Cube Chaos news & patch notes

Cube Chaos will leave early access on 18. June 2025. To that end there will also be a PRICE INCREASE on 17. May 2025 to 11.99$, as there is a 30 day cooldown between price increases and discounts. Then there will be a 20% launch discount with the leave from early access (20% of the 11.99$). I have long been ruminating/hesitating about the best time to leave early access, but I think its finally time to take the step and I am happy with how much the game has expanded and improved since early access launch. Huge thank you to all the people in the discord and steam forums for all the feedback writing, bug reporting, suggesting, modding and just general talking you did, it helped tremendously to improve the game. There are some more details in the discord, where I will also answer questions.

Summarized Patchnotes: -Various minor quality of life: --Dragon egg perks now reference the adult and baby dragon directly for easier understanding and checking --Insane speed options start default on when unlocked (only for newly unlocking) --Cubes added by boss scaling now start locked for 1 minute giving the player time to prepare --Automated single "minute" text now is "1 minute" for reasons which are best explained by testing the sentence above (same with 1 second and 1 tick) --Node map performance improved significantly -6 Balance changes -12 Spelling mistakes fixed/Descriptions improved -A few other fixes Full patchnotes as always in game (Not a lot though) This is a small update, in part because of variance in my productivity, for example due to sickness, which of course for a single person project have much greater impact, and in part because I am stockpiling some stuff for future 1.0 business.

Nightmare Stuff Update -Reworked nightmares (And a bit of boon blight selection stuff) -Map movement animation (And option to disable) -5 Events with 10 new event specific perks -12 Perks, 1 golden perk, 7 Curses, 3 Boons, 1 Neutral, 7 Cube Upgrades -Random cube/perk gain screen (So you know what you got) -Cheaper rerolls, Debt cubes are locked for 1 minute to give reaction-time -Various balance changes, other changes, fixes and modding stuff Full patchnotes as always in game {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42468525/63257e8531f8f8878f3bbde4fa96b8d6fbe7355b.png

Mini Patchnotes: -999 Perk descriptions slightly improved -Gold/Perk Value makes more sense now --All gold values are halved, inlcuding prices, basicly no gameplay changes, but perk value = gold cost now for shops and upgrades, which makes things a lot easier to understand. -1 Gold perk, 1 Neutral perk -Various balance changes and fixes Full patchnotes as always in game The main thing about this update is the perk description changes, where I went through every perk and tried to see if it could be more clear, most of the changes arent that huge, but with 999 of them it should make a significant difference. Also yes it is exactly 999, I did not make this up, it just happened that way, statistics and all that.

Mini Patchnotes -Linux should now work from the steam button natively again -Game now uses steam depo system which reduces the games install file size a bit (unless I messed something up) -6 balance changes, 4 description/spelling improvements -Various perks can no longer cancel battles when you somehow gain them mid battle -Some general fixes If there are notable fixes I usually do fixing updates between normal updates time, in this case linux (hopefully) working again is preety important, the other fixes are also mildly nice though.

Large update with 2 new cube related systems! 1. Weird Cube Upgrades/Sidegrades! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42468525/2eb725b38c722bfe906462fb97ebf792ce8c63ba.png -Forges now offer 1 randomly chosen cube upgrade per 2 cubes you have -These upgrades are locked to a specific cube when generated and are generally very cheap -Cube upgrades also make that cube limited allowing you to only place it every X minutes (1 starting use, they accumulate over time in hand, dont worry there is new UI for this, without this people would only use their most upgraded cube which would be a huge problem) -Upgrades are quite random and can generate some very bizaar options, as such pick carefully what upgrades are worth it! -58 upgrades total 2.Locked AI Cubes {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42468525/1761d99c6b04f9239deb6d9471744ac1d14db52a.png -Some enemy cube slots start locked (this accounted for during the enemy generation) -This means they cant be placed until X time into the battle -This hopefully helps make the battles have more flow where you can for example: --start in a bad spot but if you hold out long enough the AI unlocks a bad cube and really slows down --start in a good spot but if you take too long the enemy might unlock something really dangerous -In general this should make battles less one sided and pre-decided in the first minute. -Update also contains a bunch of background AI number adjustments which should reduce the amount of setups which literally could never win and setups which are completly broken. Other Patchnotes overview: -Cubes with uses (due to cube upgrades or otherwise) now show a simple overview of their uses amount in the UI. -Enemy cubes in battles cant be any of the cubes the last enemy you battled started with -16 new consumables, 2 curses, 1 golden perk, 1 upgrade -42 (non AI) balance changes -24 spelling fixes, 10 descriptions improved -Tons of miscellaneous qol changes, general improvements, new tooltips, important fixes and modding additions. Full patchnotes as always in game. Big update this month cause it was a good month were I managed to do work well. Do not expect this size of update every month. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42468525/f80f8a8096c4f5ef06ca1efbb0d4b89284765462.png

