Horripilant News

• [p]To prevent crunch for the people working on the game alongside me.[/p]
• [p]To be better positioned around other Steam releases.[/p]

• [p]Polish is now supported! Thanks to Maurycy Zarzycki![/p]

• [p]Now displaying the click and production value of the selected material inside the material screen.[/p]

• [p]New option to keep your boon autopick selection between rebirths.[/p]

• [p]The game now auto-saves on exit to menu and exit to desktop button presses.[/p]

• [p]Changed the order of the early skills to help players towards more influencial skills, leading to a better early game experience.[/p]
• [p]Changed the Skill Tree scale, drag and capping system for a smoother experience.[/p]
• [p]Material Discount[/p]
  • [p]Now affects the material level’s to a greater effect (up to 25% discount similar to the base upgrade effects)[/p]
• [p]Blood Lust[/p]
  • [p]Cost Multiplier [c]10x[/c] → [c]7x[/c][/p]
• [p]Full Potential Skill[/p]
  • [p]Cost Multiplier [c]10x[/c] → [c]5x[/c][/p]

• [p]Material Sparkles are now kept on scene change.[/p]
• [p]Each material now has a unique particle click effect.[/p]

• [p]Now defaulting the entrance floor to whichever floor is the highest one you’ve beaten unless it’s been manually modified.[/p]
• [p]Bug Brute[/p]
  • [p]Minimum spawn level : [c]50[/c] → [c]35[/c][/p]
• [p]Bug Bear[/p]
  • [p]Minimum spawn level : [c]75[/c] → [c]65[/c][/p]
• [p]Changed some floors at which items drop to give you more to explore earlier in your playthrough.[/p]
  • [p]Item that used to drop at [c]25[/c] now drops at [c]20[/c][/p]
  • [p]Item that used to drop at [c]50[/c] now drops at [c]30[/c][/p]
  • [p]Item that used to drop at [c]100[/c] now drops at [c]50[/c][/p]
  • [p]Item that used to drop at [c]150[/c] now drops at [c]125[/c][/p]

• [p]The equipment sprites now are tinted based on which material is selected.[/p]
• [p]Upgrades that use locked materials now show up as ???[/p]

• [p]Default FPS cap has been lowered from [c]300[/c] → [c]150[/c][/p]

• [p]Changed the player’s voice sfx to be deeper[/p]
• [p]Changed some text behavior in the familiar panel.[/p]
• [p]Updated some Localization strings for better consistency[/p]
• [p]Updated the X amount of damage every X seconds strings to used named variables so that they may be switched around with different languages.[/p]
• [p]Updated Ark Pixel fonts to support a greater amount of characters.[/p]
• [p]You are no longer to interact with god while in a dialogue.[/p]
• [p]Eye cursors now have a little arrow in the corner to indicate where the mouse pointer tip is.[/p]
• [p]Reorganized some settings in settings.[/p]

• [p]Changed base settings to be at 1080p instead of 1600x900[/p]
• [p]Now correctly calculating the trader’s Hemalith boost correctly.[/p]
• [p]No longer switching materials in the equipment room if you’ve got the map open and using a number shortcut.[/p]
• [p]Now doing an extra check before spawning boons to prevent familiar healing to be selected even if there’s no familiar alive.[/p]
• [p]Consumable items now correctly count down outside of combat.[/p]

• [p]\[Playtest] Achievements are now unlockable throughout the game![/p]
• [p]Characters now have more dialogue options which give further insight into the world.[/p]

• [p]Work Experience[/p]
  • [p]Start at a certain player level.[/p]
• [p]Defy Death[/p]
  • [p]Saves you from death and heals for half of your max health once per dungeon run.[/p]
• [p]Stock Pile[/p]
  • [p]Start with an amount of material.[/p]
• [p]Base Production[/p]
  • [p]Start with an amount of each production upgrade for all materials.[/p]
• [p]Material Discount[/p]
  • [p]Lowers the multiplier applied to the cost of material upgrades.[/p]
• [p]Speedy Clicks[/p]
  • [p]Increases the material autoclicker click speed.[/p]
• [p]Sparkle Power[/p]
  • [p]Multiplies the value of a sparkle.[/p]
• [p]Sparkle Chance[/p]
  • [p]Multiplies the additive chance of spawning a sparkle with each click.[/p]
• [p]More Sparkles[/p]
  • [p]Increases the amount of sparkles that appear.[/p]
• [p]Leftover Scraps[/p]
  • [p]Get an amount of boons for each 10 floor under which your start your run from.[/p]
• [p]Rage[/p]
  • [p]Get a damage multiplier inversely proportional to the amount of health you have.[/p]
• [p]Familiar Discount[/p]
  • [p]Decreases the cost of producing new familiars.[/p]
• [p]Salvaging Expertise[/p]
  • [p]Keep more meat from impaling a familiar.[/p]
• [p]Equipment Discount[/p]
  • [p]Lowers the equipment price multiplier.[/p]

• [p]Changed verbiage from “Manual Hit Points” to “Weak Points”[/p]
• [p]The 1000th door now shakes the game when opening.[/p]
• [p]Dialogues now queue into each other instead of cutting each other off.[/p]
• [p]Now calculating the meat given on familiar impale based on its health vs its cost instead of just the cost divided.[/p]

• [p]It’s no longer possible to go back from a certain trader’s trade / dialogue’s screen.[/p]
• [p]The effect of the helmet’s faster speed cap no longer is transferrable between saves.[/p]
• [p]Skills are no longer accidentally purchasable by clicking outside of its visible button.[/p]
• [p]Better node validity checking on weak point combo hit.[/p]
• [p]Fixed Skill description description box preventing skill hover.[/p]

The creepy incremental dungeon crawler has just released an updated trailer, demo and an official release date for February 13th 2026.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/horror-incremental-dungeon-crawler-horripilant-gets-a-new-demo-and-release-date/

• [p]Some Russian Strings have been updated.[/p]

• [p]Now correctly setting player health on save load.[/p]