Dobbel Dungeon news & patch notes

Heyo!

This quick patch addresses the following:

Fixes

• Fixed the 'Conditionals' banner on the action card missing localization in some languages.

• Fixed missing characters in Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese.

Happy Dobbeling!

- Jim & Michelle

Heyo!

This quick patch addresses the following:

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the tutorial would not continue after defeating your first enemy.

• Fixed an issue where the Korean language option showed Simplified Chinese instead.

• Fixed an issue where the blobs could be unlocked when no run was completed yet.

• Fixed an issue where certain debug cheats weren't properly removed from the release version.

Happy Dobbeling!

- Jim & Michelle

Heyo!

We're pleased to announce that our very first major content update is now live for everyone!

Additionally, we've bundled up with more excellent dice-powered indie gems and we're celebrating it all with a sale!

⚔️ A new enemy faction has arrived!

Our first major content update is here and introduces a whole new unlockable enemy faction: The Blobs!

The Blobs come in 12 different flavors, 4 different sizes (including a miniboss variant) and can appear in various combinations on any island, supporting its usual gang of hoodlums. Whilst they are slow to move, their splitting nature and various elemental effects will surely keep you on your toes!

This new enemy faction can be unlocked by completing a run on any difficulty and will be unlocked retroactively if you had already done so. Please note that, once unlocked, a new run is required for the blobs to appear (you can still continue your pre-update run without them though).

🛠️ Patch notes - v1.1:

Additions

• Added the 'Blobs' enemy faction as an unlockable content reward for completing your first run.

• Added 13 new items.

  • Fire, Frost, Holy, Lightning, Poison & Void Bangles: Absorb a specific damage type and convert it to healing instead.

  • Stoneskin Potion: Gain shield.

  • Vampire's Diary: Regain 50% of all damage dealt as health.

  • Snowball: Thrown frost damage projectile.

  • Chilling Amulet: Become permanently chilled, but all melee attacks deal extra frost damage.

  • Cursed Doll: Gain the Shadow Curse action.

  • Void Orb: Gain the Void Blast action.

  • Void Wand: Gain the Void Bolt action.

Changes

• Major rework of enemy spawning systems.

• 'Reported threats' icons in the island info panel now crossfade between different variants of the same unit instead of listing them all separately.

• Igloos are now resistant to frost and vulnerable to fire.

• Newly unlocked content will now trigger a popup in the main menu.

• Removed overworld camera inertia, reducing motion sickness when moving around the map.

• The game now defaults to max 60 FPS when settings are first initialized.

• Mountain Villager can now throw snowballs.

• Tweaked bloom settings.

• Overworld nodes now more accurately represent the enemies that can appear within.

• Ghosts are now resistant to void damage.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where occasionally no enemies would spawn at all.

• Fixed shop inventories not always properly carrying over from island to hub.

• Fixed an issue where 'hurt' animations could interfere with cinematic animations.

• Optimized some UI assets to improve performance.

• Fixed Dobbie animation clipping.

• Fixed some unit recycling issues.

• Fixed enemies occasionally spawning too close to friendly units on battle start.

• Fixed bonus objective system not accounting for enemy damage immunities.

• Unlimited FPS option now limits max FPS to 240 instead of actual unlimited to avoid GPU overload.

• Cleaned up debug logging, which might improve performance slightly across the board, particularly during level generation.

• Fixed some VFX not scaling to fit multi-tile units properly.

• Fixed action cam jank.

• Fixed some background trees not fading in certain environments.

• Fixed order-of-initialization issue with passives to ensure that immunity to (de)buffs takes precedence over potentially gaining those (de)buffs.

• Fixed some incorrect 'inactive' skill icons.

• Fixed Void Blast description reflecting enemy-only targeting.

• Fixed incorrect projectile origin for thrown items on Blubber Pistoleer.

📦 More dice-powered bundles!

We're pleased to share that, in addition to our recently released bundle with Dice&Fold, we've also bundled with Dice A Million and Dice Gambit!

Whilst all of these excellent indie gems have integrated dice into their core gameplay, they each put a different spin on it, so make sure to check 'em all out!

Please note that the Dobbel Dungeon + Dice Gambit bundle will be available for a limited time only.

🔥 Get it while it's hot!

To celebrate this milestone, we're having a 15% discount for the next 2 weeks!

Happy Dobbeling!

- Jim & Michelle

Heyo!

This public-beta patch addresses the following:

Changes

• Reduced blob spawn rate compared to the primary enemy faction.

• Blobs of normal size now drop gold.

• The same blob type will no longer spawn in multiple islands.

• Blobs in general are no longer immune to bleeding and hamstrung by default.

• Nerfed rock blobs in particular.

  • Removed resistance to holy damage.

  • Replaced immunity with resistance to lightning damage.

  • Stoneskin is now an advanced action.

  • Large version is no longer sturdy.

Fixes

• Unlimited framerate setting no longer resets to 60fps when re-entering the settings menu

Happy Dobbeling!

- Jim & Michelle

Heyo!

We've just created a public beta branch to give our latest content update a test drive!

Our first major content update introduces a whole new enemy faction: The Blobs!

The Blobs come in 12 different flavors, 4 different sizes and may or may not appear in various combinations on any island once you've unlocked them (not applicable to existing runs, new game required).

These guys normally unlock after you've completed at least 1 run, but during the beta they will be unlocked by default so everyone can check 'em out right away.

If all goes well, we're aiming for a full update rollout on May 1st. In the meantime, we'll be keeping a close eye on our Discord server, dedicated public beta forum and feedback tool inbox during this week.

Beta specific notes

• The branch in question is called: public-beta.

• We've enabled our in-game feedback tool again for easy bug-reporting and feedback-sharing.

  • Veterans beware: By popular demand, the trigger button for the feedback tool is now F11.

• We recommend backing up your save data before switching to the public-beta branch, just in case.

  • Your local save file can be found in %USERPROFILE%\\AppData\\LocalLow\\Gamepie\\Dobbel Dungeon\\DD\

• Due to the potential for changes as a result of feedback and localization taking time, we've limited the language options for the beta branch to English only.

• If you're unfamiliar with how to access different app branches in Steam, see:

What's new in this beta:

Additions

• Added the 'Blobs' enemy faction as an unlockable content reward for completing a run.

• Added 13 new items.

Changes

• Major rework of enemy spawning systems.

• 'Reported threats' icons in the island info panel now crossfade between different variants of the same unit instead of listing them all separately.

• Igloos are now resistant to frost and vulnerable to fire.

• Newly unlocked content will now trigger a popup in the main menu.

• Removed overworld camera inertia, reducing motion sickness when moving around the map.

• The game now defaults to max 60 FPS when settings are first initialized.

• Mountain Villager can now throw snowballs.

• Tweaked bloom settings.

• Overworld nodes now more accurately represent the enemies that can appear within.

• Ghosts are now resistant to void damage.

• The in-game feedback tool now also sends us a copy of your current save data for easier debugging.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where occasionally no enemies would spawn at all.

• Fixed shop inventories not always properly carrying over from island to hub.

• Fixed an issue where 'hurt' animations could interfere with cinematic animations.

• Optimized some UI assets to improve performance.

• Fixed Dobbie animation clipping.

• Fixed some unit recycling issues.

• Fixed enemies occasionally spawning too close to friendly units on battle start.

• Fixed bonus objective system not accounting for enemy damage immunities.

• Unlimited FPS option now limits max FPS to 240 instead of actual unlimited to avoid GPU overload.

• Cleaned up debug logging, which might improve performance slightly across the board, particularly during level generation.

• Fixed some VFX not scaling to fit multi-tile units properly.

• Fixed action cam jank.

• Fixed some background trees not fading in certain environments.

• Fixed order-of-initialization issue with passives to ensure that immunity to (de)buffs takes precedence over potentially gaining those (de)buffs.

• Fixed some incorrect 'inactive' skill icons.

• Fixed Void Blast description reflecting enemy-only targeting.

• Fixed incorrect projectile origin for thrown items on Blubber Pistoleer.

Happy Dobbeling!

- Jim & Michelle

Heyo!

Dobbel Dungeon is 10% off as part of the Steam Spring Sale! 🌸

Discount starts today and lasts till March 26th 🐤

Happy Dobbeling!

- Jim & Michelle

Heyo!

