Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers news & patch notes

Helloooo Tavern Dwellers!

We are so excited to announce that Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers Update 2.0 Doubling Down is OUT NOW! This update brings tons of new content, customisation and challenges for novice card sharks and veteran gamblers alike.

What’s New in Update 2.0: 

• 4 Brand New Floors: Test your luck across four fresh, challenging environments: Surveillance, Laboratory, Anxiety and Apathy. Each new floor comes packed with unique events and dangerous foes specific to these levels. 

• 50+ Lucky Charms: Equip powerful new Lucky Charms that remain active throughout the run, each one offering a different effect on your play. 

• Custom Runs: Take control of your fate! Tweak parameters and tailor your runs with a variety of rules and twists. 

• Daily Run Mode: Every day brings a new challenge featuring a fixed starting deck and pre-selected run modifiers. Compare strategies and see who can play the best hand. 

• And so much more! 3 new cards, a new Unique Chip, reworked existing cards and Unique Chips, new foes to face on existing floors AND Steam Trading Cards! 

You can find more detailed patch notes here.

Whether you're looking to build game-breaking card combos or take on the daily global challenge, Update 2.0 is doubling down on everything players love about Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers. 

To celebrate this massive milestone, new players can jump into the high-stakes action with a limited time 50% off Steam Daily Deal promotion, starting today! 🍻

Good luck, have fun and play those cards right 😀

Hello Tavern Dwellers! We're so excited to bring you the biggest update ever to Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers - the Doubling Down 2.0 Update!

New floors:

This update adds 4 new floors, complete with new foes, events, and music! After making your initial choice at the end of the Tavern, you will now have a second choice at the end of VIP Area and Casino.

• After VIP Area, choose between the existing path through Head Office and Hope, or a new path through Laboratory and Apathy.

• After Casino, choose between the existing path through the Dungeon and Despair, or a new path through Surveillance and Anxiety.

Lucky Charms:

Lucky Charms are new items that are collected during your run that have permanent, always-on effects. You'll be given one at the start of Jack's Tavern, then one in the middle of each floor after the Tavern. As you go, they'll be added to your Collection.

Bosses will also have Lucky Charms at Double Down! and higher difficulties.

(These are just a few of the 50+ charms you'll come across!)

High Stakes:

After winning at least one run you'll unlock High Stakes, which is a new mode that lets you twist the existing rules of the game by starting a Daily or Custom run.

• Daily Runs - a randomly chosen deck, and three randomly chosen modifiers

• Custom Runs - choose from a list of modifiers, and input your own seed

New cards:

• Gift Card

  • On play: -3 value, then give a ??? to your draw pile.

  • On discard: if value is 0 or less, lose 10 chips, set value to 10, and permanently change the gifted card to ???.

• Railroad Card

  • On pickup: lose 250 chips.

  • On taking damage: gain 10 chips. Repeat for each Railroad Card you currently have.

• Steam Trading Card

  • On play: +1 token. If there are at least 5 tokens, burn, and add a Foil Booster Pack to your hand.

  • On discard: steal 1 chip from your foe, and discards to foe's discard pile.

New Unique Chip:

• Bag of Chips

  • Start with 1 (0 at Double Down!) Advantage.

  • On stand: randomly gain between -1 and 2 Advantage.

Reworks:

• Chip in a Bottle

  • On spending chips out of encounters: gain 2 (1 at Double Down!) Advantage. Advantage persists between encounters.

• Vaccination Card

  • On taking damage: add 1 token.

  • On stand: gain 3 shield per token and remove all tokens.

• Treasure Vault

  • On gaining chips: add 1 permanent token.

  • On winning with max score: if there are at least 5 tokens, remove all tokens, and count all Diamonds as Everything for this blackjack.

Collection overhaul:

• Adds Lucky Charms and Unique Chips to the collection

• Updates the art for the completion badges

• Adds collection bookmarks for quicker navigation

• Adds a more detailed stats page

• Some extra collection toggles:

  • Toggle showing your collected Foil cards

  • Toggle showing the highest difficulty sticker, or difficulty stickers for each of the four paths

  • Toggle showing card progress stickers outside of the collection (that's right, you can hover cards to see their completion stickers during a run now!)

New unlockable ID Card customisation options:

• New unlockable ID Card customisation options! How do you unlock them? That's classified... Maybe if you tell the Dog he's a good boy he will tell you?

Balance changes:

Decks

• Adds a Joker to Black and Red Decks

• Birthday Deck now starts with 2 candles for D&DG's second birthday!

