Labyrinth Of The Demon King news & patch notes

Hi everyone,

We're incredibly proud to announce that Labyrinth of The Demon King has been nominated for (5) awards at this year's Horror Game Awards. These include:

• Game of The Year

• Best Indie Horror Game

• Best Art Direction

• Best Developer

• Best Indie Developer

As a labor of love and a debut title from an incredibly small team - essentially a solo undertaking - this is an incredible achievement, and we'd like to thank everyone who has supported the game. It is absolutely amazing to see the titles that Labyrinth is nominated alongside.

If you've enjoyed Labyrinth and would like to vote for the game to win any of these awards, you can vote here:

• Game of The Year - https://www.thehorrorgameawards.com/goty

• Best Indie Horror Game - https://www.thehorrorgameawards.com/best-indie-horror-game

• Best Art Direction - https://www.thehorrorgameawards.com/best-art-direction

• Best Developer - https://www.thehorrorgameawards.com/best-developer

• Best Indie Developer - https://www.thehorrorgameawards.com/best-indie-developer

We of course encourage those who have enjoyed the game to vote!

Labyrinth of The Demon King has far exceeded the expectations of everyone involved and we hugely appreciate the community that has formed around the game and continues to support both the title and its developer. Thank you to everyone who continues to support the game.

Hi everyone,

There's a new patch live now with some minor fixes. These include:

• Fix to "invisible wall" bug in downstairs area

• Minor animation fixes

• Fixed some objects clippiing incorrectly

• Fixed minor issues with AutoSave name variable

Hello everyone!

It's finally time. The NG+ update is out now...are you ready to journey back into the Labyrinth? As we head into the Steam Scream Fest (game will have 25% discount during this event - starting at 1pm EST/10am PST), we couldn't be more thankful to share this update with everyone. This free expansive update was made possible thanks to everyone who has supported the game so far. The reception to the game's release has been truly astonishing, from coverage and community to direct support from fans. Here's to hoping this update makes your journey even better!

This NG+ update features a multitude of new content to enhance your experience; new weapons, new enemies, new upgraded enemies, a new NG+ mechanic (don't want to spoil it - experience it for yourself!), new NPC interactions & peaks into the world's lore, and a new...boss? We don't want to spoil it, but here's what we can say: All questions will finally be answered. All of them....if you look hard enough.

Lastly, we know many people have purchased the game on console and are wondering about the update (and other steam updates). PS5 & PS4 should have this update live as well! However, due to some delays in platform certification due to the time of year, Xbox & Switch are currently slightly delayed pending console review. We are expecting Xbox to be live this week and Switch to be live within 1-2 weeks. We hugely apologize for the delays there. All other places where the game is live should have this update live.

Thank you again to everyone who continues to support the game. We truly hope this update gives you the definitive Labyrinth of The Demon King experience. So, with all that said, all I can say is:

Rise once more, ashigaru. Rise!

Hello everyone!

We're extremely happy to announce that the cycle of life and death continues...and with it comes a much anticipated free content update. This October 27th at 10am ET, delve back into the ominous labyrinth. This free update does not change the labyrinth you've come to know and love, but rather adds an expansive set of new end-game content for once you've finished the game initially.

New weapons, enemies, puzzles, mechanics, interactions, and much more await you. Rise once more, ashigaru. Rise!

Check out the official announcement here, featuring a first look at NG+:

For those who have purchased the game elsewhere on consoles, this patch will be coming alongside the prior patches previously available on PC & GOG.

Hey everyone!

In line with last week's announcement, we wanted to remind everyone we'll be participating in our publisher's showcase tomorrow with some exciting hotly anticipated news at 1pm ET / 10am PT / 5pm UTC. You can check out the showcase below:

Check out the following links for mirrors:

Twitch:

Youtube:

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/tophatstudios

Other partners will also be co-streaming, including Gamespot.

See you all tomorrow!!

Hey everyone!

Happy to announce there will be highly anticipated news regarding Labyrinth of The Demon King in the Top Hat Studios Fall Showcase on September 23rd. Tune in at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm UTC at any of the channels listed below (or here on Steam of course!). See you there!

Check out a teaser for the showcase below:

Twitch: tophatstudiosen

Youtube:

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/tophatstudios

Hey all,

We're pleased to say that the 1.2 patch for Labyrinth of the Demon King is now live on the main branch! This comes following a period of extensive testing, and the prior public access for the update available on a preview branch. For clarity, the preview branch and the main branch are now on the same version.

Before we get into the changelog for this version, we'd like to quickly say welcome to all new players of Labyrinth coming in from the Steam Summer Sale, and we appreciate all of the continued support!

Changelog for version 1.21 (same as prior preview builds):

• Fixed aspect ratio reverting to 4:3 during in-game cutscenes while a wide aspect was selected

• Fixed background showing behind item placement menu in 16:9 or 16:10 aspects

• Fixed Tea making ceremony aspect ratio reverting to 4:3 when 16:9 or 16:10 was selected

• Fixed irregularity with Nuppeppo boss fight larva behaviour

• Added extra localisation strings

• Fixed textures sticking out in some locations

• Added stash box to tea house

• Added compass item to merchant’s store inventory

• Adjusted all maps to be North orientated to match compass

• Adjusted code for bleed and other status effects to be framerate independent

• Added safe zone to HUD widget

• Adjusted stairs in Nuppeppo boss room and adjusted nav mesh settings

• Changed scroll bar on several widgets to better fit other HUD items

• Fixed bug where headshot ranged damage modifier was used for melee weapon headshots

• Fixed kicks being parryable on some weapons

• Added option to toggle HUD

• Added option to toggle crosshair

• Added option to toggle widescreen

• Added option to equip torch instead of lantern if using a 1 handed weapon

• Added option to lower intensity of film grain

• Added ability to remove equipped armour

• Added missing teleport cutscene

• Changed how stamina regeneration works

• Made larva bigger and increased it's hitbox size

• Fixed Nuribotoke having trouble climbing stairs

• Fixed issue where NPC leaving mid conversation would leave the player stuck in dialog

• Fixed missing in air animations for war axe

• Fixed issue where the Jailer would T-Pose during his teaser

• Lowered resolution of controller icons to fit the aesthetic better

• Fixed missing translation for single slide of kings court puzzle

• Changed conditions for interacting with priest after Tsuchigumo death, hopefully fixing issue where people can't interact with him

• Added changes to receive damage code, hopefully fixing issue where bosses can lose too much health from a single hit

If you do encounter any bugs while playing the game, please consider leaving a reply here, or a topic in the Steam forum to let us know - we'll take a look at it! Alternatively, if it feels more natural to you to report bugs via Discord, you can find details on how to join our community below.

We hope you enjoy, and if you'd like to discuss more about the game, please feel free to join our Discord: https://discord.gg/yy7javF

Thank you for the continued support for Labyrinth of the Demon King, and stay tuned for more cool updates...

Hey all,

Following up from our last opt-in update, just a quick update note today to say that for those accessing the preview beta for the upcoming 1.2 update, a new version of this is available on the beta branch. We believe this should be a candidate for migrating to the primary branch (and also release on non-Steam platforms) soon after.

In general, this is a more stable version of the preview, with fixes for previously known (and newly detected) issues.

New Changelog for 1.21 new candidate

• Fixed aspect ratio reverting to 4:3 during in-game cutscenes while a wide aspect was selected

• Fixed background showing behind item placement menu in 16:9 or 16:10 aspects

• Fixed Tea making ceremony aspect ratio reverting to 4:3 when 16:9 or 16:10 was selected

• Fixed irregularity with Nuppeppo boss fight larva behaviour

• Added extra localisation strings

• Fixed textures sticking out in some locations

(Prior) Changelog for 1.2

• Added stash box to tea house

• Added compass item to merchant’s store inventory

• Adjusted all maps to be North orientated to match compass

• Adjusted code for bleed and other status effects to be framerate independent

• Added safe zone to HUD widget

• Adjusted stairs in Nuppeppo boss room and adjusted nav mesh settings

• Changed scroll bar on several widgets to better fit other HUD items

• Fixed bug where headshot ranged damage modifier was used for melee weapon headshots

• Fixed kicks being parryable on some weapons

• Added option to toggle HUD

• Added option to toggle crosshair

• Added option to toggle widescreen

• Added option to equip torch instead of lantern if using a 1 handed weapon

• Added option to lower intensity of film grain

• Added ability to remove equipped armour

• Added missing teleport cutscene

• Changed how stamina regeneration works

• Made larva bigger and increased it's hitbox size

• Fixed Nuribotoke having trouble climbing stairs

• Fixed issue where NPC leaving mid conversation would leave the player stuck in dialog

• Fixed missing in air animations for war axe

• Fixed issue where the Jailer would T-Pose during his teaser

• Lowered resolution of controller icons to fit the aesthetic better

• Fixed missing translation for single slide of kings court puzzle

• Changed conditions for interacting with priest after Tsuchigumo death, hopefully fixing issue where people can't interact with him

• Added changes to receive damage code, hopefully fixing issue where bosses can lose too much health from a single hit

If no new significant issues are found, this version will likely be mirrored to the main branch of the game soon, as well as mirrored on other platforms.

