Cyberwar: Neon City news & patch notes

Hey Cybers!

Cyberwar: Neon City now supports Spanish, German, Italian, French, Simplified Chinese, Korean, and Russian.

This update also adds two new room types to the game:

New Rooms

Plush Room Collect a mysterious chest that may grant you a valuable reward.

Neon Coin Room

Defeat as many enemies as you can. The farther you go, the greater your Neon Coin reward will be.

Fixes and Improvements

• This update also includes several bug fixes, balance adjustments, and general improvements to the game experience.

Thank you for playing Cyberwar and for supporting us during Early Access!

Hey, Cybers!

This update brings important improvements to the tutorial experience for controller players, a brand-new first-time introduction to the Piñata, plus general fixes and adjustments.

There's more new stuff to explore.

General Improvements

• Controller Tutorial — The tutorial now works fully with a controller. Use the left stick to navigate between pages (left/right) and the cancel button to close the tutorial when available.

• Piñata Focus (First Time) — When the player finishes a combat room, a mysterious piñata may appear.

• Bug fixes

Hey Cybers!

This update brings a Skill Tree overhaul, three new Drones, the fully finished Plushie Machine room, a wave of new music across the game, visual improvements, and a long list of fixes and balance adjustments.

There's a lot of new stuff to explore.

New Content

• Skill Tree Overhaul — New upgrades have been added, including a Luck attribute that affects drops and rewards. Coin drop quantity and chance can now also be improved directly from the tree.

• New Drone: Vampire Drone — A new drone that drains life from enemies. Available for purchase at the merchant.

• New Drone: Virulent Drone — A new drone that applies Poison to enemies. Features unique visuals and multiple upgrade levels.

• Clear Drone — A new drone variant focused on area clearing has been added.

• Plushie Machine Room — The Plushie Machine room is now fully implemented! Hook crates and with some luck walk away with a great reward.

• New Light Trail — The light trail effect has been completely remade from scratch with improved visuals and fixed colliders.

• New Fog System — A new volumetric fog shader has been implemented, including a mosaic layer for added depth. The fog on the 4th floor and Level Zero has also been updated.

Audio

• New BGM added to the Marionette Room.

• New BGM added to the Skins Screen.

• New BGM added to the Dormitory.

• New BGM added to the Greenhouse.

• New BGM added to the Teleport Duck area.

• New SFX added when healing.

• Enemies in the Neon Coin Room are now stronger to better balance progression.

Talent Improvements

• Tower Talent — New electricity visual effects added.

• Pufferfish Talent — Now deals immediate damage to nearby enemies on activation.

• Octopus Talent — Projectile layer adjusted for correct collision behavior.

• Bird Grenade Talent — Fully revised; the explosion decal now disappears correctly.

• Skill Tree Bonus Damage — Extra damage from Skill Tree nodes is now correctly applied to talent attacks.

• New Skill Range Indicator — A visual indicator for skill range has been added.

General Improvements

• Drone System Refactored — The entire drone upgrade architecture has been rewritten. Upgrades are now centralized and displayed consistently.

• Older Drones Updated — Existing drones have been migrated to the new upgrade system with properly localized level descriptions.

• Skill Tree Icons — New icons added with revised contrast for improved readability.

• Whale Dialogue — The whale's dialogue lines now correctly save progression between sessions. New speech bubble design applied.

• Occultist Minion — Animation adjusted for smoother behavior.

• Joker System — Fully localized across all supported languages.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the Pause Menu could be opened after returning to the main menu.

• Fixed the Gum Trap behavior.

• Fixed the Rifle shot not firing correctly.

• Fixed the Shotgun charged shot not triggering correctly.

• Fixed fog artifacts on the Village and 4th floor.

• Fixed the Light Pole visual issue in Human Village.

• Fixed edge cases in the Hack Puzzle Computer script.

• Various small internal adjustments and script revisions.

Hey Cybers,

This is one of the biggest updates ever released for the game! It brings new rooms, a completely reworked talent system, new enemies, the arrival of the Joker in the Route Map, visual and UI improvements across the board, plus a long list of bug fixes and balance adjustments.

There's a lot of new stuff to explore. ːsteamhappyː

New Content

• New Route Map — the room navigation system has been completely redesigned, with a new look, controller support, tooltips, persistent state, and per-floor balancing.

• Joker System — the Route Map now features a deck of special cards. Cards like Double Bonus, Merchant, Virus, Temporary Room, Collapsed Route, Radar, and others can completely change your run. The Roulette and Joker Effect are also implemented.

• Marionette Room — new playable room, earn an exclusive reward.

• NPC Rescue Room — you can now find and purchase the rescue of trapped characters.

• Hack Puzzle — new hacking room with a 7-error system, earn buffs and debuffs.

• New XP System — the XP system has been rebuilt from scratch, with collectible XP on the ground.

• Talents with multiple levels — Piranha, Bananarang, Chicken Grenade, Pufferfish, Hedgehog, Bouncing Monkey, Slug, and Octopus now have 3 evolution levels.

• New talent visuals — Dome, Bouncer Bot, Impact Shield, and Electric Tower have received their final artwork.

• Zombie Invoker — new enemy on the 5th floor: the Invoker summons zombies and has its own animations. Zombies in general have been sped up.

Improvements

• New progressive upgrades for all talents — Rifle, Ricochet, Shotgun, Pistol, and Machine Gun received new upgrades with descriptions, updated icons, and a new level point system.

• Talent slots are now grouped and organized; the upgrade icon is highlighted when selected.

• Skill Tree now turns golden when fully completed, and displays the exact values of each upgrade.

• Aim assist is now smoother and more responsive, with reduced weight so it doesn't interfere with manual control.

• Flight animations added to player skins.

• New look for the pause menu, with a variation when the keychain item is not available.

• Checkpoints added to the tutorial; tutorials 2 and 3 now allow pausing.

• Cutscene added when unlocking the Skill Tree for the first time.

• AutoScroll added to the DJ and Bluetopus interfaces.

• Purchasing a skin now equips it automatically.

• Trash icon added to the save slot menu; cursor enabled on the save screen.

• Improved visual feedback for bonus cards and the Double Bonus card.

• Sounds added to UI selectors and navigation arrows.

Bug Fixes

• Cursor would unexpectedly disappear on some UI screens.

• Input icons in talents were displaying incorrect information.

• Aim in drone mode was misaligned.

• NeonLaser beam damage was incorrect.

• A Piercing Shot projectile could apply damage multiple times from a single hit.

• Double Bonus room behaved incorrectly in some situations.

• Coin and Junk rooms were returning wrong rewards.

• Combat waves were not starting in some rooms.

• Rooms appeared locked on the Route Map when they shouldn't be.

• Route Map transition speed was incorrect.

• 2nd floor miniboss wasn't shooting; Clown Pig was displaying wrong sprites.

• Pressing an upgrade at a specific moment would freeze the game.

• Corumba miniboss immortality bug.

• Infinite dog barking in the tutorial.

• Gas mask was not working correctly.

• Hack Puzzle background music would stop in some cases.

• Volume slider in options was not saving correctly.

• Control rebinding behaved incorrectly in some cases.

• Visual bug in the ED UI and Ocko's laugh animation.

• Cyber Metrics wasn't pulling Blue attributes inside the Level Zero.

Balance Adjustments

• Shotgun charged shot damage and size revised; firing angle adjusted.

• Blue Missile now has a smoother curve and revised damage.

• Blue Pistol burst fire adjusted.

• Enemies now have variation in their drop value.

• Route Map now applies floor-based weight balancing, making progression more consistent.

• Motorcycle miniboss now gives up the chase after a time limit.

• Hack reward no longer grants XP when the player is at max level.

• XP no longer drops from enemies when the player is at max level.

• Talent upgrade cooldown now resets correctly between runs.

• Number of skulls in the Fridge limited to prevent excessive stacking.

Other Changes

• FPS capped at 60 for a more stable experience.

• Player movement optimized internally.

• New enemy projectile pooling system, improving performance during intense combat.

• Blue projectiles optimized for better performance.

• Full Japanese support added across the entire UI, dialogues, and Skill Tree.

• Save and load system restructured with a separate file for settings.

• Photosensitivity warning can now be dismissed with a button press, requiring no additional action.

Important: The save system had to be rebuilt, which may cause progress to reset on some machines.

Hey Cybers!

From now on, the Japanese language is available in Cyberwar.

On top of that, we’ve made several fixes, adjustments, and improvements to the game.

Adjustments and Fixes

• Immortal miniboss on the 5th floor

• HUD disappearing on the 5th floor

• Traps not deactivating after clearing the room on the 5th floor

• Game freezing when closing the Cyber Metrics window

• General HUD improvements on Steam Deck

• Teleport Duck now compatible with the 5th floor

• Vault Frog not updating stored value when spending junks inside Level Zero

• Enemy adjustments on the 5th floor

Implementations

• 7 new achievements added

Balancing

• Skill Tree: Gold Lootability, Deadly Trigger, Junk Lootability, and Flash Drive

Hey Cybers,

We’re back with an update that brings a brand-new floor featuring two new bosses, a new cutscene, a skin vendor, a new currency added to the game’s economy, Steam Deck verification, and much more.

New Floor (5th Floor)

You can now reach the 5th floor, getting even closer to the top of Tree Tech!

Meet the new boss: Kram

Kram is impulsive and chaotic. He’s always seeking solutions through self-medication and experimentation with new forms of hybrids. He would switch sides if it ever benefited him. Kram plays a crucial role in managing the laboratory floor.

Meet the new boss: C2000

A living cocoon whose sole purpose is to give life to the Rambonator.

Skin Vendor

Unlock up to 6 new skins, each one coming with its own active ability, passive ability, and special talent.

Discover more about Edward’s dark past

Steam Deck Verified

Cyberwar: Neon City is now officially Steam Deck Verified, bringing full compatibility with the Steam Deck.

On-Screen Metrics

You can now enable Blue’s attribute metrics to be displayed directly on-screen.

New DJ Interface

General Additions

• The blind tattoo artist now has his own theme music.

• New tracks added to the rooms and bosses of the 5th floor.

• Neon Coin introduced into the game’s economy — earn this special coin after defeating bosses and use it to unlock new skins from the Printer.

• Gray Health implemented.

General Adjustments

• Overall combat balancing.

• Fixed various visual glitches.

• Fixed multiple miscellaneous bugs.

• Applied several visual improvements.

Fixes

• Shark-door unlocking in skill tree tutorial
• Dialogue marker for level zero NPCs appearing incorrectly

Adjustement

• Skill tree adjusted sprite
• Steam Deck compatibility - various adjustments to UI interfaces

Implementation

• 'good luck' object - a mysterious object may appear inside the rooms providing unpredictable rewards

Implementations

• Playtime added to save game and visible in the Main Menu
• "New Record" added to the game over screen for longer runs
• Main NPCs now have an exclamation mark above their heads whenever they have something new to say Teleport Duck
• Improved design
• Now it only needs to be purchased once to unlock the floor

Fixes

• When using the duck to teleport directly to floor 4, Printer would disappear
• Buying the chainsaw shows a button to exit Bluetopus; if clicked, Bluetopus UI won’t open again
• Pause menu not saving sound preferences
• Pause menu displaying unnecessary resolutions
• When pausing during boss fights, music wouldn’t resume after unpausing
• Enemy shots would still sound even with the game paused
• Redtopus challenges not resetting junk drops, causing balancing issues
• Blackout challenge made the scene too dark
• Talent lock challenge not working on floor 3
• Deadly Trigger skill in the skill tree increasing damage only for current Blue Cyber Metrics
• Numbers were hard to read
• Opening Cyber Metrics during sub-boss fights caused black bars to appear and not disappear Tutorial
• Dialogues corrected
• NT8000 portrait was flipped
• Car in Neon City trapping the player
• During the walk-shoot-move-by-mouse sequence, shots were not following the cursor
• UI sometimes freezing the game when buying Voice Hack in the skill tree using a controller
• Pausing during the tutorial causes the player to lose controller inputs

Adjustments

• Enemy spawn visuals adjusted
• Slot machine interface, sounds, icons, and feedbacks adjusted
• Some UI texts in English and Portuguese were corrected
• Dash system remade
• Dialogue text size adjusted for Steam Deck
• Tutorial teaching how to shoot in Neon City improved Menus
• Some menus simplified
• General usability adjustments for controllers

Critical Bug Fixed

• Printer occasionally passing through walls.

Implementations

• Blue Ricochet's "Bomb" Talent now only explodes after 10s or when input is pressed twice.

