Developer posts and news about this game.
FEATURING: - New updated visuals for heroes - Updates to UI visuals - Gold Coins now drop from dungeon coffins - Improved audio for sound effects This month is exciting, and June is even more exciting! Stay tuned for more updates! New gameplay trailer on May 11th! The latest upda
New enemies like this one pictured in the above image are found in the later stages of runs! These new enemies pose a serious threat to powerful late-game builds! Explore the levels and challenge these evil creatures to battle! The new update features QOL fine-tunings of enemy ba
In two days from now, on Friday Feb 6th there's going to be a new update for Vanquish Evil! The mid to late game battles needed more challenges for the player. That's why for this new update there's going to be even more challenging enemies to fight! - The 10-20 minute timeframe
Vanquish Evil 1.0 Launch Sale January 23rd - January 29th! -35% OFF! Thanks for being a part of this event! Cheers!
VANQUISH EVIL 1.0 LAUNCH DAY IS FRIDAY, JANUARY 23RD, 2026! Thanks to everyone who supported Early Access! Controller support is now available! 6 unique character classes , each with their own special abilities! 5 major bosses! Over 20+ different enemy minion types! 4 map locatio
Steam Achievements are now being added to Vanquish Evil! The first test achievement went well, and now today the first actual achievements were added! The first achievements added: "PLAY AS CHARACTER" achievements Play as: Ancient Sentinel, Ice Queen, Warrior Swordsman, Cosmic Wi
CONTROLLER UPDATE: Gamepad left stick now works for character movement! NEW MAP LOCATION: The 4th map location has been revealed! THE REALM OF DARKNESS STEAM ACHIEVEMENTS: This build will test steam achievement unlocks. No official achievements have been added yet (soon).
MAJOR UPDATE: Controller support for Vanquish Evil now available! This update was playtested with a PS4 controller. IF YOU OWN A STEAM DECK: Please provide feedback how the game is running on Steam Deck! It would be greatly appreciated! This can be done at the Vanquish Evil Steam
Boss Adjustments to: - Undead Disciple in The Crimson Dungeon (Level 4) - HP, Cinematic intro screen, boss missiles now move towards player, changed attack from every 3 seconds to every 6 seconds - Blob Spawner in The Festering Sewers (Level 4) - HP, Cinematic intro screen, added
UI QOL Update: - Gear descriptions updated - Item description updated (1 new item in Shop)
Balancing: BUFFS for: - Lightning Bolt Damage - Frost Wave Damage Damage Text: - Added frost damage color for Ice Spikes and Frost Wave when collision with enemies UI: - Quest completed text displays properly in The Festering Sewers when Blob Spawner boss is defeated
This Early Access update focuses on polish, performance, and progression: - Gameplay performance - New music - UI improvements (visual and audio) - Enemy spawning (better performance optimization) - The SHOP menu has improved UI (audio and visual) - The Map Selection menu has gat
BIG QOL update for the EQUIP BUTTON This is a huge QOL improvement to the Equip/Unequip items button in the SHOP menu. If Unequipped: 1 click = equip If Equipped: 1 click = unequip This update paves the way for more responsive real-time game data saving and updating. Enjoy this m
Trade blue and red soul crystals for gold (the crystals to gold conversion is 6 red/24 blue = 1 gold) - Use gold to buy items - Items can be equipped or unequipped (this adds or removes them from the Upgrade Pool during runs) New bosses: - Undead Disciple (The Crimson Dungeon) -
There's 3 maps! The Twisted Forest The Crimson Dungeon (NEW BOSS ADDED!) The Festering Sewers (NEW BOSs ADDED!) Additional art polish (death animations, idle animation for Cosmic Wizard: idle animations for 4-directions) QOL for: Enemy sprites layering on map and death animation
QOL update: - Visual art improvements (level design, character sprites, animations, UI) - Fixed Level Selection code - Improved performance
SUN MAGE "SOLAR HALO" ASCENDED SYNERGY SPELL Sun Mage is the first character to have access to Ascended Synergy (weapon evolution)! What is this? It's when 2 spells have already been unlocked, and the level requirements have been met. HOW TO UNLOCK THIS: Sun Rays Damage LVL 2 Fir
New Character: Sun Mage Sun Mage is a powerful new character, the sixth and final character to be added prior to the launch of 1.0! Sun Mage has a special ability called Sun Rays, which creates a sun-like circle surrounding the character -- rotating Sun Rays of death to enemies!
QOL Update - fixed collision with tree (now disables collision once destroyed) - fixed Dash Ring (Dash is now active in the upgrade pool once equipped) - countdown timer fades out (8 second fade) after countdown is complete (0:00) Next update will likely be a new content update!
META EQUIP ITEMS UPDATE The concept for this is that each upgrade is its own "item". To simplify the process, I've created entirely a collection of RINGS. These rings each represent an upgrade. When the ring item is equipped, that upgrade is added to the UPGRADE POOL. What's cool