RAD: Repeat After Death news & patch notes

Hey everyone! 👋 New year, new me, new updates. This month we attended 2 offline events, and we're also focusing on polishing the final bits and bobs of our final game. This is also the reason why you haven't seen any updates on the demo version of our game since we need all hands on board on developing the release version of our game. We're also going to talk about our plan for this month in this Devlog.

I can't tell you the exact details on what we added to the final game last month (spoilers), but I can say that "the lore enjoyers would enjoy this update very much." We also did some bug fixing in our demo, but since our team is currently focusing on the final game, we haven't fixed every single bug. So you might see the boss experiencing a bug where it doesn't teleport after you kill it the second time. 

IRL Events 🎁

We also attended 2 different events this month. The first one is Indonesia Game Island on 23-25 January at Ciputra World Surabaya, and the second one is Lokapopland on 31 January-1 February at Graha Manggala Siliwangi, Bandung.

It's always fun to meet new people and have them try out our game in offline events. If you're one of those people, welcome! Hope you enjoy it here. You can check out documentation for these events on our Instagram.

Playtesting 🕹️

We're also going to hold a closed playtesting for the full version of our game. We will be holding the playtesting session on 23 February - 2 March 2026, and we'll be opening the registration for the playtesting on 16 February 2026. In this playtesting we are hoping to gain feedback about the general and balancing aspects of our game. We're also hoping to find bugs so it doesn't leak into the released version of our game. This playtesting is held to make sure our game is ready for release. For any updates on this playtesting session, you can join our community Discord. 

And lastly, our release date. Stay tuned because we're going to announce it real soon😉 That's all. See you in our next update. STAY RAD!

Okay, first of all. HAPPY NEW YEARS! 🎉 and finally we're in 2026... gulp... RAD release soon.... With the month of December passing us by, we finally end the 2025 chapter of RAD's development. I could give you a summary of what we did last year, but for now let's focused on what we've achieved during December. We attended 2 events during December, Motionime and SEAGO 2025! We also held 1 event of our own which is RADLYMPICS!

🌊 SEAGO 2025

During December, our game was streamed by 61 streamers and we try our best to attend every single stream. We also held watchalong parties so people in our community can hear the developer's commentary alongside the stream. We're so happy to see that a lot streamers enjoyed our game! (even though our game ragebaited a lot of them) SEAGO 2025 also contributed to a lot of new people entering our server!! Welcome everyone 💖

🥳 Motionime Festival Indonesia

We were invited to Motionime Festival, held by Bang Windah and team. It was an event held on 12 - 14 Desember 2025 at JIExpo Kemayoran Jakarta. There, we held a booth and had people playing our demo! (very fun indeed to meet new friends) Documentation for this event can be seen here : https://www.instagram.com/p/DSXDLAXkVo0/

🏆 RADlympics

And lastly, our own community event! A speedrun competition between all streamers that stream our game during December. This motivate a lot of streamers to go back to our demo to try to beat their best record. Everyone did amazing, we even discover new tips and tricks for speedrunning RAD in this event. A total of 40 submissions were made for RADlympics! We're so glad that we've been given the opportunity to make so many new friends this month. We hope we can attend more events and hold more community events for you to join in 2026!

🕹️ GAME UPDATES

In December, we released RAD version 1.9.0 and we added updates till we reach v1.9.11 this month!\

Here are some notable changes from this newest Demo update :

💥 Big Changes :

- Removed Classic mode removed in favor of Trial mode we use vandal not classic here

- Tutorial torture chamber removed

- A more POLISHED and BRAND NEW UI for a bunch of things (profile creation, objectives, progress bar)

- Change attack bar colors to be clearer to see

- Changed stat scaling from linear to exponential

- Updated text auto scroll speed to be more consistent

- Updated credits quote and names

- Updated modifier icon for hunter skill, death bullets

- Game Over statistics no longer count revives as iterations

- Non-hostile echoes are now shown after clearing the last iteration

- Portals no longer spawn on last enemy killed

- Remove markup on several textboxes

✨ New Things Added :

- BRAND NEW TUTORIAL!!

- Added story cutscenes, you can now create game theories with our game

- Added speedrun timer for you to track your RAD speedruns

- Add projectile gone particles

- Add legendary chest after defeating a boss

- Add chest bling effect

- Add clarity text on Death Bullets, trial, picky persona, hunter skill, echo and bullet immunity

🐛 Bugs Fixed :

- Fixed bug on game over screen

- Fixed bug with permanent seeing double, triple, quadruple, quint..

- Fixed several cases with interactable not being immediately updated

- Fixed bug where frame drop causes graphical glitches

- Fixed trailer and several scroll speeds

- Fixed hunter aiming incorrectly upon position changes

- Fixed incorrect audio played when using skills

Anyway thanks for listening to this month's Devlog! Stay Rad! (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

We're going to keep on cooking for yall

Winter is coming... are you up to the challenge?

Hello, everyone! o(*°▽°*)o

We'd like to invite you to join RADLYMPICS! Our very own community speedrunning event that we held for streamers during December.

In this event, all you have to do is :

Hey everyone! (｡･∀･)ﾉﾞ Finally, our first steam announcement. Last month, we attended the Gamers 2 Gamers Festival by TheLazyMonday that was held on 22-23 November 2025. We received feedback and support for our game and we're happy to see a lot of you trying out our game (/≧▽≦)/ Other than that, we're happy to announce that we've finally updated our demo!

That's right, RAD Demo version 1.9.0 is finally out. We also did several small patches to this version so the current playable version is 1.9.6. Here we'll list out all the change logs for each patch we did. 

🌟 TLDR

- Non-hostile echoes are now shown after clearing the last iteration

- Tutorial torture chamber removed

- Game Over statistics no longer count revives as iterations

- A more POLISHED and BRAND NEW UI for a bunch of things (profile creation, objectives, progress bar)

- Added story cutscenes, you can now create game theories with our game

- Changed stat scaling from linear to exponential

- BRAND NEW TUTORIAL!!

- Removed Classic mode removed in favor of Trial mode we use vandal not classic here

Here are the full change log for patch v1.9.0 - v1.9.6 : 

Changes

- Performance optimized; movement edge cases cleaned.

- Updated platform detection; horizontal ledging; climbing corrected.

- Fixed early jump frame & wall-collision issues.

- Currency now drops on kill; new currency VFX.

- Time Stop now affects particles + death effect.

- Updated boss teleport logic; improved Guardian Illusion + Seeing Double.

- Echoes now show death effect; dissolve now grayscale; removed red outlines.

- Added walk/run/jump/land particles and dash VFX.

- Updated door spawn visuals; shelter doors updated.

- Disabled lobby items; “revive” renamed to “life”

- Game over panel delay, new default selection, reduced lockout.

- Pause enabled in gacha.

- Portal: +0.2s spawn delay, dark by default.

- Added UI gem icons; updated tutorials; updated Picky Persona VFX.

- Most random procs are now pseudorandom

- Purchase cost now shows red or white for each individual currency

- Added temporary measure for settings softlock

- Add trial door unlock

- Added button for corrupt saves (reset game data)

- New dungeon walls

- Add speedrun timer and option to show steam leaderboards

- Add option on settings for speedrun, steam leaderboard, show run id

- Rain challenge audio now changes based on roof cover

Item Changes

- Spectral Bombs : triggers after all echoes spawn.

- Fiery Chicken Feather : restores all missing lives.

- Booster Jets : now modifies velocity deltas.

- Chained Hourglass : +100% time; affected by modifiers.

- Gatekeeper's Might : reduces non-boss iterations; spawns echo wave after 6s.

Fixes

- Fixed post-death projectile damage.

- Fixed Booster Jets/Hourglass calc; fixed double-item pickup.

- Fixed Hard Mode visibility; boss rewards; Tana shop; Ceta shop.

- Fixed random water audio; shelter item interaction; spotlights.

- Fixed red outline issues; revive UI delay; timer continuing after clear.

- Fixed Time Stop SFX; boss animation; glossary hover; multi-window gacha.

- Fixed shop not showing rune recharge, rune capacitor

- Fixed shop item levels

- Fixed shop not giving appropriate heirlooms

- Fixed mouse incorrect selection on settings & game over

- Fixed rune capacitor not replenishing revive

- Fixed play button on menu on specific cases

- Fixed XP icon in mirror

- Fixed deepest descent issue

- Fixed mirror not showing demo

- Fixed game over selection

- Fixed specific cases of item showing up when locked

- Fixed hunter prey stalking bug where echo does no collision damage

- Fixed mirror tutorial and shop text

- Fixed corrupted save handling on menu

- Fixed alchemist explosion not cleared properly

- Fixed ceta's dialogue not working properly on different language

- Fixed persona bonus applied multiple times

- Fixed wizard and rogue artifact unlocked too early

- Fixed hunter aiming on incorrect places

- Fixed chest appearing incorrect for 1 frame

Anyway, thank you so much for reading this, you guys are awesome. Our team is still cooking and polishing our game and at this stage we are mainly focusing on polish and bugfixing. Hopefully you enjoy our newest demo version. See you in our next update, stay RAD!