Relic Abyss news & patch notes

Howdy everyone! I'm back with a HUGE update! Lots of things have been added on this patch, check out the details below to know more!

Steam Bullet Fest! Get Relic Abyss 20% off until June 15!

For the first time, Relic Abyss will be on sale with a 20% discount! Get the game for $7.19 now until June 15th! We won't be going over 20% discount during Early Access so if you haven't gotten the game yet, now is the best time! Pretty late with announcing this since I was too busy making the update sorry about that!

44 New monster cards now implemented!

Let's quickly get into the meat and potatoes for this update. 44 new monster cards and 44 new enchantments have been added to the game! They will drop on their respective levels. Cards for the further levels will be unlocked on the shop once that level has been unlocked. Check out all of the cards listed below!

Note that the localizers haven't finished translating everything so for other languages then english have been temporary translated using google translate. We will update it once the localizers have finished it.

Card

Enchantment

Description

Kopl Card

Ninja

Gain additional 3% Dodge Chance.

Oobricc (Caves) Card

Lucky

Get a 6% chance to obtain another perk.

Distle (Caves) Card

Quick

Increase attackspeed by 5%.

Jenusi Card

Forcefield

Gain up to 10 shield while your HP is at max.

Celscrip Card

Crush

Get an additional 3 Physical Damge.

Blorvax Card

Blink

Teleport to a random location after taking damage.

Zibbuk Card

Spellslinger

Gain additional 3% Cooldown Reduction.

Skrelvok Card

Absorb

Increase Magic Resist by 3.

Elfri Card

Colossal

Deal 3% of your health as bonus physical damage.

Grunla Card

Fortify

Gain 10 additional Max Health.

Cryx'no Card

All Might

All damages are converted to Physical Damage.

Lazzarth Card

Magic Reversal

All damages are converted to Magical Damage.

Amolagolicus Card

Flight

Ignore level obstacle collisions.

Elite Kopl Card

High Roller

Start the run with an extra 1 reroll.

Elite Oobricc (Caves) Card

Amplify

Get an additional 3 Magic Damage.

Elite Distle (Caves) Card

FlipFlop

Physical and Magical damages are reversed.

Elite Jenusi Card

Insight

Gain 3% more experience.

Elite Celscrip Card

Immolate

Damage yourself 1 per second and enemies around you by 10.

Elite Blorvax Card

Blowfish

Let out a burst of 2 projectiles after an interval.

Elite Zibbuk Card

Poisonous

Spawn poison projectiles that splashes poison to the ground.

Elite Skrelvok Card

All in

Convert all Dodge Chance to Critical Damage.

Elite Elfri Card

Hot Pants

Leave a trail of fire behind as you walk.

Elite Grunla Card

Harden

Increase defense by 3.

Mini Boss Grunla Card

Rich

Increase Gold Gain by 5%

Xeiri Card

Lucky Charm

Increase Luck by 1

Hotstle Card

Dextrous

Increase Dexterity by 1

Fistle Card

Agile

Increase Agility by 1

Vanitos Card

Smart

Increase Intelligence by 1

Grimger Card

Vigorous

Increase Vitality by 1

Inpuun Card

Skilled

Reduce Ultimate cooldown by 3%.

Czul Card

Panic

Increase Movement Speed by 2% after taking damage for 1 sec.

Dirosh Card

Invincible

Increase i-Frames by 0.25s

Yornrow Card

Pierce

Damage enemies when you dash.

Bloorb Card

Muntant

Increase Regeneration by 0.2.

Mmonlommith Card

Titan

On Taking damage, theres a 3% chance to become a giant for 10 seconds gaining 50 health and 5 physical damage. 60 second cooldown.

Kyomyl Card

Wolverine

On taking damage, theres a 3% chance to spawn a spike that damages enemies.

Xerios Card

Destroy

Increase all damage by 5%.

Elite Hotstle Card

Exiled

Start the run with an extra 1 banish.

Elite Fistle Card

Strong

Increase Strength by 1

Elite Vanitos Card

Patient

Increase Patience by 1

Elite Grimger Card

Tormented

Increase enemy HP by 10%. Increase rewards by 5%.

Elite inpuun Card

Scream

After dashing there's a 3% chance to spawn a sound wave that damages enemies for 70% magic damage.

Elite Czul Card

Drill Fanatic

Start the run with the Spiral Key Relic.

Elite Dirosh Card

Shockwave

5% chance to spawn a shockwave when taking damage.

Magic Shop is now Open!

The Great Witch Marga Rine's magic shop is now open! Instead of 3 random cards, there will now be 10 random cards available whenever you get back to the HUB.

We have also added controller support for Quick Sell and toggling the amount and tabs using the controller!

Also sadly, Rine stole all of Gil's cards so cards will now be removed on the Merchant's shop in favor for Rine's Magic Shop! Many more magic stuff will be added here in the future. Stay tuned!

Storage has been expanded!

With the inclusion of the new equipment and new cards, storage space will be one of the big problems. So I've decided to expand it to 5 storage tabs that can store up to 600 items!

Check out the patch notes below.

Patch Notes:

• Implemented 44 new cards and enchantments

• Expanded Storage to 5 boxes. You can now store a total of 600 items.

• Implemented: Witch's magic shop. It now contains up to 10 random cards.

• Merchant Shop now doesn't sell any cards. Witch shop contains 10 random cards whenever you get back to the HUB.

• Added new cards to shop cards pool. Cards from further levels will be sold once they have been unlocked.

• Increased Shop scrollbar sensitivity.

• Added Quick Sell Button to Shop for controllers.

• Added RB/LB to increase/decrease amount on Shop for controllers.

• Added LT/RT to swap between Buy/Sell on Shop.

• Fixed: Enchantments not displaying correct level description.

• Fixed: Dialogue Portrait appearing as Aeryn for 1 frame.

• Fixed: Monster Card drops wrong rarity calculations.

Sadly the Survivors-like mode is not part of this update as there's still a lot of things to be implemented there to make it work like the Quests and Unlocks system as well as a new Adventurer Rank system.

But don't worry it'll be coming soon!

Thank you again everyone for all of your support! Because of the recent reviews, the game is now sitting on a Very Positive rating on Steam. It really boosted our morale a bit knowing that people are loving the game.

We will do our best to bring more cool stuff in the future!

Heya! It's been a while!

Really sorry for going silent the past three weeks. There's been a lot of things that happened IRL like random power outages in our country due to the Iran war. It often happened during my work time and it has disrupted my work schedule. Another is that my body just decided to rest due to the fatigue of releasing the game. Was legit working non stop from January to our release on April 13 that I had no time to rest. So I took another week to rest up and cure my fatigue. Then last week, I was supposed to make an update for the game, but sadly, I got food poisoned. So I'm only able to update the game now.

Aside from that, I've been struggling with the fact that the EA release has failed. Sadly the game didn't sell enough copies for me to pay off all of my debts that I have accumulated to make the game. I know it's mostly my fault because we have released it without any marketing. And without the necessary fixes, a lot of negative reviews have tanked our review score which affected the sales a lot.

While I still stand that players should have the right to post negative reviews. I hope you forgive me for being depressed by it. As I've struggled and worked hard on the game for the past 3 years making the game and it's pretty painful to get pulled down due to the game's rating. It is what it is.

But, I'm not giving up on the game and still intend on finishing it no matter what happens!

Crimson Glass Forest Dungeons + Difficulties

Took a while, but I've finally completed the dungeons and difficulty 2-5 of the 3rd level of the game, the Crimson Glass Forest!

The dungeons took a while to make as I had a creative block when I was designing them. And the electric lines also had to be optimized.

I have also included some fixes on this patch, you can check them out below. I found that the enemy projectiles were not triggering i-frames too which is why some players get one-shot by enemies. Hopefully it wont happen now!

Patch Notes

• Implemented Crimson Glass Forest Difficulty 2-5

• Implemented Crimson Glass Forest Difficulty 1-5 Dungeons

• Fixed: Crimson Glass Forest Boss (Xerios) still firing projectiles / have auras when killed

• Fixed: I-frames not affecting projectiles / environmental damages

• Fixed: Tamer arrows not hitting bouncing enemies

• Fixed: After selecting a level, you can still interact with the Elevator

• Fixed: Items dropped on the HUB will now drop on your feet

• Fixed: Golden Edge doing double damage on Hybrid Damage

• Fixed: HP appears damaged when training and item bonuses are calculated

Chapter 4 is currently in development

We are also hard at work making content for Chapter 4 of the game! Our artist, Pixlwalkr is already animating the enemies of the new level. We will be working on it alongside the leftovers of Chapter 3. Do you have any guesses about what will be the theme of this level? All I know is that Chapter 4 is going to be crazy so hope you are ready for it.

Removing the Development Roadmap

Didn't want to do this but we are going to remove the Development Roadmap that we have shown on the Store Page of Relic Abyss. The reason for this is that due to the low morale, I'm not confident that we can meet the exact dates of the content listed there.

Doing this also reduces the pain of not meeting the expectations for players as well as reducing pressure for us. But don't worry, we are still proceeding with the development of the game and keep the roadmap internally for now. All content updates will be announced via steam announcements instead.

Bullet Fest (June 9-16)

Relic Abyss is part of the official Steam Festival: Bullet Fest happening on June 9-16!

We might time the next big update of the game during that time! I'm targeting to finish the Survivors-like update during that time as well as the cards update and the remaining 2 playable characters for Chapter 3!

Chapter 4 will be out once it's finished. I expect it to be done around mid-late July or early August!

Again, thank you so much everyone for still sticking around despite everything. Hopefully I'll stop being a depressed bean and get back to my full power soon. Really sorry for the somewhat depressing update! Will try to be more positive on the next ones!

Hello! Another week has passed and we're back with another update! I think we're gonna do weekly updates from now on unless there's an urgent bug fix needed. Just so I can bring quality updates and not spam everyone's notifications/downloads.

For this week's update, I focused on quality of life improvements. I know everyone has been asking for these since the start of Early Access. Sorry if it took a while to update it!

We'll have to move Chapter 3 level rework on next week's patch because I felt like the game desperately wanted these changes.

Effect Visibility Graphic Option

This is one of the most requested things. Been postponing it for a while because I had to modify every single relic and skill in the game just to implement it. But I'm glad it's finally done! Hope this helps with everyone suffering from too much shit happening on the screen haha.

New HUB Buttons

Another main complaint everyone is having is that the NPCs are too far apart in the HUB. This causes players to lose a lot of time traversing it between runs. While some players enjoy immersive experiences, majority thinks it's a waste of time. We can't actually remake the whole HUB to be smaller, so I think this will be a better solution.

Perks Rework (Dexterity is back baby!)

Perks system has been reworked so that there will be a guaranteed Stats placement every 5 levels. It is randomized between the 7 base stat types in the game.

When we first launched our demo one of the main features of the game are the stats system. It let you place stats manually whenever you leveled up. While this helped with making the game easier, it made it seem that all runs felt the same. Which is why we changed the system to have the advancements instead. While it's a great step in the right direction for the game, some players hated it because dexterity was nerfed to the ground. Hopefully this change will help dexterity to be back again.

Mildred's basic attack is now changed to rely on Dexterity.

25 Minute Run option

Another thing I've changed this patch is that we have made 25 minutes as the default run mode of the game. This will help beginners learn it better vs the current 20 minute runs which was is too brutal. But don't worry, 20 minute runs are also here to stay. We have made a toggle for it on the level select screen so people who want to do 20 minute Turbo mode runs can still do them.

Below are the full patch notes.

Patch Notes:

• Added invulnerability to dash.

• You can now select between a 25 minute standard run or a 20 minute turbo run on level select.

• Perks Rework: Every 5 levels will now spawn a guaranteed Stat Upgrade.

• Added new Quick HUB Buttons: Smithing, Enchanting, Shop, Training, Magic Training, Abyss, and Bug Report.

• Fixed: HUB Buttons appearing in front of level select UI after closing.

