Game update13 Aug 2026Post-update patch v0.8.1LORTers, Your response to the 💥 Shots and Prayers 🙏 Update has been very encouraging. Thanks for all the kind words for the team. We've found a few issues and adjustments we want to make quickly after Tuesday's update. Here are the things we are updating in this small patch: · Adjusted enemy spawns for Sportsball and Deadline Demon. · We've seen feedback that these Quests are too slow at the…
LORTers, We are happy to announce that the 💥 Shots and Prayers Update 🙏 is releasing on August 11. We appreciate your patience and trust in us these last few months as we cooked up a meaty update for you. Check out the teaser trailer below and get ready to LORT your brains out on August 11: Original Sound Track On Youtube You've asked for it. And we've finally delivered. Now you can listen to…
LORTers, Lorts of news to share today. Let's start off with a big one. v0.8 Update Timing and Paladin Trailer Earlier this month, we shared that Weapons 2.0 changes will be coming in the v0.8 update. To our pleasant surprise, the response to that news has been super positive from the community and the playtesters who have been trying it out. Thanks again for being such a supportive community to…
LORTers, Hope you've been well. The team at Big Distraction has been hard at work creating our biggest update yet for LORT. We want to pull back the curtain and give you a look at a big change coming in the v0.8 update - an overhaul to our weapons system called Weapons 2.0. Please take a few minutes to read this in full, don't skim it. It's important to understand all the context before you get…
Hey there past, present and future LORTers, Quick post to let you know that LORT is on sale for 35% off until May 22. We plan to keep putting LORT on sale as often as Steam allows it. So if you are feeling like giving LORT a shot, now's a great time to get it at a discounted price. The team has been hard at work on the v0.8 update, which is shaping up to be quite meaty. We're planning to start…
LORTers, The Spring Sale brought a wave of new players to LORT - and with them, a lot of great feedback. We have released an update today to address feedback and a networking issue. · Increased attribute spawn ratio in camps on Normal difficulty to provide more attribute upgrades vs powerups. · We've heard the feedback on difficulty and scaling and know we have more work to do. While we are wor…
LORTers, The fine folks over at Medal.tv came to us and said "LORT looks cool. collab?" and we said hell yea. Medal.tv is a free game clipping software and you can unlock some exclusive LORT themed rewards for your Medal profile. How do you get them? By playing LORT, clipping it with Medal, and unlocking some sweet sweet profile backgrounds and a few days of Medal Premium. Check out these Medal…
LORTers, It's been a fun 2 months since launch. We think it's about time to do an update of our Roadmap as our first one became out of date pretty fast. But first, we've got a sale to tell you about! Extended Spring Sale Today is the start of the Steam Spring Sale. LORT is now discounted 35% off, bringing it under $10 . We are also extending the sale for an additional 2 weeks until April 8. If…
LORTers, Thanks for everyone who has already jumped into the v0.7 update and reported bugs for us to fix. This is a small update to fix issues we have found since yesterday. Special shoutout to TyDragon on Discord.gg/LORT and TheDemi420 + Whymsical on Steam Discussions for reporting these issues. · Fixed camp Attribute shards sometimes having very delayed spawning under poor network conditions…
LORTers, Today, we released the v0.7 update focused on Difficulties. Let’s dive in. New Difficulties - Easy + Hard Upon starting a run, you now have the option between three difficulties: Easy, Normal, and Hard. This is our first version of difficulties in LORT and we hope that adding these will appeal to both new and veteran players. Check out the deep dive on difficulties shared earlier in th…
LORTers, It's time for a little preview of what is coming in next week's update. After releasing The Stabbening last month, the team has been working quickly to bring to you Difficulties. We knew when we released LORT that the one sized fits all approach to difficulty was not a long term solution. Since launch, we heard a lot of player feedback regarding difficulty so we made it a priority to r…
How now brown cow? LORT on NVIDIA Geforce NOW of course! Yea that's right, you can play some good ol' LORT via GeForce NOW cloud streaming right now. Can we say now any more times? We've heard some requests from LORTers to get the game up on GeForce NOW, so we worked with the folks over at NVIDIA to make the dream come true. LORT is now a "Ready-to-Play" game which you can access from the free…
LORTers, Thank you to all that have joined us so far for The Stabbening. We have a small update to fix a few issues. · Fix for perma slow bug happening during healing flask usage. · Thank you to "D" on Discord for sending in the video footage that helped us find and resolve this issue. You too can help make LORT better by submitting videos of issues to discord.gg/lort . · Fix for key binding ch…
