Hello, Aethermancers!
We continue to be blown away by your support of the demo. We recently reached over 1,000 reviews! Double since our last update! You guys have exceeded all of our expectations for the demo. As a thank you to our community, as well as to celebrate our inclusion in the Creature Collector Fest on Steam, here is another update for our demo. It includes some features that were heavily requested!
New Monster: Grimoire
But first, let's start with the most exciting inclusion: a new monster, Grimoire! We know you all have been looking forward to this one in particular. That's why we tried to make its Signature Trait extra special. It basically opens up a new minigame in combat: You have to spend 2 of each element of Aether to unlock Grimoire's Unleash Tome Action. Unleash Tome lets you select one of three randomly chosen Actions to use for free, without spending Grimoire's turn. It provides a chaotic, but impactful pay-off if you manage and use your Aether well! Grimoire is also unique in that its element is Wild, which means it has access to all four elements in the game. Its Types are Aether/Purge/Burn. Go and capture it now in Forbidden Fortress!
Mouse Controls
Always one of the most requested features, ever since we released Monster Sanctuary on Steam: mouse controls! You can now conveniently navigate the whole game with mouse + keyboard, including the menus, the combat UI, and even exploration gameplay. We hope you enjoy it! Please let us know if there is anything we can do to improve it.
Better Combat Action Preview
We also received a lot of feedback in regards to the UI and clarity in combat. That's why we reworked the Action Preview in combat. It should now give a more precise and specific idea of what results your Actions will have, including how much shielding or healing an Action will do, as well as a more accurate prediction of the damage of an Action.
Full Patch Notess
The new demo update also includes a lot of other changes and bug fixes. For a list of them, you can find the full patch notes on our page here: Patch Notes 0.1.2.x
What's Next?
We hope you enjoy this new update for the demo! So what's next? We have already begun working towards an Early Access release of Aethermancer here on Steam - with quite some work already done on some more new monsters and even a fully new biome and other features.
We'll keep you updated here on Steam with bigger update posts from time to time - If you're looking for more frequent and small updates we do, feel free to follow the develpment on our other platforms: