Novus Orbis news & patch notes

As it often happens, I say one thing and I end up doing another one lol There were two major things that have been bothering me since forever.

1-Performance on lower end machines (like a Steam Deck) was pretty bad in some moments. 2-The constant possibility of some softlock for unknown reason (and the necessity of the not so professional "remove softlock" button in the menu.

I took my time for two weeks to tackle these two issues (an many more).

Aside from a few balance changes, and no new content, with this update I bring:

• Much better performance on lower end machines (the game stays at 60 fps with a few dips on Deck, a way better result than before).

• A much lower chance for the game to softlock (I basically introduced a new method to detect a softlock and resolve it after a few seconds of inactivity).

NOW I'm finally ready to work on the conclusion for the game. The plan I have on paper is quite cool, and I can't wait to make it, together with many new achievements, many new crazy blessings, and finally share everything with you all.

Note: Some changes have been implemented with smaller patches since the last update, but I'm collecting the whole log here:

Changes:

• (General) Better performance on lower end machines.

• (General) Completely reworked the input system both with mouse and pad. On the user's side not much difference should be perceived, but now the code is a lot cleaner. This should result in better performances, as well as no more occasional bugs when interacting with cards.

• (General) The game will now try to detect a softlock. If an amount of time passes with nothing happening and the game in "no input" state, the game will automatically do what the "remove softlock" button did. This is still not a perfect solution, and it can't take care of very bad cases, but it should make things better overall.

• (General) Because of the previous change, I'm removing the "remove softlock" button from the menu.

• (General) The animation when the game shuffles your discard pile back into the deck will now show cards' back sides. I made this change to avoid some recurring visual issues, as well for improved performance.

• (General) Removed the ability to access the menu during an enemy's attack routine.

• (Card) Monarch's Bone now deals 500 damage.

• (Card) Gamble will now not discard your hand anymore.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed the tutorial getting stuck (caused by a recent update).

• Fixed Boss Blessings in the Archive showing their description before unlocking them.

• Fixed a bug that could leave cards not showing their combo version when picking a reward or using effects that let you pick from your deck.

• Fixed a bug that could leave the game locked during the enemies' action.

• Fixed a flicker in portals and events tooltips when using a pad.

• Fixed portals and events tooltips being in front of your cards, when you would check your deck.

• Fixed Death's Trial blessings not working anymore.

• Fixed a bug when rerolling the shop using a pad.

• Fixed Blessings that have a shown value to lead to a softlock if bought from the shop.

• Fixed some cards or events that give you cards to lead to a softlock.

• Fixed a glitch happening when you won a fight with Brown Flame.

• When using a pad, if you won with a multi hit attack, the card would stay on screen for a few seconds, smaller. Fixed.

• Fixed some cases when enemies' statuses would persist on screen for a few seconds after death.

• The new Backup save file folder is now properly saved to cloud with all other save files.

• Fixed Load Missile card showing the value "1" for the number of cards made in red.

• Fixed pad icons not showing sometimes.

• Fixed a bug that could deactivate blessings or pets if they killed the last enemy of a fight.

• Fixed Force Field card not giving the right amount of Block when enemies have Block.

• Fixed Marks not showing their tooltips when hovering on different Marks in quick succession.

• Fixed not being able to access the menu during Wealthy Abomination and Pond's Monarch fights.

• Fixed a softlock when Oculi does Confusion during End Turn phase.

• Fixed a typo in First Draw description.

• Fixed cards with First Draw keeping Swift effect after 1st turn.

• Fixed Item treasure box to allow you to pick 3 cards when offering you a forced Juicy Melon.

• Fixed a recently introduced visual issue that could leave the left most card in your hand upright.

• Fixed One Two, Set Belt, Deploy Shield cards acting as if they have Swift.

• Fixed Ancient Insight giving back input capability too early.

• Fixed a bug that could happen when a multi phase enemy would die in its first phase from reaction damage (spikes or bouncy).

• Fixed Blessing Heavy Hand showing the sprite for Sixth Finger.

• Fixed a bug that would give you input access too early if an enemy died of reaction damage.

• Fixed a recently introduced bug that could lead to corrupt savefiles (for example, with less or no portals).

• Fixed Healing Dew card always showing a green value for its healing.

• Fixed the game softlocking when using some burning effects.

• Fixed instances where the in game menu could remain stuck while in the initial screen.

• Fixed pad interaction with the new sorting for the Blessings Archive. It now scrolls correctly.

• Fixed a bug that could wipe your achievements data when replaying the tutorial (leaving you with no achievements for the current session, with them being reloaded on the next launch from Steam).

• Fixed a few minor issues with the tutorial.

• Fixed the menu not being accessible after running from a Mimic.

• Removed the Mimics' intents while you're choosing to fight or run, to avoid glitchy overlaps between the intents and the Fight button.

• Fixed a recent bug that would make it impossible to find alternative bosses.

• Fixed a softlock that could happen when an enemy self destructs.

• Fixed a recent bug that would have enemies lose Electrified status when obtained in the same turn as their own action.

• Fixed Gourmet and Slot cards softlocking the game.

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Hello!

I took these few weeks to polish some stuff that was long due, especially concerning pad controls.

No new content, but a few substantial changes, as well as a ton of bug fixes.

This should be the last update before I start working on the game's conclusion. That will take a while, but I'm hopeful I'll wrap it up during the summer.

Additions:

• (General) The game will now save backup save files in a separate sub folder.

Changes:

• (General) I reverted the game back to not offer you a "retry" option, and to remove your current run's save file when you lose. For people who really want to save scum, you're free to kill the game before the score screen, or to use the newly added backup save files, but I personally believe that giving free reign to just retry endlessly is the opposite of the point of a roguelike.

• (General) Better controls when using a pad, as well as less visual issues like cards raising or getting stuck when they shouldn't.

• (General) So far, the game would not present you the alternative version of bosses until you've beaten the normal one for that level. Additionally to that, the game will now, after you've beaten a level once, force the alternative boss as the only option until you've beaten it. This way you will not need to hunt the alternative boss just for the achievement anymore. After you've beaten both the normal and alternative versions, the game will choose one or the other randomly. (Doesn't apply to Lands, considering it's the level you're gonna face every single run).

• (Event) The Enigma will now offer 4 cards, with 2 pickables, from a selected pool of cards of the two classes you're not currently playing.

• (Event) The Enigma room will now appear only after winning the game at least once.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed being able to Mark multiple cards in one sitting when using a pad.

• Fixed being able to access the menu while interacting with the Marking system, when using a pad.

• Fixed enemies countdown not going down if you ended turn right after using a card with Swift.

• Removed Familiar Fury as a Warrior Card in the Cards Archive.

• Reverted Alternative Font to reboot the game when set, it would cause some glitched text otherwise. It still saves its state properly.

• Fixed Alt. Font not affecting the initial loading screen.

• Fixed some cases of bad cards positioning on reward screen for cards that generate other cards.

• Better handling for the timing of the "no input" state.

• Fixed some minor visual issues with the cursor's visuals.

• Fixed the possibility to get cards stuck in weird places on the screen if you spammed non usable cards.

• Tentative fix for a rare bug that could allow you to play cards from your draw pile instead of picking them to be put in your hand.

• Fixed some cases where, if spamming/misclicking on cards multiple times, you'd need a few moments of no input to be able to pick a card again.

• Removed the "Action Cooldown" tooltip that could appear only when using a pad.

• Fixed some bugs when choosing a card reward using the pad.

• Fixed a bug that could happen when using Ritual card.

• Fixed a bug that could result in the game not being able to give boss blessings.

• Fixed the Enigma room portal not being saved if you exited the game before entering it.

• Fixed Sky Archipelago being able to present the alternative boss from the first time you access it.

• Fixed Sanctuary Spirits persisting in a save file after interacting with them (you could take one, reload, and take another one).

Remember, if you like the game, each single positive review helps me a lot!

If you have any feedback or want to discuss about the game, join my Discord server.

DECKBUILDER FEST

Today also kicks off Steam's Deckbuilder Fest!

There are nearly 2000 games taking part in this event.

Novus Orbis is 50% off all week as a part of this event!

(This is a special STEEP discount to both celebrate this event, and to encourage people to try out all the new content that's been added recently!)

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Nothing big with this update, but there were a few things I wanted to address before Novus Orbis participates in the upcoming Deckbuilder Fest.

Additions:

• (UI) Added a tooltip for the first time you see a different Lands variant.

• (General) Similarly to item chests, now the Shop will force a card between Chocolate, Tainted Apple and Platinum Melon, if your HP is below a certain threshold, starting from the second level, and max once per level.

Changes:

• (UI) Updated the sprite for Echo status (I honestly forgot to make it and it had the same of Omniscience).

• (UI) The game will won't need to reboot anymore when changing font.

• (UI) The game will now save the challenges you have selected, differentiating them for each character. You won't need to manually select them all each time you start a new run.

• (UI) The recent rework to the cards reward visuals made it so that cards that generate other cards would show the preview of their generated card as slightly out of screen. The card will now shift down to be able to see everything correctly.

• (Visuals) Tweaks to some elements in Lands' backgrounds.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed the "Back" button when choosing a Mark not working properly.

• When choosing a mark from the related sanctuary spirit, at the "choose a card" screen, when closing that window, the player wouldn't be able to click on spirits anymore, forcing you to quit and reload. Fixed.

• Fixed the game loading two copies of one of the two boss blessings, if you exited and loaded after defeating a boss, before picking a blessing.

• Fixed a double "Y" icon when choosing the boss blessings, when playing with a controller.

• Fixed a recent change that made the Blood Bank usable multiple times in one encounter.

• Refixed the recent Blood Bank bug (I didn't apply the fix globally, so it could still happen in the second levels).

• Fixed the alternative font not being correctly saved between sessions.

• Fixed a bug with selection/deselection of the 6th challenge.

• The new "Always Combo" mark wasn't able to appear in the shop. Fixed.

• Better seeded RNG at the Shop.

• The game was supposed to show the "eyes" background element only with Storm Of The Eyes, and not with Eye Of The Storm too. Fixed to its intended behavior.

• Fixed Taser card giving Electrified to enemies when they had Evasion.

• Fixed Taser's Electrified status not being removed if used when the enemy would act after this card's use.

