Source of Madness

Carry Castle · Thunderful Publishing

Released: May 11, 2022
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Last updated: 15 Sep 2026, 19:31 GMT

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18 Mar 2025Developer post
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29 May 2024Developer post
Slumbering Patch and New game trailer!
Greetings and salutations! I am happy to announce that Midnight Horde got an alpha trailer and Source of Madness got lots of fixes and improvements! Okay back to the actual Patch! Major Changes Exiting the safe save scene now saves the run so if it crashes you should be able to r
Greetings and salutations!
I am happy to announce that Midnight Horde got an alpha trailer and Source of Madness got lots of fixes and improvements!
Watch on YouTube
Okay back to the actual Patch!
Major Changes

Exiting the safe save scene now saves the run so if it crashes you should be able to replay from there anyway. But not if you die or exit the run.
Monster melee combat overhaul
Monsters & Combat

Monsters should be slightly stronger and faster with their limbs
Monster attack timings are now much faster, but their attack window is shorter which should give more interesting fights.
Added some more monster classes to difficulty 1 that only existed on difficulty 2 before
Changed how force is applied on attacks that should result in fewer super jumps
Limb damage can now propagate 0 damage to the main body instead of 1 which nerfs some lower level attacks that are smaller than 5.
Nerfed hp on laser fliers
Player

Fixed pooling jumping and landing special effects issue
Fixed bloodmancer ability issue
Improved movement animations to be more snappy
Hurt effect now scales correctly with ultra wide resolutions
Removed Lovecraft as a first name
Fixed bug where you got a different name and stats than shown in the character selection
World

Infinite spawner in forest of lies now dies after spawning 50 monsters
First scene in loam land now uses correct post effect
Loam land is slightly less blue
Bug final boss was missing a post effect
NPCs now grab the post effect the player uses to make the text talk camera change less jarring
Other

Widescreen support for transitions and main menu and character selection scene
Improved snappyness of the character selection scene
Spotlight in character selection now works better
Fixed control mapper localization for left and right in French
Fingers crossed I did not break anything with my fixes, but if so, let me know!
You can wishlist the next game here.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/864170/Midnight_Horde/
//Per
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19 May 2024Developer post
New patch soon!
Greetings and salutations! I'm working on a new patch and if you would feel so inclined, you can help me test it. I will combo this patch with announcing the first trailer of Midnight Horde, once the patch is ready to set live. To try the patch, you need to join the patch testing
Greetings and salutations!
I'm working on a new patch and if you would feel so inclined, you can help me test it.
I will combo this patch with announcing the first trailer of Midnight Horde, once the patch is ready to set live.
To try the patch, you need to join the patch testing branch with the password: "iwouldliketobeatester".
Let me know what you think and if you find major bugs.
Here is the changelog:
Major Changes

Exiting the safe save scene now saves the run so if it crashes you should be able to replay from there anyway. But not if you die or exit the run.
Monsters & Combat

Monsters should be slightly stronger and faster with their limbs
Added some more monster classes to difficulty 1 that only existed on difficulty 2 before
Player

Fixed pooling jumping and landing special effects issue
Fixed bloodmancer ability issue
Improved movement animations to be more snappy
Hurt effect now scales correctly with ultra wide resolutions
World

Infinite spawner in forest of lies now dies after spawning 50 monsters
First scene in loam land now uses correct post effect
Loam land is slightly less blue
Other

Widescreen support for transitions and main menu and character selection scene
Improved snappiness of the character selection scene
Spotlight in character selection now works better
Fixed control mapper localization for left and right in French
Always appreciate a wishlist on my new game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/864170/Midnight_Horde/
I wish you the best
//Per
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11 Jul 2023Developer post
Balance and Monster Ninjas
Hello there! So you might have seen the other news post about the beta branch, I did some more work on it and think it is ready to be released into the wild. Hopefully these changes result in a bit more challenging but fair game. Changelog Reworked monster melee punching system.
Hello there!
So you might have seen the other news post about the beta branch, I did some more work on it and think it is ready to be released into the wild. [fingers crossed]
Hopefully these changes result in a bit more challenging but fair game.
Changelog

