Some of You May Die news & patch notes

It's been 2 days since launch and there's been a ton of great feedback. Thank you all for your comments and messages. I'm reading everything and am planning an update to address many things! The two biggest issues I'm seeing are:

• It's unclear if you win when someone abandons a match (you do)
• It's too difficult / unbalanced

In order to make an update, I have to work with a few translation teams to update things in all the languages the game supports so I'm planning the first update for a couple weeks from now. I'm also planning to address many quality of life issues that people have been mentioning and many other adjustments. This will also ensure that I have enough time to collect feedback to make sure I address people's concerns / issues. Thanks everyone, it's been so fun to read everything and to play matches with you all! Jo

I'm thrilled to announce that Some of You May Die releases today! Experience the full suite of heroes, uncover overpowered upgrade synergies and take on other players in realtime online PvP! We've been working like mad to bring you an Autobattler where each match feels fresh and I'm so proud of what we've created. Get it now on Steam while it's on sale! Best, Jo & Che https://store.steampowered.com/app/4124920/Some_of_You_May_Die/

Join me for a stream of Some of You May Die on launch day!

Some of You May Die is launching on Steam July 24th at 9:00 am EST! Assemble the ultimate squad, deck them out with overpowered upgrades and push your build past the limits of other autobattlers! The full game features:

• 18 hand-crafted heroes, each with their own abilities and synergy potential
• A full singleplayer campaign with a challenging multi-stage boss fight and endless mode
• Online Matchmaking for realtime PVP
• Online invite PVP matches with customizable match configuration
• A constantly shifting meta-game

Wishlist "Some of You May Die" now to be notified when it releases! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4124920/Some_of_You_May_Die/ The battle field awaits you!

Beta Update (v0.31.0 → v0.36.3)

Note: Some of the new features are locked for the demo and will be available in the full version.

New Units' Abilities

- **Geomancer Reworked** - New **Boulder** ability plus a buffed **Cascade** that now aims at the unit's current attack target instead of firing blind - **Harpy — Savior** - A new ability that lets the Harpy swoop in to rescue a low-health ally - **Herbalist smarter potions** - The Herbalist now skips allies who are already fully capped, so heals never go to waste

New Upgrades

- **Repel** - Launches attackers through the air - **Second Wind** - Once per battle, a low-health unit has a chance to heal 50% of its health - **Ward** - A luck-based skill that can negate curses and debuffs - **Five rare per-unit runes**, each unlocked when its unit is in the pool: - *Call for Family* (Gremlin) - chance on death to spawn a stat-cloned Gremlin - *Phalanx* (Legionnaire) - bonus armor for each same-column Legionnaire - *Hardened* (Geomancer) - bonus armor on spawn - *Thief* (Harpy) - chance on kill to steal a rune from the slain enemy - *Splash* (Herbalist) - potions can bounce to chain across allies - **Team-wide runes** for boosting Gremlin health and Skeleton stats - Several new onKill, onDamage, and crit-triggered upgrades

Multiplayer

- **Live opponent updates** - Watch your opponent's board update in real time - **Opponent identity** - Your opponent's Steam name now appears above their health bar - **Damage breakdown** - A per-unit breakdown explains exactly where your round damage came from - **Improved round damage** - The health you lose on a loss now scales to how much of the enemy squad survived: a clean sweep of your team costs the most, while a narrow loss costs 1 health - **Host-configurable starting health** for private games - Fixed a hard lock caused by a player round mismatch, and battle-phase messages are now held and replayed correctly

Balance

- **Armor overhaul** - Armor now stacks as percentage damage reduction; negative armor amplifies incoming damage; Corrosive retuned to 3/5/10 - **Boosted units** get higher stat caps, and boosted ability speed now halves cooldowns - **Tougher endgame** - Exponential enemy scaling past level 10 and the max level raised from 20 to 100 - **The Old One** boss and its spawns hit harder and have 4× health - Summoned and reanimated Skeletons now scale with the summoner's / corpse's level - Squad rebalance, plus tuning to Last Stand, Blood Sandals, Repel, and Spark - Revenge Stun and Revenge Charm now trigger on a chance roll

