An Ankou

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Released: Aug 17, 2023
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Last updated: 14 Sep 2026, 05:49 GMT

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07 Oct 2025Developer post
Important Security Update Available ✅
Update – Oct 10, 12PM CET: ✅ Good news ! The new patch resolving the Unity-related vulnerability is now live . This update fully addresses the issue, and it’s now completely safe to launch and enjoy the game again. Thank you for your patience and understanding while we worked to
07 Dec 2023Developer post
V0.5.2
It's December and holidays are coming soon! For you all to enjoy your cozy winter gaming sesh, we've added some exciting cool stuff this time with many new Steam Achievements to aim for. Like are you gonna be the ghosts' best friend? Or you're gonna collect almost all the possibl
It's December and holidays are coming soon!
For you all to enjoy your cozy winter gaming sesh, we've added some exciting cool stuff this time with many new Steam Achievements to aim for. Like are you gonna be the ghosts' best friend? Or you're gonna collect almost all the possible badges of honor ?
V0.5.2 changelog :

A bunch of new Steam achievements !
Auto-aim has been improved and can now be overridden when using the movement input (keyboard & controller) or when using the aim input (only for the controller). It means that you can use the auto-aim and yet be able to focus on a specific enemy when you want.
The Volatile Gift is not volatile now and won't trigger anymore when you're hit while protected by the Parry skill of the Soldier.
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10 Nov 2023Developer post
V0.5.1b
Important Balance change: - The Soldier now starts with the Crossbow instead of the Sword. Sorry we really wanted to do that and forgot to push this change yesterday. Fixes : - The Crossbow spirit was broken and didn't hit a lot of enemies with its bolts - Filled some missing Ger
09 Nov 2023Developer post
Quality of Life V0.5.1
New Features: The second music track (music of Noz-Ha-Deiz) is now in its complete and glorious state with live recordings of violin! The in game pause menu now features a character sheets with all stats A lot of items now have a far more precise description of the bonus they giv
New Features:

The second music track (music of Noz-Ha-Deiz) is now in its complete and glorious state with live recordings of violin!
The in game pause menu now features a character sheets with all stats
A lot of items now have a far more precise description of the bonus they give per level / max
Leaving a game and deleting a game now trigger a confirmation dialog box
The Harvesting UI now show additional information (how many resources remain, how much you can carry, how much you have)
The Crafting Wheel has been completely overhauled
All upgradeable items are grouped in a parent category (Upgrades) : weapon, pieces of armor and spirits
Alchemy subcategory has been moved in the tools parent category
All weapon subcategories have been removed and weapons have been grouped (accessible weapons and how you can gain them will be changed in a future update)
You can now cancel a craft at the cost of 1 resource (always of the first type of the recipe)
Some Attack VFX have been added on Undeads and Spitters
The in game interface show all armor slots, even empty ones.
Items ready to be upgraded (weapons, spirits, armors) now all show a plus symbol on the new inventory UI
Threat barrier aspect has been improved and you now have to actively interact with it to pass through (and raise the threat level)
You have to interact with the barrier of Blue Arenas to leave them. No more risk of leaving by accident.
Spirits are now orbiting your character as blue balls of light when you run and appear automatically as soon as you stop.
Balance Changes:

Ker Koad has been modified to have an Altar right next to the starting point
Players are now forced to choose a Spirit at the first altar of their first game
Some tutorial steps have been removed
You can now craft a Cursed Soul from 3 regular Soul
Darkness difficulty modifier for Arenas has been significantly increased
Ring of the Backpacker has been nerfed to grant only quarter of an heart when lucky instead of half an heart
Fixes :

Mouse do not trigger the interface anymore while the controller is used
The invincible undeads appearing at the dawn of day in Noz-Ha-Deiz are no more.
Pfew! That was a lot of work. We're sorry for those who were waiting for the rebindable controls, better menus, or some other features they consider major, but we had to make choices. Our primary goal was to make the game easier to learn and more fluid and enjoyable. We are aware there is still a lot to do, but don’t worry it will come with time.
ALSO, IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!
Starting November 20, 2023, we're introducing a price adjustment to 7.99 EUR/USD, ensuring we can continue bringing you new updates. We also have to slightly delay the Sailor Update.
We will also have to modify the rest of our planning to account for unforeseen circumstances impacting the life of our humble sized indie game studio.
We want to be upfront about these changes because you all deserve the honesty and transparency you've shown us.
Your support means the world. Your engagement has guided us in prioritizing changes to make the game even better during the last months. Seriously, you rock! Keep those feedback gems coming; they've been invaluable.
Let's continue this journey together, and don't hesitate to invite more players to join in on the fun!
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30 Oct 2023Developer post
V0.4.2c
It's Halloween! Features : - You can't craft a healing potion when you're full life - You can't craft ammunitions when you're already maxed out Balance Changes : - Spiders are now a bit slower and only make a half heart of damage per attack - Fast Spiders and Undeads attack a bit
26 Oct 2023Developer post
Changelog V0.4.2b - Balancing patch for Brekilien
Hi all ! It's not final yet and we will revisit this in future updates but Brekilien is back to a more reasonable level of difficulty. We're extremely sorry for the spikes of difficulty caused by our update of last week. Noz-Ha-Deiz may still appear quite hard in comparison, but
24 Oct 2023Developer post
Changelog V0.4.2 aka The Nun Buff Update
Nun Balance Changes: Base move speed increased. Push Skill can now be chained. Push Skill is now almost instant to cast. Push Skill sends the Nun farther away (almost as far as a dash but not quite). Push Skill now slows monsters caught in the area of effect by 60% for a maximum
Nun Balance Changes:

Base move speed increased.
Push Skill can now be chained.
Push Skill is now almost instant to cast.
Push Skill sends the Nun farther away (almost as far as a dash but not quite).
Push Skill now slows monsters caught in the area of effect by 60% for a maximum of 5 seconds. The farther the monsters are, the lower the duration is.
The Prayer Book (Weapon & Spirit) now slows enemies by 60% as long as they are in the area of effect.
Prayer Book and Candelabra resource costs have been slightly decreased
The Nun gets 1 additional soul each time she harvests one. When lucky, the harvest will produce 3 souls instead of 2.
Candelabra reach and animation speed have been slightly increased.
Other Balance Changes:

Lowered Korrigan’s Truce from 90s to 60s.
1 Greater Soul can now be crafted from 3 Cursed Souls.
Brekilien and Noz-Ha-Deiz center areas will now contain more Animal Skin and Fiber resources.
From now on, bosses and enemies with powers too close to the border of the screen do not have the permission to use their power.
Noz-Ha-Deiz is now unlocked by winning Brekilien with any Profession and not the Nun.
The Nun is now unlocked by surviving 10 minutes in Brekilien with the Apothecary.
The Gold Magnet is now unlocked by winning Brekilien with the Nun.
The Shielding Scythe is now unlocked by surviving 20 minutes in Brekilien with the Nun.
Harvest timing for Greater Souls has been changed.
New Feature:

Added a marker pointing to the Bosses of Noz-Ha-Deiz when they are offscreen.
Bug Fixes:

Fixed a bug limiting the duration of the Lucky Lantern based on Carry Capacity, the duration is now properly always 5 minutes.
Fixed missing death animations for a lot of bosses
Decreased a lot the cases of monster / bosses stuck in the environment due to too close colliders
Gargoyles were added to some Ker Koad enemy waves by mistake, they were removed.
Danger Hints are now shown on top of most paved stones.
Some additional german and chinese loc fixes (still a few missing texts for both)
Additional balancing for Brekilien and Noz-Ha-Deiz are in the works and should be deployed by the end of the week. We hope that you will continue to give us your feedback even if you sometimes have the impression that the game is not moving in the right direction. Some changes require time and careful considerations of all possible effects, obvious and less obvious. Since we also have to share our effort between fixes, balance changes and new features and content, our changes may appear slow but we usually get there… eventually.
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20 Oct 2023Developer post
Hotfix V0.4.1b
A release wouldn't be a release without it streaks of hotfixes! There was an issue with the craft caused by items giving a penalty in crafting efficiency. Some balances fixes were not merged into the main branche before we built earlier (woopsie) : - days are a bit longer - enemi
20 Oct 2023Developer post
Changelog - An Ankou V0.4
Major features: A new map Noz-Ha-Deiz with its new mechanics, bosses and rewards. To unlock it, you have to survive 20 minutes in Brekilien with the Nun. A new music track for the new map, at least a first version of this new track. Expect it to become even better soon. A complet
Major features:

A new map Noz-Ha-Deiz with its new mechanics, bosses and rewards. To unlock it, you have to survive 20 minutes in Brekilien with the Nun.
A new music track for the new map, at least a first version of this new track. Expect it to become even better soon.
A complete rework of the waves of enemies on Brekilien and Ker Koad
Balance Changes:

The reward between the achievement of surviving 20 minutes and winning Brekilien with the Nun have been swapped. Winning Brekilien now unlocks the Gold Magnet and surviving 20 minutes unlocks Noz-Ha-Deiz, the new map.
A new currency (Greater Souls) is required to reach the top level of item upgrades.
Skeletons do not drop Souls anymore but Floating Eyes do instead.
Minor Changes:

Some environmental optimization. Hopefully Brekilien should run a bit better on lower specs systems even if there’s still work to do.
Visual for Soul drops have been reworked.
Markers on the map are different for Merchants and other points of interest.
The amount of work necessary to rebalance Brekilien and Ker Koad with the new waves of enemies was pretty huge. We hope they did not become too easy or too hard in the process and we will follow your reactions to those changes closely in the next few days. We’re also quite excited to see what you think about the new game mode because it’s a big change in the pacing of the game and we’re convinced its a big step forward in the right direction! Let us know what you think in the steam forum or on the Discord server.
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19 Oct 2023Developer post
Sorry, a few hours of delay for V0.4
We were hoping to deliver our new patch today but it will have to wait tomorrow, sorry. We spent quite a few days to re-design from scratch our waves of enemies to create a better pacing for the game but it forced us to rework entirely Ker Koad and Brekilien on top of our new map
13 Oct 2023Developer post
Road Map Q4-2023
03 Oct 2023Developer post
V0.3.1d
Bug Fix: - the danger hint zone of suicide monster now correctly move with them when they are pushed - Spirit of the Book was interrupted when you attacked - Gold Magnet description was displaying an error Balance Changes: - Nun initial move speed is 10% faster - Spirit of the Bo
02 Oct 2023Developer post
Hotfix V0.3.1c
A few fixes spotted by our players this week-end: - fixed an issue caused by interacting with something while in Parry where you could not get the Divine Touch status anymore. - fixed multiple issues caused by the Ring of The Harasser (Ring of the infantryman stopped working if y
30 Sep 2023Developer post
Tiny but important fix for Nun's power
- Now Added the possibility of using the "Force Push" of the Nun even when not moving. It was kinda ok with a gamepad, but definitely NOT with keyboard and mouse. Note for "future self": try to remember to do the important stuff when a colleague keeps telling you something should
29 Sep 2023Developer post
Hotfix V0.3.1b
Your usual post release patch with... - Korrigan Merchant cost is now 50 instead of 100 - Balance changes on the Candelabra - added some direct damages on both attacks of the combo - a reduced costs for level 1 and 2 - The Ring of the Backpacker now heals only half an heart when
28 Sep 2023Developer post
The Nun Update (V0.3.1)
Welcome to the Nun Update of An Ankou! New features: - A new playable character with her 2 class weapons and her special skill - New items for all classes (the Gold Magnet, the Elixir of Divine Resistance) - German Localization - Chinese Localization (Traditional & Simplified
12 Sep 2023Developer post
Hotfix v0.2.2.2d
Fixed a few problems with our new Golem friends: - sometimes the Flint golem wouldn't appear, this is fixed. - Spirits and main weapon with auto-targeting won't fire on enemies while they are regenerating / deactivated. - Finishing or canceling an Arena while a Golem was deactiva
11 Sep 2023Developer post
Hotfix v0.2.2c
Yet another small patch to fix or improve a few things: Harvest can now be interrupted again by the Skill (Parry or Dash) or Attack There is no more recovery period to chain 2 harvests , so you can double tap to perfect complete a harvest and launch the next one. If you play in l
Yet another small patch to fix or improve a few things:

Harvest can now be interrupted again by the Skill (Parry or Dash) or Attack
There is no more recovery period to chain 2 harvests, so you can double tap to perfect complete a harvest and launch the next one. If you play in long press mode, you can re-press immediately after releasing the button to chain the next one.
The option menu is no correctly removed when exiting the pause with ESC or SELECT
Character and Level selection menu will now automatically focus on the select button when you press A on a character or a level, making navigation more comfortable. Those menus are temporary, please excuse their relative awkwardness...
Interaction radii have been improved for Golems making them easier to "harvest" when down.
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08 Sep 2023Developer post
Korrigan's Gold - Hotfix#1 v0.2.2b
Hey Reapers! Had a good night? This morning we decided to submit quickly a new version to make one major change and also add a few fixes that just couldn't fit in yesterday's schedule. - There is now an alternate way to Harvest and it's now the default one. You start harvesting b
07 Sep 2023Developer post
Korrigan's Gold V.0.2.2
Hi Everyone! We're finally live, with just a few hours of delay. This been a pretty tough first update for us because of special circumstances. Though we didn't manage to add everything we would have liked, the new content and features are pretty nice and we hope you'll like it !

Updates & announcements

It's December and holidays are coming soon!

For you all to enjoy your cozy winter gaming sesh, we've added some exciting cool stuff this time with many new Steam Achievements to aim for. Like are you gonna be the ghosts' best friend? Or you're gonna collect almost all the possible badges of honor ?

Follow for more updates by joining our Discord and wishlisting the game now: