- GwenBlade Post launch update №1 - 18 December 2025
First, I want to thank you all for supporting me this whole time^^~ GwenBlade was a very complex and ambitious project even for the second game, and I've made a lot of mistakes. Some of them led to the unfinished character dialogues and the inability to bake shadows on maps, which rendered the game un-updatable without further issues. I'm so glad that I continued working on games, and it led me to overcome those issues, and not all levels have new baked lightning, and also on top of that, complete dialogues for every character I also heard a lot of feedback on platforming, and to ease the player's pain i added double jump and also tweaked the gravity to make it much more predictable to traverse the area. By far the biggest news is - it's not only the first update in a year, but also the first in a new line of monthly updates! I want to address most, if not all, fair criticism that this…
- Achievements are here! - 1 February 2024
It took me a long time, but your support and voice motivated me to finish this task - now all 23 achievements are tested and available by playing the campaign and Roguelike mode! The good news doesn't end here Making games as solo-dev is hard and after more than a year of Early access I burnt out, So the GwenBlade as you see today and back on full release is not what I wanted to make, but a version with cut corners. So I decided to add new things in the following update, What I assure you will be added is New abilities (such as double jump) Ending scenes for every patient More dialogues Quality of life changes I hope you are excited and will give GwenBlade another playthrough Thank you so much for your love and support
- FeedbackUpdate - StoryFixes - 7 June 2023
Fixed story related things that affects saving progress. Fixed dialogue not appearing after third level of Debora Fixed not updating results after second level of Julia Fixed not appearing list of patients after second level of Hao I can only thank and apologize to the community that vocalize their feedback and allowed me to make this game even better. I'm trully sorry that your personal experience was corrupted by those instances In fututre There are coming Acheviements and 60fps lock in single update After them there would be new biome added to the game(in a span of 1-2 months)
- Achivements are coming! - 30 May 2023
You may see right now a different achivements in Steam for GwenBlade, however, they CAN'T BE UNLOCKED. It will be this way for next 3-5 days, and there will be game update that will add new dialogues and ways of getting achivements. Hope you'll enjoy it, and sorry for inconvenience
- FeedBack Update^^~ - 25 February 2023
Big shotout to Ian Mitchell from GwenBlade's discord server. Most of the changes were done because of his incredible feedback^^~ Thank you so much Ian! Fixes Weapon substats are reworked! Substats are Speed, Radius, CritChance and CritRate and previously they were set randomly. This means that when you getting new weapon it can have lower substat and because of that useless. Although rough Damage would always higher Now it's remade and new system always make 2 substat better and 2 substat worse. Knife are fixed and give bonus +10% to your attack (so 5 knifes is +50%) Execution now work at greater radius and if you see F on enemy you will definetely execute him bug with roguelike mode that will boot you the menu after 12th floor is fixed. For those who don't know after 12th floor there is new biome I'm planning to retexture some enemies to make thier looks more distinct, but for now i ju…
- HUGE MECHANIC AND STORY UPDATE - 12 February 2023
Story content Julia New level For Julia were added and half of the level is presented with new perspective that was available on some of the Roguelite levels. And also with parts that needed to be done with wallrun Debora Debora also get a level and also a new dialogues Story Structue After every session Jane takes a ride to home. At night in a dream you presented with the ability to make yourself stronger by buying upgrades. And after that she awakes goes to her job and choose which patient would have a session this day. This way you have a downtime betweeen light-paced fights and a room to upgrade character. Also a shops that were introduced in Roguelite are in story mode too - find them! Mechanics Now motivation is reworked and no longer works as a shield and instead is used as resource for dodging. Added new feature to aim manually by holding right mouse button. In that mode, you wi…
- Campaign hotfix - 4 December 2022
After first boss fight in the end of first Debora's session there is a cutscene, and because of the bug there were 2 Deboras in that scene. And after that cutscene there wasn't a new level and just main menu Both problems are now fixed, so thank you for your feedback! Let's enjoy campaign levels^^~
- New Biome Update! - 3 December 2022