Cards

• Reduces the damage multiplier of XVIII The Moon and The Moon XVIII to 2x (was 3x)

• Card Number 52's suit is now Diamonds

• Insurance Card's suit is now Diamonds

• Bat Credit Card's suit is now Spades

• Changes Kingmaker to make it not able to "downgrade" special Kings into standard Kings (similar to Justice VIII)

• Changes Kingmaker to ensure that if it is changing a King it will change that King into a new King

• Prevents Break Limits from being able to target cards with values of 999 or -999

• Changes Terminate the Tower requiring using each option once this encounter before offering all 4 choices again

• Changes Lockpicking Card to unlock On Stand

• Lucky 7 now sets its value to 7 On Play

• Changes Library Card to charge you 5 chips On Stand rather than when the borrowed card was discarded

• Buff Wish to be twice as likely to succeed and also have a minimum success chance of 33%

Unique Chips

• Bargaining Chip now costs 21 chips at DD+ (was 15)

• Chip Off the Old Block now starts with 0 (-1 at Double Down!) Advantage (was -1/-2)

Floors and Events

• Adds additional foes to the pools for existing floors

  • All easy and hard pools now have 4 options each

• Shops can now appear in all floors (except the Tavern) after the second encounter

  • In the Tavern, shops will appear two encounters before the Manager

• Shops are now always offered in pairs

• Add one more hard encounter slot to VIP and Casino to make them the same length as other floors

• The Secret Passage event no longer takes up an encounter slot

• Three Card Monte now appears in the Casino instead of the Lounge

  • Lounge had too many events, and Casino not enough

• The Surrounded event is now Cornered and has moved to the VIP Area

  • Dungeon had too many events, and VIP Area not enough

• Adds a "keep neither" option to the Layoffs event

Foe changes:

Changes marked with QD+ only affect runs at Quadruple Down! or ALL IN! Changes marked with TD- only affect runs at Play it Safe, Double Down! or Triple Down! Changes not marked with either affect runs at all difficulty levels.

• Bard

  • 10 of Diamonds -> J of Diamonds

• Floorperson

  Removes Rules Card

  • QD+: Throwing Card -> Queen of Chess

  • QD+: Ace of Spades -> Throwing Card

  • QD+: Vaccination Card is now Foil

• Paparraza

  • Moves from Lounge required -> hard pool

• Card Shark

  • QD+: 2 of Diamonds -> Card Number 52

• Dungeon Collector

  • QD+: Card Sleeve is no longer Foil

  • QD+: adds Fingerprint Card

• Cardian Angel

  • Now stands at 15

• The Rain Man

  • QD+: Queen of Clubs -> Queen of the Stone Age

• Decromancer

  • QD+: removes Foil Card Sleeve

• Slime

  • TD -: removes Victim Card, removes Carduus

  • QD+: removes 8 of Spades, removes 8 of Spades

• Casino Poker Player

  • Adds Gift Card

• Executioner

  • QD+: adds Foil Jackpot

• Deity of Despair

  • QD+: adds another Sweep the Leg

Other improvements:

• Glitched Card has a new look!

• Cards modified by the Tavern Counterfeiter will bear evidence of that modification

• New layout for choosing next floor

• Adds new art for Casino/VIP Area when secret passage was used

• The current seed or daily date is now shown on your ID Card

• Changes text that appear under choice cards to be lighter coloured with a dark shadow, helping readability

• Allows backing out of a removal choice without losing chips in Shop: Card Removal

• Change to only allow changing game language in title screen settings menu, which prevents a whole class of bugs to do with text not updating correctly when swapping language mid-run

• Change the ID Card red flash on taking damage to be white so that it is actually noticeable

• Reduce how frequently we save the settings file at launch and when changing settings on the settings page

• New health potion assets for Loot Boxes Event

• Foil and Glitched visual effects now correctly work together!

• Renames Nothings suit to Nothing

• Renames All Suits At Once suit to Everything

• Changes Fortune Teller card hover descriptions to show heal amount

• ID Card, chip count, Unique Chips, and Lucky Charms will now be shown on the loss screen

• Makes card markings (i.e., Library Card, Yellow Card) show up in pile previews

• Makes the Walk Away and Push Your Luck cards fade in at the same time on the game over screen

Bug fixes:

• Fixes a bug where touching a foreseen card and then touching anywhere else on the screen would leave the card tooltip in place

• Fixes a bug where scrubbing with the touchscreen could hover a node that was not navigable (meant you could hover uncollected cards in the collection)

• Fixes a bug where if you clicked a foe's card that had been played by SD Card, it would play the unlock card sound effect

• Fixes the localised text not updating to English when pressing the reset button on settings menu

• Fixes Treasure Vault showing 2x as many tokens as it was supposed to in previous round preview

• Fixes previous round preview crashing when opened a second time when the previous round included a Treasure Vault with at least 1 token

• Fixes a bug where a foe's Foil Proxy Card would not trigger

• Fixes a bug where a Hermit could burn a Moon and then stay hidden even though score was revealed

• Fixes a bug where cards with On Play effects would think they were in play earlier than they were, which would show their effects as starting in the wrong position

• Fixes bugs with Get Well Soon not considering that it could be locked or unlocked from things outside of its own effect

• Fixes an issue where dealing quick damage (from e.g., Trap Card) after taking damage that killed the player but when the player had a way to survive that damage (e.g. Get Well Soon Card) would kill the player even though they healed to a positive HP number

• Fixes the Dealer ID Card not being included in loss card falling animations

• Fixes a bug where exploiting Fake ID was making Your Fake ID count toward favourite card

• Fixes the distressed edges of cards being veeeeeery slightly the wrong colour

• Fixes a bug where wishing twice in a row could sometimes not play the foresight animation

• Fixes a bug where some portraits weren't positioned correctly in the credits

• Fixes a bug where viewing an opponents Your Fake ID in a choice would show the player portrait instead

Hello Tavern Dwellers! Mike from Purple Moss Collectors here.

April Fools

In both 2024 and 2025 we did fun April Fools updates for Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers. 2024 added the Glitched Deck, and changed Tavern Counterfeiter to allow turning numbered cards into Glitched Cards. In 2025 we added the Signature Glitched Deck, along with some glitchy Easter Eggs while using that deck. And both years after April Fools ended the changes stuck around permanently.

Usually at this time of year we'd be getting ready to push the release button on the April Fools update - but not this time!

Aww, why not?

It's good news though, the reason we aren't doing it is because we are right in the middle of working on a really big update for later this year! Basically, we want this update to be the very best it can be and so didn't want to get distracted with an April Fools update.

Sorry to all the April Fools Enjoyers, pinky promise we'll do one next year.

Folder art by Zypter

Is this folder from the new update? Is this a sneak peek?!

Maybe? It's classified.

Fan art

While you're here, check out this awesome fanart from @sketchyspudley.bsky.social on Bluesky!

https://bsky.app/profile/sketchyspudley.bsky.social/post/3mhjiqq3ptc2p

As always, thanks for all the support. I feel very fortunate every day that we are able to work on making Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers the very best it can be!

See you in the tavern,

Mike

Bug fixes

• fixes a bug where the start of floor music would not play the correct tracks when starting a new game

• fixes a bug where card choices could be hard to hover when moving the mouse quickly

• fixes a bug where clicking to dismiss a pile preview sometimes didn't work

• fixes a bug where the hover tooltip for a card could briefly flash on hover

• fixes a bug where the draw pile preview card right next to the draw pile was hard to hover with the mouse

• fixes a bug where the choice card right next to an event's card was hard to hover with the mouse

• fixes a bug where an exploited card with a choice to make on exploit could get stuck hovered

• fixes a bug where rapidly hovering and unhovering the peek button during flip animation would show the static hover outline instead of outlining the animated chip

• fixes a bug where when using controller/keyboard if you returned from a peek the first choice was hovered and then when the peek animation finished the first choice was unhovered

Touch Support

Big overhaul to the game's touchscreen support.

• now first tap on a card will hover it, second will interact with it.

• you can now drag cards from your hand into play to play them.

• while hovering a card you can press and drag left and right on the touchscreen to scrub between cards, allowing you to precisely choose a specific card even when they are very close together.

• lots of changes to make swapping between input methods (mouse, keyboard, controller, touchscreen) seamless.

16:10 and borderless fullscreen

• adds support for 16:10 aspect ratio .

Please only use this if you have a 16:10 monitor or are in windowed mode.

• adds a borderless fullscreen option.

Foe Balancing

Alucard (Triple Down! and below)

• Replaces Ace of Hearts with 1 of Hearts.

The Ace was too consistent a source of both value and healing in long encounters.

Bouncer (Triple Down! and below)

• Replaces King of Clubs with King of Hearts.

This makes him deal less damage when affected by Rules Card/Sweep the Leg, and also makes him susceptible to disruption via Blood Donor Card.

Mr President

• Swaps the normal deck and Quadruple Down! deck for Mr President.

• In the new Quadruple Down! deck: makes the 10 of Diamonds a 6 of Diamonds and the 6 of Hearts a 10 of Hearts.

Previously the normal deck was harder since the Blood Donor Card would eventually drain Hearts to 0 leaving it with a low deck sum.

Other improvements

• changes the order that things are moved into position at the start of encounters, this makes the draw piles enter the screen smoother and at the same time, as well as slightly reducing the total time spent moving things into position.

• improves the responsiveness of input glyphs on draw and discard piles when the last card moves out of them.

• when trying to play Official Trump Card while not having enough chips the error message will now be "not enough chips" instead of "no valid target".

• makes the cards shown while previewing a starting deck hoverable.

• improvements to mouse and keyboard navigation of draw pile when foresight active.

• improves keyboard/controller navigation on the settings page.

• increased speed to move between cards by holding down a directional navigation button.

• performance improvements to the speed of creating cards, and the time to get into game after pressing New Game or Continue buttons.

Bug fixes

• fixes a bug where interactable Unique Chips could be interacted during card effects which could lead to a softlock.

• fixes a softlock caused by more than one Fingerprint Card trying to exploit the same Fake ID.

• fixes a softlock caused by the foe having a Foil King of the World and at least one more Foil Face card.

• fixes a bug where Diamond in the Rough could set shields to briefly be negative.

• fixes a bug where VIII Justice and Justice VIII would not transform Glitched Cards that had rolled Jacks.

• fixes a bug where the preview of a discarded The Agile Agenda would show the wrong number.

• fixes a bug where a Glitched Card that rolled Rorschach Card would not force the foe to stand.

• fixes a bug where The Devil XV would not detect a tie if the tie was from one player being busted and the other player having a score of 0.

• fixes a bug where if foe has busted with Emperor and you have Chariot in play at end of round, you take damage.

• fixes a bug where King of Gold could affect a card in a different play pile when that card swapped the pile that King of Gold was in (e.g. Business Card).

• fixes a bug where Loyalty Card would not visually apply stamps on Have a Drink event.

• fixes a bug where Dungeon Counterfeiter would not copy the card's grime or distress.

• fixes a bug where Dungeon Counterfeiter would not copy Proxy Card's background art.

• fixes a bug where the draw pile would not be visually shuffled if it only had 2 cards in it.

• fixes a bug in the Surrounded event where clicking distract then bribe very quickly would show the wrong dialogue.

• fixes a bug where Agile Agenda's "1" label or Proxy Card's card name labels could be stuck on cards during the reroll animation if the final result was going to The Agile Agenda or Proxy Card.

• fixes a bug where the bottom right buttons in the following places did not have the keyboard/controller shortcut for that type of button: Deck choice (choose random deck), Unique Chip choice (reroll), Sofa Sleeper (leave)

• fixes a bug where new (non-functional) copies of Unique Chips and difficulty chips were being added every time a room was selected.

• fixes the lock and unlock sound effects being played multiple times when more than one card was being locked or unlocked at the same time.

• fixes a bug where a card you started with from Random Deck could be stickered at end of run even though it hadn't ever been recorded as collected (it will now also be marked as collected).

• fixes a bug where the tooltip of a hovered played card would briefly be shown on top of the pile preview when using the keyboard/controller shortcuts to show a pile preview.

• fixes a bug where a facedown Glitched Card in card reward screen would not have its glitch intensity updated when glitch intensity setting changed.

• fixes a bug where the interact glyph would show on non-exploitable Glitched Cards if they were previously exploitable.

• fixes bugs with initial focusing at launch on Steam Deck.

• fixes bugs with re-focusing after using the STEAM or Meatball buttons on Steam Deck.

• fixes a bug where the game could get cut off when using windowed mode on Windows if that would make the window too large for the monitor.

Heya Tavern Dwellers!

Hope everyone has had a great start to 2026 - we've almost completed one month of the new year! (How??)

ICYMI: Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers is now 40% off as a part of the Yogscast Games New Year Sale! You know, the usual - great deals, great time to pick up the game etc etc, won't go waffling on about that.

We've also got a couple of cool complete-the-set bundles for you guys!

Our friends over at Zandbox Studio have just launched their game RogueJack21, a blackjack inspired deckbuilder with tons of fun!

Get 20% off the Gamblers & Rogues bundle!

Our other pals at Clumsy Bear Studio have just launched their game Hungry Horrors into early access - it's got deckbuilding, cooking and some creepy monsters.

Get 10% off the Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers + Hungry Horrors bundle!

Hello Tavern Dwellers! The Steam Awards 2025 are open for nomination and we'd be grateful if you chose Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers for Labour of Love! We love every moment working on the game and hope that you are still having loads of fun with it.

May the best game win!

Rendering

• changes engine render mode to prevent a bug where the screen was black other than the mouse cursor.

In v1.4.1 we made a change to the engine render mode to better support older devices, but this introduced a new rendering issue where the screen would be displayed black other than the mouse cursor. So we're changing back to the same renderer that v1.4 used, and anyone that has the "white screen" bug that was in v1.4 can now swap render modes by putting "--rendering-driver opengl3" (without the "") into the launch arguments for the game in Steam.

Damage sound effects

• these have been simplified and made to be much more natural, especially the sound effect that played on dealing 21 or more damage.

ID Card Customisation

• the fingers are now shown in greyscale when choosing to have no right hand accessory in the ID Card Customisation menu, to make it clearer that the fingers will not show during a run if you choose this option.

Bug fixes

• fixes the Shields in Spades achievement not working.

• fixes a bug where Glitched Card would not update the choice helper text for some cards.

• fixes a bug where the new foil map wouldn't display correctly for Flash Card when exploited.

• fixes a bug where a card dealt to player's hand could be shown facedown in Go Fish event.

• fixes a crash caused by trying to go to next event/encounter very quickly after seeing the choices.

• fixes the Memory Test flip timing being too fast, especially at higher animation speeds.

• fixes a bug where clicking the main menu button to join QQ could sometimes lead to Discord instead.

Customisation changes

• change the right hand to show all the time instead of just when having cards in hand

• changes the left and right hands to change colour depending on current skin colour customisation setting

• changes the no smoking setting to only visually prevent smoking but still leave the cigarette as selected customisation if it is selected - means you can swap the setting back and forth without having to also change the customisation

Foresight changes

Make the foreseen card more visible by:

• reducing the opacity of the purple mask

• increasing the size of the preview, especially in top left and bottom right corners

• reducing the opacity and value of the eye background colour

Go Fish changes

• Improves Go Fish event to be a more consistent reward pool and to not be so confusing as to what is happening on-screen

More consistent reward pool:

• get first set of cards from player's deck

• get second set of cards from Gamblers decks (pooled from Tavern, Lounge, VIP Area)

• reduce to 8 pairs in total and 4 cards held in each hand

Not so confusing:

• move cards to a discard pile on the right side of the event instead of burning them

• change mid-event dialogue to show the full message immediately which helps a lot with the timing of the event

• tweaks to the order of moving cards around to make the event more readable

• move first cards from owner's deck positions instead of dealer position to make it clearer where they came from

• better timing to show event description label

• better text and layout for event description label

• better draw pile visuals and prevent the player from viewing the draw pile with "no peeking" dialogue and error sfx

Cool stuff:

• show the customised hand and accessory in Go Fish

• improve the way cards in hand are spread in Go Fish

• resort the hands if the card taken was from the centre of the pile

• show cards in Gambler's hand upside down hehehehe

Other improvements

• adds sound effects for the end of round damage animations

• adds a short delay after flipping cards on a few events now that flipping cards is much faster (Tavern Counterfeiter, Dungeon Counterfeiter, Have a Drink)

• progressively damages the Loyalty Card art as more stamps are added

• the left hand moves in and out of view now instead of just appearing when cards added to hand

• smoking visuals are now changed immediately when changing the Smoking Allowed setting

• removes the requirement to save a portrait before opening the portrait file location

• improves the localised description for Jimbo

**Bug fixes**

• fixes a bug where a Glitched Card rolled Wheel of Fortune X, which then drew a Glitched Card that turned into a The Lovers VI, resetting the original Glitched Card back to a default Glitched Card before it could tell the game it had finished its effect, and softlocking the encounter

• fixes a bug where the partyhorn sound effect would not play if you were using the Birthday Deck while having the right hand accessory customised to a non-partyhorn option

• fixes a bug where dialogue box could show up really big if dialogue shown twice quickly

• fixes a bug where Proxy Card text and background could show up on other cards in Slot Machine Shop after Proxy Card had been shown once

• fixes a bug where you could quit while final boss dialogue still open and continue to get one more card reward

• fixes a bug where a Red Card would be shown in your deck on the victory screen if your deck contained a Yellow Card

• fixes visual bugs when Glitched Card rolled Jack in a Box and Flash Card

Bug fixes

• fixes a crash when launching the game in English while system language was a non-English language

• fixes a crash when changing the language to English while system language was a non-English language

A word from the devs:

We're very sorry for wasting your time and delivering a frustrating experience on what was supposed to be a fun celebration of 1 year of D&DG. We feel we have let down our international players who were excited to play the Anniversary Update. We can only apologise, and we'd like to explain how this happened and what we are doing to avoid these kinds of issues in the future.

v1.3.4 -> v1.4

In this update we upgraded the engine version from Godot 3.6 to Godot 4.4.1. The upgrade was major (it took us 2 full days of work to even get the game to successfully launch!) and in particular the whole font and theming system was changed and we had to rewrite the way that D&DG changed languages.

One of the complications of D&DG being a pixel art game is that we need to be able to swap fonts depending on your language. For example fonts with accent characters, or Chinese, Japanese, or Cyrillic characters all need to have specific fonts to make sure text stays pixel perfect and readable. The system to swap fonts depending on language like this is called "remapping".

After the upgrade to Godot 4 the default export setting meant that these remapped fonts weren't being correctly exported to the version that you play on Steam. This was the reason why in v1.4 the fonts displayed wrong, or at the wrong size.

v1.4 -> v1.4.1

We changed the export setting which meant that all the fonts and their remaps were correctly being exported!

At this stage if you launched the game on a computer with English as the system language you could swap between all languages and all of the fonts displayed correctly. You could also launch the game in (for example) Spanish if your system language was Spanish.

But the export now working exposed a problem where we were still using the old Godot 3 remapping system for two of the fonts. Now that the fonts and remaps were being exported, this collision of two different remap systems caused the game to crash when you swapped to English if the game had started in another language (like it would if your system language wasn't English).

v1.4.1 -> v1.4.2

This update fixes the issue by changing those two specific fonts to be remapped the same way as all other fonts.

Our learnings for future development

We had done extensive in-editor testing in all the supported languages during the development of v1.4, but the remap issue in v1.4 was only appearing in the exported version (not the in-editor version) since the problem was caused by incorrect export settings.

What is now clear is that we needed to be doing as much play testing as possible on the exported version (the version players will get on Steam) rather than in-editor. We'll ensure that this happens for all future updates so that we don't cause these types of problems again.

Sorry again, and we hope you can now enjoy the new update!

Thanks for all the support, see you in the tavern soon.

- Mike & Gray from Purple Moss Collectors

PS: please also see the new FAQ for steps to fix a display problem with some graphics cards!

