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We are finally reaching our version 1.0 full release on July 9. This major update brings a massive amount of new content to the game. Act III is officially arriving with a brand new boss, 4 new maps, over 60 new dungeon rooms, 10 new monsters, more than a dozen new skins, and a whole selection of new items and treasures.

Thank you all so much for your continuous support and feedback throughout our early access journey. This milestone is a huge moment for our small team, and we are incredibly grateful to our community. 🙂

Major Gameplay Changes

Based on player suggestions, we have made some significant updates to core gameplay mechanics to shake things up.

• Spell Torch Upgrades: The Spell Torch has been underutilized in past builds, so we added more functionality. It can now be used to defeat Mannequins, open Grumble Chests, and identify dangerous doors.

• Respawn Dice: We wanted to find a way to get dead players back into the match quicker. We added a pair of demonic dice that can resurrect you if you manage to roll a win.

• Ice Wand and Boomer Bomb: These tactical items now freeze monsters completely in place instead of just slowing them down.

Act III Content Spoilers

The following section contains spoilers for the upcoming act, so skip this part if you prefer to discover everything on your own.

Act III introduces water elements to our maps and dungeons. While your character cannot drown, different types of dangerous monsters now lurk in the depths. Moving underwater also dampens your audio, making it much harder for your companions to hear you clearly.

New Boss - Jester

To complete the act, you must defeat the Jester, our new boss creature. He adds a new layer of challenge with unique death curses, requiring your team to completely rethink how you communicate with each other to survive.

New Monsters

Here is a breakdown of the new creatures you will face in the depths of Act 3:

• The Doorpelganger: Not all doors are safe now, as a creature may be lurking right behind them.

• Mimic: Be careful who you trust, because some monsters can now take the exact shape and form of other players.

• Oilyphant:A large, greasy creature that demands to be fed from time to time, or it will become aggressive.

• Big Baby: A creepy giant doll that must be deactivated using specific spell words.

• Water Monsters: Watch your step in the pools, as the Anglershark, Necrofish, and Dungeon Leech are waiting for you.

• Grumble Chest: A cute monster that you can destroy to secure a hidden treasure.

• Muffins: The beloved pet belonging to the Queen makes an appearance.

• Gunther: A new character who will give you gold in exchange for your collected treasures.

Fantastic New Items

We are adding plenty of new equipment and treasures to change up your strategies during a run:

• Jabber Walkie: A fan-named piece of walkie-talkie equipment. You can use it to communicate, or accidentally hurt each other, over long distances.

• Death Wand: A universal weapon that kills indiscriminately. It is honestly more likely to take out your friends than the actual monsters.

• Plan B: A special treasure that sacrifices its own existence to automatically revive you.

• Gaslighter: A useful treasure that serves as an automatic spell torch, requiring no spell words to function.

• Dance Scepter: This item blasts musical hits while you are on the move.

• Voice-Changing Treasures: Silly items like the Golden Chicken and Heavy Dumbbell will temporarily alter your voice when carried.

New Dungeon Devices and Cosmetics

Interactive objects have been added to the environment to reward risk-taking. You can use the Iron Maiden to sacrifice a portion of your health in exchange for a random item.

There is also the Dancing Daisy, a giant flower that requires you to sing and dance for it to receive a special item.

For those who love customizing their characters, we have over 15 new skins to earn by completing in-game achievements. You can unlock several more unique skins by joining our community on Discord.

We also have beautiful new capsule art on display for our store page, created by the very talented artist @Gaelfox.

Thank you once again for all your incredible support. We cannot wait for you to experience the full version of the game on July 9. Join our Discord community to stay updated on future patches, chat with us, and claim your extra exclusive skins.

Act III and New Content

• 10 more creatures to complement the 26 monsters released in Early Access
• 65 new dungeon rooms and 4 new outdoor maps
• 7 new pieces of equipment and 15 new cosmetics to unlock
• 31 new Steam Achievements, bringing the total to 183

Thank You to Our Companions

Launch Details and Perks

Act III Maps and Dungeons

New Respawn Mechanics

Launch Date

Let's get the party started!

Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?

Road to Full Release and Polish

• Full Release Content: We are preparing all new monsters, new equipment, new maps, new dungeons, and new traps.
• Map Polish: Improving the overall detail and polishing the look of the dungeons and outdoor maps.
• Monster Navigation: Tweaking the nav mesh to make sure monsters can move around the rooms properly without issues.
• Ambient Audio: Adding more audio ambient tracks to the environment to make the rooms feel more atmospheric.
• Dungeon Rooms: Designing and adding more dungeon rooms to increase variety.
• Skins and Cosmetics: Creating more skins and cosmetics for you to customize your characters.

Join the Closed Beta

• Treasure Target lowered by 20-30%
• Treasure spawn rate increased by 20%
• Some items in Shop and Gregory made cheaper by 20%
• Lowered damage on Monsters and Traps
• Matron does not deal fatal damage any more
• Working on Summoning Staff bug

• Horse Face, Damage: 60 -> 30
• Root Golem, Damage: 40 -> 30
• Mr Snuggle, Damage: 70 -> 40
• Mace Trap, Damage: 50 -> 20
• Spike Trap, Damage: 20 -> 10
• Fire Trap, Damage: 30 -> 10
• Matron, Damage: 100 -> 40
• Crushing Trap, Damage: 50 -> 40

A new monster lurks behind the door

Entertain the flora

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Hello Hololive!

ホロライブの皆様、こんにちは！

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Act 3 & Internal Testing

New Japan-themed cosmetics

Community Requests, Balance & Bug Fixes

• Arachnophobia Mode: We heard you! For those who asked for a less "leggy" experience, you can now toggle Arachnophobia Mode in the settings. We listened, and those eight-legged monsters are now legless.
• Monster Tweaks: We’ve adjusted the Matron’s damage and fixed specific bugs affecting the Conductor, Screamsucker, and FoulMoth.
• Syncing Fixes: We’ve resolved critical mid-game drop-in issues. Players joining sessions in progress will now correctly see open portals, treasure chests, and the equipment held by their teammates.

Work in Progress

Act III Progress Update

We’re Listening!

What We're Working On

Join the Naming Competition!

Upcoming Fixes

Facing Your Fears (Literally)

Join the Community

Text to Speech - Robot Voice!

The Victory Statue

Graphic Settings & Ultrawide Support

Audio Control

Steam Invites

More Home Decor save slots

Traitor Mode Settings viewable by everyone

New Menu Music created 100% in-house and safe for streaming

Other QOL Changes

• Ice Wand & Boomer Bomb: These now freeze monsters completely instead of just slowing them down. Relax Bro!
• The Matron: She now has a red glow at her feet when she's alerted.
• Singing: We’ve reduced the volume threshold for the singing requirements for the Conductor and Simon to make them a bit more forgiving to pass.
• Localization: Updated several Spanish and Italian words that were previously failing to trigger.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed those instances where dungeons would overlap or misalign.
• Dead Spectate Chat: Dead players should be able to hear each other.
• Cleaned up the audio glitches for the Foul Moth and Screamsucker
• Fixed a network bug that caused some players to disconnect the moment a portal opened. May still trigger sometimes - still working on further fixes.
• Teleportation sound is no longer global (i.e the Wayhome Stone, Teleport Stone)
• Fixed an issue where House Decor wouldn't load properly when restarting in Challenge Mode.

Treasure #1 (working name "The Lantern")

Treasure #2 (working name "The Revive Doll")

Combining Spell Journal and Dungeon Codex

Lowering the difficulty

Other improvements

• v0.9.19 (Build ID: 22204249 and Build ID Language-beta: 22208418)
• New Spell Book! The Spell Journal and Dungeon Codex has been combined! Use the F and C shortcuts as per usual.
• Treasure targets have been lowered in Act 1 and Act 2. Now easier to get to the Boss.
• Added some new phrases (Thank you Daddy! 🤭)
• Updated Espanol and Deutsch word list
• fixed negative Gold in shop
• fixed show different map names for random map selection
• fixed dungeon overlap issues and blocked entrances (hopefully)
• removed boss maps for traitor mode (side door issues will put it back once fixed)

Grab Your Free Downloads

• The Deal: You can download the music for FREE (just enter $0 in the 'Buy Digital Track' box).
• The Catch: Bandcamp gives us 200 free download credits every month. Once those are gone, the site might force a minimum price until our "mana" refills next month.
• The Pro-Tip: If the credits are out, you can still stream the tracks here for free as much as you want!

What's in the Collection?

This is Just the Beginning

• added new Skins and Achievement (El Dios and El Pelusa)
• fixed issue where boss dungeon not generated properly for mid-game drop-ins (players joining midway)
• fixed issue where all consumable items occupy an inventory slot when players swap inventory items before the consuming animation completes (Cure-All Potion, Lightning in a Bottle, Lungs Of Steel, Muscle Elixir, Queen Tonic, Stink Potion, Potion of Insight, Soul Potion, Windbreak Potion)
• fixed issue where Summoning Staff stuck on inventory after used
• fixed house decor not reloading after game restarts after the game is over
• fixed issue where players die instantly after entering the main Portal
• fixed issue where players drop items while scrolling their mouse (swapping inventory)
• fixed issue where some players get timeout and disconnected after portal is opened

The Evolution of a Threat

New Variants & Effects

• Blight Antoinette: Gets you infected, the room will eventually be filled with Blightwalkers from your fallen teammates. CHAOS!
• Poison Antoinette: Deals poison damage, say the spells to heal. Easy peasy!
• Ice Antoinette: Reduces your movement speed, making you a sitting duck for faster creatures that appear (see next section)
• The Twins: Think you can handle one? Two now spawn in place of one, doubling the pressure.
• The 'Insanity': For the ultimate test, the final variant is random. This version pulls a random of the three status effects at once, adding more to the chaos.

More monsters spawn too

Where to Find Them

• Challenge Mode
• Endless Mode

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ACT 3 Updates:

Maps and Dungeons

Game Mechanics

Spell Torches

Killing Monsters

Spell Journal and Dungeon Codex

• Combine the books into one item (but you have to flip)
• Make it part of the UI, like the Guidebook
• Leave it alone
• Add another default inventory slot

Act 3 Monsters

👑 New Treasure and Items

🗓️ Act 3 Release Date

🐛 Bugs, Quality of Life and other Features

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Celebrate the Launch of Endless Mode with 20% Off!

Special cosmetics await those who make it past the bosses!

For more details on Endless Mode, check out our previous post on how the Endless Mode works.

How Endless Mode Works

• Days 1–3: Reach the initial Treasure target.
• Days 4–6: A new, higher Treasure target is set.
• Day 6: A boss from Act 1 or Act 2 appears.

Saving Progress in Endless Mode

• Current In-game Day (i.e Day 12)
• Team abilities (life, stamina, etc)
• Equipment and treasure stored on the Island

Survival Tips

Restore Player Stats via the Soul Potion

44 New Achievements and more cosmetics!

• You Talk Too Much – Kill 100 players by triggering their death curses
• Shoemaker – Return 10 Blightboot Treasures
• Immortal – Complete Challenge Mode without dying
• Alcoholic – Drink all 8 potions in a single run
• Art Connoisseur - Buy all the paintings

And one more thing...

Endless Mode is ready to test in the Beta track

New Achievements and Skins

• You talk too much - Kill 100 players by saying their Death curses
• Shoemaker - Returned 10 Blightboot Treasures to the Chest
• Immortal - Complete Challenge Mode without dying once
• Alcoholic - Drink all 8 potions in one run

Other Updates and Improvements

Coming Next...

Fixes

• Issue where players cannot trigger Curse Words, Curse Door and Rebirth Egg should be fixed. Please let us know if it hasn't and send us your error logs.
• Twitch users who connect to Twitch will not trigger the Twitch Connect webpage every time they launch the game
• Added Happy Holidays furniture and cosmetics
• Fix issue where Horse Face skin and Hotdog head skin is bugged - pointing at the wrong achievements
• Minor improvements to QOL, basic tweaks, UI/UX improvements.
• Language-beta: improvements to Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Russian phrases
• Build ID: 21108734 / Language-Beta Build iD: 21108825

Working on these Major Bugs

• We are still trying to figure out why some mics do not work during voice chat. Some players experience this, where they are not audible to other players, but they can trigger spells and curse words. So they can hear their friends, but their friends can't hear them. This is a hard one to fix because we haven't been able to replicate the issue. So if you do encounter this, please let us know and send your error logs so we can figure it out once and for all.
• Drop-in/Drop-out Mid Game Desync: Players who enter the game when the portal is opened will experience missing items or closed treasure chests and so on. Sometimes even see different dungeons. We are working on this.
• Players still get dungeons where they overlap each other: We're working making sure this does not happen. Because our dungeons are random, there is a small chance a bad dungeon gets generated. It doesn't happen during testing but with a larger group of players, this becomes likelier to happen statistically. We are trying to reduce that likelihood to zero.