• Fixed: Last training level cannot be achieved.

• Fixed: Golden Edge dealing 2x of intended damage.

• Fixed: Card rewards displaying as x0 on Level Select Rewards screen.

• Made Face Tank advancement single copy.

• Made projectile increasing advancements more rare.

• Changed Mildred's basic attacks to rely on Dexterity.

• Fixed: Cursor is now locked within the window on windowed mode.

Again, really sorry for taking this long to fix this, everyone. To be honest, the negative reviews really took a toll on my mental health and it also took a lot of potential sales we could have had during our release month. It has also made me slower as a result.

But I know it's your right as the customer to voice your frustrations and I don't want to take that away from you. A lot of game developers these days really take gamers for granted. I just want to let everyone know that no matter what, I'm fully committed on completing this game. And I'm always happy to hear feedback and bug reports based off your experience.

This is why I have also added a bug report tool that you can use in the game. It's found on the HUB buttons. If you find any bugs or want to give some feedback, we would appreciate if you use that tool to report it.

The best place still to report bugs is on our discord server.

https://discord.gg/q8vPehT9KA

We have a lot of cool people there now. And some of the mare even already making mods for the game.

Again, thank you everyone for playing the game and for supporting us since the release! See you next week for the Chapter 3 rework and possibly some new cards!

Hello!

Just wanted to do a quick hotfix for the final dungeon of the caves diff 1-5. It has been reported that it disappears but leaves the colliders intact. Also did a fix on the chest opening hard locking people again.

Patch Notes:

• Fixed: Last dungeon on the Overgrown Caves difficulty 1-5 disappearing leaving colliders.

• Fixed: No localization text on shop.

• Fixed: Getting stuck on chest opening UI with 0 gold (fixed again and added a new layer of checking)

Thanks again everyone for continuing to play the game and reporting bugs!

Hello Everyone!

We're back and we have another update for you all! All welcome the Items and Caves difficulty update!

First off, we are partnering with Assemble Entertainment to bring new bundles for these cool survivors-like games! You should definitely check them out if you haven't yet! If you liked Relic Abyss, then you'll be sure to like these two games!

We're partnering up with Asguard's Fall and Grind Survivors on a Bundle!

Overgrown Caves Difficulty 2-5 now available

In case you haven't been keeping up with our discord / social media, we've released the Overgrown Caves update on the public beta branch on Saturday. We did so because we needed some early data from our discord players regarding if the caves difficulties were optimized enough before we release it in the live build.

We did a lot of optimizations and difficulty 5 should be able to run at a 60 fps on most mid end devices. But we'll be further optimizing it for lower end devices in the future!

If you want to participate on early content, you can also join our discord and play early builds using the public beta branch that we have made.

To access it, click the gear icon -> Properties -> Game Versions & Betas -> publicbeta branch.

I honestly wanted to have the Crimson Glass Forest difficulties too on this patch, but optimization and testing took a lot of time. So sorry for that! But it's gonna be our focus for the next major update!

55 new items have been added in the game

It's been a long time coming, but we finally added all of the equipment meant to be in all of the current levels!

These are the sets:

• Adventurer Set

• Forged Set

• Magic Set

• Runic Set

• Enchanted Set

Each of this sets can now be found on specific levels of the game. Higher difficulties will yield more defined loot. For example difficulty 1 on the Outer Layer will have a 1:3 chance to spawn a Worn Out Equipment and 1:4 chance to spawn an Adventurer Equipment. If you play on Difficulty 5, the odds of Adventurer Set will be 1:2.

The lower level you are in the Abyss, the better the loot will be!

Equipment Smithing changes

With the addition of a lot of new equipment sets. Inventory management and smithing will be harder. This is why we have changed the smithing requirements to no longer be set-specific. Meaning you can mix and match different equipments from different sets.

Rarity and Smithing level (+) are still required to make a smitthing happen. We will add more features to make life easier in the future!

Major Bug fixes and balancing

We've also done a lot of major bug fixes like the game freezing if you interact with too many items/chests or a but that will hard lock you to a dialogue.

You can read the full patch notes here:

• Added new Equipment Sets:

  • Adventurer

  • Forged

  • Magic

  • Runic

  • Enchanted

• Equipment stats quality has been decreased by a tiny bit.

• Overgrown Caves Difficulty 2-5 has been implemented

• Optimized Frost and Lava Puddles on Caves Level

• Removed Hitstop on Lava Puddles

• Nerfed Lava Puddle initial damage

• Optimized Aeryn - Arrow Rain

• Fixed: bug that prevented Bladefall from sometimes not shooting

• Fixed: Higher difficulty levels unlocking even if just playing on difficulty 1

• Fixed: Level name not localized on unlocking new difficulty level

• Fixed: Rewards Received not localized

• Fixed: Bladefall not shooting when projectile count exceeds 14

• Nerfed all Distle Damage

• Nerfed Grunla projectile count

• Fixed: Game freezing with only dialogue box active when interacting with a shrine. (Happens when you interact with items/chests/relics really fast then interact with a shrine.)

• Fixed: Hard lock with chest opening UI after interacting with two chests really fast.

• Changed: After defeating the level boss, all enemies, shrines, and exp shards will be cleared.

Next goal

Our goal for the next patch is to finish up the dungeons and the difficulty levels of the Crimson Glass Forest and the 42 new cards that we will be adding in the game. The cards might take a while because each of those cards will have a special effect. That will need a lot of testing and also localization work that's why I haven't included it yet.

But rest assured, we're continually doing a lot of progress everyday! Our artist will also finally start doing the art for Chapter 4 starting this month so please look forward to more cool stuff in the future!

Heya! Our discord member has reported a bug that spawns ghost items on your inventory when you quick transfer an empty slot on the Storage box rendering that inventory slot unsusable.

We have uploaded a quick hotfix to address the issue and delete the ghost items. We've also included some small changes in the patch.

Patch Notes:

• Fixed: Ghost Items being generated when using Quick Transfer from an empty slot in the Storage Box.

• Generated Ghost Items have been deleted.

• Fixed: Xerios (Chapter 3 boss) getting knockback during dashing and casting states.

• Fixed: Chapter 3 results screen not displaying proper enemy count and enemy icons.

Again, would like to thank Erebe for informing us about the ghost item bugs. If you have experienced it, the new patch should now fix your inventory.

Regarding our next big update, it's coming this weekend or when it gets done testing.

It will include Overgrown Caves Difficulty 2-5, Crimson Glass Forest 2-5 as well as 5 new gear sets!

Here is a preview on one of the sets! Magic Set:

We plan on opening a beta branch soon for everyone to test new features out before we push it out to live. If you want to get notified when it's up an running, com join our discord server!

Join the Relic Abyss Discord Server here:

https://discord.gg/q8vPehT9KA

We will also notify everyone via our social medias so please stay tuned!

Hey gang! We got an awesome update for you today! Sorry again for taking too long to publish this one because it was pretty hard to implement and test. But here it is:

Storage System Update

We've been hearing your complaints about how hard it is to store items in the game. So one of the major things we've made this patch is a major storage update!

The storage UI now has an equipment section so you will be able to swap equipment on the fly using this screen.

You can now also Swap Characters in the Storage UI! This makes it easy to access the rest of your character's inventory and equipment all in one screen.

A quick transfer button has also been implemented to make transfering items lightning fast!

There might be more storage updates in the future, but for now we're leaving it at this so we can make more new content.

More fixes have also been made from known nasty bugs reported by the community. See the patch notes below.

Patch Notes:

• Added new Feature: Swap Characters on the Storage Chest UI

• Fixed: Able to get unlimited perks when you go over the relic level limit after interacting with two Relic Combobulators before finishing it's animation.

• Fixed: Relic name for Relic Level IV not appearing properly

• Fixed: all Skills and Relics viewer issues

• Increased scrollwheel sensitivity on Storage Chest scrollbar

• Updated Main Quest System - Localization

• Tooltip now disables when picking up an item leaving an empty slot

• Fixed Able to click on background UI when notifier is active

• Added black BG to Notifier UI

• Fixed: Character Stats UI displaying old Character stats in Crimson Glass Forest

• Fixed: No Advancements shown after opening Character Stats a second time

• Fixed: Can't click character icon on Caves and Forest levels

• Adjusted Mage Explosion SFX and Screenshake

• Adjusted Enchanter's Ultimate SFX

• Adjusted Grunla SFX and removed rock explosion screenshake

Again, thank you for the patience and thank for for reporting the bugs! We will be fixing more on the upcoming days and adding more quality of life features.

We also have a cool content update coming this weekend. So please look forward to it!

Hey all! I made a minor update that adds a new Main Quests system on the game's HUB level!

We noticed the lack of direction on what to do next affected the player motivation so we hope the visible main quest would make it easy for everyone to progress through it.

Sorry this took a while because I had to make sure it covered from the beginning of the game till Chapter 3.

Check out the patch notes here:

• Added Main Quest System

• Fixed Floating Dungeons from partially animating

• Fixed Game Hard Lock after completing Overgrown Caves Mission - Defeat Amolagolicus

• Fixed Amolagolicus objects remaining even after death

• Fixed enemies still spawning projectiles even on death

• Made Jupenyan's Feast Pre-requisites to main quest

• Added cutscene block to Amelia scenes post Chapter 3

• Fixed Maeris default sprite on end screen

• Added Early Access notice on Main Menu

We'll be doing more fixes soon! And a HUGE content update maybe on Friday or Saturday!

Thank you again everyone for reporting all of the bugs and for the patience!

Hi gang! Turns out the Wilson fix kinda broke the Chapter 2 end progression. So we did a quick fix for it!

Special thanks to Averiel from the forums for reporting it!

Patch notes:

• Fixed Chapter 2 End cutscene not playing due to Wilson's fix

  • Spoiler alert: Chapter 2 end cutscene plays after Sorvil Confrontation and Jupenyan's Feast

• Added more fixes to localization in Spanish, German, and Russian

Will do some more fixes today. Just wanted to get this out because it's a very important fix because it blocked Chapter 3 from being played!

Hello! We just did our first sweep of major bugs found by you guys in the demo!

First of all, really sorry for taking this long to do a fix. If you can see, our release was pretty rough. No marketing, no trailer, and a buggy build.

Was really exhausted after finishing the final build on release and had like 2 hours of sleep for the last 2 days before that so I just slept. The next day, I had to make a trailer so we can let people know we actually released the game.

So I'm only able to start ironing out bugs starting from today.

With that said, we are really sorry for giving a really bad early experience of the game. We will focus on doing a lot of improvements these next couple of days. Fixing a lot of bugs, doing a lot of quality of life improvements, and implementing the rest of the promised features.

With that said here's what we fixed on this patch:

• Fixed Item deletion bug that happens when you click an item from your storage and swap it to one of your inventory items.

• Fixed Wilson not appearing for some players. Made him guaranteed to appear after your first time seeing him.

• Fixed upon dropping an upgraded item, it resets to +0 and rerolls its stats.

• Fixed being able to place a consumable on your helmet, bugging it out and deletes the item after leaving a scene.

• Added the missing Russian Language dialogue.

  • Note that the Russian Localization in general is still under review so there might still be some missing things.

We just want to let everyone know that we are committed to making the game one of the best Survivors-like experiences out there. And that the game is still an Early Access title so we're truly sorry and

Hey all! the day is finally here! Relic Abyss is officially released on Early Access!

The game is priced at $8.99 and will be discounted for 10% for the next two weeks!

So don't forget to grab it while you can! It will really help support us and our team!

Honestly, I'm lost for words. Been a long 3 years of game development to finally reach this BIG milestone. I'm so proud of what my team has accomplished so far!

We hope you enjoy the game as much as we loved making it!