Fixes

• Save Game - Slot 1 occasionally not displaying last save information.
• Save Game - Now displays playtime information.
• Key Remapping - Icons not updating after changing keys.
• Key Remapping - Not swapping previously assigned keys.
• Key Remapping - Improved usability.
• Key Remapping - Talent icons not updating after remapping keys.
• Printer entering Level Zero doors facing backwards.

Adjustments

• Ice Skull enemy dropping ice cubes upon destruction replaced by ice particle effects.
• NPC Jhow adjusted for gamepad compatibility.
• NPC Jhow new sounds added.
• Background music muffled when collecting Notes.
• Safe-Frog now has its own dedicated camera.
• Route Map - Avoiding consecutive repetition of the same room.
• Enemy Spawn - Reduced repetition of enemies within the same wave.
• Enemy Spawn - Added more spacing between enemies; now they are more spread throughout the room.
• Purchasing items in Level Zero immediately updates the save game.

New Features

• Added teleport to upper floors through the cyber duck {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38937020/f3ca14c5e7b97e2bf8c1b00bfbf9338d93b892fc.gif In the "ARCADE" area inside Level Zero, a duck has been added. In exchange for some Junks, it allows you to skip directly to floors you've already reached. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38937020/18bd71bbeaf2d1e610afd5e73f50b63e6b85d206.gif
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General Fixes

• Dash physics optimized
• Some items balanced in the Skill Tree
• Minibosses on the second and third floors improved
• Controller not working properly on Gaspar (the blind tattoo artist)
• Blue in drone form interfering with interactions in Level Zero
• Controller disconnecting when pressing Alt + Tab
• Unable to skip the third-floor cutscene
• "Light Trail" item interfering with HUDs in Level Zero
• "Bargain" item reducing merchant prices multiple times instead of once
• Selecting "No" at the shark door breaks the HUD functionality

New Floor (4th Floor)

Meet the new boss: Mecha Nika TV!

Uncover more of Neon City's dark past

Changelog:

• New music tracks added
• New balance adjustments applied
• Various visual improvements
• General combat tweaks
• Fixed several visual glitches
• Fixed multiple collision issues
• Fixed grammar mistakes
• Fixed various bugs
• Fixed talent bugs for different Blue

Cyberwar: Neon City - Gameplay Trailer

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Implementations

• The band "The Brows" in Level Zero now plays an original song
• New song added to the "Arcade" environment within Level Zero
• New dash upgrades
• Dash upgrades now stack
• Various sounds added and adjusted

Fixes

• "Level Zero Secrets" achievement unlocking automatically
• "Show must go on" achievement fixed
• Water holes allowing wall traversal
• Upgrade window opening even after game over
• After defeating the boss Monkey D. Jones, if skipping the cutscene on the 3rd floor, the game mutes the audio
• Shadows of the drones in Monkey D. Jones fight
• Drones not dealing damage to some bosses
• Invisible walls added around Monkey D. Jones to prevent going out of camera view
• Game Over window misaligned after dying to Monkey D. Jones
• Some cutscenes not skipping

Balancing

• Holobrows prices adjusted
• Maximum health of mini-bosses increased 400 → 500
• Slowdown gases added on the second floor

Adjustments

• Dialogues and cutscenes no longer advance automatically
• Added a Coin and Junks bonus indicator to the combat HUD (if applicable)
• New interface for the Talents Upgrade selector
• New interface for the room Upgrades selector
• Dash Upgrades names and descriptions updated

• Alt + tab freezing the game
• Skip elevator scene
• Multitasking bug

• Life room recovers +25 HP
• Merchant shop prices adjusted

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Implementations

• Feedback via Discord – You can now send feedback directly from the game to our Discord server instantly. Access it via pause menu -> report bug.
• Auto-pause during multitasking.

Fixes

• FPS drops on 3rd floor.
• Pausing in some dialogues/cutscenes freezing gameplay.
• Hit feedback only when hitting enemies.
• Overlapping objects in rooms.
• Misplaced tiles and colliders.
• Infinite coins/junks from props.
• Unlocked movement between Level Zero areas without unlocking.

Balancing

• Adjusted enemy count on the 3rd floor.
• Dash cooldown adjusted.

Adjustments

• Improved physics.
• Full compatibility with Switch PRO Controller.
• Dialogue skip cooldown.
• Monkey D. Jones boss:
• - Updated background.
• - Edge limits to prevent players from leaving the scene.
• Improved "Riffle" shot feedback.
• Removed some sprites from various scenes.
• Adjusted Blue’s attribute selector.
• Adjusted sound volumes and UI text alignment.

