- Early Access Patch #4: More Gameplay Improvements, Balancing, UX Enhancements - 24 November 2024
Greetings, Captain! Another small update with new goodies. Thank you for your feedback! This update is for you. Frequency of Updates You may have noticed a slow frequency of updates to Wraithbinder lately. It's because I'm a solo developer and have to work a full-time day job. It may take me awhile, but progress is being made steadily. Please bear with me! If you want more frequent updates, feel free to change to the beta branch in the Steam client and check out the #patch-notes channel on the Wraithbinder Discord Server for what's new. Known Issue If you are playing on Steam Deck, you will need to press the Steam button, then close the overlay before a controller or gamepad will work. I'm currently working to fix the issue. This issue just came up recently. It even happens playing old builds which used to work fine. Release Notes Here's the full release notes: v0.9.4 : November 23, 202…
- Early Access Patch #3: Gameplay Improvements, Balancing, UI Enhancements - 19 July 2024
Greetings, Captain! Another small update with new goodies. Thank you for your feedback! This update is for you. Release Notes Here's the full release notes: v0.9.3 : July 19, 2024 Local Co-op: Did a lot of behind the scenes work for local co-op Gameplay: Fixed enemies accidentally being invincible while frozen (this was meant only for players) Created a bullet-hell attack for Sindraphon Made Boots ability damage things surrounding you whenever you are holding the button, rather than only once you reach top speed Made Boots do a bigger skid stop that does damage along the vector, with a new animation and also skidding is mentioned in the description on the Abilities menu Made Boots ability do a damaging skid stop whenever you use it rather than only if you reached top speed Allowed running with Boots through jars & rocks Made the Mystic encounter drop the Scroll of Pauldrons so players s…
- Early Access Patch #2: Mana & Attack Speed Improvements - 8 June 2024
Greetings, Captain! Another small update with new goodies. Thank you for your feedback! This update is because of you. Release Notes Here's the full release notes: v0.9.2 : June 8, 2024 Gameplay: Got attack speed to feel consistent by making it entirely based on your attack speed attribute rather than a 50-50 blend of attack speed and combo hits, which are hits that cause damage versus hits that whiff Slightly increased the maximum amount of attack speed (from 45% cooldown reduction to 50%) Fixed attack speed not being applied to knuckles Ensure that you can melee, dash, melee, dash in rapid succession without being able to exploit this with simultaneous melee + dash Fixed not being able to quickly dash and melee with Boots Allow quickly using dash after a Jump Expanded the range of Grenade and Bomb explosions from 72 to 120 Made Grenades stop rolling when they hit an enemy Made the Min…
- Wraithbinder's First Early Access Update: A Patch With Many Goodies - 2 June 2024
Greetings, Captain! Today Wraithbinder got its first Early Access update with many new goodies. Thank you for your feedback and super fan energies! This update is because of you. Goodies You can now pick up all 3 items dropped from minibosses and bosses. This is triple the rewards you used to get from bosses. It also means you don't have to choose just one item while leaving the others behind. You can now dash in midair! This allows for some really interesting ability combos, like jumping + dashing + landing with a melee strike. There's a new item for sale at the Trader. The lantern can be purchased using gold and allows you to see farther on dark floors. Release Notes Here's the full release notes: v0.9.1 : June 1, 2024 Gameplay: Allow picking up all 3 items dropped from minibosses and bosses Allow dashing midair Create the lantern, for sale at the Trader, allows you to see farther on…
- Wraithbinder Early Access is Here! - 27 May 2024
Greetings, warrior of legend! Wraithbinder has arrived to Early Access! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2126370/Wraithbinder Wrathbinder is a fast-paced action roguelike indie game with secrets, loot, necromancy and ability progression set in the Songbringer universe, created by solo dev and yours truly, Wizard Fu. The Songbringer Universe The events of Wraithbinder take place hundreds of years before Songbringer, on the planet Yuerder, where the character Zero was born. Yuerder was once a lush, Earth-like planet but eons of thick, dark cloud cover transformed most of the oxygen-breathing life into nocturnal and bioluminescent creatures while its people built cities to float above the clouds. In Wraithbinder you play as the Captain of a sky sailor ship who discovers an enigmatic, floating city... About Early Access This is an Early Access game, which means there is more to come befor…
- Early Access Launch May 27th! Act I Now Playable in the Demo - 12 May 2024
Greeting, warrior of legend! Wraithbinder is launching into Early Access this Monday, May 27th! Visit Wraithbinder's Steam page and Wishlist in order to be notified when the game goes live. You can get a taste for all the Early Access version has to offer with the playable demo, which has been updated in a major way. Let's take a look at what's new. Major Gameplay Enhancements The experience you gain is now permanent across runs, meaning you keep your player level even when you die. Going up a level grants you one Salty Tear, a new currency that allows you to unlock powering up your armor with the new Mystic NPC. Going up a level in experience also means you can wear and find a higher tier of armor. Higher tiers of armor have better base stats. Like a tier one ring might have +6% Melee Damage while a tier 2 ring will have +8% Melee Damage. There are now four NPCs that you gradually resc…