Gameplay speed changes

Changes to speed up gameplay across the board:

• Halved the time to flip the top card over when hitting

• Fixed the time to flip a card facedown being slower than the time to flip a card face up

• Sped up the time to smash score cards together, and to drop the pips when someone busts

• When chips, shield, or healing are gained let the next action begin when the first chip/shield/heart particle hits the ID Card instead of the last

• Removed a short delay at the end of gaining chips/shields/healing

• Removed some wind up frames from the big sword (21 damage or more) animation

• Quartered the time for an opponent to decide which choice to make

Other improvements

• Changed the engine render mode to better support a wider range of devices

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug where burning a foe's Queen of the Stone Age using a Gerald from Riviera would cause a softlock

• Fixed a bug where Broken Chip would not trigger correctly if busted due to a card like Four Mana Seven Seven

• Fixed a bug where Glitched Card couldn't update the displayed number if it rolled The Agile Agenda

• Fixed a bug where the displayed number from The Agile Agenda would stay on the Glitched Card when it was played a second time

• Fixed a bug where a card could be shown facedown even though there wasn't a XVIII The Moon or The Moon XVIII in play

• Fixed a bug where the Dealer had the wrong name set in the 8 card shop

• Fixed a bug where clicking the draw pile during the shuffle animation would crash the game

• Fixed bugs with the choose next floor screen leaving a semi-transparent layer on top of the game in some cases

• Fixed a bug where some chip counts were being rounded incorrectly

• Fixed a bug where language translations were not being exported by the engine correctly, which resulted in non-English fonts being displayed incorrectly

We've also pushed an update to the official soundtrack that fixes the tracks being out of order and the final track not playing.

Heya Tavern Dwellers, it's our birthday!

We're turning the big ol' 1 guys! It's time to celebrate our birthday with a major update - a complete engine upgrade, a bunch of changes and balances and a ton of quality of life improvements.

🎯 What's New:

• Complete Godot 4 engine upgrade

• Brand New Cards

• Remastered music

• Major balance overhaul

• Anniversary customization options

• Quality of life improvements

Here's a little sneak peek at some of the new cards!

Read the full patch notes here.

Godot 4 upgrade

We’ve upgraded D&DG from using Godot version 3.6 to using version 4.4. We’ve done this for a few reasons:

• Make console ports easier

• Get updates to the engine as they come out (Godot 3 is being updated much less than Godot 4) means the game is more future proofed

• It’s just such a nicer engine to work in!

👑 Also Check Out: The Royal Writ!

Speaking of celebrations - our publisher Yogscast Games just launched their new game The Royal Writ!

• They have a 20% launch discount running for 2 weeks!

• We're bundled up with The Royal Writ so you can get an extra 10% off - complete the set!

It’s wild to think that it has already been a full year since Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers first released! 

In that time we’ve been working hard to make the game the very best it can be, and this update is another big improvement. It adds anniversary celebration cosmetics, a new Tarot deck, 10 new cards, a ton of improved animations, balance change, and changes to the game’s music. 

Thank you to everyone that continues to play and support the game, it means the world and it's why we can keep improving the game. We’re really excited to bring this update to you, so here are the update notes! 

- Mike

1 Year Anniversary!

• The Birthday Card in the Birthday Deck now starts with 1 candle

• Adds 3 party hats and a sparkler accessory to the id card portrait customisation options

• Adds 3 party horns as customisation options for when you have cards in your hand

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• Adds a new card back celebrating the launch of The Royal Writ!

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New Tarot Deck Option

• Brand new Tarot Deck option from Discord community member Zypter!

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New Animations

• New animations for dealing damage at the end of a round

• New animations for gaining chips, gaining shields, and healing. These animations should make it much clearer which card was responsible for gaining chips/shields/health

• New animation for foresight

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New Cards

• Fight Club 

  • On play: Lock

  • On stand: Take 1 damage. Deal 1 damage

• Heart of the Cards

  • On play: Move a card to the top of your draw pile

• Blockbreaker Card

  • On stand: Lock. Add 1 token

  • At the start of next round: take 1 damage per token. Move to foe's side

• Proxy Card

  • At start of encounter: Transform this card into another card

• Licence to Kill

  • On gaining chips: Deal 3 damage

• Card Number 52

  • On spending chips: Deal 5 damage

• Fake ID

  • Exploit: Lose 21 chips. Permanently transform into Your Fake ID

• Your Fake ID

  • Before taking damage: Gain shield equal to incoming damage. Permanently transform into Fake ID. Burn

• Gold Card

  • On playing a Diamond: Steal 10 chips from your foe. Deal 3 damage.

• The Agile Agenda

  • On play: If value is 21 or more, permanently set value to 1

  • On exploit: Lose chips equal to value squared, deal damage equal to value, then permanently set value to next Fibonacci number

• Treasure Vault

  • On gaining chips: Add 1 permanent token per 10 chips gained

  • On winning with max score: If there are 5 or more tokens double all suit effects for this blackjack and remove all tokens

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Card Changes

• XIX The Sun

  • On play: Wish for a card from your draw pile, then foresight 1. Deal damage equal to value of revealed card

• Trump Card

  • Is now Handy

  • On stand: Instant blackjack

  • On discard: Shred this card

• Jackpot

  • On play, exploit, or stand: Add a random Jack to your draw pile

• Blood Donor Card

  • Drains health/value from cards that are All Suits At Once as well as cards that are Hearts

• Lightning of the 4th Kingdom

  • Increased damage dealt to 5 (was 3)

• Jimbo

  • Now repeats gaining 4 chips for each played card, rather than gaining 4 chips per played card

