Corelith news & patch notes

Enjoy the patch!

• Some floors now replace the usual monsters with a Goddess Altar. Approach the statue to receive a blessing

• Blessings include skill mastery, leveling up random skills, amplifying Aether, full healing, and trading HP for Max HP, among others

• Some blessings grant an Enchant, adding an effect such as double damage, cooldown reduction, damage amplification, or increased skill size to one of your skills

• Some blessings grant a Weapon Upgrade — a dedicated upgrade unique to your current weapon (e.g. Whirlwind Slash for the Sword, Twin Shards for the Guardian's Shard), which can further be enhanced with a modifier such as Heavy, Vital, Swift, or Massive

• You can combine Weapon Upgrades with passive skills too — for example, pairing one with Arcane Blade or Phantom Strike carries the upgrade's effect over to their attacks as well

• Skill: Blade Trap

  • Number of traps: 5 → 10

  • Trap radius: 1.5 → 2.0

• Skill: Arcane Orb

  • Damage increased by about 50%

• Skill: Energy Transfer

  • Transfer ratio roughly doubled

• Skill: Weighted Spell

  • Move speed penalty reduced by more than half

• Guardian Soul: Bombardment

  • Changed from a fixed amount of damage to damage equal to the mobility skill's own damage

• Guardian Soul: Chronos

  • Wave timer slowdown increased

• Guardians

  • Guardians that fall too far behind the player during a chase now teleport near the player

• Guardian Random Skills

  • Seal of Chaos: number of skills sealed reduced from 3 to 2

  • Time Distortion: cooldown increase reduced from 50% to 25%

  • Fog of Fatigue: attack speed reduction reduced from 30% to 25%

• Fixed HP not being restored to match increases in Max HP

• Fixed previously unlocked achievements being shown again when ending a game after continuing a saved run

• Fixed the player not being invincible after clearing a regular wave

Enjoy the patch!

• Boss: Kharg

  • Added a brief windup before the rolling attack, giving players time to react

• Fixed some projectiles remaining on screen instead of despawning

• Fixed Energy Transfer not correctly transferring the total damage of Frost Shards, Chain Lightning, and Triple Slash

• Fixed Blade of Flux's duration being extended by using any skill while active

We've received requests for a way to save mid-run and continue later, so this update adds exactly that. To keep the tension intact, a save can only be loaded once and cannot be made during battle.

So next time something comes up — feel free to step away for a bit!

• Added mid-run saving

  • Use "Save and Quit" in the pause menu to save your adventure, then resume it with "Continue" on the title screen.

  • Cannot be used during battle.

• Hovering over the wave timer now shows an explanation of how waves and bonus rewards work

• Adjusted the pause menu position

• Fixed visible seams in the tilemap and HP bar

Improvements

• Improved death effects for monsters and Guardians

• Damage from Brahko's ground effect and the Guardian random skill Venom Fangs now shows a green flash

• Fixed Arcane Detonation and Backlash Force effects appearing overly white

• Fixed the achievement unlock UI showing records from previous unlocks

• Fixed the Guardian random skill Venom Fangs not being applied to some Guardian patterns

Balance

• Skill: Raging Flow

  • Added a display for the current buff status

• Skill: Shadow Clone

  • Fixed range not being applied when equipped with Arcane Blade

  • Fixed damage not being tallied on the result screen

• Guardian Soul: Provision

  • Duration: 6s → 7s

  • Now flies to the player automatically when nearby

  • Waits for all remaining items to disappear after a wave ends

  • Recovery amount: 4 → 3

• Guardian: Brahko

  • Improved visibility of the ground effect

• Fixed broken images in the skill comparison tooltip

• Fixed passive and Guardian Soul stats not being reflected on the result screen after Game Over

Patch Notes

• Music

  • New background music for: Main Menu / Dungeon themes / Final Boss / Game Over & Clear

• Guardian Soul: Provision — HP recovery increased from 2 to 4

• Fixed an issue where, if the player's skill was sealed by a Guardian's skill (Seal of Restraint, Seal of Chaos, or Seal of Dominion), using Shadow Clone could prevent the seal from being lifted

Fixed an issue where changing the control type could cause the game to become unresponsive.

We finally have a demo.

Corelith is a 2D top-down roguelike wave survival game. Craft and dismantle Skill Cores between waves, shape your build, and grow stronger with every wave.

The demo covers the first cycle, with a limited selection of skills. Come see how it feels and let us know what you think!