INCISION news & patch notes

6 New Games | 2 Launches | Fresh Bundles | Up to 90% Discounts

The Hyperstrange Publisher Sale 2026 is live, and this year we are bringing a full blast of announcements, launches, bundles, and discounts. There is no time to lose, so join us in celebration and don't be a stranger - be a Hyperstranger.

Up to 90% off across the Hyperstrange catalog, 6 new games joining our publishing lineup, fresh bundles, the reveal of ELDERBORN Vengeance, and the launches of Slaughter Void and Blood West: Scavengers. Join our devilishly handsome host Jared R. Bair as he takes you on a very Hyperstrange journey through the madness in our Publisher Sale livestream. Brutal FPS games, weird indies, retro nightmares, savage melee, eldritch horror, and other problems best solved with violence. There is no time to lose, so join the celebration and don’t be a stranger.

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Blood West: Scavengers

Slaughter Void

Bang. Slash. Thwack. Crunch! That’s right - our Publisher Sale doesn’t knock. It blows the hinges off, wrecks the furniture, and grins through the dust, because we’re just getting started. Blood West: Scavengers and Slaughter Void have just landed in our stores, bringing more cursed gunslinging, brutal close-quarters slaughter, and enough violence to make sure the blood won’t dry anytime soon.

JUST ANNOUNCED:

DERELIKT

ELDERBORN: Vengeance

Bloodwoven

Odd Town

Raining Lead

DERELIKT, Oddtown, Raining Lead, Bloodwoven, and ELDERBORN: VENGEANCE are all on the horizon - from PS1-styled cosmic horror and surreal immersive sim fun, to stock-crashing twin-stick warfare, blood rituals frozen in time, and the return of brutal first-person vengeance. Strange places, loud guns, old gods, bad decisions, and plenty more trouble are waiting down the road.

JUST UPDATED!

Supplice

A new secret map and boss have landed, alongside the first level of Episode 5, a teaser for the full episode, and the launch window for the Full Release!

Jupiter Hell

The 1.9: HEAVY update adds the Heavy Gunner class, weapon buffs, better rewards, and more ways to turn smart planning and heavy firepower into survival.

Jupiter Hell Classic

Jupiter Hell Classic 0.11 “Terminal” brings in a proper mechanical boss for Callisto, 9 new bot enemies, terminal level features, utility stations, and a new Hacking trait to make the most of it all.

Check out the legacy deals:

POSTAL: Brain Damaged - 75% off

POSTAL: Brain Damaged - These Sunny Daze - 15% off

ELDERBORN - 80% off

Supplice - 40% off

EMPTY SHELL - 59% off

Jupiter Hell - 70% off

Jupiter Hell Classic - 20% off

No Sun To Worship - 63% off

RAYZE - 90% off

STHELL - 75% off

77p egg: Eggwife - 60% off

CROSSBOW: Bloodnight - 75% off

Come hang out on our Discord, talk games and stuff, and tell us what you’re hyped for, what you’re playing, or what you think about the latest updates.

➡️ https://discord.gg/Cxp8rzUSX5

Stay strange, stay loud! - The Hyperstrange Team

We’re back with another round of discounts, and this time there’s even more to grab!

After a marathon like this, these prices might need some time to cool down and catch their breath, so this could be the best moment to stock up on the infamous Hyperstrange titles.

See the fresh line-up for yourself!

Empty Shell - 50% OFF

Jupiter Hell Classic - 15% OFF

Supplice - 40% OFF

ELDERBORN - 80% OFF

Jupiter Hell - 70% OFF

CROSSBOW: Bloodnight - 77% OFF

77p egg: Eggwife - 50% OFF

No Sun To Worship - 50% OFF

RAYZE - 50% OFF

Sthell - 75% OFF

Madness, innit?

We also want to take a moment to thank you for another year with us - for the support, the activity, the shoutouts, and the feedback that’s always brutally honest. Thanks for keeping it real!

What’s ahead? We won’t say much (yet), but we’ll say this:

next year is going to be BIG.

So jump into our Discord -> https://discord.gg/y2vchJDjNW and follow our socials - that’s where the good stuff starts leaking out.

Wishing you the strangest holidays, some proper downtime to spend with your loved (games) ones, solid celebrating, and no regrets the morning after.

See you soon!

The Hyperstrange team.

‘Sup folks! How's December treating you? Getting cold out there, huh?

Since nobody likes freezing their ass off, we figured it’s the perfect time to crank up the heat.

We’ve got a lineup packed with blood-soaked action, grim dread, and moments that’ll make you sweat - all wrapped in deals hotter than a plasma burst vaporizing a demon in an oxygen-leaking chamber. You get the picture.

So grab your biggest mug of whatever keeps your blood moving, and catch up on the titles you’ve been putting off. Now’s the time!

INCISION - 35% OFF Jupiter Hell Classic - 15% OFF ELDERBORN - 80% OFF Empty Shell - 50% OFF Jupiter Hell - 70% OFF Supplice - 40% OFF CROSSBOW: Bloodnight - 77% OFF

Different worlds, different flavors - but those ain’t the places for chillin’. Each one warmly welcomes you with a challenge that'll burn your ass to ashes if you don’t stay sharp.

Watch the trailer!

These prices stay frozen until December 15th, 19:00 CET - so grab what you can while the deal’s still hot!

Now go, chill a little. And kill a lot.

Hyperstrange out.

Lock, load, and let the gibs fly! 🚀

The second coming of the boomer shooter fest just slammed a fresh mag and went full-auto - and the carnage is already spreading across Steam!

From September 23–27, Boomstock 2025 delivers:

• a blood-soaked showcase full of new reveals, demos, and trailers,

• in-game events, giveaways, and more pixelated chaos than your hard drive can handle.

And we’re right there in the crossfire:

• INCISION - just launched in full 1.0 gory glory!

• Supplice - brand new demo, same old-school brutal attitude!

• POSTAL: Brain Damaged - new DLC out, guns still hot!

Jump into the mayhem here: Boomstock 2025 on Steam Watch the showcase:

And let’s paint the Steam red!

Prepare for the slaughter - INCISION is part of Brutal Indies Unleashed 2025, the ultimate showcase of the most violent, unapologetically brutal indie games out there.

• Event dates: September 12–23 on Steam

• Live showcase: September 12th on ZlimBratSki’s YouTube channel

• Steam event page: Brutal Indies Unleashed 2025

But that’s not all. SmoothBrainDev is cooking up a major update for INCISION, with features like:

• Huge 50% damage buff to Omenstrike Railgun with a smaller ammo capacity. The weapon was always intended to be the heavy enemy killer after all.

• Crosshair styles and colors, including hitmarkers for better clarity.

• Death pits won't result to instant death anymore. Instead they cut 50% of player's current HP and cannot result in death even at 1 HP.

• Readjustments to enemy projectile speed and damage to avoid making early game enemies feel too OP, especially the Sycophants and their new melee attack.

• Fixes to music issues in E1M3 and E1M4

• Softlock fixes

…and plenty more coming when the full update drops. SmoothBrainDev is hard at work to bring these changes to INCISION - stay tuned for the full reveal!

Carnage has arrived

Today is the day, INCISION has just left Early Access and it is now in-front of you in all of its gruesome glory! It has been a long road since 2022 and all of this would not be possible without your help!

To celebrate this final cut, we are keeping the current price of INCISION for 30 days from now - hell we will throw in an additional 30% discount in addition. After the above mentioned period, the game’s price will rise to 19.99$ 

We believe this new price better reflects what INCISION has to offer in its full 1.0 version. Furthermore, this will also secure the future of INCISION and its updates

The Future

For the time being SmoothBrainDev will be taking a short and well deserved rest. In the meantime you can expect patches and bug fixes, but brand new features will come after the short break. What exactly can you expect? That will be unveiled in due time.

Let the Feast Begin

To get you in the right mood we have a special stream from JaredRBair. So strap in and and enjoy the final chapter of INCISION.

Stream Link: https://steamcommunity.com/broadcast/watch/76561199202514780

Patch notes

• New episode: Episode 3: "Death-Storm Havoc"

• Three new pre-rendered cutscenes

• Three new long and varied levels

• Two new challenging bossfights

• Over 30 minutes of new music for Episode 3

• New weapon: Flamethrower

• Portable Nukes for rocket launcher

• "Bestiary" in the main menu which unlocks after finishing all episodes

• Level select now unlocks for each episode seperately after beating the episode's final boss

• Most enemies now have a melee death animation

• "Goodies" folder in INCISION's folder with pictures, recordings and concept art from the development. Also includes all the old demos/alphas + some unreleased early builds and a lengthy readme with info about all of them.

• Excessive gore and blood splatter effects on gibbed enemies

• Retro filter in the options menu which adds posterization and dithering like in the old alphas

• Hemogoblins can now fake death

• Sycophants now have a lunging melee attack

• Sycophants, Ninjas and Hemogoblins can now be parried with the Sawspear to kill them instantly

• Revolver primary fire now deals higher damage

• Omenstrike Railgun has a faster rate of fire

• Clearer and repeatable tutorial texts in Episode 1

• Parryable boss characters have a "ping" effect showing which attacks can be parried with the sawspear

• Episode 3 includes buffed variants of Growth's monsters with higher aggression, HP, and some unique attacks

• Icons for difficulty settings

• Lots of small bugfixes in menus, HUD and older levels

The Final Cut

The initial Early Access launch seems not so distant in the mind’s eye, yet it has been three years of updates, patches and fixes. Through that period the game’s content grew to include 10 unique weapons (all with creative alt-fires), 16 gore-crusted enemies, 6 glorious boss encounters, 15 dripping with theme levels and 7 retro-radical 90’s cutscenes and now it is time to put a giblet ribbon on this meaty package with the final chapter and 1.0 launch on the 28th of August.

Juicy Deal

In the last update we have mentioned that there will be one last time to purchase the game at a discounted price before we will be raising the price and here it is - the launch period will be the last time when you can get the game at the Early Access price.

That means that for 30 days after the 28th of August you will still have the old price. We will even throw an additional discount for the opening week - just to make this even more juicy

This is not only a nod of appreciation to all who have been with us from the very start, but also a reflection on the current value proposition of INCISION. Not to mention the fact that we love delivering you new content to enjoy and we would love to do so long after the 1.0 release.

Final Chapter

For the final portion of this meaty buffet, we have something special as the final chapter of INCISION will be a thing to savour. With the biggest levels, flashiest visual and craziest music yet this chapter is a final thank you to all of you who stuck out with us throughout the Early Access period. 28th of August is just around the corner, but to keep your hunger pains at bay, we are starting a series of showcases from now till launch.

Save the date, carnage comes on the 28th!

INCISION - FULL RELEASE CONFIRMED

The Final Chapter

Price change

Future of Incision

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Want a little sneak peek? Alright, it is the season of giving, after all! Here’s what you’ll find out:

• All the gritty details about the upcoming Blood West: Dead Man's Promise DLC. Who, what, where, whom, why, and who asked for it. And most importantly: WHEN??
• A deep dive into character progression and skills in our new survivorslike, Hordes of Hunger. Learn how to combine abilities and perks that work together to create powerful builds using and prepare yourself for battles against the Horde.
• A sack full of trailers and updates on our other games, and maybe even a hint about some sneaky, but generous giveaways.

That’s it? - Nah, man. There’s some seriously epic surprises coming your way!

The event ends on December 18! Don’t miss out!

