Playtest notes 23 Oct 2025

Internal playtest79 entries56 balance changes15 bug fixes2 content additions2 art updates2 performance fixes1 interface change1 wording fix

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 smaller one, bringing in some balance changes and reworks (we're looking at you Doormaker). Also, the reign of The Trial trolling is over. We're in the midst of a secret internal jam, but those fruits cannot be harvested yet. Stay tuned for next week's spooky patch!

Items in this note

17 cards

Quasar
Skill
0
2
Choose 1 of 3 random Colorless cards to add into your Hand.
Soul
Skill
0
Draw 2 cards.
Exhaust.
Abrasive
Power
3
Sly.
Gain 1 Dexterity.
Gain 4 Thorns.
Boost Away
Skill
0
Gain 6 Block.
Add a Dazed into your Discard Pile.
Conqueror
Skill
1
Forge 3.
Sovereign Blade deals double damage to the enemy this turn.
Devastate
Attack
1
4
Deal 30 damage.
Enthralled
Curse
2
If this is in your Hand, it must be played before other cards.
Eternal.
Eternal Armor
Power
3
Gain 9 Plating.
Exterminate
Attack
1
Deal 3 damage to ALL enemies 4 times.
Flatten
Attack
2
Osty deals 12 damage.
This card costs 0 if Osty has attacked this turn.
Hand Trick
Skill
1
Gain 7 Block.
Add Sly to a Skill in your Hand this turn.
Helix Drill
Attack
0
Deal 3 damage for each previously spent this turn.
Master Planner
Power
2
When you play a Skill, it gains Sly.
Reflex
Skill
3
Sly.
Draw 2 cards.
Rolling Boulder
Power
3
At the start of your turn, deal 5 damage to ALL enemies and increase this damage by 5.
Severance
Attack
2
Deal 13 damage.
Add a Soul into your Draw Pile, Hand, and Discard Pile.
Speedster
Power
2
Whenever you draw a card during your turn, deal 2 damage to ALL enemies.

Relics, potions and powers

Cure AllFur CoatLasting CandyPen NibPhilosopher's StoneTanx's WhistleStrengthArtifactDexterityFocusPlating

Enemies and events

The TrialBugslayerBygone EffigyDarvEntomancerFabricatorFuzzy Wurm CrawlerGlobe HeadHaunted ShipKin FollowerKnowledge DemonLagavulin MatriarchNeowNonupeipeOrobasOstyOwl MagistrateSlimed BerserkerSlumbering Beetle

Content

Potions & Relics

Enemies

Balance

Silent

  • Nerfed Abrasive card: Energy cost increased from 2 -> 3
  • Changed Hand Trick card: give Sly to a Skill -> Attack
  • Nerfed Reflex card: Energy cost increased from 2 -> 3
  • Changed Master Planner card:
  • Energy cost decreased from 3(3) -> 2(1)
  • Upgrade no longer gains Sly
  • Changed Speedster card:
  • Damage increased from 1(2) -> 2(3)
  • No longer Sly

Defect

  • Nerfed Boost Away card: Block decreased from 8(11) -> 7(10)
  • Buffed Helix Drill card: damage increased from 6(8) -> 7(9)

Necrobinder

  • Buffed Carve Ghost card:
  • Place Soul into Discard Pile -> Draw Pile
  • Upgraded damage increased by 1
  • Changed Severance card:
  • Damage deceased from 15(20) -> 13(16)
  • Now also adds a Soul to your Hand again
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Regent

Colorless Cards

Potions & Relics

Enemies

  • Changed Chompers:
  • Decreased HP, damage, and Status amount
  • Artifact increased from 1 -> 2
  • Changed Doormaker combat:
  • Door's Enforce damage decreased from 15 -> 10
  • Door's Enforce no longer gives additional Artifact
  • Changed Door move order
  • Door no longer stuns when the door is opened.
  • Doormaker's Doorslam move changed from 10(11)x3 -> 15(15)x2
  • Doormaker's now also attacks for 20(22) on the turn he flees behind the Door
  • Door's Knock power now ticks town on hit instead of once per Attack
  • Buffed Entomancer: Spear damage increased from 11(13) -> 13(15)
  • Buffed Exoskeletons: HP increased from 21(23)-27(28) -> 23(24)-28(29)
  • Changed Fabricator: reworked moveset
  • Changed Fuzzy Wurm Crawler: reworked moveset
  • Changed Bygone Effigy: reworked moveset
  • Nerfed Globe Head: Thunderstrike damage decreased from 7(8) x3 -> 6(7)x3
  • Buffed Haunted Ship:
  • Status given changed from Daze -> Wound
  • Stomp damage increased from 3(4)x3 -> 4(5)x3
  • Changed Knights:
  • Now an Elite combat
  • All HP increased by 10 now that they are an Elite combat
  • Removed weak Act 3 Knights encounter
  • Changed Lagavulin Matriarch: Soul Siphon debuff increased to -2 to each stat
  • Changed Mad Crab: Zoom attack damage increased from 14(16) -> 16(17)
  • Buffed Mechaknight: HP increased from 250(270) -> 300(314)
  • Buffed Phantasmal Gardeners: Strength gain increased from 2(3) -> 3(4)
  • Changed Slimed Berserker:
  • HP decreased from 333(339) -> 266(273)
  • No longer has Unstable power
  • Nerfed Slumbering Beetle: now loses all Plating when he wakes up

Ancients

Events

Art

  • Implemented Heavy Blunt VFX
  • Added portrait art for Enthralled card

User interface & experience

  • Add confirmation popup when refusing to be a Decider in The Trial event

Writing

  • Added context and interim event page for Defiance option in The Trial event

Bug fixes

General

  • Players can no longer transform statuses into knowledge demon statuses
  • Deadly Events ascension correctly resets odds after leaving an unknown Elite combat
  • Exiting the options menu after taking rewards no longer shows an empty rewards screen
  • Hitting left on your controller in map now correctly recenters map on available nodes
  • Murderous Daily modifier now properly gives Strength to enemies spawned mid-combat

Defect

  • Fixed punctuation on Recycle card

Necrobinder

Colorless Cards

  • Fixed potential Rolling Boulder softlock when you have multiple Rolling Boulders active

Potions & Relics

  • Dybbuk Cube relic now properly doubles temporary Strength/Dexterity/Focus loss instead of quadrupling it
  • Fixed an issue where, if you had Pen Nib relic and your 10th attack autoplayed another attack, both attacks' damage would be doubled
  • Philosopher's Stone relic now properly gives Strength to enemies spawned mid-combat.

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Ancients

Multiplayer

  • Multiplayer players are shown in a save/load after a combat win

Performance

  • Excluded multiplayer cards from singleplayer run asset loading
  • Improved memory performance by ~20%
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