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Blood Feast

It is time to feast upon the blood of your enemies! Welcome the Margrave to your roster - a blood sucking killer that heals on hit, and can even perform unholy blood transfusions...

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What changed

2 fixes4 additions4 changes0 removals
  • Balance
  • Events
  • Gameplay
  • Fixes
  • UI and audio
  • Compatibility
changedIt is time to feast upon the blood of your enemies! Welcome the Margrave to your roster - a blood sucking killer that heals on hit, and can even perform unholy blood transfusions...
addedFind new items in the dungeon to become the ultimate leeching lich! The Dark Pact and Bloody Fangs will enable all your units to heal through their attacks, while Bat will improve healing from all sources. Platelets will turn corpuscles into a healing engine, while Fatal Vigor will empower fully healed units to deal more damage. Summon the mighty Blood Golem through consistent overhealing...
addedYou will need all the help you can get, because your foes have gathered their strongest champions for a final push to defeat you. The new Boss Rush level provides a tough challenge by making you fight through every boss in the game in one dungeon.
changedNew Features:Implemented settings option that disables stack icons when there are too many active at the same time
addedNew Features:New chest types (Ducat Safe, Corpuscle Urn)
changedBalancing:Reduced number of Curses required in Arena tier two difficulty

Skull Horde changes

changedIt is time to feast upon the blood of your enemies! Welcome the Margrave to your roster - a blood sucking killer that heals on hit, and can even perform unholy blood transfusions...
addedFind new items in the dungeon to become the ultimate leeching lich! The Dark Pact and Bloody Fangs will enable all your units to heal through their attacks, while Bat will improve healing from all sources. Platelets will turn corpuscles into a healing engine, while Fatal Vigor will empower fully healed units to deal more damage. Summon the mighty Blood Golem through consistent overhealing...
addedYou will need all the help you can get, because your foes have gathered their strongest champions for a final push to defeat you. The new Boss Rush level provides a tough challenge by making you fight through every boss in the game in one dungeon.
changedImplemented settings option that disables stack icons when there are too many active at the same time
addedNew chest types (Ducat Safe, Corpuscle Urn)

It is time to feast upon the blood of your enemies! Welcome the Margrave to your roster - a blood sucking killer that heals on hit, and can even perform unholy blood transfusions...

Find new items in the dungeon to become the ultimate leeching lich! The Dark Pact and Bloody Fangs will enable all your units to heal through their attacks, while Bat will improve healing from all sources. Platelets will turn corpuscles into a healing engine, while Fatal Vigor will empower fully healed units to deal more damage. Summon the mighty Blood Golem through consistent overhealing...

Additionally, the Bodkin Tip will help your ranged units pierce through filthy flesh, while the Balanced Hilt will ensure your blows strike true.

You will need all the help you can get, because your foes have gathered their strongest champions for a final push to defeat you. The new Boss Rush level provides a tough challenge by making you fight through every boss in the game in one dungeon.

Full change log below.

PATCH NOTES

New Items:

  • Balanced Hilt

  • Bodkin Tip

  • Platelets

  • Bat

  • Fatal Vigor

  • Dark Pact

  • Blood Golem

  • Bloody Fangs

New Units:

  • Margrave

New Levels:

  • Boss Rush

New Features:

  • Implemented settings option that disables stack icons when there are too many active at the same time

  • New chest types (Ducat Safe, Corpuscle Urn)

Balancing:

  • Reduced number of Curses required in Arena tier two difficulty

Fixes:

  • Fixed bug associated with Chosen One achievement

  • Fixed issue with long unit descriptions spilling over in squad recruitment screen

Steam post image How you can help

The experimental branch gets access to new builds before the main branch. Switch to the experimental branch to test new builds before they are released to everyone else. Please report any issues using the "Send Bug report" button in the main menu. If there are no issues - please comment here to let us know!

To access the experimental branch: Right click Skull Horde in your Steam library. Click Properties -> Game Versions & Betas -> opt in to the experimental branch. Ensure the game updates before you launch it.

Steam post image Warning

Updates are tested before they are uploaded, but there is always a risk that we have missed something. If you are on the experimental branch, please back up your savefile manually from time to time (particularly around updates). If anything goes wrong we will help you restore your save.

Steam post image Your savefile is located:

Windows: %appdata%\\8bitskull_skull_horde\\

Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/8bitskull_skull_horde/

Linux: ~/.local/share/8bitskull_skull_horde/

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Steam News / 23 May 2026

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