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| Published | Kind | Announcement | Build |
|---|---|---|---|
| Game update | Beta difficulty setting You can now set the difficulty in the Demonizer G beta. There are again three levels: Normal, Hard and Demonic. On higher difficulty, enemies fire higher rates of faster bullets, but within fixed time windows, like so: | 14861689 | |
| Game update | Beta performance update Fixed performance drops in certain areas (Stage 1 first catapults, Stage 2 crop fields) noticed when playing on low-end systems or while the system is busy (e.g. screen recording). | 14475977 | |
| In-game event | Demonizer G beta Stage 2 The Demonizer G development version now includes Stage 2! Like Stage 1, it is almost totally remade to be more dynamic, exciting, and, well, shootable! To try it, opt into the development beta in the game properties. Other updates: · Red damage tint for squadmates, and fixed a bug letting them take bullets without any damage. · A simple attract mode when the title screen receives no input for 1… | — | |
| Community | Demonizer G in Famitsu magazine! Fun times showing Demonizer G at Tokyo Indie Games Summit 2024! One of my players happened to be Totsuka-san from Famitsu... Read JP | Read EN (Google Translate) | — | |
| Sale | Tokyo Indie Game Summit after-sale Good times at Tokyo Indie Games Summit last weekend! The build shown is still getting some refinement before release, but here's a sale anyway. | — | |
| Community | Demonizer G at Tokyo Indie Games Summit! Demonizer G is going to Tokyo Indie Games Summit on March 2 and 3, 2024! For info and tickets, visit Try the next development build with Stages 1 and 2 at Kichijoji Tokyu REI Hotel, booth RD-2b! Stage 2 peek: (Please set 720p60 or higher quality) | — | |
| Community | The 3rd Birthday Happy Halloween and Demonizer's 3rd birthday! A short recap and reflection is up at itch.io. Read | — | |
| Game update | Development update 10/9 Some QoL updates for the development version. · New menu designs are more readable and understandable. · Boss dialogue can be advanced with any of the 3 action buttons/keys, or skipped with the Start button or Esc key. · Option for smooth movement at any screen refresh rate. Found in Screen options menu. · Improved intro cutscene art, courtesy of 2dpixx.de | — | |
| Community | Shmup Fest success! And a name for 2.0 So how did Shmup Fest go? A peek at the coming Stage 2 v2.0 says it all! Also a name has been chosen for 2.0. When It's Done, this game will be reborn as Demonizer G ! Thanks to Steam and all fellow devs and players! | — | |
| Game update | Development update 9/27 In the development version, the options menu is now accessible from the game pause menu. Also, the Enter key is now hardcoded to activate the selected menu item. If you assigned any game action to Enter, you may want to reassign it. | 12301778 | |
| Steam news | Shmup Fest sale, v2.0 Stage 1 now open! Steam Shmup Fest is on from 9/25-10/2! Get Demonizer 25% off and get a taste of the upcoming 2.0 update in the Stage 1 development build. Get it in the Shmups Fest Pack with Assault Shell, Wings of Bluestar and Railgunners and save an extra 10%! The revamped Stage 1 is a far more interactive and target-rich environment with more dynamic enemies, more scoring opportunities, graphical updates, an… | — | |
| Game update | Linux audio fix Audio was not playing on Manjaro and possibly other Linux distros. This has been fixed. Issue thread | 10916255 | |
| Community | Devlog - 2 years old, 2.0 in the works For the 2nd anniversary, I wrote about what's next for Demonizer. The next update will be 2.0. Read | — | |
| Esports | New caravan shmup for monstergirl shmup lovers! For a little more monstergirl shmup action try my latest game jam game Honey Guardian ! Made in 1 week for Gunner Parade '22 hosted by devs of Assault Shell . | — | |
| Sale | Steam Deck Verified Weekend Sale Valve has verified Steam Deck compatibility for Demonizer! 25% OFF until May 16 1pm PDT. If you can prop up your Steam Deck on its side and connect a controller you should be good to go! | — | |
| Sale | Lunar New Year Sale 2022 Demonizer joins the 2022 Lunar New Year Sale! 25% OFF until Feb 3. | — | |
| Sale | Winter Sale 2021 - 25% OFF The last sale of 2021! $8.99 until January 5. | — | |
| Sale | Autumn Sale 25% OFF Demonizer is 25% off once more for the Steam Autumn Sale! $8.99 until Dec 1. | — | |
| Community | Devlog - Peek into the new engine A technical article about where I am on the next update, and why I decided to remake the game engine and how it's paying off. Read here | — | |
| Sale | Halloween & 1st Birthday sale - 25% off Demonizer is 25% off for the Steam Halloween Sale and its 1st birthday. Welcome to the new players! | — | |
| Sale | Summer Sale - $9.95 Demonizer joins the Steam Summer Sale! $9.95 from today to 7/8. Try new leaderboards, sound effects, and balance fixes! | — | |
| Game update | 1.1.2 - a few fixes Minor online leaderboard fixes: · Non-Latin characters were missing from player names. Now the full Basic Multilingual Plane is supported. 对不起 to the top Demonic Amy player at time of writing. · When requesting your own score, the leaderboard could start on the wrong page depending on your ranking. · Replaced one more sound effect. Thanks to Taira Komori | — | |
| Esports | CAVE stream team plays Demonizer Watch Shootaro and the gang at CAVE check out Demonizer on stream! | — | |
| In-game event | 1.1.1 - leaderboards, new sounds, lots of rebalance Local scoreboards are now split by character and difficulty. · Steam leaderboards added, also split by character and difficulty. · Both player characters' shot damage increased. · Demonic difficulty a bit less demonic. Enemy fire rates are now the same as Hard difficulty. Bullet speed is unchanged though. · Enemy waves improved in all stages. Enemies were moved, tweaked, and cut to reduce spam… | — | |
| Community | A moment of reflection Took some time off to reflect on the game and here are the results. A long read of thoughts, memories, lessons learned, and future plans. | — | |
| In-game event | Online leaderboards now in public beta A new beta branch has been created for public testing. Opt in to try the new Steam leaderboards. Go into the Demonizer properties and select the beta branch. There is no password. The in-game leaderboard view is found at Campaign > High Scores > Online Scores. You can also view leaderboards on the web here: Also new in this version: scores are divided by difficulty and character. Therefore this… | — | |
| Game update | 1.1.0f - crash fix Fixed an occasional crash triggered by the midboss and boss firing their laser beams in the castle stage. | 6373442 |
Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.