Novus Orbis

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Released: Feb 10, 2025
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Last updated: 14 Sep 2026, 09:31 GMT

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09 Sep 2026Developer post
0.7.1 Update
With this update I'm adding the last piece of content that I wanted for 1.0 release: Endless Mode Once you've cleared the second path, and so unlocked access to Corrupt, you'll be offered to access Endless Mode on your final score screen (when winning). You will loop back to the
With this update I'm adding the last piece of content that I wanted for 1.0 release:
Endless Mode
Once you've cleared the second path, and so unlocked access to Corrupt, you'll be offered to access Endless Mode on your final score screen (when winning).
You will loop back to the first level, keeping all your pets, cards and stats, but you will lose at random half of your current blessings.
Enemies stats will greatly increase: their HP, damage and block values will be multiplied by 10 per loop. Furthermore, their Countdown value will decrease by 1, with a minimum set to 2.
Additionally, you won't be able to unlock anything during Endless Mode.
This mode is NOT balanced around anything. I may modify values after users feedback, but this is intended to be a fun and random mode, so a great balance is not what I'm looking for.
Together with that, a nice bunch of bug fixes and balance, especially on the Mechanic and recent new Blessings.
Additions:
(General) Endless Mode
Changes:
(Enemy) Firepit mini boss will now drop a Flame Blessing.
(Blessing) Moved Patience from Normal to Great Blessings pool.
(Blessing) Symmetry changed to work only once per pair of cards used. You now need to use 2 same cost cards, then the effect is reset and you need to use 2 more for it to trigger again.
(Blessing) Risk Of Combo now draws 1 card instead of 2.
(Blessing) Risk Of Tradition additional effects: you won't be able to draw more than 10 cards per turn, and sets your combo to 4 on turn start.
(Card) Taser set not to appear before level 2.
(Card) Code 99 set to do one of its 3 effects at random with equal chance, instead of all 3 of them.
(Card) Reboot set to become unusable on the turn next to using it, to avoid being able to spam it.
(Card) Exhaust would say damage equal to 2x current Overheat, but actually calculate 5x. Properly set to 2x.
(Card) Plasma Cannon now deals 5x of Overheat value down from 10x.
(Event) Added to the firepit description the fact that you may get a Special card in return.
(Event) Firepit will now deal increasingly more damage the more cards you give it. It's been tuned so that you'll use 50% max HP when giving the first 5 cards, ending up with needing 90% max HP to give 5 cards in a third encounter. This change aims to make it less of a no brainer to remove as many cards as possible, both for the Blessing reward and to achieve a very small deck.
(Event) Added Ornate Equipment and Reboot to The Enigma's cards pool.
(General) Card rewards will now offer cards you already own with less frequency.
(General) Each level now has a 30% chance to not include a Marking room.
(General) Marks at the Shop now have a variable price that depends on the specific Mark. Double Use, Always Combo and Free are more rare and cost more. The remaining First Draw, Keep and Double Damage have same rarity, with Double Damage costing more.
(General) Made Double Use, Always Combo and Free less rare than before.
(General) Fixes and improvements on the damage visuals that scale depending on the amount of dealt damage.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed the game showing your Blessings' tooltip if you went with your mouse over their position while on the final score screen.
Fixed a bug that could leave the game in a state where you couldn't find unlocked Blessings.
Added a brief moment of disabled input when picking a Blessing, to avoid visual issues when picking one and then entering a portal right away.
Fixed Hell's Gaze card (obtained through a corrupt chest outside of Hell level) to not work and briefly softlock the game.
Fixed the game not allowing to select Corrupt with a pad.
Fixed the game not showing enemies intents anymore with a pad.
Fixed a bug that could make Blessings' descriptions not appear.
Fixed Chain Attack card leaving the game in a softlock state for a few seconds.
Fixed cards with Stock attribute to softlock the game for a few seconds after exhausting their whole list of possible cards.
Fixed a bug that could leave cards in a semi transparent state while in your hand, especially with the Mage.
Fixed the Devour action from Pond's Monarch not actually removing the cards from your deck.
Fixed the game not updating the deck's cards count when getting back devoured cards from Pond's Monarch.
Fixed Risk Of Chaos giving some bad visuals when obtained.
Updated Familiar Fury's routine on pets to follow recent changes made to the end of turn routine (in the current state it could cause some bugs with some specific pets).
Generating a Slime card using Slot would make it so on next turn you wouldn't draw any card. Fixed.
Error 003 card was incorrectly named Error 002. Fixed.
Fixed Momentum card not showing its number of hits in green in some cases.
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23 Jul 2026Developer post
0.6.11 Update
Good news, the last level for the game (which will lead to 1.0 release) is done! As well as the special way to access it. All visuals done, all enemies done. All I have left to do for the big update is...quite a lot of new achievements and stuff to unlock lol. Because of life stu
Good news, the last level for the game (which will lead to 1.0 release) is done!
As well as the special way to access it.
All visuals done, all enemies done.
All I have left to do for the big update is...quite a lot of new achievements and stuff to unlock lol.

Because of life stuff, I haven't been able to develop as much as I'd want, but I'm progressing well, and I'm hopeful everything will be done by the end of summer (and then I'll allow 1-2 months of time for final testing, bug fixing and balance before releasing into 1.0).
That being said, there are quite a few changes and additions I've been making to the game, and I wanted to push those for now.
The biggest one is a big revamp of the intents system: enemies intents will now tell you exactly what each action is going to do. No more guessing about buffs and debuffs. No more surprises. The game will tell you (almost) all you need to know.
The only thing I'm leaving out (because it would be a lot more tasking to add that to the game this deep into development) is values for Block, Evasion, or any status with a value.
While I understand that would be even better, I think the current change gives enough info to the player to work with.
Let me know what you think!
Additionally, all music in the game is now final!
Also, I've made some substantial changes to all attack, buff and debuff effects!
Additions:
(UI) All enemies intents will now show a tooltip with a detailed description of the action.
(UI) Hovering on End Turn will now show "-2" over each enemy's Countdown value, as well as showing the resulting value you'd get when ending your turn.
Changes:
(Music) All music in the game has been updated with final mixing and correct volumes.
(Visuals) Back damage from Electrified now shows an electric damage animation instead of a normal hit one.
(Visuals) Better effects for attacks, buffs and debuffs, and healing, that scale in coolness depending on the amount of damage dealt.
(SFX) Changed the sound effects when an attack is blocked.
(SFX) Better volumes for some of the sound effects.
(Pets) Pets will make their call sound when removed.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed a position shift that could happen to dialogue boxes during some dialogues.
Fixed Pets' tooltips appearing over other UI elements.
Additional improvement to avoid soflocks.
Fixed Momentum card not updating correctly its number of attacks count.
Fixed the post boss music being gone.
Fixed Deep Breath card not showing tooltip for Evasion.
Fixed Guardian's Fury's card not having correct damage in some circumstances (like when having a Double Damage Mark).
Fixed the game locking while loading a level in some cases.
Fixed some cases when going to combo 4 wouldn't set all hand as in combo.
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18 Jun 2026Developer post
0.6.10 Update
As it often happens, I say one thing and I end up doing another one lol There were two major things that have been bothering me since forever. 1-Performance on lower end machines (like a Steam Deck) was pretty bad in some moments. 2-The constant possibility of some softlock for u
As it often happens, I say one thing and I end up doing another one lol

There were two major things that have been bothering me since forever.
