Rise of the Slime news & patch notes

Updated several Debuff and card descriptions that were confusing the people a bit, and adjusted some of the enemy power levels. - Card removal cost reduced, for easier deck modification - Also you will no longer get corrupted enemies before looping run - Reduced The fire stack that gets added when triggering mark of the phoenix from 60 to 20

It’s time to slime! Rise of the Slime is available now worldwide for you to play. It's been quite the journey since the first prototypes of Rise of the Slime - so I’m happy to finally be here and bring you a version of the game that I’m proud of. Hopefully, it’ll bring you lots of fun!

The full game features:

• New modes for runs (including shorter but more intense runs)
• New locations
• Improvements to the game feel
• Over 50 Core Mutations that add a new dimension of strategy to each playthrough.

Let’s take a look at the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa8rYqza-c0 As well as Steam, Rise of the Slime launches on Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, and Xbox One! For more details, visit: https://www.riseoftheslime.com/ Don't forget to follow Slime on Twitter to catch all the latest updates and features: https://twitter.com/RiseOfTheSlime This is only the beginning for Rise of the Slime and our squishy hero. I have some interesting plans cooking in my head, so look forward to the future. -Bunkovsky {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35982661/3b42333d4385f0cc9ba9568b6b747f03c5aa474a.png

Hello everyone! It’s official: Rise of the Slime releases for Steam on May 20th! https://youtu.be/pHTbNrh4zvQ We have some excellent news for those looking to try the game, Rise of the Slime: Prologue is now available to download on Steam! Check out the Steam page here and play a small and sweet snippet of the game. Will you be able to outplay the powerful Orc Grunt waiting for you at the end?

Prologue page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1582900/Rise_of_the_Slime_Prologue/

Included in the Prologue:

• Choose your build style with either a normal, acid, or fire deck to start off with
• Hone your strats with a short tutorial fight
• Battle your way through perilous caves, with a powerful Orc Grunt lingering ahead
• Enhance your run with bonuses and upgrades as you progress through the zone!

Frequently Asked Questions

Which platforms will the game be available on?

As well as Steam, Rise of the Slime is also coming to Nintendo Switch, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One on May 20th, 2021.

What are the highlights of Rise of the Slime coming out of Early Access?

The full game will feature new modes for runs (including shorter but more intense runs), new locations, improvements to the game feel, as well as over 50 Core Mutations that add a new dimension of strategy to each playthrough.

Will the cost of the game differ from the price for the Early Access on Steam right now?

There are no plans to increase the base price of the game when it leaves Early Access on May 20th. Whilst we prepare for release, we’d highly recommend that you follow us on Twitter and join our Discord to get the latest updates as soon as we post them. For more details on Rise of the Slime, visit: https://www.riseoftheslime.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RiseOfTheSlime Thank you for being a part of the Rise of the Slime journey so far, talk again soon! -Bunkovsky {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35982661/3b42333d4385f0cc9ba9568b6b747f03c5aa474a.png

Hello everyone! The time has come - Rise of the Slime is moving out of Early Access and heading for full release! After months of updates, balancing and refining the gameplay, I’m proud to announce that Rise of the Slime will be releasing in full very soon. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35982661/640ec08d86b81e94bb7fa62c18e42144b5b27a52.jpg Check out the incredible new trailer for the game! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi2CMlvSuSQ I'm also extremely excited to announce that Rise of the Slime is coming to Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5™.

FAQ

What are the highlights of Rise of the Slime coming out of Early Access?

The full game will feature new modes for runs (including shorter but more intense runs), new locations, improvements to the game feel, as well as more than 50 Core Mutators that add a new dimension of strategy to each playthrough.

Will the cost of the game differ from the price for the Early Access on Steam right now?

There are no plans to increase the base price of the game when it leaves Early Access. Whilst we prepare for release, I'd highly recommend that you follow us on Twitter and join our Discord to get the latest updates as soon as they arrive! Also, check out the Slime’s adorable new website! Thank you for being a part of the Rise of the Slime journey so far, the support and community have been so amazing and this adventure has only just begun. - Bunkovsky

Minor update for card info and text display systems. Some other bugfixes. Updates for this version is a bit smaller while prepping some bigger news in coming weeks.

