Beta 1 recap. Your deaths were not in vain

Hi everyone!

The first beta of Ad Iterum wrapped up last week, and I wanted to share what came out of it.

• 20 players jumped in.

• You explored over 1700 tiles per run on average, fought through nearly 19 enemies per session, and 95% of you hit retry immediately after dying.

• You kept going even when the dungeon keeps killing you.

• Half of you died unarmed.

• Floor 1 is the deadliest floor.

• Spawnlings are the #1 killer, accounting for almost a quarter of all deaths.

• You were fighting hard, averaging 19 kills per run.

• 14% reached a boss encounter.

• 21% found a safe room.

• 76% of deaths happened with no armor equipped

What's changing?

• Weapons on floor 1 will appear more often while you're unarmed. No more starting a run empty-handed.

• Enemy density and strength on floor 1 are being reduced so you have room to learn the systems before the dungeon tries to kill you.

• Spawnling rebalancing

• More armor on early floors. Defensive loot drops on floors 1 and 2 are getting a boost.

All of these changes are already baked on 0.1.3, which is already available in `[c]ev-experimental`[/c]branch.

If you want in on the next beta round, join through the game's Steam page, or join Discord (that's where keys go first).

Thank you to everyone who played. Your deaths were not in vain.

Stay tuned!

# Beta 0.1.3 - Latest build: 2026-04-22 - Balance: Bump boss HP - Balance: Remove spawners from floor 1 - Improvements: Localization fixes - Improvements: Offset mutation and event messages to not hide the player - Improvements: Guided RNG for loot drops more aligned with existing equipped gear - Improvements: General UI improvements to inventory and item selection - Fix: Hide item actions in inventory when no items are selected - Fix: No longer lose control after proximity trap explodes - Fix: Throwing items works normally again - Fix: Bug where you could click and drag the HP HUD - Fix: Boots incorrect sprite - Fix: Bug where enemy would explode and player lose control of their turn - New: Hovering over item list now shows properties directly, no need for extra click - New: Added causes of death to memories to discover - New: Luck in combat increases crit chance - New: Mutation x1 - New: Blood Pacts x1 - New: Lore x5 - New: Game over screen tells about discoveries during this run vs historic discoveries - New: Removed left stick controls from Controller/Steam Deck. Movement relies on D-Pad by default # Beta 0.1.2 - Latest build: 2026-04-18 - Balance: Blacklist some complex-pattern enemies from spawning on first run ever - Balance: Assure safe room after boss defeat - Balance: Increase chance of safe rooms to appear - Balance: Increased HP granted from healing injectors - Fix: Adjust bottom padding on item contextual UI for memory units - Fix: When in boss room, clicking on stairs when you're on top moves you correctly to the next floor. - Fix: Cursor does no longer show attack when hover over friendly npcs - Fix: Player no longer walks around forever when clicking on a vault or the terminal - Fix: After proximity trap explodes, no longer lose control over clicking to move - Fix: Disable zoom when UI open scrolling, no longer triggers the zoom incorrectly - Fix: Player no longer moves twice after walking through an item and not picking it up - Fix: Heavy weapon allows movement via click while recovering from heavy swing - Fix: Missing boots slot now shows in character inventory when equipped - Fix: Traders offer a guaranteed number of known items, along unknown ones - Fix: Disallow repair and scrap consumption on items that are already at 100% durability - Improvement: General stability - Improvement: Localization fixes - Improvement: Ranged enemy attack paths are visible in the grid # Beta 0.1.1 - Latest build: 2026-04-17 - Balance: Reduced chance of boss showing up in 1st floor to 0%. - Fix: Selecting music volume text no longer invisible when blending with background - Fix: Removed "No mutagens currently detected" text despite mutations being active - Fix: Missing boss name in logs when affected by statuses - Fix: Disallow boss entrance to re-appear once has been defeated. - Fix: Clicking on stairs when you're on top moves you correctly to the next floor. - Improvement: Expand meat description - Improvement: When entering a new floor with boss access, there's a hint - New: Numpad support for skipping turn with default Numpad 5