RogueCraft News

🧠⚔️ Forget the old meta. The game’s pace, tactics, and decision-making have shifted dramatically.[h2]What’s Changed[/h2][h2]⚖️ Balance[/h2]

• Tower costs increased ⬆️.
• Reroll cost reduced ⬇️.
• Lower tower attack speed ⏬, higher base damage ⏫.
• Elemental towers now scale with their matching elemental damage stat 🔥❄️⚡️☠️.
• Enemy HP and traits reworked: fast units are faster 🏃💨, elites are tankier 🛡️.

[h2]♾️ Endless Mode[/h2]

• Tower cost grows every wave 📈.
• Enemies scale faster 🚀.

[h2]💰 Economy[/h2]

• Gold per kill recalculated 🪙.

[h2]🧩 Perks, Items, Difficulty[/h2]

• Perks fully reworked.
• Items fully reworked.
• Difficulty gaps widened: Map 1 may still be doable without the Ancient Monument; the others are much tougher 💀.

[h2]🏛️ Ancient Monument[/h2]

• Upgrades redesigned.
• Upgrade costs adjusted.

[h2]🧪 New Items[/h2]

• Refresher Stone 🔄 — instantly refreshes the hero ability.
• Defender 🛡️ — summons a unit at the city gate to help defend.
• Holy Scroll 📜 — grants 3s invulnerability to the city.
• Blood Staff 🩸 — boosts stats but reduces heal-per-wave.
• Stamp 🪪 — awards gold for every chest you open.
• Elemental Heart ❤️‍🔥 — summons an elemental ally and boosts Fire damage.
• Dead Mage Pendant ☠️🔮 — increases magic stats whenever you take damage.

[h2]⚙️ Optimization & Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed multiple issues in damage, gold and stat calculations, and event logic.
• Performance improved, especially VFX.
• Resolved a bug where some bullets and corpses remained on the map.

Version: 1.1.5
Thank you for playing RogueCraft and helping us shape the future of the game!

Thank you for all the feedback and support! This update focuses on improving clarity, giving players more control, and polishing core systems and interactions.
[h2]🌟 Highlights[/h2]

• Lighting improvements on multiple maps – we heard your feedback about dark areas, and they should now be much easier to read.
• Evolutions can now be skipped – if the offered upgrades don’t fit your strategy, just pass them!
• New tutorial added for the Camp event.
• A reminder tutorial now appears if you haven’t merged towers for a while.
• Purchasing consumables with a full inventory now shows a proper error message.

[h2]⚔️ Gameplay & Balance[/h2]

• Dark Essence from monster kills reduced by 50%, but rewards from map spawns increased to compensate.
• All ability-based items reworked: now deal fixed base damage that scales with character stats, instead of percent-based damage.
• Event items can now be sold like normal items.
• Moon and sun phase counter added for Celestial Seer.
• Boss abilities now have visual effects to help communicate when they’re casting something impactful.

[h2]🌀 Endless Mode[/h2]

• After each night cycle, players will now see a button allowing them to end the Endless Mode run and return to menu.

[h2]🐛 Fixes & UI Polish[/h2]

• Fixed wave display bug on the Next Wave panel.
• Fixed incorrect ability description for Circus Clown.
• Rewritten monster descriptions for better clarity.
• General improvements to tooltips and interface polish.
• Minor bug fixes and visual tweaks across the game.

[h2]🔮 In Progress: Full Rebalance[/h2]
We're actively working on a complete rebalance of the game — including tower strength, enemy scaling, item impact, and more. This will be released in a future update. Stay tuned for details!

Thank you for playing RogueCraft and helping us shape the future of the game!

Thank you all for playing RogueCraft and for the amazing launch support! We've been closely tracking your reports and quickly pushed out our first hotfix to address the most urgent issues. Here’s what’s included in the Day 1 Patch:
[h2]🔥 Critical Fixes[/h2]

• [Critical] Fixed issue where maps would not open properly
• [Critical] Fixed a bug where save files from the demo version broke the game
• [Critical] Fixed bug where claiming items could freeze the game
• [Critical] Fixed issue where sounds were not saved properly
• [Critical] Fixed a bug with game settings not applying or saving
• [Critical] Fixed an issue with item stats not applying correctly

[h2]🛠️ General Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed visual glitch for Cannon tower
• Fixed icon for the Stats screen
• Fixed save file size being bloated
• Fixed issue where you could click items during tutorials
• Fixed issue where you could click the board while popups were open
• Fixed UI bug preventing removal of consumables in the Abyss shop
• Fixed issue where consumables could be bought in the Abyss shop despite full inventory
• Fixed text formatting in item and tower descriptions

This patch is just the beginning — more updates are on the way! We're working on quality-of-life improvements and balance changes for the next version. If you're enjoying RogueCraft, please consider leaving a review. It really helps!

[p][/p][p]After two years of development, RogueCraft has finally launched! [/p][p][/p][p]It's a brutal roguelike tower defense where you build, merge, evolve — and try to survive endless waves of chaos.[/p][p][/p][p]🛠️ Merge and evolve 40+ towers [/p][p]🧙 Pick from 24 unique heroes [/p][p]🎁 Discover perks, events, consumables [/p][p]🧟 Face 30 waves... or push into endless mode [/p][p]🌍 Available in 13 languages [/p][p]🏆 Steam achievements[/p][p][/p][p]If you enjoy the game, please consider leaving a review — it helps a ton![/p][p][/p][p]❤️ Thank you for all the support — we hope you enjoy RogueCraft as much as we loved making it.[/p][p][/p][p][/p]

[p]After two years of development, thousands of merges, and endless waves of chaos — RogueCraft officially launches on July 22!

The full version brings everything you’ve asked for:
- 🏰 41 unique towers with evolutions
- 🧙‍♂️ 17 heroes with distinct abilities
- 🔁 Endless Mode for unlimited survival
- 🗺️ 6 handcrafted maps
- 💥 80+ items and 7 mid-run mini-games
- 💾 Full save/load support anytime
- 🏆 52 achievements and full metaprogression

Whether you're here for deep strategy, wild builds, or pure roguelike fun — RogueCraft is ready.

🛡️ Add it to your wishlist and prepare to defend![/p]