- Achievements & Multi-monitor Improvements - 18 February 2024
Greetings, freedom fighters! You now have achievements, a new story element, multi-monitor improvements and gameplay balancing in Wraithbinder. Achievements There's several achievements that have been added like "You died", "You discovered a secret room", "You beat a miniboss", etc. These are achievable now in the demo and will be so in the Early Access version upon release. Plans are to add more achievements in the future. A Story Element When you talk to the Shorebot aboard your Ship, you now get some dialogue. This is meant to provide you with some purpose, some guidance on what to do and what to expect along the way. Visual Clarity Chests now look more obviously like chests: Exploding Barrels look more obviously like they will explode: Guardians look more like neutral objects rather than vaguely like enemies. In addition, the Skybot can now build Guardians: Let There Be Light... Aut…
- You Can Now Fast Travel in Wraithbinder - 8 February 2024
Greetings, brave one! Wraithbinder has been improved with another update. There's a new fast travel feature, an intro cutscene, improvements to powering up and less demo restrictions. Let's take a look. Fast Travel By defeating minibosses, you will earn a new type of currency called Teleport Charges. Use Teleport Charges by opening up the Map and choosing an area that you've already visited. You will swiftly teleport to that location. This fast travel feature is a direct response to player feedback. I think it improves the flow tremendously. So thank you, player, for sending your thoughts! Intro Cutscene When you start a new character, or you start a new run with an existing character, you will now get an intro cutscene: It's meant to give you a sense of purpose as a player, to connect you with the story and world. I plan to expand this cutscene in future versions. Improved Upgrading Wh…
- Demo Update Notes for Jan 27, 2024 - 28 January 2024
Version 0.8.12 Made the hi-res character models fade in Changed the default keyboard binding for button Y to Alt / Option Got the game running on generic Linux distros Make flash red all the way red (had some shadowy pixels) Make all "hold Y" prompts have a background Reduced HP amounts so they only show when coming from you (like not when an enemy mine goes off) Reduced the noisiness of small explosions Used high-res glyphs for SDL controllers and mouse buttons Don't show announcements or quantities of gold, light or mana gained during the heat of battle Made selected power up pips orange, not blue Solved leaderboard not updating Solved CreepMage firing endlessly at nothing and CreepArcher getting stuck doing nothing Solved a potential crash when upgrading pips Nat Code, Art & Music
- Wraithbinder's Public Demo is Now Available - 25 January 2024
Greeting, warrior of legend! Wraithbinder's public demo is now released. Crack out your favorite ability build and prepare to slay some goat-headed demons, space pirate style. Just visit Wraithbinder's Steam page to install and play the demo. There's a bunch of new content and features since last time. Let's take a look. Knuckles Metal Knuckles are a new type of weapon with a very fast attack speed, light damage and the special feature that you can hold the attack button to keep attacking repeatedly. Knives Throwing Knives are a new type of ranged weapon that have a fast cooldown, do light damage and use little mana. 360 Rotation True 360-degree rotation is now working with both left-stick movement and right-stick aiming. Using the mouse was always 360-degrees but there was a bug in older versions of the game that caused it to sort of snap to 45-degree angles when using a controller. Th…
- Thanks for playing Wraithbinder's final open beta - 10 January 2024
Fair tidings, player of legend! A massive thank you to all who played Wraithbinder's latest open beta. Your enjoyment, feedback and support are much appreciated. Next is coming the public demo, Steam Next Fest and Early Access. That's all for now. Cheers and happy new year, Nat Code, Art & Music
- 3 days left to play Wraithbinder’s open beta - 7 January 2024
Greetings, brave warrior! Wraithbinder's open beta still has 3 days left of open beta play. After Jan 9, the game will no longer be playable in your Steam library but the public demo will soon be available because Steam Next Fest is coming up February 5th. The game has been updated today and here's what's new: Power Up More When powering up your character, the amount of Light you invest now goes a lot further towards increasing the percentage of the attribute you are powering up. For example, the first pip of Max Health used to increase by a fraction of a percent and now it increases a whole 3 HP. Random Crashes Fixed The game used to crash randomly when transitioning between floors and sometimes when you used the menu. This has now been fixed! You can now play Wraithbinder for hours on end reliably. Steam Input Support In addition to the game's native support for keyboard, mouse and co…
- Play Wraithbinder’s open beta now to Jan 2 - 23 December 2023
Fair tidings, legendary person! Wraithbinder's open beta has begun and runs until Jan 2. Crack out your favorite weapon and prepare to slay some goat-headed demons, space pirate style. If you haven't already, click Request Access on the Steam page and Wraithbinder will be playable in your Steam library. Sharing your feedback on Wraithbinder's Discord server helps to make this game more awesome. Your feedback will also help improve the game for Steam Next Fest this Feburary 2024 and Early Access launch sometime after that. Exclusive Hair Style As a thank you for playing Wraithbinder's beta, please enjoy claiming this exclusive hairstyle. Only players of the beta will ever be able to own this item. Grab it now or forever hold your peace. Just visit the Forge on the ship in-game and purchase 'Beta Haircut.' It only costs 1 gold: Here's part two of all the new stuff in Wraithbinder. There's…