1-Performance on lower end machines (like a Steam Deck) was pretty bad in some moments.
2-The constant possibility of some softlock for unknown reason (and the necessity of the not so professional "remove softlock" button in the menu.
I took my time for two weeks to tackle these two issues (an many more).
Aside from a few balance changes, and no new content, with this update I bring:
Much better performance on lower end machines (the game stays at 60 fps with a few dips on Deck, a way better result than before).
A much lower chance for the game to softlock (I basically introduced a new method to detect a softlock and resolve it after a few seconds of inactivity).
NOW I'm finally ready to work on the conclusion for the game.
The plan I have on paper is quite cool, and I can't wait to make it, together with many new achievements, many new crazy blessings, and finally share everything with you all.
Note: Some changes have been implemented with smaller patches since the last update, but I'm collecting the whole log here:
Changes:
(General) Better performance on lower end machines.
(General) Completely reworked the input system both with mouse and pad. On the user's side not much difference should be perceived, but now the code is a lot cleaner. This should result in better performances, as well as no more occasional bugs when interacting with cards.
(General) The game will now try to detect a softlock. If an amount of time passes with nothing happening and the game in "no input" state, the game will automatically do what the "remove softlock" button did. This is still not a perfect solution, and it can't take care of very bad cases, but it should make things better overall.
(General) Because of the previous change, I'm removing the "remove softlock" button from the menu.
(General) The animation when the game shuffles your discard pile back into the deck will now show cards' back sides. I made this change to avoid some recurring visual issues, as well for improved performance.
(General) Removed the ability to access the menu during an enemy's attack routine.
(Card) Monarch's Bone now deals 500 damage.
(Card) Gamble will now not discard your hand anymore.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed the tutorial getting stuck (caused by a recent update).
Fixed Boss Blessings in the Archive showing their description before unlocking them.
Fixed a bug that could leave cards not showing their combo version when picking a reward or using effects that let you pick from your deck.
Fixed a bug that could leave the game locked during the enemies' action.
Fixed a flicker in portals and events tooltips when using a pad.
Fixed portals and events tooltips being in front of your cards, when you would check your deck.
Fixed Death's Trial blessings not working anymore.
Fixed a bug when rerolling the shop using a pad.
Fixed Blessings that have a shown value to lead to a softlock if bought from the shop.
Fixed some cards or events that give you cards to lead to a softlock.
Fixed a glitch happening when you won a fight with Brown Flame.
When using a pad, if you won with a multi hit attack, the card would stay on screen for a few seconds, smaller. Fixed.
Fixed some cases when enemies' statuses would persist on screen for a few seconds after death.
The new Backup save file folder is now properly saved to cloud with all other save files.
Fixed Load Missile card showing the value "1" for the number of cards made in red.
Fixed pad icons not showing sometimes.
Fixed a bug that could deactivate blessings or pets if they killed the last enemy of a fight.
Fixed Force Field card not giving the right amount of Block when enemies have Block.
Fixed Marks not showing their tooltips when hovering on different Marks in quick succession.
Fixed not being able to access the menu during Wealthy Abomination and Pond's Monarch fights.
Fixed a softlock when Oculi does Confusion during End Turn phase.
Fixed a typo in First Draw description.
Fixed cards with First Draw keeping Swift effect after 1st turn.
Fixed Item treasure box to allow you to pick 3 cards when offering you a forced Juicy Melon.
Fixed a recently introduced visual issue that could leave the left most card in your hand upright.
Fixed One Two, Set Belt, Deploy Shield cards acting as if they have Swift.
Fixed Ancient Insight giving back input capability too early.
Fixed a bug that could happen when a multi phase enemy would die in its first phase from reaction damage (spikes or bouncy).
Fixed Blessing Heavy Hand showing the sprite for Sixth Finger.
Fixed a bug that would give you input access too early if an enemy died of reaction damage.
Fixed a recently introduced bug that could lead to corrupt savefiles (for example, with less or no portals).
Fixed Healing Dew card always showing a green value for its healing.
Fixed the game softlocking when using some burning effects.
Fixed instances where the in game menu could remain stuck while in the initial screen.
Fixed pad interaction with the new sorting for the Blessings Archive. It now scrolls correctly.
Fixed a bug that could wipe your achievements data when replaying the tutorial (leaving you with no achievements for the current session, with them being reloaded on the next launch from Steam).
Fixed a few minor issues with the tutorial.
Fixed the menu not being accessible after running from a Mimic.
Removed the Mimics' intents while you're choosing to fight or run, to avoid glitchy overlaps between the intents and the Fight button.
Fixed a recent bug that would make it impossible to find alternative bosses.
Fixed a softlock that could happen when an enemy self destructs.
Fixed a recent bug that would have enemies lose Electrified status when obtained in the same turn as their own action.
Fixed Gourmet and Slot cards softlocking the game.
Remember, if you like the game, each single positive review helps me a lot!
If you have any feedback or want to discuss about the game, join my Discord server.
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28 May 2026Developer post
Strategems Vol. 2
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16 May 2026Developer post
0.6.9 Update
Hello! I took these few weeks to polish some stuff that was long due, especially concerning pad controls. No new content, but a few substantial changes, as well as a ton of bug fixes. This should be the last update before I start working on the game's conclusion. That will take a
Hello!
I took these few weeks to polish some stuff that was long due, especially concerning pad controls.
No new content, but a few substantial changes, as well as a ton of bug fixes.
This should be the last update before I start working on the game's conclusion.
That will take a while, but I'm hopeful I'll wrap it up during the summer.
Additions:
(General) The game will now save backup save files in a separate sub folder.
Changes:
(General) I reverted the game back to not offer you a "retry" option, and to remove your current run's save file when you lose. For people who really want to save scum, you're free to kill the game before the score screen, or to use the newly added backup save files, but I personally believe that giving free reign to just retry endlessly is the opposite of the point of a roguelike.
(General) Better controls when using a pad, as well as less visual issues like cards raising or getting stuck when they shouldn't.
(General) So far, the game would not present you the alternative version of bosses until you've beaten the normal one for that level. Additionally to that, the game will now, after you've beaten a level once, force the alternative boss as the only option until you've beaten it. This way you will not need to hunt the alternative boss just for the achievement anymore. After you've beaten both the normal and alternative versions, the game will choose one or the other randomly. (Doesn't apply to Lands, considering it's the level you're gonna face every single run).
(Event) The Enigma will now offer 4 cards, with 2 pickables, from a selected pool of cards of the two classes you're not currently playing.
(Event) The Enigma room will now appear only after winning the game at least once.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed being able to Mark multiple cards in one sitting when using a pad.
Fixed being able to access the menu while interacting with the Marking system, when using a pad.
Fixed enemies countdown not going down if you ended turn right after using a card with Swift.
Removed Familiar Fury as a Warrior Card in the Cards Archive.
Reverted Alternative Font to reboot the game when set, it would cause some glitched text otherwise. It still saves its state properly.
Fixed Alt. Font not affecting the initial loading screen.
Fixed some cases of bad cards positioning on reward screen for cards that generate other cards.
Better handling for the timing of the "no input" state.
Fixed some minor visual issues with the cursor's visuals.
Fixed the possibility to get cards stuck in weird places on the screen if you spammed non usable cards.
