Playtest notes 26 Jun 2025

Internal playtest143 entries50 balance changes31 content additions29 bug fixes18 interface changes11 art updates4 wording fixes

This is a pre-release internal note from the closed playtest, quoted as it was written for testers. It describes a build that no longer exists; treat it as history, not as a description of the current game.

This week's patch brings another BIG rework to The Necrobinder! Other highlights include some major changes to The Silent's kit, a reworked Ascension 1, and lots of interesting UX additions.

Items in this note

36 cards

Deal 5 damage.
Deals 5 additional damage for each time another player has attacked the enemy this turn.

Deal 5 damage twice.
Increase the damage of ALL Maul cards by 1 this combat.

Deal 7 damage.
Apply any debuffs on the enemy to ALL other enemies.

Sly.
Gain 1 Dexterity.
Gain 4 Thorns.

Deal 7 damage.
Channel 1 Lightning.

Deal 33 damage to ALL enemies.
Costs less for each Ethereal card played this combat.

If Osty is alive, he deals 9 damage to ALL enemies and you gain 9 Block.
Osty dies.

Unplayable.
At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, take 2 damage.

Deal 18 damage.
Exhaust 1 card at random.

Whenever you play a card that costs or more, gain 4 Block.

Choose 1 of 3 random cards to add into your Hand. It's free to play this turn.
Exhaust.

Draw 2 cards.
When this card is Exhausted, gain .

Deal 10 damage to ALL enemies.
Repeat this effect for each enemy killed.

Exhaust your Hand.
If 9 cards were Exhausted this way, gain 1 Intangible.

Deal 8 damage.
Apply 1 Weak.
Apply 1 Vulnerable.

Exhaust your Hand.
Deal 7 damage for each card Exhausted.
Exhaust.

Osty deals 12 damage.
This card costs 0 if Osty has attacked this turn.

Deal 20 damage.
If Fatal, gain 20 Gold.

At the start of your turn, add a random Common card into your Hand.

Next turn, Summon 2 and gain .

Ethereal.
The first Attack each turn deals 50% additional damage.

Deal 6 damage.
Every 3 Skills you play in a turn, put this into your Hand.

Deal 9 damage.
Deals 4 additional damage for each card discarded this turn.

Draw 1 fewer card each turn.

Deal 1 damage.
Deals 1 additional damage for each card drawn this combat.

The first Attack or Skill you play each turn is placed on top of your Draw Pile.

Osty deals 6 damage.

Osty deals 7 damage.
Hits an additional time for each other time he has attacked this turn.

Right Hand Hand

Osty deals 4 damage.
Whenever you play a card that costs or more, return this to your Hand from the Discard Pile.

Whenever you play a card, deal 4 damage to a random enemy.

Ethereal.
Osty deals 10 damage to a random enemy.
Exhaust.

Deal 10 damage.
If Fatal, gain an additional card reward.
Exhaust.

Weak enemies take double damage from Attacks.

Osty deals 6 damage.
Deals additional damage equal to Osty's current HP.

Relics, potions and powers

Enemies and events

Content

General

Reworked Ascension 1 from buffed bosses to Elites spawning more often (approximately 60% more Elites spawned in a map)
Save migration now supports Settings and Climbs

Silent

Added the following new cards:
Echoing Slash
Ambush
Serpent Form
The Hunt
Murder
Abrasive
Deprecated the following cards:
Catalyst
Glass Knife
A Thousand Cuts

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Necrobinder

Added the following new cards:
Grab
Right Hand Hand
Reworked Bound Phylactery and Phylactery Unbound relics
Reworked the following cards:
Bone Shards
Eidolon
Empower
Flatten
Invoke
Poke
Rattle
Renaimate
Symbiosis
Tag In
Lethality
Transfuse (also renamed Unleash)

Regent

Reworked Gamma Beam card

Balance

Ironclad

Changed Cinder card: cards Exhausted decreased from 2 -> 1
Buffed Fiend Fire card: damage increased from 6(9) -> 7(10)
Changed Drum of Battle power: now activates at the start of your turn instead of the end

Silent

Changed Follow Through card:
Can only be played if the last card played this turn is a Skill
Deals 7 damage twice
Changed Memento Mori card:
Base damage decreased from 9(10) -> 8(10)
Damage scaling increased from 3(4) -> 4(5)
Buffed Strangling Strike card: damage increased from 7(9) -> 8(10)
Changed Tracking card: upgrade changed from gaining Innate -> lower cost by 1

Necrobinder

Changed Banshee's Cry card: damage buffed from 31(37) -> 39(47)
Changed Misery card:
Energy cost decreased from 1 -> 0
Damage decreased from 9(11) -> 7(9)
When Misery copies temporary Strength Down it also copies the associated Strength Up

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Regent

Fixed ordering on regents Vulnerable and Weak applying cards like Falling Star to match the rest of the game.

