Setting Sun Release Date

26 Apr 2025Developer post

Patch 1.1

Ohayooh! A new update for Setting Sun is ready to be played. Thanks for trying out the demo, I hope you enjoy it and please let me know your thoughts in the comments or on Discord ! Also, if you like what you see, wishlist Setting Sun on my steam page! Patch Notes Gameplay: - Tow

09 Feb 2025Developer post

Patch 1.0: Couch Co-op Fest

Ohayooh! A new update for Setting Sun is ready to be played during the couch co-op fest. Thanks for trying out the demo, I hope you enjoy it and please let me know your thoughts in the comments or on Discord ! Also, if you like what you see, wishlist Setting Sun on my steam page!

Ohayooh!

A new update for Setting Sun is ready to be played during the couch co-op fest.

Thanks for trying out the demo, I hope you enjoy it and please let me know your thoughts in the comments or on Discord!

Also, if you like what you see, wishlist Setting Sun on my steam page!

Patch Notes

Gameplay:

- Added new NPC: Monk Ikkyu
The way gold is gathered has been reworked.
To accommodate some new features in the dungeon, the monk now acts as a broker.
Each time you discover a torii portal you can ask the monk to return your gathered gold to town to be put in the treasury (once per portal).
Money collected in the treasury is never lost until it is used.
Money gathered in the dungeon is lost upon death so make sure to return your gold back in time!

- Enemies have gotten a global cooldown between attacks

- Archer enemy model updated

- The camera has been zoomed out some more

- Spider webs have been updated
Instead of rooting, they slow you down and the visual has been updated

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- Some new rooms can be discovered in the dungeon

- Most rooms have been reduced in size

- Room obstacles rotation and size is randomized

- The teleportation shrines have been updated with a better 3D model

Ronin:

- Dashing Strike rework
All basic attacks beside Dashing Strike add a Ki Charge to dashing strike.
At 4 charges the next Dashing Strike becomes an instant cast.

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- New blessings have been added

- Tsukiyomi's Spirit pushes away surrounding enemies

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- Area slice cooldown between casts reduced slightly

- Dodge can now be cast without a target

- Bombs now drop slightly in front of the player

Art

- Town Grass updated
The gardener in Yatsushiro village did some fertilization and the grass has regrown more beautiful!

- A Character Preview object has been added in town
This new feature will be more useful in future updates, but you can show a full screen preview of your party.

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- Lightning strikes have been added during heavy rain

UI

- The title screen has gotten a graphical update
It now fits the game's name a bit better

- The town map has gotten a much needed graphical update
Here's a preview of a colorized and tinted map

- The ingame cursor got a unique icon

- Several UI/menus have gotten a graphical update

- Player specific menus show the correct binding for the device they are using

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02 Sep 2023Developer post

Patch 0.9: Dungeon V2

Ohayooh! A new update for Setting Sun is ready to be tested. This update brings lots of dungeon changes, a new enemy, Ronin updates, UI changes and new artworks. Thanks for trying out the demo, I hope you enjoy it and please let me know your thoughts in the comments or on Discord

Ohayooh!

A new update for Setting Sun is ready to be tested.

This update brings lots of dungeon changes, a new enemy, Ronin updates, UI changes and new artworks.

Thanks for trying out the demo, I hope you enjoy it and please let me know your thoughts in the comments or on Discord!

Also, if you like what you see, wishlist Setting Sun on my steam page!

Patch Notes

Dungeon Changes:

- A new spider enemy can now be encountered on your travels

- Several obstacles in the dungeon are now destroyable through bombs/ultimate abilities

- Large scenery has been moved outside the rooms walls
All though it was a more “immersive” feeling to have all trees in your view, it was causing several issues. Enemies/interactables were obscured by the trees which could cause you to miss stuff or to not be able to react in time for ranged attacks.

On the other hand I didn’t want to remove the trees cause they fit the zone so good and work together well with the weather effects. So because the outside of the walls were just a empty void I decided to fill that space up with trees as the next best thing.

- A couple of new room layouts have been added

- Rooms in the dungeon can now rotate
Another way to increase variation was to give all rooms to possibility to be rotated in 90 degree increments.

- The bamboo forest boss has been reworked
Hatamoto has gotten a new ability and his combat logic has been reworked.

- Added a miniboss room that can be encountered

- Some rooms with an interactable have been decreased in size

Ronin changes:

- The ronin's yoko ryu combo attack has been replaced with a new area attack with unique blessings

- The player aiming system has been reworked
Now aiming in the direction of an enemy selects the enemy that the joystick points too the most within a angle of 60 degree from the player.