Tentative fix for a rare bug that could allow you to play cards from your draw pile instead of picking them to be put in your hand.
Fixed some cases where, if spamming/misclicking on cards multiple times, you'd need a few moments of no input to be able to pick a card again.
Removed the "Action Cooldown" tooltip that could appear only when using a pad.
Fixed some bugs when choosing a card reward using the pad.
Fixed a bug that could happen when using Ritual card.
Fixed a bug that could result in the game not being able to give boss blessings.
Fixed the Enigma room portal not being saved if you exited the game before entering it.
Fixed Sky Archipelago being able to present the alternative boss from the first time you access it.
Fixed Sanctuary Spirits persisting in a save file after interacting with them (you could take one, reload, and take another one).
Remember, if you like the game, each single positive review helps me a lot!
If you have any feedback or want to discuss about the game, join my Discord server.
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04 May 2026Developer post
Steam Deckbuilder Fest
DECKBUILDER FEST Today also kicks off Steam's Deckbuilder Fest ! There are nearly 2000 games taking part in this event. Novus Orbis is 50% off all week as a part of this event! (This is a special STEEP discount to both celebrate this event, and to encourage people to try out all
03 May 2026Developer post
0.6.8 Update
Nothing big with this update, but there were a few things I wanted to address before Novus Orbis participates in the upcoming Deckbuilder Fest. Additions: (UI) Added a tooltip for the first time you see a different Lands variant. (General) Similarly to item chests, now the Shop w
Nothing big with this update, but there were a few things I wanted to address before Novus Orbis participates in the upcoming Deckbuilder Fest.
Additions:
(UI) Added a tooltip for the first time you see a different Lands variant.
(General) Similarly to item chests, now the Shop will force a card between Chocolate, Tainted Apple and Platinum Melon, if your HP is below a certain threshold, starting from the second level, and max once per level.
Changes:
(UI) Updated the sprite for Echo status (I honestly forgot to make it and it had the same of Omniscience).
(UI) The game will won't need to reboot anymore when changing font.
(UI) The game will now save the challenges you have selected, differentiating them for each character. You won't need to manually select them all each time you start a new run.
(UI) The recent rework to the cards reward visuals made it so that cards that generate other cards would show the preview of their generated card as slightly out of screen. The card will now shift down to be able to see everything correctly.
(Visuals) Tweaks to some elements in Lands' backgrounds.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed the "Back" button when choosing a Mark not working properly.
When choosing a mark from the related sanctuary spirit, at the "choose a card" screen, when closing that window, the player wouldn't be able to click on spirits anymore, forcing you to quit and reload. Fixed.
Fixed the game loading two copies of one of the two boss blessings, if you exited and loaded after defeating a boss, before picking a blessing.
Fixed a double "Y" icon when choosing the boss blessings, when playing with a controller.
Fixed a recent change that made the Blood Bank usable multiple times in one encounter.
Refixed the recent Blood Bank bug (I didn't apply the fix globally, so it could still happen in the second levels).
Fixed the alternative font not being correctly saved between sessions.
Fixed a bug with selection/deselection of the 6th challenge.
The new "Always Combo" mark wasn't able to appear in the shop. Fixed.
Better seeded RNG at the Shop.
The game was supposed to show the "eyes" background element only with Storm Of The Eyes, and not with Eye Of The Storm too. Fixed to its intended behavior.
Fixed Taser card giving Electrified to enemies when they had Evasion.
Fixed Taser's Electrified status not being removed if used when the enemy would act after this card's use.
Made multiple fixes regarding some issues/exploits one could use to change selected challenges during a run by starting a new game and then re loading the previous run.
Fixed some events not showing their tooltip after interacting with them and then "skipping" giving a card.
Fixed a bug where cards copied, using the alternative font, would show their cost, name and combo value in black.
Remember, if you like the game, each single positive review helps me a lot!
If you have any feedback or want to discuss about the game, join my Discord server.
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27 Apr 2026Developer post
0.6.6 Update
No new content this time, I needed to push an update to address a few things that came up this past week. But, I've been working on the last alternative boss (for the Sky Archipelago), its mechanics are ready, its achievement and unlocked Blessing are ready, I only need to make i
No new content this time, I needed to push an update to address a few things that came up this past week.

But, I've been working on the last alternative boss (for the Sky Archipelago), its mechanics are ready, its achievement and unlocked Blessing are ready, I only need to make its sprite..so it's gonna come soon :)
Changes:
(General) Slight increase in all enemies' stats in the game's initial difficulty (once known as easy mode).
(Enemy/Card) Sticky Eye from Storm of the Eyes will now damage you for 5 if discarded at turn end.
(Enemy) Fungal knight's defend action will now give block to its minions too.
(Enemy) Subterra buff to HP, STR up action, healing action.
(Enemy) Hive buff to HP and decreased cooldown value to 6 from 7.
(Enemy) Mentamanomi HP increased.
(Enemy) Pandora's Vase shield value slightly increased.
(Enemy) Rafflesia's HP increased, and cooldown value decreased to 6 from 7.
(Enemy) Wealthy Abomination boost in both HP and damage. Additionally, in its second phase its cooldown value decreases to 5 from 6. This enemy was introduced into the game years ago, when the meta was very different. I feel that now, except for new players, it became a trivial fight, and it was never meant to be.
(Enemy) Slight HP and damage increase for Mimic and Great Mimic.
(Card) Code 99 cost increased to 4-2 from 3-0
(Card) Autoloader changed from common to rare, and now draws 3 instead of 5.
(Card) Deploy Shield changed from Rare to Legendary.
(Card) Gourmet now has Swift, and will be burned after one use.
(UI) The recent rework for the card reward view made it so the current level map would stay behind it. The card picking window will now temporarily shift down to allow you to see the map.
(Pet Events) The pet events rooms would appear without portals, which would be called after clicking on the event. This could create an issue where you could then access a portal before picking (or skipping) the card. Portals are now called in these rooms to begin with.
Bug Fixes:
The Mysterious Bean pet event was wrongly flagged, which would lead to a bad load state if exiting and reloading in a room with it in it. Fixed.
With the Mechanic, when without Hull, she could never lose Fragile status after receiving it. Fixed.
Fixed a game breaking bug related to the recent rework to the blood bank (which would happen to players who haven't deposited blood yet).
Fixed the game drawing more cards than intended in some cases with recently added blessings.
Fixed 500k Lumens card not stating "Swift" in its description despite having the effect.
Added a few cases to make the "remove softlock" button work better.
Fixed the chance to give more than 4 Fancy Bottles to the fountain, which is unexpected behavior, resulting in the game locking.
Fixed some cases where a burned card could be put back into the deck.
Fixed Haste status bypassing Swift.
Remember, if you like the game, each single positive review helps me a lot!
If you have any feedback or want to discuss about the game, join my Discord server.
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27 Apr 2026Developer post
0.6.7 Update
WIth this update I entroduce the alternative boss for Sky Archipelago. And with it, every level (except for the final ones) have an alternative boss, each with their own achievement and unlockable Blessing. I'm pretty happy with the visuals, and the mechanics are an "inverted" ve
WIth this update I entroduce the alternative boss for Sky Archipelago. And with it, every level (except for the final ones) have an alternative boss, each with their own achievement and unlockable Blessing.
