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| In-game event | Monthly Update 3 Explosive Exposition In this update, we're releasing a treat for the loremongers among you: the Codex has finally been retrieved from the archives (it was on the top shelf), and is packed full of information for those who've been wanting more insight into the world and story of Blood Reaver. Meanwhile, for those who'd rather Reave than read, we're giving you the opportunity to get permanently b… | 24333390 | |
| Game update | Hot Fix - Early Access Version 0.205 Apologies to anyone who was experiencing disconnect issues with the new update that should all be fixed now in this latest patch. If you continue to experience any disconnects please report them on our official Bug Report page and we will get to them as soon as possible. Patch Notes Bug Fixes: - Level up event causing disconnect for returning players | 23904861 | |
| In-game event | Monthly Update 2 Early Access Version 0.2 In this update, we're adding 3 new abilities to your loadout, as well as introducing a player levelling and progression system. Read more below: Levelling and Progression: Matches will now earn you XP, allowing you to gain levels up to the current cap of 20. Levelling up will grant access to powerful new abilities. Levels gained during the Early Access period will carry… | 23891113 | |
| Game update | Bug Fixes - Early Access Version 0.16 Patch Notes Early Access Version 0.16 Ability Balance: · Increased Centrifuse damage · Decreased entry damage on Soul Ember hold · Added 50% damage reduction while using Oculus · Oculus beam now deals damage in a small radius rather than single target · The Guardian no longer targets Chaos Demon Gun Balance: · Increased Crystalline Agitator max damage radius · Reduced hip fire radius Crystallin… | 23499420 | |
| In-game event | Early Access Monthly Update 1! First Monthly Update! This update is the start of our monthly content additions. Keep an eye out for more moving forward! Featured in this update is our new Ultimate Ability: The Oculus. Available through the nest, the Oculus is an ethereal weapon which balances destructive power with support utility. Its primary attack focuses ethereal energy into a precise beam that can damage enemies and hea… | 23358833 | |
| In-game event | Early Access Week 2 Update! Thank you to everyone who has been playing early access! All the discussion within the community has been amazing to see! This update is our first content addition, bringing in a new gun: the Apostle. The Apostle is a fast fire rate SMG with a mag size to accommodate. Keep an eye out for it, as it's definitely one to look out for when spinning the nest! Alongside the Apostle, we have multiple g… | 23011023 | |
| Sale | ONLY 16 HOURS REMAINING OF THE LAUNCH SALE! Calling all Reavers, If you’re looking to pick up Blood Reaver in Early Access, now is the best time to do it! For those who have already picked it up, stay tuned—more content is coming soon 👀 Additionally, thank you to everyone reporting issues . Another patch will be coming later this week as we work to resolve community-reported problems as quickly as possible. We’ve loved seeing all the en… | — | |
| Game update | Release Patch - Early Access Version 0.105 Release Patch Early Access Version 0.105 First of all, thank you to everyone who has been playing Early Access! We're thrilled to see so many people enjoying the game! Additionally, a special thanks to everyone who has been reporting bugs. This has been invaluable in the release process. We urge anyone who encounters an issue to report it, either through the Discord or our official Bug Report p… | 22828872 | |
| Community | Blood Reaver Early Access Roadmap! The Blood Reaver Early Access Roadmap is HERE! First of all, thank you cultists for all the support on our Early Access trailer, we can't wait for you guys to finally reave together. More excitingly, the Roadmap has arrived! Included are the features we plan to add and some general time frames of when we are looking to introduce them. On top of the outlined major updates we plan to roll out mon… | — | |
| Announcement | Blood Reaver Early Access - Coming April 15th! We're excited to announce that Blood Reaver will be available in Early Access from April 15th 2026! Trailer Annoucment: Here's what you can expect from Early Access: · Intense wave-based survival for up to 4 players · Final Stand - our first map (with more on the way) · 12 Guns · 9 Abilities (including 2 powerful Ultimate abilities) · 3 Enemy types · In-round upgrades for your character and wea… | — | |
| Community | Thank you for 10K Wishlists! | Early Access release window announcement! Early Access Apri 2026! Thank you for all the support we've received throughout the development of Blood Reaver. It's been great to see all the new players come in throughout the Next Fest period. To celebrate this milestone, we're excited to announce that Blood Reaver will be launching into early access April 2026! | — | |
| Community | Blood Reaver Demo Update! Multiplayer Available for Next Fest! Hey Cultists, We're thrilled to announce that Blood Reaver will be participating in Steam Next fest this year, and with this a new demo with lots of exciting content is available to play right now! The demo gives a taste of our first map, with new areas available to explore not yet seen in previous versions. The demo also includes the following content: · 11 Guns · 8 Abilities (Including 2 powe… | — | |
| Community | Blood Reaver Demo! Available to play now and for the fore-seeable future! Hey Cultists, Today, during the Frosty Games Showcase we're launching our brand new demo! The event itself is about covering Australian and New Zealand games either released or in active development. So after you've checked out the Blood Reaver demo, go check out some of the other games and spread the love. Check out the demo trailer here: What to expect from the demo? · 9 powerful guns forged… | — | |
| Game update | Playtest V0.62.2 CHANGE LOG: · Fixed an issue wherein the settings menu refused to work, at all. It now does. · For controller users, we've added controller layouts to change up how your bindings · In accordance with a security issue that unity had last month, we've updated to protect against it. (This wouldn't have impacted any of you) · Demons now have visual indicators/cues when under a status. this is most… | — | |