Reworked monster melee punching system.
Improved readability of torch platforms against the moon boss.
Balanced monster limb to monster main body damage propagation.
Lowered damage increase on further difficulties.
Lowered final boss hp on further difficulties.
Lowered laser beam fliers hp.
Reworked aoe damage abilities to do less damage to the monster main body.
Improved readability of monster spiderweb projectile.
Moon boss hp should end up behind the death screen now.
Lowered amount of spikes on the hedgehog monster.
Moon boss platforms
This is a balance patch but I also spent a bit of time reworking the melee system for monsters. I made them pretty weak at one point because they had a habit of lifting off like a rocket sometimes. The solution was to basically stop the monster in its track for one frame before it performs the next attack. This allowed me to boost up the attack velocity by a lot without breaking the game or monster.
So this should result in more intense monster fights.
Obligatory next game Link
https://store.steampowered.com/app/864170/Midnight_Horde/
Thank you for playing and let me know if you find broken things in the patch.
Cheers
Per
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02 Jul 2023Developer post
Balance patch in the Beta Branch
Hi everyone! So I have done some balance work and tweaks based on feedback in the reviews. Mostly adressing early game cheese with some aoe weapons and nightmare difficulty boss hp. This patch is not live in the main branch but exist in the patchtesting branch. The main part is t
27 Feb 2023Developer post
Hotfixes and smaller changes
You no longer need to beat a difficulty to access the difficulty altar and all difficulties. Fixed Bug: Ambience Volume slider not working General menu alignment improved Prevented damage flashing on some inanimate objects "Cannot unlock skill" text was not localized
You no longer need to beat a difficulty to access the difficulty altar and all difficulties.
Fixed Bug: Ambience Volume slider not working
General menu alignment improved
Prevented damage flashing on some inanimate objects
"Cannot unlock skill" text was not localized
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19 Feb 2023Developer post
Well Being + New Game!
Greetings and salutations! I have a secret announcement to make! MIDNIGHT HORDE! It is a game I have been wanting to make and have been sketching on for quite some time! Midnight Horde is a gothic horror casual action game with rogue-lite elements where you battle thousands of en
Greetings and salutations!
I have a secret announcement to make!
MIDNIGHT HORDE!
It is a game I have been wanting to make and have been sketching on for quite some time!
Midnight Horde is a gothic horror casual action game with rogue-lite elements where you battle thousands of enemies. Discover the secrets of the castle and upgrade weapons and fortifications to keep darkness at bay.
Please check it out, Wishlist it and help me shape it!
So now on to the real thing, this Patch is pretty big and I have been working on a lot of fixes and quality of life content. I hope you will enjoy the changes and will help me find new bugs.
Watch on YouTube
Major Changes

Removed cast time for all spells including Teleportation Dash.
Cooldown Reducing stats now works for Charge Spells.
Aim line has been added (can be disabled in the General Menu).
On damage flash feedback for players and monsters. (Can be disabled and tweaked in the General Menu).
On damage/cast impact freeze frame (can be disabled in the General Menu) it is extremely short but can give more weight to attacks and damage.
Elemental Enemies no longer cause Poison or Burn status effects on touch and instead cause them when they hit you with a melee attack.
Charging no longer slows you down.
Monsters & Combat

Added 4+ new Monster Challenge rooms
The Great Fireball Ring is now chargeable.
The Fireball Ring is now Chargeable.
New Hood: Hood of Storm.
New Ring: Ice Spikes Ring.
New Hood: Ice hood, Spawns a minion that shoots freeze projectiles.
New Trinket: While airborne cooldown buff.
New Augment: Electric Turret
New Augment: Ice Turret
Force Push now blocks projectiles.
Changed how Kings Ring works, now shoots mirror projectiles like before.
Nerfed Krampus
The main body of a monster will now receive slightly more damage from its limbs when you damage its limbs. The monster dies when the main body loses all of its hp.
Some punch areas of melee monsters have been increased.
Player

You can now lower the drop chance of unlocked items in the Skill Tree.
You can unlock a node that allows you to pick from all classes at the character selection.
Added more Legendary Item effects.
Tweaked added more stats to Cultist Hood.
Removed Friendly Fire from Pyromancer dash ability.
Improved Tutorial.
Bloodmancers Orbs lech intervals are a lot slower to not be so stressful when it leches life.
World