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Stay Hyper, Stay Strange

Hello Hyperstrangers

What can you expect from the demo:

• Two hauntingly beautiful maps, each overrun by the Beast’s minions and guarded by a horrific boss.
• Dynamic combat system that blends the traditional survivorslike scale with arena-slasher's visceral action.
• Over 6 side-stories and tasks to undertake. Will you save the few last remaining citizens or focus on gathering supplies from the abandoned city - the choice and consequences are yours.
• Sprawling hub to which you will triumphantly return with each victor or be dragged to with each defeat. In this safe space various NPC reside, ready to help you prepare for the next battle and share their thoughts.
• 10 servants of the Beats to slay or be slain by. Each with their own strengths and weaknesses to exploit. Such as the immense strength and uncontrolled rage of the Teeth Golem which often makes it as deadly to you as to everything close to it.
• Two weapons and weapons arts to master. Hew and cut through with the grace of the blade or crush down all opposition the brute force the hammer.
• Create your own build from 5 distinct skill trees and over 30 unique skills. Ignite a fire aura, charge up a lighting storm or summon aid to the battlefield.
• Get a taste of the depth of the between run progress system.

Play the demo

Don’t forget to join the official discord channel and share your thoughts about the demo by leaving a review - we greatly appreciate your feedback

Stay Strange

Episode 2 Is Now Complete!

New Cutscenes

Brand New Levels

New Weapons, New Foes

Boom, Boom, Boomstock

Enjoy the new update

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• You want boom shoots? - We got them.
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NEW THINGS

Supplice Episode 3

Hordes of Hunger

Have fun and don't spend your moolah in one place!

• Fixed an issue where Kitty didn’t spawn into E1M3 if player already had Kitty in inventory. This caused a softlock because Kitty must be picked up for the gate to open.
• During Mighty Spear’s cooldown if player paused the game twice it caused weapon switching to get stuck until the cooldown was finished.
• Loading screen for E2M4 had a typo saying “best” instead of “beast”
• Loading screen for E1M4 called it E1M2. Various changes:
• Mighty Spear cooldown reduced from 15 seconds to 12 seconds.
• Carnage Accelerator now gives player a 50% weapon damage and speed buff for 45 seconds and is not affected by shooting enemies anymore. This change was done to make the powerup easy to understand and use.
• Jawbreaker altfire projectiles bounce 15 times instead of 8 and move faster.
• Player can now skip the wait fade-in at startup and immediately enter the main menu by pressing fire, altfire, use, esc or jump.

Attention, Bloodbath Fanatics!

Major new features and changes:

• New Level: E2M4 - Transitory Termination
• New Boss and Mini Boss: The Death-Filth Child and The Sentinel.
• Loading Screen Tips - To kill time, while you aren't killing stuff.
• New, lore-friendly first-person-view arm model and textures
• New ability: The Mighty Spear.

Minor new features and fixes:

• New explosives scattered around most levels: Gas canisters and oxygen tanks.
• Episode Select now shows up when selecting New Game
• E2M1 and E2M2 endboss “Mess” now dies from melee attacks only.
• Autorun is preserved between levels
• Revolver and chaingun spin won’t get stuck randomly anymore
• Revolver muzzle flash should appear in right position while rapid firing
• “Use” distance increased by one meter
• Interaction hand cursor won’t get stuck on screen anymore
• Increased aim sensitivity slider for controller users
• Health can be picked up during 1-UP death invulnerability
• Kitty won’t absorb ammo at full health anymore
• Flashlight cannot be toggled during pause anymore
• Hemogoblins won’t get stuck if hurt while they are idle
• Guns can be picked up even at full ammo now
• Various unintended progression skips in EP2 levels have been patched
• E2M2 toilets can only be flushed once to avoid spawning endless ammo
• ESC now leaves submenus like Options or Level Select
• Sawspear’s damage slightly buffed
• Minigun’s accuracy slightly reduced
• Minigun’s firing sound should play as intended
• Blood effects shrink if player is too close to them to avoid obstructing the screen too much
• Credits button in main menu
• E1M5 elevator music now plays correctly

Known issues:

• E1M4, The Filth Pit’s music after entering the indoor zone might stop for the remaining level.
• The screen flash when investigating a lorebit is buggy and might get interrupted or not flash at all sometimes.
• Enemy juggling can still cause some odd behaviors in rare cases, like bodies not gibbing when hitting the floor, or enemies refusing to walk afterwards. This system will be revamped during EP3’s development.
• Extremely rare bug that plays the splash sound of leaving water/swimmable blood when player comes up to dry ground.