Playable in 10 languages

• 🇺🇸 English

• 🇧🇷 Brazilian

• 🇩🇪 German 🇫🇷 French 🇪🇸 Spanish

• 🇷🇺 Russian

• 🇰🇷 Korean

• 🇯🇵 Japanese

• 🇨🇳 Simplified Chinese

• 🇹🇼 Traditional Chinese

Early Access Content:

Also little disclaimer, we ran out of time implementing some of the new features like True Relics, New Cards, and the 2 playable characters for the EA release. But we plan to gradually add them these next coming weeks! Thank you for understanding!

The game is still in Early Access so there will be a lot of changes going forward. So we'll appreciate all of the feedback the community will give us!

With your help, lets make Relic Abyss one of the best RPG + Survivors-like games out there!

Hey all! Hope you're all doing great! Only a week left till Relic Abyss enters Early Access! Are you ready to dive into the Abyss once more?

The game will release on April 13, 2026! Here are all the specific timezone it will release on:

🇺🇸 USA (PDT): 7:00 AM

🇺🇸 USA (PST): 6:00 AM

🇺🇸 USA (EST): 9:00 AM

🇺🇸 USA (EDT): 10:00 AM

🇧🇷 Brazil (BRT): 11:00 AM

🇩🇪 Germany: 4:00 PM (CET) / 5:00 PM (CEST) 🇫🇷 France: 4:00 PM / 5:00 PM 🇪🇸 Spain: 4:00 PM / 5:00 PM

🇷🇺 Russia (Moscow): 5:00 PM

🇵🇭 Philippines: 10:00 PM

🇰🇷 Korea (KST): 11:00 PM

🇯🇵 Japan (JST): 11:00 PM

🇨🇳 China: 10:00 PM

🇭🇰 Hong Kong: 10:00 PM

🇹🇼 Taiwan: 10:00 PM

Steam Deck Verified!

Relic Abyss has been Steam Deck Verified by valve! So you can play it on the device day 1!

Check out our dedicated Steam Deck page here:

https://store.steampowered.com/verified/3017760/Relic_Abyss

Price on EA Release $8.99 with a 10% discount for 2 weeks!

The price for the Early Access period will be $8.99 as an introductory price for our early supporters! The game will then be raised to $11.99 once the game has been released on v1.0!

Thank you all again for all of your support since the beginning! Releasing on EA is one of the biggest milestones we ever had and we couldn't have done it without all of you!

We put a lot of hard work into making this a reality, so if you haven't yet, please consider giving the game a wishlist and telling your friends about it!

Also, be sure to watch out for the new trailer we'll be releasing next week!

Hey there! it's been a while. Just letting you all know that I've decided to move the release date for another two weeks. Our new release date is now April 13, 2026!

A few reasons being is: to give Valve enough time to review our game and store page, create an actual Early Access Release trailer, and we need more time to do some last minute polishing and QA on the build, and generate hype by sending the trailer and keys to press and content creators.

Game releases are pretty complicated. We've been working on this game for the last three years now. As a gamer / game developer myself and looking at recent releases from other games, I just can't bring myself to release an incomplete product. Even if it's just an Early Access release, I want to make sure that the product that I'm pushing out is something I would be proud with and something will give value to people playing it.

With that said, the finish line is on the horizon! And we are actually sending our first build to valve this week for review! Please wish us luck that there will be no more hiccups regarding it. As I estimate EA release build to be around 30+ hours worth of content!

All I can say is, the Early Access content will be a banger! And I hope you all still stick around and give it a shot despite another delay. Again, thank you everyone for all of your support! We couldn't have made it to this point without all of our supporters and all of you who wishlisted our game here!

See you all in our EA release on April 13! And watch out for the new trailer that we're cooking!

Hi gang! Its been a while! Hope you're all doing okay!

We're officially announcing that Relic Abyss will finally come out on Early Access on March 31, 2026!

We intended to release it in February before, sadly Chapter 3 still needs a bit of cooking and it's expected to be finished by the end of February. I forgot that Steam needs at least 2 weeks to verify our build just in case it has problems or revisions so we're taking that into account too. We also want the EA release to be playable in all of the languages we support here on day 1 so the extra time is for the localizers to do their thing as well.

The first two weeks of March is fully packed with amazing indie games and we expect Spring Sale will also happen during this time too. So the best date we could choose is at the end of March.

But this is now set on stone and we won't be doing any delays anymore! So please be rest assured with that! Our publisher also told us it's our final chance too haha so we definitely need to get it out! But I still appreciate them for being super patient with us!

I'm also currently have been down with the flu for a week now which factored in the delay. Again, I'm really sorry for not being able to reach expectations once again.

But what I can say is that if you loved Chapter 1, Chapter 2 and 3 will blow your mind! In content alone, Chapter 2 enemies are twice the amount of variations vs Chapter 1. And all of them have complex AI.

Again, thank you everyone for sticking with us since the very beginning! We couldn't have made it here without each and everyone one of you! Hope you look forward to the EA release!

Just made a quick fix for another item duplication glitch one of our Japanese players found.

This is the reason why we will reset items once we release the game on EA haha.

Would like to give a shout out LEOPON_SSSS on twitter for letting me know about it!

Let me know if you guys found any more game breaking bugs! Best place to report them is still on our discord server!

Happy 2026, everyone! The final update for the demo has been released! Which include a bunch of fixes and the official Japanese Demo release!

I'm happy that our friends from Japan will finally be able to play the demo! Apologies for the long delay! We will do our best to bring the Japanese Early Access version much sooner!

Speaking of Early Access, we will give some news on the exact release date in early February.

Don't forget to wishlist the game to get notified on release!

We did it, everyone! Relic Abyss has officially surpassed 10,000 wishlists on Steam!

Thank you so much for everyone who has played the demo and has been with us from the start! I still can't believe that over 10,000 people has wishlisted our game!

With our first game Towertale, we have released with only 1200 wishlists so we crashed and burned. Now with our second game, Relic Abyss, we 10x that and still have potential for more. That's so amazing!

We couldn't have done it without everyone here. Thank you for playing our demo and for leaving your interest and feedback!

Special thanks also to the wonderful people of Erabit and Human Qube for including our game in Bullet Heaven Fest 3.0!

