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Update 4

Localization updates
[p]Added new localizations:[/p]
  • [p]Chinese (Simplified)[/p]
  • [p]Spanish (Spain)[/p]
  • [p]Spanish (Latin America)[/p]
  • [p]Portuguese (Portugal)[/p]
  • [p]Portuguese (Brazil)[/p]
  • [p]Polish
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Difficulty levels
[p][/p][p]Now you can choose one of four difficulties at the beginning of the game (create a new save slot).[/p]
  1. [p]The Pilgrim's Way => A gentle journey. Unlimited deaths and respawns — continue until you succeed.[/p]
  2. [p]Sacred Trial => Three lives per stage. On your third death, the stage restarts from the beginning.[/p]
  3. [p]Ghostrun => One life per stage. A single death restarts the stage from the beginning.[/p]
  4. [p]Maledictus => One life for the entire game. If you die, all saves are erased and you start from the very beginning.
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Medals
[p][/p][p]Now you can get a medal for each level. Medals have 5 ranks. The shorter your time to complete the stage, the cooler the medal. The timings for each stage are different.
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Achievements
[p][/p][p]4 new achievements associated with medals. [/p]

General
  • [p]"Race ghost" is a default feature now. You can turn it off in Settings -> Additional.[/p]
  • [p]You can turn off tutorials in Settings -> Additional.[/p]
  • [p]Bunny hop was improved.[/p]
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Thank you for playing! We are happy to make these updates for you![/p][p][/p][p][/p]

Some Gameplay Broadcast

[p]Blessed Burden is waiting for you:[/p][p]STEAM PAGE[/p][p][/p]

Community localization

[p]We’ve just added French and Japanese as the new languages in Blessed Burden![/p][p][/p][h2]Want to see the game in your language?[/h2][p]If you're fluent in English and your mother tongue, you can help translate the game and make it more accessible for everyone.[/p][p][/p][h2]What you get:[/h2][p]IMPORTANT NOTE: This is completely voluntary work.[/p]
  • [p]Your name or nickname in the game credits[/p]
  • [p]Your name in the game settings under language selection [/p]
  • [p]Eternal bless (and a few thank-you game keys you can gift to your fellas)[/p]
[carousel][/carousel][p][/p][h2]How to join:[/h2][p]Just message us via Discord, and we'll send you a link to a Google Sheet. No special tools or experience needed — just heart and language.[/p][p]https://discord.com/invite/yymVraJNfW[/p][p][/p][h2]Some details:[/h2][p]Localization table has 229 entries to localize. Half of them are two-word phrases.
There are a few simple technical rules you would need to follow.
For some languages, we would also ask to find an appropriate stylized fonts to be used in the game.
Also, you can help us with the Steam page localization.[/p][p][/p][p]As of the time of writing, we are missing these Steam-supported languages:[/p]
  • [p]Arabic (ar)[/p]
  • [p]Bulgarian (bg)[/p]
  • [p]Chinese (Traditional) (zh-Hant)[/p]
  • [p]Czech (cs)[/p]
  • [p]Danish (da)[/p]
  • [p]Dutch (nl)[/p]
  • [p]Finnish (fi)[/p]
  • [p]German (de)[/p]
  • [p]Greek (el)[/p]
  • [p]Hungarian (hu)[/p]
  • [p]Indonesian (id)[/p]
  • [p]Italian (it)[/p]
  • [p]Korean (ko)[/p]
  • [p]Norwegian (no)[/p]
  • [p]Portuguese (Brazil) (pt-BR)[/p]
  • [p]Portuguese (Portugal) (pt-PT)[/p]
  • [p]Romanian (ro)[/p]
  • [p]Spanish (Argentina) (es-AR)[/p]
  • [p]Spanish (Spain) (es-ES)[/p]
  • [p]Thai (th)[/p]
  • [p]Turkish (tr)[/p]
  • [p]Vietnamese (vi)[/p]
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First-person horror platformer Blessed Burden adds Linux and Steam Deck support

First-person platforming with a dose of horror? Sounds interesting! Blessed Burden recently added Linux and Steam Deck support.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/first-person-horror-platformer-blessed-burden-adds-linux-and-steam-deck-support/

Update 3 [09 Jul 2025]

General updates
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  • [p]Japanese localization beta (more languages are on the way)[/p]
  • [p]Epic game title in the main menu[/p]
  • [p]Steam Input support[/p]
  • [p]Official Linux and Steam Deck support![/p]
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Race Ghost
[p][/p][p][/p][p]Now you can race against your previous best run.
To enable this feature, go to Settings>Additional>Race Ghost.
You will need to run level once to be able to see the ghost. [/p][p]Honestly, I didn't expect this to be that much fun! Go check it out in the game![/p][p]In the future, I would love to attach ghosts to leaderboard entries, allowing you to race against other players too![/p][p][/p]
For speedrunners
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  • [p]Finally, a fix for the dash-slide spam issue is publicly available.
    Unfortunately, this means some leaderboard entries will be removed, as some of the runs are impossible now.
    Fix introduces the "stamina" mechanic to the game, which should remove the burden of clicking buttons as fast as humanly possible, and instead motivates players to seek the best routes.[/p]
  • [p]Added input buffer time for dash and jump actions.[/p]
  • [p]Landing no longer consumes a physics tick.[/p]
  • [p]Key pickup radius doubles when moving faster than 20m/s.[/p]
  • [p]Added an experimental option to increase tick rate for more precise movement calculations. This is a performance-heavy setting and should be used only when game is running on more than 200 frames per second. For now, this setting does not persist between sessions and should be manually enabled every time you launch the game.[/p]
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Misc
[p][/p][p]I'm very proud of myself for adding localizable and device-adaptable input icons to the game. [/p][p]A small, hard-to-notice QoL improvement for yall.[/p][carousel][/carousel][p][/p][p]Cheers! Thanks for playing! [/p][p]It means a lot to our team