I'm pretty happy with the visuals, and the mechanics are an "inverted" version of the one of Ophanim: the boss will be buffed when you discard cards (including discarding at end turn).
It may be a bit strong, so as always, expect tweaks after I get enough feedback :)
With this, I'm done with adding stuff to what's already in the game.
To reach 1.0, all I'm left to do is the fifth, final level.
It's planned to be shorter than the others, and will feature the demo's last boss (and secret last boss).
I will need to make the level itself, plan how to access it, and plan how to access the secret last boss.
In addition, I plan to add an "infinite mode", where you can loop back from the first level after winning a run.
It will take a while before the next content update, but expect smaller updates in between, with the usual bug fixes, balance tweaks, and a few smaller things I may want to add (cards, blessings, a tenth pet, a few more events, MAYBE one more optional boss :P )
Additions:
(Enemy) Seraphim
(Blessing) Heavy Hand
(Achievement) Winged Trouble
Bug Fixes:
Generating cards with cards would leave the new card not showing its combo version even if it should. Fixed.
This has been there for way too long but it is finally fixed: the run's seed will now PROPERLY work on mini bosses. Until now, quitting/losing at a mini boss and reloading would almost always give you a different one when re loading the run. The game will now properly track mini bosses and bosses, giving you the right one on re load.
Remember, if you like the game, each single positive review helps me a lot!
If you have any feedback or want to discuss about the game, join my Discord server.
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18 Apr 2026Developer post
0.6.5 Update
Small update, but with some juicy things :) Additions: (Mark) Always Combo. This mark will make a card act as always in combo, like the effect of the Mage's card "Sharp Clay". It will have the same rarity of Double Use and Free (less frequent than all the other marks). (Enemy) St
Small update, but with some juicy things :)
Additions:
(Mark) Always Combo. This mark will make a card act as always in combo, like the effect of the Mage's card "Sharp Clay". It will have the same rarity of Double Use and Free (less frequent than all the other marks).
(Enemy) Storm of the Eyes (Echo Tower alternative boss)
(Achievement) Eyed Trouble
(Blessing) Risk Of Combo
Changes:
(UI) Reworked visuals for the open deck view and card reward selection.
(General) Removed the possibility to access the menu while a fight is loading, and until you have resolved all initial Blessings (this is to avoid bugs that could happen when everything is not done yet).
(Event) Having more than 5000 Blood stored in the Blood Bank will now greatly increase the chance to find one in the first 2 levels.
(Event) Removed the possibility to deposit more than 9999 Blood in the Blood Bank. It will now cap at 9999, giving you back the difference. (Note: if your save file has more than 9999 stored, attempting to deposit will instead withdraw the excess you have from 9999).
Bug Fixes:
A recent change broke the tutorial, it's now back to working as intended.
Removed wrong "Retreat" text from Exhaust card.
Fixed some cases where Marks would not respond properly when hovered on.
Fixed 1000 Eyes card showing a green value for its out of combo cost.
Fixed Item cards getting stuck in "combo" version when checked in the deck, when using the Mechanic.
Remember, if you like the game, each single positive review helps me a lot!
If you have any feedback or want to discuss about the game, join my Discord server.
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06 Apr 2026Developer post
0.6.4 Update
Hello everyone! I apologize for the delay after the last update, but I had a very busy month, and only last week I managed to come back to developing. With this update I bring 3 new Achievements, linked to defeating the alternative version of bosses currently in the game (note th
Hello everyone!
I apologize for the delay after the last update, but I had a very busy month, and only last week I managed to come back to developing.
With this update I bring 3 new Achievements, linked to defeating the alternative version of bosses currently in the game (note that these are not retroactive, you will need to defeat them once even if you have already).
I'm also adding the BGM for the Tower boss, which takes the game to have all the tracks for the current content.
The game is getting closer to its 1.0 release. I will soon make an announcement to officially list what my plans are, but briefly what I still have to do are:
The alternative versions of Tower and Sky bosses, with relative Achievements.
A final, optional 5th level, that will have the last boss (and secret last boss) from the demo.
Additional smaller things.
With these, I will release the game into 1.0. There will be more smaller stuff added after that, but I think that in general the game is pretty juicy.
Additions:
(Music) Echo Tower Boss
(Achievement) White Trouble
(Achievement) Round Trouble
(Achievement) Rotten Trouble
(Blessing) Symmetry
(Blessing) Greed
(Blessing) Sixth Finger
Changes:
(Blessings - UI) Blessings with effects that depend on some value will now show that value under their icon. Currently affected Blessings: White Flame, Symmetry, Ethereal Arm.
(Blessings - UI) Blessings that depend on the current amount of HP will now tell you the amount needed in their description. Currently affected Blessings: Diamond Coating, Glass Cannon.
(Card) Seek Weakness cost reduced to 1-0. It now also has Advance 2, and combo value changed to 2.
(Card) Monarch's Bone works with burning on top of discarding. Additionally, dealt damage increased to 300.
(Status) Changed description for Electrify to specify it triggers even if the damage is zero.
(Status/Card) Death's Crown now specifies that it doesn't stack when obtained multiple times.
(UI) The Blessings Archive will now separate Blessings by their pools (innate, normal, great, boss, flame).
(General) Cards are now discarded only after any drawing effect is applied (to avoid some cases when cards could draw themselves, which could also result in bugs).
Bug Fixes:
A recent change made it so the game would lock when restarting a run after losing. Fixed.
Fixed a crash that could happen when killing an enemy with a specific combination of statuses.
Fixed some cases where a drawn card would leave an empty hole in the deck instead.
Fixed character being duplicated when starting a new run.
Fixed some effects or cards (like Tainted Apple) erasing all player's statuses.
Fixed Black Flame not working properly on cards that cost zero because of First Draw or Free marks.
Fixed Virus card not being removed by Goosebumps Blessing.
Reaction type statuses would react to Blue or Yellow Flame damage when hit with an attack with Tracking. Fixed by slowing down Tracking attacks when you have either of those blessings.
Added text for Exhaust card to specify you need Overheat to use it (it was coded in the card but the card wasn't stating it).
Fixed some instances where a card could remain semi transparent when in hand.
Fixed a softlock that could happen when winning a fight while doing some specific combinations of actions.
Fixed Boomerang Effect being put in the draw pile when discarding it using effects of other cards.
The text "Can't have more than 10 cards" could loop when multiple drawing effects happened in succession. There is now a delay before the text can appear again.
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07 Feb 2026Developer post
2026 Publisher Sale
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Original post
02 Feb 2026Developer post
0.6.3 Update
Hello everyone! Some more balancing for the Mechanic, and bug fixes. I have to say that I find the game to be in a very good shape. At this point most of the stuff I'm fixing are some very specific interactions between unusual effects..and in general, the amount of softlocks in t
Hello everyone!
Some more balancing for the Mechanic, and bug fixes.

I have to say that I find the game to be in a very good shape.
At this point most of the stuff I'm fixing are some very specific interactions between unusual effects..and in general, the amount of softlocks in the game have drastically decreased.
I want to say a huge thank you to Blank Skies in my Discord server, the amount of testing, feedback and detailed bug reports I'm getting is a great help, especially right now that I don't really have the time to deeply test the game.
And in general another huge thank you to all of you who keep on playing, supporting, and enjoying my game. I appreciate every single one of you.