LORTers, Our roadmap said to expect the first update in Q2 2026. Psyche! It's out today! Get a first look in the trailer below and then jump into the highlights + patch notes. Welcome to The Stabbening. Croaks Malone and Blinkblades It's time to get froggy. Meet Croaks Malone, the Veilbound Assassin of LORT. An Agility fiend, Croaks slips in and out of shadows, getting the drop on his enemies f…
Fam. We did it. 250,000 copies of our LORTy game LORT have been sold after launching on January 21. It really feels surreal to be writing this post. We are super grateful. And we are super excited. This sales achievement means we have the fuel needed to continue supporting and updating LORT. We hope you're looking forward to our February Public Co-Op Lobbies update . And then after that, we wil…
LORTers, We said we would listen to your feedback and incorporate it into future updates. One clear piece of feedback has been around public co-op lobbies. We didn't think people would want to group up and play with randoms as much as we have seen and heard. Thanks for bringing this to our attention and we're happy to announce we have quickly pivoted and are working on a solution that will come…
LORTers, Smaller update for you today to address some issue's we've had with progression loss. Details below. v0.5.3 · Improved the reliability of our account progression saving system to prevent losing all unlock progress under rare circumstances · Known Issue · There is a known issue that Alt + F4 can cause mid-session runs and account progression to not save. Please, only shut down the game…
What a launch weekend we are having. Thank you for 100,000 units sold of our sweet baby LORT in just over 3 days. This is absolutely nuts. The team is working hard on game updates to bring you newer, better, weirder LORT for you to LORT to soon. We hope you all have a weekend full of Legendary loot drops, one-hit brick kills, and the pleasant squawks of our dear dear Lawrence Fishbird. When lif…
LORTers, Thank you for the warm welcome on Launch. It has been awesome to read, watch, and listen to everyone's experience with LORT. And with that in mind, we've made some adjustments in today's update to address your feedback. Solo Play and Difficulty We've heard feedback from some players that the game feels too hard in general and too hard for solo. LORT is a Roguelite and isn't meant to be…
LORTers, The way you've been slaying Goblins has impressed us. We found a few small issues that we are releasing a update for. If you are having trouble connecting in multiplayer, make sure everyone has updated their game to the latest version v0.5.1. · Fixed an issue with controller input icons not appearing on HUD when using a controller on PC or playing on Steam Deck. · Changed in-game text…
Praise the LORT! The day has finally come! LORT is available now. Will you be the first to beat it? Good luck to all the Goblin slayers, you're going to need it! You can grab it with a 34% off launch discount until February 3rd for under $10 USD. We've got a launch trailer. It's pretty LORTy. Thank you to everyone who has wishlisted, played the demo, told their friends, and shared LORT with the…
LORTicles, Today's post is all about our Early Access Roadmap and what to expect from LORT on launch + beyond. The full image roadmap is below (and is also on our Steam Store page) and then below that we will go into some more detail. Let's dive in. Launch Content If you've been playing the LORT Demo (which goes offline on January 16), you'll be pleased to know that was just a taste of what LOR…
LORTers, Release is less than 2 weeks away. With that in mind, this post is to take care of some house keeping regarding Creators and the Demo. Demo The Demo will be removed from Steam on Friday, January 16. The demo is super out of date and we do not have the resources to keep it updated. We're a small team, so our focus is on the main release of LORT and putting all our energy there. If you a…
LORTers, We're shedding a few tears over here after reaching a big milestone. Our beautiful baby roguelite LORT has received over 100,000 wishlists on Steam. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who has taken time to wishlist, play our demo, leave a demo review, comment, trash talk the fire lobbers, and any other way you have supported the game. We started working on LORT almost 2 years ago a…
Hey LORTers, We've got some much anticipated updates for you on the release of LORT. Release date We have a release date! It is January 21, 2026. We know this date is later than the previously stated Q4 2025 time frame, however we need the extra month to make sure LORT is great on day 1. We've received a ton of great feedback from playtests and want to spend time integrating what we've heard. S…
Today, we released an update that resolved connection issues in multiplayer. We have seen promising results that the issue has been fixed and load times are faster. Grab some friends and go slap some Goblins!
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