• Made multiple fixes regarding some issues/exploits one could use to change selected challenges during a run by starting a new game and then re loading the previous run.

• Fixed some events not showing their tooltip after interacting with them and then "skipping" giving a card.

• Fixed a bug where cards copied, using the alternative font, would show their cost, name and combo value in black.

Remember, if you like the game, each single positive review helps me a lot!

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No new content this time, I needed to push an update to address a few things that came up this past week. But, I've been working on the last alternative boss (for the Sky Archipelago), its mechanics are ready, its achievement and unlocked Blessing are ready, I only need to make its sprite..so it's gonna come soon :)

Changes:

• (General) Slight increase in all enemies' stats in the game's initial difficulty (once known as easy mode).

• (Enemy/Card) Sticky Eye from Storm of the Eyes will now damage you for 5 if discarded at turn end.

• (Enemy) Fungal knight's defend action will now give block to its minions too.

• (Enemy) Subterra buff to HP, STR up action, healing action.

• (Enemy) Hive buff to HP and decreased cooldown value to 6 from 7.

• (Enemy) Mentamanomi HP increased.

• (Enemy) Pandora's Vase shield value slightly increased.

• (Enemy) Rafflesia's HP increased, and cooldown value decreased to 6 from 7.

• (Enemy) Wealthy Abomination boost in both HP and damage. Additionally, in its second phase its cooldown value decreases to 5 from 6. This enemy was introduced into the game years ago, when the meta was very different. I feel that now, except for new players, it became a trivial fight, and it was never meant to be.

• (Enemy) Slight HP and damage increase for Mimic and Great Mimic.

• (Card) Code 99 cost increased to 4-2 from 3-0

• (Card) Autoloader changed from common to rare, and now draws 3 instead of 5.

• (Card) Deploy Shield changed from Rare to Legendary.

• (Card) Gourmet now has Swift, and will be burned after one use.

• (UI) The recent rework for the card reward view made it so the current level map would stay behind it. The card picking window will now temporarily shift down to allow you to see the map.

• (Pet Events) The pet events rooms would appear without portals, which would be called after clicking on the event. This could create an issue where you could then access a portal before picking (or skipping) the card. Portals are now called in these rooms to begin with.

Bug Fixes:

• The Mysterious Bean pet event was wrongly flagged, which would lead to a bad load state if exiting and reloading in a room with it in it. Fixed.

• With the Mechanic, when without Hull, she could never lose Fragile status after receiving it. Fixed.

• Fixed a game breaking bug related to the recent rework to the blood bank (which would happen to players who haven't deposited blood yet).

• Fixed the game drawing more cards than intended in some cases with recently added blessings.

• Fixed 500k Lumens card not stating "Swift" in its description despite having the effect.

• Added a few cases to make the "remove softlock" button work better.

• Fixed the chance to give more than 4 Fancy Bottles to the fountain, which is unexpected behavior, resulting in the game locking.

• Fixed some cases where a burned card could be put back into the deck.

• Fixed Haste status bypassing Swift.

Remember, if you like the game, each single positive review helps me a lot!

If you have any feedback or want to discuss about the game, join my Discord server.

WIth this update I entroduce the alternative boss for Sky Archipelago. And with it, every level (except for the final ones) have an alternative boss, each with their own achievement and unlockable Blessing.

I'm pretty happy with the visuals, and the mechanics are an "inverted" version of the one of Ophanim: the boss will be buffed when you discard cards (including discarding at end turn).

It may be a bit strong, so as always, expect tweaks after I get enough feedback :)

With this, I'm done with adding stuff to what's already in the game.

To reach 1.0, all I'm left to do is the fifth, final level. It's planned to be shorter than the others, and will feature the demo's last boss (and secret last boss).

I will need to make the level itself, plan how to access it, and plan how to access the secret last boss.

In addition, I plan to add an "infinite mode", where you can loop back from the first level after winning a run.

It will take a while before the next content update, but expect smaller updates in between, with the usual bug fixes, balance tweaks, and a few smaller things I may want to add (cards, blessings, a tenth pet, a few more events, MAYBE one more optional boss :P )

Additions:

• (Enemy) Seraphim

• (Blessing) Heavy Hand

• (Achievement) Winged Trouble

Bug Fixes:

• Generating cards with cards would leave the new card not showing its combo version even if it should. Fixed.

• This has been there for way too long but it is finally fixed: the run's seed will now PROPERLY work on mini bosses. Until now, quitting/losing at a mini boss and reloading would almost always give you a different one when re loading the run. The game will now properly track mini bosses and bosses, giving you the right one on re load.

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Small update, but with some juicy things :)

Additions:

• (Mark) Always Combo. This mark will make a card act as always in combo, like the effect of the Mage's card "Sharp Clay". It will have the same rarity of Double Use and Free (less frequent than all the other marks).

• (Enemy) Storm of the Eyes (Echo Tower alternative boss)

• (Achievement) Eyed Trouble

• (Blessing) Risk Of Combo

Changes:

• (UI) Reworked visuals for the open deck view and card reward selection.

• (General) Removed the possibility to access the menu while a fight is loading, and until you have resolved all initial Blessings (this is to avoid bugs that could happen when everything is not done yet).

• (Event) Having more than 5000 Blood stored in the Blood Bank will now greatly increase the chance to find one in the first 2 levels.

• (Event) Removed the possibility to deposit more than 9999 Blood in the Blood Bank. It will now cap at 9999, giving you back the difference. (Note: if your save file has more than 9999 stored, attempting to deposit will instead withdraw the excess you have from 9999).

Bug Fixes:

• A recent change broke the tutorial, it's now back to working as intended.

• Removed wrong "Retreat" text from Exhaust card.

• Fixed some cases where Marks would not respond properly when hovered on.

• Fixed 1000 Eyes card showing a green value for its out of combo cost.

• Fixed Item cards getting stuck in "combo" version when checked in the deck, when using the Mechanic.

Remember, if you like the game, each single positive review helps me a lot!

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Hello everyone!

I apologize for the delay after the last update, but I had a very busy month, and only last week I managed to come back to developing.

With this update I bring 3 new Achievements, linked to defeating the alternative version of bosses currently in the game (note that these are not retroactive, you will need to defeat them once even if you have already).

I'm also adding the BGM for the Tower boss, which takes the game to have all the tracks for the current content.

The game is getting closer to its 1.0 release. I will soon make an announcement to officially list what my plans are, but briefly what I still have to do are:

• The alternative versions of Tower and Sky bosses, with relative Achievements.

• A final, optional 5th level, that will have the last boss (and secret last boss) from the demo.

• Additional smaller things.

With these, I will release the game into 1.0. There will be more smaller stuff added after that, but I think that in general the game is pretty juicy.

Additions:

• (Music) Echo Tower Boss

• (Achievement) White Trouble

• (Achievement) Round Trouble

• (Achievement) Rotten Trouble

• (Blessing) Symmetry

• (Blessing) Greed

• (Blessing) Sixth Finger

Changes:

• (Blessings - UI) Blessings with effects that depend on some value will now show that value under their icon. Currently affected Blessings: White Flame, Symmetry, Ethereal Arm.

• (Blessings - UI) Blessings that depend on the current amount of HP will now tell you the amount needed in their description. Currently affected Blessings: Diamond Coating, Glass Cannon.

• (Card) Seek Weakness cost reduced to 1-0. It now also has Advance 2, and combo value changed to 2.

• (Card) Monarch's Bone works with burning on top of discarding. Additionally, dealt damage increased to 300.

• (Status) Changed description for Electrify to specify it triggers even if the damage is zero.

• (Status/Card) Death's Crown now specifies that it doesn't stack when obtained multiple times.

• (UI) The Blessings Archive will now separate Blessings by their pools (innate, normal, great, boss, flame).

• (General) Cards are now discarded only after any drawing effect is applied (to avoid some cases when cards could draw themselves, which could also result in bugs).

Bug Fixes:

• A recent change made it so the game would lock when restarting a run after losing. Fixed.

• Fixed a crash that could happen when killing an enemy with a specific combination of statuses.

• Fixed some cases where a drawn card would leave an empty hole in the deck instead.

• Fixed character being duplicated when starting a new run.

• Fixed some effects or cards (like Tainted Apple) erasing all player's statuses.

• Fixed Black Flame not working properly on cards that cost zero because of First Draw or Free marks.

• Fixed Virus card not being removed by Goosebumps Blessing.

• Reaction type statuses would react to Blue or Yellow Flame damage when hit with an attack with Tracking. Fixed by slowing down Tracking attacks when you have either of those blessings.

• Added text for Exhaust card to specify you need Overheat to use it (it was coded in the card but the card wasn't stating it).

• Fixed some instances where a card could remain semi transparent when in hand.

• Fixed a softlock that could happen when winning a fight while doing some specific combinations of actions.

• Fixed Boomerang Effect being put in the draw pile when discarding it using effects of other cards.

• The text "Can't have more than 10 cards" could loop when multiple drawing effects happened in succession. There is now a delay before the text can appear again.

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Hello everyone!

Some more balancing for the Mechanic, and bug fixes. I have to say that I find the game to be in a very good shape. At this point most of the stuff I'm fixing are some very specific interactions between unusual effects..and in general, the amount of softlocks in the game have drastically decreased.

I want to say a huge thank you to Blank Skies in my Discord server, the amount of testing, feedback and detailed bug reports I'm getting is a great help, especially right now that I don't really have the time to deeply test the game.

And in general another huge thank you to all of you who keep on playing, supporting, and enjoying my game. I appreciate every single one of you. Also, thank you all for the wishes for my newborn. It's an interesting moment in my life, and I'm trying to balance and enjoy all that life is giving me.

Changes:

• (General) Another rework on how rarity for cards rewards work. Both fights and chests will now favor more common cards at the beginning of a run, with a gradual increase in rarity with each level.

• (Event) Hurt Creature will now give a Platinum Melon when giving a common HP related card. I found that the combination of the event being almost always in the first level, the fact that knowing its outcome means you'd save the initial healing item, and how strong Angel Form is, made it for a no brainer choice (and in most cases you'd have no reason to go for the "rare" option). Additionally, it won't accept Tonic and Barista as a good cards to give anymore (now all cards are strictly HP related).