• Justice VIII

  • Never “downgrades” a special Jack into a standard King

• Temperance XIV

  • Loses 14 chips on play

• XX Judgment

  • Moves the created card to discard pile instead of draw pile

• King of Gold

  • Added an animation to more clearly show which card has been targeted by it

  • Will not change the suit if the newly played card is All Suits At Once

Suit Changes

• IV The Emperor is now Clubs (was Nothings)

• V The Hierophant is now Hearts (was Nothings)

• XIV Temperance is now Diamonds (was Nothings)

• The Emperor IV is now Spades (was Nothings)

• The Hierophant V is now Diamonds (was Nothings)

• Temperance XIV is now Diamonds (was Nothings)

• 4 of a Kind is now All Suits (was Nothings)

Deck Changes

• Signature Diamonds:

  • Swaps the 4 of Diamonds for a Negative 4 of Diamonds

Event Changes

• Sofa Sleeper

  • Shows the card you will get from Grab a Card

  • Rebalanced the chances to wake

  • Tweaked layout and art

Foe Balancing (All Difficulty Levels)

• Psychologist

  • Adds a Reverse Card

• CEO 

  • Removes 1x Time Card

• Deity of Hope

  • Removes Death XIII

  • Add a standard copy of every other card in their deck

• Knight of Cardonia

  • Adds a Fight Club

• Cultist

  • Adds a Diamond of 6’s

• Moved Executioner to the Easy dungeon pool

• Moved Cultist to the Hard dungeon pool

Foe Balancing (Triple Down! and Below)

• CEO

  • Adds a Cardecu

• Cardian Angel

  • Adds a 5 of Swords

Foe Balancing (Quadruple Down! and ALL IN!)

• Racer

  • Replaces 3 of Nothings with 4 of a Kind

• Knight of Cardonia

  • Replaces Jack of Spades with Bat Credit Card

  • Adds Foil Bat Credit Card

  • Cardiovascular Exercise is no longer Foil

  • Replaces 5 of Spades with Spade of 5’s

• Floorperson

  • Replaces Queen of Chess with Throwing Card

  • Replaces Diamond in the Rough with Vaccination Card

  • Replace 5 of Cups with Spade of 5’s

• CEO's Deck

  • Foil King of the Hill is no longer Foil

  • Foil XIV Temperance is no longer Foil

  • Time Card is now Foil

  • Removes 1x Fingerprint Card

  • Adds Gold Card

  • Adds Licence to Kill

• Deity of Hope's Deck

  • Replaces 7 of Nothings with Lucky 7

  • Replaces both 7 of Diamonds with Licence to Kill

• Deity of Despair

  • Ace of Spades is no longer Foil

• Zombie's QD+ Deck

  • Adds a Jackhammer of Clubs

• Final Boss Spoiler: Bastard's Deck

  • Adds Foil Blockbreaker

  • Adds The High Priestess II

  • Replaces 10 of Clubs with Gold Card

• The Dealer

  • Deals a Blockbreaker to both sides as part of the softlock prevention phase

Music

• The music has all been rebalanced and remastered, as well as volumes being rebalanced across the board to be more consistent. 

• Adds a new alternate music track for the Final Boss floor! 

           You can swap between Alternate and Original in the settings menu.

• There is now new music that plays after the boss but before the elevator, including a special track for the Fortune Teller.

QoL Improvements

• Event tooltips now better highlight chip and health costs and show tooltips for card descriptions when cards mentioned in event tooltips (e.g. Card Printer giving Misprinted Card)

• Add a restart run button to the pause menu

• Removes holding right thumbstick to restart the run (was causing issues for Steam Deck users using the right trackpad)

• Allow the Stand hotkey (keyboard Enter, gamepad West) to make card selections as well as the Interact hotkey (keyboard E, gamepad South)

• Adds an option to the settings menu that lets you turn on Stretch Pixels to Fit when in fullscreen. For some monitor sizes still will allow the game to take up more of the screen, and gives the pixel persists the option to keep everything on Pixel Perfect mode.

• Localisation and text improvements

Godot 4 Upgrade

We’ve upgraded D&DG from using Godot version 3.6 to using version 4.4. We’ve done this for a few reasons:

• Make console ports easier

• Get updates to the engine as they come out (Godot 3 is being updated much less than Godot 4) means the game is more future proofed

• It’s just such a nicer engine to work in!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where a Glitched Card with a stand effect would enact that effect twice

• Fixed a bug where a foe's King of Gold created by Booster Pack would target the Booster Pack

• Fixed bugs where some on stand effects wouldn’t trigger when the player forced to stand by Rorschach Card, King of Space and Time, VII The Chariot, The Chariot VII, The Hermit IX, Strength XI

• Fixed a bug where King of Space and Time would not trigger its effect if a foe played it, even if they had a Jack in play

• Fixed a bug where very large numbers from ID Card could get hidden under the Score Card

• Fixed Trade Offer to use the correct card back customisation when collecting remaining player cards on event end

• Fixed a bug where when using controller or keyboard the left choice of next encounter or event would sometimes not start hovered

• Fixed a bug where you could softlock during a choice by using the peek button at the wrong time

• Fixed the initial peek button position being different to its position in subsequent choices

• Fixed a bug where changing from mouse/touch to keyboard/controller input could leave things incorrectly hovered

Hey there Tavern Dwellers!