Uploading a small patch, to catch up the steam build version to more up to date development one. Main points: Performance improvements/optimizations Improvements to game texts/copy Squishing multiple bugs and possible crashes on the backside Various small tweaks Prepping for a bigger patch and content update, See you then :D Bunkovsky

Hello there slimers! This time for Christmas i am releasing a relatively larger update that you can enjoy during the winter holidays. The game has been in early access for a while and we are preparing for finally releasing it out of EA (some things are happening behind the scenes that i can’t announce yet, but stuff is happening). There will also be a price increase for the base game when the full release comes closer, so grab a copy for cheaper price, while you can. So in celebration of the season here are some changes/additions that are now in game:

• Addition of Core Mutations - now during your run you will be aciquire upgrades to your lil slime that will stick around till you die or end your run. They will help grow your power and change up the gameplay. At the end of the post you can find more extended list of mutations, that are now in game.
• Checkpoints - I added checkpoints after mini boss and boss battles, some people were wishing for ability to not restart the whole run upon death as it does take a while to build up, so now you will be able to retry harder fights even if you die along your journey.
• Countering environmental-debuffs, now, at the start of your turn, you will draw some cards that can remove Acid/Fire debuffs whenever you are inflicted with those elements ( burn that mana to reduce debuff stacks )
• Fire terrain will add debuff stack change to normal terrain whenever a unit enters fire tile ( some more separation from how acid functions )
• Updates to world decorations and locations, as well as some small changes how world gen works
• Updates to gamepad integration and UI
• Touchups to various UI elements and screens
• Bunch o bugfixes
• Some New Achievements

Core Mutations

At the moment of these are a bit too strong if aciquired early, but no harm in having more relaxed runs for a bit. 😅 Buffing effects very likely will be toned down by a bit in later updates. Stronger Gain 1 STR at the start of combat - stacks Protective layers Gain 2 DEF at the end of turn - stacks STRONGER!!! Gain 5 STR at the start of combat Radish Whisperer More gold from radishes Blinky the Slime Adds blink card to hand at the start of the turn Blinky the Assassin Replaces quick move card with Blink card Quick Drawer Draw 1 more card at the start of the turn Brute Gain 2 STR at the start of every turn if you have no active familiars/summons Glass Cannon Reduce HP to 10, gain 30 STR at the start of the combat. No HP upgrades in altars. But you will not lose any more HP when picking up core mutations Unbreakable defence Will not remove DEF at the start of the turn, lose 20 MAX HP Defensive stance If you start combat with 15HP or less, gain 20DEF at start of combat Armored Cards For each card in your deck, gain 1 DEF at the start of the combat, lose 5 MAX HP Printing money At the end of the turn, all your core mutations spawn 1 GP each P2W Every 200GP gives you 1 extra STR at the start of the combat, lose all current GP Camping supplies Refills camping supplies JACKPOT! Gain 2000 GP Light steps Do not trigger terrain effects on entering a tile Vitality Increase max HP by 15 Mana Extraction When enemy dies during combat, gain 1 Mana Bandit When unit is hit by Backstab, it drops 10GP Lead Filled Pots A pot will deal 15DMG when dropped on a unit Tenacious Save your life from fatal attack once, remain at 1HP, lose the mutation Fractured Core Core mutation, left after surviving mortal attack Energized Deck When discard pile is transferred to drawpile, gain 1 Mana Burn LifeforceI ncrease your MAX MANA by 1, reduce max HP by 25 Sturdy Membrane Start combat with 2 DEF UP - stacks Pumping up Every time you play a card gain +1 STR for a max of +15STR. Resets at the end of combat Hole in Pocket Start combat with 3 DEF UP, but every time you play a card lose 3GP Thank you for reading and playing! Enjoy experimenting. Till next time good people! - Bunkovsky

Hello there Slimers, In the latest patch ( Oct 13 ) Added gamepad support - now you can fully enjoy playing the game from the comfort of you couch. Grab yout trusty controller and smack some goblins with it. Fixes for bugs that poked up most issues and adding minor content polish, some typo fixes. At the moment primary goal is getting to stable 1.0 release, fluffing up the zones a bit. And enjoying releasing the lil' slime boy in the world properly. This year has been one odd year and things have taken longer that they were supposed to take. Some more fun things are in production behind the scenes at the moment, but need to keep hush hush on those for now. Main points for this patch * Added controller support to game * Removed settigns altar from cemetary zone, it did not function properly and was not much more convenient than just using the regular settings menu * Updates to multiple locations * fixed multiple typos scattered all around the game * bugfixes and some bigger reworks for sorting things and UI logic * general bugfixes

Hello there slimers! Time for another update post, and this time it's a news post about features and progress. This is a more boring one for players while i work on it. At the moment i am focusing on filling the gaps in game UI where players had confusion - places where card descriptions were not showing up, filling in missing descriptions ( like on pet summon cards and their levels ), expanding on info that was not displayed during gameplay ( like the fact that cards are upgradable), as well as trying to polish off the look for UI icons and so on. While its quite uninteresting, it must be done so that the game feels complete. Meanwhile - here is a little teaser for an AOE lightning storm, that will be coming in the new upcoming Storm deck. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35982661/ac05e3bfadcd9fb4e9de63864104d8d1626488b4.gif Thanks for reading! Till next week good people! ( Or till Discord! ) - Bunkovsky Link: https://discordapp.com/invite/nhR92wH

