Playtest notes 9 Oct 2025

Internal playtest59 entries14 bug fixes11 balance changes11 interface changes7 wording fixes6 content additions6 audio updates4 art updates

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 is a shorter one, but there will be a big balance patch next time around! One highlight to look out for this week is the rework to Knowledge Demon's banes.

Items in this note

15 cards

Perfected Strike

Deal 6 damage.
Deals 2 additional damage for ALL your cards containing “Strike”.

Lose 1 Orb Slot.
Gain 2 Strength.
Gain 2 Dexterity.

Beat into Shape

Deal 5 damage.
Forge 5.
Forges an additional 5 for every other time you've hit the enemy this turn.

If the enemy has Poison, apply 9 Poison.

Gain 9 Plating.

The first time you play a
0 Attack each turn,
return it to your Hand.

Gain at the start of each turn.

Gain 1 Strength. ALL enemies lose 1 Strength.

Deal 13 damage.
Draw 1 card.
Whenever you create a Status, reduce this card's cost to 0 until played.

Rolling Boulder

At the start of your turn, deal 5 damage to ALL enemies and increase this damage by 5.

Draw 2 cards.
Exhaust.

Deal 5 damage.
Deals 3 additional damage for each card you created this combat.

Gain 50 Block.
If you take unblocked attack damage this combat, die.

Deal 6 damage twice.
Play a random Attack from your Draw Pile.

Relics, potions and powers

Enemies and events

Content

Defect

Added new card, Bulk Up
Deprecated Reprogram card

Regent

Reworked Beat Into Shape card

Enemies

Reworked Knowledge Demon's banes

Ancients

Deprecated Neow's Mystery Machine blessing
Deprecated Neow's Valor blessing

Balance

Defect

Changed Uproar card: damage changed from 11(15) -> Deal 6(8) damage twice

Colorless Cards

Nerfed Eternal Armor: now Exhausts
Buffed Rolling Boulder card: upgrade scaling damage increased from +1 -> +3

Potions & Relics

Buffed Beetlejuice potion: Shrink duration increased from 3 -> 4

Enemies

Buffed Infested Guardian: HP from 190(195) -> 199(206)
Buffed Infested Purifier: HP from 175(180) -> 189(194)
Buffed Mad Crab: Smash move damage increased from 8(9) -> 9(11)

Ancients

Changed Looming Fruit relic: moved pools from Darv -> Pael
Nerfed Neow's Chosen One blessing: card selection decreased from 1 of 3 Rares -> 1 of 2 Rares
Changed The Defect's Neow Bundle blessing: replaced Reprogram card -> Bulk Up

Events

Changed Round Tea Party event: Pick a Fight option costs 25 -> 20 percent max HP

Art

Added portrait art for the following cards:
Rocket Punch
Pyre
Bubble Bubble

User interface & experience

Added colored outlines for character-specific potions in Potion Lab and sorted them so that they are last in each potion category
Added transform hovertips to event options that transform cards
Added fancier character unlocking
Players can now skip intro logo on click
Card Library text search now initially searches through all card pools
Cards like Perfected Strike that deal varying amounts of damage based on the state of combat now visually update the additional damage they'll do for multiplicative effects like Vulnerable and Weak powers
Fixed text size getting small too early for Ancient event choice options
Intro logo was too big, sizing down
Updated the visuals for Proceed button
The timeline screen scrolling now has bounds
Updated text spacing for profile selector UI in main menu

Audio

Added BGM for Underdocks
Added room transition SFX
Added Tickbox SFX
Updated buff/debuff SFX
Updated Block gain, hit, and break SFX
Updated button hover SFX

Writing

Renamed The Reflection That Wasn't event -> Doors of Light and Dark and updated the text to be shorter and simpler
"Attack damage" is now referred to as "hit" in many places (ex. "Whenever this enemy takes attack damage" is now "Whenever this enemy is hit")
Improved wording for Pael's Wing blessing
The Gambit card now specifies that only unblocked attack damage will kill you
Updated text for the following events:
The Round Tea Party
The Sunken Statue

Bug fixes

General

Fixed an issue where selection screens for generated cards (ex. Attack Potion) could display incorrect amounts for cards with calculated values (ex. Blizzard)
Fixed problem with loading a saved game after resetting tutorials
Actually fixed softlock that would occur when you get an achievement
Relic/Potion lab no longer gets banished to the shadow realm after hitting F2

Ironclad

Playing Perfected Strike card while you have Little Ghost relic no longer buffs Perfected Strike before it deals damage

Defect

Feral card now properly triggers on the turn it was played if a zero-cost attack was played on a previous turn
Searching Status cards in Compendium now shows Defect cards with the term "Status" in its description

Regent

Fixed Supermassive card description not showing increased damage in combat
Fixed pluralization issue with Resonance power hovertip

Enemies

A10 Test Subject no longer disappears if it is killed by Doom on its 3rd form
Knowledge Demon's Have a Taste move no longer incorrectly applies Weak
Tough Egg now grows back to full size when Shrink is removed while it's hatching

Keep reading29 more words

Ancients

Added the missing Ancient relics back into the Compendium

Events

Mad Science card no longer sets generated cards' star costs to 0 when the Soul option is chosen

Newer: 16 Oct 2025 All patch notes Older: 2 Oct 2025

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