Remnant Economy -New Species: Remnant --7 new Remnant specific perks --11 Remnant Synergies -4 new perks (with 2 new event perks) -Moderate Economy changes --Smith and Shop nodes now a split decision on the map --First smith cost reduces by 40 flat but base cost is now 2x instead of 1.5x perk value difference (roughly 1/3 more) --Shop prices for cubes halved and deck slot reduced to a tenth -20 ish balance changes -Various other changes, fixes, minor improvements, qol stuff, a new tooltip and a new cheat Full patchnotes as always in game. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42468525/7af66353b657abecd33a43314b2a49d7dbc20f00.png

Mini patch notes: -Auto-Add-To-Deck Option (If you want to keep some slots empty) -Automatic missing animation detection system for easier bug finding -Linux now works more again (I hope, if it wasn't working for you before, for some people, AHHH) -8 Balance changes -Random class button woulden't select "No-Class" (Same with lowest button) -1 animation and 2 linux animations now actually work This is preety close to the full patchnotes but more details are in game as always. This is a mini update with mostly just fixes due to having had corona last month as well as another health issue.

Patchnotes overview: -40 new cubes -1 new terrain -Various balance and other changes to smooth out some things, including robotocist buffs -Many fixes and debug stuff Full patchnotes as always in game The cubes in particular are focused somewhat on early game enemy variety to make those early battles a bit less samey. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42468525/8071c8088bca62717666c671d55b6d0628fa65af.png

This update is focused on improving the clarity and understandability of cubes and the game as a whole. Patchnotes Overview: -37 keywords reworded -33 spelling mistakes fixed -41 projectile/laser abilities reordered -386 cube/perk descriptions manually adjusted (excludes the things above) -Various other cube changes to make them more clear or easier to understand -7 new Options, including enough mana auto pause -Important UI imporvements, such as better leader hp bar, cube damaged culprit highlighting, new ability seperation line, showing which cube you lost, and more -Many balance changes to perks and cubes, including changes to many perks which were likely to freeze the game to reduce that from happening a bit. -4 new Perks, 5 Cubes, 3 Mutations -Modding Steam Workshop Tags -Various smaller changes and useful fixes Full patchnotes as always in game!

Patchnotes Overview -Leader hp bar -Map number shown on map -Decksize/Handsize now shown in inventory -Various robot changes to make it a little bit better and add some more tricks -Letter Worm/Perk Mimic/Equal_Exchange now all use menus -A few small balance changes -IMPORTANT FIXES Full patchnotes as always in game Smaller update with nice UI stuff, important fixes and adjustments

Patchnotes Overview: -New Roboticist Class! --9 new Roboticist specific perks --11 Roboticist Synergies -Various important QOL clarity improvents (Mana bar end, divets, leader damage, poison numbers, Trading Liscense menu, and much more) -New perk disabling system (Disable perks in inventory to salvage mistakes) -Inventory perk systems performance improved -1 cube, 1 golden perk, 3 normal perks -15 Wordings improved and 15 Spelling mistakes fixed -Various balance, modding and misc changes and fixes Full patchnotes as always in game. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42468525/8290cd6f48c63e73320e8f45d1f0f09f260709ce.png

Patchnotes Overview: -New Fungus Species! --7 Fungus Species specific perks --10 Fungus Synergies -2 new Events, 1 Nightmare -2 neutral Perks, 2 normal Perks, 1 perk replaced, 2 Consumables, 1 Cube, 4 Upgrades -6 Balance adjustments, 9 Spelling mistakes fixed -Big modding additions to make the new stuff (and other stuff) possible -Various nice to have misc changes and bug fixes Full patchnotes as always in game. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42468525/aadc7fe6d25ff2340bbdab3be66a2cf87ff6d739.png

Patch-Overview: -Inventory Search Bar -2 new Cheats -2 new strange Scenarios (Autobattler and Automated) -Various balance adjustments to shops, curses and boon/blight generation -23 new Curses -1 Cube, 4 normal Perks, 3 golden Perks, 1 neutral Perk -Many fixes and smaller changes -A variety of strange modding stuff Full patchnotes as always in game! This is a smaller update due to both a real life fear and a real life annoyance issue (We all know how life can be like sometimes). Should still be some fun new interesting stuff in there though.

