- Official Statement on the future of Eyes in the Dark - 14 June 2024
Hi there, Due to circumstances outside of our control, Under the Stairs has recently reached an agreement with Gearbox Publishing to mutually part ways. For us this means the return of our publishing rights for Eyes in the Dark. We wish to express our love and support to everyone on the Gearbox Publishing team, the entire experience of working with them was nothing short of amazing. Not only have they helped us launch our first game, but they made sure that it turned out to be the best version of the game possible. However, we now have to be realistic, it's been almost 2 years since we last worked on Eyes in the Dark and jumping back in and working on it full time is not something we can currently afford to do. We've always wanted to support the game long term, there are bugs we'd like to fix, features we'd like to add and feedback we'd love to implement. These are weird times in the ga…
- Eyes in the Dark is now Verified on Steam Deck! - 18 November 2022
Fight with light against the dark in this "roguelight" platformer starring Victoria Bloom! Drive back the darkness that's overrun Bloom Manor and conquer swarms of creatures as you discover powerful new items to upgrade your arsenal. Are you ready to enter the ever-changing manor? Light & fight with Eyes in the Dark on Steam Deck today!
- Patch 1.1.2 - 1 November 2022
Hello Tinkerers! We are back with a small update. Here is what we have fixed below: Solved various functionality issues with Edgar's Shop. Players can now purchase items and pick them up immediately. Items will now always drop after purchase. We hope you have enjoyed the festive update! Cheers!
- Halloween Update and Festivities! - 25 October 2022
Hello, Tinkerers! Happy Halloween! To celebrate the spookiest month of the year, we just deployed a new update that added a few Halloween-related cosmetic upgrades, new visual filters, a series of costumes with gameplay-changing items, and standard patch-related improvements. See below for more details, and banish these creepy crawlers in style with our new festive update! Accessibility: Our goal has always been to improve accessibility for those who may not be able to play our game due to some mechanics within the initial release of Eyes in the Dark. Below we wanted to highlight some new accessibility features we have added to this recent update. Accessibility Options - a new category in the options menu focusing on accessibility. New Cosmetic upgrades We have some spooky changes to announce that we've been working on for a while! New Wardrobe The wardrobe lets you change into costumes…
- 🏆 GAME OF THE YEAR WINNER 🏆 MEGAMIGS 2022 - 24 October 2022
🏆 GRAND PRIZE WINNER - MEGAMIGS Game of the Year 2022 🏆 Eyes in the Dark: The Curious Case of One Victoria Bloom – Under the Stairs
- Eyes in the Dark Patch v 1.0.6 - 31 August 2022
Hello Tinkerers! Eyes in the Dark patch version 1.0.6 is now live. Please see the notes below on all the changes that have been made to Bloom Manor. Controls The Select button will always open and close the Run Info Menu while using gamepad. The Start button will always open and close the Pause Menu while using gamepad. Visuals Impediments and Boons will still be legible when repeatedly selecting Twist of Fate. The Monsters Defeated section will always reflect the number of monsters defeated during the run on the Run Result screen. The additional Knowledge provided by the Eureka Perk is indicated on the Run Result screen. Perks and Impediments no longer run off the screen when Ticking Menace is active. Text boxes won’t overlap when there are four choices for Perks on the Divergence screen. The description box for the Map of the Mansion Perk now has a right margin. Gear When an item send…
- Eyes in the Dark Patch v 1.0.5 - 17 August 2022
Hello Tinkerers! Eyes in the Dark patch version 1.0.5 is now live. Please see the notes below on all the changes that have been made to Bloom Manor. Controls The mouse cursor will move offscreen in all menus while using a gamepad. Addressed an issue where dashing into the boss area could prevent the fight from starting when using mouse and keyboard controls. Opening a menu no longer causes Broodor's projectiles to fall to the ground. Visuals Insector: When exiting and re-entering the room, there is no longer a striped look in the ambient darkness. Darkness will remain clear when exiting and entering puzzle rooms. Players can no longer move through zone gates before they are visibly open. Arachnor: Should no longer disappear outside of the playable areas as reported in the Discord. Gear Non-basic Bulbs will damage Broodor. Swarmor enemies no longer die when colliding with items. Tetaclor…
- Eyes in the Dark Patch v1.0.3 - 26 July 2022
Hello Tinkerers! Our first Eyes in the Dark patch version 1.0.3 is now live. Please see the notes below on all the changes that have been made to Bloom Manor. General ● General stability improvements to enhance the user's experience. ● Increased performance by reducing the particles generated upon enemy death. Balance ● Increased the amount of Knowledged gained from Sparks at the end of a run. ● Reduced cost of the first Metamachine Selector in the bookshelf. ● Bonuses from Whiplash Bulb, Arc Surge Battery and Damage Surge Battery no longer apply to subsequent loops. ● The Light Drain and Lose Sparks impediment now properly drains Sparks if a player has less than 50. ● Perpetum Mobile perk now generates the intended amount of Sparks. ● Base Flashlight damage increased ever so slightly. ● Cracked Bulb damage output slightly reduced. Controls ● Addressed an issue where projectiles could n…
- Eyes in the Dark Now Available on Steam! - 14 July 2022
As of this morning, I’m incredibly proud to say that Eyes in the Dark is now available worldwide on both Steam and in the Epic Games Store! After such a long time in development, it feels crazy to finally say that, but it’s an amazing feeling to share with the world what this team has been working on for so long. Roughly eight years ago, Eyes in the Dark started out as a small Game Jam prototype – a final project for a game design course I took meant to spark some creativity before getting back to my day job. As it turns out, that little project would become the foundation of a new career and a much crazier ride. Like most creative projects, we didn’t start production with a fully fleshed out design document, and I’d be lying if I said we had it all figured out from the start. Back then, we were a group of strangers united under a simple goal: make a video game. That’s it. There wasn’t…
- Eyes in the Dark Review - A refreshing, beautifully illustrated roguelight that rewards the curious - 12 July 2022
Roguelikes are, typically, games that keep on giving. They are deeply replayable, let you sit in for short sessions or long ones, and the genre itself won’t stop expanding. Eyes in the Dark: The Curious Case of One Victoria Bloom describes itself as a 'roguelight', and shows off exactly how this genre of game continues to be fresh and innovative even when it may seem that it’s all been done before. Eyes in the Dark is a side-scrolling roguelike that uses twin-stick controls (keyboard is also supported, but I wouldn't recommend it), features a manor of nine zones that are procedurally generated per each attempt, and utilises a powerful, customisable flashlight as its main tool. It’s a title that is designed to be replayed for years to come, and it’s one that I almost certainly will continue to pick up long after this review is published. Meet Victoria Bloom. Victoria is revealed to be th…
- Thanks for Playing the Eyes in the Dark Demo! - 27 June 2022
Thank you to all of our players who entered Bloom Manor and fought the darkness with light! We enjoyed sharing our experiences with players during our developer streams and interacting with you all in our Discord, and the feedback you've provided will help improve the game as we prepare for launch and beyond. We're very excited for players to return to the ever-changing mansion and take on more monsters, try more combinations, and discover more secrets – we'll see you back here in less than one month when Eyes in the Dark launches July 14!
- An Extra Week to Play the Demo! - 20 June 2022
First off, a huge "thank you" to everyone who played our demo of Eyes in the Dark during Steam Next Fest! Your comments and feedback have done more than help improve our debut game; they've brought joy, light, and relief to the 7 of us at Under the Stairs that've been "in the dark" (so to speak) crafting this. The last 5 years have been anything but predictable for an independent studio like ours in Croatia. Despite COVID and a major earthquake here in Zagreb that left our brand-new office and most of the city center totally unusable, our belief in this project is what has kept us going through all of the curveballs. We didn't really know what to expect when we released the demo, so we feared the worst; then we started seeing your posts, your streams, and the incredibly heartwarming messages from players all around the world. I can’t tell you how much that kind of support means to a sma…
- Unload a swarm of plentiful, exploding, burning shots! - 19 June 2022
Victoria packs the most deadly trigger button in this build. With full ammo, she has at least 10 shots (Extra Shot Augment x2). If used all at once, she can shoot them all over the place…not to deal damage immediately, but to make mines stick all over walls, ceilings, and ground (Detonation Mines). And then, when the trap is ready and the enemies are a-swarming, she just presses the button and watches them burn (Burn Augment).
- Input this code and transform into a paratrooper of doom! Play the demo now! - 18 June 2022
In this build, our eleven year-old tinkering maverick turned herself into a slow-falling paratrooper of doom. Get Victoria on high ground - perfect for the open spaces of the Garden Zone - and just jump into freefall. The Feather Shoes make Victoria slowly glide groundwards and lets her take her time to shower the enemies with projectiles (Sparkle Bulb) and sow a slowly burning inferno (Burn Battery).
- Turn yourself into a bouncing ball of carnage with the Blasthopper! - 18 June 2022
Another of the lithe builds, this one allows you to almost fly through the mansion. It comes into its full glory in the more open Zones, like the Rooftops, because it quadruples your jump distance (Blast Shoes IV), making jumps look like small bursts. The Thrust Module and Thrust Burst Module provide extra protection, extra damage, and most importantly, extra time in the air. Just remember to every now and then sit back and enjoy Victoria bop through levels like a bouncing ball of carnage.
- All you need are two batteries, a lightbulb, and a thrust module! Try it now! - 17 June 2022
This build turns Victoria into a long-range firebug. The combination of the Burn Battery, Range Battery, and the Lightning Bulb means she has long range, her attacks chain to nearby monsters and burn them to cinders. What makes it even more cool is that while their dark carapaces are burning, every dodge through them triggers a blast that deals extra area damage because of the Thrust Burst Module. Burn, monsters, burn!
- Hop into the demo and unleash Unlimited Fireworks! - 16 June 2022
In this build, Victoria becomes a veritable fast-shooting girl catapult! Unlike the default build, here every projectile shot charges the slingshot itself (Recharge Augment), and every time it's charged Victoria shoots two projectiles instead of one (Split Shot Augment). But wait, that’s not all, every shot becomes a blast radius bomb (Fireworks) that charges your projectiles even faster! Unlimited ammo and bombs away!
- Don't just illuminate your enemies... dazzle them! - 16 June 2022
This is one of the most gimmicky builds worthy of a cheeky tinkerer like Victoria. Plaster all the space around her with light so that the Starlight Bulb illuminates as many enemies as possible, and the light will slow all of them down (Daze Battery). Any defeated monsters that die in that first attack will explode and damage their compatriots (Burst Surge Battery), and since they're slowed, there's going to be A LOT of monsters in range. What makes it even worse for the poor monsters is that the Cherry Bombs combined with the Shock Augment will additionally stun all those hit by the projectile, clumping the remaining monsters even more.
- Play with the Glimmer Ninja item combo in the demo today! - 15 June 2022
This build turns Victoria into a scintillating star that dashes through the manor, dispatching monsters as she moves. Her dodging is extended (Exhaust Module) and can be used more often (Thrust Module), which means she can spend a loooong time in the air. The Glimmer Module allows her to glimmer any enemies she dodges through, which means they take extra damage from her Flashlight. As if all that wasn't enough, the Heal Module gives her the ability to heal herself with every projectile launch.
- Eyes in the Dark: Developer Stream #2 ft. Vladimir Bogdanic and Filip Neduk - 13 June 2022
Fight with light against the dark in this “roguelight” platformer starring Victoria Bloom! Drive back the darkness that's overrun Bloom Manor and conquer swarms of creatures as you discover powerful new items to upgrade your arsenal. Are you ready to enter the ever-changing manor? Join Vladimir Bogdanić (Director) and Filip Neduk (Designer) as they show off new gameplay from the demo and more during our developer stream!