This allows you to be less accurate when aiming the stick and makes it easier to change targets that are very near to each other.

- Cost for blocking an attack reduced to 25 stamina

Gameplay changes:

- Forcing a game over during your dungeon now has a unique animation

- Some enemies have a global cooldown on their attacks

- Camera has been zoomed out slightly

Minor changes:

- Some new props have been added to the town

- Nights are less dark

- Big treasure chests can drop small treasure chests

- Added a blessing shrine in the zen garden in town to try out builds for PVP

- Daylight is less orange

- Rewards for clearing a room now spawn in the center of the room

Artwork:

- The Bamboo forest has a unique loading screen

- New concept art for the sorcerer class

- New sake barrel 3D art

https://sketchfab.com/models/1f7f74adb8694f2a87726f35d591d3da

UI Changes:

- The blessing UI has been updated

- Content in the pause menus show a background image

- Interact UI color changed to be more consistent with other labels

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24 Dec 2022Developer post

Patch 0.8: Seasons

Ohayooh! A new update for Setting Sun is ready to be tested. This update brings weather effects, Ronin changes, dungeon changes, UI changes and new artworks. Thanks for trying out the demo, I hope you enjoy it and please let me know your thoughts in the comments or on Discord ! A

Ohayooh!

A new update for Setting Sun is ready to be tested.

This update brings weather effects, Ronin changes, dungeon changes, UI changes and new artworks.

Thanks for trying out the demo, I hope you enjoy it and please let me know your thoughts in the comments or on Discord!

Also if you like what you see wishlist Setting Sun on my steam page!

Patch Notes

Weather Effects:

- Several seasonal effects have been added to the game.
The weather changes at random intervals causing it to rain/snow/clear up.
The environment updates dynamically depending on the weather.

There's also some variation in rain differing from light drizzle to heavy storm.

- The day and night cycle have been updated with their own skybox for some more immersion.

Ronin Changes:

- The ronin's passive stance has been reworked.
After unlocking way of the ronin you can manually alter your damage done/taken balance.
This allows you choose for a more aggressive or defensive playstyle.

- The player doesn't take damage anymore during a hit reaction giving you a brief period of "Immunity".

- The blessing Aiki has been reworked.
Aiki now triggers an instant dashing strike on a perfect block.

- The new blessing "Blast Armor" has been added.
This blessing makes you immune to all damage coming from bombs.

Dungeon Changes:

- The mystery room has been reworked.
The previous version had 2 randomized chests (1 good, 1 bad) which seemed like a good idea on paper but in reality it wasn't really a choice causing you to just pick the nearest chest for convenience.

Now there is an option to either choose a gold chest or the mystery chest which can be anything even a gold chest!

- The amount of enemies in a room has increased by 30% but enemy health has been reduced by 30%.
Some rooms only spawning 1 enemy made it seem kind of empty, so I'm trying to find a balance between more enemies and manageable combat.

UI Changes:

- The dojo interface has been updated.

- The player circle has been updated.
Now you always have an indication of your player's direction through the icon.

- The player frame has an updated Ronin Face
Aside from that the controller icons have also been changed

- The interaction UI for players has been moved to the player instead of the NPC.

Minor Changes:

The game has been updated from unity 2020 to unity 2021 LTS.
The controller icons have been updated.
Changing keybindings should now also update the icon in the player frame.
Lootable bombs don't drop anymore if no player has the bomb trinket.

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08 May 2022Developer post

Patch 0.7: Going Rogue Fest

Ohayooh! A new update is now live for the Going Rogue: A festival of Persistence. This update adds more enemies, features and bug fixes. So check it out, let me know what you think or report bugs if you find any in the Discord . Arigato! Patch Notes Dungeon: A new wolf enemy join

Setting Sun

Updates & announcements

Patch 1.1

Patch Notes

Gameplay:

Art

Concept Art:

Ronin:

Enemy Changes:

Patch 1.0: Couch Co-op Fest

Patch Notes

Gameplay:

Ronin:

Art

UI

Patch 0.9: Dungeon V2

Patch Notes

Dungeon Changes:

Ronin changes:

Gameplay changes:

Minor changes:

Artwork:

UI Changes:

Patch 0.8: Seasons

Patch Notes

Weather Effects:

Ronin Changes:

Dungeon Changes:

UI Changes:

Minor Changes:

Patch 0.7: Going Rogue Fest

Patch Notes

Dungeon:

Ronin:

Town:

UI:

Bugs: