The Monster Within news & patch notes

It's the one year anniversery of The Monster Within releasing into early access! And we're celebrating that with the gaming coming out of early access! Yes, this is the full release! All ten monsters, all ten mashups, almost 400 cards, almost 50 afflictions, less bugs (hopefully), it's all here. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/cdc08f400cc925ac00ddac1b0e82e24e0f6d299d.png Thank you so much to everyone who's bought and played the game so far. None of this would be possible without you. This game has been a labor of love from both the artist and I, and we've done out best to make it as enjoyable and fun as possible. In the end, it's up to you to decide if we succeeded. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/6542759a25ae24f9332bfe9dc901ada141f9f713.png 2.0: New Content: Added new monster, Cultist Added monster new theme pack, CultistEX Added new Cultist-Warlock monster, Mummy Added new Cultist-Werewolf monster, Lunatic Added new Shapeshifter-Parasite monster, Doppleganger Added new Mad Scientist-Wraith monster, Homunclus 5 new Afflictions, 1 generic, 2 for Shapeshifter, and 2 for Cultist Bug Fixes: A lot. I kind of stopped keeping track. So now that the game is out of early access, what's the plan for the future? Well, there's a few features that had to be cut for time. Blood level 10 and the final boss didn't make the cut. There's some planned card sets that didn't make it in either. And a good amount of skits that don't exist that should. Will this stuff be added eventually? Hopefully, it kind of depends on demand. The skits definitely, that was just me running out of time. We've spent a lot of time on this game and if people really want more, we'll provide it. But both the artist and I feel like moving on. What's next for GMO Free Games? Well, we made a deck building card game about 1950's horror comics, so the next obvious step is... a pixel art game about guiding a princess that's a direct homage to Princess Maker II and mid-90's PC games! Basically same genre and aesthetic, I'm sure there will be no consumer confusion at all. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/e4a447f46a9ace25b63f4324e98959b19e5fbf3a.gif Coming in about a year, whatever this game ends up being called! Thanks again to all our players, we love each and everyone of you.

Content Additions: Add Shapeshifter skits Balance Changes: If you play as Shapeshifter, the Sociopath Affliction is unselectable (because it's way too OP with her)\ Devoted Lackey now costs 5 Put on the charm now costs 6 Ghoul School now costs 8 Speak Softly nerfed to only double Night Lowered the spawn rate of shapeshifter cards (about 1/3 less)

It's been a month since Shapeshifter came out and we've been hard at work to keep up the momentum and finish the game. We've been in early access for a year, but the light at the end of the tunnel is almost here! Just a few more weeks and that tag will be gone from the game. We're talking full release! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/ebd7efe151f186f423fc93225177044033d67638.png The final monster for The Monster Within is almost here, the Cultist! This won't be the final update, but it will be the last big content release. Maybe. We'll see what the future holds but we here at GMO Free Games are kind of monster'd out after working on this project for almost three years at this point. So who is the Cultist? She's a character we've saved for the end because she's kind of complex. Like Werewolf she has two forms, pure and corrupted. But unlike Werewolf, you don't choose when you switch back and forth. Instead, each turn you'll gain corruption. You have cards that reduce it, but if you don't eventually she'll be overcome with the ancient, evil energies she's been fighting against and become it's servant! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/20e0d0faf1fa16d09d30e6dc5b787a1972545301.png When that happens, all Cultist cards change. Different art, different effects, different costs, it's like become a completely different character. Instead of reducing corruption, you get payoffs for fostering it. Pure Cultist is a day focused character, while cultist is night/monster based. You can try to stay untainted, or intentionally let corruption build up to get to the corrupted form faster. Maybe you'll buy certain cards when pure you don't need right then, but will have beneficial effects when corrupt. There's all sorts of ways to play it! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/7a4376f5585daf1d7caf777832a7577445176f19.png Also coming in the final update is the final four mashup monsters. Doppleganger (Parasite-Shapeshifter), Mummy (Warlock-Cultist), Homunculus (Mad Scientist-Wraith), and Lunatic (Cultist-Werewolf) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/e0f3b28d40f759fc27dbf06f1ef969e307b84686.png There's a lot of work still to be done here. The delay with Shapeshifter messed up our timelines a lot. Worst case, a few features will be missing from the full release we'll patch in later. But we're pretty committed to getting it our for Halloween. Thanks to everyone who has played and enjoyed the game this past year, we're almost to the finish line! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/b7b3fca6f21a15e816ee88ba9210cb4e50814d74.png Art by Digsaw.