We're so excited, Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers has been selected as part of TactiCon 2025 - the fourth edition of this super cool strategy gaming showcase!

What is TactiCon?

TactiCon gathers over 106 recent and unique strategy games from long-established studios to solo indie developers. This highly curated selection embodies the broad plurality of the strategy genre, featuring everything from modern RTS to crafty Tactical Roguelikes, revisited 4X games, and Strategic Management experiences.

📅 Steam Event Details

When: Thursday, July 17 at 10 AM PT / 6 PM BST / 7 PM CEST - Monday, July 21 at 10 AM PT / 6 PM BST / 7 PM CEST

(Live now!!)

Where: TactiCon 2025 Steam Sale Page

Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers will be 34% OFF as a part of the celebrations!

🎥 Catch the Showcase!

Keep your eyes peeled for the TactiCon 2025 Showcase to kick off the event:

When: 10:30 AM PT / 6:30 PM BST / 7:30 PM CEST

Where:

There will also be a ton of panels and talks by other amazing developers tomorrow, so be sure to catch those if you're interested!

(Our friends, the lovely developers of Hexarchy will be there 👀)

We're genuinely honoured to be featured alongside some of the most innovative strategy games. TactiCon 2025 is the place to be if you're looking for your next favourite game!

Wake up, Tavern Dwellers!

The Steam Summer Sale is finally here and it's time to enjoy all the games you've been eyeing up for ages but your wallet just wouldn't allow you to get. Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers is 33% OFF as a part of the sale, so run run run!

You guys have always shown us so much love and support and we can't even begin to describe how much we appreciate it. We're hoping Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers finds some new homes during the Summer Sale and that everyone who plays enjoys their time.

P.S., While you're here, our lovely publishers (this is definitely not someone from Yogscast Games writing this) have a few new titles coming up and there are some free demos for you to try out if you'd like!

• 🃏 The Royal Writ - Every fallen hero becomes part of your kingdom's legend! Build your army of animal soldiers in this lane based roguelike deckbuilder where a well timed sacrifice could just be your saving strategy.

• 🧹 Monster Mop Up - Rescue the scared Ragamuffins from a world they don't belong in, decorate your home, and clean with friends! Mop stains, upgrade your gear, and earn enough to make your home the best one out there.

• 🎲 Dicealot - Arthurian adventures with a retro video feel and medieval humour! Build dice combos with special perks and powers, complete quests and don't Fark it up!

Happy gaming, folks! Enjoy your summers, stay hydrated and cool!

P.P.S., A bunch of other Yogscast Games are on sale during the Steam Summer Sale, you should totally check them out.

Card changes

- Rorschach Card's effect will now trigger after all your other 'On stand' cards trigger. This means that if you have RSVP Card and Rorschach Card in play the RSVP Card will trigger regardless of the order these two cards were drawn in. Synergy restored!

- fixes some inconsistency in how 'on bust' effects work. The outcome of this is that IV The Emperor, V The Hierophant, The Emperor IV, and The Hierophant V all play nicely with Charred Lizard and trigger while you were briefly busted before choosing to sell the Charred Lizard. Synergy unlocked!

- fixes a bug where The Devil XV would incorrectly deal damage if scores matched but one player was busted due to Rules Card or Sweep the Leg

- fixes a bug where if a foe played a Glitched Bounce Card while having a Fingerprint Card in play the foe would never end their turn

- fixes a bug where exploiting a foe's Bounce Card wouldn't correctly enact its effect

- fixes a bug where Glitched Card glitch effect intensity would continue to increase over time as long as the game remained running

Tavern rebalancing

- Drunk HP is now 17 (was 21)

- Gambler HP is now 17 (was 21)

- Bard HP is now 17 (was 21)

- Janitor HP is now 21 (was 30)

- Poker Player HP is now 21 (was 30)

- Tavern Counterfeiter cost is now 33 (was 45)

The intention of these changes is to continue to speed up the early game. The first floor should be easy and fast while you pull the beginnings of your deck together, with the difficulty increasing after the tavern once your deck has improved.

Other Improvements:

- the slot machine shop no longer does another spin animation after buying cards if you can't afford to buy the next set of cards

- improve chip counting for very very large numbers of chips, numbers like 21.2m will now display as 21m, and chips in the billions will now display with a "b"

- localisation fixes and improvements

• a total overhaul to the ID Card portrait and card back customisation screen! Customise your ID card further with lots of new options (including many submitted during the Community Design Challenge) and share your characters with us in ⁠the Discord!
• some new and improved art, animations, and sound effects!
• big improvements to controller support!
• buffs to Cardecu, High Priestess II, Time Card, Get Well Soon Card, Lucky 7
• reworks or tweaks to Monterey Jack, Baseball Card, Magic Trick Card, and flexible cards
• foe balancing adjustments
• changes to how the Wizard's Deck, Giant Rat's Deck and Fortune Tellers Deck are unlocked
• various other improvements, and lots of bug fixes!

While you're here, check out our TWO new releases!

🃏Hey there Tavern Dwellers!❄️