Improved visuals for Tower of knowledge to make it easier for new players of what unlocks are important.
Blocked ceiling for Final Boss Room.
Other

Improved camshake from Fire Bombs.
Fire Bombs improved visuals.
You can now disable Damage Numbers in the General Menu.
Removed Playfab analytics.
Removed opt out of analytics, because playfab is no longer in the game.
Keyboard support on by default in multiplayer now.
UIScale should hit faster to be less noticeable on scene change.
Bug Fixes

No more infinity jumping on walls.
Fixed getting out of water sometimes still drowns you.
Blood pool in front of some assets has now been moved back.
The distribution of many projectiles on charge ability was slightly offset.
Fixed ASUS AURORA bugs that kept the mouse and headset flashing.
Lightning lance is no longer in the Skill Tree since it will drop anyway.
Fixed shadow flipping bug in multiplayer.
Improved Shadow while jumping.
Fixed: can’t exit multiplayer scene if no gamepads are connected and keyboard is set to off.
Blocked insane high damage.
Fixed elite camera flickering water on and off.
Optimized some physics chunks in the Loam Lands.
Optimized Bloodmancers rendering
//Per
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07 Jan 2023Developer post
Asus minor update
Okay updated to 1.1.3 minor changes but properly tested this time.
05 Jan 2023Developer post
Reverted ASUS hotfix
Reverted ASUS hotfix
05 Jan 2023Developer post
Minor ASUS patch
Updated gifs to behave better for ASUS AURORA effects
23 Dec 2022Developer post
Physical Release!
Source of Madness gets a limited physical Nintendo Switch release in January! It will be quite special being able to hold your game and it is childhood dream coming true! So if you want something more tangible of Source of madness you can order it on superraregames.com A total of
09 Sep 2022Developer post
Steamdeck Verified!
I am happy to announce that Valve has confirmed that Source of Madness now fully support the Steamdeck! Why not send us a screenshot of it on your steamdeck to celebrate? It would make us very happy :) Regards Per
07 Sep 2022Developer post
Multiplayer player mapping changed
We now let you pick between 1-5 players in the menu, instead of automatically assigning all connected controllers at the start of a game.
06 Sep 2022Developer post
UI scale interaction with tooltip fix
In some extreme cases the tooltips can grow outside the bounds of the screen when max UI scale is set. To fix this it now is moved slightly upwards based on the number of line of texts it has if it is in the lower part of the screen.
02 Sep 2022Developer post
Minor bug fix
Bug fix: Found an invisible monster in new game ++
02 Sep 2022Developer post
Mini fix
Bug fix: Multiplayer was not localized
01 Sep 2022Developer post
Multiplayer
Greetings and salutations! We are happy to finally release our secret project, a local multiplayer versus mode! You can play it online with Steam's "Remote Play Together" system! We are now also fully supporting the Steamdeck! New Content 5 Multiplayer maps Modified spells for mu
Greetings and salutations!
We are happy to finally release our secret project, a local multiplayer versus mode! You can play it online with Steam's "Remote Play Together" system! We are now also fully supporting the Steamdeck!
Watch on YouTube
New Content

5 Multiplayer maps
Modified spells for multiplayer
Death Match Versus Mode up to 5 players
Modifier settings for multiplayer
Multiplayer

Map: Lake
Map: Harbor
Map: Water Beam
Map: Ice Cave
Map: Yith
Multiplayer Spell: Modified Melee Slash
Multiplayer Spell: Modified Fireball
Multiplayer Spell: Modified Great Fireball
Multiplayer Spell: Modified Ice Lance
Multiplayer Spell: Modified Ice Sphere
Multiplayer Spell: Modified Eye of Cthulhu
Multiplayer Spell: Modified Flame Lance
Multiplayer Spell: Modified Lightning Lance
Multiplayer Spell: Modified Ice Dagger
Multiplayer Spell: Modified Arcane Burst
Multiplayer Spell: Modified Kings Ring
Multiplayer Spell: Modified Bamboo Burst
Multiplayer Spell: Modified Force Push
Modifier: Start Time
Modifier: Restart Time
Modifier: Number of resurrections
Modifier: Cooldown
Modifier: Damage Increase
Modifier: Speed
Modifier: Number of Dashes
Other

Changed how the Skill Tree focuses on a node between maximum UI Scale and normal mode
Increased Text size in inventory UI and Tooltips
Changed Max Min UI scale range from -2 to 1 to -1 to 1 instead
Increased Gamepad Joystick UI navigation from 5 to 10 inputs per second
That is all for now, cheers!
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15 Aug 2022Developer post
Patch: Back from Summer
Greetings and Salutations Items, bugs and UI readability. In this patch we have improved UI scaling and readability when you zoom in to improve readability for smaller screens like the Steamdeck. We have also done some balancing and a lot of bug fixes. Player Item: Augment Storm
Greetings and Salutations
Items, bugs and UI readability.
In this patch we have improved UI scaling and readability when you zoom in to improve readability for smaller screens like the Steamdeck. We have also done some balancing and a lot of bug fixes.
Player
Item: Augment Storm Turret
Item: Augment: Frost Turret
Item: Ring: Ice Spikes
Increased base speed slightly
Removed Curse: Playing with Fire
Balanced Poison Bomb
Balanced Force Push
Balanced Fire Bomb
Balanced Gem Ring
Other
Massive rework and polish on scaling up UI for smaller screens
Increased default text size in some areas like the save zone
Bug Fixes
Changing back difficulty did not enable the path to Act 2
Upgrade to allow blood and money to drop worked incorrectly
Items no longer fall down in Character Selection menu
Prologue in the Loam Lands, materials had different light settings
Aim towards mouse was accidentally on by default for gamepads in some scenarios
Icemancer was still used instead of cryomancer in some scenarios
No auto-select in General Menu
I hope you all had a nice summer.
Per
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01 Jul 2022Developer post
After Summer
Hello, We are almost done with a new quality of life patch that will improve game balance, fix bugs, perfomance and text readability on smaller screens. This patch will hopefully be released once we return from Summer holidays in August. One known issue is that it is very hard to
20 Jun 2022Developer post
Patch: Insanity
Greetings and Salutations This is our first big post launch patch, it contains fixes and two new difficulties that can be enabled in the tower of knowledge once you beat act 3. These difficulties also come with a host of new enemy designs, some that will also be added to the rest
Greetings and Salutations
This is our first big post launch patch, it contains fixes and two new difficulties that can be enabled in the tower of knowledge once you beat act 3. These difficulties also come with a host of new enemy designs, some that will also be added to the rest of the game. We have also added a fan made Turkish translation of the game.
New Content
Difficulty 2 and 3 has been added
New monster enemy classes
Turkish has been added
Death stats has been added
Watch on YouTube
Monsters & Combat
2 new Difficulties
Improved monster spawn variety
Final boss damage area is now more visible
Improved visuals on monster melee attacks
Improved Stilt legged monsters
Damage spikes now scaled
Damage spikes have mostly been removed from difficulty 1
New Monster Class: Hedgehog
New Monster Class: Beam flier
New Monster Class: Carbuncles
New Monster Class: Inferno
New Monster Class: Fester
New Monster Class: Mistborn
New Monster Class: Insane beam flier
New Monster Class: Insane fire flier
Balanced the game
Player
On the death screen there are now stats
The death screen is now a prompt that allows you to exit the game instead of continuing
Lifesteal now scale with item tier
Changed playing with fire curse to now have a chance to drop a fire bomb on casting a fire spell
Other
Icemancer has been renamed to Cryomancer
Implemented a gamma slider for the graphics menu
You can now disable HP bars
Bug Fixes
Status effects from Trinkets now scale with item tier
Dark Gateway now scale with item tier
The final boss died after destroying one of the tentacles in a certain order
Sewer levels had a buggy stone that is now fixed
You could fall of a platform in ToK
Spell casting could break if you if you picked up a spell while being max charge
Quality name not set at start
That is all for now, cheers!
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Updates & announcements

Major Changes

Monsters & Combat

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World

Other

Major Changes

Monsters & Combat

Player

World

Other

Hello there!

Changelog

MIDNIGHT HORDE!

Major Changes

Monsters & Combat

Player

World

Other

Bug Fixes

New Content

Multiplayer

Other

New Content

Monsters & Combat

Player

Other

Bug Fixes