Also, thank you all for the wishes for my newborn. It's an interesting moment in my life, and I'm trying to balance and enjoy all that life is giving me.
Changes:
(General) Another rework on how rarity for cards rewards work. Both fights and chests will now favor more common cards at the beginning of a run, with a gradual increase in rarity with each level.
(Event) Hurt Creature will now give a Platinum Melon when giving a common HP related card. I found that the combination of the event being almost always in the first level, the fact that knowing its outcome means you'd save the initial healing item, and how strong Angel Form is, made it for a no brainer choice (and in most cases you'd have no reason to go for the "rare" option). Additionally, it won't accept Tonic and Barista as a good cards to give anymore (now all cards are strictly HP related).
(Card) As a result of the previous point, Angel Form will now be more rare. Special cards are set to be "one copy only" when getting them as a reward. Because the card was almost always obtained as a reward from the creature in the first level, it was basically never in the pool for the other instances where you can obtain a Special card.
(Cards) Changed the amount of tracking given by some cards.
(Card) Load Missile will now only make 1 Missile instead of 2.
(Card) Guided Missile attack increased to 10.
(Card) Load Rocket will now only make 1-2 Rockets instead of 2-3.
(Card) Eagle Eye changed so that when used on an enemy, it will lose all its tracking next turn.
(Card) 1000 Eyes cost decreased to 4-2, and tracking to 7.
(Card) Seek Weakness combo value changed to 3. In addition, it is now an AoE card, removing all Tracking from all enemies and converting the total into Strength.
(Card) Precise Airstream and Guided Punch combo value changed to 2.
(Blessing) Risk of Chaos changed to give you the same amount of blessings, +1.
(Blessing) Great Sight Lensing reduced to 1 from 2.
(Blessing) Hard Bones now reduces damage by 25% from 10%. Description also changed to point out the damage reduced is to HP (so, it doesn't work on Hull).
(Enemy) Captive status value when Pond's Monarch eats one of your cards increased to 300.
(Status) Changed description for Life Drain, to state that it works only with attack cards as the player.
(UI) The "shiny" effect on recently unlocked cards will now be below the cards' text, making them easier to read.
(UI) Both Dirty Bomb and Nuclear Waste will now be shown as locked in the archive until you unlock Dirty Tactics.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed a bug that would heavily reduce all blessings pools, when loading a game in a run that started with any Lands version that is not the base one.
Fixed Afterimage blessing triggering enemies' countdown.
Fixed most "Tracked" attack cards still removing tracked status from the enemy.
Solved some some rare cases where you could find yourself with holes in your hand or deck, and/or cards randomly disappearing from your hand into your deck/discard pile.
Fixed some events still showing their tooltip after having completed them.
Fixed Great Mimic not being able to drop recently added pets items, as well as having the possibility to drop pets that overlap in the same slot.
Fixed cards with First Draw keeping their zero cost after the first turn.
Fixed Core Fragments not being killed when going to phase 2, when having block (given by one of the challenges).
Fixed Incinerator causing a softlock when killing the 1st phase of a multi phase enemy.
When enemies received a status while dying, the status would stick to the enemy. This resulted in the enemy keeping the status when spawning later in the run, or the status being removed from the game if you went to the next level, or re loaded a run (this could create various additional issues). Fixed.
Fixed Reactive Poison status working even when an attack would miss the enemy because of Evasion.
The attack that would make you discard, with Darkness Elemental and Ebonactite, could make the player discard a card even when missing because of Evasion. Fixed.
Fixed a bad interaction between Lethargy blessing and Haste status.
Bookmark card's values were swapped in the card's text, fixed.
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Original post
23 Jan 2026Developer post
0.6.2 Update
Hello everyone! I will be pretty busy for the whole weekend, so I wanted to push one update before then. No new addition this time, but I've been slowly polishing stuff, fixing bugs, and made a few fundamental changes to the Mechanic, that should make it more enjoyable as a whole
Hello everyone!
I will be pretty busy for the whole weekend, so I wanted to push one update before then.
No new addition this time, but I've been slowly polishing stuff, fixing bugs, and made a few fundamental changes to the Mechanic, that should make it more enjoyable as a whole.
Changes:
(General) Added quick help tooltip for Mage and Mechanic classes, and Sanctuary room. Moreover, all current and future quick help tooltips will show once for all players, regardless of how far they are in the game.
(Card) 1000 Eyes can now be used normally, when having other cards in hand. Cost increased to 5-3.
(Card) Taser will now apply Electrify after attacking, before discarding. Which means that it can be safely used with double attack or dual wielding. Additionally, it had the unintended issue of damaging you for 99 (from elecrify) if the enemy already had electrify. That won't happen anymore because electrify is now applied after the attack is finished.
(Card) Removed "goes over tracked cap" for Eagle Eye.
(Card) Paintball will now deal Tracked damage, then apply 1 Tracked if the attack hit the enemy (meaning, if the enemy already has Tracked).
(Card) Precise Airstream changed to first apply 1 Tracked, then dealing Tracked damage.
(Card) Complete rework of Ejection. Renamed to Inertia. It will now simply deal as much damage as your current Hull, without removing it. It also inflicts 50 Overheat and "can't attack" status on the player. Cost increased to 5-3.
(Status) Tracked now caps at 99.
(Status) Flesh Interface will now heal you of the stored value at the end of a fight (additionally to at the start of a turn). This also removes an unintended effect where the stored value would persist between fights.
(Blessing) Blessed Rain changed to activate only if you play at least one card during the turn.
(Event) The Blessing spirit in the Sanctuary will now give a Blessing from the "great" pool instead of a normal one.
(UI) Mechanic's Hull status icon has been made bigger, and with its value to align to the left, to avoid overlapping with its next status when having a big number.
(Visual) Defeating Ebonactite, Husk and Eye of the Storm makes the screen temporarily black to allow the backgrounds to be reverted to a normal version. This time gap used to be a bit too long, especially when on 1x game speed. The time gap has been greatly reduced.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed Code:99 card's block not scaling with block's modifiers.
Fixed Item cards generated with other cards not to be affected by Risk of Possession blessing.
Fixed Cards showing a 2 cost with Risk of Possession, but actually still costing zero.
Fixed the pond showing its tooltip in discovery mode during a fight.
Fixed some rare cases where cards would remain semi transparent when dropping them back into the hand after picking one.
Fixed Acid Blood blessing activating on damage made by non card elements (like Blue flame or Pets attacks) when this damage was on enemies with Electrified status.
Fixed Healthy Avoidance blessing to actually work with weird delays in some instances.
Fixed the ability to find the pet Keron before unlocking it.
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Original post
17 Jan 2026Developer post
0.6.1 Update
Hello everyone! First thing first: my daughter was born on January 13th! Just two days after my own birthday. She's healthy, cute and surprisingly quiet :D I've been updating the game a few times a day since I released the Mechanic. There were a lot of new bugs that needed to be
Hello everyone!
First thing first: my daughter was born on January 13th! Just two days after my own birthday.
She's healthy, cute and surprisingly quiet :D
I've been updating the game a few times a day since I released the Mechanic.
There were a lot of new bugs that needed to be fixed as soon as I saw them (including the fact that for a few days new challenges could not be unlocked anymore..).
At the same time, I've made some changes to the class following users' feedback and my own testing.
