We are no longer able to financially support Polygod and must close our business down. Because of this we will be removing Polygod from the Steam Store.
We are no longer able to financially support Polygod and must close our business down. Because of this we will be removing Polygod from the Steam Store.
Polygod is live! Early Access has finally come to an end. It has been an epic 2 year journey and we could not have done it without such a supportive community. We at Krafted Games thank you! :) Below is a list of all the polish that has been done in the days leading up to launch
Polygod is live!
Early Access has finally come to an end. It has been an epic 2 year journey and we could not have done it without such a supportive community. We at Krafted Games thank you! :)
Below is a list of all the polish that has been done in the days leading up to launch and includes all the bug fixes, balance changes and added content.
Bug Fixes
Added Content
Sound Effects
Balance Changes
Multiplayer
Polygod is a randomly-generated roguelike FPS about a Faceless One, a legendary assassin with one arm who must prove himself to the seven deities by fighting through their arenas and defeating their Holy Champions in order to ascend to godhood. It features a colorful, minimalist
Polygod is a randomly-generated roguelike FPS about a Faceless One, a legendary assassin with one arm who must prove himself to the seven deities by fighting through their arenas and defeating their Holy Champions in order to ascend to godhood. It features a colorful, minimalist visual style and a "brutal difficulty curve," and after nearly two years on Steam Early Access it will go into full release tomorrow.
The Faceless One also only has one gun, but he can improve it (and himself) in numerous interesting ways with Blessings, more than 100 character and weapon upgrades that can be purchased with the souls stolen from your fallen enemies. Co-op and competitive multiplayer modes are supported, and levels (including the Blessings) are "seeded," so they can be shared with other players for leaderboard competition.
And it is as difficult as billed: I played the Early Access release last year and it kicked my ass pretty hard. Even so, I enjoyed it quite a bit: It's very much a "pure" shooter, reminiscent of Lovely Planet but much busier and less insta-death, and there's a dark wit about it that I get a kick out of. The world is bright and cheery, but the specter of death hangs over everything—and nobody seems to mind.
The move to full release will probably involve an update of some sort, but in these days of Early Access it's as much a matter of semantics as anything else—which is to say, you can pick it up now if you like for $15, and the price will remain the same once Early Access is over.
Hello Polygod Community! We at Krafted Games wanted to give an update on where we disappeared to for the last few months. Fear not! We have not forgotten about you. Over the last few months we have had our heads down working on getting Polygod ready for the Xbox One and Nintendo
Hello Polygod Community!
We at Krafted Games wanted to give an update on where we disappeared to for the last few months. Fear not! We have not forgotten about you.
Over the last few months we have had our heads down working on getting Polygod ready for the Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. This unfortunately led to our wonderful Steam build getting neglected. However, this does not mean that Polygod development has been standing still.
The game has been continuously worked on in the interim with our team trying our utmost to get this game as balanced and polished as possible. Updates will be coming soon so we ask for a bit more patience.
Within the next couple of weeks we will be announcing a release date which we are extremely excited about seeing as it has been a 2 and a half year journey.
Thank you for being such a dedicated community! :)
Hey everyone! Today's update is a rather small one with just a few fixes and one new feature: a seed-saving system . You can now save seeds that you like through the pause menu in-game, and the death screen. Your saved seeds are accessible in the Saved Seeds menu which is in the
Hey everyone!
Today's update is a rather small one with just a few fixes and one new feature: a seed-saving system. You can now save seeds that you like through the pause menu in-game, and the death screen. Your saved seeds are accessible in the Saved Seeds menu which is in the New Game menu.
We hope you find this addition useful. As always, any and all feedback is welcome!
Bug Fixes
Added Content
Hey everyone! Today’s update has something special in store for any player who’s ever been curious about the strange little folk in the Polyverse… That’s right, we’d added new NPC content! Dr Dando, everyone’s favourite nutty Zoologist, has some new information about the creature
Hey everyone!
