When I started this project last October, it was just a funny little side project for a game jam (shoutout to Hawkzombie for running it!), and I had no idea the original modest demo build would blow up so much. Now, six months later, with the help of many wonderful people, we have a full launch on Steam with very positive reviews! What a journey!


That said, I am aware that some of you are experiencing certain issues with the game. I am doing my best to keep track of all your reports, and I'm grateful for all and any feedback you send my way.

Earlier this morning, I deployed the first patch to address some critical issues, and I'm currently working on another one.

I'm also aware that some of you are struggling with the difficulty in the first part of the game, while finding the later parts too easy.
Some early balance adjustments were made already. Some of the more obviously overpowered items were tweaked which should help with the too forgiving latter half of the game.
We want to be careful not to overtune things, or the early game could become too easy, and the late game could become too hard. We're looking for that nice goldilocks zone. We want to work on that and get it just right!

I'll be making further balance tweaks in upcoming updates to smooth the difficulty curve. After deploying the next bug-fixing update next week, this will be my main focus.

Thank you for your patience.

I already have some ideas on how this will go, but I'd appreciate any and all input you may have.
Do you have any specific balance feedback?

Do any moments in the game feel frustratingly difficult or mindlessly trivial? Do some characters, abilities or items feel way too powerful or completely useless? Are there any game locations that feel too harsh, or some where you feel like you are mostly just mashing buttons through without having to think at all? I want to hear about them all.

To leave feedback, please respond here with smaller bits or start a new thread in the Feedback subforum for more elaborate feedback. Please mention whether you played version 1.00 or 1.01 with your feedback.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed sacrificing your right hand not working properly. was always sacrificing your left.
  
• Fixed two items in eugenes' shop being incorrectly setup
  
• Sprites missing - one early game enemy, the tumorhead, didnt leave a dead monster sprite when killed, and just stood there after death.
  
• Some mid-game enemies, ticks that are stuck on the heads of some large worm-things, had nothing showing you they were there. Added the ticks visually onto the worm things to attract the players attention to examine them.
  
• One early enemy, the lokjaw, had two of its battle frames wrong, one was still a sketch and the other, the close-up frame before it opens its mouth, was the far-away frame.
  
• Fixed an issue where, when you play a video game and then take a shower, you randomly have thoughts about playing that game again to finish it - those thoughts were too frequent and never stopped, like by the end of the game you think about every game you ever played every time you shower.
  
• Fixed an issue where some giant rats that are meant to block the entrance to a their hoard of cheese are walking around at random instead of standing to block your way.
  
• Fixed Vincent, an early game encounter, whose sprite looked like it was hovering above the ground.
  
• Fixed an issue where you could get stuck into the walls during the grinning beast chase
  
• Oh and of course, Fixed issue where the steam overlay doesnt work properly and trying to take a screenshot of the game with F12 brings up the console instead.
  
• Fixed an issue where you could not bring the baby rat into your party after it's grown big enough, even though the game yells you that you can
  
• Fixed Tickle the friendly tick's dialogue to not repeat its introduction every time you speak, and fixed its glowing effect to be red when you give blood to it.
  
• Fixed an issue where you lose your video game skills if you dont have a melee weapon equipped
  
• Fixed an issue where Sybil repeats herself when you save your game, repeating hints of things youve done a while ago.
  
• Fixed an issue where a door in Edwins apartment 31 would be locked sometimes when you come out of the bathroom, when it should no longer be locked.
  
• Added a full screen toggle to the options menu
  
• Added a quit game command in the title screen
  
• Removed a lock from one of the doors of the landlords apartment, on the final payment version of the dungeon.
  
• Fixed the coffee machine not appearing properly when bought.
  
• Fixed a bad warp just before the final area of the landlord dungeon
  
• Fixed the locked door in the basement that didnt allow for using the lockpick.
  
• Added an extra warning once you enter the stairwell if you havent saved yet since the start of the game, that you will lose all progress if you havent yet saved
  
• Fixed an issue where the old rifle couldnt be reloaded if it was completely out of ammo.
  
• Fixed an issue where you could lock yourself out of being able to defeat Toxic Frederic.
  
• Fixed an issue where running away from Frederic mid-fight can glitch the encounter at your return.

Balance tweaks

• Lowered the critical damage bonus from 3x to 1.8x
  
• Changed the urn of grandma's ashes to be a throwable item that can make every enemy go blind
  
• Nerfed the painters' palette to reduce the chance it causes status effects.
  
• Made the player unable to wield two handed weapons if they have a missing arm.
  
• Made it so that using the Optimum equip command that auto-equips all the strongest items in your inventory never equips any cursed items
  
• Patchwork club now breaks properly.
  
• Patchwork armor set Max HP boost has been halved
  
• "Penetrate" ability of piercing weapons no longer attacks multiple times.

In case you don't see a bug fixed that you reported, don't worry more bug fixes and updates are coming!