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Hello everyone,

The new Cromania update is here—and your next adventure begins with a hero you’ve made your own.

This update brings together the work shared since my last announcement: rebuilt single-player systems, a new character creator, clearer combat and training, and a refreshed medieval look.

Cromania remains in Early Access. This patch is another step in its development, with the full release still ahead.

Your adventure, your progress

Cromania now focuses entirely on single-player play, with locally saved progress and turn-based battles. Develop your hero through training and equipment upgrades, craft useful items, and collect offline rewards when you return.

Clicking and your active aura now work together, letting both contribute to your progression. Multiplayer features, chat, and leaderboards have been removed as part of this change.

Create a hero worth remembering

Choose a Warrior, Archer, or Wizard, select a male or female character, give them a name, and make their appearance your own.

• Customize facial features, hair, skin tone, height, and body proportions.

• Browse medieval fantasy helmets, armor, capes, gloves, boots, and other equipment models.

• Adjust up to three separate color channels on supported pieces using the palette and hue, saturation, and brightness controls.

• Keep your chosen colors when switching between models in the same category.

• Use the face close-up to refine the details, then take your custom hero and their head-and-shoulders portrait into battle.

Each class keeps its signature weapon type: swords for Warriors, bows for Archers, and staves for Wizards. Your hero’s identity and body choices are fixed after creation, so take your time getting them right.

Choose your way to fight

• Warrior — Stand your ground with sword and shield. Block incoming attacks and build Fury for a stronger strike on your turn.

• Archer — Fight at range with a bow. Full Energy prepares a Multishot sequence for your next turn, with the number of arrows determined by your rating.

• Wizard — Wield a staff and turn part of the damage you receive back against your enemies through Reflect.

Class descriptions and specialty icons in the creator help you choose the style that suits you.

A new home for your heroes

Hero selection and creation now share a warm medieval room, complete with a stone fireplace, a woven rug, and a mirror for facial customization. The preview stays centered on your hero’s body, while the face close-up keeps a consistent scale as you browse hairstyles.

The visual refresh also brings refined fantasy frames, clearer button labels and states, improved portraits, and a new sword-slash effect with softer steel and gold tones.

Cleaner menus and more consistent training

The battle menu is now a compact row of four buttons. Click once to open a panel, click again to close it, or select another button to switch panels. Crafting and offline training also respond correctly to the first click.

Training rewards have been adjusted to remove unintended overlaps:

• A normal or critical finishing blow awards Double Loot training without also awarding Hit or Critical training for that blow.

• A successful block trains only Block.

• Multishot training is awarded once per sequence rather than separately for each arrow. A finishing sequence awards Double Loot instead.

• Purchasing Exploit increases Double Loot rating without granting extra training experience.

This patch also addresses repeated console messages, character-preview errors, and loading-screen behavior.

Early Access pricing and the free-to-play release

Cromania costs minimum price during Early Access and will become free to play at its full release. The free-to-play transition announced previously is still planned; this patch continues the Early Access phase.

If you’d like to play now and support development, you can join during Early Access. If you’d prefer to wait for the free-to-play release, add Cromania to your wishlist and follow its progress.

Your next chapter starts here

I’m developing Cromania on my own, and every report, suggestion, and bit of feedback helps me improve it. Thank you to everyone who has stayed with the project and helped shape this update.

Choose your class. Create your hero. Step into battle.

I’d love to hear which class you choose—and what you think of the new character creator.

— The developer