UI Changes: Updated and improved graphics in some menus Changed the Warlock spell banner to look good and less like a stretched piece of art the programmer made Improved Shapeshifter form icons to be more distinct from each other Bug Fixes: Fixed the game over animation playing when in the character select screen Fixed Contraction saying it gained form points, rather than losing them. Fixed Serpent Coil saying it added shield equal to monster, rather then shield equal to attack Fixed cards that depend on the last damage taken not working against bosses. Fixed Grin and Bear It coasting 3 instead of 4 Fixed Serpent coil having misaligned icons Fixed monsters having misaligned text in their unique resource icons Fixed the first and third Blob-Werewolf skits not advancing to the next scene until extra clicks had been performed

After a two month delay, she's finally here! The Shapeshifter! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/cb46cfb624460c99be349dbc18e96bea3ff8e629.png The Shapeshifter works differently from any other monster in the game. Your health level doesn't matter for seeing her cards. All that matters is how many form points you buy. Ghoul points seed cards that generate Night. Bear points seed cards that generate Shield. Snake points seed cards that generate Attack. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/1a356fbd0e32fdfbec633a14d45364b050f68677.png Put it all together and you can build your Shapeshifter anyway you like! Also in this update is the Blob-Shapeshifter mashup monster, the Morphling! This adds a fourth form, Goop. Goop cards generate Monster points. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/208fcc1afe141ea22058c117ab6a4bf41567a65a.png 1.4: New Content: Added new monster, Shapeshifter Added monster new theme pack, ShapeshifterEX Added new Blob-Shapeshifter monster, Morphling Changes and Bug Fixes: The game now auto generates backup saves at the start of your play session. If losing power causes your save to be corrupted, you can manually replace the corrupted save with the backup. This is a temporary stopgap measure and we hope to be able to find a solution to the save corruption in the future. Waxing Anger, Two Wolves, and Rush of Adrenaline now only have an effect if you're at less than 50 health. This will stop you from gaining negative resources if playing them at a higher health level Because of the delay, Cultist will now be coming out in the final update of the game bringing it out of early access this October. The full roster of ten Monsters and all ten Mashups will be ready to paint the town red this Halloween! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/16ad38daef492f68f8f944fe69a71e7167ae48e1.png Art by Befish. https://twitter.com/befishprod

Where's Shapeshifter? {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/48132983714206130dcb32d222e4432cccd863d3.png Yes, Shapeshifter should have been out already. But unfortunately, the game's amazing and talented artist has been sick and unable to make said amazing art lately. Unless people are okay with a shift in artistic direction to the drawing above, it'll still be a little bit. Shapeshifter as a monster has more art needs than any before with her unique mechanics, so until that cool art is done, she'll remain lurking behind the scenes. She could be anywhere, anyone... So let's talk about what the Shapeshifter actually is as a character. As the shapeshifter, you can spend your Day/Night/Monster on form points. How many of the form points you have represents what shape you're shifting into. Cards for that form will only show up as you buy form points, the more you buy the more and better cards you'll see. There's three forms; Serpent, Bear, and Ghoul. Serpent form is all about striking your foe with deadly speed, so if you're after attack, that's the form to go after. On the opposite end, Bear form is all about enduring damage. If your foe can't hurt you, well they're not in for a good time. So Bear form's cards give you lots of shield. Ghoul form is the form of cunning and underhanded dealings. Hiding in the shadows you'll gain the resources you need to take down any who oppose you. Night generation will be a piece of cake if you specialize as the Ghoul. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/90f2a256dd69aee94b4c5d9b90f36954c0a04b64.png https://www.instagram.com/artistrayph/ Art by Artistrayph But you don't have to go all on on one of the three, you can mix and match as you please. All of Shapeshifter's cards can be bought with any resource, so she can played at any health level you like. But she plays best with Night cards as the only resource she can generate to buy things are Night points with the Ghoul. But those three forms aren't the only ones you'll get to play with in the update. There's also the Shapeshifter-Blob mashup monster, the Morphling! Who needs to hold a definitive form when you can be a mass of goo that can take whatever shape it wants. With Goop form you won't be very strong, or resilient to damage, or cunning, but you will be very monstery! Become the biggest and goopiest ball of slime you can and show them what a real monster looks like. We don't have a definitive timeline for when Shapeshifter will be done, but we hope she'll be showing her faces by the end of July. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/4911d5136d61df5157eec1b022f080667dd1053d.png Art by the amazing Adam Burnier.

Balance Changes: Lowered base damage scaling one stage UI Changes: Small prettification changes and polish Bug Fixes: Fixed Inner Darkness having a giant monster icon Fixed Epiphany showing alternate art if you have any night cards in your deck. Fixed some elements of mashup mode persisting on a new run after winning/losing Fixed Warlock and Swampkin being called "Werewolf" on the win round screen Fixed the Warlock -> Swampkin skit not playing Fixed the Werewolf player death animation showing Werepire art Fixed some typos

Sinister whispers, dark patrons, unleash powers from beyond this world with the next monster for The Monster Within! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/d1b017c1a2b5598afd93bba9f4e9ebb4bb3f33f0.png It's the Warlock! The Warlock is a monster all about string together spells to form combos. Can you master his cards to smite your enemy with righteous fury? Also in this update is the Warlock-Plant mashup monster, the Swampkin! Letting you use Warlock's spells as a Day focused strategy as well! Lastly, there's a new theme packs in this update, unlocked by winning on blood level seven or higher. Here's a full list of the changes: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/33694079d40496043ce915d9bf8030ba6ff86c05.png 1.2: New Content: Added new monster, Warlock Added monster new theme pack, WarlockEX Added new monster theme pack, Harmony Added new day theme pack, Darkness Added new Warlock-Plantmashup monster, Swampkin Added two new Warlock specific afflictions Added new skits for Warlock Changes and Bug Fixes: Increased base paper to 50 Politics is now a default day set and religion is now unlockable Replaced Mental Mastery with Epiphany: 7 day, double all basic resources Changed how the Parasite's enemy trait works. Instead of halving attack added, halves damage done Fixed winning as a mashup monster not counting as winning as the base monster for some things (like achievements) Fixed werewolf showing vampire during the defeats scene I hope everyone is enjoying these new monsters, we've got two more to go before the full release of the game! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/54a3c348b087a78419f11045993581773fe4baec.png Art by JoCrow. https://twitter.com/JoCrowArt

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/7bd751aa7e9660539644afffa8ff4b009b11e2f9.jpg I hope everyone has been enjoying the Werewolf . But people who turn into wolves is so 17th century. It's time for a new, hip monster who all the kids will love. The Warlock! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/16e5e892f4648bd354a45afc94e27b995d73b839.png Look at him in his priest robes, the 12-16 demographic are going to love him. The Warlock is all about drawing power from your demonic benefactors and casting spells. Spells are a special kind of effect that don't trigger until the start of your next turn. If a card says Spell: 2 Attack, that means you gain that attack next turn. And spells happen in the order you played them. So if you play a spell that gives you double attack this turn, then play one that gives you 2 attack, you end up with 4 attack! And then if you have an effect that recasts your spells... well you can get up to all kinds of combos. Warlock is a fairly standard monster in terms of what health his cards show up at. Some Night cards, some Monster cards, he plays similarly to the Vampire and the Blob except instead of trying to keep a counter up or down, you're trying to set up big combo plays. But if you want to cast some spells in broad daylight, you're in luck with his first mashup monster... Deep from out the bayou comes the Swampkin! The Plant's second mashup monster, with this monster a new suite of day focused spells are added to your magical arsenal. This will make Plant the second monster with both of its mashups. Do you want to play as the Zombie or the Swampkin, the choice is yours! I hope everyone enjoys the Warlock when he comes to The Monster Within at the end of April. What, isn't it already April? Better get back to work! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/67a6689ac3c0801187591cd5e4eb738457b7dc06.jpg Art by the amazing Adam Burnier.

Balance Changes: Buffed The Forsaken God to 99 attack Changed Yellow Journalism to "If you're out of paper: 10 attack" Changed Headshot to do 2 attack per card discarded Changed Darkest Before the Dawn to "All cards can be bought with day this turn" Bug Fixes: Fixed the Werewolf not transforming properly when used as a basic enemy Fixed Inner Darkness not working as a mashup monster Fixed the Werewolf transform card not changing when using Topsy-Turvy Fixed Werewolf showing up as Parasite on the TV in the afflictions scene Fixed the receipt in the affliction scene not working Fixed Child of Darkness saying it gives attack and monster, instead of night and monster Fixed Tachypsychia not using the same deckbuilding restrictions as normal mashup mode Fixed Darkness/Light not being added to upgrade pool Changed text of Read All About It to be make it more obvious how the card works {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/3abbb808bc45581b9ff57b27f8e9bb83b5f6ca58.png Art by https://twitter.com/jacktheundying

New content: Added new affliction: Tachypsychia. Lets you start as a mashup monster. Added Cultist as the boss for mashup round werewolf. Bug fixes: Fixed Fangs of Steel and Claws of Silver working even if you hadn't fed yet this round. Fixed Greedy showing up as Over sized Appetite during gameplay. Fixed Greedy being shown as costing 20 health instead of five on the unlocks and afflictions selector screen. When playing as a monster that has two mashups, the deckbuilding screen is now shown after the mashup select. Fixed mashup monsters not showing the correct portrait on the win round screen. Shifted some of the blood effects in the boss death animation to make them less crotch centered. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/8e325e20d52f37492002d3b454adfb285ff7a79c.png Art by https://www.instagram.com/duke.vitoria/

Bug Fixes: Fixed the Werewolf only unlocking on a win as Wraith Fixed the Werewolf EX set unlocking as a day theme Fixed the paper icons on cards turning into the werewolf symbol Fixed Werewolf not saving rounds won correctly, making unlocking the afflictions pretty hard Fixes Corrosive Touch's upgrade not showing on the card Fixed the new theme packs not telling you how to unlock them on the unlocks screen Fixed clicking Immaterial on the affliction selector screen applying a chromatic abberation effect to everything Fixed some Werepire cards having the wrong man/wolf symbol on them {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/55c67a5c758a0530236de5ebc0eac037f9218be3.png Art by https://www.instagram.com/twisted_mertix/

As the full moon rises over the city, a new terror joins the fray. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/115332505a5948e9fab482785bbb3a2326ed2cce.png It's the Werewolf! The Werewolf is a monster all about changing back between his human and wolf form. Can you master his unique mechanics and hunt down your prey? Also in this update is the werewolf-vampire mashup monster, the Werepire! (We're very creative at naming things here at GMO Free Games). But that's not all, there's also two new theme packs in this update, unlocked by winning on blood level six or higher. Here's a full list of the changes: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/c9a89908987bba39a61531e490c3e2f0e2ec9ad9.png 1.2: New Content: Added new monster, Werewolf Added monster new theme pack, Werewolf EX Added new night theme pack, Light Added new day theme pack, Darkness Added new Vampire-Werewolf mashup monster, Werepire Added new skits for werewolf Added selection screen for mashup round. (Right now this is only for Vampire choosing to play as Lich or Werepire) Changes and Bug Fixes: Lowered initial enemy health slightly Fixed a bug that made the buy pile cards not snap back to their original positions after being dragged around. Fixed a bug that allowed to select the affliction you picked round 1 again later Break Character now draw 3 cards on it's flipped face. (This is technically a bug fix since it always was supposed to do this). Added an icon on health bar to show how far below 0 health you can survive (this is important for this update since Werewolf loves raising his minimum health) Sorry this update was a little late, we're starting work on the Warlock right away to make sure we keep to our roadmap. We hope you're all enjoying the game as much as we enjoy making it! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/c97fc4e199359698683a59bb29fa6d2cd643eb7f.jpg Art by Tequila. https://www.instagram.com/tequil.art/

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/9a61889b0b1bad8e6990271d6cf424da0910e11a.png Happy Lunar New Year from everyone here at GMO Free Games (all two of us)! With the rising of a new moon, comes a new monster. One who lives and dies by the phase of the moon... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/f5d57b60a899c435367d019946fbe3757147103a.png It's the Werewolf! The Werewolf is a monster who's mechanic is based on forms. When the full moon is out, he transforms into a vicious beast, when it's not, he walks the streets in as a seemingly normal man. In game, this is represented by most of his cards working in one state or another. You can pull off powerful and under costed effects, but you have to balance having enough cards that change the phase of the moon to be able to use them all consistently. Werewolf is also the opposite of the Parasite in a way, in that he loves having lots of monster cards and being at very low health. In fact, Werewolf can actually increase his minimum health to survive at monstrous states that would be impossible for any other character. As long a glimmer of the man inside is around he can continue to hunt to his hearts content. Also coming with this update is his first monster mashup with... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/0600cdf07abd6f67b3159024b7a6c9f8670fdc46.png The Vampire! The legendary Werepire is here, ready to feed on the blood of any who oppose them. This also means the Vampire is the first monster to have two mashups to choose from. Having two mashups is the goal for all monsters eventually. I hope everyone enjoys the Werewolf when he comes to The Monster Within later this month. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/54c1db548fceef27a1087d65fd54b8db48a7c483.png Art by the amazing Adam Burnier.

Gameplay Changes: Adjusted round 4 bosses difficulty to make them a little easier. UI Changes: Added chromatic aberration effect on character select screen. Added some effects to the start screen. In the Affliction scene, made the TV more period accurate. Added a slight animation effect to the sprites in skits.

Gameplay changes: Inner Darkness now features the monster's unique mechanics on it. This should make playing monsters with specific mechanics easier at low health. Right clicking now plays/buys cards with only one click. Bug Fixes: Fixed some typos. Notes: We're working on getting the Werewolf up and running but we felt the Inner Darkness change was a big enough balancing change that it warrened such a small update.

Gameplay changes: On the first round you can pick your affliction from a list of all afflictions you've unlocked. The rounds after are the standard random four. Paper re-reduced to 45. We'll get to the right balance eventually. Bug Fixes: Fixed a bug that caused the Parasite to re-lock itself after unlocking. Fixed Good Thinking Juice only adding day. Fixed the single click gameplay setting not saving your preference properly. Fixed the Ruthless theme not showing it's upgraded cards properly. Added more checks to the deck builder to prevent duplicate themes/themes being in the wrong place.

Bug fixes: Fixed upgrades being reset when continuing a game Fixed all new theme packs being added as day themes in the verifier Fixed winning the mash-up round not displaying your character on the win round screen correctly Fixed the monster mash-up round deck building screen not allowing you to select the night/monster themes that were in the last two slots Fixed some minor typos We hope everyone is enjoying the update. If you're encountering any bugs or issues please tell us and we'll do our best to fix them right away!