New Biome Climb higher and higher to fight Sorrow boss and be released from the nightmare. In New Biome called "Taking Control" you will experience a new spin on GwenBlade's formula. Whole Biome is one level that procedurally generates with Corridors, Arenas, Shops and optional Boss Battles. Now you can't choose your reward for every encounter, and instead you gain Happiness that you can spend on Upgrades. For this update only this biome will be starting Biome so you can try it right away. In the next Update it will be put in the second one, as it was initially intended. Also, every level (all 19th of them) from the first Biome were recolored to look more like the one Biome. New boss and music theme for boss battles Guilt boss from the last story update is now in Roguelite mode! It placed in the end of the new Biome and ready to be fight with! In the next update it will go to the 12th f…
- Crucial Story Update - 13 November 2022
Play second part of Debora's story to Defeat a new powerful boss Guilty! Every piece of dialogue was rewritten to sound more human and convey information better. Deckard scene was removed from the scenario and the replacement is meeting with Adrian - Jane's best friend. There would be few small rapid updates in this week - stay tuned^^~
- Story Update #2 Julia - 26 October 2022
Story Content 5 scenes added to the Game that explore world and characters of GwenBlade. And 3 of them dedicated to Julia a new mysterious Character She is heartbroken and hopeless, closed from everyone and maybe, just maybe you can help her. Try to light up, show hope. Julia's Soul - a lonely island in lightless night, just in a center of vast dark ocean. Mechanics Roguelite and Campaign now has a different memory slots New Mechanic added - a Self rating! It goes up when dealing damage and defeating foes. It's increases amount of happiness that you receive Now range weapons don't consume notes to shoot Abilities don't consume motivation, but notes instead. Cooldown time for abilities is now increased. Basic enemies can drop weapons with a miniscule chance of 1% (as a reminder - bosses and minibosses drop weapons with a 100% chance) After death enemy has a 50% chance to drop a note Bloc…
- Halloween Costume and Combat Update^^~ - 5 October 2022
Costumes Witch is Jane's Helloween costume form previous year. It was made with help from her Debora, that you save in introduction of Campaign. You will get to know her better in future Updates. Rogue costume is based on Gwenever - Jane's DnD character. Costumes will be completely free for this Update, and later become purchasable in the game (for misery like other powerups between runs). The reason why they not selling now is there is no gameplay benefit from them. In the next Update with every costume there would be an artifact that you can wear. More About it Later^^~ Combat New attack animations both for Sword and Scythe weapons to make your combat more flashy and impactful. New mechanic - Charge attack. Now you can charge a button to make a more powerful attack with your melee weapon. Range weapons were rebuilt. Now the main focus of range weapons, it's drain enemy's defense, so y…
- Weapons and Talents UPDATE! - 29 September 2022
Weapons There is a 5 weapons in the game Treble Clef Sword - old reliable weapon with medium range and speed Alto Clef Bow - good for dealing damage at great distances Bass Clef Scythe - Slower weapon with larger swings Blunder Trombone - Great for staggering and dealing huge damage Electric Guitar - Shockingly good, but have restricted mobility Each weapon has a unique moveset of animations/ There is main weapons on LMB and range weapons at RMB that uses notes to shoot Weapons are dropping from every boss (arenas 5.10.12.15.20.24) and have 3 stats Damage - it's a multiplier of base damage of the weapon. This stat is always higher on the new weapon. Speed - it's a multiplier of base animation speed and downtime between hits. This stat has random nature Range - Multiplier of swing size. This stat has random nature Overall, it's freshens the gameplay and make boss battles more meaningful,…
- Bash-Bash Update! - 19 September 2022
New abilities Ability system was once again changed. Now you need a Motivation to cast spells an it's 20 points for every ability. Also now Motivation isn't passively regaining, and instead you need to hit enemies to get any. At the same time, now you don't need motivation to dash, walljump and block. Burst of Heal Heals you up to 20% of health and deal damage to nearby enemies at the same time Dragon Fly Launches a big fire ball that burns enemies Chain Note Note flying and slashing every enemy on arena LightStrike Lightning strike and make area dealing Break that exists enemy's energy and increases your damage Balance Changes Damage Now all enemy damage is clamped to 25 hit points. It was to fix 2 issues Firstly, there is no one shot kills in late roguelite sessions Secondly, Max health upgrade always grants a player +25 hit points, there for every time it's at least 1 more hit that y…
- Huge Roguelite and Story update! - 12 September 2022
