The developer can now find a player who is reporting a bug, join their game, and message everyone at once. Because that touches you, here is exactly what the game now sends, what is kept, and for how long.
The developer can now find a player who is reporting a bug, join their game, and message everyone at once. Because that touches you, here is exactly what the game now sends, what is kept, and for how long.
Most of this patch comes from one very good bug report by Abide . Thank you. Your gold upgrades stay bought Levelling up rebuilt your max health from scratch and threw away every health upgrade you'd paid for. Quitting to the menu mid-run dropped your vendor damage and attack-spe
Most of this patch comes from one very good bug report by Abide. Thank you.
Your gold upgrades stay bought
Levelling up rebuilt your max health from scratch and threw away every health upgrade you'd paid for. Quitting to the menu mid-run dropped your vendor damage and attack-speed buffs too. Both fixed — run buffs and bought health are saved with your character and restored when you return.
Joining a friend no longer resets you to level 1
Characters were being read from the host's machine instead of yours. Your character, bank and house now travel with you into someone else's game.
Guardian Angel stops eating gold
It caps at 25. The vendor now refuses the sale once you're there instead of taking your money for nothing.
No more duplicate legendaries
Drops skip anything you're already carrying.
Depth 20 is a fight, not a sponge
Monster health grew by the same multiplier forever — by depth 20 everything had 598× its base health and the run turned into chip damage. The curve now bends at depth 10: the depth-20 multiplier drops to 64×, and boss health goes from 10× to 7×.
Monster damage is deliberately untouched. The deep floors should still kill you quickly — they just shouldn't bore you first.
Typing in chat no longer fires shortcuts
J, E, I and T in the chat box opened the journal, inventory and the rest instead of typing the letter.
The in-game feedback option comes straight to me and I read every one. Keep them coming.
Gradanix is out. Pick a hero, descend, and see how deep you get before something kills you. When you die, that run is over — the only thing that survives is your name on the board and how far down it says you went. Out now, 15% off for launch week. Season 1 — First Descent Season
Gradanix is out.
Pick a hero, descend, and see how deep you get before something kills you. When you die, that run is over — the only thing that survives is your name on the board and how far down it says you went.
Out now, 15% off for launch week.
Season 1 — First Descent
Season 1 runs 3 September to 2 December, and every board starts empty today. No runs, no level entries, no world firsts. The first name on each one is up for grabs right now.
Seasons are three months. When one ends, the legendaries and items you're carrying are cleared and the boards reset — your character level, talents, titles, bank and house are yours forever.
What's in it
Seven classes — warrior, paladin, rogue, hunter, mage, priest, warlock, each with their own kit.
Permadeath. One life per run. Depth is the score.
Online co-op and LAN. Descend together, die together. XP is shared evenly, so nobody gets left behind.
An endless dungeon that keeps getting harder, with a boss every seven levels.
Corruption — an opt-in difficulty dial. Crank it for harder enemies and richer rewards. It only ever makes the run worse for you, which is the point.
World firsts. The first player to find each legendary gets the plaque, permanently.
Daily challenge, guilds, a bank, and a house to put your things in.
56 achievements.
Playtest players, read this
Thank you. Seriously — the level-9999 bug, the white trees, the unreadable boss bar, the melee that whiffed: you found all of it, and the game shipped better because you did.
The free Playtest is closed and the old alpha launcher is retired. Playtest progress and achievements were always separate from the full game and don't carry over, so everyone starts Season 1 on the same footing.
Since the Playtest build
Levelling was re-cut. Levels 1–300 play exactly as before. Past that the curve steepens hard, so the level cap is a multi-year climb rather than something a determined grinder clears in one season.
Runaway XP fixed. Characters could hit the cap in about seventy kills. They can't now.
Legendary drops rebalanced — roughly a third of the set used to drop in a single deep run.
Damage and attack-speed stacking capped at +300%, on both the vendor and the drop path.
The developer is off the leaderboards. Dev runs use debug tools and test builds; that's not a fair race, so those runs no longer appear on any board and can't claim world firsts.
Plus the small things that add up: the warrior actually carries his axe head-down, the marksman's scope is on top of the rifle where a scope belongs.
Tell me what breaks
There's a feedback option in-game — it sends the report straight through with your version and log attached, and I read every one. If something is broken, that's the fastest way to get it in front of me.
Good luck down there.
Thank you to everyone who played the free Playtest. It is closed now so the last week can go into launch. Gradanix releases on Steam on Wednesday 9 September 2026. Wishlist it and Steam will tell you the moment it is live. Everyone starts together: the leaderboards have been wipe
Thank you to everyone who played the free Playtest. It is closed now so the last week can go into launch.
Gradanix releases on Steam on Wednesday 9 September 2026. Wishlist it and Steam will tell you the moment it is live.
Everyone starts together: the leaderboards have been wiped and Season 1 — First Descent begins fresh on release day. Playtest progress and achievements never carried over to the full game, so nobody arrives with a head start.
Seasons last three months. A new season resets the leaderboards and clears the legendaries and items you are carrying — your character level, talents, titles, achievements, bank and house are yours forever.
See you on the 9th.
Descend as deep as you dare Gradanix is a permadeath co-op action-RPG roguelike. Pick a hero, drop into an endless world that gets meaner the further you go, and see how deep you get before it kills you — because it will. The playtest is free , it runs on Windows , and you can pl
Gradanix is a permadeath co-op action-RPG roguelike. Pick a hero, drop into an endless world that gets meaner the further you go, and see how deep you get before it kills you — because it will.
The playtest is free, it runs on Windows, and you can play solo or with up to three friends.
Already a tester? You can bring up to 3 friends with you straight from your Steam library.
This is a playtest, so things will. That's the point — and the fastest way to get something fixed is to say so:
Balance notes, "this boss feels unfair", "I have no idea what this item does" — all of it is useful. Especially the awkward stuff.
Wishlist Gradanix while you wait. It's the single most useful thing you can do for a game that isn't out yet — it's what decides who Steam shows it to on launch day.
See you at the bottom.