Stuff! -3 Terrains! -6 Cubes -10 Normal Perks -13 Curses -13 Fragments (Programmer) -10 Boons -2 Golden Perks, 5 Neutral Perks, 5 Blights -Many balance and other cube/perk adjustments -Various other small changes, improvements, fixes Full patchnotes as always in game. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42468525/0803fed42e649a09612766adb022c5b724739fa5.png

Patch overview: -2 new Options and 2 new Cheats -Consumable Animation -Various changes to boon generation -Signficant Performance improvements, especially regarding freezes -7 Balance changes -5 Description improvements, 41 Spelling mistakes -So so many fixes (roughly 28) -Various changes, adjustments and other minor (but still nice) stuff Full patchnotes as always in game As usual a minor update to fix and adjust some of the stuff between the more content focused updates at the start of the month, some explanations below. Hope you all enjoy! Boon generation changes: -There can only be 1 Terrain, this terrain costs 0 boon value. -Neutral perks with 0 value also cost 0 boon value -Guarantees a number of cubes (exact formular: (Total Boon Value/4 + 1) with at max 4) --These guaranteed cube choices no longer take up the usual boon slots. --This means more boons, but I adjusted the formular for that a bit so it ONLY means more boons until roughly nightmare 120 -Not having access to more cubes, especially during the first battle was very high variance and made the early battles far too random and risky. This should help, though may not be enough. I'll have to see. Performance improvements: -Mostly a change to how quickly the game recovers when reaching a truly game breaking state which freezes the game. These makes it much less likely that the game fully crashes, though this can still occur at even more rediculous chains.

Difficulty Systems Update -Nightmare system rework (almost all changed) --Choose between a random selection of good and bad options with point values --Nightmares now scale in difficulty a bit faster --21 mostly new blights -Bosses now must be beaten before moving on (the enemy cubes are randomized each time, lives rebalanced) -Difficulty change animation and various difficulty based adjustment -Enemy mana shown on enemy leader -Enemy cube setup generation adjusted to be more reasonable (until late game) -Big Balance changes: 46 Cubes/Perks adjusted -Hand overflow event -5 new Curses, 1 golden perk, 3 normal perks -Various fixes, other adjustments and QOL improvements Full patchnotes as always in game. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42468525/83102fefb2d7d938de292adb7dc85362c62bc83f.png This update contains a lot of changes to existing systems, as such I am going to explain my reasoning for some of the changes: New Nightmare Choice System: -The old system was generally fine, but also generally not very interesting with many players simply sticking to nightmare 1 for the terrain and while I would assume that some are still going to stick to that, the new system should be a lot more interesting and create much more varied starts. -The old system also didn't scale well at all leading to many classes/species beeing unusable at higher nightmares with the first battle often beeing rediculously hard compared to later battles, since a lot of the nightmare effects were immediatly active with very little starting choices to allow strategizing and playing around the increased threat. -In generaly I want to avoid runs where it just feels like there was no chance of you winning. -Of course this new system is also a lot more chaotic and will sometimes generate a bit too easy or a bit too hard starting conditions, but I feel like thats still a lot more fun. Boss Repeats: -Prevously if you had enough lifes you could never beat a boss and still win the run, this is a bit borring and can make battles and especially boss battles feel meaningless or irrelevant. Additionally since "skipping" the boss fight this way means you don't get the 100 gold it also pushed you down a losing spiral where now you are less likely to win and encouraged to take more lives to get through the run that way. -With the new system when you lose a boss fight you get an event which puts you into a new boss fights, this means enemy cubes are re generated so you don't get stuck. (The Skip perk can also be used to skip the event as always) -Since this change makes lives a bit less powerfull various things were slightly rebelanced: --Bosses have -1 difficulty except during looping --Lives map node also gives 10 gold now --The nightmare which starts you off with less lives is no longer a thing -In general I hope this makes boss fights a lot more scary while still making lives meaningfull and usefull as their original intention of protecting you against blunders or extreme rng. Cube Balance Changes: -Various starter cubes were nerfed by roughly 33% and various non starter cubes were buffed. -My intention is that you should be able to keep 2/3 of your starting cubes your entire run but it should be less likely that you keep all your starting cubes. -This is because I think trying to build around the new cubes you get is a lot more fun than relying entirely or largely on your starting cubes. -This should also make finding new cubes more exciting and meaningful. -With this change the enemies base mana generation was also decreased from 1 -> 0.8 to account for the slightly reduced starting power of the player. In general this update contains a lot of changes to the base systems of the game and while it has been tested on the beta branch, some problems may only be revealed by more people playing. So if you have any feedback/opinions after playing I would welcome it (discord is easiest).

Programmer Balance -Sorting Inventory requires confirmation if Moil or Programmer -Zombies are now Undead -Temporary Double Time now stacks in duration not exponentially (this was crashing the game) -Some Melee Units rebalanced a bit (Tunnel Bore nerfed!) -Some Fragments nerfed -9 Spelling mistakes fixed -Various other fixes, QOL improvements, modding improvements and other changes Full patchnotes as always in game

Programmer Update -Programmer Class! --96 new Perk Fragments --new Cubes and Synergies and Class Perks -4 new Curses, 2 Golden, 1 Neutral, 4 Normal -Keywords now highlight numbers in text -Various QOL improvements -Level up rewards order adjusted -30 Spelling mistakes -Various wording improvements, balance changes and fixes Full patchnotes as always in game. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42468525/c0ebc488deb3a077514e06416b10fb908ce63384.png

Terrain QOL/Fixes -Each Profile now has its own run save -2 new Scroll keys (start unbound), new Cheat -Empty perk reward auto skip -Mana burn visual now EVEN MORE OBVIOUS -Various balance changes -Many fixes Full Patchnotes as always in game

Summarized Patchnotes: -Adds 8 new terrain types! --First nightmare now adds terrain which gets replaced by a choice of 3 new terrains with every new map --This massively changes up the battle maps --Classic terrains like: Ocean, Monoliths and Warehouse -Various AI improvements to work with the weird new maps -Most terrain affecting perks adjusted due to the massive terrain changes -Massive perormance improvements with cube lighting and cube drawing -Base reroll cost reduced from 30 -> 20 -Big Wizard buff (Concentrate half cost upfront, half on time out, mana battery generates mana) -3 new consumables, 2 neutral perks, 6 normal perks -Many balance changes/general improvements/fixes/modding stuff/engine improvements Full patchnotes as always in game {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42468525/8b217729c3c93b3ba6a6d1592b6c1925dbebe774.png

Moil Performance -Steamdeck no longer just a black screen -Performance improvements regarding text and drawing rectangles -Fixed enter/esc commands sometimes beeing eaten -A few smaller balance changes/qol improvements -Various other important fixes (including game crashing ones) Full Patchnotes as always in game Preparing some bigger stuff in the background, have this extremely work in progress image: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42468525/1377429f07de424c5663f3434b76597bb8256284.png

Moil Balance Update -2 new Options: --Disable map feathers, Stay slowed/paused when no longer at max mana -59 Balance changes --Mostly hp increases to cubes which require a lot of setup so they actually surivive --Ants attackspeed reduced by 50% --Pyromaniac mild nerf, Wizard mild buff, Cryomancer mild buff -9 Wording improvements, 23 Spelling mistakes -Performance improvement regarding flying and other movement negation effects -Various other fixes/minor improvements/changes Full Patchnotes as always in game

Moil Update -New Species: MOIL! --That means: 3 new cubes, 9 synergy perks, and 7 moil specific perks -Other new stuff: 9 new perks, 1 curse, 2 consumables, 1 neutral perk, 1 secret below and 1 scenario -SO MUCH QOL: Map feedback visuals, inventory movement, void trashing, upgrade text difference highlight, and much more! -Reordered level up unlocks (options menu has a button to re-experience them) -Boss battle has shields -Wall cubes re-balance -Mini rogue rework -38 spelling mistakes fixed and 15 wordings improved -So many smaller changes, fixes, modding and other improvements Full Patchnotes as always in game (roughly 190 lines) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42468525/3c58e636d0c062c76fbee5c837f6bb92cf5affc5.png

Fixes 5, Revengance -Minor visual improvements (Path Arrows, Unlock Screen) -Overhauled 3 QOL options: --Cube Placement cooldown system (Place cubes easier) --Slow time on mana burn (AUTO PAUSE AT MAX MANA OPTION!) --Placement zone line -New in game command line -Various perks changed to make game freezes less likely without changing their power too much -SO MANY FIXES -Various of QOL, Balance, Mind Melter and Modding improvements Full Patchnotes as always in game

Patchnotes Overview: -TONS OF QOL -Better mana burn game speed stuff (slow time when reaching max mana not when going over) -Perk trashing in shops -Mind Melter improvements -SaveData now automaticly makes a backup -Various utility, modding, fixes and other minor improvements. Full Patchnotes as always in game

Patchnotes Overview: -Various QOL improvments (Cube Selection, Killer in Battles, Mana Burn, Ability Count Overlay, +1 Acessability Option, Cube Ability Description line break, Random Class/Species Button) -MANY MANY FIXES -19 Spelling mistakes -Modding Improvements Full Patchnotes as always in game Bug reports have started slowing down a bit, maybe this will be last emergency fixes update necessary! (Who am I kidding here)

More Fixes Update -Various additional tooltips -2 Tiny balance changes -JUST SO MANY FIXES AND DEBUGING IMPROVEMENTS -Modding is a bit more convenient Full Patchnotes as always in game Do not expect this update fequency forever, this is mostly cause fixes need to be out immediatly.