Have Fun!

Hey Hyperstrangers,

Supplice

A classy throwback shooter that pays homage to the mid-90s FPS era and the legendary Doom modding.

Blood West

A brutal western FPS roguelite with the voice of the one and only Stephen Russell.

POSTAL: Brain Damaged

Take a wild roller coaster ride through the twisted wonderland encased in the POSTAL DUDE’S messed-up mind.

GHOSTWARE: Arena of the Dead

Gamers don't die, they RESPAWN in this Retro Arena FPS.

Rack the shotgun and let's go!

Meat mincers!

Changelog:

Changes:

• Episode E2M1 has been split into 2 seperate levels: Harvest Vivarium and Parasitic Relations.
• Parasitic Relations has been updated with new area.
• New level E2M3 has been added "Death-Filth Medicine"
• New enemies appeared - Sympaths, Flocks and The Favoured.
• Alt-Fire for Jawbreaker added.
• Level Select screens now have corresponding backgrounds.
• New Enemies now can spawn in Randomizer.
• E1M4 level secrets updated and fixed.
• Min. projectile speed set to 100%.
• Tweaks for Feral Armament bossfight.
• Multiple cosmetic fixes and additions like growth parts of level bleeding on hit.

Known issues:

• E2M3 music has a *very rare* chance of not playing in properly. If the music does not start playing immediately in the very first room, restart the level. Otherwise music will play out of order and may sound very odd.
• Health count does not update during slow motion after losing a life.
• "Use" hand very rarely remains on screen. Workaround is to look at an usable button again.
• In E1M4 "Filth Pit" music may rarely stop permanently.

LEVELS

E2M1, "Harvest Vivarium"

E2M3, the episode's now titular "Death-Filth Medicine"

NEW ENEMIES

WEAPONS

Last thoughts and what's next

SCREENSHOTS

Survivors!

Full patchnotes:

• Difficulty can be set up to 500% (Dare to enter)
• Fixed freeze caused by standing on falling floor after picking up Jawbreaker.

Kitty balance:

• Kitty now gains +5% blood instead of +10% from gibbed enemies.
• Max blood is now 150% instead of 200%
• Altfire costs 20% blood instead of 15%
• Primary fire still costs 10% blood, but now fires 8 bombs instead of 5.
• If Kitty doesn’t have enough blood to fire it will do a small sound and animation with a text “not enough blood!” appearing on top of your screen.

Other changes:

• Feral Armament will blow into pieces on second encounter
• All pickables have now shiny effect.
• Enemies are slightly glowing in dark (almost invisible but helps)
• End of E1M3 now has special decorations and new enemies waiting near level exit.
• Stoneman are properly waking up in Enemy Randomizer mode.
• One of secrets received missing special effect.

Good hunting!

Hyperstrangers!

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EMPTY SHELL

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Enter Harvest Vivarium

Enter E2M1: Harvest Vivariumand live to tell about it!

Changelog v.0.4.5.6

• Released E2M1 - Harvest Vivarium.
• New midboss enemy, codename “Mess”.
• Refight against Feral Armament has a new attack, boulder rain, when he spawns or slams his hand against the ground
• Stonemen now have a projectile attack
• Bleed buildup mechanic. Molten Growth in E2M1 and Stoneman projectiles build up a meter. Player takes huge amount of damage if the meter gets filled completely
• Machinegun got a small damage and accuracy boost, and a small rate of fire reduction
• Heavy enemies cannot be launched into the air anymore (Maw, Cheeks, Spiderpope)
• Shotgun got a small damage boost
• Music selection option in the main menu
• Explosive cars. Included them into some EP1 levels as well.

Public note about the new map, a bug that can ruin your run:

• Steam Community Discussions
• Twitter and Discord

Rusteaters, it's update day!

INCISION OST coming soon to Steam!