Hello there slimers! Time for another update. This includes notes from Feb 21 and Feb 28 update. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35982661/10ff2882f02c60b5ad76a50647205a1424473b98.png I finally added achievements to the game! woohoo. Now you will get rewards for doing nice things and show off your progress. More achievements are incoming :) Changed up how water terrain interacts with the lightning, water terrain now guides lightning bounces, so you can attack in more controlled manner. Other changes: Now also draws 1 additional card. Enemies can use haste cards and debuff, added some ally buffs Attack that deals big damage, but hastes enemy Fire backlash does not deal damage, but applies fire debuff Difficulty level and loop is now visible during gameplay The content updates in these patches are a bit smaller and more gradual, as im prepping for dropping a larger update. Enjoy experimenting. Till next week good people! ( Or till Discord! ) - Bunkovsky Link: https://discordapp.com/invite/nhR92wH

Hello Slimers, It's time for another update This one adds elemental coatings to base attacks, multi unit fire attacks, acid resistances and some other goodies. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35982661/950e4ff369bb3deb648b952cdbe55b3665e8ab38.gif For the people who love random challanges, i added a new deck. :) SUPRISE ME! Deck choice. Gives you 6 Random generic cards, 2 acid cards and 2 fire cards to start with. And one bonus card that you can choose yourself. Unlocks after first death Add X mana at the start of next turn Reduce DMG taken from ACID at the start of the turn by X Apply X Fire to target, when dealing melee damage Notable additions to card list. Generic cards: Charged slash , Ball up , More upgrades to Tower Shield Acid: Coated dagger Acid Fang Splash Dagger Schwap Muscle acid Acid Cancel Fire: Fire Coating Haste And Bunch of smaller bugfixes and tweaks Looking forward to finally showing more of the water deck in future updates :) Enjoy experimenting. Till next week good people! ( Or till Discord! ) - Bunkovsky Link: https://discordapp.com/invite/nhR92wH

As part of the Lunar Sale, Rise of the Slime will be on sale, with a 25% discount in all regions. Don't dawdle too long, as the sale runs until January 27th (Today!), 10 am PST as part of Steam's Lunar Sale. We are continuing to expand on the game, working on more content to keep growing the game and expanding our little Slime boy into adulthood with weekly updates and interaction with our players. If you would like to know more, join in with our Steam Discussion Board, check out our reviews or join us on Discord. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35982661/e9270c4fd27066bc9493e8c5225935c7199c444d.png

Hello Slimers, It's time for another update At the moment i'm mainly focusing on expanding the base elemental decks to make them more varied and fun to play with, hopefully it turns out good. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35982661/3084bb8ee088a1757bc84b1df6465c0508aab90f.gif Main changes in this update: - Familiars now target enemies with debuff, so if you want to target a specific unit with familiars, now you can - Added debuff, and Plague card that can inflict that debuff ( At the end of the turn or whenever the unit takes damage, spread acid terrain. If stack over 2, also applies infected to adjacent units) - Added debuff, that is triggered when your hp reaches 0, triggers phoenix cry card ( Prevents death when hp reaches 0 ) - When you attack enemy that is on fire ( has debuff) with a melee attack, you take 1-9 DMG in backlash, depending on how big is the fire stack - Added "Red Sword" to fire deck, so you can deal physical damage ( Deals 6DMG, if target is on , deal double DMG) - When you play "Opener" card, it also gives you "Punch" and "Etheral shield" to open up the combo - Added "Cursed punch", that deals additional damage for each Corrupted card in your hand - Passive/Unplayable card - Acid duplications now perish - Upgrades to "Inner peace" - Upgrades to "Life Steal", and it should be aciquirable more easily, made it generic card - Crystal sword upgradable to stable version, now for real - Reduced power of caterpillarface, and changed parts of AI functionality- If you have unopened card packs, you wont go to the next room if standing on level switching arrow before opening them - Bunch of smaller bugfixes and tweaks Enjoy experimenting. Till next week good people! ( Or till Discord! ) - Bunkovsky Link: https://discordapp.com/invite/nhR92wH

Hello there, now that the holidays are over and everyone is back to the world its time for a fresh update. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35982661/0d5a615c1fe8bc86947aca89adee6c08682dbb33.gif This time we focus on combos and introduce a major change - lil Slime now needs to stand next to enemies to play close combat cards! :o Some of the new card additions {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35982661/ecdc83348ac550c4930659f3cc235cc5f3d3937e.png More changes: - Close combat cards now require you to stand next to the target! - Updates to map generation - Starting zone selection after you reach one of the new zones - You - Enemies scale in difficulty the more zones and loops you complete - Added corrupted enemies ( small chance to spawn an enemy that is even stronger than usual, has a chance to have additional cards and attacks) - Pet upgrades more info - Add the stone of power - Added DEF UP debuff - Adds additional X DEF in the size of the stack - Added MARKED debuff - Each attack on this unit increases mark size. Mark is removed if any card is not played on marked target. Mark size multiplies attack. - Added cards that interact with and apply the new debuffs - More Card Ugrades ( also to pet summon cards ) - keyboard "E" to trigger end turn card - explody chests drop some gold - increased the cost of duplicate/triple acid/fire cards and transmute acid - add help menu when not having any pets equipped and near pet altar - sometimes the collected money value was displayed incorrectly ( with + 20 ) - Timer is shown during the run when you hover over yourself - Improved blink cards - Improved Lightning storm card - Chests that are on top of each other should now open - Slight reballances to card cost and power - Bunch of bugfixes and small edits Enjoy experimenting. Till next week good people! ( Or till Discord! ) - Bunkovsky Link: https://discordapp.com/invite/nhR92wH

We are participating in our first sale! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35982661/7d50c203487ff13eaeea3879b6c3a5b3cc2cf925.png The winter is coming to Slimeland! Snow and more winter objects are now in game, this is leading up to a new card pack! And now by popular demand - Bracer pet has new upgrades path, where he retains Mana and carries it over to the next turn for you to use. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35982661/c806d666811b5ef85c008560edba2d9828de415e.gif Main changes: - Boosted bracer lvl 1 cast chance to 50% and lvl 2 to 75 - Bracer alternative upgrade that allows carrying over MANA - Festive hats! - Defense, and buff/debuff stacks cap at 99 - Fixed tinkerers pet ( was not spending correct energy ) - Tinkerer pet can cancel embedding of card - Winter biome is starting to appear ( new Card pack is not yet active, but is coming soon ) - Added adaptive snow terrain and snow vfx - Added exit to secret endroom - Fix music - sfx burn silence triggering repeatedly even when not playing Enjoy experimenting. Till next time good people! ( Or till Discord! ) - Bunkovsky Link: https://discordapp.com/invite/nhR92wH

Another week - another update. This one goes out to all of the supporting characters. Main theme for this week is upgrades! Pet upgrades are now available to all of the base pets, after you finish miniboss battles, added more card upgrades, improved and ballanced the Tinkerers Pet and did a bunch of smaller updates. Tinkerers Pet new pattern - it charges 1 Mana/Energy per turn, once it reaches the Mana required by card that's embedded - card plays. Some cards play at the start of the turn ( like Peek n Draw and Add Mana cards) - Updated card descriptions to add missing perish tips - fixed draw from discard pile card, and reduced its cost to 1 - made draw from drawpile non perish - card play system reworks to fix multiple bugs- duplicate and triple def cost increased to 2 mana - fixed card draw and shuffle bugs - lucky wheel positionings adjusted - flame mana no longer reduces your mana if not on fire - burning rage cost reduced - fire backlash parasite adds only one parasite card to hand - skulls make pets wait - slime face not overlapping map nodes - attract flame now also damages the unit, from which the flame is attracted ( unless it has fire immunity ) - implode, does not damage you if you have fire immunity - tinkerers pet now has energy, it requires building up specific ammount of energy to play the embedded card - some of the embedded cards play at the start of the turn, not at the end of the turn ( gain mana, peek n draw, summon pet cards) - tinkerer pet should deal backstabs correctly now - tinkerer pet should handle more cards correctly - added new acid cards / card upgrades for base cards - added branching upgrade paths to acid pet - added branching upgrade paths to fire pet - added upgrade paths to bracer pet - added branching upgrade paths to def pet - pets can be upgraded after boss battles - pet count resets to 0 after combat, if pets are unsummoned and no familiar is active - made the final encounter easier, no 2x golem rooms Enjoy experimenting. Till next week good people! ( Or till Discord! ) - Bunkovsky Link: https://discordapp.com/invite/nhR92wH

