Ants Took My Eyeball News

• Fixed game crashing sometimes when you throw a ranged weapon right after firing it.
  
• Fixed reload speed bonus of some trinkets not always working as intended.
  
• Fixed Adrenaline Amplifier's icon having a wonky offset when dropped to the ground.
  

• Golden Antenna
  
• Scrap Extractor
  
• Cicada Shell
  
• Rusty Gear
  
• Small Bell
  
• Panic Engine
  
• Adrenaline Amplifier
  
• Ancient Quiver
  
• Sturdy Soles
  
• Activated Carbon
  
• Sterile Glove
  
• Pocket Knife
  
• Matchbox
  
• Venom Gland
  
• Block of Tofu
  
• Shrunken Ant Head
  
• Action Hero's Bandolier
  
• Ice Armor
  

• One More Bullet
  
• Titanium Screw
  

• Ritual Chisel
  
• Mirror Key
  

• Reworked Volatile Porcelain trinket to work when destroying pots in general rather than just when they're thrown.
  
• Buffed Carrion Grip gadget.
  
• Buffed Blast Ring trinket.
  
• Fixed Status Effect backgrounds not visible in the player HUD.
  

I'm always on the hunt for the next best roguelike, and Ants Took My Eyeball has been a real winner for me in 2024. It pulls together elements of some of my favorite games, feeling like you dropped the likes of Terraria, Dead Cells, Hollow Knight, Spelunky, and Noita in a blender and created a sublime side-scrolling smoothie. The action platformer already boasts a fantastic 91% user rating on Steam, and developer Bosmic Forge has just unleashed a new update bringing more than a dozen new items to play with alongside balance changes and tweaks. Plus, it's on sale.

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• Lit Sneakers
  
• Insecticide Can
  
• Orbital Spinner
  
• Gourmet Mushroom
  
• Love Letter
  
• Mini Hive
  
• Lickable Battery
  
• Sticky Mines
  
• Crystal Fist
  
• Cursed Tablet
  
• Carrion Grip
  
• Coin Shaped Die
  
• Explosive Decoy
  

• Monstrous Skull
  
• Heavy Pommel
  
• Premium Toolbelt
  
• Forgemaster’s Tongs
  

• Gadget points now require more kills to get than they used to, but most gadgets use fewer gadget points when activated.
  
• Buffed Cleaver melee weapon.
  
• Buffed Adamant Spear melee weapon.
  
• Buffed Bolt-Action Rifle ranged weapon.
  
• Buffed most gadgets, including Rock, Anti-Ant Grenade, Poison Flask, Bile Sack, Dynamite Bundle, Shield Soap, Helping Hand, Turbocharger, Impact Thruster, Freeze Grenade, Serrated Javelin, Throwing Axe, Golden Cross and Kunai.
  
• Nerfed Invincibility Generator gadget.
  
• Buffed Razor-sharp Stinger trinket.
  
• Reworked Vengeful Harmonica trinket.
  

• Reworked item and entity throwing. Items now fly in a nice arc, and throwing melee weapons is easier and more effective.
  
• Drastically reduced most Hideout Renovation gem costs.
  
• Added new voices for players 2-4.
  
• Added Crit Pots that drop critical orbs when destroyed.
  
• Improved normal pot graphics to better reflect whether they contain gold or not.
  
• Fix game getting unpaused if the player’s controller gets disconnected while the pause menu is open.
  
• Pause the game automatically if all players’ controllers are disconnected.
  

• Fixed a crash cased by using Forbidden Blade.
  
• Fixed potential soft lock if you kill Mato in one shot.
  
• Fixed Cursed and Slowed status effects causing a chain effect of lots of damage in a short period of time.
  
• Fixed a bunch of weird stuff happening if you slow down time a lot for example by drinking multiple Slow-Mo Potions in quick succession.
  
• Fixed Clock timer resetting if you save and quit and continue at a shop.
  
• Fixed Trinket Printer's menu overflowing when you have a lot of available trinkets in it.
  
• Fixed letterbox bars sometimes being drawn on top of menus and hiding them underneath.
  
• Fixed player name clipping in the top right corner of menus.
  
• Made the poison cloud disappear when you kill Mato.