• (Card) As a result of the previous point, Angel Form will now be more rare. Special cards are set to be "one copy only" when getting them as a reward. Because the card was almost always obtained as a reward from the creature in the first level, it was basically never in the pool for the other instances where you can obtain a Special card.

• (Cards) Changed the amount of tracking given by some cards.

• (Card) Load Missile will now only make 1 Missile instead of 2.

• (Card) Guided Missile attack increased to 10.

• (Card) Load Rocket will now only make 1-2 Rockets instead of 2-3.

• (Card) Eagle Eye changed so that when used on an enemy, it will lose all its tracking next turn.

• (Card) 1000 Eyes cost decreased to 4-2, and tracking to 7.

• (Card) Seek Weakness combo value changed to 3. In addition, it is now an AoE card, removing all Tracking from all enemies and converting the total into Strength.

• (Card) Precise Airstream and Guided Punch combo value changed to 2.

• (Blessing) Risk of Chaos changed to give you the same amount of blessings, +1.

• (Blessing) Great Sight Lensing reduced to 1 from 2.

• (Blessing) Hard Bones now reduces damage by 25% from 10%. Description also changed to point out the damage reduced is to HP (so, it doesn't work on Hull).

• (Enemy) Captive status value when Pond's Monarch eats one of your cards increased to 300.

• (Status) Changed description for Life Drain, to state that it works only with attack cards as the player.

• (UI) The "shiny" effect on recently unlocked cards will now be below the cards' text, making them easier to read.

• (UI) Both Dirty Bomb and Nuclear Waste will now be shown as locked in the archive until you unlock Dirty Tactics.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug that would heavily reduce all blessings pools, when loading a game in a run that started with any Lands version that is not the base one.

• Fixed Afterimage blessing triggering enemies' countdown.

• Fixed most "Tracked" attack cards still removing tracked status from the enemy.

• Solved some some rare cases where you could find yourself with holes in your hand or deck, and/or cards randomly disappearing from your hand into your deck/discard pile.

• Fixed some events still showing their tooltip after having completed them.

• Fixed Great Mimic not being able to drop recently added pets items, as well as having the possibility to drop pets that overlap in the same slot.

• Fixed cards with First Draw keeping their zero cost after the first turn.

• Fixed Core Fragments not being killed when going to phase 2, when having block (given by one of the challenges).

• Fixed Incinerator causing a softlock when killing the 1st phase of a multi phase enemy.

• When enemies received a status while dying, the status would stick to the enemy. This resulted in the enemy keeping the status when spawning later in the run, or the status being removed from the game if you went to the next level, or re loaded a run (this could create various additional issues). Fixed.

• Fixed Reactive Poison status working even when an attack would miss the enemy because of Evasion.

• The attack that would make you discard, with Darkness Elemental and Ebonactite, could make the player discard a card even when missing because of Evasion. Fixed.

• Fixed a bad interaction between Lethargy blessing and Haste status.

• Bookmark card's values were swapped in the card's text, fixed.

Remember, if you like the game, each single positive review helps me a lot!

If you have any feedback or want to discuss about the game, join my Discord server.

Hello everyone!

I will be pretty busy for the whole weekend, so I wanted to push one update before then.

No new addition this time, but I've been slowly polishing stuff, fixing bugs, and made a few fundamental changes to the Mechanic, that should make it more enjoyable as a whole.

Changes:

• (General) Added quick help tooltip for Mage and Mechanic classes, and Sanctuary room. Moreover, all current and future quick help tooltips will show once for all players, regardless of how far they are in the game.

• (Card) 1000 Eyes can now be used normally, when having other cards in hand. Cost increased to 5-3.

• (Card) Taser will now apply Electrify after attacking, before discarding. Which means that it can be safely used with double attack or dual wielding. Additionally, it had the unintended issue of damaging you for 99 (from elecrify) if the enemy already had electrify. That won't happen anymore because electrify is now applied after the attack is finished.

• (Card) Removed "goes over tracked cap" for Eagle Eye.

• (Card) Paintball will now deal Tracked damage, then apply 1 Tracked if the attack hit the enemy (meaning, if the enemy already has Tracked).

• (Card) Precise Airstream changed to first apply 1 Tracked, then dealing Tracked damage.

• (Card) Complete rework of Ejection. Renamed to Inertia. It will now simply deal as much damage as your current Hull, without removing it. It also inflicts 50 Overheat and "can't attack" status on the player. Cost increased to 5-3.

• (Status) Tracked now caps at 99.

• (Status) Flesh Interface will now heal you of the stored value at the end of a fight (additionally to at the start of a turn). This also removes an unintended effect where the stored value would persist between fights.

• (Blessing) Blessed Rain changed to activate only if you play at least one card during the turn.

• (Event) The Blessing spirit in the Sanctuary will now give a Blessing from the "great" pool instead of a normal one.

• (UI) Mechanic's Hull status icon has been made bigger, and with its value to align to the left, to avoid overlapping with its next status when having a big number.

• (Visual) Defeating Ebonactite, Husk and Eye of the Storm makes the screen temporarily black to allow the backgrounds to be reverted to a normal version. This time gap used to be a bit too long, especially when on 1x game speed. The time gap has been greatly reduced.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed Code:99 card's block not scaling with block's modifiers.

• Fixed Item cards generated with other cards not to be affected by Risk of Possession blessing.

• Fixed Cards showing a 2 cost with Risk of Possession, but actually still costing zero.

• Fixed the pond showing its tooltip in discovery mode during a fight.

• Fixed some rare cases where cards would remain semi transparent when dropping them back into the hand after picking one.

• Fixed Acid Blood blessing activating on damage made by non card elements (like Blue flame or Pets attacks) when this damage was on enemies with Electrified status.

• Fixed Healthy Avoidance blessing to actually work with weird delays in some instances.

• Fixed the ability to find the pet Keron before unlocking it.

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Hello everyone!

First thing first: my daughter was born on January 13th! Just two days after my own birthday. She's healthy, cute and surprisingly quiet :D

I've been updating the game a few times a day since I released the Mechanic. There were a lot of new bugs that needed to be fixed as soon as I saw them (including the fact that for a few days new challenges could not be unlocked anymore..). At the same time, I've made some changes to the class following users' feedback and my own testing.

I didn't have time to make an actually update announcement, so I'm going to list here all the changes that have been made so far, including a few still unreleased features.

Additions:

• (General) A new "Discovery Mode" added in the options: when this is turned ON, events will show a tooltip to tell you how to interact with them. OFF by default.

• (General) A new system to show quick tips when encountering new mechanics or things that may need a few words to better understand. Currently implemented to explain the new Discovery Mode, will use this system for more things in the future.

• (Card) Paintball

• (UI) Added a "faded" version of each level in the levels map, to hint at the number of total levels, for new players.

• (Event) Added Mechanic cards to the pool of usable cards on the Hurt Creature event.

Changes:

• (Mechanic) Changed starting deck to include 1 Laser and one Tag cards.

• (Status) Overheat will now damage Hull for 5 flat instead of 10%.

• (General) Fancy Bottle cards were incorrectly set to not appear as rewards before level 3. Set now to appear from level 2. Additionally, Starting from level 2, if you don't own a Fancy Bottle, Spring Water or any pet, the shop will always offer a Fancy bottle in the Item cards tentacle (max once per level). These changes should heavily facilitate obtaining at least 1 pet before level 3.

• (Sound) Changed the sound for wind element attacks.

• (Music) Better volume balance for all the BGM.

• (Event) The Breakable Globe event will now be damaged with the value exactly as shown for the "during combo" version of a card, and will include any additional effect like Double Damage Mark and Blessings like Black Flame. To balance this change, the needed damage to break it has been increased by 10.

• (Event) Firepit will no longer have a small chance to give you a "Burn" affliction card.

• (Cards) Added a new "Stock" attribute to Ancient Insight, Gourmet and Slot cards. These cards will now always generate a different card within the same fight. When there are no more different cards to generate, the card will be burned. This is to avoid stalling in search of HP related cards.

• (Card) Decreased in combo cost for Deploy Rope to 1.

• (Card) Decreased in combo cost for Dirty Tactics to 2.

• (Card) Exhaust cost in combo reduced to 1. Also, removed its "Retreat" attribute.

• (Card) Sauna's healing increased to 10x your Overheat value.

• (Card) Changed Feint description to reflect the fact that a drawn card's cost is reduced to 0 only until used.

• (Card) Plasma Cannon cost in combo decreased to 2. Also, required Overheat decreased to 10.

• (Card) Laser combo value changed to 2.

• (Blessing) Risk Of Poison will now stop poisoning you when you go over 2000 max HP.

• (Blessing) Goosebumps moved to the "great" blessings pool.

• (Blessing) Photosynthesis changed to give you 2 Strength every turn instead of every 3 turns.

• (UI) When playing with a pad, the "x" icon to show enemies' intents would now overlap with statuses when they align towards the left (a recent change). Moved the "x" icon in a place where it shouldn't interfere with anything.

• (UI) Better handling of tooltips placement.

Bug Fixes:

• Because of a recent change, The Core would summon its fragments only once per fragment, then summoning blanks afterwards. Fixed.

• The normal attack from The Core had one wrong value, that caused its intent to show the intended damage, but to deal 2.5 times the damage. Fixed.

• Clearing Abyss with the Mechanic would not unlock the right achievement.

• Fixed the game not properly showing cards' "in combo" versions when pressing ctrl.

• Fixed the game not properly resetting a run's save file after winning (you could still choose "Continue" after winning a run).

• Fixed the game not showing a card's damage value right away when generated during fight.

• Fixed the Mechanic not being able to unlock any challenges.

• Fixed issues with unlocking challenges when loading a previous run or retrying after losing.

• Fixed Lens status not actually applying more Tracked.

• Fixed most cards containing Hull showing a Fragile status tooltip.

• Added Hull tooltip to One With The Machine blessing.

• Fixed the archive not showing transient cards.

• Fixed Mint card not healing the amount of added HP.

• For some reason I never realized that when enemies received damage while having Block, the "block" sound would not play. Fixed.

• Some blessings would still work when accepting the "blessing spirit" deal. Fixed.

• Fixed Machine Learning card not resetting its damage multiplier when checking your deck between fights.

• When having Good Care blessing, and using an item with Swift, if the card were to be retained because of the blessing, Swift would not work. Fixed.

• Fixed cards that generate other cards to show the generated card in unintended moments.

• Tentative fix for a bug that could lead to being unable to exit the Archive.

• Fixed many issues with tooltips when having "big UI" mode on.

• The World's music would loop into a wrong file, fixed.

• Fixed Autoloader triggering enemies' countdown when pulled with Keron pet.

• Battery card would not properly remove Overheat if it went down to zero, fixed.

• Fixed cards Stomp and Heat Shield not correctly showing a green value when their damage/block was more than base.

• Fixed Ejection card not removing Hull when having Evasion.

• Fixed Hot Equip working during Time Freeze.

• Fixed some cases where the "mark" symbol on cards could be seen through other game's elements.

• Fixed Cool Tempered blessing not properly working.

• Fixed "First Draw" cards not having a working "swift" when having Blue Flame or Yellow Flame blessings.

• Fixed an error in BGM loop when visiting the shop in Echo Tower.

• The way the game was set would always make you find a Sanctuary Spirit within a few rooms after visiting a Sanctuary room if you previously had already capped the number of Spirits you can hold at the same time. While not strictly a bug, that wasn't intended to be. Fixed so the Spirit can still be found but in a more random way.

• Fixed Whirlpool Grimoire not working for exceeding the 50 cap for wind.

• Fixed Force Field card not giving Block for damage dealt to enemy's Block.

• Fixed the possibility to interact with the firepit while it's saying "noooo" after giving it a Spring Water card.

• Fixed the damage icon above the firepit to remain stuck when giving it a Spring Water card.

• Fixed the "Big UI" button in the menu to say "off" even when on.

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She's here!

I'm glad I managed to wrap this up before my daughter joins the family (spoiler alert, less than 2 weeks left).

The 3rd class is finally done, the Mechanic.

I'm happy with how she came out visually, and mechanically. I tried to balance it as well as I could, but she will probably need more balancing going forward.

She comes with quite a few specific mechanics and gimmicks, 84 class specific cards, a few class specific blessings, and 20 new Achievements.

To unlock her, you'll need to clear the game once with either the Warrior or Mage. This will now give you an additional Achievement for simply winning the game. If you've already cleared the game once, the achievement should unlock automatically on your next start up.

A few words about her:

My original goal with classes was to have a sort of visual character customization..which ended up being too much work for one person. For that reason, the Warrior and Mage have a similar looking face. At this point I didn't want to make yet another "copy", and since one of the things I wanted to customize was sex..I decided that this new class was going to be a girl.

As for her mechanics: while the Warrior is quite straightforward, and the Mage is more complex but with a lot more variety and potential, this class I believe is a middle ground between the two. One big difference is that she will have a lot less HP than usual, and is a lot more prone to need to follow an archetype.

I'll leave more discovery to you. Please, as always, feel free to leave any comment or feedback!

I have made quite a few changes and killed a few bugs too.

As I've stated, my daughter will be born soon, so development may slow down. I will try to keep things going as much as life allows me. But I will spend some time working on balance, bug fixes, improvements etc. for a while, with no strict schedule.

Additions:

• (Class) Mechanic (and all related cards, blessings and unlocks)

• (Pet) Keron

• (Music) Sky Archipelago's boss.

• (Blessing) Mage - Inquisitive

• (UI) The Shop will now tell you "Not enough blood" when you try to buy something without having enough blood.

• (UI) Transient cards (cards created by the player that will disappear at fight end) now have a specific mark to differentiate them from normally owned cards.

Changes:

• (Archive) Restructured the Cards Archive: it will now have 4 tags: Warrior, Mage, Mechanic, General. The first 3 contain ALL cards that are specific to the class, while General contains all cards that are shared between all classes. Within each tag there will be all types of cards, sorted by type, and by rarity within each type.

• (Archive) Improved performance when changing between tabs in the Cards Archive.

• (Cards) All pet item cards now state that you need "Bottled Spring Water".

• (Card) Slime effect changed into: When drawn, stop any further card draws. This has an impact similar to the old version, while making this card less problematic (in code) when drawn in tandem with other effects.

• (Card) Relax will now set all your hand's cards cost to zero, but won't remove all your SP anymore. The text now also specifies that once used, the cards' cost goes back to the original value.

• (Enemy) Pond's Monarch will now gain a "Captive" status when eating one of your cards. Once you've dealt the amount of damage shown in the status' icon, all cards eaten so far will be put back in your deck.

• (Enemy) Mimic will now drop both of its specific cards - as it previously used to do.

• (Visual) The player attack animation is now better handled, and will speed up the animation during multi hit attacks, instead of the badly synchronized solution the game had so far.

• (Music) The temporary BGM files for Echo Tower, Sky Archipelago, Outer Space, and relative bosses should now play in a higher volume. Everything will be better balanced once I have the final files.

• (Pets) All pets will now make their call sound when performing their action.

• (Pets) Increased time delay between pets actions.

Bug Fixes:

• Onigiri pet was flagged in the wrong position slot, making it possible to find it multiple times.

• The recent change to statuses alignment made it so the first time any entity got statuses they would be in a wrong position. Fixed.

• Fixed a rare bug that could softlock the game if you won a fight while drawing cards.

• Fixed a few recently added unlockable blessings showing their tooltip when checked in the Archive while still not unlocked.

• Fixed a recently introduced bug that would make tooltips disappear after a moment, when playing with a pad.

• Fixed another pad issue that would not show the combo version of cards when selecting them as reward.

• Pad again, fixed the "Y" symbol when picking a boss blessing not showing properly, and it being affected by environmental lights.

• Fixed having the possibility to click on a portal when choosing a card from the new game rewards list.

• Fixed backgrounds flickering for a moment when exiting the Enigma room.

• Fixed the game not being able to load correctly pet item rooms for recently added pets.

• Fixed a bug/exploit that could let you change the difficulty of an ongoing run when reloading.

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As I keep working on the new class (I'm over 60 cards, so I'm about halfway through, tho balancing is being trickier than I hoped), I keep making changes, balancing, and fixing bugs, so I want to push stuff at least once every two weeks.

There are two main things in this update:

Retry:

The game will now offer you the option to "Retry" when losing a fight (it will reload the game as it was in the room before the fight you lost). At the same time, even when going back to the main menu, your save file for the run will still be loadable. The only time a save file is reset is when you win a run.

Basically, free save scumming. While testing I realized that it makes the whole game less stressful and more enjoyable this way, and I could make an "hardcore mode" (maybe as a challenge) in the future, where you can't retry (and I'll also make it impossible to save scum then :P).

New Music:

Added non final version BGMs for Sky Archipelago and The World boss fight.

The World boss fight has been in the game since the last update, but I forgot to announce that. With this, the only two remaining tracks are for Echo Tower and Sky Archipelago's bosses. All recently added tracks are non final, and play with lower volume compared to final tracks, I apologize for that.

As for changes and bug fixes:

Changes:

• (General) Changed the chances and types of cards you can find during fights.

• (Enemy) The World "seasons" will happen a little slower (the speed made what was happening too difficult to understand). Also, its power up actions will now happen after attacking, avoiding times when it would power up just before an attack, changing the actual damage value from what was shown in the intent.

• (Status) Electrified now states that the damage coming back happens only when attacked with an attack card (meaning it won't activate when damaged by a blessing, pet, item or special card).

• (UI) Enemies statuses will now position expanding to the left when the more than 4 are present. This should eliminate any current or future risk of having statuses overlap with adjacent enemies when they too many at the same time.

• (UI) The "Loading..." text in the bottom right corner is now more consistent in all parts of the game.

• (Blessing) Risk Of Poison will now poison for 3% of your HP (from 2%). It will also stop increasing your max HP when you have more than 2000, and will only heal you instead.

• (Visual) Very small change to the Marking Machine sprite.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed missing interaction between Paper Airplane card and Renunciation blessing.

• The game would show just a black background when showing a card made by another card when checked for the first time in one session from inside your deck. Fixed.

• Fixed Bouncy not synergizing with Fragile damage.

• Adjusted some AoE cards art background to be consistent with each other.

• Fierce Cuteness Blessing would make the next turn start before waiting for the repeated pet action, leading to issues in some cases. Fixed.

• Fixed a bug that would leave the shop music on after exiting a shop.

• The recent change to item cards being affected by statuses (for example Rock's damage) wasn't properly displaying the values colors (like green if the damage is more than base). Fixed.

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A pretty small update that I'm forced to make because I realized there was a pretty major bug while I was working on some important changes.

The major change concerns the Mage class: I have come to the realization that, while dividing all the elemental cards to be obtained only when you have the relative Grimoire, this meant that, especially when owning only one, the card pool would be significantly limited (especially evident with Legendary cards).

Because of this, I've decided that now all cards will be available regardless of the Grimoires.

This may require some further balancing down the road, but hopefully will make the mage feel more varied.

Linked to this, I decided to make two changes to the Grimoires (now that they don't serve as element finders anymore):

They will give you 2 charges of each element instead of 1 They will allow you to increase their specific element to 100, from 50. There is no additional passive benefit when going above 50, but increasing the limit should allow players to make even big numbers with elemental manipulation.

Changes:

• (Mage) Reworked how elemental cards are obtained, and the role of Grimoires.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug introduced with the last update that made it impossible to increase your HP.

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Good news, I've been working on the third class, the Mechanic!

So far I've made 30ish cards, with some new core mechanics. It feels pretty fun, but I'll need a lot more cards before I can actually release it.

In the meantime I've collected enough changes and bug fixes that a small update was needed. No new content, but there are a few important changes (the biggest one is a rework of the "First Draw" Mark).

Changes:

• (General) Because of the mechanics for the upcoming new player class, Item cards that deal damage are now affected by statuses (currently Bomb and Rock cards).

• (General) Cards that generate other cards will now show the generated card together with whatever tooltip they may have.

• (Mark) First Draw will now, in addition to drawing the card on first turn, set its cost to zero and give it a Swift effect during the first turn.

• (Shop) Price increase for rerolling decreased to 10% from 25%.

• (Shop) Changed the Shop last text prompt from rerolling to be more menacing.

• (General) Rare treasure chests now contain 2 cards instead of 3.

