Horde Hunters News

Hello. Old players may recognize a familiar building in the maps, but the functionality of it is very different. The Forge (using a previous blacksmith sprite asset) allows you to enhance weapons with elite skulls. While giving the player more powerful builds, it also adds another purpose for skulls as currency beyond the purchase of power-ups.

A recent criticism over the player dying of getting one-hit by a projectile made me make some changes around it. I know it sucks having a good run end with a sudden big hit that drains all your health. The system is more forgiving now with player health dropping to 1 first (minimum health has to be at least 20). E.g. assuming you're hit with a projectile that normally does 45 damage and you have 30 health then you're left with 1 health instead of dying. This principle is applied to damage from normal enemy hits as well. I've also added a new setting that shows the player hitbox if you're curious about it or think it seems weird/unfair.

General

• New Building: Forge - Enhance your weapons with the power from elite skulls
  
• New Item: Black Diamond - Double the effects of the first forged weapon in your inventory
  
• New Power-up: Blacksmith - Reduced skull cost at the Forge
  
• New Weather event: Blood Moon - Strong enemy activity
  
• New Setting: Player collision mask (default: Off)
  
• Weapons and Items can be reordered now as well from the Character screen
  
• Player can no longer get one-hit and die by enemy or their projectiles if having more than 20 health
  
• Road map is longer/wider
  
• Enemies will knockback even though they're dead/dying (a visual thing only)
  
• Weather effects are briefly explained in a subheading when they occur
  
• Added Vietnam flag to leaderboards
  

Bugs

• Sacrifice altar math was broken and took more health than should have, resulting in instant player death with low health characters. Whoopsy - not quite the sacrifice I had in mind!
  
• Sun Stone bonuses did not show in the character info total damage numbers
  

Hello. This update introduces some more new items to play with. Additionally the level up system has one small but significant change to it and consumables scale in damage. There's been a couple of changes to overall appearance and a few rather annoying bugs squashed too.

FYI the Demo is back and updated as well.

General

• New Item: Golden Heart - Gain a coin for every 10 health you lose
  
• New Item: Spring - +1 bounce to all weapons that already bounce
  
• New Item: Dog Treat - +50% dog speed, +25% dog attack rate
  
• New Item: Diploma - No weapon class penalties. All non-class weapons get +5% damage
  
• New Item: Sun Stone - Randomly enhances a single weapon stat for all weapons
  
• Level Up no longer offers both weapons and items as a reward option - only items. You need to buy weapons from the Upgrade Weapons screen which always has a weapon as first choice
  
• Consumables increase in damage every level up by 3%
  
• Accessibility settings renamed to Difficulty with added information regarding the leaderboard multiplier
  
• Leaderboard score multiplier for time increased from 6 to 8
  
• Increased the overall contrast of the game world for a bit more vibrant and sharp look
  
• Added name of the map to the run start zoom-in
  
• Modified weapon: Acid Rain changed to target a random enemy instead of just randomly on screen
  
• Chaos Stone shows the average damage multiplier on hover
  
• Monocle shows the critical chances on hover
  
• Damage numbers increased by 1000x (visual only)
  

Bugs

• Upgrading the character Strength attribute on level up would reset any max health bonuses given on mission rewards
  
• Chaos Stone had no impact on Haste damage
  
• Some weapons ignored character stat damage bonuses completely
  
• Could not choose a party member as a mission reward if inventory was full while already having said party member in it
  
• Dark shroud was not appearing when it rained
  

Hello. This update brings a few new items and a consumable. Along with that there's a few UI tweaks.

Also happy to report that since the previous update the game has been officially verified for Steam Deck!



General

• New Consumable: Vortex - Create a vortex that pulls in all non-elite enemies from the area
  
• New Item: Iron Plates - +25% to base armor protection
  
• New Item: Salt - +100% health from food items
  
• New Item: Pirate Hat - Enemy coin drops are worth 25% more
  
• New Item: Present - 0.5% chance for an enemy to leave a random consumable behind upon death
  
• New Item: Voodoo Doll - 50% chance for an enemy to explode that died of a critical hit
  
• Modified item: Chaos Stone damage multiplier increased from 1-3x to 1-5x
  
• Modified item: Frequent Buyer Card discount increased from 15% to 20%
  
• Modified weapon: Shuriken has endless distance and targets the closest enemy (used to be random)
  
• Modified weapon: Dagger targets the closest enemy (used to be random)
  
• Level Up Reroll will always give different character stat and weapon options (if available) compared to the current selection
  
• Added next level percentage amount information to in-game UI
  
• Minor changes to in-game UI for XP, ability and health meters
  
• Reworked the blood and poison particle effects
  

Bugs

• Book of Summoning ignored the 100% critical bonus
  

Hello. I recently got myself a Steam Deck and this update fixes some things for that device. If you're experiencing any issues on the Deck after this update please let me know in the forums or Discord as I'm now able to solve them much faster.

General

• New Setting: Text Size (mainly targeted towards Steam Deck but feel free to use if you find the default text sizes too small)
  
• Small UI changes across the board
  

Bugs

• Touchscreen/Mouse actions did not work properly on Steam Deck
  
• Resume from Sleep glitched on Steam Deck
  

Hello. Summer has slowed down the game development somewhat but worry not we're still moving along! This update brings you new maps and possibly greater challenges with new enemy behavior. Hope you enjoy!

General

• New Desert map
  
• New Desert mission map
  
• New Desert challenge map
  
• New achievements (10) to go along the new maps
  
• New elite "Sorcerer" - creates a pentagram circle that damages player every second they're on it
  
• New enemy spawn event aka "The Earth Shatters"
  
• New power-up: Blood Donor - Sacrifice with less health at the Sacrifical Pool
  
• Normal enemy units may at random have the fireball ability
  
• Black Obelisks also increase new enemy speed and damage along with health. Effect reduced from 25% to 20%
  
• Party member speed is increased if falling behind the player too much
  
• Dogs move around more and no longer stay put if no loot is found
  
• Replaced the rain darkness effect with a more performant solution
  
• "Dirt" areas no longer slow you down (used to be 90% speed)
  
• Library and Bandit Camp need to be triggered with a key to start. Bandit Camp also shows how much extra gold you have gained while on it
  
• Mission health reward option no longer recharges the ability but increases max health by 10
  
• Added Philippines, Indonesia, Poland, Ireland, Denmark and Czechia flags for the leaderboard
  
• Added version number to leaderboards
  
• Added 5 more levels to "Health" power-up
  
• Added 2 more levels to "Backpack" power-up
  

Bugs

• Elite rewards menu could get you stuck when using gamepad