As the content roadmap foretold, the December update is here! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/4a6207c708bfc2c796ff2edc4a566479498ce8ba.jpg Featuring three mash-ups of the monster you already know. The Lich, a combination of Vampire and Wraith, the Abomination, a combination of Blob and Mad Scientist, and the Zombie, a combination of Plant and Parasite. Eventually all monsters will have two different options, for a total of ten mash-up monsters. But for now here's three to get started! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/c2d194b705ad2585df0c52856a43dc82e18c1353.jpg Take your pick! But that's not all, there's also three new theme packs in this update, unlocked by winning with the mash-up monsters. Here's a full list of the changes: 1.1: New Content: Added round four, the monster mash-up round Added the Lich mash-up monster. Combines the Vampire and the Wraith Added the Abomination mash-up monster. Combines the Blob and the Mad Scientist Added the Zombie mash-up monster. Combines the Plant and the Parasite Added new Day theme pack, News. Added new Night theme pack, Divination Added new Monster theme pack, Ruthless Added Werewolf, Warlock and Shapeshifter monsters as bosses in round 4 (this is because they are an alternate mash-up for some of the playable monsters and you always fight the one you don't use.) Balance Changes: Raised starting paper to 50 Lowered enemy health scaling between rounds slightly The mash-up round drastically changes how the game plays, with a lot more focus on monster specific mechanics and their interactions and less on generic theme packs. Instead of 13 monster specific cards in the pool, you'll have 31! That means almost half of the cards the Wraith has access to, the Abomination or Zombie doesn't and vice-versa. So get to blood 5, get to round four, and try them out! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/42d3a33678d4258820fe492715ca71293aee71dc.png Art by Fulminaire. https://twitter.com/Fulminaire03

When we showed the content roadmap, we left a teaser for one of the new monsters in the Monster Mash-up round. Well here it is! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/00633fc5f8e00dc077b88056b55967959e9e8537.jpg In the new round, you play as two monsters at once! In this case, the Vampire, and the Wraith. You'll have acsess to all the cards of both monsters as well as some special cards that are specific to that mash-up, like this one. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/c3bb62567ed9813f83fabdfd624f4770c7891b31.png Most of these cards interact with both monster mechanics. If you can balance it well, you can set up new and powerful combos beyond what any monster could do on their own! Each monster will have two different mash-ups, although to start there will only be one each. Since it's already December 17th, and the update comes out this month, that means it's getting pretty darn close! How close you'll find out soon. In the mean time... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/8056d01cb3b3b43c9142489adb8658c98312116f.jpg Update 1.0.7 released Balance Changes: Raised starting paper to 45 Changed the unlock conditions of the monsters to make unlocking them not depend on winning on higher difficulties UI Improvements: Changed some UI layouts to facilitate he upcoming Monster Mash-up round Added an option to reset all unlocks to gameplay options screen Bug Fixes: Fixed the win round deck display often showing duplicates of cards Fixed some stability issues

Balance Changes: Paper now turns off when fighting the boss Initial starting paper reduced to 40 Penalty for having no paper cut in half Passing the turn without playing a card uses no paper UI Improvements: Added a graphics setting to turn off the card dot matrix effect Bug Fixes: Fixed some typos and missing images in skits

Thanks to everyone who's been playing The Monster Within so far. We've gotten a lot of great feedback and reviews, and we here at GMO Free Games (all two of us) have loved seeing people play and enjoy our game. We've finalized our content release schedule and are ready to reveal what's upcoming for The Monster Within. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/c6523871d894d2993f2a9142258f969358e92211.png The plan is to leave early access next Halloween. Before that, we've going to introduce four more monsters, a lot of new theme packs, and more! The next release is the Monster Mash-up round. On Blood level 5 or higher, after you beat round 3 the game isn't over yet, it's time to go even further in your monstrous transformation! Every monster will eventually have two others it can pair up with to create a new mash-up monster that's a combination of the two. For example, as the Vampire you can choose to mash-up with the Wraith to create... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41259909/54b6172159ebe8da695ca1a05c70fbd30ecc89a3.png Well... you'll just have to wait and see. In 1.1, we're going to introduce the first three Monster Mash-ups, so every monster will be able to play round 4. In the Monster Mash-up round, you play with both monster's cards and mechanics at the same time! Each mash-up also includes it's own unique cards specific to that combination. Also coming in 1.1 is three new card packs to increase the level of depth and customization even more. Also releasing today is update 1.0.5 with the following changes: Gameplay Changes: Changed the blood levels 1, 2, 3 1 is now "Enemies have +25 health and traits" from "Basic enemies have +25 health and traits" (Now includes bosses) 2 is now "Basic enemy damage scales faster" from "Bosses have +25 health" 3 is now "Limited amount of paper per round" from "Basic enemy damage scales faster" New mechanic: paper Whenever the comic book is refreshed, either from starting a new turn or playing enough cards to fill it, you use one sheet of paper. If you run out of paper you start taking damage every time you use some. Bug Fixes: Fixed a big with Heliophobia and Nyctophobia that caused the permanent buy card and your basic cards to transition at the wrong time Fixed the health shown on the win round screen applying the boss's damage on the turn you win Expanded unlock verifier to read theme packs if they somehow go missing The new paper mechanic should make strategies that try to play their whole deck every turn or stall before the boss for dozens of turns less dominant. Be careful how many cards you play every turn, yo don't want to blow through your whole paper supply too fast or you'll be in a world of hurt!

Balance Changes: Adjusted the cost of Wraith's cards to make his power level more in line with the other monsters. Dissipate cost reduced from 3 to 2 Incorporeal Form cost reduced from 5 to 4 Shadow Sprint cost reduced from 7 to 6 Phantom Punch cost reduced from 2 to 1 Child of Night cost reduced from 4 to 3 UI Improvements: Clicking the deck or discard pile again while the viewer window is open now closes the window Bug Fixes: Fixed bug in unlock verifier that allowed a desync between monster unlocks triggered and monsters available to play as. Fixed bug in unlock verifier that caused Topsy-Turvy to re-lock itself. Fixed the trigger for unlocking Sociopath not working properly Fixed incorporeal adding a night born to your deck Fixed some typos and missing images in skits

Gameplay changes: Changed how the Pant boss fight works. Photosynthesis now heals day instead of adding damage = to day. Plant boss' devour now swallows the player if it does damage. When swallowed Plant always uses the high damage "Chew" and there's a damage in a turn threshold to break out. Balance changes: Expanded Range cost increased from 4 to 5. Police Scanner and Auto-Distress Call now only give 1 attack and shield respectively. Lowered Wraith boss damage. UI improvements: When you view deck contents it's now sorted by card number. Bug fixes: Fixed a bug where Down the Hatch increased the potions drunk this turn counter by twice as much. Fixed some Mad Scientist skits not being triggered. Fixed a bug where winning as Wraith didn't unlock his EX card pack. Fixed the Parasite boss going into second stage transformation on any damage taken rather than at a health percentage. Fixed a bug where the card upgrade screen could show Tech multiple times at once. Fixed the deck view cards going off the screen. Fixed the in-game deck viewer and end round deck viewer screens not scrolling properly.

Balance changes: Trash to Treasure cost increased from 4 to 5 UI improvements: Changed the wording of the unlock for the Redundant Organs and Blood Lust afflictions to be more accurate Bug fixes: Fixed a few errors with missing images in some skits Fixed the settings option in the pause menu not working Fixed a bug that caused the buypiles and hand not to reset on Blood Level 9, round 3 Fixed some typos

Balance changes: Vampire's enfeeble now only lowers attack and defense instead of all resources UI improvements: Changed Night Born's text to "Remove a RANDOM day card from your deck" for clarification Bug fixes: Fixed a glitch that caused the healthbars to have the wrong fill value Fixed a potential bug that prevented the Occultism set for working for some people. If you're still having issues please report. Fixed the current set name text in the card upgrade screen not changing Fixed some typos