Quality of Life

- **Animated main menu** - The biome background now animates behind the menu - **Send Bug Report** button added to the pause menu - **Cleaner combat text** - Floating text reworked to be far less noisy, with key moments (Charm, True Grit) made clear and prominent - **Better tooltips** - Hover tooltips for player-wide effects, clearer chance-based rune labels, and David's Blessing's crit bonus shown as a percentage - Auto-handling of farms, with a fresh-buy farm surcharge shown right on the shop card - Inspector now refreshes when you click a unit while paused - Shop correctly labels Passive abilities, with new upgrade icons and cleaner hero cards - You can no longer queue a merge onto a unit you can't afford

Bug Fixes

- **Priest** heals no longer trigger offensive on-crit runes against allies - **Copycat** is capped to the target's own buffs and no longer compounds recursively - **Herbalist** only rolls Boosted stats, never skills - **Bard** now deals damage when buffed, and its death animation is fixed - **Flag Bearer** fixes: no longer charges forward, can't gain boosted attack speed, no longer has mana, and its hitbox no longer covers the flag - **Golem** is now correctly melee, and its ability is properly a passive - **Thief** only steals upgraded runes - **Mage** attack-range visual now matches its actual range - Endless Mode is playable again after a boss victory (game loop resumes and the round advances) - Restored the player health bar so it once again covers the gold/farm panel that slides out from behind it - Fixed singleplayer occasionally getting stuck on "Loading", the Burrower's oversized hitbox, and a prompt button that could fall through and place a hero ## Audio - New music added to the soundtrack

This update introduces new content including a multi-phase boss encounter, several new and reworked heroes, a compendium, a cinematic, and quality-of-life improvements. The update also includes localization support (Chinese, Japanese), and numerous balancing changes. Note: some of these features will only be available in the full version of the game and not in the demo.

New Content

The Old One boss fight: Multi-stage astral realm encounter with tentacles, minions, armor-break phase, and stun-on-emerge mechanics Compendium: In-game browsable panel for units, runes, and skills with filtering by category and rarity

Heroes & Balance

New heroes: Bard, Ballista, Reaper, Flag Bearer, Burrower, Golem Runes are now faster to level up Doubled match rune pool size for more variety in a given round and reduced rune XP costs Evasion capped at 50%

Quality of Life

Cursor Ghost: Preview heroplacement with cursor-following ghost on PC Custom Squad Picker: Choose hero pool in singleplayer Toggle Shop: Hide shop during battle Damage History: Per-hero damage tracking via DPS meter so you can find out how a hero died Enhanced hero tooltips with health/mana bars Ready button shows when you've readied up Walk animation speed scaling with move speed upgrades Resolution and windowed-mode settings with reset button

Multiplayer

Matchmaking: Automatic game finding with server region display and live player counts Custom Game Options: Round time limits and custom hero pools for private games Hero pool displayed at start of round

Bug Fixes

Squad selection desync after loading saved games Stale enemy player info persisting after rematch Shop tooltips obscuring buttons Mobile shop rendering over user messages Projectiles skipping targets Harpy leaving units stuck mid-carry Burrower unburrow behavior Double Strike mana restoration for casters Blink luck scaling Tutorial health penalty on every playthrough Game over screen blocking clicks Legionnaire targeting dead units

Beat the Dev - Event ‎

👋 Heroes! I'm excited to announce our first player-versus-player event for Some of You May Die, where Steam Gift Cards will be put on the line for 3 lucky winners. This time, the development team will step into the biomes to test your might. Rules & Guidelines:

• Type your interest in ⁠Some of You May Die⁠⚔️〃beat-the-dev-event (this is a first-come, first served format).
• Once confirmed, you will face the main developer himself, Jordan, in a 1 versus 1 format on the starting date.
• Winners will receive a $20 Steam Gift Card as a prize.

The event starts April 17, 2026 12:00 PM ET and it will end at 3:00 PM ET. ⚠️ Disclaimer:

• You will have to be added on Steam so that you can be gifted the prize!
• Due to the security measures on the platform, you might have to wait a couple of days before receiving the Steam Gift Card.
• The Steam Gift Card can only be received by countries that allow it. Please check your local eligibility to make sure that you are able to receive it. We will not be using any alternatives outside of Steam's official gifting system.

For this event, the Demo version will be used:

See you there!