Demon Source Release Date

22 Jul 2026Developer post

I am back! With the final Demo!

Hello everyone! I sinserely apologize for being absent. Short story: I am aiming to release the game to early access next month. And now I prepared a somewhat polished demo for playtesting. Please, give it a try! It is much, much better than the older version. Long Story: As you

Hello everyone!

I sinserely apologize for being absent.
Short story:

I am aiming to release the game to early access next month. And now I prepared a somewhat polished demo for playtesting. Please, give it a try! It is much, much better than the older version.

Long Story:
As you may know, I live in Ukraine and recent events have shaken me a bit.

Nevertheless, after a year or two, I returned to work, only to realize, that my tech stack became quite old. Also, there were some critical bugs that couldn't be fixed.

Therefore, I decided to migrate all my project from Unity 2020 to 2022 and from Game Creator to Game Creator 2. Which meant remaking all the systems and 90% of the content.

The result was quite clunky. Somehow, I missed the magic that made the game interesting for me. So I started to draft all my systems in spreadsheets in order to improve game design. As a result,

Every weapon now has its own playstyle. Swords now have shields and can protect from projectiles. Rapiers and daggers have significant parry bonus, greatswords are devastating, but can't block.
Every ability actually does something useful. Decrease defence of your enemies, blind them, teleport behind the back, reflect the damage and more and more. Each skill is quite unique
I created quite unique and laconic stat system. And each stat has significant impact on your abilities
The AI have been reworked to provide more challenging interactions. Archers will retreat when you are close or will try to kick you. Some enemies can understand that they are targeted and block before being attacked. Not mentioning that each room has unique combination of enemies
7 NPCs were added to hub with a lot of upgrades. Also, I gave them some dialogues and initial quest system. But it will be availible only after the early access

So it is the same concept, but a completely new game! I hope that it will have at least some auditory.
And please, please - leave your feedback anywhere you like. It will be crucial for the upcoming release

Thanks!

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20 Aug 2023Developer post

Prefinal Demo is live

Hello everyone, I am alive! And I am happy to announce the new demo build. Since war started I had very little time to work on it but I spent a lot of time improving it. My aim now is to find a a working formula that will make the game interesting. And that build is the closest t

01 May 2022Developer post

Demo version 1.4 is live

Hello everyone! I think I reached the point where I can say that now demo version is kinda final. That update was made especially for the upcoming "Going Rogue" festival that starts very soon. I hope it will allow me to gain more wishlists. (There are 1500 by far, thank you, ever

11 Apr 2022Developer post

Demo version 1.3 is released

Hi there! Sorry for being late with this for almost a two weeks. As you may notice, I am a belarusian guy who is being sanctioned as hell. But I live in Ukraine with Ukrainian wife. So war kinda affects my performance. Even the final release date may be delayed. Luckily, I do it

Hi there!

Sorry for being late with this for almost a two weeks. As you may notice, I am a belarusian guy who is being sanctioned as hell. But I live in Ukraine with Ukrainian wife. So war kinda affects my performance. Even the final release date may be delayed. Luckily, I do it on my own and don't have any publisher to tell me what to do.

Anyway. I am continue improving my game. And I finally have managed to apply some fixes I wanted for a long time.

Here it is. Version 1.3 includes:

- Update of ragdoll system - no more double triggering ragdoll state
- Update of melee system - hitboxes doesn't collide without purpose
- Item destruction module fix - no more freezes on destruction
- AI Navmesh fix - enemies can walk between rooms now. And almost not being stuck when chasing you
- Gold can be found in the dungeon. And if you are lucky, you can find a trader and buy something from him (currently unbalanced thing. So you really need to be very lucky)
- Parts can be found in the dungeon - use them for green skills or repair mechanisms
- Skill system rework - now red skills are free but have long cooldown. Blue skills consume mana but have less cooldown. And green skills have no cooldown, but each use consumes a certain amount of parts
- Now you can upgrade your weapons with blessing altars
- 3 new rooms were added: workshop, labyrinth, puzzlefloor room. As well as one interesting encounter.
- Source collection effect is fixed - now it triggers every time you get source. Not just one time.
- Chests are now highlighted to make them easier to find
- Shadows were disabled for player and some other objects, which drastically improved the performance on Mac
- Weapon special skills have been fixed. Some of them are not finished, but all of them are working now. I also added a slow mo effects to some of them.
- Other minor bug fixes

Wow, I realised the amount of work I did only after I wrote this list.

