Throne of Bone

Released: Apr 22, 2025
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Last updated: 13 Sep 2026, 17:36 GMT

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02 May 2025Developer post
Patch 1.1: Post-Launch Quality of Life
Hey folks, Wow! It has been really exciting to see the influx of new players in the past week! As a solo dev and first time indie, it's incredible to see how many people are interested in the game. Even with Early Access concluded, I'll still be updating Throne of Bone to ensure
Hey folks,
Wow! It has been really exciting to see the influx of new players in the past week! As a solo dev and first time indie, it's incredible to see how many people are interested in the game.
Even with Early Access concluded, I'll still be updating Throne of Bone to ensure it's the best it can be. So with that, let's talk about this 1.1 QoL patch:
Profiles
Having multiple profiles with independent progress was a feature requested in this first week of 1.0, and I'm happy to announce that it is now available! This wasn't a feature I realized would be important during Early Access, but it makes sense that lapsed players would like to start over from the beginning, so thanks for the feedback! Of note: while individual profiles maintain separate runs, collections, and "best" rosters, rosters for the grand catacomb are share across all for that installation.
Resetting your best
If you open the collection from the main menu, you will be able to 'dethrone' your previous best if you want to move on to a new post-win matchup.
On the Horizon

The focus in May will be bug fixing and quality of life, rather than new modes or content.
While I will be evaluating the performance of enemies and bosses, I will be avoiding balance that makes changes to player minions.
The Soundtrack is now available!
The ToB soundtrack, composed by the illustrious Pietro Frigerio is now available on Steam
Pricing
With the conclusion of Early Access and Launch Sale, ToB's price is now set to the intended 19.99.
Bug Fixes
- Fixing various controller issues
- (shadow patched) Skip Spell Button exploit fixed
- (shadow patched) Grand Catacomb UI issue when no winners found.
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22 Apr 2025Developer post
Throne of Bone 1.0 - It Has Risen
Hey folks, It's here! Throne of Bone has completed it's journey through Early Access! Looking Back Throne of bone has journeyed through development for 2 years before Early Access, getting initial feedback from a private Steam playtest, and an invaluable Discord Server. ToB then
Hey folks,
It's here! Throne of Bone has completed it's journey through Early Access!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD0CJbFt1rY&ab_channel=WindmillSlam
Looking Back
Throne of bone has journeyed through development for 2 years before Early Access, getting initial feedback from a private Steam playtest, and an invaluable Discord Server. ToB then the past year in Early Access, kicking off right after PAX East 2024. The Early Access Roadmap shows all the ground we've covered.
Going Forward
Throne of Bone is available at the special Early Access price of $16.99 for release week. Following this promotional period, the game will be available at its regular price of $19.99. Future updates are still to come, and I'll be active in the Discord as always, responding to bug reports and emoting at OP rosters :).
Thank you
This has been an incredible journey, and I want to thank every player for their feedback and suggestions! Seriously, I am eternally grateful for every Player.log sent, feedbackbot bug report, screen shot shared, and discussion in the Discord. Design is really a process of curation, and this game could not be made without you! I intend to keep reading suggestions, and improving usability/UX whenever appropriate. Stay tuned for more formal news about upcoming updates and content.
Gameplay Updates

Bone Butler has sadly eaten a nerf. It needed to be done. He now rewards rerolls in place of skulls.
A Third Boss has arrived in Area 5...
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18 Apr 2025Developer post
Beta update: The Dark Tower Opens
Greetings! The Dark Tower is now available on the Beta Realm! This new mode allows you to import rosters from your friends or yourself and battle their directly! Let me know in the discord how you would like to use this feature, and what else can be done to improve its functional
11 Apr 2025Developer post
Achievements and the Catacomb arriving in the Main Branch
After some testing in the beta branch, achievements are touching down in the main branch, ahead of the 1.0 release! Additionally, the Grand Catacomb is open for you to browse your previous wins, and pit them against other winning rosters from other players! You might also see som
After some testing in the beta branch, achievements are touching down in the main branch, ahead of the 1.0 release!
Additionally, the Grand Catacomb is open for you to browse your previous wins, and pit them against other winning rosters from other players!
You might also see some UI improvements to the client, as we round out Early Access.
Bug Fixes

Enemy Avatar speech bubbles correctly speed up
#701 Hexed+ achievement doesn't proc, even after recompleting it on the latest patch.
Seed label can be copied from the settings menu
REDACTED remembering added types from a previous Fleshsmith run.
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07 Apr 2025Developer post
Beta Update: Achievements!
Achievements have been added to the beta branch and will be touching down in the main branch shortly! As ToB is still in Early Access, these are still subject to change, but I wanted to get some feedback/testing on them before the 1.0 milestone! Happy Hunting! Bug Fixes: Rivals w
Achievements have been added to the beta branch and will be touching down in the main branch shortly!
As ToB is still in Early Access, these are still subject to change, but I wanted to get some feedback/testing on them before the 1.0 milestone! Happy Hunting!
Bug Fixes:

Rivals were not being correctly recorded to disk
Summoning a Buried as necroforager was not correctly adding the stats
Skill now correctly increases huntsman's multihit
huntsman's multi hit description now correct
poison challenge in the spire correctly calculates the poison stacks
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27 Mar 2025Developer post
Beta Branch Update: A New Mode, localization updates, and more
The Grand Catacomb Deep beneath the mountains lies the final* resting place of all necromantic lords: The Grand Catacomb! Here you can browse your previous winning runs, as well as send them into the Gauntlet to battle against other end-game rosters from other players. Strive for
07 Mar 2025Developer post
Bug Fixes
Thunderous Applause no longer locks the game. Cruel Roulette's correctly retriggers Encore no longer infinitely resummons
Thunderous Applause no longer locks the game.
Cruel Roulette's correctly retriggers
Encore no longer infinitely resummons
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07 Mar 2025Developer post
Beta Update: Experimental New Mode
Greeting necromancers, The Storm Spire is now available on the beta branch! This mode is all about engineering your roster for the daily challenge. Brainstorm a way to maximize the desired stat by the final turn, and see how far you can take. Share your strategies with you friend
28 Feb 2025Developer post
Main Branch Update: The Coliseum and The Far Grounds
Greetings Necromancers! The main branch has been updated with a number of new features and bug fixes from the beta branch! New ways to play As originally described here , there are two new modes are available to try in the main branch: The Far Grounds - This gambler's delight is
04 Feb 2025Developer post
Beta Update: Unlockable spells from The Far Grounds
Beta Reminder: If you are interested in the Beta, and are okay opting into a slightly more buggy experience, come check out the beta branch Unlock spells from The Far Grounds The Gamble mode now gains progress based on the number of bones you've collected. There are 3 new spells
Beta Reminder:
If you are interested in the Beta, and are okay opting into a slightly more buggy experience, come check out the beta branch
Unlock spells from The Far Grounds
The Gamble mode now gains progress based on the number of bones you've collected. There are 3 new spells to unlock from playing in the Far Grounds gamble mode, and progress is tracked in the collection, similar to necromancers and their unlocks. Don't be afraid to "cash out" and concede if you're worried you might bottom out. I'm curious from folks on what thresholds for these gamble unlocks feel reasonable. As stated before, there'll soon be unlocks for other modes as well!
The Kingdom Map
The Kingdom Map of gameplay modes is accessed through the New Game option in the main menu, once it's unlocked by winning a normal run or unlock the Fargrounds from gamble wins. One minor update: I've removed curses from the "PvP" mode, as it didn't feel in the spirit of the experience.
Upcoming this Month

Bringing these modes out of beta and into the main branch
Enabling one more mode for the Kingdom Map in the Beta Branch.
Initial drafts of Achievements in the Beta Branch!
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29 Jan 2025Developer post
Beta Branch Update: The Far Grounds is available!
A new mode comes to the Kingdom Map: The Far Grounds' Gambler Resort In this off-the-wall mode, each turn is a Gamble between two rosters. Pick your side, wager Bones , and see how big a purse you can pocket! Safer than gambling on meme coins, and sooner than gambling on the Supe
24 Jan 2025Developer post
Beta Branch - Minor bug fixes & more?
Minor bug fixes and updates #633 Off-by-one in Multi-Hit's description (or missing the word "additional") #634 Merging Broken Sticky no longer gives the useless Skill option #636 Text for Slime Mold Mage and Ready Bonesaw now correctly reflects Growth. Level 6 is cooler.
Minor bug fixes and updates

#633 Off-by-one in Multi-Hit's description (or missing the word "additional")
#634 Merging Broken Sticky no longer gives the useless Skill option
#636 Text for Slime Mold Mage and Ready Bonesaw now correctly reflects Growth.
Level 6 is cooler.
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22 Jan 2025Developer post
Beta Update: UI Improvements & A Needed Nerf
Hey folks! Continuing from last week, I'm updating the beta with a few follow ups from the merge changes. I'm really grateful for the feedback I received in the Discord, especially so quickly. I've already addressed some of the bugs on Monday, and now I'm bringing in some gamepla
21 Jan 2025Developer post
Beta Update: Bugfixes
Some small fixes from the beta tests over the weekend. #629 Eerie Remembrance summons copies for you instead of the ghost in the throne fight #628 you can get the same spell offered twice in the same selection -Deserialization of rosters (MinionUpgradeLevel Attribute) caused Coli
Some small fixes from the beta tests over the weekend.