- Play Wraithbinder’s next beta Dec 22 - Jan 2 - 15 December 2023
Fair tidings, person of note! Play Wraithbinder's next beta from Dec 22 to Jan 2. Let's crack out the swords and prepare to slay some goat-headed demons, space pirate style. Make sure you click Request Access on the Steam page ahead of the beta. From Dec 22 to Jan 2, Wraithbinder will be playable in your Steam library. Please share your feedback on Wraithbinder's Discord server. It helps to make this game more awesome. Your feedback also helps improve the game for Steam Next Fest Feburary 2024. Exclusive Hair Style As a thank you for playing Wraithbinder's beta, please enjoy claiming this exclusive hairstyle. Only players of the beta will ever be able to own this item. Grab it during the beta or never. Just visit the Forge on the ship and purchase 'Beta Haircut.' It only costs 1 gold: There's a whole bunch of new content since last beta. Let's check out what's new. New Bosses You'll dis…
- Playing Wraithbinder Live - 28 November 2023
Join me as I play Wraithbinder live at Steam Next Fest! In this stream, I will be continuing a new character from a previous run. Root for me (or not) as I attempt to beat the final boss. I will be pausing the game to answer your questions in the chat as they come up. Set a reminder to remember this event using the handy-dandy tools on this page. Wraithbinder is a top-down roguelike game with metroidvania elements from the creator of Songbringer. Each run you gain a random set of abilities, each one allowing you further access to the randomly-generated world. When you die, you keep some gold & light to power up your character permanently for another attempt. Cheers, Wizard
- Playing Wraithbinder Live - 28 November 2023
Join me as I play Wraithbinder live at Steam Next Fest! In this stream, I will be creating a new character from scratch and starting a run or two. Root for me (or not) as I attempt to beat the final boss on the first run. I will be pausing the game to answer any of your questions as they come up. Set a reminder to remember this event using the handy-dandy tools on this page. Wraithbinder is a top-down roguelike game with metroidvania elements from the creator of Songbringer. Each run you gain a random set of abilities, each one allowing you further access to the randomly-generated world. When you die, you keep some gold & light to power up your character permanently for another attempt. Cheers, Wizard
- Another Beta Dedicated to Multiplayer is Coming Soon - 27 July 2023
Greetings, brave warriors! Here we are wrapping up another fun Wraithbinder beta. Thanks to your feedback, some improvements were made like solving random crashes and adding Steam Cloud sync. About that multiplayer... Welp, after working on this feature non-stop for most of the last few months, there are still some quality issues. Basically, making a multiplayer game by myself has been a supreme technical challenge. lol. Rest assured, I have made an online multiplayer game before, so I'm confident everything will work out eventually. Another beta soon-ish I want to share this multiplayer feature with you when it is high quality, smooth as butter and a super fun experience with friends. In light of that, Wraithbinder will return soon with another beta dedicated entirely to multiplayer. As soon as I am confident with the code, I will post an announcement on Twitter, Discord and Steam lett…
- Play Wraithbinder’s beta from now to July 28 - 15 July 2023
Game on. 🎮 Wraithbinder beta is now playable in your Steam library. Multiplayer is planned to be enabled with an update next week. Please enjoy the single player version of Wraithbinder beta for now. There's an update coming next Tuesday and next Friday, either of which might have online co-op multiplayer finished. Because of this delay in multiplayer, I'm extending this beta's finish date from July 25th to July 28th. Thanks for your patience, Wizard
- Play Wraithbinder’s beta with online co-op July 14 - 25 - 8 July 2023
Hello person, I really want to thank you for the valuable feedback you’ve provided so far. It really helps to understand how to improve the game experience. Now it’s time for you to show your friends how to bind Wraiths and wreak havoc. Tell me what you think of this new co-op mode. To invite a friend to play with you, make sure you both click Request Access on the Steam page ahead of the beta. From July 14 to 25 Wraithbinder will be playable in your Steam library. Simply launch the game, head over to “New Game” and select “Co-op” to create a session that your friends can join. Your friend will need to select “Join Game”, then choose a match. What could possibly go wrong?? lol More players, enemies, rewards, fun The number of enemies will be proportional to the number of players here to slay them: two players means twice the amount of enemies on the map. Rewards like gold and light are…
- Thanks for playing! Next beta is July 14 - 25 - 13 April 2023
Thanks for playing Wraithbinder's 3rd beta and for sending your feedback! Hope you enjoyed. Your feedback has gone into a prioritized list and will be worked on over the next few months. The next public beta will take place July 14th through the 25th. It will have online co-op and more. See the updated roadmap. Cheers, Wizard
