Death of a Wish news & patch notes

Death of a Wish turns two years old today!

To give more people the opportunity to enjoy Death of a Wish, we are permanently reducing the game's price to $14.99 USD, or its equivalent in local currencies.

If this is a game that has been meaningful to you, we would greatly appreciate it if you left a review or recommendation.

Our friends recently launched their game Starweave, which we strongly recommend that you check out! To help promote them, we are bundling Death of a Wish with them and several other great games like Snake Farm, Ambrosia Sky, and Bad End Theater!

Starweave

Set out on your destined quest in this narrative-focused turn-based tactics game. Issue commands, light Beacons, exercise compassion. Take heed, for your roles shall constrict, and your tale was always meant to be bittersweet. Who will the stars dictate we be?

This limited edition bundle runs from now until March 23rd! Pick it up when you can!

Death of a Wish is 50% off for the Steam Winter Sale!

Death of a Wish is discounted to its lowest ever price for the Steam Autumn Sale! This discount runs from 09/29 to 10/06.

Claim retribution against the theocratic Faiths as you master vicious hack-and-slash combat in this action-RPG where style is salvation.

Games are great. We all know that. But did you know they can also be great for your head?

Running from 8–15 September, to mark World Suicide Prevention Day, we’re proud to take part in Games Against Living Miserably 2025 - the event on Steam that celebrates how games can help us unwind, connect, and escape.

It’s presented by Curve Games and the suicide prevention charity, Campaign Against Living Miserably (@thecalmzone). By taking part, we’ve pledged a donation to CALM’s life-saving work.

So, please pick up Death of a Wish for 50% off and contribute your part against suicide.

Death of a Wish is 40% off for the Steam Summer Sale! This is the game's highest ever discount, enjoy the base game and all the update content for just $11.99 USD.

• Labor of Love - This game has been out for a while. The team is well past the debut of their creative baby, but being the good parents they are, these devs continue to nurture and support their creation. This game, to this day, is still getting new content after all these years.
• Outstanding Visual Style - Visual style doesn't aspire to real-world graphical fidelity (though a noble goal in itself)… it describes a distinctive look and feel that suffuses an entire game.
• Outstanding Story-rich Game - Some days, only a narrative-heavy game will hit the spot, and this one packs a wallop. It's as gripping as any soap opera, and as well-tuned as a prestige-TV screenplay. Bravissimo -- for making us feel things!

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN AN ANGEL DIE?

Localization Survey

ABOUT MARTYR MODE

• Comeback - Upon recovering from a status effect, enemy attacks are 100% more powerful for 10 seconds.
• Break Invuln (ii) - Enemy invulnerable after recovering from Break for 4 seconds
• Lost Grace (ii) - Reduces non-S Rank Corruption reduction by 75%.

BALANCES & FIXES

• Reduced health of late-game bosses.
• Slightly easier BREAKs on tankier bosses.
• Reduced the penalty to health essence recovery on higher Punishment difficulties.
• Increased the wind-up time on most enemy gunfire attacks.
• Decreased the hitbox size of all enemy gunfire projectiles.
• Decreased the prevalence of miniboss and story boss summons in True Randomizer mode.

NEW LANGUAGES ARE COMING

LOCALIZATION SURVEY

MARTYR MODE

• Comeback - Upon recovering from a status effect, enemy attacks are 100% more powerful for 10 seconds.
• Break Invuln (ii) - Enemy invulnerable after recovering from Break for 4 seconds
• Lost Grace (ii) - Reduces non-S Rank Corruption reduction by 75%.

PLAYTEST MARTYR MODE

PLAYTEST SIGNUP FORM

The Apocrypha Update

Boss Rush Mode

Music Room

Training Arena

The Time Masters Festival

The Apocrypha Update

Boss Rush Mode

Music Room

Training Arena

• “Death of a Wish is quite possibly one of the best action games ever made.” - Entertainium
• "a tormented action fantasy that has heart, imagination and style in spades." - Rock Paper Shotgun
• “One of the coolest indie action RPGs we've played this year.” - Noisy Pixel

• Full Interview: Death of a Wish Interview: Developers Detail Randomizer Update and Future Support
• Part 1 Recap: Death of a Wish is a Combination of Christian Imagery, Anime, and Bayonetta
• Part 2 Recap : Death of a Wish: The Truth Behind the 'Cult' Explained

Death of a Wish Randomizer

macOS and Linux Support

IMPORTANT: For STEAM DECK Users

LudoNarraCon

Randomizer Update

LudoNarraCon

Mac & Linux port

• Added a new setting in the options menu called Combat Contrast. When this setting is on, the game will further contrast the player/enemy characters from the background, as well as reduce background visual noise during combat. There are four settings with this option, each with a more exaggerated effect: Off, On, Extra, and Max. If you're having trouble distinguishing enemy movement from the background, give one of these increased settings a try!
• Chris can now Rewind out of hitstun. You can even cancel the big knockback hitstun with a Rewind use! We hope this will encourage players to experiment with using the Rewind, and prevent frustration caused by taking a lethal hit right as you're trying to input a Rewind.
• Altered the sound cue when an enemy starts an unparryable attack, to better distinguish the sound from the parryable attack.

• Enemies will now be less likely to overlap their attacks patterns when fighting in groups, particularly on the Easy and Normal SIN difficulties. This change is intentionally lessened on the harder SIN difficulties, but still has some effect compared to previous versions.
• Altered the timing on the visual enemy attack cue so that it more closely signals the beginning of the parry/perfect dodge timing.
• Chris no longer loses his brief period of invincibility from parrying when immediately cancelling the parry animation into a counterattack. The grace period for a successful parry should now last about one second from the moment the parry was triggered, regardless of whether the animation gets cancelled or not.
• Further tweaked the health values and damage type weakness/resistances of various boss encounters (including Crusade Engine Uriel).

• Fixed a bug that caused certain parryable enemy attacks to be marked as unparryable.

• Fixed an out of bounds/possible sequence break in the "City Ruins" area.
• Increased the PIERCE afflict of RAPID's projectiles.
• Adjusted aspects of the Crusader Engine Uriel boss fight that might help those who are struggling with it.
• More work has been done to help distinguish enemy attack signals and tells, and reduce audio/visual clutter when fighting alongside a companion.
• Changed the initial Sin/Punishment descriptors to help reveal a little more of what they dictate (it might not just be what they initially say...)

• Added two new tech options: "Teleport UI" and "Disconnect". The Teleport UI tech lets you toggle the Teleport indicators and arrows on/off, while the Disconnect tech lets you toggle the Disconnect ability on/off once it's been unlocked (the ability will still be active when required for progression, even when the tech is toggled off).
• Tweaked the enemy attack signal audio and visuals to be more prominent on the screen/in the sound mix.
• Thickened Chris's outline and shadow during combat to help with visibility and positioning.
• Added a new type of Damage Number to show when damage has been boosted due to an enemy being TAUNTed.
• When in combat, you now need to run into the scene transition boundaries for a brief time to trigger the scene transition. It takes a little less than half a second, with the hope that this should prevent unintentional scene changes during combat. A UI indicator will show how long until the transition triggers. Scene transitions should behave as before when not in combat. I've seen more than a few players voice frustrations with this, so please leave a comment if this helps!

• Decreased the Track 1 Boss S-rank requirement, but made its time bonus requirement slightly stricter.
• Made it a little harder for the player character to get stuck on enemy colliders during the "RUN" encounter.

• Fixed a bug that would allow Corruption to rise on death when the Corruption meter is not active.
• Fixed a wrong warp when going into the radio tower elevator, then immediately leaving the elevator.