• (Enemy) Magma Elemental won't start a fight with an automatic Strength Up status to everyone.

• (Enemy) Ice Elemental won't start a fight with an automatic Evasion status to everyone.

• (Enemy) Elemental Cluster will perform in turn an attack + an elemental action, then only an attack, and repeat (when not summoning more elementals).

• (Enemy) Darkness Elemental won't give you a Darkness card on fight start anymore. Instead it will give you one as its first action.

• (Mage) The Mage will now always find at least one not owned grimoire from equipment chests.

• (Pet) Onigiri set to increase your HP at most once per battle, then it will still either heal you if you don't have max HP, or give you evasion.

• (Card) Soul Cannon damage multiplier reduced to 5x from 10x.

• (Card) Chain Attack now sets all your attack cards to cost 0 (instead of 2 less SP).

• (Card) Levitate now gives 2 Evasion and 2 Wind.

• (Card) Deep Breath now gives 1 Evasion in addition to 2 SP.

• (Card) Heat sacrifice used to stay in the middle of the screen while overlapping with the card it's burning. It now moves to the side before placing the burned card in the center.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a case where you could get a non working portal pixie on Firepit portals.

• Fixed Wind Dance card not being usable with the alternative input system.

• Solved a rare issue that could lead to icons and buttons in the shop to not work as intended.

• Fixed a recently introduced bug that would leave the shop music overlapping with the map one after leaving a shop room.

• Fixed a bug that could lead to the shops' tentacles to stay on screen during its fight.

• Fixed left over issue with the interaction between blessings Risk Of Heat and Afterimage.

• Fixed Better Idea and Chakram reducing enemies' countdown by two if used together.

• Fixed the game giving a blank "unlocked" prompt when finding the Marks Sanctuary Spirit.

• Hopefully removed the few edge cases when tooltips would hang on screen despite exiting what they're referring to.

• If for any reason you lost your save files and don't have Steam cloud active, the game was supposed to retrieve data from the Steam achievements and use those to remake your save file. It wasn't working as intended, and it's now fixed.

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A small but hopefully significant update! First of all, Novus Orbis has reached 50 Reviews, 94% positive, with the tag Very Positive! Thank you everyone who helped me reach this small but significant milestone!

The game's BGM tracks for the new locations are starting to flow in. They're still not final, so composition may change a little and volume/mixing/quality is still not the best, but I'm really happy with how they make the new levels feel, so I wanted to add them to the game already. More to come! Then, with the new additions from update 0.5.0, after feedback and testing, I realized I needed to re balance quite a few things. As always, the game is being shaped little by little, nothing is ever set in stone, and I'm working hard to make the final product as good as I can. In general I think the game was getting too difficult (to the point I was struggling myself to win runs), as well as the fact that I felt difficulty wasn't evenly spread through a whole run. Two major things that I think can really change how a run goes (especially, them happening by the end of level 2), are the ability to find a pet and increasing your max HP. The more events I add, and the more blessing there are, everything is getting diluted, making the balance towards the end of a run trickier. Because of that, I have made it so it's easier (almost guaranteed) to have ways to find a pet and at least some kind of HP boost calculated around which level you're on.

As a side note, winning the game with 10 challenges on is a REAL challenge. Unless you get a very lucky build, you will really need to take advantage of all the game's mechanics to be able to win against the last boss.

Additions:

• (Music) Added a non final version for the Echo Tower and Outer Space BGMs.

• (Music) Replaced the BGM for the Sanctuary event.

Changes:

• (General) Removed the anti stall system. It was being to difficult to properly balance, keeping track of all possible reasons the player would be stalling, and in the end, if a player wants to stall and play boringly, it's on them lol

• (General) Decreased chance to find negative portal pixies (stronger enemies and damaging ones).

• (General) Decreased damage from damaging portal pixies to 10%.

• (General) Increased healing from healing portal pixies to 20%.

• (General) Stronger enemies pixies will now give slightly less strong enemies, and blood given will be 3x instead of 2x.

• (General) The game will now make it easier to find a Fancy Bottle card if you don't have one, or a pet, starting from level 2 (from item chests).

• (General) The game will now favor finding a Platinum Melon card if your max HP is too low for the current level.

• (General) Healing Springs now heal 50% max HP from 33%.

• (Challenge) Challenge 3 now gives 15% more HP to enemies instead of 25%.

• (Challenge) Challenge 4 now gives 15% more damage to enemies instead of 25%.

• (Challenge) Challenge 5 (the one that gives you one Affliction card) has been completely changed into one that gives bosses 1 Strength status per level.

• (Challenge) Challenge 9 changed to have bosses start at 3 Countdown on their first turn.

• (Player) Warrior starting HP increased to 60.

• (Player) Mage starting HP increased to 50.

• (Card) Fire Arrow damage increased to 5-9.

• (Card) Fire Ball damage increased to 7-14.

• (Card) Slash damage increased to 6-9.

• (Card) Kick damage increased to 3-6.

• (Card) Spinning Slash damage increased to 5-8.

• (Card) Bird Feather now gives you 10% more max HP instead of flat 5.

• (Enemy) Zakuro's Desperate Bite attack (when without a tail) is now less powerful.

• (Enemy) Eye of the Storm's "Storm" attack is now a 4 hit attack instead of 5.

• (Enemy) Eye of the Storm's "Electrify" amount decreased to 5 from 10.

• (Enemy) Necrosphere multiple attack is now a 2 hit attack instead of 3.

• (Enemy) The World's initial Protection charges decreased to 7 from 10.

• (Enemy) Luna Ignis and Luna Aegis Countdown increased by 1.

• (Enemy) Grinder now performs 1 action, then 2 actions, alternatively.

• (Event) You can now find and store 4 Sanctuary spirits at the same time at most.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed Paper Airplane card not working on pet item cards.

• A recent change in how the game is loaded when launched made it so changing font would make the game crash or act weird. Fixed.

• Fixed Goosebumps blessing not working on Tick.

• Fixed error in Discharge card text.

• Fixed a bug that would let you select Lava Flow again after using it, making it possible to use it multiple times without burning cards.

• Fixed a bug that could lead to the game forcing you to pick 3 more Affliction cards when loading a run with Risk of Skill or Risk of Assault.

• Fixed the shop room music disappearing when accessed after a special fight (Mimics and Monarch).

• Fixed a bug that could make portals appear in event rooms that should force you to interact with them.

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I'm finally done with this! It took me way more than I wished, I apologize.

This is, visually, the level I've wanted to make since I started this project. Like I said in the previous small update, astrophotography was one of my hobbies before I started developing Novus Orbis, and I wanted to put my love for space into the game. Some of the background elements I've made for this level are strongly inspired from pictures I've taken myself.

Visuals aside, this level goes to conclude the second path, with the second ending to the game.

With this conclusion, five more challenges have been added, with relative unlockables!

There is a ton of new stuff, a ton of balancing, and as always, I've been working to remove as many bugs as possible.

Note: there have been delays regarding the game's music. I wish things were moving faster, but it's out of my control. For now I am reusing music from the first path (which do not really match the levels' vibe too much), but they're all going to come, at some point.

With this update I decided with the publisher that we're raising the game's price to $14.99 USD.

As a parallel announcement, I'm going to become a dad in January! While this is a happy moment, it also means that development may become a bit slower. I also need to consider how I'm going to wrap the game up leading to 1.0. The original goal was to add two more levels after this one, but depending on schedule and reception, I may need to cut those, and add the intended last boss(es) as additional bosses, without adding new levels.

That being said, the third class is coming for sure, and it's the next big thing I'm going to work on. I haven't made a new class since forever, I'm looking forward to it, while being a bit scared about it ahah.

Now, to the update's content:

Additions:

• (Level) Outer Space. Accessible from Sky Archipelago (and Abyss once cleared). Clearing it once will unlock five new challenges, as well as the raising difficulty for the Hell-Outer Space pair.

• (Enemy) Auric Vorid

• (Enemy) Cobalt Vorid

• (Enemy) Crimson Vorid

• (Enemy) Viridian Vorid

• (Enemy) Grinder

• (Mini Boss) Hive

• (Mini Boss) Subterra

• (Boss) No Spoilers :P

• (Challenges) Five new challenges that appear once you beat Outer Space for the first time.

• (Achievements) 12 new Achievements for clearing Outer Space, and for winning the game with the five new challenges (6 for each class).

• (Blessing) Acid Blood

• (Blessing) Risk of Poison

• (Blessing) Goosebumps

• (Blessing) Summoning

• (Card) Gamble

• (Card) Book Rewrite

• (Card) Soul Cannon

• (Card) Steel Copy

• (Card) Bookmark

• (Card) Hell

• (Card) Mysterious Rice

• (Card) Mysterious Tooth

• (Pet) Onigiri

• (Pet) Mory

Changes:

• (UI) Slight change to the font style for the dialogue boxes.

• (General) The new game reward will now have two versions. The one that was in the game so far is untouched. The game will now give you a reward even if you haven't reached the first boss. In this case, you'll be offered only 2 options, and they will be less impactful.

• (General) Reduced the number of rooms for some levels, and set both level 3s (Abyss and Sky Archipelago) with only one Mini Boss. It's a quite big change that aims to both make runs more varied, as well as spreading difficulty better between levels (I felt like difficulty would always peak at level 2-3, and then fall at level 4).

• (General) Removed Mimic and Pond as random events in Hell. They will now be found only as forced events in pre-set rooms if Great Mimic and Pond's Monarch have not been defeated yet.

• (General) Tweaks to the anti stall system.

• (General) Mark rooms now also have a chance to have a damaging pixie on them (same chance as treasure rooms).

• (General) Clearing a level at difficulty 3 will now make the level unavailable for the next run, and reset it to difficulty 0. This is implemented because the difficulty system is supposed to give more reasons to a player to choose one or the other path during different runs. But as things were, for skilled players it would mean they would only choose the highest difficulty path to maximize rewards, nullifying my original intent.

• (General) Minic, Onigiri and Mory pets added to the possible pet cards you can get from the initial reward (once unlocked).

• (Pet) Genryuu's single target attack now deals more damage.

• (Enemies) Magma, Ice, Current Elementals now have a limit to the amount of "elemental" moves they can perform, after which they'll switch to only attacking (some interactions would make fights unnecessarily long or difficult).