For those who'd like to try the preview, do this by going to your Steam library, right-click on the game, select properties, go to the betas tab, and enter the password labyrinth0preview0access. You will now be able to swap between branches. If you'd like to leave the preview and go back to the current main stable version of the game, do this by following the same procedure above, but on the betas tab, select "None" under beta participation.

If you have feedback on the preview, you can leave such on the forums or join our discord here: https://discord.gg/yy7javF

Also, parallel to this, happy summer sale! For a limited time, grab Labyrinth at the same discount we ran at launch. Happy yokai hunting!

Thanks everybody for all your support!

Hi Everyone!

Work from the developer has been ongoing to address your common points of feedback, bug reports, and in general to smooth out the overall experience post-release, and as part of that we're almost ready to release update 2.

However, there's still a bit of testing to be done to ensure stability, especially since Labyrinth was a multi-platform release. We know many people are very much looking forward to this update though, so for those who want quicker access, we've made an opt-in preview branch of the game that you can try. We're aware that there's several small issues in this build, which are being fixed and pending confirmation ahead of the "final" 1.2 update.

Once all known issues have been resolved, the update will be mirrored to the main branch of the game.

Here is the changelog for update 1.2:

Changelog:

• Added stash box to tea house

• Added compass item to merchant’s store inventory

• Adjusted all maps to be North orientated to match compass

• Adjusted code for bleed and other status effects to be framerate independent

• Added safe zone to HUD widget

• Adjusted stairs in Nuppeppo boss room and adjusted nav mesh settings

• Changed scroll bar on several widgets to better fit other HUD items

• Fixed bug where headshot ranged damage modifier was used for melee weapon headshots

• Fixed kicks being parryable on some weapons

• Added option to toggle HUD

• Added option to toggle crosshair

• Added option to toggle widescreen

• Added option to equip torch instead of lantern if using a 1 handed weapon

• Added option to lower intensity of film grain

• Added ability to remove equipped armour

• Added missing teleport cutscene

• Changed how stamina regeneration works

• Made larva bigger and increased it's hitbox size

• Fixed Nuribotoke having trouble climbing stairs

• Fixed issue where NPC leaving mid conversation would leave the player stuck in dialog

• Fixed missing in air animations for war axe

• Fixed issue where the Jailer would T-Pose during his teaser

• Lowered resolution of controller icons to fit the aesthetic better

• Fixed missing translation for single slide of kings court puzzle

• Changed conditions for interacting with priest after Tsuchigumo death, hopefully fixing issue where people can't interact with him

• Added changes to receive damage code, hopefully fixing issue where bosses can lose too much health from a single hit

Known Issues and being fixed:

• Background showing behind item placement menu in 16:9 or 16:10 aspects

• Tea making ceremony aspect ratio reverts back to 4:3 aspect if game is set to 16:9 or 16:10

• Larvas that spawn during T2 boss fight (Nuppeppo) do not attack the player

• Several new text strings awaiting translation

In order to access this preview, do this by going to your Steam library, right-click on the game, select properties, go to the betas tab, and enter the password labyrinth0preview0access. You will now be able to swap between branches. If you'd like to leave the preview and go back to the current main stable version of the game, do this by following the same procedure above, but on the betas tab, select "None" under beta participation.

If you have feedback on the preview, you can leave such on the forums or join our discord here: https://discord.gg/yy7javF

Thank you again to everyone and we'll see you all again soon!

• Added framerate cap options (and warning popup that some behaviour may be unpredictable at very high frame rates)
• Disabled torch being unequipped when entering an exterior cell
• Using the quick equip torch button will now equip the lantern if the player has purchased it
• Fixed error where placeholder language names were used instead of official translated terms
• Fixed spelling error in Kings Court Puzzle
• Fixed issue where status effects would display “{Amout}” instead of the number for stack amounts for certain languages

• Added framerate cap options (and warning popup that some behaviour may be unpredictable at very high frame rates)
• Disabled torch being unequipped when entering an exterior cell
• Using the quick equip torch button will now equip the lantern if the player has purchased it
• Fixed error where placeholder language names were used instead of official translated terms
• Fixed spelling error in Kings Court Puzzle
• Fixed issue where status effects would display “{Amout}” instead of the number for stack amounts for certain languages

• Recovery Item Balancing
• Stamina/Sprinting Balancing
• UI & Visibility Improvements
• Hardcore Mode
• Sound Design Tweaks/Improvements
• Combat Smoothing / AI Tweaks
• Collision Fixes
• Options Improvements - Vsync, Keybinding, etc.