

- Updated Nagak and Windchime relics to use Level Time stat

- Improved text display for Gourd Spawn Cooldown stat

- Updated badge texture for character highest difficulty completed

- Fixed issue with visitor dialogue interaction

- Fixed issue with enemy spawn multiplier

- Fixed menu button SFX

- Fixed issue where random map not selected for normal level

- Fixed ground VFX layering

- Addressed some performance issues

Hello, if you're reading this, I hope you're doing well!

I have reworked the meta-progression system from the old starter relics to a Moon Runes system, which has similar powerups, but is meant to be more flexible and intuitive. The starting UI flow has also been updated to reflect his.

When starting a run, the player can also select a stage/boss in a new Map menu. There is only one stage available in the demo, but more will be available in Early Access.

Visitors now give pickup items as rewards instead of tokens. Reaching max friendship will also unlock a unique relic that will be added to the pool.

There are also some new relics and reworked relics, so I hope you enjoy this update. As always, I'm open to any feedback or suggestions. Have a great day and stay safe!

What's changed

- Reduced Archer base max health to 3

- Show character difficulty completed badge for Difficulty 0

- Updated visitor rewards with pickup items and unlockable unique relic

- Added Moon Runes system and menu to replace starter relics for meta-progression

- Added Map menu to select boss stage for run

- Updated starting UI menu navigation to be more streamlined

- Improved gamepad input echo handling

- Add arrow pointing to shrine doors when they open in Level 1

- Updated menu buttons to show relevant data (ex. sell value) above button

- Fixed minor UI issues and typos

- Display "Survive" banner at level start

- Display "Morale up!" text above flag of morale

- Update goddess box if player has rescued goddess

- Update character selection button interaction

- Added character, visitor, and enemy entries

- Added new relics (Yut, Ginkgo Leaf, Kimbap, Clam, Orange, Lotus Flower)

- Updated effects for relics (Work Phone, Magpie Feather, Gourd Seed, Lightning Crystal)

- Show enemy spawn multiplier stat value in popup text

- Added notification popup when locking/unlocking blessing to explain how it affects reroll

- Fix issue when player obtains duplicates of same relic during a level

- Set gamepad mode based on joystick input

- Ignore cloud dynamic opacity when inside shrine

- Added god ray and particles when cloud fuses/spawns for better visibility

- Updated boss mode HUD to display boss name and thinner health bar

- Updated Moonbeam cloud SFX

- Optimized menu refresh performance

Some minor updates and improvements for the demo.

Feel free to share feedback or suggestions and have a nice day!

What's changed

- Updated animations in item reveal menu

- Updated cloud ordering in end-of-run menu

- Display non-demo characters as locked in character selection menu for demo build

- Fixed issue where Farmer character buff stacks exceeded max

- Optimized saved stats

Hello, I was on another break for the holidays, so here's the latest update!

I've added a new Archer character that can now be unlocked and played! This will be the last new character for the demo and newer content will be available in Early Access.

I've also updated the dokkaebi boss with some new attack patterns to make the boss fight more interesting.

Feel free to share feedback or suggestions here or in Discord!

What's Changed

- Added Archer character

- Updated dokkaebi boss attack patterns

- Updated boss to use single health bar

- Improved player/cloud auto-aim

- Improved cutscene camera panning

- Disabled dynamic cloud opacity by default

- Updated Shield cloud attack animations

- Updated Tiger cloud ability to have larger AoE at higher levels

- Avoid spawning same shrine visitor in consecutive levels

- Avoid spawning relics, pearls, rice wine in boss level

- Increase pearl spawn chance whenever pearl does not spawn from gourd

- Increased gamepad input echo interval

- Fixed cloud spawn timing issue at level start

- Fixed issue where enemies sometimes do not exit at end of level

- Fixed issue with loading locked blessings

- Fixed minor UI issues

Hello, this is a bigger update because it includes changes from before the holiday break.

This update includes new content, including the Moonbeam cloud, Stump enemy, and updated Tortoise Shell and Lightning Crystal relics that give special abilities.

Players can now select either Casual Mode or Challenge Mode when starting a run to better match personal playstyles. Casual Mode includes healing after every level and clouds do not reduce income, but does not include additional difficulty modifiers. Challenge Mode is closer to the original difficulty level and allows selecting difficulty modifiers for extra rewards.

Feel free to share feedback or suggestions here or in Discord!

What's changed

• Updated Tortoise Shell relic to give shield to all clouds

• Updated General's Arrow relic

• Updated Lightning Crystal relic to give electric current ability

• Added walking tree stump enemy with AoE root attack

• Added Casual and Challenge game modes to select in start menu

• Reduced cloud income cost to 3 per cloud

• Updated Run Progress menu layout

• Fixed input echo issue for gamepad joystick UI navigation

• Added Moonbeam cloud

• Updated cloud info panel layout

• Increased chance for gourds to spawn relics and pearls to 20%

• Replaced no healing difficulty modifier with enemies deal +1 DMG

• Fixed issue with damage tracking for Wind cloud

Hello, in this update, I have reverted traits to give the player special abilities again.

I have also added a Codex menu available during a run in the Pause menu. This displays all available content in the game and whether they are unlocked.

Let me know if you have feedback or suggestions here or in Discord!

What's changed

• Added Codex to Pause menu to show discovered clouds, relics, enemies, and visitors

• Reverted traits to grant abilities instead of stat boosts

• Added new Meditation trait to spawn meditation circle to pick up items after charging

• Added new Celestial trait to spawn moon reflection that moves and damages enemies

• Updated clouds for new traits

• Removed ability relics to avoid conflicting with traits

• Fixed boss level text

Bug fixes and improved the End Game screen to show final build.

What's changed

• Fixed issue with lock status on shrine blessings

• Updated End Game menu to display clouds and relics obtained during run

• Updated Bomber Fly enemy animation

• Fixed issue where Bomber Fly does not drop coin after exploding