• (Enemies) A few changes to some recent enemies' death sounds.

• (Card) Demon Form damage decreased to 25% from 50%, and changed its description to specify you lose that amount of HP, instead of "taking damage".

Bug Fixes:

• Removed the possibility to access the menu during the post end boss dialogue.

• Fixed a bug that would need you to click twice on the buttons on the score screen before they would actually work.

• Fixed the game win dialogue repeating the last line if you spam click.

• Fixed some issues with dialogues repeating the first and/or last lines.

• Fixed the "You beat the last boss" text disappearing if you click when it's on screen.

• Fixed an issue with High Conductor card not updating its damage properly.

• Solved a small visual issue where you'd get a darkened background covering a new run reward card for a few moments after it appears.

• Fixed Fuel Hate card giving you negative Strength when used with no Affliction cards in hand.

• Fixed the game showing pets' actions tooltips for a moment when loading a saved run.

• The game was not saving the fact you had encountered a Sanctuary or not, making it possible to find more than one per run when exiting and reloading. Fixed.

• Fixed some possible bugs that could happen when enemies died from effects not coming directly from cards.

• Fixed a bug where Risk of Beginning could leave you with negative SP when under the effect of the SP Sanctuary Sprite.

• Tentative fix for a somewhat rare issue that would make portals appear during events that should not have them.

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This is the longest I've gone without an update since release.

Live has been a little busy recently, so the next level is taking me more than I hoped. The good news is that I'm done with the last boss! Now to the enemies and mini bosses. The last boss, and this next level, have been in my head since I started working on the game. After three years of development I've finally managed to reach this point in the game. I'd like to keep the boss itself secret, but as a little treat, here are some examples of the backgrounds for the next level.

One of my hobbies before starting this journey was astro photography. I had to pause it to be able to focus on the game, but this is an homage to that hobby, that I hope to resume some day. I've based most of the stuff in the background on actual pictures I've taken myself.

To this update content.

No new content, but I needed to fix some issues with the game, as well as the usual balancing (I've completely reworked one specific card, too).

Changes:

• (General) Made changes with how the game is first loaded. The game will now take a little more time in the first loading screen, but should start more quickly when launched. The total wait time is the same, but before this change it could seem like the game was not launching at all on lower spec machines.

• (General) Made some adjustments that should result in smoother performance on lower spec machines.

• (General) Made some adjustments to pad controls. Still not perfect but I'm getting there.

• (General) Improved the anti stall system, it will now take into account whether you have any attack cards in hand when ending turn (a turn where you have no attack cards to begin with won't be considered as heavily as one where you do have attack cards and choose not to use them).

• (Status) Spikes changed to deal 1/3 instead of 1/4 damage back per stack.

• (Status) Dual Wielding changed to have a value starting from 1, gaining 1 more for each stack, with the effect of "attack cards are played one additional time per stack". Because of how the status was coded, you would get one additional attack when using Dual Wielding once, but two additional attacks when using it after the first time. While stacking Dual Wielding is a very rewarding thing to achieve, the way it was working wasn't really well balanced, especially with the addition of the "Double Use" mark.

• (Card) Storm can now only be found from level 2.

• (Card) Brainstorm changed to give 4-8 Boost instead of 3-5

• (Card) Complete rework for Paper Airplane. It is now a card that can be actively used. It will remove from your deck all Equipment, Item, and Affliction cards in your hand. You receive 5 Strength and 1 SP for each card discarded this way.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed solid Flame triggering when enemies lost Block.

• Fixed bad text for Soul Steal card.

• Solved an issue with the new run reward when playing with a pad.

• Solved a bug that would break the game if you used pad buttons while the game was loading up.

• Solved Fireworks card being unplayable.

• Solved various issues with navigating the world map using a pad.

• Removed the ability to access the menu and exit to the main menu while receiving a card reward. Doing this would lead to having the whole deck removed.

• Fixed blessing Afterimage leaving you with a softlock.

• Fixed instances where a copied card would remain semi transparent.

• Tentative fix for a bad interaction between blessings Afterimage and Risk of Heat.

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Good news, I've been working on the next level (the last for the second path), and I've finished working on the backgrounds. But since a whole level takes time, I've decided to take a break mid way, and address a few known issues with the game. Aside for bug fixes, I'm reworking a few cards and mechanics.

One important change I'm making is drop rates for cards. I feel that despite the game having a lot of cards (on par with StS), runs often feel too similar in terms of the cards you find. At the same time, Legendary cards don't feel as special as they should. Because of this, I've reworked how card rewards work for normal, mini boss, and boss fights, as well as for golden chests. This change may not be great, or good at all, but I want to give it a try and see how the game goes for a while.

I'll go back to making the next level, and there probably won't be updates until that's ready (unless I need to make some important bug fix).

Changes:

• (Warrior) Reworked Boost: it will now always give you 1 strength, 1 defense and 1 SP as long as you have Boost charges. Will give you 1 more of each for every 10 charges. These statuses WON'T disappear next turn anymore. You'll lose half boost charges (rounded up) +1 at the start of the turn.

• (General) Reworked how rarity is handled for fights and gold chest rewards.

• (General) Starting a new run, or loading a saved one should now be a lot faster.

• (General) Slightly reworked the anti stalling mechanic, to give more weight to turns where the player doesn't play any attack cards.

• (General) Added a small delay before you can pick a card when receiving a card reward, to avoid clicking on one by mistake (this could easily happen during the Enigma encounter).

• (Enemy) Ice Elemental will now give 1 Evasion charge instead of 2.

• (Enemy) The boss Husk will now have a "Dry" status that will make it impossible for it to heal. This is to avoid interactions with the card Bite Mark or any future additions that may heal it, making it basically impossible to beat.

• (Mark) Keep has now an additional effect: when the card is discarded, go to combo 4.

• (Event) Added Ice Melt to the pool of cards you can give to the Hurt Creature.

• (Card) Stance Change cost raised to 3-1 from 0-0.

• (Card) Weak Spot will now deal double damage when the enemy is not blocking.

• (Card) Lightning Bolt's thunder gain raised to 3 from 2.

• (Card) Foam's water reduction increased to 5 from 2.

• (Card) Bird Feather's cost decreased to 1 from 3.

• (Card) Vacuum's cost out of combo raised to 6 from 4.

• (Card) Discharge's Delay set to fixed 2 instead of being relative to the current Thunder value.

• (Cards) Ice Melt, High Conductor, Aerodynamics, Static Electricity and Kindle cards converted to Rare instead of Common.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a new bug that would make it impossible to get the Academy Dropout achievement.

• Mud Slide card would show an "earth" damage animation as if it were AoE, fixed.

• When pressing control and shift at the same time, the game would get locked in "showing cards combo value" mode. This state can be exited by simply pressing control or shift again, but for unaware users, the game is now set to exit this with either mouse click.

• Fixed Parasite effect staying on cards after discarding the Parasite card, this time hopefully for good.

• Set Paralux mini boss to remove all its statuses before copying the player's. This should remove cases where this enemy's statuses would do weird stuff.

• There is a bug I can't pinpoint with the shop, that may make it so portals are clickable while the shop is open. Added an additional check so that portals should never be able to be accessed while the shop is open.

• Risk of Heat would make it so until you hit End Turn, the enemy's Countdown would never go down. Fixed.

• You could hit End Turn while copying, burning or discarding cards. Fixed.

• Fixed bad text in Hydro Gauntlet card.

• Fixed a small gap while enemies are gaining statuses at the stat of a fight, where the player could play cards before enemies gain the statuses.

• Fixed the "alternative font" button not to work when used from the in run menu.

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No new content, this small update focuses on a few issues I've fixed and some balancing tweaks.

Addition:

• (General) More a bug fix than an addition, but since version 0.3.0 the game stopped presenting the "mirror" portal pixie. It's now back in the game.

Changes:

• (General) The "Costly" negative mark will now not target Item and Equipment cards.

• (Event) The forced sanctuary spirit encounter is now in the 3rd level instead of 2nd, and you won't be able to find more than 1 per run anymore.

• (Enemy) Great Mimic was performing less actions than I intended when in "Mitosis" mode (after 8 turns). Fixed to its intended number of actions (should now be more difficult).

• (Enemy) The Core will now give you Hell's Gaze and get Great Strength x2 every few turns until you hit the threshold for max number of Hell's Gaze cards, then it will use Great Strength x2 and Block.

Bug Fixes:

• The Mage's new cards weren't correctly implemented, making them not findable. Fixed.

• Solved an issue that could lead to have levels with zero healing springs.

• Fixed enemies' Cooldown value change (like "-1") disappearing too soon when multiple are called in rapid sequence.

• When marking a card with a negative mark, the "stamp" animation would go to the right of the card, with the mark appearing on the left. Fixed

• Ice Melt card had inverted values for healing and element gain, fixed.

• Fixed an issue with Parasite's effect persisting when discarding or burning a Parasite card.

• The recent change to Emerald Tortoise's sprite made its shadow red when in shell, fixed.

• You could open the deck while the marking animation was ongoing, fixed.

• Light Elemental's light ray from above would get cut when fighting a weaker (smaller) version, fixed.

• Hell's Gaze card would leave you with the ability to play while getting damaged. Fixed.

• Entering the Sanctuary in Echo Tower would trigger the background to behave like it's at the top level from the first one. Fixed.

Mage Revamp

This update brings a major overhaul to the Mage class, aimed at delivering a more dynamic and satisfying experience right from the start of a run. While the core mechanics were already enjoyable, the card pool leaned too heavily toward skill cards, leaving early stages slow and underwhelming. Elemental management also felt clunky in certain situations.

To address this, I’ve added four brand-new cards directly to the Mage’s base pool—no unlocks required. Several existing cards have also been reworked or improved, making the Mage more versatile, aggressive, and fun to play. Check the “Changes” section below for the full list of updates!

New Feature – Stall Punishment

I’ve introduced a new system to discourage excessive stalling (like endlessly healing HP or Monster Blood farming). This kind of playstyle goes against the spirit of the game, and the new Stall Punishment mechanic ensures that pacing remains tight and engaging. When playing too conservatively (like playing 1 card per turn, not attacking, ending turn without playing cards) the game will give you two warnings before going into "Divine Punishment" mode, where every time you end your turn, enemies will get Great Strength 4x. The fight will continue in this mode regardless of your playstyle until you either win or lose. The threshold will be less strict during boss fights. The formula I'm using may be tweaked after further testing.

As always, I’ve included a healthy dose of balance adjustments and bug fixes.

Additions:

• (General) Stall Punishment

• (Card) Mud Slide

• (Card) Low Pressure

• (Card) Fireworks

• (Card) Ice Shield

Changes:

• (General) Choosing a level with increased difficulty will now increase your chances to get Legendary cards, as well as adding a chance to get blessings from the "strong" pool when you would get "normal" ones (from blessing rooms, mini bosses and some events).

• (Cards) Improved the description for the Mage's cards that increase one elements based on a different one.

• (Cards) Mage's cards (Aerodynamics - Ice Melt - Kindle - Static Electricity - High Conductor) now have additional effects (like attack or block). This change tries to make mix up elements more streamlined, to speed up early game and early turns in combat. Because of this change, Kindle and High Conductor are now attack cards.

• (Cards) All Grimoires now, additionally to their previous effect, give you 1 of their elements when drawn.

• (Card) Railgun, removed elements reduction, converted to +2 elements addition.

• (Card) Steam Jet, removed elements reduction, converted to +2 elements addition.

• (Card) Scorched Earth, removed elements reduction and elemental requirement, added elements addition, set to AoE, reduced damage, reduced cost in combo.

• (Card) Foam, removed element requirement, element consumption increased to 2, the card now deals AoE damage 3 times.

• (Card) Slight change to Concrete Barrier's visuals.

• (Card) Brainstorm combo value set to 1 from 2.

• (Event) Removed Mimic encounters from Lands-Night and Lands-Storm.

• (Enemy) The normal Mimic can now perform "chomp" max 1 time per turn. Great Mimic behavior unchanged.

• (Enemy) Wall of Sorrow will start using the "Falling Bricks" attack two turns earlier.

• (Enemy) Ophanim's status Omniscience, when drawing a Special card, decreases the enemy's Countdown by 1. This will now cap at Countdown 1 (can't go to zero with this effect).

• (Enemy) The Core's second phase will now give you 1 Eye card on phase change, then give you more per 10 cards owned (a second one if you have more than 20 cards, a third if more than 30, etc). Additionally, the card burn action has been replaced with a block one.

• (Pet) Minic action that would increase your HP can now trigger only once per fight. Given HP increased to 10 from 5.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with handling difficulty with Sky Archipelago and Abyss.

• Fixed an issue that wouldn't properly set the effects of levels' increased difficulty when loading an ongoing run.

• Fixed an issue that could leave a small card on the screen when using Defensive Sacrifice card.

• Fixed the game making your hand not playable after checking the "Archive - Cards" during combat.

• Fixed a bug that would not give you the right amount of SP the first fight after loading a run.

• Clearing a higher version of Lands (like Lands - Evening) before clearing Lands would unlock the achievement for the higher version, leaving the normal Lands achievement locked (this would happen when winning with one class, and then playing the next run with a different class). This behavior was not intended, now the normal unlock will always happen together with any other version of Lands.

• Fixed a bug that would allow you to enter a portal right after clicking "Run Away" from a Mimic, creating possible big issues.

• Fixed a bug that would softlock the game in some instances when having Risk of Heat blessing.

• Fixed a small visual bug when opening the world map when playing consecutive runs.

• Fixed Parasite Affliction card not working as intended when having more than one in hand.

• Fixed some rare instances where cards could get stuck in a "raised" position while the enemies are attacking.

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Here we go, new level!

With the Sky Archipelago, continues my vision for the second path in the game, with the first one taking to the depths of hell, and the second one up to the sky. The next level will be the last for this path!

New content in this update is strictly related to the new level, in the next one I will go back focusing on adding a few more smaller things: I have a set of new cards for the mage in mind, as well as at least one or two new pets.

Additions:

• (Level) Sky Archipelago

• (Enemy) Yawarasaphire

• (Enemy) Light Elemental

• (Enemy) Amethyst Tortoise

• (Enemy) Spuma

• (Enemy) Corallum

• (Enemy) Elemental Cluster

• (Enemy) Ophanim

• (Card) Slow Punishment

• (Card) Wind Dance

• (Achievement) Sky Explorer - Warrior

• (Achievement) Sky Explorer - Mage

Changes:

• (Enemy) Attack Duplicarta and Skill Duplicarta will now perform their action based on the number of your cards (attack or skill) plus 1. Which means they will perform at minimum a single action even when you have no cards in hand.

• (Enemy) Ghosts' status "Ghostly" changed to give the owner Evasion only if it currently has less than 2 Evasion.

• (Enemy) Updated Emerald Tortoise's visuals.

• (Card) Changed the description for Fancy Bottle, Spring Water and the Mysterious item cards, to hopefully make summoning pets for new players less obscure.

• (Card) Complete rework for Stance Change. It can now be used only if you have no attack cards in your hand. Will draw 5 cards and give 1 SP out of combo, 5 SP in combo. Combo value changed to 3.

• (Mage) Reduced cost for most Mage's initial cards. Also increased the healing from Healing Dew. While I still want to keep the concept of "Mage's cards should cost a lot out of combo", I understand that as it currently stands, the beginning of every run is too slow, difficult, and feels like a chore. Hopefully these changes will make starting a new Mage run more fun.

• (Event) Added Spring Water and all pet Item cards to the pool of cards that "float back up" in the Pond event.

• (UI) The game window can now be resized in windowed mode.

• (Level) Retouched some lights and colors in Hell.

• (Challenge) The challenge that would make you not heal between levels will now heal you for half your max HP. (With the addition of new levels and difficulties I realized that it's very tough to win bosses with a reasonable amount of health, and that having low health would restrict your choices in the next level too much).

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where the game would not save the Blood Bank's deposited amount of blood.

• Fixed some issues when selecting different screen modes.

• Fixed a softlock in the tutorial.

• Fixed cases where you could play cards while drawing them at the beginning of fights.

• Fixed Meditate card showing its healing value in red.

• Fixed the map not showing the right icon and tooltip for a Mini Boss room, when the level's difficulty would include "force a mini boss".

• The last update completely broke the card Grand Strategy. It's now back to a working state.

• Fixed an issue that would call the score screen twice if you spam clicked after beating the final boss.

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Took me a while for this one!

This update introduces two major changes to the game’s core systems:

Card Marking System

A big part of most deckbuilder roguelikes is the ability to power up your cards. While Novus Orbis has always had its combo system, which effectively gives each card a “normal” and “stronger” version, the lack of further customization has always been a weak point.

To be honest, I couldn’t find an elegant way to add card upgrades on top of the systems already in place—until suddenly, I could. Like many things in development, it just clicked one day.

Inspired by systems like Wildfrost’s charms, Novus Orbis now has a marking system.

How it works:

• Cards can now receive a single mark, which modifies how they behave.

• There are 5 positive and 2 negative marks:

  • Double Damage – The card deals twice as much damage.

  • Free Card – The card costs 0 SP (cannot be used on cards that already cost 0).

  • Double Use – The card activates twice when played.

  • First Draw – Always appears in your opening hand.

  • Keep – Not discarded at the end of your turn.

  • Costly – Increases the card’s cost by 1.

  • Less Damage – Decreases the card’s base damage by 5.

• Not all marks can be applied to all cards (e.g., “Free Card” won't work on 0-cost cards).

• There are a few ways to obtain marks:

  • A new portal type now appears in levels, offering a choice between two random positive marks.

  • The Shop has a new fifth tentacle that sells a mark.

  • A new Sanctuary Spirit has been added:

    • Recruiting it will apply a random negative mark to one of your cards.

    • Interacting with it in the Sanctuary rewards you with a mark of any type.

• Not all marks have the same impact on your hand, so I decided to make them more or less rare depending on the type. Specifically, Double Use and Free Card are more difficult to find than the others.

• You'll have at least 2 chances to mark cards each level, once at the shop, and once in the specific mark room.

Variable Room Layouts

The addition of the new “mark” portal inspired a broader change to dungeon layout.

Previously, room types were fixed per level. That’s no longer the case.

What’s new:

• Each level now has a semi-randomized layout.

• The sequence of combat and random rooms stays the same, but every special room slot is now a randomized pair.

  • For example: a slot may be Treasure OR Spring, or Firepit OR Mark, etc.

• Each type of special room (Treasure, Spring, Firepit, Shop, Mark) is guaranteed to appear at least once per level (but you may be forced to take one or the other option: if you find a Firepit / Mark pair, you'll have to choose which to prioritize).

Balance Note

These are big changes, especially the introduction of card marks, which can significantly increase player power. I’ll be monitoring balance closely and making adjustments as needed.

Additions:

• (General) Cards Marking system.

• (Event) New "Marking" Sanctuary Spirit

• (Shop) The shop will now also sell the option to mark a card.

• (UI) Cards will now show cost and values in red when they're worse than their original value.

• (UI) You can now hold down the mouse button when clicking on the up and down arrows when viewing your deck or the archive, to quickly scroll through the list without having to single click multiple times.

• (Event) Added Angel Form and Flush to the pool of cards that heal the hurt creature.

Changes:

• (General) New rooms layout for all levels.

• (General) Better interaction with the in-level map. It should now have a better responsiveness in opening and closing. In addition, each symbol will now show a tooltip when hovered on with the mouse.

• (General) I tried to improve how the game handles "no input" phases during combat. This should make a smoother experience, as well as make my life easier developing from now on.

• (Visual) Improved visuals for the Firepit.

• (Visual) The Shop's tentacles and eye's animation now doesn't speed up with increased game speed.

• (Blessing) Risk of Ruin wasn't accounting for Spongy status, leading to dealing 0 damage. Fixed, meaning that now Necrocube can be cheesed if you have this blessing.

• (Event) Blood Bank is now forced in Hell level.

• (Event) Sanctuary Spirit encounter event is now forced as either the first or second event in both Caves and Echo Tower. It is also now encountered only once per run.

• (Enemies) Ovomycete, Abyss Gaze, The Core and the two Mimics had attacks that show "???" for damage, because they were calculated on the player's current HP when the attack comes. I decided to rework these actions so that the value is set when the intent is called, and not modified further, allowing the game to show the actual value in the intent.

