Multiplayer (Experimental)

• Play through the Ascent together with up to 4 players, online over Steam.

• Each player picks their own skin and readies up before the run starts.

• Everyone plays the same run: same seed, rooms, enemies, and drops.

• The Forge: each player gets their own independent upgrade room and quest.

• Experimental: still in active development, expect crashes and instability.

New Content

• Play Again: added quick restart option to game over screen and pause menu.

• Enemy Biomes: enemies are now tied to specific biomes.

• New Enemies: added dozens of new enemy types across every biome.

• New Elites: added for Arcane, Holy, Shadow, and Elementless.

• Enemy Abilities: added 12 new abilities.

• Run-End Report: added detailed combat statistics screen at the end of each run.

• New Achievement: Couch Potato.

• New Achievement: Power Nap.

Quality of Life

• Enemy Bullets: now render as rotating squares, so hostile shots are easier to recognize.

Balance

• Enemy Discovery: reveal chance for an enemy is now 20%.

• Armor of enemies can now be destroyed.

• Hook attacks now end with a radial burst of bullets.

• Enemy shield walls now shatter after 3 hits.

• Shield-casting enemies are now capped at 1 per room.

• Ground slam ability cooldown increased from 5.5s to 9s.

• Teleporting enemies now have a longer telegraph before blinking (0.3s to 0.6s).

• Artillery enemies no longer have an AoE explosion attack.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed missing translations in the pause menu across all supported languages.

• Fixed enemy ability flying forever past its max range instead of despawning.

• Fixed enemy pull attacks barely dragging you in.

• Fixed Fragile ("Start with half HP") also halving HP gained from every source for the rest of the run.

• Fixed enemy telegraph lines not matching actual attack range (dash, hook attacks).