Discover What’s New in Goblin Journal Demo #2

Greetings, archivists and adventurers!

The second Goblin Journal demo is here, now featuring a full tutorial! A dedicated level guides you through the goblins’ adventures and reveals the secrets of their journals through the translator’s story. It’s a perfect introduction for new players and a chance for veterans to explore the improvements we’ve made.

A complete tutorial level with its own story

Also new in this demo

• Updated tooltips for items, abilities, and statuses.

• Showing the squad members who survived the combat.

• Enemy intention system updates and new combat animations (hit, blood, death).

• Initiative calculation with a d6 roll, action point costs, and turn order indicators.

• Visual enhancements: shadows for combatants, fort building labels, placeholders for empty arena positions, and dimming inactive combatants.

• Squad panel layout and background improvements.

New features and quality-of-life updates

• Reworked some orders (action, target, buff)

• Added rest punishment (pursuers advance)

• One sleep per fort visit

• Combatant death animation

• Equipment now respects HP, preventing accidental losses

• New items, including tools to knock back pursuers on the map

Fixes

• Fixed food display over “zzz” on the map

• Fixed selling duplicate instances in fort

• Fixed saving bag after removing or equipping items

• Fixed position status application

• Fixed armor locking in combat

• Saved fort item and hire pool state between visits

• Fixed goblins spawning with 0 HP

• Fixed stun, haste, and hold status behavior

• Fixed random initiative recalculation at round start in some cases

• Fixed equipping armor during events so it’s not lost from inventory

Localization

We’re also excited to announce that Goblin Journal will be localized into several languages this September, including Russian, French, German, and Spanish.

Why your feedback matters: Every suggestion helps us make the game sharper, more immersive, and funnier in all the right ways.

What’s next: Expanded journals, item synergy, advanced enemies, and much more await in the full version. Download the demo, explore the tutorial, and share your discoveries on Steam or Discord!

— The Goblin Journal dev team