Greetings, archivists and adventurers!
The second Goblin Journal demo is here, now featuring a full tutorial! A dedicated level guides you through the goblins’ adventures and reveals the secrets of their journals through the translator’s story. It’s a perfect introduction for new players and a chance for veterans to explore the improvements we’ve made.
A complete tutorial level with its own story
Also new in this demo
Updated tooltips for items, abilities, and statuses.
Showing the squad members who survived the combat.
Enemy intention system updates and new combat animations (hit, blood, death).
Initiative calculation with a d6 roll, action point costs, and turn order indicators.
Visual enhancements: shadows for combatants, fort building labels, placeholders for empty arena positions, and dimming inactive combatants.
Squad panel layout and background improvements.
New features and quality-of-life updates
Reworked some orders (action, target, buff)
Added rest punishment (pursuers advance)
One sleep per fort visit
Combatant death animation
Equipment now respects HP, preventing accidental losses
New items, including tools to knock back pursuers on the map
Fixes
Fixed food display over “zzz” on the map
Fixed selling duplicate instances in fort
Fixed saving bag after removing or equipping items
Fixed position status application
Fixed armor locking in combat
Saved fort item and hire pool state between visits
Fixed goblins spawning with 0 HP
Fixed stun, haste, and hold status behavior
Fixed random initiative recalculation at round start in some cases
Fixed equipping armor during events so it’s not lost from inventory
Localization
We’re also excited to announce that Goblin Journal will be localized into several languages this September, including Russian, French, German, and Spanish.
Why your feedback matters: Every suggestion helps us make the game sharper, more immersive, and funnier in all the right ways.
What’s next: Expanded journals, item synergy, advanced enemies, and much more await in the full version. Download the demo, explore the tutorial, and share your discoveries on Steam or Discord!
— The Goblin Journal dev team