I didn't have time to make an actually update announcement, so I'm going to list here all the changes that have been made so far, including a few still unreleased features.
Additions:
(General) A new "Discovery Mode" added in the options: when this is turned ON, events will show a tooltip to tell you how to interact with them. OFF by default.
(General) A new system to show quick tips when encountering new mechanics or things that may need a few words to better understand. Currently implemented to explain the new Discovery Mode, will use this system for more things in the future.
(Card) Paintball
(UI) Added a "faded" version of each level in the levels map, to hint at the number of total levels, for new players.
(Event) Added Mechanic cards to the pool of usable cards on the Hurt Creature event.
Changes:
(Mechanic) Changed starting deck to include 1 Laser and one Tag cards.
(Status) Overheat will now damage Hull for 5 flat instead of 10%.
(General) Fancy Bottle cards were incorrectly set to not appear as rewards before level 3. Set now to appear from level 2. Additionally, Starting from level 2, if you don't own a Fancy Bottle, Spring Water or any pet, the shop will always offer a Fancy bottle in the Item cards tentacle (max once per level). These changes should heavily facilitate obtaining at least 1 pet before level 3.
(Sound) Changed the sound for wind element attacks.
(Music) Better volume balance for all the BGM.
(Event) The Breakable Globe event will now be damaged with the value exactly as shown for the "during combo" version of a card, and will include any additional effect like Double Damage Mark and Blessings like Black Flame. To balance this change, the needed damage to break it has been increased by 10.
(Event) Firepit will no longer have a small chance to give you a "Burn" affliction card.
(Cards) Added a new "Stock" attribute to Ancient Insight, Gourmet and Slot cards. These cards will now always generate a different card within the same fight. When there are no more different cards to generate, the card will be burned. This is to avoid stalling in search of HP related cards.
(Card) Decreased in combo cost for Deploy Rope to 1.
(Card) Decreased in combo cost for Dirty Tactics to 2.
(Card) Exhaust cost in combo reduced to 1. Also, removed its "Retreat" attribute.
(Card) Sauna's healing increased to 10x your Overheat value.
(Card) Changed Feint description to reflect the fact that a drawn card's cost is reduced to 0 only until used.
(Card) Plasma Cannon cost in combo decreased to 2. Also, required Overheat decreased to 10.
(Card) Laser combo value changed to 2.
(Blessing) Risk Of Poison will now stop poisoning you when you go over 2000 max HP.
(Blessing) Goosebumps moved to the "great" blessings pool.
(Blessing) Photosynthesis changed to give you 2 Strength every turn instead of every 3 turns.
(UI) When playing with a pad, the "x" icon to show enemies' intents would now overlap with statuses when they align towards the left (a recent change). Moved the "x" icon in a place where it shouldn't interfere with anything.
(UI) Better handling of tooltips placement.
Bug Fixes:
Because of a recent change, The Core would summon its fragments only once per fragment, then summoning blanks afterwards. Fixed.
The normal attack from The Core had one wrong value, that caused its intent to show the intended damage, but to deal 2.5 times the damage. Fixed.
Clearing Abyss with the Mechanic would not unlock the right achievement.
Fixed the game not properly showing cards' "in combo" versions when pressing ctrl.
Fixed the game not properly resetting a run's save file after winning (you could still choose "Continue" after winning a run).
Fixed the game not showing a card's damage value right away when generated during fight.
Fixed the Mechanic not being able to unlock any challenges.
Fixed issues with unlocking challenges when loading a previous run or retrying after losing.
Fixed Lens status not actually applying more Tracked.
Fixed most cards containing Hull showing a Fragile status tooltip.
Added Hull tooltip to One With The Machine blessing.
Fixed the archive not showing transient cards.
Fixed Mint card not healing the amount of added HP.
For some reason I never realized that when enemies received damage while having Block, the "block" sound would not play. Fixed.
Some blessings would still work when accepting the "blessing spirit" deal. Fixed.
Fixed Machine Learning card not resetting its damage multiplier when checking your deck between fights.
When having Good Care blessing, and using an item with Swift, if the card were to be retained because of the blessing, Swift would not work. Fixed.
Fixed cards that generate other cards to show the generated card in unintended moments.
Tentative fix for a bug that could lead to being unable to exit the Archive.
Fixed many issues with tooltips when having "big UI" mode on.
The World's music would loop into a wrong file, fixed.
Fixed Autoloader triggering enemies' countdown when pulled with Keron pet.
Battery card would not properly remove Overheat if it went down to zero, fixed.
Fixed cards Stomp and Heat Shield not correctly showing a green value when their damage/block was more than base.
Fixed Ejection card not removing Hull when having Evasion.
Fixed Hot Equip working during Time Freeze.
Fixed some cases where the "mark" symbol on cards could be seen through other game's elements.
Fixed Cool Tempered blessing not properly working.
Fixed "First Draw" cards not having a working "swift" when having Blue Flame or Yellow Flame blessings.
Fixed an error in BGM loop when visiting the shop in Echo Tower.
The way the game was set would always make you find a Sanctuary Spirit within a few rooms after visiting a Sanctuary room if you previously had already capped the number of Spirits you can hold at the same time. While not strictly a bug, that wasn't intended to be. Fixed so the Spirit can still be found but in a more random way.
Fixed Whirlpool Grimoire not working for exceeding the 50 cap for wind.
Fixed Force Field card not giving Block for damage dealt to enemy's Block.
Fixed the possibility to interact with the firepit while it's saying "noooo" after giving it a Spring Water card.
Fixed the damage icon above the firepit to remain stuck when giving it a Spring Water card.
Fixed the "Big UI" button in the menu to say "off" even when on.
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Original post
02 Jan 2026Developer post
0.6.0 Update
She's here! I'm glad I managed to wrap this up before my daughter joins the family (spoiler alert, less than 2 weeks left). The 3rd class is finally done, the Mechanic . I'm happy with how she came out visually, and mechanically. I tried to balance it as well as I could, but she
She's here!
I'm glad I managed to wrap this up before my daughter joins the family (spoiler alert, less than 2 weeks left).
The 3rd class is finally done, the Mechanic.
I'm happy with how she came out visually, and mechanically.
I tried to balance it as well as I could, but she will probably need more balancing going forward.
She comes with quite a few specific mechanics and gimmicks, 84 class specific cards, a few class specific blessings, and 20 new Achievements.
To unlock her, you'll need to clear the game once with either the Warrior or Mage. This will now give you an additional Achievement for simply winning the game. If you've already cleared the game once, the achievement should unlock automatically on your next start up.
A few words about her:
My original goal with classes was to have a sort of visual character customization..which ended up being too much work for one person. For that reason, the Warrior and Mage have a similar looking face.
At this point I didn't want to make yet another "copy", and since one of the things I wanted to customize was sex..I decided that this new class was going to be a girl.
As for her mechanics: while the Warrior is quite straightforward, and the Mage is more complex but with a lot more variety and potential, this class I believe is a middle ground between the two. One big difference is that she will have a lot less HP than usual, and is a lot more prone to need to follow an archetype.
I'll leave more discovery to you. Please, as always, feel free to leave any comment or feedback!
I have made quite a few changes and killed a few bugs too.
As I've stated, my daughter will be born soon, so development may slow down. I will try to keep things going as much as life allows me. But I will spend some time working on balance, bug fixes, improvements etc. for a while, with no strict schedule.
Additions:
(Class) Mechanic (and all related cards, blessings and unlocks)
(Pet) Keron
(Music) Sky Archipelago's boss.
(Blessing) Mage - Inquisitive
(UI) The Shop will now tell you "Not enough blood" when you try to buy something without having enough blood.
(UI) Transient cards (cards created by the player that will disappear at fight end) now have a specific mark to differentiate them from normally owned cards.
Changes:
(Archive) Restructured the Cards Archive: it will now have 4 tags: Warrior, Mage, Mechanic, General. The first 3 contain ALL cards that are specific to the class, while General contains all cards that are shared between all classes. Within each tag there will be all types of cards, sorted by type, and by rarity within each type.
(Archive) Improved performance when changing between tabs in the Cards Archive.
(Cards) All pet item cards now state that you need "Bottled Spring Water".
(Card) Slime effect changed into: When drawn, stop any further card draws. This has an impact similar to the old version, while making this card less problematic (in code) when drawn in tandem with other effects.
(Card) Relax will now set all your hand's cards cost to zero, but won't remove all your SP anymore. The text now also specifies that once used, the cards' cost goes back to the original value.
(Enemy) Pond's Monarch will now gain a "Captive" status when eating one of your cards. Once you've dealt the amount of damage shown in the status' icon, all cards eaten so far will be put back in your deck.
(Enemy) Mimic will now drop both of its specific cards - as it previously used to do.
(Visual) The player attack animation is now better handled, and will speed up the animation during multi hit attacks, instead of the badly synchronized solution the game had so far.
(Music) The temporary BGM files for Echo Tower, Sky Archipelago, Outer Space, and relative bosses should now play in a higher volume. Everything will be better balanced once I have the final files.
(Pets) All pets will now make their call sound when performing their action.
(Pets) Increased time delay between pets actions.
Bug Fixes:
Onigiri pet was flagged in the wrong position slot, making it possible to find it multiple times.
The recent change to statuses alignment made it so the first time any entity got statuses they would be in a wrong position. Fixed.
Fixed a rare bug that could softlock the game if you won a fight while drawing cards.
Fixed a few recently added unlockable blessings showing their tooltip when checked in the Archive while still not unlocked.
Fixed a recently introduced bug that would make tooltips disappear after a moment, when playing with a pad.
Fixed another pad issue that would not show the combo version of cards when selecting them as reward.
Pad again, fixed the "Y" symbol when picking a boss blessing not showing properly, and it being affected by environmental lights.
Fixed having the possibility to click on a portal when choosing a card from the new game rewards list.
Fixed backgrounds flickering for a moment when exiting the Enigma room.
Fixed the game not being able to load correctly pet item rooms for recently added pets.
Fixed a bug/exploit that could let you change the difficulty of an ongoing run when reloading.
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Original post
13 Dec 2025Developer post
0.5.4 Update
As I keep working on the new class (I'm over 60 cards, so I'm about halfway through, tho balancing is being trickier than I hoped), I keep making changes, balancing, and fixing bugs, so I want to push stuff at least once every two weeks. There are two main things in this update:
As I keep working on the new class (I'm over 60 cards, so I'm about halfway through, tho balancing is being trickier than I hoped), I keep making changes, balancing, and fixing bugs, so I want to push stuff at least once every two weeks.
There are two main things in this update:
Retry:
The game will now offer you the option to "Retry" when losing a fight (it will reload the game as it was in the room before the fight you lost). At the same time, even when going back to the main menu, your save file for the run will still be loadable. The only time a save file is reset is when you win a run.
Basically, free save scumming. While testing I realized that it makes the whole game less stressful and more enjoyable this way, and I could make an "hardcore mode" (maybe as a challenge) in the future, where you can't retry (and I'll also make it impossible to save scum then :P).
New Music:
Added non final version BGMs for Sky Archipelago and The World boss fight.
The World boss fight has been in the game since the last update, but I forgot to announce that.
With this, the only two remaining tracks are for Echo Tower and Sky Archipelago's bosses.
All recently added tracks are non final, and play with lower volume compared to final tracks, I apologize for that.
As for changes and bug fixes:
Changes:
(General) Changed the chances and types of cards you can find during fights.
(Enemy) The World "seasons" will happen a little slower (the speed made what was happening too difficult to understand). Also, its power up actions will now happen after attacking, avoiding times when it would power up just before an attack, changing the actual damage value from what was shown in the intent.
(Status) Electrified now states that the damage coming back happens only when attacked with an attack card (meaning it won't activate when damaged by a blessing, pet, item or special card).
(UI) Enemies statuses will now position expanding to the left when the more than 4 are present. This should eliminate any current or future risk of having statuses overlap with adjacent enemies when they too many at the same time.
(UI) The "Loading..." text in the bottom right corner is now more consistent in all parts of the game.
(Blessing) Risk Of Poison will now poison for 3% of your HP (from 2%). It will also stop increasing your max HP when you have more than 2000, and will only heal you instead.
(Visual) Very small change to the Marking Machine sprite.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed missing interaction between Paper Airplane card and Renunciation blessing.
The game would show just a black background when showing a card made by another card when checked for the first time in one session from inside your deck. Fixed.
Fixed Bouncy not synergizing with Fragile damage.
Adjusted some AoE cards art background to be consistent with each other.
Fierce Cuteness Blessing would make the next turn start before waiting for the repeated pet action, leading to issues in some cases. Fixed.
Fixed a bug that would leave the shop music on after exiting a shop.
The recent change to item cards being affected by statuses (for example Rock's damage) wasn't properly displaying the values colors (like green if the damage is more than base). Fixed.
Remember, if you like the game, each single positive review helps me a lot!
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Original post
24 Nov 2025Developer post
0.5.3 Update
A pretty small update that I'm forced to make because I realized there was a pretty major bug while I was working on some important changes. The major change concerns the Mage class: I have come to the realization that, while dividing all the elemental cards to be obtained only w
A pretty small update that I'm forced to make because I realized there was a pretty major bug while I was working on some important changes.
The major change concerns the Mage class: I have come to the realization that, while dividing all the elemental cards to be obtained only when you have the relative Grimoire, this meant that, especially when owning only one, the card pool would be significantly limited (especially evident with Legendary cards).
Because of this, I've decided that now all cards will be available regardless of the Grimoires.
This may require some further balancing down the road, but hopefully will make the mage feel more varied.
Linked to this, I decided to make two changes to the Grimoires (now that they don't serve as element finders anymore):
They will give you 2 charges of each element instead of 1
They will allow you to increase their specific element to 100, from 50. There is no additional passive benefit when going above 50, but increasing the limit should allow players to make even big numbers with elemental manipulation.
Changes:
(Mage) Reworked how elemental cards are obtained, and the role of Grimoires.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed a bug introduced with the last update that made it impossible to increase your HP.
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18 Nov 2025Developer post
0.5.2 Update
Good news, I've been working on the third class, the Mechanic! So far I've made 30ish cards, with some new core mechanics. It feels pretty fun, but I'll need a lot more cards before I can actually release it. In the meantime I've collected enough changes and bug fixes that a smal
Good news, I've been working on the third class, the Mechanic!
So far I've made 30ish cards, with some new core mechanics. It feels pretty fun, but I'll need a lot more cards before I can actually release it.
In the meantime I've collected enough changes and bug fixes that a small update was needed.
