Patch 0.2.20: Performance, Godot Update, and Beta Branch

This patch focuses on making Hungry Horrors run better. The cooking station, seasoning station, craving changes, and card discards are all noticeably smoother. We also updated the version of Godot the game is built on, which brings further under-the-hood improvements.

We are also opening a public Beta branch on Steam. This is a separate branch where you can try upcoming features before they reach the main game. To opt in, right-click Hungry Horrors in your library, go to Properties > Betas, and select the beta branch.

The first feature available there is Banquet mode.

🔥 New Features

(BETA) Banquet mode - a short-form roguelike: 3 acts, permanent death, dishes awarded after every monster battle, and monster tastes revealed before each encounter. New princess variants available: Basic, Random, Stinky, Clumsy, Diet, and Lazy.

Loch and Megaliths dishes - new dishes added for both biomes.

🛠️ Changes and Improvements

• Performance: cooking station UI, seasoning station UI, craving changes, and card discard all less laggy

• SFX file sizes reduced

• Slippery now gives evasion based on x2 deck size

• (BETA) Banquet mode: boss damage scales more gently

• (BETA) Banquet mode: hunger values scale faster

• (BETA) Completing a steak in Banquet mode triggers an unlock animation the first time you return to mode select

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Apply Seasoning correctly overrides slot

• Dish card correctly shows applied seasoning

• Seasoning can be correctly overwritten

• Visual bug when removing the final inventory item no longer persists

• Repeating loot rewards removed

• Cleanse correctly unmires dish cards

• Vendor loot now populates correctly

• Cooking a single dish on the campfire no longer breaks the audio server

• No longer possible to get a recipe chest if there are no unlocked recipes left to learn

• {version} placeholder replaced with correct version number on welcome popup

• Pot Hook hunger boost bonus now correctly carries over to the next turn

• Saucier hunger boost bonus now correctly carries over to the next turn

• No longer rewarding duplicate spices

• Loot filters corrected based on act number

Features marked (BETA) are only available on the Beta branch. To opt in, right-click Hungry Horrors in your Steam library, go to Properties > Betas, and select the beta branch.

Thanks for your continued feedback and bug reports. More to come.