Fixes: Increased the amount of time before an attempt to connect will timeout, which should resolve connection issues on less stable internet connections Resolved several crashes that have been reported Fixed a handful of typos
Fixes: Fixed an issue with The Tenderizer where the particle effects and sounds from the 'Unstable Equilibrium' skill would not stop when the weapon was unequipped Fixed an issue where when you got a mirage blueprint, the hunt summary screen would sometimes show the incorrect ite
Changes: Made Power order in 'remove power' menu match other power lists Fixes: Fixed an issue where the player's helmet could disappear during certain Striker attacks Improved the stability of phase transitions in the Imbued Enigmox fight Fixed a crash when using the 'Tether Bal
Made Power order in 'remove power' menu match other power lists
Fixed an issue where the player's helmet could disappear during certain Striker attacks
Improved the stability of phase transitions in the Imbued Enigmox fight
Fixed a crash when using the 'Tether Ball' weapon power
Fixed a crash when using the 'The Bodyguard' power
Fixed a crash when viewing equipment in the market
Changes: Surging Circuit now applies charge every 4/2 seconds and deals 20/40 damage per hit Fixes: Creeping Frost will no longer damage yourself when you are Cold Herd Growth, Destruction Therapy and Sheepdog now properly apply their effects to player minions Shocking Reflex wil
Hello hunters! Today we’re launching the Powers-A-Plenty Update! This update aims to add variety to hunts by expanding the pool of powers and putting more of an emphasis on powers that change how you interact with the world instead of simply boosting the power of your hunter. Pow
Hello hunters!
Today we’re launching the Powers-A-Plenty Update! This update aims to add variety to hunts by expanding the pool of powers and putting more of an emphasis on powers that change how you interact with the world instead of simply boosting the power of your hunter.
Powers-A-Plenty also adds an entirely new type of power: The “Weapon Power”. Weapon powers aim to change how you play for the remainder of the hunt by doing things like tweaking the core rules of your weapon’s move set, adding new attacks, or changing how existing attacks behave.
In addition to all of the tweaks to the powers in the game, we’ve also been fixing bugs and implementing QoL suggestions that we’ve seen reported or suggested. We've also updated localization support for Russian and Castilian Spanish.
New power type to discover: Weapon Powers
Many new powers, including within all four fabled power families
New accessibility option: Hunter's Assist (local games only)
Russian language localization
Electric
Electric chain reactions now trigger every 7 charge stacks or when killing a target
Static Shock: reduced the area of effect when heavy attacks apply charge
Strike Twice has a chance to strike twice instead of all the time
Reworked Split to Aftershock. Instead of a chance to split chain reactions, chain reactions have a chance to repeat upon finishing hitting all targets
Shield
Powers that previously gave a full shield now give 4 shield segments so they can interact with powers that trigger on gaining shield segments
Introverted has been moved to the shield family
Iron Brew has been moved to the shield family
Iron Brew now refills one potion charge instead of refilling all potion charges
Summon
Reimagined the Summon family as a family that is based entirely on summoning and buffing minions
Minions now gain additional health and damage in more difficult content
With A Little Help now only spawns Melee minions (one of the new powers spawns the Ranged minions)
Thinking with Portals has been moved to the general power pool
Cold
Cold Snap now activates for every 10 enemies that get cold applied to them
Cold Wave has a reduced cold area when activated
Cold Storage now stores damage on cold or frozen enemies
Chilly Response applies cold instead of frozen to enemies
Snowball Fight has cooldown for snowballs thrown by it
Reworked Glacial Armour
Frozen Fatality now has a chance to trigger any time on frozen enemies instead of activating on low health frozen enemies
Removed Glacial Rush power
Ice Storm now activates on killing cold enemies, in addition to frozen ones
Reduced the number of Icicles spawned by Desolate Imprisonment
Ice Volley renamed to Snowy Salvo; it shoots Snowballs instead of Ice Chunks
Cold status effect now lasts longer
General
Perfect Pairing now refills an amount of potion charges with each upgrade level
Extroverted now gives 2 seconds of additional time per kill, down from 5
Straight to Business now gives 2 seconds of additional time per kill, down from 5
Featherweight, Middleweight, and Heavyweight have additional stat bonuses added to them
Body of Light returns your health to the previous amount if it was obtained and removed via the Quetzi Scalemail
Fabled supporting powers now spawn for all selections when they appear
Power Rerolls now stay within the family of the power being rolled when possible
Skills
Polearm Vault skill does damage upon vaulting and landing on the ground
Gourdo's Community Garden skill now reloads cannonballs if it damages an enemy
Improved UI scaling when playing on handheld devices
When joining a game in progress, new players will now appear near the entrance of the room
Powers now spawn slightly closer together in multiplayer games
You can now drink your potion when you have full health
Improved the Castilian Spanish translation
Stop Loss no longer reduces maximum health in certain "?" rooms
Fixed an issue that caused certain Teffra Anomaly effects to not appear in all locations
Fixed issue where Shell Drake's bite could cause more damage than expected
Fixed bug with Grimhollow's saplings that caused their shield to last for longer than intended
Fixed bug where Rook would sometimes not topple after all crystals in the room were killed
Fixed a bug in Phase 2 of the Tefframech fight where the boss would be unable to do its double swipe attack if players ran back and forth behind it during its attack hold state
Improved game performance
The next (and final) content update will be larger than this one and focuses primarily on filling out the endgame with content that we've teased in the in-game cutscenes. We currently expect to release a beta for that update in September/October.