If you're looking for other bullet heavens that are on sale or upcoming, be sure to check it out! It's the last day today!

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/bulletheaven3

That team is also doing a push for Valve to add a new Bullet Heaven tag, a new genre on steam for our types of games. Would appreciate if you can tag our game with the "Bullet Heaven" tag by clicking the small plus button on the tags in the Store Page. This will ensure that Valve will properly listen to our initiative so we need all the help we can get!

You can watch Awesome Game's video on the matter here!

We will continue to move forward and create the best game we can possibly make! Hope you all are ready for EA! The new stuff is pretty cool!

Just look at this dood.

Till next time, everyone! Hope you all have a wonderful holiday season ahead!

We are happy to announce that Relic Abyss is part of Bullet Heaven Festival 3.0! A steam sale that mainly features bullet heavens, survivors-likes, roguelikes, roguelites, and so much more!

Do check it out! It's currently featured in the front page on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/bulletheaven3

If you haven't played our demo yet, it's the perfect time to do so! We plan on removing it before the game comes out on February.

Please do wishlist the game if you haven't yet so you'll be notified on our Early Access release. We will be announcing the release date next year along with a new trailer.

Progress with the EA release build is going great! We can't wait for you all to play it and check out all of the new stuff we've added in the game!

And don't worry! Tami will be 100% playable on the EA release!

Again, thank you everyone for all of the support and for sticking around despite the game's delay. Hope you all have a wonderful holiday season ahead! And please look forward to the Early Access release of the game!

Greetings, everyone!

We are delaying the Early Access release of Relic Abyss to February 2026.

We played the current build and have felt the amount of content in the game will not be satisfactory to players compared to our demo.

We want to ensure the value will suffice the price of the game. So we'll be working hard to add more meaningful content.

This will also give us a chance to do a more in depth quality assurance for the final product as well as planning out a proper marketing strategy for the game's release.

Our country is also currently being ravaged by one of the largest Typhoons in the world. It may take us a while to recover as previous Typhoon last year cut our internet, power, and water for a total of two weeks. As of writing this, our power currently has been cut due to the strong winds and heavy rain.

We apologize for the sudden change and we hope that you still support us during our new release date.

Hi gang! We made two updates the past week that fixes the broken equipment loot and have reworked the smithing system. During our Next Fest build, I've added more stats to the loot drops but used a 10x multiplier while testing. I've left it out during the Next Fest build that's why the equipment were so overpowered that it broke the game.

While we won't be deleting the obtained equipment, we might consider not carrying over the item saves to the EA release build. We'll try to give an special reward on release to compensate this. I'm terribly sorry!

Here are the patch notes:

• Fixed overpowered loot drops from 10x multiplier to 1x

• Loot bonus stat amount are now chance based vs always getting 4 every time ie. on legendaries.

• Loot bonus stats are now percentage based only.

• Reworked Smithing system so that bonus stats from equipment from both items will carry over to the result item.

• Fixed equipment not displaying proper values. Previously on the UI it added extra values based off it's base value even if it's not the intended feature.

• Added UI support to 16:10 aspect

• Fixed: Chest opening not selecting open button when enabled

• Improved Results UI relic navigation.

• Fixed: Soft Lock when you're on the dialogue options and have selected the dialogue box.

• Fixed: Defeating Mostra on high difficulties crashes the game.

Wow! We're super late! But better late than never! How are you everyone? We have a couple of things we'd like to share to you all right now including a brand new demo that flips the whole core gameplay or Relic Abyss in it's head.

Relic Abyss joins October Next Fest!

It's already been a few days since it's started, but we'd like to officially announce that Relic Abyss is currently joining Next Fest! The reason why we're late is because we've been really busy making a new demo for you all to try out! Without further ado:

Relic Abyss has evolved again! A new demo is now playable!

During our demo release, one of the most recurring feedback we had was that the game is too slow, 30 minute runs feel like a slog, the stats system kept stopping players from having fun, runs feel the same. We just want you all to know that we hear you and we have focused on fixing all of those problems with the new demo!

A new way to play! Random Rarity perks and Advancements!

We have decided to remove the Stats placement system to a more sleek Perks + Advancement systems. Perks are the usual stuff but improved! Pick from a randomized pool of Relics and Skills.

Advancements are a new thing! This is what will help you scale your character infinitely! Perk and advancements are randomly picked per run each advancement brings a new unique twist to the game!

From Advancements that flip your magic and physical damages to ones that turn your pick up range into a damaging AoE. We have added over 55 unique advancements to choose from! It's up to you to mix and match or find combos to your hearts content.

Here's a totally normal looking run with the new demo!

Runs are now 20 minutes long!

Based on multiple feedbacks, 30 minutes is a huge time sink to some players. And dying mid-run on minute 25 and you have to go through all of the level again is so un fun. That's why we're making the runs into a smaller but chunky sized experience.

Yes, the game is now harder. But runs now feel more satisfying. We have rebalanced everything to make the action non-stop as it should be since you're trying to survive the Abyss!

The Exp curve has also now been fixed to have a more satisfying curve overall.

The UI flow for the gameplay levels is now faster. Opening chests can now be done in 3 quick button presses! And other quality of life changes like the highly requested Auto-aim feature!

More useful equipment!

Equipment now drop with random attributes based off it's rarity. And we have now removed class specific requirements for equipment! So you can now equip any equipment to anyone regardless of class! Enchantment and Smithing bonuses are present on top of those!

New Shrines: Shrine of Advancement and Challenge!

Brazilian Localization: Now Available!

You can read the patch notes here:

Removed: Stats System

Implemented Advancement System and Random Perk Rarities

Implemented over 55 unique advancements

Added Auto Attack Feature

Runs are now 20 mins long

Adjusted difficulty for run changes

Implemented new Shrine: Shrine of Advancement

Implemented new Shrine: Challenge Shrine

Added new Localization: Brazilian

Magnetize speed doubled

Exp Crystals can now be picked up no matter what state

Charging enemies can now be hit even when charging

Added ultimate ready indicator

Fixed: Can auto select a perk before the perks appear on screen.

Reworked Character Select to display Advancements.

Reworked Stats and Relics UI to display relic details.

Buffed Mildred and all Magic Relics

Changed Moon Ornament to target enemies instead of random on map.

Increased Dialogue Speed

Removed Initial Chest Opening animations

Made Chest Opening skip to any button

Removed Class Requirements for Equipment

Looted equipment now have random bonus stats based on rarity.

Fixed: Magic Damage on Attributes appearing as 0 when equipping staff

Fixed EXP curve so that levelling is stable throughout the whole run.

On to our Early Access Release!

Overall, we are extremely happy with the new changes. It has made the game super fun to play. And the potential of advancements and future combinations.

Hope you have fun playing the new demo and are excited for what's in store with our Early Access build on November 26!

Till next time, happy gaming!

All feedback and bug reports are highly appreciated! Fastest way to report them are on our Discord server!

Relic Abyss is coming to Early Access on November 26, 2025!

We're so happy to announce that Relic Abyss will be coming to Early Access on November 26! We also have made a brand new trailer to accompany our announcement! Check it out below!

Mameshiba Games will now be publishing the game!

It's been a long journey this past year trying to get a publisher that would be a perfect match for the game and our team. But we've finally found them! All welcome our new publisher Mameshiba Games!

They have given us funding, QA support, and marketing support. They are also the ones responsible for making the new Key Art and all of the new portrait changes in the game! So we know we're in good hands.

They will continue to support us throughout Early Access so be rest assured that we will do our best to produce the best product we can make!

Mameshiba games will also be bringing Relic Abyss to all consoles in 2026!

We are joining October Next Fest!

Before releasing the game in Early Access, we want to make sure to join the Steam October Next Fest happening in October 14-21! Hoping that it will help us get that boost that we need for a good momentum for EA.

There will be a major demo update on the Next Fest demo build like the rest of the difficulties in Outer Layer, the true relics (combination relics), Survivors Mode (formerly Arcade Mode), and who knows maybe a certain character will be playable then as a limited feature in Next Fest.

That is all for now folks! Thank you again for supporting us and playing our demo! We hope that you continue to support us throughout this whole Early Access up to the full release. See you on October 14!

Greetings everyone! It's been a while! We have some amazing news regarding Relic Abyss this week! First and foremost, would like to say that this is 1 of 2 announcements we will make this week. So be sure to tune in for our second announcement as well as it's pretty special!

Relic Abyss has been featured in No Time to Loot steam event!

True to the event name, Relic Abyss is indeed a looter survivors-like game. So if you're interested in the types of games that feature looting, then be sure to check the event below:

https://store.steampowered.com/developer/humanqube/sale/notimetolootfestival2025

Special thanks to Human Qube for including us in this event!

A brand new Key Art for the game!

It's been hard to keep this a secret, but one of the things we have been working on to improve are the illustrations and Key Art of the game! It's done by a wonderful new artist that has joined our team. This means, our main game artist could now focus on making gameplay art so we can now accelerate our development timeline.

More info about it in our next announcement!

New Demo update: New character illustrations

New demo Localizations: French, German, Russian, & Spanish

Bug Fixes and QoL updates:

• Added Steam Cloud support

• Fixed Stats Screen Auto/Open on Level don't show tooltip on hover.

• Fixed dropped card item will look like a coin if you picked up a coin first.

• Added new sprites for dungeon blockages.

• Added Walking smoke effect

• Moved Wilson and Marga Rine's intro cutscenes to play after alongside major cutscenes.

• Marga Rine now requires Wilson to be unlocked before she appears on the next run.

• Fixed Wilson/Rine NPC indicator on gameplay rendering below HUD.

• Fixed Lv on HUD text doesn't scale properly.

• Fixed pressing Tab when over two interactable entities does not cycle but opens skills and relics UI.

• Adjusted Warrior Slash so it doesn't only hit where the sprite is.

• Language settings will now persist upon each playthroughs.

• Fixed: Gidf explosions sending you to Brazil after you explode.

• Fixed Mostra getting stuck when stunned.

• Fixed Mostra Dive collider doesn't trigger after first slam.

• Fixed Mostra Dive Attack not dropping to the indicated area.

• Adjusted Mostra Collider to adapt on normal state and charging state.

• Increased Results Screen Wait timer after Boss Defeat by 5 secs.

• Fixed particles in level bugging when walking to a different chunk.

A new trailer and Early Access release date reveal later this week + a special secret!

Yes! Finally after two years in development, Relic Abyss is entering Early Access soon! Please tune in to our new trailer this week for our early access release date! We also have another special thing we plan to announce during its reveal.

Thank you again everyone for the patience and for supporting us throughout our demo release! Please look forward to more good news coming soon!

Howdy everybody! It's been a while! We're gearing up for some really cool stuff coming soon! First off, we're happy to announce that Relic Abyss has been featured in another steam event called Sword Celebration happening on September 1-8th!

Sword Celebration Steam Sale

It's a pretty neat event that features games that have swords or featuring swords. It's the perfect time to start Swordtember!

You can check out the Steam Sale event here:

https://store.steampowered.com/developer/mythwright/sale/swordcelebration2025

We all know we've released the Bladefall Relic on a previous patch. If you haven't tried it yet, it's the best time to do it now! Again, the demo will be up permanently in case anyone has missed it!

Relic Abyss has reached 7000 Wishlists!

It's been 3 months since we released Relic Abyss's Demo to the public. And I'm happy to say that 7000 people have wishlisted our game! Wow! That's a lot of people! Thank you so much for all the wishlists! As a small game dev team, it means the world to us that we got so many wishlists for our game. If you haven't yet, and you have loved the demo, please do considering wishlisting the game as it really helps us a lot!

We've also received a lot of feedback that helped us improve the game. With your help we have significantly improved the game since our initial demo release on May. We did 12 public demo updates since then and we're now on a more stable build v0.4.31!

If you missed it, we also did a localization update a while back that add support to Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean!

We have more localization coming soon:

Brazilian, Spanish, Russian, French, and Japanese!