#629 Eerie Remembrance summons copies for you instead of the ghost in the throne fight
#628 you can get the same spell offered twice in the same selection
-Deserialization of rosters (MinionUpgradeLevel Attribute) caused Coliseum mode rosters to default to hardcoded rosters.
-#630 Combining minions without a double-able or on-summon ability can offer two copies of the same reward.
-#631 Multi-Hit just appends 'I's on increase, rather than converting to roman numerals, and so is vulnerable to graphical overflow.
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17 Jan 2025Developer post
Beta Update: Merge Changes, Level 6, and more!
Happy new year folks! With technical efforts like localization and controller support satisified for the the moment, I'm excited to bring new gameplay improvements to Throne of Bone. Initial Minion Choice Turn 1 now features a shop choice of 3 minions, the leftmost guaranteed to
Happy new year folks!
With technical efforts like localization and controller support satisified for the the moment, I'm excited to bring new gameplay improvements to Throne of Bone.
Initial Minion Choice
Turn 1 now features a shop choice of 3 minions, the leftmost guaranteed to be the necromancer's "starter minion". This hopefully provides a bit of choice and variety to the beginning of each run.
Minion Merging Changes
Improving or perfecting a minion no longer provides a choice of 3 random merge power-ups, but instead rewards a choice of:

Strength (doubling this minion’s base stats)
Skill (doubling the effectiveness of this minion’s abilities), or Resummon (retrigger this minion’s “On Summon” ability) for Ferals with “On Summon” abilities.
A random power-up from the standard pool.
Strength and Skill stack additively with the previously obtained Strengths and Skills, so you can potentially get the long coveted “Quad Ability” if you’ve chosen Skill each time in a perfected minion’s “merge tree”.
That said, improving a minion no longer automatically doubles the base stats, and Perfecting a minion no longer automatically doubles the effectiveness of abilities. With Skill and Strength, you now get to make the choices of how you want your merged minions to evolve. Or maybe those lowly minions are just a means to hone your necromantic skills, because...
Perfecting a minion rewards a spell choice
Instead of a choice of 3 random higher level minions, perfecting a minion now grants a choice of spells one level higher than the minion! This reward has proved to be considerably more fun than just getting a higher level minion, as there's more variety in the spells available. “But what about level 5 minions?" you ask…? "How can I get a spell one level higher”...
Necromancers can now reach Level 6
Level 6 spells are available as reward when you perfect a level 5 minion. Level 6 can be reached through XP gains, but without sufficient combats to get that much XP naturally, you'll need to pick up extra XP through Rests and Wisps.
Area Changes
The Area 3 (Throne Room) board now stays 2x3 (same as Area 2 Castle), rather than jumping up to 2x4. This gives combat a different flow, and allows players to focus more on improving and perfecting minions. The jump to 2x4 now happens in Area 4 (The Siege). I expect to do some rebalancing based on this change, but I am curious how folks feel about the new flow.
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21 Dec 2024Developer post
Bug Fixes
Bug fixes: Twisted App fails to deal magic damage if it dies to the attack. I have Darkstar Pendant, granting my frontline Defender. Obsidian Gatekeeper is not giving my frontline that don't have Defender naturally or gained it from improvement +5/+5. The number on Blood Well is
19 Dec 2024Developer post
Throne of Bone on the Steam Deck
Throne of Bone now supports play on the Steam Deck! Input You can now control your undead legions with D-pad/Joysticks + buttons. There's also some quality of life features like the selector frame snapping to the spell inventory when you pick up a newly learned spell! Additionall
14 Dec 2024Developer post
Controller Support and Localization into main
Hey folks, Controller support is now live on the main branch. As it's still early access, I am interested in suggestions from folks about how the UX for controller can be improved. Additionally, the first batch of localization is now in the main branch! Steamdeck updates With the
09 Dec 2024Developer post
Beta Update: Controller Support!
Hey folks, This week brings controller support to the Beta branch! The game is now completely playable using D-pad and buttons! That said, I am interested in getting feedback from controller-first players about what UX improvements you'd like to see. Maybe you feel there's a fast
27 Nov 2024Developer post
Beta Patch: Localization!
Hey folks, The first batch of localization is available for feedback/testing on the beta branch! Check it out if you want to give feedback on one of the following languages: Brazilian Portuguese French German Italian Portuguese Spanish To aid in this process, the collection is te
Hey folks,
The first batch of localization is available for feedback/testing on the beta branch! Check it out if you want to give feedback on one of the following languages:

Brazilian Portuguese
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Spanish
To aid in this process, the collection is temporarily fully unlocked on the Beta branch. Do note that some of the lore entries are not available (not even in English!) as they are still in the process of being written!
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