Check out Cyberwar's roadmap to 1.0:

Check out Cyberwar's roadmap to 1.0:

Check out Cyberwar's roadmap to 1.0:

Check out Cyberwar's roadmap to 1.0:

Check out Cyberwar's roadmap to 1.0:

Roadmap

• First 3st floors
• 5 bosses
• +30 enemies
• Initial language support: Portugueses and English
• 4 initial shark-guns
• Various upgrade possibilities

• 4st floor added
• New boss
• New environment, new enemies, new itens, etc
• More language support: Spanish, italian, french, german and japonese

• 5st floor added
• New boss
• New environment
• New shark-gun added
• More general content
• More language support: simplified chinese, Korean and russian

• Launch 1.0 – Last Early Access Update!
• Last shark-gun added
• End Game: Defeat the final boss
• And way more...

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• New projectile selector when reprinted.
• New scene showing the player's location within TreeTech.
• Boss portrait before starting a battle.
• Improved localization for the Portuguese language.
• Coin and junk rooms added to the route map.
• Mini Boss Room.
• New general sounds.
• Enemy position indicator if they are off-screen.
• Elemental upgrades to shots:
• Fire – 20% chance to burn enemies for 2 seconds.
• Electricity – 15% chance to stun enemies for 1 second.
• Freezing – 18% chance to freeze enemies for 2 seconds.
• Poison upgrade to shots: 22% chance to poison enemies for 3 seconds.
• Upgrades can now level up when accumulated: lvl1, lvl2, lvl3...
• Upgrades that increase Blue's damage.
• Special dash upgrades:
• Hole Dash: Summons a sphere that deals area damage to enemies.
• Thunder Dash: Summons lightning where it begins.
• Blade Dash: Creates a blade where it begins.
• Bubble Dash: Creates a water sphere that deals area damage to enemies.
• Hit upgrades:
• Tentacle Hit: Creates a tentacle that attacks enemies where it takes damage.
• Whale Hit: Creates a whale that deals area damage where it takes damage.
• New items in the merchant:
• Vampirism – Slightly increases Printer's life with each defeated enemy.
• Drones – Robots that follow you and attack enemies.
• Gas Mask – Gases no longer slow you down.
• Bargain – Reduces item prices at the merchant by 50%.
• Added drones:
• Birdrone – A bird drone that throws an explosive egg.
• Jellydrone – A jellyfish that stuns enemies on contact.
• Stormdrone – A drone with melee attacks on the nearest enemy.
• Barrels now catch fire when exploding and deal damage to the player and enemies.
• It is now possible to destroy some objects in the tutorial.

• Balanced enemy spawning.
• Movement fixes for various enemies.
• Automatic switch between gamepad and keyboard/mouse.
• General input fixes.
• Speed and dash distance buffs have been removed.
• Printer appearing on the loading screen.
• Wall dash not functioning correctly.
• Improved damage feedback.
• New merchant room.
• Balanced item prices at the merchant.
• HP was not increasing correctly when using a life item.
• Enemy shots exploded before contact.
• Traps change color and self-destruct at the end of runs.
• Pistol and ricochet shot ranges adjusted.
• Upgrades selector in upgrade rooms optimized.
• Opening chests now automatically collects the reward.
• Camera positioning fixes in some scenes.
• Removed heart tiles from the ground to avoid confusion with health.
• Adjusted health room to not increase maximum HP.
• General UI fixes.
• The merchant will now always appear on the route map.
• A mini-boss room will now always appear on the route map.
• It is no longer possible to fall into holes.
• Dog in the tutorial without interaction.
• HP and enemy damage balancing.

• Information about rooms added on the map
• Slow effect on game over
• Lowpass BGM when finish run
• Water in the holes

• Dash dust
• Bungee Jump Monkey loop adjusted
• Optimized prop destruction
• Optimized explosions
• Some speed items removed
• Enemies and traps deactivate or destroyed on end run
• sometimes shots stop when passing from room to room
• drone not causing damage to boss
• UI fixes
• Printer and drone sometimes appearing on loading
• Printer not going into the center of the ports
• Upgrades UI selecting by keyboard when pressing any key
• Life room showing incorrect amount to be increased
• Life room amount +25%
• light trail activate bug fixed