Potions & Relics

Buffed Bent Nail relic: HP loss increased from 2 -> 4
Buffed Foritfier potion: double your Block -> triple your Block
Buffed Heart of Iron potion: Plating increased from 5 -> 7

Colorless Cards

Buffed Hand of Greed card: no longer Exhausts

Ancients

Changed Tanx's Maul blessing:
Maul card damage increased from 5 -> 6
Amount of transformable cards lowered from 9 -> 6

Enemies

Changed Axe Bots:
Reworked moveset
Debuff does less damage
Ceremonial Beast Regeneration now active regardless of ascension
Changed Corpse Slug:
Reworked moveset
Block and damage move is now the weakest attack
Block decreased from 6 -> 4
Nerfed Decimillipede: damage decreased
Buffed Fossil Stalker: damage and HP increased
Changed Hatchlings:
Reworked moveset
Damage decreased
Changed The Infested: damage decreased on turn 1
Changed The Insatiable:
No longer gains Block
Damage on big hit decreased from 30(35) -> 28(31)
Buffed Knowledge Demon:
Heal increased from 21 -> 25
Mind Rot affliction Vigor gain increased from 3 -> 4.
Strength gain increased from 2(3) -> 3(4)
Changed Lagavulin Matriarch: reworked moveset
Changed Mytes combat: now has 2 Mytes instead of 3
Buffed Queen: Intangible power now active on turn 1 regardless of Ascension level
Nerfed Two-Tailed Rats: no longer give the player Toxic

Events

Buffed Waterlogged curse card: HP loss increased from 1 -> 3

Art

Added placeholder background art for the following events:
The Reflection That Wasn't
Waterlogged Scriptorium
Tempting Bloom
Punch Off
The Endless Conveyor
The Drowning Beacon
Abyssal Baths
Sunken Treasury
Added animations for Soul Fysh
Hellraiser power now changes the animation & VFX of the Strike cards it plays

User interface & experience

Necrobinder

Osty now shakes if you try to play an Osty attack while he's dead

Potions & Relics

Maw Bank relic no longer flashes over player at the start of combat
Potions are now rendered a little smaller

General

Event choice controller navigation now wraps
Added an icon in the topbar displaying the Act boss
Ascension panel now animates in
Basic cards are now part of the "other" category in the Compendium
Completed quests can now be seen in the Run History
Run History is now centered in different aspect ratios
In-combat card choices now display cards with combat value previews
Language dropdown now displays correctly at weird aspect ratios
Reward order now matches StS1 again
Smith VFX can now work with multiple cards at the same time
If cards are played fast enough that they are queued, they are now lined up in order

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Multiplayer

Added small animations to the multiplayer vote icons
Selected rest site options are now displayed next to the player
Added VFX/SFX for when a remote player selects a rest site option
You can now see the rest site option that another player is hovering over

Wording

Added red coloring to Neow's Gift Box blessing
Evil Gas renamed to Living Fog
Liquid Memories potion now says the selected card will be free to play instead of cost 0 to better match the effect
Thieving Hopper's Flutter power now properly specifies that it only triggers on damage from Attacks

Bug fixes

Ironclad

Fixed an ordering issue with Tyranny and Stratagem powers

Silent

Fixed a broken interaction between Nostalgia card and Sly

Defect

Added Lightning Orb hovertip to Ball Lightning card
Hello World card now properly triggers before you draw the rest of your hand

Necrobinder

Danse Macabre card no longer triggers itself when played with an increased energy cost
Fixed a crash when playing Sweeping Gaze card while all enemies are reviving

Regent

Make It So card no longer shifts positions if you play four cards while it's in your hand

Colorless Cards

Discovery card no longer sets the chosen card's Star cost to 0

Potions & Relics

Fixed an issue where Gremlin Horn and Hungering Belly relics wouldn't trigger when a creature's death was prevented by an effect like Hard to Kill power
Stone Calendar relic's lab hovertip now works while in combat

Enemies

Adjusted Decimillipede's bounds so their HP bars don't collide
Fabricator flying minions now fall all the way to the ground in their death animation
Fixed a softlock that sometimes occurred when Magi Knight used its Magic Bomb move
Fixed an issue where Test Subject's Malleable power wasn't giving it enough block after multi-hit attacks
Fixed issue with Toadpole death animation transitioning back to idle
Fixed Tunneler playing its burrowed attack animation twice
Hexed affliction can now affect Status and Curse cards
Infested Guardian now does correct damage for Guarded Strike move
Spaced enemies out more so their healthbars don't overlap
Spiny Toad's spike out animation no longer plays once per hit of the multihit
Tracker Raider now only plays attack animation once when doing the multihit

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Events

The Trial's Innocent option now uses a single card select to upgrade 2 cards

General

Achievements are no longer listed twice in the stats menu
Cards with effects that trigger if you end your turn with them in your hand (such as Burn) no longer trigger if an earlier end-of-turn effect (such as Combust) ends combat
Fixed Embark button outline
HP bar colors (Poison, Doom) should no longer look offset

Multiplayer

Gang Up card no longer shows incorrect damage preview values when targeting a vulnerable enemy
Gang Up card now counts attacks that were blocked
Traveler's Flask relic's additional text only displays for player that has it

Newer: 3 Jul 2025 All patch notes Older: 20 Jun 2025

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