As always, thank you all for playing and continuing to provide your feedback and suggestions!
Klei Fest is our annual celebration of all things Klei. https://store.steampowered.com/developer/klei/sale/kleifest2026
This year, we've got a ton of updates, discounts, and freebies for you.
To commemorate 20 years as a studio, we've made our very first game, Eets free for everybody, forever.
A free game update for Oxygen Not Included with new buildings, bug fixes, and QOL!
The Rotwood Powers-A-Plenty Update adds a new "Weapon Power" power type, QOL, and bug fixes.
The Release of Aquatic Planet Pack DLC for Oxygen Not Included.
The Lowest prices ever for many Klei Entertainment games
10 Years of Don't Starve Together - 90% off and a ton of Free exclusive Klei Fest Skins
A bunch of great bundles with additional discounts up to 50% off!
The Klei Shop has a big Klei Fest sale.
The conclusion of our DST Interactive Lore story arc
And DST Mobile is coming July, 21st!
Rift of the NecroDancer OST Vol. 2 Music Pack is out now!
Beastieball has a new update, including workshop support and Portuguese localization
Fretless is now Steam Deck verified! Check out the new Accolades Trailer!
U.V.S. Nirmana has released a free bonus campaign update!
Check out more games published by Klei!
Fixes: Fixed a number of crashes related to players disconnecting mid-action. The power "Stop Loss" no longer ticks down during special encounter rooms. The "Add Multiple" modifier for the seed grinding screen will now work properly when playing with a controller. Fixed a bug tha
Fixes: Fixed a bug causing the mastery to defeat the final boss to not complete for some players Updated translations to fix several typos and other errors that players have reported Fixed several issues related to players leaving at unusual times Fixed some strangeness with the
Fixes: Fixed a crash that would happen if you disconnected from an online game at the same time your controller disconnected. Fixed a crash when the game failed to retrieve the message of the day.
Fixes & Changes: Fixed an issue that would prevent you from interacting with anything for several seconds if you opened and closed the cooking menu rapidly. The Swarm weapons will now properly play the skill queued sound. The Ballmerang's passive effect of always returning to
Fixes The final location no longer incorrectly says you can get weapons & armour there if you are playing with a gamepad You can no longer charge a proto-weapon by killing Imbued Rook's Crow Fixed a few scenarios that could cause the camera to get stuck The Apex Predator powe
Fixes & Changes All players will now see the intro cinematic when playing an online game, provided all players join in the first room of the hunt. Killing a Super Frenzy version of a boss will now award credit for the "Kill Boss" steam achievements. The afterimages left when
Fixes & Changes: Fixed an issue where the music in Grimhollow's fight could turn off if the fight progressed too fast. Lowered the volume of the Wollusk's Acid Vomit during Swarm's Super Frenzy fight. Newly added villager friendship rewards are now given out retroactively to
Fixes: Fixed a crash that could happen when switching input types. Fixed a crash triggered by rapidly joining and leaving online games. Fixed a crash in Grimhollow's lunge attack. Fixed a crash that could happen when equipping one of the new Rook imbued weapons. Fixed some visual
Hello everybody! Welcome to the release of Rotwood on Steam! We’ve been quietly working on this massive release as part of a special unannounced shadow drop release on Steam and Nintendo Switch 2! We launched in Early Access with the plan to release the game at the end of 2025; h
Hello everybody!