Discord server Our cozy and welcoming corner for a community, when we discuss GwenBlade^^ link: https://discord.gg/pxR5bne9 Story and lore The previous story line was scraped out and a new one was made. Right now there is a first prologue and the first mission without an ending. I have a lot of plans and would add and ending and other cutscenes to deliver more information about the awesome world of GwenBlade. Mechanics Abilities Fully remade. Now abilities don't have a cooldown and manacost, instead each one has it's own unique bar and refill by inflicting damage and executing an enemy. Abilities are now having their own infusions for example: Drill has a Needles, so every new tick of damage is higher. of Eye of the Storm has a Lightning, so every time it hits there is lightning jumping between enemies. Also, they have their own basic damage. Instead of taking RMB, Q, E or R inputs they…
- Abilities, Skills and Keys!^^ - 23 June 2022
Mechanic Changes Now Key has a use in locked doors! Every third encounter there would be a locked door with double reward and without an encounter, but you need get a key before it. Several abilities: Blink, Slide and TonalFall were remade into skills that will not disappear after your death! Blink even can be used with every weapon, but no longer does damage at the finish. There is also a 3 new unique abilities that you can find in Roguelite! DreamCut for Sword Eye of the Storm and Fiend's storm for Guitar Also a description to every move added so you would know for sure how to use them^^ Now exploring of the levels are rewarding! You can find almost in every level a boost to your max Health, Energy or Attack. Here are three examples: Others are up to you to find! Balance Changes Abilities now randomize their properties like infusions, farther you go - harder they would be. For example…
- Endless Rogulite Update! Working on Unreal Engine 5^^ - 12 June 2022
I'm so happy by delivering this update! I hope you would be too, and have some tense and thoughtful fights in DreamLike Roguelite! SHOP As you can see there is a Shop as a room between Rogulite arenas, here you can exchange your Happiness to make you stronger but all powerups are for the current run. So choose wisely how to spend your goodies^^ This paw signals you that after this Door there would be shop! Now there is more Rewards in Roguelite and more possibilities for deck building! Suffering and Happiness system was changed. After dying you get a 25 suffering for every 100 happiness that you have, to make the balancing act of them more controllable we added them as rewards after completing an encounter. Also there is Key that now only heals you a 10% of your health and they would stay after you died in the run. But sadly there is no use for them untill the next update. INFUSIONS The…
- New Boss and Key Mechanic in next Update! - 4 June 2022
There is struggle at this with the update cause of bad management and planning. I just was overwhelmed by tasks in many different fields of work but recently i got programmer in a team! It's not a full time thing for him, but he made more space to breath for me, which is great. So i was more concentrated in visual stuff like models and animations, and here he is - Hollowness! New boss in the next update! Lock and Key which would be a new Reward in a Rogulite. So promising i guess^^~
- Music System update! - 26 May 2022
Arc Willow team get help of composer Limenya and in our partnership we add a new original soundtrack to the game! We look forward to work in the future. Right now there is 3 new tracks for different GameStates: Research Fight BossFight We make sure to make every state distinguishable, and suitable to situations in the game. Now visuals and Music in the game compliments each other in a unique way! To make your roguelite experience more seamless we reworked our music system in the game, so now loading will not interrupt the score, There is a balance changes as well - now basic attacks do more damage to shields, and shields recharging is not depending on max HP of enemies and take much more time. Fixed the bug causing to have more stamina than the max amount after killing an enemy Mini-boss Sorrow, Envy, Anxiety and Shame get nerfed due to having too much HP, and arena a "no fun zone" Back…
- Feedback Update And the next for GwenBlade! - 21 May 2022
Hello DreamWalkers! After Massive Nexus Update there was a small update everyday, but they all were fully committed to fix issues balance breaking mechanics. In future in the middle of the next week would be a Story Update! The main feature, it's a real world story and character interactions that will crucially influence your RogueLite runs! Here is Jane's room, a place of calmness and safety. Main story would feature Jane's music band before the Concert that can turn their lives around to become professional musicians. But this way it's nerve wracking experience, and only Jane's DreamWalking experience and friend's hand can help. Also Update would feature the rainy city as a next biome! Other mechanics that were implemented, would be improved further, like skills, abilities, shop and more! Hope you excited^^~
- A 30% off Special Discount ends in 20 hours!!! - 18 May 2022
Take your chance and buy GwenBlade for 4.20 $ or even less! Right now there is a fresh Massive Nexus Update with balance patches on top of it and Story update on start of the next Week!!!ːsteamhappyː