At the beginning of may there will be a Steam festival for Roguelike games. I am planning to make my demo polished as much as I can to maximise the effect. Specifically, I am going to:

- Add more little decorative objects to rooms, making them visually beautiful
- AI improvements
- Sounds rework
- Save/Load system (Probably)

So stay in touch! And please, shout in the comments if something isn't working in new build.

Have a nice day!

Ernest

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27 Feb 2022Developer post

Demon Source Roadmap

Thank you for finding me on Steam Next fest and earlier. During the playtest you left me a lot of precious feedback. Especially regarding the most annoying bugs. I will give them higher priority. However, it is clear now that the game should be polished before I start to make new

Thank you for finding me on Steam Next fest and earlier. During the playtest you left me a lot of precious feedback. Especially regarding the most annoying bugs. I will give them higher priority.

However, it is clear now that the game should be polished before I start to make new content. So I created a roadmap for myself that I would like to share with you, but first...

PEASE, IF YOU ARE PLAYING DEMO, BE FORGIVING
I am jut one person and there is a war in my country preventing me to work 24/7 fixing it for now.
In general, I encourage you to try it, but for the full experience, please, wait a month and a half.

So,

THE ROADMAP

01 March - Download the demo button will not be featured on the page anymore. However, you will still be able to find it below the info block on the right.
Release date will be changed to September

30 March - Version 1.3 with fixes:
- Sound rework, adding more sounds to enemies. And fixing bugs when using some skills (like lightning)
- Fix of invisible walls and visible, but not collidable walls
- Fix of mage class causing lags during the gameplay
- Destructible objects optimization - no more lags on destroy
- NavMesh and AI fix - no more staggering in textures enemies. They will hunt you to death.
- Weapons improve - no more misses when you are too close to the enemy (except of the spears - it is intended thing for spears)

(probably) - melee module update. More stable work during the battles
(probably) - Ragdoll module update. No more double triggering of Ragdoll component

End of the April - Version 1.4 - Core Gameplay Completed
- Blessing system - you can upgrade each weapon separately
- Initial Item Rarity system
- Gold and merchants - you can buy Items you want during the run
- Alchemist will upgrade your Demon Blood flask (potion)
- Effectiveness of Green skills will be affected by agility. Blue - by intellect.
- 10 more rooms with interactables and random encounters. More secrets will be added to the existing rooms

SEPTEMBER - Early Access
- Item Rarity System
- Market District level with Librarian boss (or other)
- Gnome District level with Mecha golem boss
- Hell district level with the Source Guardian boss
- Questlines with inhabitants of the Church
- Ending
- Secret (true) ending

Stay safe! Sincerely yours,
Ernest

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23 Feb 2022Developer post

Test Live stream

Hi, I am going to have stream right now to set everything up and prepare for Saturday translation

22 Feb 2022Developer post

Demon Source Developer Stream

Sorry that previous stream was cancelled. After I created it, I haven't found it on the hub page. I thought that it hasn't been created and for some reasons I couldn't create another one. So I thought that there will be no stream. In the end, Stream card has been shown to me only

20 Feb 2022Developer post

Demo v1.2 Available

- Ragdolled enemies are not walkable anymore - Katana equips properly - Stats screen improved - Minor balance change

19 Feb 2022Developer post

Demo version 1.1 is available

New demo build is available. Targeting is fixed. Also, a couple of minor bugs were eliminated. Please leave your feedback, it is very important to me

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