If you signed up for the Deathand playtest, you're already in. It's sitting in your Steam library as Deathand Playtest, so hit install and have a go.

A fresh build is up (Alpha 0.18.13), and the omens have come alive.

Omens come alive

• The Gambler's Coin (it used to be the Bone Die). Call heads or tails, place your bet, and watch the coin flip, land and turn to show its face. The Dealer takes your call and tells you whether you won.
• The Bleeding Stone. Lay your hand on it and it drinks. Veins crawl up the stone, its heart races, and the rare cards it offers rise out of its cracks. It whispers to you, too.
• The Fallen. An adventurer who got no further, with their own last words and name. Take their pack and swipe up their cards as their bones fall apart, or bury them and watch their soul rise. Flies circle them until they're laid to rest.
• The Bound Chest. Something inside is knocking to be let out, and it tells you plainly what you get and what it costs. Break it open: the lid flies back, the box falls apart, and its curse comes for you.

Exploring

• Enemies now call out when they spot you, and grumble when they lose you in a chase. You'll hear them faintly in the distance.
• Cards from chests and card packs now rise up in front of you, and your hand swipes them before you choose one.
• Your stats panel stays bright above any popup whenever your health, Bones, light, food or water change, so you see it happen.

Cards and fights

• New rare ability card: Focus, which gives your next fight +1 energy every turn.
• Cards that hit every enemy, or no enemy in particular, play when dropped anywhere above your hand. Every enemy they touch flashes, flinches and reacts.
• Raising a card at the shrine now floats its gain up out of the card.
• Trying to take a card with a full deck now says "Deck Full" instead of doing nothing.
• The shrine's "Remove a card" option is gone.

Fixes and polish

• The pause menu now really pauses the game, including music, ambience and voices, which carry on when you unpause.
• Only one voice speaks at a time, and walking away from a station or omen quietly ends its line.
• Button prompts switch between keyboard and controller the moment you change device, and stay on controller icons when the mouse is only nudged.
• Shrine cards no longer jiggle.
• Fixed station and omen looks being wrong in Steam builds.
• Translation fixes, including heads and tails, packs, floors and corruption in several languages.

It's still very much an alpha. If something breaks or feels off, tell me in the Discord, it's the most useful thing you can do for the game right now: https://discord.gg/gtfgGyZNFz