Horripilant News

[p][/p][h2]Rebirth[/h2]

• [p]\[New Skill] Power in numbers[/p]
  • [p]Adds another count of each upgrade's base production value on level up.[/p]

[h2]Settings[/h2]

• [p]A new setting to disable QTEs[/p]
• [p]A new setting to disable screen shakes.[/p]
• [p]A new 1600x900 resolution option.[/p]
  • [p]Note: this may change your selected resolution on launch, simply reselect the desired resolution in the settings to set it back to what it was, it will save your preference.[/p]

[p][/p][h2]General[/h2]

• [p]God has a new look…[/p]
• [p]Staircase build price upped from [c]7.5M[/c] to [c]20M[/c].[/p]

[h2]Materials[/h2]

• [p]You may now hold to buy material upgrades.[/p]
• [p]Now displaying an unavailable cursor, not clicking when materials are at max capacity and also displaying a toast notification saying why you cannot click anymore.[/p]
• [p]Changed the initial cost from [c]250k[/c] to [c]125k[/c] per bonus Hemalith percentage and lowered the cost exponent from [c]1.0553[/c] to [c]1.052[/c] with the trader.[/p]

[h2]Equipment[/h2]

• [p]Now saving and loading last selected material in the equipment room.[/p]

[h2]Ui[/h2]

• [p]Better Cursor change behavior on Consumables, Map, Inventory, Pause buttons.[/p]
• [p]Input of floor selector is now released when pressing space.[/p]
• [p]Increased contrast between the page and the text in the beastiary.[/p]
• [p]Added a darkened background to the map onboarding prompt to improve contrast.[/p]
• [p]Toast notification margins now take into account the size of the text as to not overlap.[/p]
• [p]Material upgrade buttons now have a drop shadow to improve contrast and legibility.[/p]
• [p]Material upgrade buttons now use menu hover and click sounds.[/p]
• [p]Made the GUI not overflow as much by letting you scroll through containers that have more content than space available.[/p]

[h2]Misc[/h2]

• [p]Updated strings.[/p]
• [p]Now hiding the map’s buttons when in certain regions of the game.[/p]
• [p]Migrated to a new version of GodotSteam (4.17)[/p]
• [p]Now initializing the correct SteamApp ID for demo/full game.[/p]
• [p]F11 now toggles fullscreen.[/p]
• [p]Changed the alignment of some sprites in combat.[/p]
• [p]Bulbs at the door now light up properly.[/p]
• [p]The crack in the ??? now has a working outline when hovering over it.[/p]
• [p]Now saying that the key doesn’t fit the lock when using the wrong key on doors.[/p]
• [p]Removed some functions from printing in logs to prevent inflating file size.[/p]

[p][/p]

• [p]Fixed a hint checking for a different var relating to grates.[/p]
• [p]Now correctly resetting pointer after hovering off the lamp button.[/p]
• [p]Statues sprites now check for the correct items.[/p]
• [p]Water in the ??? room is now correctly inverted.[/p]
• [p]Bars in the ??? room now are open correctly when unlocked.[/p]
• [p]Fixed fullscreen setting toggle misbehaving.[/p]
• [p]Game now gives you offline production after reloading a save.[/p]
• [p]The dialogue font now properly gets changed to the alt font when the setting for it is selected.[/p]
• [p]Fixed enemy sprite scaling on enemies that haven’t been killed yet in the beastiary.[/p]
• [p]Fixed “Material Label can’t get added to itself” error.[/p]
• [p]Better error handling for empty save files preventing errors from being pushed.[/p]
• [p]Now correctly tracking total hemalith gain.[/p]
• [p]Now preventing you from pressing multiple times not spending hemalith and losing your hemalith.[/p]

[p]Hey y'all![/p][p]We've just announced with this new trailer that Horripilant Releases February 13th 2026 as a world premiere in The Horror Game Awards![/p][p]If you haven't played the demo yet or have played it a few months ago, you may jump back in and see the improvements, which I'm still hacking away at![/p][p]Enjoy this updated trailer![/p][p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

[p][/p][p][/p][h2]Combat[/h2]

• [p]The demo now lets you go through floor 10 instead of kicking you out at the end of 9.[/p]

[h2]Misc[/h2]

• [p]The ??? Room’s plaque now has a proper inscryption.[/p]
• [p]Changed the timing of ??? happening in the ??? if you ???[/p]

[p][/p]

• [p]The Rope is now properly given to the player.[/p]
• [p]The crowbar no longer spawns again after it’s owned.[/p]
• [p]The mirror room no longer keeps mentionning its inscription.[/p]
• [p]Rebirthing while having consumable effects running no longer keeps those effects going.[/p]

[p][/p]

• [p]The item in the shop’s backroom no longer spawns again if the item is used.[/p]
• [p]The lamp no longer works by using the shortcut for it if you no longer own it.[/p]
• [p]The lamp now gets turned off automatically when leaving a save.[/p]
• [p]The paper no longer gives you the last code at the start of the game.[/p]
• [p]Now resetting the ??? displayed in the paper while switching saves.[/p]
• [p]Demo no longer lets you drop the lamp by going to floor 10.[/p]

[p][/p]

• [p]\[Playtest] Tons of new room to explore, with new ways to boost your stats. Most of the game (except the final boss encounter, and story-related dialogue for the people you meet along the way)! Head in the dungeon, drop some items and get exploring![/p]

[h2]Localization[/h2]

• [p]Traditional Chinese[/p]

[h2]Rebirth[/h2][p]7 new skills have been added to the rebirth tree![/p]

• [p]Resource Allocation \[Unlock][/p]
  • [p]Lets you transfer production from one material to another.[/p]
• [p]Resource Optimization[/p]
  • [p]Increases the percentage of material production on transfer.[/p]
• [p]Quick Thinking \[Unlock][/p]
  • [p]Each time the helmet gets reset, lower speed cap by 0.01s, up to a max speed of 0.05s/attack.[/p]
• [p]Multiple Hits[/p]
  • [p]Increases the chance of hitting multiple manual hit points at once when clicking a hit point.[/p]
• [p]Greater Combo[/p]
  • [p]Increases the amount of manual hit points that are triggered on multiple hit.[/p]
• [p]Powerful Strikes[/p]
  • [p]Multiplies the damage dealt on hit from a manual hit.[/p]
• [p]Proactive[/p]
  • [p]Increases the additive chance that manual hit points will spawn each second.[/p]

[p][/p][p][/p][h2]General[/h2]

• [p]Now showing a pop-up when opening the game after getting jumpscared.[/p]
• [p]\[CONVENTION BUILD] Updated the idle trailer.[/p]

[h2]Combat[/h2]

• [p]Manual hits now display if they’ve hit or not by recoloring themselves, and they also animate out.[/p]

[h2]Settings[/h2]

• [p]Now checking the current size of the game window and lowering the resolution of the game if it exceeds the resolution of the monitor it’s currently playing on.[/p]
• [p]Now preventing the user from selecting a higher resolution than the screen they’re playing on.[/p]