Working on Endless Mode

Happy Holidays!

What's new since the Demo

• We've added over 100 new rooms and an entirely new dungeon theme to make sure your runs are always different.
• Many more monsters - and some are very unique, like the Conductor and Screamsucker
• There are new objects like Sarcophagi, Teleportaloos, etc in the dungeon that you can take advantage of
• More traps and more traps. And the floor is lava!

• We added lots more 'fun' equipment to the game, check out the Windbreak Potion, Potion of Insight and Summoning Staff
• New home decor to make your house a home
• Did we mention there are now 200+ skins and accessories to unlock?

Game Modes Available

• Act 1 - Easy Difficulty. Hit the treasure quota in 3 days then face off with Antoinette
• Act 2 - Medium. New Abyssal Lands. New dungeon - Ruined Temple. Same as Act 1, but face off with Simon
• Challenge - Medium. You take on all monsters in Act 1 and 2, after 6 days, face off with either Antoinette or Simon
• Traitor - Find the betrayer among your team, a social deduction mode

Language support

Known Issues

• Mid-game drop-in / drop-outs may cause desync issues (I.e. If you join a game after the portal has opened)
• Stuck monsters in tight spaces or if their paths meet and get stuck
• Some monsters don't retarget well
• Lag issues with Summoning Staff
• Other balancing issue, minor bugs and QOL improvements

Our Roadmap

Your support keeps us going

We're finally launching Cursed Companions!

What's gonna be in the Early Access release?

• SIX new maps or Abyssal Lands to explore and get smashed to bits in
• An entirely new Dungeon environment (as covered in our Roadmap)
• 80+ new Dungeon rooms
• 20 unique scary and funny Monsters
• TWO tough Bosses to beat
• Many more deadly traps
• Lots more fun and useful items/equipment and facilities
• More home decor
• Over 70 new skins/accessories
• 99 Achievements to earn (some will reward you skins)
• Act 1 and Act 2 short game modes, Traitor Modes and Challenge Modes (see our Roadmap post)

Key Updates:

• Dark Shrine now revives ALL Companions
• Players now start with TWO Treasure inventory slots instead of one
• But this means that Treasure targets increased
• Inventory UI overhaul: Items can now be accessed with 0–9 and F1–F10 keys.
• Hide the item in your hand using the key.
• New shortcuts for: Spell Journal and Dungeon Codex. As long as you have them equipped on you, you can use the shortcuts to call them up without scrolling to the books
• Dance emote is now shown in 3rd-person view (so you can watch yourself dance!)
• Speech-to-Text captions added to the UI
• Facilities are now available within dungeon maps.
• Added Mic and Voice Onboarding at the start
• Removed "Hard" map category (for now).
• Skull Points (XP) system implemented

• Items at Gregory's are now cheaper.
• Lurkers deal less damage
• Rebirth Egg revives players at Full health.
• Black Coin spawn rates upped.
• More items can be bought with Black Coins.
• Stamina Potion max stack reduced to 4.
• Poison damage now ticks less frequently.
• Player jump height slightly increased.
• Running stamina increased.
• Totems spawn rates upped.
• Watcher attack cooldown increased.
• Mannequin speed reduced.
• Poison & Death Curse traps now deal 1 Heart of damage.

• Fixed desync issues when falling off maps or spawning in broken dungeons.
• Fixed crash when players leave the game.
• Players can no longer double-drink potions by spamming inputs.

• Public Game Filters: all regions and game modes are now visible.
• UI and general Quality of Life updates
• Optimization to improve framerates
• You can reset voice detection in Settings.
• Furniture can now be rotated both directions.
• Added confirmation pop-up when saving your house.
• Traitor Mode: player positioning in the voting hall has been adjusted.

• Mannequin missing its sound effects
• Keybinding still work in progress
• Drop-in/Drop-outs (Late joiners) still work in progress

Coming up...

Skull Points = Skill Points

Lots of Achievements

And as always - FOLLOW AND WISHLIST!

The Ruined Temple Dungeon

New Traps

New Abyssal Lands

And as always - FOLLOW AND WISHLIST!

Different Playstyles

Game Modes for Casual and Hardcore players

Sneak Peek: The Ruined Temple

And as always - WISHLIST!