Oh army of Slushies, the next update is here! And this time with an addition of a new pet! - New pet! Tinkerers pet, you can socket non-pet cards from your deck in it. (available in cemetery and as a spawn) - Added Pet info window - Added summon de-spawn functionality during fight - Tinkerer pet upgrade spots show up after mini-boss fights - Nerfed endfight - Enemy and player descriptions and info on debuffs now show up on hover - Fixed card description for dagger fan - New frames for popup descriptions - Fire card functionality update, allows wider range of upgrades, changed card base upgrades from AEO effect to bigger debuff - Added tutorial for backstab - Added tutorial for pet window - Updated tutorial images for tyos/visual assets - Updated game engine and exporter - Fixed most of alignment issues that came with updating engine - Fixed leak from audio that made game run slower over time - Audio / music should play without pauses - Various small bugfxes Still trying to get more streaming / game capture soft to work with game, will test these a bit more and then notify people. See ya @ next update or in Discord! Link: https://discordapp.com/invite/nhR92wH

Hello there good slimers! A new update has just been pushed live with fixes for Streaming and bug fixes/card/pet thing additions. Info on streaming fixes: https://steamcommunity.com/app/826740/discussions/0/1658943116230963263/ - Added blink teleport card - Added button to allow positioning yourself better and avoiding backstabs - Rare fire cards should now be dropping - Free target cards can't target outside of the map - Free target cards center on player.x when double-click-played - Player familiar do not affect summon cap - Changed how pet summoning and randomiser works ( testing to see if there are bugs ) - Summons un-spawn after combat - Familiar summons should not show up on empty altars - Added bracer action sfx - Added pet upgrade functionality (currently disabled in this update, fully enabling it next one, need some testing) - Reduced temporary upgrade prices - Reordered room structure and included guaranteed upgrade rooms around boss fights - Made the slime positioning marker more visible - When playing Shield Break, def can't go under 0 - Acid absorb shield x2 should now add DEF in size of acid stack x2 - Update to enemy path finding, will position itself in closer empty spots when assuming position and changed up how enemies start turn - Generating next turn action order now takes in account distance - Some enemy AI tweaks - Added "--in-process-gpu" arg, to nwjs export, that should allow game capture for OBS users that had blackscreen during stream tests - Remade the save system, now it checks if save files exist on disk, should resolve blackout screen on load and multiple other save related issues - Fulscreen state now saved - Misc micro-bugfixes along the way Now i'm working on enabling the pet upgrades and upgrade routes, that should make it more fun to experiment with your Familiars and summons You are also welcomed to join our discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/nhR92wH Thanks for playing and look forward to future updates! - Maris

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35982661/cb8ed08b9d7d9ea68965e746ce9cb957f2c5d8ba.png Hello, welcome to the first official update post for Rise of the Slime! I've been feverously working on a set of updates to our cute n' squishy slime boy! Take a look at the update notes below and please let me know on the Steam Discussion board or on Discord what you think! Move it, Backstabbers! Update Notes:

• Added PUSH/PULL cards for position manipulation on the field
• Backstabs are now in-game - position yourself behind an enemy and stab them with a sword for massive damage!
• Unlock Progress Bar added
• Jackpot Wheel added to the game - try your luck and win big!
• Combat Summons - players can summon familiars to do their bidding (4 summon cards and capacity card)
• Entering terrain now triggers intended action and gives debuff according to the terrain you are on
• Limited max movement with movement points to counter-balance potential abuse of terrain tiles on movement
• Movement range/points now showed on screen
• HP upgrade price reduced
• Correct run time should show up if the game is running at a faster speed
• Card rewards and other places in UI now show correct energy gem
• Acid absorb shield high adds the correct amount of shield
• Added one custom selected bonus card to the starting deck
• Familiars can no longer target shrouded enemies
• Chests deal damage on explosion
• Lots of tiny UI card interaction and generic bug fixes

----------------------------- Fixes Week 1

• Playing the end turn card is now more responsive
• Enemies take shorter to do their actions
• Camera now pans closer to active enemy to show its actions
• Offscreen damage is shown on screen
• Can no longer generate infinite cash when removing cards
• Updated AI patterns of certain enemies
• Ensured all rooms have exits (so you can leave and continue exploring!)
• Nerfed starting zone unit HPs
• Removed one starting room during room generation boosted card drops
• Fixed bug where 40 HP was restored on entering the shop
• You can now see how many actions the enemy has (MP)
• New card decks now unlock after a certain amount of player deaths, even if you don't reach next zones, for the sake of more fun
• Cash now carries over between runs
• Lowered shop/upgrade costs
• Added unstable energy card, unstable carry over def card and made multiple smaller adjustments to cards
• Nerfed corrupt card goblin and the cards it plays
• Visual + gameplay bug hotfixes
• Other bug fixes and improvements

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