| Community | Sign-up for the Blood Reaver Steam Playtest Hey Cultists, Today, during the Horror Game Awards Showcase, we announced that we're recruiting for the next phase of the playtest. Here's our brand-new trailer: Help us make the final touches and share your crucial feedback before we enter Early Access. We're opening sign-ups to a Steam Playtest slated for late 2025. So far we've been running a very limited closed beta via Discord, however goi… | — | |
| Game update | Closed Playtest Update 0.62 Hey Cultists, Since Avcon, we've been hard at work to bring the Closed access playtest a new update which overhauls and adds more content to pivotal systems (if you don't have access to the live playtest, read till end of post for more info there). While this update contains no new additions to our first map, we'll be rolling out another update later this year with a significant focus on new le… | — | |
| In-game event | Monthly Update #10 The Environmentals of Blood Reaver Hey Reavers! The holidays are over and we’re in full swing, with this next piece we feel we’ve teased enough of what’s to come, so we’re handing the mic to one of our artists whose tirelessly spent their time working on our “1 BILLION” modular assets to bring the world of Blood Reaver to life. Snapping Together "I’m Jackson Smith, an Environment Artist for Blood Reaver who had the pleasure of m… | — | |
| In-game event | Monthly Update #9 Relics and Artifacts Hey Cultists, With the first month of 2025 coming to a close, we're keen to throw out a couple of teases for what's coming later this year. With that, the first thing we're really excited show that's different is the abilities of our relics and artifacts. Now while they aren't fully done, we have picked our team's favourites to show off the in-game items that give the player's their demonic pow… | — | |
| In-game event | Monthly Update #8 Merry Christmas Hey cultists! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the team here at Hellbyte! This year marks our first Christmas as a full fledged studio and we’re so excited to look back at the year we’ve had! The Year in Retrospect We’ve had an absolute avalanche of demos and playtests in order to find our own unique style and aesthetic for the game. We moved into our comfy (cramped) office space and lin… | — | |
| In-game event | Monthly Update #7: The Weapons Pipeline! Hey cultists, The month of November has brought us all a little closer to the final product we’re gunning for. As far as guns go, we have an absolute plethora of weapons we’re excited to show off this month as well as all the work our staff are putting into these weapons. The Pipeline The pipeline starts with our Creative Director, Jackson, and our Lead Artist, Flynn, who both conceptualise and… | — | |
| Game update | Demo 1.4.4 Patch Notes Major Fixes · Updated main menu music. · Fixed multiple locations around the map where players could abuse the enemy AI to become undetectable. Minor Fixes · Fixed an issue where 'demo information' was not displaying on first boot. · Fixed copy in 'demo information' tab. · Removed zombies. · Added demons. | — | |
| In-game event | Monthly Update #6: Convention Season! Hey Cultists, Over this last month, it's been primarily focused around the aussie convention season. With most of the team having travelled over to Melbourne for PAX Aus , and Sydney for SXSW . from left-to-rights: Jackson, Euan, Flynn, Ben, Millie, and Matt Journeying Around Australia It was wonderful getting to see so many new faces and putting Blood Reaver in the hands of thousands of people… | — | |
| Esports | Steam Scream Fest 3 Demo Broadcast About During the week of October 28th to November 4th, Steam is celebrating the spookiest season of the year with discounts and demos of upcoming releases, featuring yours truly, Blood Reaver. A dark-fantasy round-based demonic FPS. Become the Blood Reaver in solo or 4-player co-op. Harness forbidden magic and weaponry to shoot, blast and slice your way through endless hordes of demons. Upgrade… | — | |
| Esports | PAX & SXSW Demo Showcase Catch our developers playing Blood Reaver - A dark-fantasy round-based demonic FPS. Become the Blood Reaver in solo or 4-player co-op. Harness forbidden magic and weaponry to shoot, blast and slice your way through endless hordes of demons. Upgrade your gear and survive long enough to discover the ancient secrets of the gods of hell. | — | |
| In-game event | Monthly Update #5: Out with the Old, In with the New Hey Cultists, This month we wanted to let you all in on the direction of the new art style we've been experimenting with in the hopes of achieving a more stylised look that lends to the strength of our artists. Regarding the promise for a Spotify release last month, those of you who were waiting will be happy to here that it's available to stream right now! Following that, if anyone is interest… | — | |
| In-game event | Monthly Update #4: Office Acquired Hey Cultists, This month’s been a busy one! First, we’ve officially moved into an office space at ACOLAB, which has been a blessing for our productivity. Second, we have exciting news regarding our new enemy type, which we are enthusiastic to see player’s reactions to. Last but not least, some announcements regarding the music we promised would be releasing for free and a mention of how our dir… | — | |
| In-game event | Monthly Update #3 The Revenants Hey Cultists, This month follows our venture to AVCon , where we got to show Blood Reaver off to more people and even got to meet some of our active community members. Additionally, our director got the amazing opportunity for an interview (link below). Outside of that, it was wonderful to meet a host of new people, some in costume and others not. we even earnt our first payment there - one cop… | — | |
| In-game event | Monthly Update #2 - Demon Variety Hey Cultists, Another development update for our 2nd month. To begin we wanted to announce that we’re nearing 5000 Wishlists! This is something we’re continually grateful for – especially with the traction gained from being featured on IGN Live last week, which we’ll dive deeper into later in this very post. Onto the game now, we wanted to use this time to talk about the demons of Blood Reaver.… | — |
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.