Today’s update has something special in store for any player who’s ever been curious about the strange little folk in the Polyverse…
That’s right, we’d added new NPC content!
Dr Dando, everyone’s favourite nutty Zoologist, has some new information about the creatures in Polygod, and if you’re lucky, a tale about the origins of Faceless the First. It turns out he’s quite a chatty guy.
Maya’s got some new musings, too, on her preferred topic of... you guessed it: FREEDOM! But will she ever actually be free as a bee? (Hint: yes. We game devs took pity on her and made it so.)
If you care to chat to the other NPCs, I’m sure you’ll spot a new line here or there, or perhaps a pun that would even make Faceless facepalm.
We've also changed the sizes of the levels: they no longer get bigger as you progress through the game. They're all the same size as the first level. Let us know how you find this change, as it will affect balance, difficulty and the time it takes to complete the game.
Have fun!
Bug Fixes
Balance Changes
Added Content
Other Changes
Just a small patch with some bug fixes and one small addition. Patch Notes Bug Fixes Fixed a bug where using a controller in the Death Screen would not show what the player has selected. Fixed a bug where Blessed are the Meek would show up incorrectly in the pause menu. Fixed a b
Just a small patch with some bug fixes and one small addition.
Bug Fixes
Added Content
Polygod, a "minimalist rogue-like FPS," reminds me a lot of Lovely Planet , with two scoops of Heavy Bullets thrown in for good measure—and a lot more bullets flying around. The gameplay is fairly straightforward: Battle as far as you can through randomly generated levels, empowe
Polygod, a "minimalist rogue-like FPS," reminds me a lot of Lovely Planet, with two scoops of Heavy Bullets thrown in for good measure—and a lot more bullets flying around. The gameplay is fairly straightforward: Battle as far as you can through randomly generated levels, empower your avatar with various good/bad upgrades, die, and do it again. But I really like its bright, untextured visual style (the music is pretty great too), and while it starts off fairly slowly, the action becomes frantic in a real hurry.
There's a narrative element to it as well that I find interesting. You play as "Faceless the Blessed," an assassin caught up in the brutal Trial of the Gods. There's a sheen of mysticism to it, including a handful of oddball characters to chat with (although some of them aren't terribly social) and profound-sounding messages here and there, that gives the game an illusion of depth—although none of it, at least that I've noticed it so far, has any actual impact on the underlying shoot-and-move play. On the more practical side of the coin, Polygod also supports co-op and versus multiplayer with daily leaderboards.
"Polygod has been designed for hardcore gamers who love challenging game experiences like Binding of Isaac, Dark Souls and Cuphead," lead designer and programmer Dominic Obojkovits said. "We’ve implemented an unexpectedly deep level of weapon customization and progression within the gameplay and believe gamers will find elements to keep them coming back for just one more run, over and over again."
Polygod has actually been available on Steam Early Access since October of last year, but developer Krafted Games announced today that it will go into full release early next year, with a $15/£16/€16 price tag—$5 higher than the Early Access price. There's also a new trailer up above, and a website available for your perusal at kraftedgames.com.
Today's patch is quite a large one where we have fixed a few bugs, improved the balance of the game and added two special state blessings which cannot be bought and can only be achieved by meeting specific requirements. However we are very excited to introduce the new content and
Today's patch is quite a large one where we have fixed a few bugs, improved the balance of the game and added two special state blessings which cannot be bought and can only be achieved by meeting specific requirements. However we are very excited to introduce the new content and fixes to the community!
Blessed are the Meek is a blessings bestowed to you by Truth who will increase your damage if your are on a level with a particularly under-powered weapon. We implemented this change to balance for players who received unfair or unworkable seeds due to a lack of base fire power. this also allows players to ride out weaker builds to a later stage in the game where they can acquire the damage at which blessed are the meek will no longer be active.
Simple sinner was created to encourage hardcore player and speed runners. After beating the first Holy Champion certain Faceless Ones (namely faceless Ones who don't have any blessings) will feel empowered and this resolve and inner strength will weaken future Holy Champions. This means it is now possible to beat the entire game without buying any blessings, this is of course very difficult.
Bug Fixes
Balance Changes
Typos
Splitscreen Coop
Added Content
Hello everyone, in today's patch we added a subtle outline to many of the objects to give the art style a more polished feel. This feature can be turned off in the main menu if you don't like it and prefer the previous look. We also added after images to the final boss fight in o
Hello everyone, in today's patch we added a subtle outline to many of the objects to give the art style a more polished feel. This feature can be turned off in the main menu if you don't like it and prefer the previous look. We also added after images to the final boss fight in order to make predicting the teleportation patterns more readable.
Bug Fixes
Added Content
Hello everyone I'm very excited to introduce level 7. We've been working very long and hard on it and are excited to get community input. We have also added the last 12 blessings to the game giving us a total of 100 in game blessings! Patch Notes Bug Fixes Fixed a bug where the T
Hello everyone I'm very excited to introduce level 7. We've been working very long and hard on it and are excited to get community input.
We have also added the last 12 blessings to the game giving us a total of 100 in game blessings!
Bug Fixes
Balance Changes
Typos
Level 7!
Added Content
Today's patch is mostly bug fixes with some typo corrections and some quality of life. We just wanted to fix some issues and get the build into a relatively stable condition before launching the seventh level and boss fight (which are almost ready). Patch Notes Bug Fixes Fixed a
Today's patch is mostly bug fixes with some typo corrections and some quality of life. We just wanted to fix some issues and get the build into a relatively stable condition before launching the seventh level and boss fight (which are almost ready).
Bug Fixes
Typos
Quality of Life
Hello everyone, today's patch has a bunch of balance changes designed to make some of the blessings which are chosen less often more viable. We have also added a bunch of new visual effects to make the results of what a blessing does more clear. Patch Notes Bug Fixes Fixed a bug
Hello everyone, today's patch has a bunch of balance changes designed to make some of the blessings which are chosen less often more viable. We have also added a bunch of new visual effects to make the results of what a blessing does more clear.
Bug Fixes
Balance Changes
Added Content
Hello everyone, todays update is mostly filled with bug fixes to the multiplayer system as well as some increased variance to the random generation algorithm. Patch Notes Bug Fixes Fixed a bug in Single-player where Exploding Core would instant kill enemies. Fixed a bug in Single
Hello everyone, todays update is mostly filled with bug fixes to the multiplayer system as well as some increased variance to the random generation algorithm.
Bug Fixes
Balance Changes
Added Content
Today I'm very excited to bring you our largest and longest in development update yet! This update is all about Jolly Co-operation as we've finally completed the much requested Co-Op multiplayer option while also improving and polishing our multiplayer versus mode and other multi
Today I'm very excited to bring you our largest and longest in development update yet! This update is all about Jolly Co-operation as we've finally completed the much requested Co-Op multiplayer option while also improving and polishing our multiplayer versus mode and other multiplayer features.
Players must work together to gather souls and acquire blessings in order to defeat the Holy Champions. The gods will offer the same blessings to players at a particular altar however if another player takes a particular blessing it will not be removed from the blessings on offer from the god. This is because the Gods can bestow infinite blessings and are not limited by mortals choices. Up to 4 players can play together in Co-Operative mode.
The following blessings have been left out of Co-Op for complexity reasons and will be added in a future update: Whirlwind Shot, Stun Shot, Power Lease.
Multiplayer Versus has finally been reactivated with all the relevant single player blessings included. None of the boss blessings are available in versus mode as none of the players defeat any Holy Champions in this mode and the boss blessings can be quite unbalanced if used against other players. All playable characters are unlocked for all players while we test our multiplayer modes so that the Early Access community can help us balance all these characters. In the final release players will only be able to access characters they have unlocked in single player for multiplayer. Some single player blessings such as Select Next or Divine Intervention which only work with Altars have are not present in Versus mode. Private game functionality has been added to versus mode.
Bug Fixes
Added Content
Balance Changes
This update includes a couple of small bug fixes pertaining to the most recent patch. Patch Notes Bug Fixes Fixed a bug where the new Faceless characters were not showing up on the Leaderboard. Fixed a bug where the statue in Level 6 would not activate correctly. Fixed a bug wher
This update includes a couple of small bug fixes pertaining to the most recent patch.
Bug Fixes
Added Content
Balance Changes
Hello everyone, today's update contains 7 new Faceless Ones that can be unlocked through two new sacrificial altars and the other 5 through beating the red various red portal bosses. Our primary focus has been on completing the multiplayer which is not quite finished yet but will
Hello everyone, today's update contains 7 new Faceless Ones that can be unlocked through two new sacrificial altars and the other 5 through beating the red various red portal bosses.
Our primary focus has been on completing the multiplayer which is not quite finished yet but will definitely be ready next week. Instead we have this small content update with some new Faceless Ones to unlock.
Bug Fixes
Added Content
Balance Changes
Hello everyone, today's patch comes with a lot of bug fixes and some improvements to the GUI. The biggest GUI change is that the blessings bestowed upon thee in the pause menu now features icons for which blessings you have instead of just text. Patch Notes Bug Fixes When choosin
Hello everyone, today's patch comes with a lot of bug fixes and some improvements to the GUI.
The biggest GUI change is that the blessings bestowed upon thee in the pause menu now features icons for which blessings you have instead of just text.
Bug Fixes
Added Content
Typos
After every large update there are inevitably some bugs that we need to fix. Today's patch includes a lot of fixes and a small change to the balance. EDIT: The first upload we did for this patch was corrupted. We have since uploaded a clean build which should fix any of the earli
After every large update there are inevitably some bugs that we need to fix. Today's patch includes a lot of fixes and a small change to the balance.
EDIT: The first upload we did for this patch was corrupted. We have since uploaded a clean build which should fix any of the earlier wonkiness. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Bug Fixes
Balance Changes
After far too long of a delay we are proud to introduce our biggest update yet, the Chaotic Update. In this update we have added the sixth level and boss fight, updated the random generation system, daily dungeon leaderboard, updated all the boss fights and prepared the servers f
After far too long of a delay we are proud to introduce our biggest update yet, the Chaotic Update. In this update we have added the sixth level and boss fight, updated the random generation system, daily dungeon leaderboard, updated all the boss fights and prepared the servers for the upcoming online co-operative multiplayer update which has been a major undertaking.
The most notable part of this update is the addition of level 6 and its respective boss fight. This level is called the Abyss of Chaos.
Chaotic Corruption
Adds a damage multiplier to your bullets based on the distance the bullet has travelled. The shorter the distance the higher the multiplier. Does not stack.
Chaos Armour
Gives a 25% damage reduction. Acquiring additional Chaos Armour blessings will increase the percentage of damage reduction.
Arm of Chaos
Activates a melee attack when you tap the 'R' key. The melee attack kills beasts instantly. Arm of Chaos has a 10 second cooldown. Acquiring additional Arm of Chaos blessings will decrease the cooldown by 5 seconds.
We thought it was about time we added names to our bosses as well as on screen health bars for them. The health bar is visible in the bottom right hand of the screen creating a diagonal symmetry with the player health bar.
We have made huge amounts of progress in the complicated endeavour of adding full online cooperative multiplayer functionality to the game. We are almost ready to add Online Co-op to the working build but want to perform a few more tests first. We have temporarily disabled the multiplayer menu while we work on the servers and stress test them for the co-op implementation which will also include an update to the multiplayer versus mode. This implementation is planned for our next update!
Bug Fixes
Balance Update
Level 6
Added Content