Altar of Challenge + Mega Content Update

Today is a monumental day. I am extremely excited to announce that the game is officially participating in the Steam Bullet Fest! If you are just arriving because of the festival, welcome to the unwanted dungeon! This is the absolute perfect time to begin your journey: the game is more dynamic, challenging, and rewarding than ever.

And to celebrate the start of the festival, a massive content update has been prepared, filled with new features, high-risk mechanics, brand-new treasures, and a flood of new Steam achievements.

🏛️ The Altar of Challenge!

How much is a high-rarity item worth? The Altar of Challenge has just been discovered in the depths!

• How it works: During your runs, common rooms now have a considerable chance of spawning the Altar of Challenge right in the center of the map.

• The Pact: The altar immediately offers a higher rarity item... but in exchange for a voluntary and brutal challenge that you must complete before you can clear the room.

• Complete the challenge and reap rewards worthy of a hapless explorer!

More Scenarios and Modules

To make semi-procedural exploration even more alive, immersive, and surprising, new scenario modules have been added. As you walk through the dungeon, you will find new corridor designs, revamped walls, towering pillars, and unprecedented treasure hideouts. Every run will feel like a new discovery!

💀 New Objectives and Curses!

Fate has become even more unpredictable. New dynamics will now appear in your Fate Cards:

New Room Objectives

• Collector: Greed speaks louder! Collect a specific amount of coins to seal and complete the room.

• Evil Runes: Ancient runes will appear on the map. You will need to approach and activate them... but be prepared, as massive hordes will try to destroy you!

• 🗿 Cursed Statue: A profane structure appears with a single purpose: to destroy you. Your objective? Destroy it first!

Expanded Curse System

No less than 11 New Curses have been added that can appear in the fate cards! The risk has increased, but so have the rewards:

• 5 Negative Curses: To test the limits of your survival.

• 1 Neutral Curse: An unexpected twist in gameplay.

• 5 High Risk / High Reward Curses: For those who like to play on the edge and be generously rewarded for it!

🏆 New Treasures

New treasures have been added to create devastating synergies in your gameplay:

• Fossilized Wrath: Shoots a devastating lightning bolt in the direction you are facing.

• Hexed Scythe: Throws four slicing projectiles diagonally.

• Whispering Notebook: A mystical projectile that travels randomly, clearing the map.

• Purifier: Conjures a divine rain that hits the entire screen.

• Crimson Compass: Summons an overwhelming pillar of fire.

• Fire Staff of Protection: Conjures a protective ring of flames around you.

• Tormented Wings: Creates a hurricane that pushes and repels threats.

• AddedGuardian's HornSummons a powerful allied Golem! (This is a sneak peek of a brand-new companion mechanic that will be fully explored in our next major update in June!)

Design Note: To make items more desirable and unique, all treasures now only exist in specific rarities. This prevents them from cluttering the drop pool for other essential categories like equipment.

🍷 New Potions

The Transient Merchant brought smuggled goods straight from the alchemy underworld. Introducing brand-new potions with highly relevant permanent attributes to change the course of your build:

• Redroot Distillate: +10% permanent current Damage.

• Medicinal Herbal Oil: +8% permanent current Max Health.

• Stimulant Brew: +10% permanent Movement Speed.

• Hemotoxic Mixture: +1% Execution.

• Effervescent Potion: +4% Haste.

• Lucky Drop: +4% Critical Chance.

• Potion of Fulfillment: Instantly completes the Altar of Challenge, releasing the reward with no risks!

Changes to the Merchant's Shop

Due to the massive power of these new potions, their base price has been slightly increased.

Additionally, the Merchant's stock has become more unpredictable: before, he always guaranteed two potions; now, they have a chance to appear or not in the shop. (Oh, and the Purification Potion can now appear for sale without any special conditions... keep an eye out, as it is tied to a great secret!).

Some of the Merchant's older potions now also drop directly from consumable bags in the dungeon!

👑 22 New Steam Achievements

Attention, achievement hunters! 22 New Steam Achievements have been added for you to unlock. There are challenges for all playstyles, from defeating bosses without taking damage to reaching very high levels. Furthermore, all achievements have been translated into all supported languages! 🥳

Along with the achievements, the Steam Stats system has been implemented. Now you can track the progress bar of each achievement in real time directly on your profile!

SPOILER: Give it your best in every run starting today! Your stats are already being saved in the background, and in our next major update, the Official Leaderboard will be available to rank the best players in the world!

⚡ Offers of the Ineffable

The Ineffable has expanded its horizons. Prepare to bargain with new bonus and sacrifice options:

• Reduces the movement speed of enemies on the current floor by 20%.

• Immediate teleport to room 1 of the next floor.

• The Boss of the next floor receives +70% health and +25% damage (More challenge, more reward!).

• Receive 1 'Blood of the Ineffable' potion (Can be repeated).

• Lose 90% of your current health in exchange for absolute power.

• Increases your maximum level in the run by +4.

• When removing items from the inventory, you now receive their sell value.

• Increases the price of shop items and Ineffable offers by +35%.

• Instantly gain +2 skill points.

• Permanently lose the ability to become invulnerable.

• Receive a 2% shield whenever you use an active skill.

• ❌ (The old offer to increase the execution attribute limit has been removed).

🛠️ Balance Adjustments, Fixes, and Polish

• AdjustedFragmented Arrow (Elias)size and speed have been increased and sounds have been improved.
• AdjustedMore dangerous trapsThe damage of all environmental traps has been increased from 10% to 15% of the player's maximum health . Keep an eye on the ground!

• Scaling Special Enemies: Creatures like the Mimic, Dimensional Portal, and Werewolf now have their health, speed, and damage perfectly adapted according to the player's level and current floor.

• AdjustedCurse FrequencyAdjusted the spawn rate of curses depending on the floor to ensure a fairer and more exciting difficulty curve.
• FixedBug FixFixed the bug in the curse that managed the enemy spawn speed.
• FixedLocalizationThe objective to open tombs had its description properly translated and fixed for all languages.

The Bullet Fest is just beginning, and the dungeon awaits you. Whether trying to break records for the future leaderboard, hunting the 22 new achievements, or surviving the dangers of the Altar of Challenge, your time to shine is now!

If you enjoy the new content, don't forget to leave your review on Steam, it helps me immensely to grow during the festival and motivates me to bring new updates to the game!

See you in the depths of the dungeon!