• (Enemy) As a consequence of the previous point, the Mimics' "Chomp" attack will now always be calculated only on the player's current HP, and not on Block. This should make the two Mimics fights more challenging.

• (Enemy) Removed "Shield Cut" attack from The Core. This was meant to avoid the player having too much Block, but it made it too difficult to reliably show a value in the intent, and with Permanent Armor now keeping only half of the current Block, this attack is not as needed as it was.

• (Card) Parasite lacked a sound effect, added.

• (Event) Increased the chance to find the Sanctuary portal (for levels 2-3-4 the chance is now 33-66-99%)

Bug Fixes:

• Added a tentative way to avoid cards being removed from the deck (and from the savefile) when encountering certain bugs. This should take care of issues like cards getting stuck in the middle of the screen in a "combat" state while out of combat, or having cards misplaced in strange positions when checking your deck.

• Fixed the fact that when opening a chest you could check your deck, close it, and then access portals while still having the card choice on screen.

• Fixed blessing No Pressure not working properly.

• Fixed rain sound not being removed after clearing Lands-Storm.

• Storm card still said "Advance" in description, as well as elemental requirements, despite them being removed. FIxed.

• Solved some issues when interacting with the shop with a game pad.

• Fixed the game not showing the enemy's intent properly after status Blind goes away.

• Fixed a bug that could leave an empty tooltip over the enemy's HP when getting Blind status.

• Fixed cases where a card that was affected by a Parasite card couldn't be used even after that fight was over.

• Fixed some issues with Wipeout card.

• Fixed an error with Grand Strategy's cost.

• Fixed Ignite not showing as unlocked in the archive.

• Fixed the fact that some blessings could be shown as "?" in the archive even after being unlocked.

• Fixed the "card" sanctuary spirit not actually removing your card when recruiting it.

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Here's how it works:

• First, you’ll need to win the game once to unlock the possibility of encountering it.
• After that, you may find a small spirit in an event room. The first one is a Heart spirit.
• Interacting with it will unlock the Sanctuary event (and earn you an achievement).
• From then on, there’s a chance an extra portal appears on the first floor of levels 2, 3, and 4.
• Entering this portal takes you to a secret sanctuary, where you’ll see all the spirits you've collected so far.
• There are five spirits in total, each with unique conditions for joining you—and a special reward when interacted with inside the Sanctuary.
• You can only interact with one spirit per visit, and once you do, that spirit leaves the Sanctuary. You'll need to find it again for it to return.
• The spirit event can appear multiple times in a single run.
• The Sanctuary portal can only be accessed once per run.

And there’s more:

• Added 6 new cards (4 Warrior, 2 Mage).
• Added 1 new Blessing.
• And yes... you can now PET YOUR PETS.

Additions

• (Pets) All pets can now be clicked on to "pet" them. This is a purely visual/sound effect, with no gameplay function.
• (Event) Sanctuary
• (Achievement) Sanctuary
• (Card) Whispering Stone
• (Card) Railgun
• (Card) Dark Guard
• (Card) Grudge
• (Card) Fuel Hate
• (Card) Wipeout
• (Blessing) Risk Of Ruin

Changes:

• (Card) Storm is now Legendary, and doesn't require elements anymore (but still removes 1 wind, thunder and water). Also, removed its "Advance" ability. Combo value set to 3 (from 1) and cost is now 6-3 (from 4-2)
• (Card) Lava Flow combo value changed to 1 from 0.
• (General) Dialogue text that automatically disappears now lasts a little longer.

Bug Fixes:

• Fortress Smash card was incorrectly flagged as Legendary instead of Rare inside the code. Fixed.
• Relax card was wrongly flagged to not work when having Time Freeze or Stasis statuses. Fixed.
• The new Archive for cards would not show cards' stats until hovered once. Fixed.

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• For Cards and Blessings, any locked content will appear behind a question mark. You'll see the name, but the details remain hidden until unlocked.
• Once unlocked, newly discovered entries will be marked as "New" the first time you view them—this label will remain until you end your current session.

Additions:

• (General) Archive menu.

Changes:

• (Enemy) Darkness Elemental will now cycle between its two actions, avoiding getting stuck only casting evasion.
• (Enemy) Current Elemental was wrongly getting double its supposed Electrify status on fight start. It now gets its intended amount. The base value has also been decreased to 8 from 10.
• (Event) Using a Fancy Bottle at the Pond will now give you the bottle back. (To avoid wasting the card for people who still don't know its use).
• (Event) Small visual change for the Blood Bank event.
• (UI) Changed the icon for Ebonactite's Death Wish status to a red hue, to hopefully make it more visible to new players.
• (UI) Fixed the fact that most of the Mage's skill cards had a red combo outline, instead of the intended blue.

Bug Fixes:

• The formula to reduce enemies stats when they appear in a level before their intended one (specifically for the new Lands versions) was wrong, making the enemies much stronger than intended. Their stats should now be more in line with the actual level's difficulty.
• Fixed Ice Elemental showing a "buff" icon for its block and evasion actions.
• Removed the Evasion tooltip from Relax card.

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Changes:

• (General) Changed how Great Strength behaves on enemies: it will now be removed at the end of the NEXT enemy turn. The way it worked so far forced me to have the few enemies that gain great strength to do it as their first action, otherwise they would lose it at the end of their turn, and basically gain nothing from it. With this change, I can now have these enemies cast great strength as their last action (which is a lot more fair to the player). Affected enemies: Wealthy Abomination, Mimic, Paralux.
• (General) Mimics are back in the game in normal mode too.
• (Enemy) Paralux will now copy the player's statuses after attacking, with the statuses remaining until the next turn.
• (Enemy) The change to great strength means that Wealthy Abomination can now use its Weak Spot attack (150 damage) with great strength, bringing it to 300 damage. Because of that I'm decreasing its base damage to 90.
• (Enemy) Decreased Paralux base damage.
• (Enemy) Kobolds now show a "Friendly Bond" status to tell you about the (so far hidden) ability to get strength when another Kobold dies.
• (Enemies) Darkness Elemental and Ebonactite's actions that would have you discard their whole hand, will now make you discard only one card.
• (Card) Boiling blood now deals 1/4 of your current blood instead of 1/2.
• (Card) Platinum Melon can now be found only from the second level.
• (UI) Added "(Currency)" to the Monster Blood tooltip.
• (Event) The Blood Bank will now show the current deposited blood in the sprite itself.

Bug Fixes:

• "Gods Protection" blessing's name changed to "Gods' Protection".
• Fixed the ability to open the draw pile by spamming it during After Image's activation (soft locking the game).
• Removed "AoE" tooltip from Boiling Blood.
• Paralux was meant to always have the same statuses as the player, but it would wrongly not lose obtained statuses when the player didn't have them (for example, strength obtained through Warrior's Fortify (which is lost at turn end) would persist for Paralux when copied. Fixed.
• Fixed pad controls not working on the newly added branching levels.
• Fixed the game unlocking the Caves achievement when winning Echo Tower. The game will now unlock all level achievements when accessing the world map, instead of at the start of the next level.

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Additions:

• (General) Branching Levels System
• (General) Levels Difficulty System
• (Level) Echo Tower
• (Level) Lands - Evening
• (Level) Lands - Night
• (Level) Lands - Storm
• (Enemy) Attack Duplicarta
• (Enemy) Skill Duplicarta
• (Enemy) Slimer
• (Enemy) Current Elemental
• (Mini Boss) Paralux
• (Mini Boss) Forgotten Knight
• (Boss) Eye Of The Storm
• (Card) Fire Wall
• (Card) Momentum
• (Card) Pocket Watch
• (Blessing) Risk Of Heat
• (Blessing) Invisible Flame
• (Blessing) Solid Flame
• (Blessing) Quick Step
• (Blessing) No Pressure
• (Event) Sage
• (Event) Blood Bank
• (Achievement) Tower Explorer - Warrior
• (Achievement) Tower Explorer - Mage
• (Achievement) One Step Ahead
• (Achievement) Two Steps Ahead
• (Achievement) Three Steps Ahead
• (Achievement) Sunset
• (Achievement) Moonlight
• (Achievement) I Need An Umbrella

Branching Levels System

• Caves (original path)
• Echo Tower (new path)

Level Difficulty System

• Winning a level increases its difficulty by 1.
• Losing a level resets its difficulty to 0.
• Each win also lowers the difficulty of the other level by 2.

• 0 – Base Difficulty
• 1 – One fewer Treasure/Healing room (specifically before the boss)
• 2 – Shorter level (3 fewer Event/Enemy floors)
• 3 – Forced Mini Bosses (2 mini-boss portals appear)

Lands Variants

• Lands – Normal
• Lands – Evening
• Lands – Night
• Lands – Storm

• Winning a run moves you to the next version.
• Losing a run resets Lands back to Normal (restarting a run does not).

New Event – Blood Bank

• You can perform only one action per encounter (either deposit or withdraw).
• Deposits are capped at 9999.

Notes:

• Echo Tower and its enemies use music and sound effects from other levels/enemies. They will be properly updated when ready.

Changes:

• (General) Lands level's chance to have Hurt Creature and Bird Events increased to 60% each.
• (General) The tips you get when loading or losing the game will now cycle in order instead of being chosen at random.
• (Card) Boiling Blood won't consume blood anymore, but will now target one random enemy instead of being AoE.
• (Enemy) Slight increase to Fungal Knight's base damage.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug that would show the "do you want to play hard mode?" screen without being able to remove it when loading a game.
• Fixed a bug that would leave the game stuck in "copy a card" mode when drawing Paper Airplane on your first turn when having After Image blessing.
• The recent adjustments in difficulty made it so the player was forced to replay the tutorial when they hadn't won the game yet. Added a "Replay Tutorial" button to the classes selection screen until you win once.
• Concrete Barrier and Imposing Presence had a wrong card text border (was rare instead of legendary), fixed.
• Fixed a bug that would do weird stuff when using some cards that let you discard while having the Stasis status.
• Fixed an issue that would leave the game in "no input" state for a few moments when using cards that make you draw from your deck.
• Fixed some instances where the enemy's intent's damage value wouldn't be updated when it was modified during a multiple intents action.

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