Story, Dialogue & Immersion
Fixed numerous dialogue issues, inconsistencies and immersion breaks throughout the game.
Added a new "Phase Two" to the Forest Guard encounter when certain criteria are met, improving the flow and immersion of the fight.
Expanded and improved dialogue for the Forest Centaur.
Added additional areas, cutscenes and character-building moments throughout the demo.
Added further environmental storytelling and character lore.
All documents found across tables can now be accessed when the appropriate criteria are met.
Improved the pacing of numerous in-battle dialogue sequences and cutscenes.
Hero dialogue portraits now correctly reflect the currently worn armour colour.
Added additional Hero armour colour variations based on player combat activity.
Improved early-game guidance until the Hero acquires their first weapon.
Added a save point near the beginning of the game following player feedback.
Combat & Balance
Added Passive Skills to the Hero and all party members.
Added and reworked several starting skills, with stronger abilities now unlocking later in progression.
Implemented a new Taunt system, allowing specific enemies to be forced into targeting the Hero.
Added new risk/reward mechanics to several Hero abilities.
Improved the balance of team skills, including damage, cooldowns and status application.
Earth-based attacks can now inflict Stun, with individually balanced application chances.
Rebalanced Sleep and several other status effects.
Rebalanced damage-over-time effects against bosses.
Rebalanced boss critical hit rates.
Rebalanced numerous boss encounters.
Reworked several enemy and boss movesets for improved fairness and readability.
Balanced Chicken movesets for a fairer encounter.
Threat-altering jewellery has been rebalanced.
Improved the consistency of Hit Rate, Critical Rate, Evasion and other combat-related bonuses.
Improved several multi-hit and repeated-hit abilities.
Improved weapon-based skill descriptions and requirements.
Improved ability animation impact to better reflect the strength of the attack being used.
Added additional equipment-based build options for the Hero.
Improved the distinction between shield-based and unshielded Hero playstyles.
Skills & Progression
Rearranged spell and skill ordering for a more natural progression and cleaner Skills menu.
Added additional unlockable skills throughout progression.
Added new character-specific passive effects and innate creature traits.
Improved skill descriptions for greater mechanical clarity.
Added a Respec vendor after reaching a certain point in the game.
Improved class progression and late-game Hero skill availability.
Items & Exploration
Added a new Encounter+ consumable which temporarily doubles encounter frequency.
Added improved feedback when temporary exploration-based item effects expire.
Improved several consumables and their associated status effects.
Fixed the Dream Scroll duplication/use exploit.
Improved targeting behaviour for certain menu-only consumables.
Shop restocking has been corrected for several affected items.
Non-boss Mimic encounters can now be escaped from, with improved re-engagement behaviour.
Improved accessibility and interaction logic for several environmental objects.
Battle System Fixes
Fixed cooldown timers incorrectly progressing during enemy transformations and in-battle cutscenes.
Fixed buffs and debuffs incorrectly ticking down during enemy transformations and in-battle cutscenes.
Fixed cooldowns incorrectly ticking down during forced actions.
Fixed several edge cases involving repeated and multi-hit attacks.
Fixed targeting behaviour involving Taunted enemies and repeated attacks.
Fixed a subtle clipping issue between party and enemy sprites during certain attacks.
Improved the timing and fluidity of several battle animations.
Improved state-removal and expiry behaviour for several temporary effects.
Corrected various combat calculations and conditional skill requirements.
Audio & Presentation
Fixed soundtrack volume fluctuations across several areas.
Corrected inconsistent volume levels on specific attacks and sound effects.
Improved animation timing and dramatic impact across numerous abilities.
Improved several visual state effects and combat indicators.
Various minor visual, audio and presentation improvements throughout the game.
General Fixes
Numerous minor bug fixes and balance adjustments throughout the demo.
Numerous spelling, grammar and formatting corrections.
Improved consistency across skill, item and status descriptions.
Improved several event conditions to prevent unintended or repeated triggers.
Cleaned up numerous small interaction, targeting and battle-event inconsistencies.
General optimisation and behind-the-scenes cleanup across maps, encounters and battle events.
Hi everyone,
V1.08 marks the first official update post for the demo, although the game has already gone through seven substantial revisions behind the scenes since its original release. A huge amount has changed during that time, from combat balance and skill design to dialogue, progression, presentation, quality-of-life improvements and general polish. Rather than documenting every tiny adjustment individually, this post brings together the most important changes made across that development period and gives a clearer picture of how much the demo has evolved.
There are still a handful of smaller tweaks, balance adjustments and bits of polish that may come later, but V1.08 represents the demo in what is essentially its complete form. The major systems, encounters, progression, story content and overall structure are now firmly in place, and the focus from here is much more on refinement than substantial change. Thanks to everyone who has played, tested, reported issues or shared feedback along the way — a lot of what has been improved over these updates came directly from seeing how people actually experienced the game.