A special announcement coming late September

We've been working hard and we're excited to announce something really special coming this late September! It is something that we have been working towards since we have released the demo in May. Please look forward to it!

Here's a small teaser. Let me know if you figure it out what it is in the comments below. I'll give you a cookie. :D

Anyways that's it for now! Just wanted to do an update in case people think we're dead haha! We're pretty much alive and well and are super excited for what's in store this late September!

Greetings!

We happy to announce that we are a part of the 2025 East Asia Indie Games Celebration! To celebrate this, we have released the Simplified and Traditional Chinese versions of our demo!

诚挚邀请试玩圣物深渊（Relic Abyss）简体中文试玩版

本团队已参与二零二五年东亚独立游戏庆典（East Asia Indie Games Celebration 2025）！为庆祝这一盛事，本团队已发布圣物深渊（Relic Abyss）简体中文试玩版！现诚挚邀请阁下成为首批体验此游戏的创作者。

敝團隊已參與二零二五年東亞獨立遊戲慶典（East Asia Indie Games Celebration 2025）！為慶祝這一盛事，敝團隊已發布聖物深淵（Relic Abyss）繁體中文試玩版！現誠摯邀請閣下成為首批體驗此遊戲的創作者。

\ 애니메이션에서 영감을 받아 만들어진 액션 로그라이트 RPG의 한국어 버전 데모가 공개되었습니다!

저희 게임이 2025년 8월 5일부터 19일까지 진행되는 스팀 동아시아 인디 게임 셀레브레이션에 참가하게 되어, 해당 행사를 위해 게임의 한국어 버전을 추가 공개했습니다. 저희 게임을 플레이하고, 한국에 알려주실 첫 크리에이터가 되어주셨으면 합니다!

You may now access the Korean, Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional localizations of the game by clicking the drop down on the Title Screen or on the Settings menu!

Thank you again everyone for the patience and for playing the game! More updates and Localizations are coming soon!

Play the demo here:

Just a quick update fixes the Notification Event Hard Locking you after it shows up the second time.

For example Unlocking the Warrior then unlocking the Mage will lock your game and you have to alt+f4.

Special thanks to Azuli-Bluespots for reporting it!

Hi! Someone from our discord server let us know that there was a bug that prevents you from getting rewards if you hit continue after the first Event Notifier upon finishing the level.

We are really sorry if you have lost any rewards during this period. We have uploaded a fix for this and have reset all of the rewards in all difficulties. So you can claim it again after finishing the levels even after you have finished it.

Note: Rewards can only be claimed once per difficulty!

Howdy all! We're back with another free demo update for you! We've been working hard and adding more cool stuff in the game! Check out all of the changes below!

Linux build Now Available!

New Physical Relic: Blitz Bane

Changelog:

• Added a new Physical Relic: Blitz Bane

• Fixed pulse judgement second blast not stronger.

• Reworked rewards to be claimable via HUB on the Community Board or Level Select.

  • Made Level rewards to be random Legendary equipment.

  • Updated Level Rewards after it's completed to not display rewards anymore on Level Select.

  • Updated Rewards for Difficulty Levels 1-5.

• Added Sell Feature on Merchant Store.

• Added Quick Buttons on HUB.

• Made swapping characters even faster.

• Fixed dash not working when you increase your size.

• Linux Build available

Wanderbots coverd our game!

Would also like to give a shout out to Wanderbots for covering our game and bringing in new people! I always love watching him cover a lot of indies and we're very happy to get covered by him!

Check out his let's try of the Demo Here:

I hope more content creators cover our game more in the future!

Again, thank you again everyone for playing our game! And we appreciate all of the wishlists, the feedbacks, and suggestions you have given us to improve Relic Abyss! Expect more cool stuff in the future!

Heya gang! Long time no see! Just want to talk about what has happened since our last update. Why I stopped updating for a while, what changed in the game, and what's in store for the future.

New Build:

Starting last week, I've been finally back improving the game and adding more stuff to the demo. Below are the new changes that has come with the new build version 0.4.23!

Change Log:

• Implemented new Physical Relic: Spiral Key

• Fixed Attack Speed / Cooldown able to go above the maximum attackspeed.

• Fixed perk item highlight not aligned properly.

• Added new SFX to Bladefall Relic

• Fixed hovering on perks scrollbar can hover side buttons.

• Fixed Event Notifier still popping up after buying items on shop.

• Fixed dropping an item will 100% black screen on swapping characters.

• Fixed spamming pause on after selecting level can cause a soft lock.

• Added hotkey to confirm on Results Screen, Character Select, and Level Select.

• Stats Screen Rework:

  • Luck now affects loot quality and have a chance to spawn another perk.

  • Added toggle to stop the stats screen from popping up every level.

  • Reworked Auto Stats feature:

  • Clicking auto now brings up stat toggles that distributes your points automatically based on your choices.

  • If open on level is off and auto is on, stats will automatically assign upon levelling up.

Why I stopped updating for a while...

Sorry for not posting for a while. As I've told on a previous announcement before we we're dropped by the publisher we've been working with since 2024. And because of this, we really didn't had any funding since April 2025. So in our last ditch effort, we've decided to just release the demo and see where it would take us.

Thankfully, the demo release was a success, thanks to everyone who played our game! I'll be making another announcement post regarding the demo results in the future. But for now, thanks again everyone for playing our game!

Around the 2nd week of June, we were out of funds. So we had to pause development for a bit and we went back seeking funding for the game. I emailed a lot of publishers, I applied for jobs, I talked to investors.

Some good news!

It was a pretty long process, but after 2 more weeks of talking to them, we've finally found someone who was interested in funding our game!

I can't say any details for now, but starting this week, we finally have our game funded! And we can say with full confidence that we are now able to finish our game 100%!

Will talk about it more in the future but for now this is all I can say!

Coming soon:

We have also planning on some more future stuff planned coming soon. Like Localizations for different languages.

These languages are currently in the works and will be implented as soon as they're finished:

• Simplified Chinese

• Traditional Chinese

• Brazilian

• French

• Japanese

More languages are coming in the future!