A massive thank you to everyone who has playtested this game so far, and provided invaluable feedback! You are all very appreciated.

Gameplay:

• Updated enemies to reflect the current map’s forest theme (additional themed maps planned to arrive in the future, each with different sets of enemies and meta progression)
• Adjusted gold and anima rewards
• Minor update to fusion VFX
• Cards are greyed out in hand if you don’t have enough spirit to play them
• Improved battle screen top UI
• Added ability to view remaining cards in your deck while in battle (sorted by archetype, then alphabetically)
• You can no longer encounter the same enemy twice in a row
• Updated the daze status -> Afflicted unit has a 25% chance to skip their action per stack of daze. Loses 1 stack if this effect activates
• Various additional minor gameplay improvements

New cards:

• Shieldbane - Remove all block from an enemy. If you do, gain 5 block.
• Chilled Charge - Interrupt an enemy’s charging attack. If you do, apply 3 chill.

Card balance:

• Wildfire -> Reduced spirit cost to 1
• Celestial Strike -> Reduced damage to 6

Enemy updates:

• Removed Demic and Pincera, replaced with 2 new enemies: Arabor and Grave Robber
• Removed Embrus (for now), replaced with Ceruvia
• Added 2 additional new enemies: Shrogre and Birchoak

Bug fixes:

• Fixed duplicate card choices at Forgotten Library and battle rewards
• Fixed a bug that would cause battles to freeze under specific circumstances
• Fixed a bug where enemy statuses wouldn’t always update immediately under specific circumstances
• Fixed some scenarios where a card wouldn’t show as hovered while hovering it
• Fixed a bug where hovering player runes would highlight items in Treasure Trove, Mysterious Merchant, and Forgotten Library
• Fixed some instances where cards would not update damage to reflect the player’s chill status damage reduction
• Fixed a bug where rapidly clicking on the Game Over screen would freeze the game
• Fixed a bug where after Game Over, if there is still at least 1 enemy that hasn’t taken their turn, then the next enemy will still take their turn, even though the battle has ended
• Fixed a bug where some tooltips could still be hovered from the Victory or Game Over screens
• Fixed a bug where if the only card(s) left in your hand were unplayable, your turn would not automatically end due to technically still having enough spirit for those cards
• Fixed visual bug in the audio settings menu from the map
• Fixed bug where music wouldn’t change after navigating to the main menu from battle
• Fixed a bug where some buttons would retain effects (like scaling up) between closing/opening menus
• Fixed a bug where Cold Snap dealt more damage than it was supposed to
• Fixed a bug where, when removing a card from your deck, sometimes the full deck view would flash open briefly, then disappear
• Various additional minor bug fixes

Known Improvements/Issues:

• More cards, fusions, enemies, and maps!
• Inconsistent SFX volumes, especially when they stack
• Add enemy intent indicators (waiting on icons from artist)
• Allow saving progress when leaving a run or returning to the menu
• Better discard animation
• Clearer graphical indication that fused cards don’t go to your discard pile

Stay tuned for all of the above upcoming enhancements and more in future builds!