No new content, but there are a few important changes (the biggest one is a rework of the "First Draw" Mark).
Changes:
(General) Because of the mechanics for the upcoming new player class, Item cards that deal damage are now affected by statuses (currently Bomb and Rock cards).
(General) Cards that generate other cards will now show the generated card together with whatever tooltip they may have.
(Mark) First Draw will now, in addition to drawing the card on first turn, set its cost to zero and give it a Swift effect during the first turn.
(Shop) Price increase for rerolling decreased to 10% from 25%.
(Shop) Changed the Shop last text prompt from rerolling to be more menacing.
(General) Rare treasure chests now contain 2 cards instead of 3.
(Enemy) Magma Elemental won't start a fight with an automatic Strength Up status to everyone.
(Enemy) Ice Elemental won't start a fight with an automatic Evasion status to everyone.
(Enemy) Elemental Cluster will perform in turn an attack + an elemental action, then only an attack, and repeat (when not summoning more elementals).
(Enemy) Darkness Elemental won't give you a Darkness card on fight start anymore. Instead it will give you one as its first action.
(Mage) The Mage will now always find at least one not owned grimoire from equipment chests.
(Pet) Onigiri set to increase your HP at most once per battle, then it will still either heal you if you don't have max HP, or give you evasion.
(Card) Soul Cannon damage multiplier reduced to 5x from 10x.
(Card) Chain Attack now sets all your attack cards to cost 0 (instead of 2 less SP).
(Card) Levitate now gives 2 Evasion and 2 Wind.
(Card) Deep Breath now gives 1 Evasion in addition to 2 SP.
(Card) Heat sacrifice used to stay in the middle of the screen while overlapping with the card it's burning. It now moves to the side before placing the burned card in the center.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed a case where you could get a non working portal pixie on Firepit portals.
Fixed Wind Dance card not being usable with the alternative input system.
Solved a rare issue that could lead to icons and buttons in the shop to not work as intended.
Fixed a recently introduced bug that would leave the shop music overlapping with the map one after leaving a shop room.
Fixed a bug that could lead to the shops' tentacles to stay on screen during its fight.
Fixed left over issue with the interaction between blessings Risk Of Heat and Afterimage.
Fixed Better Idea and Chakram reducing enemies' countdown by two if used together.
Fixed the game giving a blank "unlocked" prompt when finding the Marks Sanctuary Spirit.
Hopefully removed the few edge cases when tooltips would hang on screen despite exiting what they're referring to.
If for any reason you lost your save files and don't have Steam cloud active, the game was supposed to retrieve data from the Steam achievements and use those to remake your save file. It wasn't working as intended, and it's now fixed.
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27 Oct 2025Developer post
0.5.1 Update
A small but hopefully significant update! First of all, Novus Orbis has reached 50 Reviews , 94% positive, with the tag Very Positive ! Thank you everyone who helped me reach this small but significant milestone! The game's BGM tracks for the new locations are starting to flow in
A small but hopefully significant update!

First of all, Novus Orbis has reached 50 Reviews, 94% positive, with the tag Very Positive!
Thank you everyone who helped me reach this small but significant milestone!
The game's BGM tracks for the new locations are starting to flow in. They're still not final, so composition may change a little and volume/mixing/quality is still not the best, but I'm really happy with how they make the new levels feel, so I wanted to add them to the game already. More to come!

Then, with the new additions from update 0.5.0, after feedback and testing, I realized I needed to re balance quite a few things.
As always, the game is being shaped little by little, nothing is ever set in stone, and I'm working hard to make the final product as good as I can.
In general I think the game was getting too difficult (to the point I was struggling myself to win runs), as well as the fact that I felt difficulty wasn't evenly spread through a whole run.
Two major things that I think can really change how a run goes (especially, them happening by the end of level 2), are the ability to find a pet and increasing your max HP.
The more events I add, and the more blessing there are, everything is getting diluted, making the balance towards the end of a run trickier.
Because of that, I have made it so it's easier (almost guaranteed) to have ways to find a pet and at least some kind of HP boost calculated around which level you're on.
As a side note, winning the game with 10 challenges on is a REAL challenge. Unless you get a very lucky build, you will really need to take advantage of all the game's mechanics to be able to win against the last boss.
Additions:
(Music) Added a non final version for the Echo Tower and Outer Space BGMs.
(Music) Replaced the BGM for the Sanctuary event.
Changes:
(General) Removed the anti stall system. It was being to difficult to properly balance, keeping track of all possible reasons the player would be stalling, and in the end, if a player wants to stall and play boringly, it's on them lol
(General) Decreased chance to find negative portal pixies (stronger enemies and damaging ones).
(General) Decreased damage from damaging portal pixies to 10%.
(General) Increased healing from healing portal pixies to 20%.
(General) Stronger enemies pixies will now give slightly less strong enemies, and blood given will be 3x instead of 2x.
(General) The game will now make it easier to find a Fancy Bottle card if you don't have one, or a pet, starting from level 2 (from item chests).
(General) The game will now favor finding a Platinum Melon card if your max HP is too low for the current level.
(General) Healing Springs now heal 50% max HP from 33%.
(Challenge) Challenge 3 now gives 15% more HP to enemies instead of 25%.
(Challenge) Challenge 4 now gives 15% more damage to enemies instead of 25%.
(Challenge) Challenge 5 (the one that gives you one Affliction card) has been completely changed into one that gives bosses 1 Strength status per level.
(Challenge) Challenge 9 changed to have bosses start at 3 Countdown on their first turn.
(Player) Warrior starting HP increased to 60.
(Player) Mage starting HP increased to 50.
(Card) Fire Arrow damage increased to 5-9.
(Card) Fire Ball damage increased to 7-14.
(Card) Slash damage increased to 6-9.
(Card) Kick damage increased to 3-6.
(Card) Spinning Slash damage increased to 5-8.
(Card) Bird Feather now gives you 10% more max HP instead of flat 5.
(Enemy) Zakuro's Desperate Bite attack (when without a tail) is now less powerful.
(Enemy) Eye of the Storm's "Storm" attack is now a 4 hit attack instead of 5.
(Enemy) Eye of the Storm's "Electrify" amount decreased to 5 from 10.
(Enemy) Necrosphere multiple attack is now a 2 hit attack instead of 3.
(Enemy) The World's initial Protection charges decreased to 7 from 10.
(Enemy) Luna Ignis and Luna Aegis Countdown increased by 1.
(Enemy) Grinder now performs 1 action, then 2 actions, alternatively.
(Event) You can now find and store 4 Sanctuary spirits at the same time at most.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed Paper Airplane card not working on pet item cards.
A recent change in how the game is loaded when launched made it so changing font would make the game crash or act weird. Fixed.
Fixed Goosebumps blessing not working on Tick.
Fixed error in Discharge card text.
Fixed a bug that would let you select Lava Flow again after using it, making it possible to use it multiple times without burning cards.
Fixed a bug that could lead to the game forcing you to pick 3 more Affliction cards when loading a run with Risk of Skill or Risk of Assault.
Fixed the shop room music disappearing when accessed after a special fight (Mimics and Monarch).
Fixed a bug that could make portals appear in event rooms that should force you to interact with them.
Remember, if you like the game, each single positive review helps me a lot!
If you have any feedback or want to discuss about the game, join my Discord server.
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