Into the Crypt Release Date

01 Aug 2026Developer post

Co-op Multiplayer Added!

Release is just around the corner! It's been over a month since the last issue and I'm super excited to announce that we're closing in on our Oct 29th release date ! Dive in with a friend in co-op multiplayer! Now you can jump into a run with a friend and carry over your existing

Release is just around the corner!

It's been over a month since the last issue and I'm super excited to announce that we're closing in on our Oct 29th release date!

Dive in with a friend in co-op multiplayer!

Now you can jump into a run with a friend and carry over your existing accumulated crypt experience as well! The co-op run will favor the teammate with the highest crypt experience for artifact, potion, and card drops during co-op runs!

Over 450 cards waiting to be explored!

Spanning across three unique classes, four rarity types, and with all-new merchant cards and classless cards, we can't wait to see what kind of builds you come up with during your run!

The Shopkeeper Reacts to You

You can now tip Murik the shopkeeper in exchange for help as you progress through your run. The tipping system is robust and encompasses a variety of mechanics in play that will cause the shopkeeper to assist you in one or more ways when you least expect it!

You can also spar with Murik once per shop encounter. Defeating him may yield some rare rewards!

Crypt Mastery System

Every moment spent in the Crypt provides you with rolling experience that you bank and use to unlock cards, artifacts, and other items in future runs. Experience gained this way isn't throttled either, so you can expect to accumulate more experience in future runs as well.

Solo and Co-op leaderboards

The crypt keeps score! Along with getting a score added to you run, you will be able to compare your highscore across all players and across friends as well. Your best run climbs the ranks against everyone else adventuring into the crypt! You can also view previous run score and statistics in Settings.

New Altar Event Type

Some runs will have altar encounters adjacent to combat rooms which will allow you to escape from imminent death. These rooms will offer you a chance at redeeming some health in exchange for a cost. Are you up for the trade?

New Event Types

There's a slew of new events added (over 50 in total and still growing...) which offer a lot of variety, choices, and have you triple-thinking the choice that would best suit your current run predicament.
These new events offer many mechanics such as: fighting the event itself, follow-up events, delayed rewards, and other special finds.

Boss Preview Scouting

Know your enemy before it knows of you. Boss fights aren't blind entry anymore! The boss preview allows you to scout the horror waiting for you at the end of the current depth before you get there - build your deck around it! The Crypt isn't always fair but at least you can now see it coming.

If you enjoyed the demo be sure to wishlist the game to get notified when the game launches this Oct 29th! If you haven't yet, do check out the demo on Steam and drop by on Discord and let me know what you think of the game!

Until next time — see you in the Crypt!

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30 May 2026Developer post

The Crypt Chronicle — Issue #2

Welcome back Crypt delvers! It's been a few long months since my first dev update but I'm excited to share many of the new features being added to the game. Before I get into all that, I want to get the big one out of the way first: The demo is LIVE on Steam The last few months h

Welcome back Crypt delvers!

It's been a few long months since my first dev update but I'm excited to share many of the new features being added to the game.

Before I get into all that, I want to get the big one out of the way first:
The demo is LIVE on Steam

The last few months have been the most productive stretch of the entire project, with many cool additions and features that I want to walk you through in this issue.

The Crypt Got Crowded

There's a lot more waiting down there to kill you! I've spent a huge chunk of the past few months working on new enemy types. The roster is so much bigger than originally planned, and far more varied. Enemies in the game are not just hit points with attack numbers slapped on. They actually force you to adapt your card-slinging strategies around them. You have to read the encounter and adjust. You can't just auto-pilot the Crypt!

Have a look at some of the new enemies and mechanics that you can look forward to!

Here are two more enemies you can expect to find in the second Depth. These are part of the Elite category of enemies.

Runic Summoner (top left)

Hellmount Carrion (bottom right)

First look at the Druid class

Command two allies (Sheaf & Gob) when you play as the Druid. Each of the Druid's allies have their own passive abilities that will assist you during combat, depending on your interactions with them. This class is all about mutual survival!

The Druid's special mechanic is called 'Offering' which grows in count when you play cards. Offering can be spent on card effects or to swap between Sheaf & Gob in combat. You can also swap between allies using Energy.

These are some of the cards you can expect to find during your run as the Druid class. This class thrives on keeping his allies alive and to support them during combat. We expect to have over 100 special and unique cards per class, across a variety of rarities for you to discover and experiment with.

Improved Pacing

The flow of the game has been improved, with more 'tighter' runs and reduced length to reach the boss of each Depth. You'll find that the space between fights doesn't feel as long, leading to a more enjoyable run experience.

The in-hand, window-sized tablet has been reworked to a full-screen map instead. Players can also mark their desired path on the map for better passage visibility.

Persist Cards

Unlike every other card type which follows the cycle of 'play once and discard', this card type breaks that rule. Persist cards remain in-combat (and on-screen in the UI) and their actions carry through every turn of combat. It rewards setup, planning, and reading a fight several turns out, and it pairs especially well with the slower, more deliberate classes. I can't wait to see the type of deck archetypes that are going to be built around it.

Interactable Artifacts

A great deal of thought and care has gone into the addition of many new (and hopefully interesting) artifacts that will help shape your run through the Crypt. Among these are a set of clickable artifacts which will help you in your quest to defeat the enemies that await you.

Here's a few that are offered at the start of your run at the 'Grave Mound':

New Environments

There will be several more 'biome' additions to the Crypt, including Molten Waste, Slime, and Arcane Caverns. These will look distinctly different visually but also may pose additional challenges throughout your run, such as directly impacting your deck capabilities or causing other adverse reactions in and out of combat.

