Adventurers,

We have been working hard behind the scenes, and today we are thrilled to reveal the biggest content drop since CODEX MORTIS entered Early Access — a brand-new world that takes you back to where it all began.

Thank you for being part of this journey. Your feedback, your bug reports, your ideas — they shape this game every single day. We read everything, and we could not be doing this without you. Now, let us show you what we have been building.

Blood Bath — New Extras World

Blood Bath is a new world unlocked after completing the Forgotten Graveyard — a prequel arena set in an ancient blood-soaked bathhouse where the forbidden Codex Mortis is guarded by four chained bosses.

Story Mode: Rumbling

Objective: Defeat the 4 Guardian Bosses chained to the arena walls, then claim the Codex Mortis.

• Arena: Square 3600×3600 bathhouse with seamless tiled floor/wall textures and soft edge blending between walkable and non-walkable zones
• 4 Guardian Bosses stationed on the arena edges:
• Censerbearer (top-left) — expanding concentric ring attacks
• Hookflesh (bottom-left) — horizontal line sweeps across the arena
• Candleborne (top-right) — spiral circle patterns
• Twinfaith (bottom-right) — rotating cross beam salvos
• Bosses attack one at a time in a round-robin queue (every ~10s). Each attack is telegraphed with a long wind-up covering the full arena. Dead boss = their turn is skipped, giving a free window
• Bosses are chained to the walls with GPU-rendered ethereal chain rays connecting them to the Codex Mortis at arena center
• Animated idle sprites (3×3 anim sheets) and animated chain sprites
• Quad vertical collider (4 stacked circles) matching boss body shape

Survivor Mode

Blood Bath is available as a Survivor arena. Standard survival rules — endure waves of Blood Bath enemies for 15 minutes.

Enemies & Content

• 26 unique regular enemies across 6 stat tiers (Swarm, Basic, Caster, Striker, Tank, Juggernaut)
• 5 minibosses: Beastlord, Bonethrone, Cradlebone, The Enthroned, Viscerarch
• 4 bosses with 256×256 sprites scaled to 512 radius visual, each with dedicated anim sheets
• Blood Bowl chests — drop XP orbs and Runic Stones
• Environment decorations: blood splatters (small/medium/huge) and skulls scattered across the walkable arena
• 4 dedicated music tracks with 2s crossfade rotation
• Boss HP bars with named tracking in ObjectiveUI (shows killed/alive status per guardian)
• Indicator arrows — red arrows pointing to bosses, magenta arrow to Codex Mortis

Lore

Blood Bath is a prequel to the main campaign. The Codex Mortis — the forbidden book of death — is locked away in an ancient bathhouse, guarded by four tortured sentinels chained to its walls. Claiming the book sets in motion the events that follow.

Thank you for playing CODEX MORTIS. This is only the beginning.
- CRUNCHFEST & GROLAF