Complete 0.4.5 Changelog

MAJOR ADDITIONS:

• Randomizer mode. All enemies, weapons and ammo have been randomized, creating a chaotic game mode where luck is your best friend, or your worst enemy.
• Two new powerups: Sawspear Overcharge and Carnage Accelerator! Sawspear Overcharge doubles your Sawspear's damage for the rest of the level. Carnage Accelerator causes damage and rate of fire to increase as you damage enemies for one minute, capping at 200% damage and speed.

WEAPONS:

• Excess bullets will pass through dying enemies instead of gibbing them, making the shotgun much better at hitting multiple enemies.
• Sawspear's attacks hit faster reducing startup delay from 5 to 3 frames.
• Kitty's blood ammo from gibbed enemies now spawns a trail that homes in on player, and added a pickup text when Kitty gains blood.
• Kitty now gains 10 ammo instead of 5 from every gibbed enemy.
• Magnum, Shotgun, Machinegun, and Rocket Launcher have improved sounds.

ENEMIES:

• Fire damage tics slower to make burning less overpowered.
• Enemies dying from burning now also splash blood to make feeding Kitty more efficient (they're still pink on the inside).
• Throne Firstborn's aggression and turret health reduced to make the fight slightly less chaotic.
• For optimization and balancing purposes, reduced enemy count in E1M4 "The Filth Pit" and E1M5 "Nerve-End", and occasionally replaced weak enemies with stronger ones.
• Cheeks health upgraded from 230 to 280.
• Spiderpope health upgraded from 210 to 260.
• Enemies can be bounced into air with explosives and shooting them while airborne keeps them in the air for longer.
• Removed an out of bounds enemy which prevented getting 100% in Filth Pit.

OPTIONS:

• Resolution changing should now work properly both in main menu and in-game.
• VSync works as intended now.
• Added bloom and chromatic aberration visual effects.

MISC CHANGES:

• New main menu theme.
• Many of the secrets made easier to spot and more rewarding.
• Projectile stability adjusted to prevent fast projectiles from passing through thin objects. This affects Soldiers, Clinkers, Maws and Cheeks.
• Blood mist from gibs disappears faster to avoid too much visual clutter on screen.
• Dithering effect has been reduced on each level.
• Various small performance improvements in enemy code, weapon code, and especially when enemy projectiles and effects are spawned.
• Increased ambient lighting on E1M6.
• HP can’t go above 200 by collecting stim injectors.
• Added a new shortcut/secret to Feral Armament.
• Tumor and teleport sounds are now affected by volume slider.

• Difficulty settings now remain the same between levels as intended (E1M2 always reset them to 100%)
• HUD/Menus fixed for ultra widescreen and 4:3 aspect ratios
• Rescaled crosshair slightly to make it work on lower resolutions
• Fixed an unreachable supersecret in E1M4
• Added a new supersecret
• Fixed unreachable secret in E1M3
• Minor collision/visual fixes for E1Boss3 and E1M4
• Corrected the name E1Boss3 to E1Boss2
• Losing a life gives player 75HP and the invulnerability window is now 6 seconds.
• Losing 1up now triggers slow motion
• Feral Armament's vomit damage is now lower(3) but triggers faster (0.75sec)
• Options menu now has info text for each button
• Changed the Sycophant axe model
• Added breakable Clinker Barrels into E1M2
• Damage multiplier fixes for Soldier, Sycophant, Clinker, Maw and Feral Armament

• Fixed HP reset when unpausing the game
• Reduced shotgun alt-fire spread and improved damage slightly
• Feral Armament cannot be stunlocked with kicks anymore
• Reduced Turret's health from 80 to 75 (equal to revolver altfire's damage)
• Fixed small collision issues in E1M4, E1Boss1, and E1Boss3

Hyperstrangers!

INCISION - Early Acces launch + Special Offers!

POSTAL: Brain Damaged - Horde Mode announcement

Blood West - Chapter 2 announcement

Supplice - release date announcement

77p Egg: Eggwife - new game announcement

GHOSTWARE: Arena of the Dead - new game announcement

Your's truly,

• Music improvements
• Small Credits section addition