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🏯 Kansai
Kansai It is autumn season, the fields are golden and the leaves are turning orange. The demon horde is invading Kansai, overrunning even the mighty Himeji castle. Sailing In order to get from Shikoku to Kansai, head to…
Event8 changes1 numericFix - Dark Samurai
🏯 Poison, curse, and confusion
Debuffs We've added poison damage over time, a curse that stacks damage until it hits, and other debuffs to the game. The confusion debuff causes enemies to lose their target and wander around aimlessly. Multi-skill upg…
Patch notes43 changesFixBalance - Dark Samurai
🏯 Goldbergs
Goldbergs As mentioned in the previous update, we're adding upgrades that allow you to build chain reactions. We're calling them goldbergs, inspired by Rube Goldberg machines, and they now come with extra icons to descr…
Patch notes1 changeFixBalance - Dark Samurai
🏯 Shadow clones
Shadow clones We're taking inspiration from popular ninja animations to bring you shadow clones. The first weapon to feature clones is the spear, where the clones form a wedge and attack in unison. Spear throw In additi…
Patch notes2 changesGameplay - Dark Samurai
🏯 Chubu
The second region You can now travel to Chubu, an entirely new region. Unlike Shikoku, the demon horde has already overwhelmed Chubu and turned it into burning ruins. Villages are destroyed, chasms have split across the…
Patch notes1 changeGameplay - Dark Samurai
🏯 Creep infestation
Creep infestation A demonic creep infestation is spreading across Japan. It has already metastasized to multiple locations on Shikoku island. Demons are emerging from the creep's hives and tunnels. Fight back, assault t…
Patch notes20 changes1 numericFix - Dark Samurai
🏯 Multiplayer fixes
Multiplayer fixes Fixed bonus item notification showing for all players. Fixed grave spawning in the wrong place. Fixed time starting to run before the first player is done loading. Fixed projectile trails sometimes goi…
Store11 changesFixBalance - Dark Samurai
🏯 Fixed spear thrust, halberd slam, and player animation jitter
Bug fixes and Improvements Fixed Spear Thrust card missing. Fixed Halberd Slam card missing. Fixed player animation jitter at low frame rates. Fixed typo in Rolling Boulder description.
Patch notes4 changesFix - Dark Samurai
🏯 Rolling boulder
Rolling boulder It's time to bring heavy machinery and steamroll demons. The rolling boulder might not attack very often, but when it does, it hits hard. Checkpoints Campfires are back! They save your progress and spawn…
Event5 changesMapsGameplay - Dark Samurai
🏯 Spring cleaning
Your feedback 📢 We've made some changes based on your feedback. Most importantly, we've removed Tutorial Mode entirely and replaced it with a choice between upgrade cards and upgrade chests. Most of you prefer cards, s…
Patch notes14 changesFixGameplay - Dark Samurai
🏯 Minimap, more boss fights and weapons
Minimap We've been working on adding a minimap that will not only display the geography of any explored area, but also indicate the location of unopened chests, bosses, gongs and torii gates, merchants and your fallen a…
Patch notes13 changesFixMaps - Dark Samurai
🏯 Boss fights, spear, and halberd
Boss fights We've been working on boss fights behind the scenes. This update contains the first two behaviors our bosses can have, melee area attacks and charge attacks. Of course all boss attacks are clearly telegraphe…
Store11 changes2 numericFix - Dark Samurai
🏯 Lightning balance
As many of you have noticed, our lightning character Raijin had some extremely overpowered attacks, especially the lightning aura. Thank you all for alerting us via the in-game feedback form and on our forums. The light…
Patch notes7 changesFixBalance - Dark Samurai
🏯 Cat!
We've added three new weapons for you to find. Grenade 💣 Shuriken Glaives that bounce between enemies Claw swipe More permanent upgrades are coming back: Armor Health Loot magnet range Attack speed As always, you can u…
Announcement15 changesFixGameplay - Dark Samurai
🏯 Astral upgrades
Permanent progression upgrades are back! And not just the generic ones, but also unique upgrade like: life-steal for the katana an additional skill slot a new powerful yumi attack 🏹 You can unlock them by leveling up y…
Announcement2 changesFixGameplay - Dark Samurai
🏯 Lightning strikes
Today's shocking update comes with a new playable electrifying character and three new weapons. Chain lightning: jumps between enemies, dealing damage and stun. Fork lightning: targets multiple enemies at the same time.…
Announcement3 changesFixGameplay
