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New Game Announcement: Pit of Gerstan!

Hi Everyone!

I'm excited announce our newest game: Pit of Gerstan!

It is an action roguelite dungeon-clearing game, with a similar upgrade system to BroodStar.

We are planning to release a demo build for the upcoming Steam Next Fest, so I hope you'll check it out!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1972720/Pit_of_Gerstan/

Gameplay Update 1.6.0 - Details

Hi everyone,

As promised, here are the details for the Update coming on the 23rd, I'd also like to mention that the game will also be available for Xbox One, Series X/S systems and is now available for preorder!

[h2]Gameplay[/h2]
  • Added Dynamic difficulty for the campaign, Rank increases based on how efficiently and quickly you kill enemies, decreases upon taking damage, letting enemies leave the screen, or dying. The higher your Rank is, the more perilous the level will become.
  • Many basic properties of the player ship has been adjusted, basic player shots are now faster, and the player ship fires more rapidly, the base movement speed has also been increased.
  • Some enemy and boss patterns have been adjusted to accomodate the changes above.
  • Many upgrades and weapons have been adjusted to better suit the new basic ship properties.
  • Boss enemies now grant a lot more score than previously.
  • Weapon upgrades have been made more common.
  • Adjusted the difficulty of some of the challenge stages.
  • Adjusted some of the extra enemy waves governed by the stage's theme.


[h2]Bugfixes[/h2]
  • Fixed several minor issues and inconsistencies.


I hope you'll find the new systems and gameplay experience enjoyable!

See you all on the 23rd for the update. :)

Upcoming Gameplay Update

Hi everyone,

Just a heads up that the game will receive a new patch featuring many gameplay updates on the 23rd of February, more details to come soon, along with another announcement.

Fixes, Small QOL, Demo Updated!

Hi everyone!

We have issued a few small fixes for some leaderboard related issues and other small inconsistencies.

Other than that, the Demo has also been updated to the latest version to better reflect the current version of the full game.

Thank you for enjoying and supporting the game. :)

New Update, Global Leaderboards, Switch version

Hi everyone!

The next update is upon us, with new additions, reworked assets, and a cross-platform global leaderboard, and maybe a new secret?

The update will go live along with the Switch version on the 28th of June.

We still have a couple more updates planned for the future, but until then, see you guys on the leaderboards!