Welcome to the release of Rotwood on Steam!
We’ve been quietly working on this massive release as part of a special unannounced shadow drop release on Steam and Nintendo Switch 2!
We launched in Early Access with the plan to release the game at the end of 2025; however, we added some time at the beginning of Early Access to adjust to initial player feedback. We know today’s launch comes as a bit of a shock, and we’re sorry for the unusual secrecy lately, but we’re happy to announce that with this update, we’ve completed all of the planned launch content (and then some) for Rotwood!
Narrative Conclusion and Cinematics (Surprise!)
Final boss, including a new unique location
Three new superfrenzy runs + Bosses (Frenzy Rook, Shelldrake, and Grimhollow)
Weapon and equipment tuning adjustments
Teffra Mirage system, allowing armor and weapon appearance swapping
Mirage-specific visualizations for weapons and armor
Progression adjustments and tuning
Overall power tuning and droprate adjustments. (Pushing more builds around fabled powers)
Quality of Life changes around game systems like farming, cooking, and relationships
More relationships in the diary and relationship rewards
Rebalance / Rework existing armors
Rebalance / Rework of existing powers
Steam Achievements
Steam Trading cards
Steam Points Shop Items
The actual changelist is absolutely massive. We have compiled a list as best as we could, but there are probably some other changes that are not on this list as well. For those of you curious about the gory details, check out the spoiler below.
There’s still more to come!
We’ve learned through Early Access that Rotwood is best served by less frequent, more substantial updates. Outside of any needed hotfixes, content we release in the future will mostly be comprehensive and expansive updates to the base game or possibly DLC if enough players are interested.
But we’re not going anywhere just yet. We’re going to stick around and monitor the launch for a bit, fix up any emerging issues, and make necessary adjustments. We expect that this will last a few weeks while we gather feedback and release hotfixes to Steam and Nintendo Switch 2. We’ll then move on to upcoming additions to the game.
Throughout Early Access, we’ve come up with a bunch of things we’d like to explore with the game, and we’re excited to move on to the next stage of our adventure with Rotwood!
Since we have been focused on the launch, we haven’t quite started production on future content just yet. So we’ll be watching your feedback, and we’ll release more details about our plans in the coming weeks.
We want to thank all the players who have been with us during Early Access. We’ve tried to make something a bit different with Rotwood, and thanks to all of your help, we think we’ve really come up with something fun and exciting, and we can’t wait for you all to give the launch version a try. Thank you, we couldn’t have done it without you.
Bugs & Crashes Fixed a crash that happened when the Anomaly Progress UI was updating as the room changed. Fixed a crash that happened at times when attempting to remove a local player. Fixed an issue where an invalid keyboard input could be added when playing on a steam deck.
Bugs & Crashes: Fixed a crash that could happen when loading into certain hunts. Fixed a crash caused by an entity's GUID becoming invalid. Fixed a bug where you could become stuck on the Gem Screen while using a controller. Fixed a crash caused by a room change timeout happe
Bugs & Crashes: Fixed a crash that could happen in the Hunt after you harvested a Teffressence Container Gem in your town. Fixed a crash when trying to uncover a shiny bush. Fixed a soft-lock with the Ghost anomaly when clearing a combat room. Fixed a crash caused by upgradin
Bugs & Crashes Fixed a crash when trying to load a save file that contains invalid equipment Fixed a crash when Snortoise Armour tried to damage a vending machine Fixed a crash when entering Brambleside Footpath with over 75% Runspeed Bonus
Bugs & Crashes: Fixed a bug that caused Teffra Anomaly progress to not show up at times Fixed a bug that caused Ambush Predator to not count towards the critical chance modifier total for Hunter's Path Fixed a bug where the Deus Ex power would activate while donating health a
Bugs & Crashes Fixed an issue where the game would consider one controller to be two different controllers, making it impossible to progress past the main menu. Fixed a crash that could happen when viewing certain loadouts. Fixed a crash that could happen when joining another