We've just released our first batch of Steam community items, representing all 8 playable heroes!

Each hero has their own trading card, profile background, animated avatar and emoticon, and we might've also snuck in an animated sticker or two!

Trading cards can be obtained by simply playing Dobbel Dungeon or via the Community Market and can be used to create an increasingly awesome-looking badge! The rest of the items can be purchased with Steam Points in the Points Shop right here: https://store.steampowered.com/points/shop/app/2622820.

Happy Dobbeling!

- Jim & Michelle

Heyo!

This patch addresses the following:

Changes

• Included support for DirectX 12 and Vulkan graphics APIs. Dobbel Dungeon runs on DirectX 11 by default, but if you're among the few who might be experiencing weird graphical issues / crashes that aren't resolved after making sure your graphics drivers are up-to-date and playing around with the in-game graphics settings, switching to one of the other APIs might do the trick (although it seems every API comes with its own caveats depending on which hardware it's being run on).

  • Since these type of issues are hard to replicate without having the exact hardware you're using, and we are only a very small team with limited resources, any and all info you're willing to share if you still encounter these type of issues would be highly appreciated! (Either via our Discord or by sending us an email to [email protected] is your best bet at ensuring we see your reports).

How to switch graphics API for Dobbel Dungeon

• To switch to DirectX12, add -force-d3d12 to your Dobbel Dungeon launch parameters.

• To switch to Vulkan, add -force-vulkan to your Dobbel Dungeon launch parameters.

• For more info how to set launch parameters, see https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/7D01-D2DD-D75E-2955.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where low-HP monsters (particularly on Easy mode) did not drop any gold when defeated.

• Fixed Undead not converting incoming poison damage to healing properly.

• Fixed Healing & Shield related Amulet & Charm items not working properly on the majority of actions that actually deal those 'damage' types.

• Fixed an issue where the hero ghost tutorial did not block regular game input (which on controller mode specifically could cause you to enter a 'frozen' shop).

• Fixed an issue where achievements might not get completed in Steam if they were being carried over from a local save to a cloud save.

Next steps

This patch concludes our immediate 'release hotline' phase, as at this point we're fairly confident that the game is stable enough to continue building upon. Thanks to everyone for reporting those pesky bugs in great detail!

We are aware of a couple of minor issues that still occur in specific circumstances here and there, and please keep letting us know if you find anything weird still, but we will be patching what we can along with the more substantial content updates that we'll now shift our attention towards.

Since our release went a lot better than we had expected, we can safely say that more content is definitely coming! Without spoiling too much in advance, new enemies, interactions and quests are already in the works.

At the same time, we also want to get the game Steam Deck verified, so we'll need to figure out how to balance everything workload / timeline wise (since it is still just the 2 of us). So, whilst we can't say exactly when which updates will be dropping, know that they are coming! Keep an eye on the news feed or join our Discord for the occasional sneak-peek!

Happy Dobbeling!

- Jim & Michelle

Heyo!

This quick patch addresses the following:

Changes

• When cloud save is active, the game now also checks for existing local save files and ensures the latest run and furthest progression are carried over into the cloud save file.

Happy Dobbeling!

- Jim & Michelle

Heyo!

This patch addresses the following:

Changes

• When you visit a shop on an island, that shop's inventory will now carry over to the hub area and will be restocked back up to the shop's initial inventory size if needed.

Fixes

• Fixed a critical issue where the level generation fallback mechanism could generate levels without a full grid.

• Fixed an issue on Easy mode where it was possible for the game to mess up an internal counter after any of your heroes were defeated in battle that would ultimately result in no more enemies spawning at the start of a battle.

• Fixed an issue where achievements related to completing a certain number of islands would count the final boss as an island.

• Traps can no longer be placed on top of each other.

• Fixed broken localization for the start button in the island info panel.

• Fixed an issue where the Russian font was too compressed for smaller font sizes.

• Fixed Barbara not having the proper idle animation for carrying a chicken.

Happy Dobbeling!

- Jim & Michelle

Heyo!

This patch addresses the following:

Changes

• Sharp Sword is now uncommon (as it should've been)

Fixes

• Fixed a critical issue that could happen when an enemy died whilst rolling any kind of dice before their turn had officially ended.

• Fixed item tooltips not updating properly after equipping via drag&drop

• Fixed a small internal error regarding character defeat response sound management.

• Fixed Poison Dip not ticking usage for ranged attacks.

• Fixed Poison Dip applying poisoned when performing a buff.

• Fixed Big Game not being properly removed from affected units at the end of your turn.

• Fixed Inspiring Blows responding to damage dealt by ANY character rather than just the intended unit.

• Fixed an issue where normal dice that were still being rolled after the player ended their turn would end up in the next unit's dice tray.

Happy Dobbeling!

- Jim & Michelle

Heyo!

This patch addresses the following:

Changes

• Sturdy no longer affects (de)buffs (e.g. Burning or Bleeding) and now reduces incoming damage by 1 instead of 2.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where shadow clones were unable to generate an appropriate skill tree for themselves when the original unit had a looot of skills unlocked, which caused a softlock.

• Fixed an issue where the final boss would not end his turn after spawning shadow clones if this phase was triggered at the start of his turn by a DOT debuff (e.g. Burning), which caused a softlock.

Happy Dobbeling!

- Jim & Michelle

Heyo!

This patch addresses the following:

Changes

• 'Defeat x with one action' objectives now require the party to have access to at least 2 different AOE attacks.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the final boss could get stuck when executing an action that spawned something (like bombardment or meteor shower) that resulted in damage to himself that would cause him to be defeated.

• Fixed an issue where the final boss would continue his turn during dialogue sequences if he damaged himself beyond the dialogue threshold during his turn.

• Fixed an issue where the final boss's final phase would not trigger if he was somehow damaged way over the threshold before the previous phase had even begun.

• Fixed a minor animation clipping issue in the final boss' cauldron animations

• Fixed an issue where the skill tree panel wasn't high enough to navigate to every skill on 4:3 aspect ratio resolutions.

• Fixed misspelled mission complete banner in German

• Fixed Low & Very Low graphics settings not having HDR enabled, which resulted in incorrect lighting behaviour (particularly in Brimstone Quarry)

• Fixed an issue with how quickly the internal flag was raised for whether or not to skip the hub intro sequence on new runs.

• Fixed an issue that caused companion achievements to be automatically completed.

Happy Dobbeling!

- Jim & Michelle

Heyo!

This patch addresses the following issues:

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where savegames that came from a demo in which you just received the end-of-demo popup would not be continuable in the full version.

• Fixed issue where shops did not appear in the hub when their corresponding mission was failed on the previous island.

Happy Dobbeling!

- Jim & Michelle

Heyo!

Dobbel Dungeon is now available! For reals!

Massive thanks to everyone who supported us throughout development, be it by sharing your feedback on our demo, joining our playtests, hyping us up in our Discord server, visiting our booths at various events or simply sharing kind words when we needed them. We could not have done this without you!

Demo update

As part of this release, we've also overhauled our demo to more accurately reflect the full version in terms of adventure structure, pacing, balance and overall quality.

Please note that any save file previously created with a demo/playtest/game version below 1.0 will be completely wiped when you first boot up the new demo or full version.

However, any progress you make in the demo from this point onward will carry over into the full game, including your current adventure progress and hero unlocks! So, if you're still on the fence about whether Dobbel Dungeon is for you, make sure to give the demo another shot.

Next steps

For at least the next couple of weeks, we will be closely monitoring our Discord server and community forums for feedback and will prioritize squashing whatever sneaky little bugs still dare to show their faces.

After that, we will likely shift our focus towards achieving Steam Deck Verified status. This will include some controller-specific UI tweaks (particularly where small text is still involved) as well as adding quality-of-life features like control scheme remapping and glyph detection based on which controller you're using.

After that, the possibilities are endless. We've got plenty of ideas for future Dobbel Dungeon content, but be sure to let us know what you'd like to see added so we know what to prioritize!

Good luck, have fun, and as always: Happy Dobbeling!

- Jim & Michelle

Heyo!

Dobbel Dungeon just passed 25.000 wishlists! Amazing!

We sincerely hope that each and every one of you will have a wonderful time playing Dobbel Dungeon when it releases this Monday!

Happy Dobbeling!

Jim & Michelle

Heyo!

We're excited to share that Dobbel Dungeon will officially launch on February 16th 2026!

If you hadn't already, make sure to add Dobbel Dungeon to your wishlist to get notified when it goes live and take advantage of our early-bird launch discount!

Massive thanks to everyone who has supported us throughout development. We hope you'll have a blast with the full game!

Happy Dobbeling!

Jim & Michelle

Heyo!

This patch is mainly a response to a vulnerability that was found in the previous version of Unity that we were using (https://unity.com/security/sept-2025-01). Other than that fix, only some minor tweaks happened:

Changelist

• Unity security patch

• Restrained applied by Bear Trap now lasts until the affected unit's next turn again

• Fixed Elite enemy variants appearing when they shouldn't

• Earthquake now counts as Ranged attack

Happy Dobbeling! - Jim & Michelle

Heyo!

Dobbel Dungeon will be taking part in the upcoming Steam Next Fest! 

In preparation for this event, we’ve just updated our demo with a whole bunch of polish, balance and QoL tweaks that resulted from us slowly but surely closing in on that sweet V1.0!

Speaking of V1.0: Given the amount of work that’s still ahead for the two of us before we’d feel comfortable releasing Dobbel Dungeon for real, we felt that our release window of Q4 2025 was unfortunately a bit too ambitious. As such, we’ve decided to adjust our release window to Q1 2026, so we can give the remaining content the care & attention it deserves. As someone somewhere probably once said: “A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad”.

In any case, please note that this update features a breaking change to the way overworld data is saved, so if you were in the middle of a run, you will unfortunately have to start a new one after this update. High-level save data, such as tutorials and unlocked heroes, remains unaffected though!

Changelist

• Changed the way run data is saved in preparation for v1.0

• Added sneak-previews for all heroes planned for v1.0

• Inspected actions now show tooltips for any buffs they may apply. These tooltips will also automatically appear when inspecting things that contain actions (e.g. skills, items).

• Implemented new battle transition animations

• Implemented ‘Flying’ passive, which allows units to move over chasms / water and ignore ground-based effects like earthquakes.

• ‘Building’ passive has been replaced with separate ‘Object’ and ‘Immovable’ passives

• Implemented ‘Shove’ mechanic, which allows you to push units away from you and possibly cause collision damage with others.

• Healing potions now add a bonus to a roll, rather than using a fixed value.

• Slightly reduced difficulty scaling and enemy spawn rates on tactician difficulty.

• Slightly reduced difficulty of escort missions.

• Destroying a cage will now release the prisoner inside again with no penalty to health.

• Increased cage health.

• The intro cinematic now first takes you into the party creation menu, instead of straight into the tutorial battle

• Tweaked Game Over screen

• Tweaked glass shader

• Various balance tweaks to all heroes.

• Fixed various LOD issues

• Improved the way passive buffs are handled under the hood

• Improved controller navigation & inspection systems

• Added missing controller glyphs in various menus

• Fixed some potentially critical order-of-execution issues in the overworld regarding tutorials and failstate

• Fixed various misconfigured animators, which caused some characters to not show the correct emotions in the battle result screen

• Improved the way action previews are calculated and shown

• Fixed certain characters appearing in overworld dioramas still having their walk puffs enabled

• Fixed custom cursor hotspot offset

Happy Dobbeling!

• Jim & Michelle

Heyo!

This demo update contains mostly small bugfixes, but also a first attempt at proper ultrawide resolution support.

If you're using an ultrawide monitor to play Dobbel Dungeon and you still encounter issues with UI elements being misaligned after this update, please let us know!

Changelist

• Implemented ultrawide resolution support

• Fixed an issue where sometimes chasms (e.g. rivers) weren't properly marked as such under the hood

• Fixed an issue with duplicate animation triggers.

• Fixed an issue where self-targeted actions were still considered for 'apply to enemy' bonus objectives

• Fixed an issue where 'Charge'-type actions would not properly end if the unit that used it died mid-action

• Fixed a critical issue that could happen when you quit the tutorial mission after having dismissed the first action tutorial

Happy Dobbeling! - Jim & Michelle

• Fixed windmill not fading out when close to cam on lower quality settings
• Fixed cloud shadows not appearing
• Implemented a graphics setting to toggle Bloom
• Implemented a gameplay setting to toggle Custom Cursor (If you've previously encountered an issue where the cursor did not align with where it was actually at according to the game, please check and let us know if this option addresses that issue).
• AO, AA, DOF and Bloom settings now dynamically adjust themselves when the overall quality level is changed.
• Fixed an issue where 'consuming'-type actions (e.g. Consume Flame) did not work at all
• Fixed an issue where companions could be spawned on invalid tiles
• Fixed an issue where AOE spawnables (e.g. Spike Growth) would spawn on chasms
• Tweaked foliage materials
• Fixed Porc Tent health not responding to difficulty setting
• Adjusted lower quality settings to be more style-consistent with the higher ones.

• Fixed a critical animation state issue that could happen when ‘Skip dice animations’ was enabled and you tried to dash right after manipulating a die
• Fixed missing boss battle music
• Fixed an issue where remaining overworld nodes became unavailable as soon as the boss node was revealed.
• Implemented an ‘undo movement’ button
• Improved ‘first-turn’ tutorial
• Implemented ‘resistances’ category in unit description card
• Improved unit description card layout
• Implemented (optional) end-of-turn verification
• Valid dice slots are now also highlighted when hovering over a die, instead of only when a die was being dragged
• Dice that are invalid for your currently selected action will now visually indicate this unavailability
• Battle cam now starts at a 45° angle

• Implemented graphics settings for ambient occlusion and depth of field
• Fixed an issue where hurt and death sounds were played at the same time
• Fixed a critical issue related to inspecting an enemy's actions when they are executing them
• Improved enemy movement evaluation logic
• Fixed an issue where players could spawn in enclosed spaces around buildings
• Fixed an issue where 'critical state' music wouldn't trigger for non-hero mission-critical units
• Fixed missing font glyphs for eastern languages
• Fixed hero passives still showing up in the hero's ghost overview panel
• Fixed tutorial music
• Fixed shop controller issue where the shop list wouldn't scroll along with your selection properly
• Fixed a controller issue where using a teleport action would cause the action card to enter an errored state after completion
• Fixed 'exit' button not working on game over screen
• Fixed issue where you could continue a failed run
• Hotfixed a critical issue that randomly caused the next unit's turn to not start during chicken run. If you still encounter this issue, please let us know.
• Balance tweaks

• Implemented difficulty modes (4 total)
• Implemented hero ghost system
• Implemented Mystic (Quest + Shop)
• Implemented in-run hero recruitment
• Rebalanced enemies, in line with new difficulty modes
• Rebalanced hero skills and progression
• Bonus objectives now scale with run progress & difficulty mode
• Implemented controller inspection mode
• Improved enemy AI (Better performance, faster decision making & more situational awareness)
• Implemented 'auto speed up enemy turn' gameplay setting
• Implemented 'skip dice animations' gameplay setting
• Implemented (experimental) keyboard hotkeys for action management (Categories: Z-M, Actions: F1-F8, Dice: Alphanumerical 1-0)
• Implemented a 'critical health' UI overlay
• Fixed issue where enemies could spawn in inaccessible positions
• Fixed a glitch where action category buttons visually messed up their ‘selected’ state after executing an action
• Improved clay texture mapping on characters
• Fixed dialogue appearing in front of pause menu during cinematics
• Added cloud shadows
• Fixed an issue with ambush quests where heroes could occasionally spawn inside obstacles
• Fixed some inaccessible bridge issues
• When the boss node is discovered, all other uncompleted nodes now become inaccessible

• Enemy spawners now operate on a token-basis, where enemies require more tokens to spawn the more powerful they are.
• Enemy spawn points are now chosen based on a new rating system, rather than being (mostly) random.
• Enemies will now take a penalty to initiative if they spawn within attack range of any hero.
• Reworked enemy brains to be more robust in 'less than ideal' situations (mainly fixing the issue where they would sometimes just stand still and do nothing).
• Most enemies can now use the Dash action.

• Cauterize is no longer considered an attack (which could cause things like 'flame blade' to add damage to the action's output)
• Added a specific tutorial popup to explain that any damage dealt to a cage will be transfered to the prisoner inside.
• Fixed some missing LODs