Developer posts and news about this game.
Hey everyone! After having this game available to the public for over a year now, I've been able to better understand what I value in a game like this, what kind of experience I want to bring, and how I want new players to feel when they get their hands on the game for the first
New Party & Essence Interfaces - Essences have a new interface. - Essences are now stored separately from Items. - Improved the responsiveness of buttons.
Spin Fragment Changes - Spin Fragments are now used only for rerolling. Any additional uses they may gain in the future will be related to in-run uses, not metaprogression. - They are reset to 0 after each run. - When you begin a run you are given 20 free fragments to start , plu
- Fixed a bug causing Demonic Skills to be usable for free.
Demonform 2.0 The Demonform system has been simplified, and has a new interface. You no longer need to manually customize what is equipped to each form. Instead, they can all be levelled up until they reach the maximum of 3, unlocking a new ability with each level. Corruption is
Thank you to everyone for all of your support as I continue improving Malice & Greed! We were accepted into this year's Digital Dragons festival in Poland, and although we sadly weren't able to travel to the physical conference this time, we're participating in the online eve
Event Improvements You can now increase ally Potential, HP & Resistances in events, not just the protagonist! The Bloodpath and the Irradiated Pools have been updated to use the choice box interface. More events will be added in the future that offer further risk / reward. Th
If you got stuck on a sacrifice screen, update to the latest version to fix this bug
Skill Transfer You can now transfer skills between allies to build the ultimate set of party members! Essence skills cannot be overwritten (you can still change essences on a fused unit). Other Changes: - Item events now show you the item possibilities beforehand, letting you cho
Channeled Skills This update brings a new mechanic: Channeled Skills! Instead of being cast immediately, you must finish a number of rounds to prepare the Skill. Once ready, it can be used on ANY ally's turn, causing the Channeling unit to cast the Skill for free , even if they a
New Keyword: Affinity A new keyword has been added to skills! Affinity allows you to consume buff and debuff stacks to pay for the Potential cost of a skill. Here's how it works: Intimidate is a fairly pricey skill, but applies a full-power attack debuff onto an enemy while strip
Quality of Life Improvements - Skill damage numbers now update based on factors like Attack, Defense, and immunities. - Damage Over Time on units is now pre-calculated and shown on their health bar. If the unit will die, the bar turns pink: Additionally, status effects now have d
Malice & Greed's 'Devil In The Details' Update is here! This update is focused around reducing the amount of brain melting caused by the game, while adding more strategic payoffs that don't require a Ph.D. Major Changes - Buffs and Debuffs have been reduced in complexity to m
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New Items Dead Dove (Rare) When the protagonist or an ally with Technology Essence spends Potential, Protect them. Power Drill (Rare) When a battle starts, Potentiate all allies, and they lose 1 Defense. Indestructible Fridge (Common) The ally that ends your round automatically G
A large lag spike involving a recent change to legendary items is now fixed. If you found the game crashing or hanging when entering an event at seemingly random points during a run, this has been resolved.
Normal Runs & Advanced Runs The game as it has existed up until now featured an open, nonlinear map. This version of the game is now known as Advanced Mode. The old mode has not been changed in this update, and functions just like you remember it, it has just been rebranded a
Memory Leak & Bug Fixes - A memory leak causing stability issues involving tooltips has been fixed. - A bug causing the map to not reset fully has been fixed. If your map was slowly being filled with bloodstains, this will now be fixed. - The overall stability of the game sho
The 'Skill Mastery' Update! MAJOR BUGFIX: - A bug sometimes preventing runs from being started by not displaying initial bonuses has been fixed. Skill Mastery You can now Master Common & Uncommon skills by spending Blood Roses. Mastered skills can be equipped by any starting
11 New Skills! Note: Protean Shot is not a protagonist-only skill like the others. The starting builds have been redesigned , with each of them getting one of the Unique skills shown above, and some other skill changes.