Molten Waste

Arcane Caverns

What's Next

The Crypt keeps growing, and I hope you enjoyed this read and the game so far.

Drop a Wishlist — for a solo dev, that genuinely moves the needle!

Check out the demo on Steam if you haven't yet and drop by on Discord and let me know what you think of the game!

Until next time — watch your step!

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24 Mar 2026Developer post

The Crypt Chronicle — Issue #1

Greetings Crypt delvers! With the recent official trailer release and the first ever announcement for the game, I'm really excited to share what I've worked towards and what you can expect from the game. It feels good 'coming up for air' to share what the Crypt actually is (if yo

Greetings Crypt delvers!

With the recent official trailer release and the first ever announcement for the game, I'm really excited to share what I've worked towards and what you can expect from the game.

It feels good 'coming up for air' to share what the Crypt actually is (if you haven't figured it out already), what is being built and what's coming! Below you'll find a mix of game mechanic updates, development news, and early concept art!

So... the game concept stems back for several years and has drawn a lot of inspiration from familiar titles like Slay the Spire, It's taken on many forms since that time into the game it is today. You move through a procedurally generated crypt in first-person - stone corridors, locked encounter rooms that really don't have any friendlies in them, and you fight off everything you can with your hand of cards.

Sounds like a familiar formula? Here's where things take on a form of their own:

Cards That Break

In most deckbuilders, cards are seemingly lasting forever. In Into the Crypt, your Attack cards have Durability. When a locked door blocks your path, you target it with a card — lift it, slam it against the lock, and watch the chains fall. Every time you do, that card loses 1 use. Play it enough times on enough doors and it shatters permanently. Gone from your deck. Gone from the run.

It means every card you build your deck around is also a resource you're slowly spending just to move forward. Do you save your best cards for combat and struggle through doors with weaker ones? Or do you burn through your strongest cards to reach the next fight faster, knowing they won't last forever?

That's the kind of tension I wanted to create in the game.

While the 'DNA' of familiar titles like Slay the Spire is definitely here, you'll find that the Crypt takes a form of its own.

Some of this includes:

Each of the playable clases in the game will have fresh new mechanics and unique cards of their own.

Enemies are ruthless - majority of them have one or more 'passive' abilities that fundamentally require you to pivot your deckbuliding strategies every run in the Crypt.

Event encounters are varied, and secret encounter types may be discovered as well.

A Deckbulider-first game

While the game is set in 3D, I wanted to ensure the experience was a first-and-foremost deckbuliding game versus a hybrid deckbuilder/exploration game. Earlier in development, I was bouncing around the idea of making it a 'labyrinth' kind of experience in which you could both explore and battle, but iterations of this felt like it was taking away from the 'magic' of fast-paced card battling.

Instead, there's brief moments added to enhance the traversal through the Crypt, such as lifting up your class's arm with a torch during movement.

Three ways Down (so far)

Currently there are 3 fully unique classes to choose from, and each one asks you to think about card battling completely differently:

The Berserker class runs on Fury - a resource that builds over time as you play cards, which can be spent just like the primary resource (Energy), or built-up to reward you with a special threshold card.

The Druid commands allies called Sheaf & Gob, and the cards for this class have an optional 'Offering' tag which allows the Druid to sacrifice those cards on his allies to enhance them instead of playing the cards normally. Sheaf & Gob will have their own set of actions/passives during combat.

The Alchemist collects 'Ingredient' with cards played during battle and can brew potions, and can also generate special cards called 'Concoction' cards.

How Development Is Going

Many of the mechanics for both player classes and enemies has been mostly fleshed-out, and a closed alpha is currently underway. One of the challenges I have been faced with is to maintain familiarity with known deckbuilder 'formulas' while also bringing on new layers of different experiences of my own.

The game's development is in overdrive, with a lot of work being put in each and every week.

Team / Collaborators

Lead artist:

Dan Vitoria

Overload card illustration

Initial sketch of capsule art

Event sketches

Crypt prop sketches

Animators:

Tyler Baraby

Tebo La Roza
James Rommel Gonzales Lobaton
Borók Bence Máté

Enemy ability and attack animations

Music Composer and Sound Artist:

Dirk J. Neefs

What's Next

As development progresses, I plan to show proper class spotlights, some more enemy reveals with specific mechanic details, and more game art, just to name a few!

Drop a Wishlist if you enjoy what you've read and join the community on Discord

Until next time - watch your step!

Original post

Into the Crypt

Updates & announcements

Co-op Multiplayer Added!

Release is just around the corner!

Dive in with a friend in co-op multiplayer!

Over 450 cards waiting to be explored!

The Shopkeeper Reacts to You

Crypt Mastery System

Solo and Co-op leaderboards

New Altar Event Type

New Event Types

Boss Preview Scouting

The Crypt Chronicle — Issue #2

Welcome back Crypt delvers!

The Crypt Got Crowded

First look at the Druid class

Improved Pacing

Persist Cards

Interactable Artifacts

New Environments

What's Next

Demo update 0.9.10D - May 21, 2026

Demo update 0.9.01D - May 14, 2026

Demo update v0.8.92 - May 11, 2026

Demo update v0.8.87 - May 9, 2026

Demo update v0.8.86 - May 8, 2026

Demo update v0.8.83 - May 7, 2026

Into the Crypt demo release!

Opt-in for the Closed Playtest!

The Crypt Chronicle — Issue #1

Greetings Crypt delvers!

Cards That Break

A Deckbulider-first game

Three ways Down (so far)

How Development Is Going

Team / Collaborators

Lead artist:

Animators:

Music Composer and Sound Artist:

What's Next