Road to 1.0

As we approach full release on 13 October 2026, we're doing everything we can to polish Hungry Horrors before that date.

This patch brings a big collection of updates:

• A major VFX overhaul, making abilities feel far more visually impactful

• Hall of Vanquish, where you can relive your "favourite" deaths

• A significant balancing pass across the game

• Massive bug fixing across the board

This isn't the last patch before release, we've got more updates on the way.

🔥 New Features

• New room: Hall of Vanquish, a place to unlock and watch your favourite Princess vanquishes

• Animation shows current artefact/cookware that triggered an effect

🛠️ Changes & Improvements

• Elixirs now heal flat values (+5, +10, +20, +40), no longer a percentage

• Starting ingredients rebalanced

• Various other balance changes

• More info view for a dish in your inventory: the lore button now shows you the lore for that dish, you no longer need to know the recipe to see the lore for it

• Scratch animations and VFX added

• VFX polish for hunger/stamina numbers

• SFX pitch randomised for spice/craving hits

• Notification background more transparent

• Notification position corrected

• Font size for number VFX reduced slightly

• Bite VFX colour changed

• Status card animations improved

• Copy amends throughout

• Dish ability text popup shown when applying an effect

• Game events more spaced out, so move events like Acid and cookware events like Recoil overlap much less

• Status text colour corrections

• Nuckalavee's mire attack is now black goo instead of red, so it no longer looks like blood

• EAT/FEED copy changes

• Biteback now activates cookware that triggers on hit

• Hunger breakdown panel uses cookware icon instead of name

• Text popups wrapped to reduce width

• Text popup alignment centred more accurately above the Horror's head

• More dialogue for Lady Catherine when you die to certain Horrors

• Don't show hints if you've cleared the caves

• Demo complete room now hides UI

• Roadmap button hidden for now

• Release date added to title screen

VFX pass: Horror moves

• Will Power

• Cast Cloak

• Potion Curse

• Spoiler

• Cast Dislike

• Cast Hate

• Cast Bait

• Craving Strike, now faster

• Spice Hit, now faster

• Curiosity renamed to Allure, with a new icon

VFX pass: Buffs and debuffs

• Shield

• Evasion

• Blight (now with darker green tones)

• Poison

• Acid

• Hunger Boost

• Fragile

• Mire

🐞 Bug Fixes

• No longer soft locks on Chum Shower II

• Monster walk animations correctly added back in

• Status names re-populated

• Hand size resets correctly for new battles

• Will Power applied to an empty craving chain no longer breaks the Hair of the Dog potion

• Cookbook Taliesin correctly upgrades hunger and stamina amounts

• Balor's SFX corrected for Will Power

• Familiars no longer float in the rooftop scene

• Various cutscene handling fixes

• Discarding a mired dish now correctly removes the mired effect

• Shield VFX now correctly displays when re-applied

• Mire status no longer fires twice, which caused double the amount in the player's status inventory

• Wrong parallax background for Nessie fixed

• Reading a boss warning sign, then skipping dialogue and the boss reveal animation, no longer breaks and lets the Princess run around freely

• Wulver no longer incorrectly gives the same quest again on a third visit

• Gridiron correctly triggers for Bite Back

• Ormer Casserole correctly applies Hesitate if the craving chain was reset by Hate

• Ormer Casserole no longer incorrectly applies Hesitate to Grendel, who has the Fortification passive

• Faerie Plasma adds the correct status cards

• Opulent Gold release timing corrected

• Temporary visual glitch before dialogue loads fixed

• Cauldron no longer sometimes missing from the Banquet start room

• Buff stacking VFX no longer overlaps

• Dish effects correctly trigger buff VFX

• Feast/Poison/Acid/Burn VFX icons now trigger correctly when applied

• Palate Cleanser no longer removes Shield VFX

• Blight VFX no longer persists after the status is removed

• Nessie's animation speed reduced

• Queen Mab's cast animation corrected

• Hint for having a helpful potion now only triggers once, not per flavour

• You can now leave Hall of Vanquish from the title screen at any time via Escape/Back

• Fixed wrong z-index on the pillar in the cell

• Lady Catherine in the dungeon correctly applies mood animations

• Z-index corrected for receiving the Cauldron of Plenty

• Removed unlock trigger on mouse hover for doors

• Hearty correctly updates the hunger value after applying Hunger Boost

• Ceridwen's cauldron design corrected

• Slow Cook/Perishable animation now correctly shows

• Activation VFX added for more dish effects, e.g. Humble, Mellow, Glazed, Loveable

• Activation VFX added for more cookware, e.g. Baster

• Dish ability Tart's stamina restore amount corrected

• Copy for the amount of Evasion applied by Slippery corrected

• Gold Dust correctly applies Evasion VFX

• Summer Pudding now applies Dodge instead of Sidestep

• Soda Bread now applies Elusive instead of Brace

• Gold Flakes and Pantry now apply Hunger Boost to all dishes

• Baking Tray's hunger value updated on shuffle dish card

• Cooking with Basket equipped now shows one notification instead of one per dish

• Cookware status explainer tooltip now correctly shown

• Butter Dish delay added to prevent overlapping VFX when gold is added from cookware or dish abilities

• Text popup for the player centred more accurately

• Timing corrected for cookware that applies Cannot Be Hated

• Fixed missing text formatting for [ingredient]

• Shield re-apply timing fixed

• Horn Cup correctly adds stamina on first discard

• Recoil VFX corrected for Mortar

• Spurtle correctly applies Hunger Boost based on Evasion

• Free Reroll correctly applies free rerolls

• Fixed broken frame in Nuckalavee's cast animation

• Damage multiplier for Fragile and monster level corrected

• Princess no longer briefly shows a one-frame fall animation when entering a room

• Ingredient panel at the bottom now has enough space to show Tipple when cooking and collecting loot

• VFX added for when a boss passive triggers

• VFX added for when Disease/Approach/Bait triggers

• VFX added for Bite Back status

• Spice Hit icon updated to match the Spice icon

• Brahan now always carries his rock, even on your first meeting

• Bite Back icon removed on fatality and when a Horror is full

• Kitchen spawn animation now correctly applies

• Wishlist button added to the demo complete room panel