Thank you for all the feedback and comments you’ve left so far. This update addresses some of them. Below is a summary of the changes: enemy balancing in the Outer Bailey and Under Town levels, improved loot drops from mini-bosses in the Outer Bailey level, improved sound effects for some Poison Blades skills, improved descriptions for some skills, balancing of Poison Blades skills, enemy balancing: Golem, Werewolf, Skeleton King and Witches. In future updates, we’ll be focusing on the following improvements: localisation into the following languages: Chinese, Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Portuguese and Russian, controller support, support for Steam Deck, gameplay and control improvements, new in-game content (mechanics, game modes, story content). Have fun slashing cultists!

The Cult of Shadows demo was met with tremendous interest, and some of the players shared their feedback with us. We took all the suggestions and feedback into consideration and got to work! Below is a short list of changes. Major balance changes: - reduced enemy spawns, - increased enemy health, - reduced item drop rates by 66%, - reduced item upgrade costs, - improved most skills (effects, usage costs, cooldowns, etc.) Quality of Life: - improved tooltip clarity (e.g., numerical unit descriptions compliant with US standards), - added a loading screen with tooltips, - the attribute menu can be closed again by clicking the attribute menu open button (previously only ESC), - improved item drop distance (they should no longer float in the air), - added a help menu in the crafting panel (bottom left corner of each item), - added tutorials at the beginning of the game (after resetting progress) in the character and crafting windows, - added more tooltips, - thanks are only displayed once (when no progress is made), Gameplay: - when When movement is set to WASD, all skills are executed in the direction of movement (previously, this worked in the direction of the cursor). - Roll always moves in the "WSAD" direction, and aiming is performed with the mouse (1:1, like in PoE2). - Enemy AI has been improved – they no longer freeze, make strange ticks, etc. - Gameplay has been shortened to 20 minutes, and boss and mini-boss spawns and enemy scaling have been adjusted to the shortened format. We encourage you to try the changes for yourself! Thank you again for your feedback!

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Hello, It's been 20 days since we released the Cult of Shadows demo . We've used this time to work intensively, taking your feedback into account, and have made 10 updates so far - lots of Quality of Life and balance improvements. Thank you all for your commitment—your support is incredible! We are about to participate in Steam Next Fest , which means even more interest—we kindly ask you to leave your feedback (preferably on our Discord). —The Cult of Shadows team