Drunken Planning
Hello everyone! Long time, no updates. Firstly, I'd like to thank everyone who has played Brews & Bastards since its launch in September last year. It means the world to us that people could finally play the game after almost 5 years in development.
Now, We had updates planned at the end of 2025 which we had hoped to get out in November and December. While we made good progress on these updates, they turned out to be more work than we had anticipated! A little bit of burnout and a little bit of holidays kicked in and they had been pushed back till now. I apologize for the lack of communication and delay!
The good news is that we've rolled all these updates into one big one! The Happy Hour update is coming soon (like real soon (like this week hopefully)). I'm here to show and tell some of the new things in this announcement, so here we go.
Pub Crawl
The biggest update coming to the game is the Pub Crawl Mode. This is our perma-death Rogue-lite mode, where each room / enemy / item/ shop spawn is randomly generated. Players have options to customize the length and difficultly of each run as well. Bosses from the campaign will remain to challenge you in their amplified tavern game-themed arenas!
We're excited to see people take on this version of the Muneshine Tavern, trying the new items and challenging themselves in the drunken depths!
Brews and Artifacts
Along with the brand new Pub Crawl mode are a hand picked selection of delicious New Brews and powerful New Artifacts. Here is a taste of just some of the new items you'll find under the tavern.
Ice Cubes summon (surprisingly) big cubes of ice that bounce around and freeze enemies.
Bottlecopters float around the player and blast enemies with corks.
Fireball is perfect for setting everything in an area ablaze.
Quality of Life
Since launch we've been gathering feedback and making progress on various quality of life changes. Here are the major QoL additions coming in the Happy Hour Update.
Control Rebinds - A big ask from lots of players and something we would have loved to get in at launch. Now you can rebind all of the keyboard and gamepad controls your heart desires.
Single Stick Mode - Hate twin stick games? Well now you can play Brews & Bastards with a Single Stick! Head over to the settings menu to enable single stick mode and use your other hand for whatever else you want.
Playstation Controller Icons - While the game was playable with a Playstation controller previously, we only displayed Xbox controller icons. Now you can go to the settings menu and select the icons that match your controller!
Enemy/Item Balancing - We tweaked some stuff here and there, maybe it's better, maybe you hate it. Come and tell us on Discord if we did something unforgivable.
There are also a bunch of smaller changes that we've made since launch that make the game run and play better. We love to work on video games WOW.
That's it cheers
Thanks for reading all this and playing the game, we hope you enjoy the update and everything that happens next.
<3 Mune Studio