- Patch v0.0.182 - 24 March 2026
ChangesBoss material drops (shadow fang, black giant scales, heart of chaos, and equivalents across all journeys) now scale linearly after floor 1000, reaching 5,000 at floor 2000 instead of the previous exponential growth to 1.1M.All materials are now capped at 10T; existing saves with amounts above the cap are corrected on startup.Iron Phalanx reflected damage is now capped at 1000x max health.FixesMinor UI fixes.
- Patch v0.0.181 - 22 March 2026
ChangesParagon Levels are now available after reaching the cap of level 100.Heroes that reach level 100 now continue gaining XP toward Paragon levelsEach Paragon level grants +5% damage, +5% initiative, and +5% vitalityParagon level is displayed as a badge (P1, P2, etc.) on the hero portrait, headquarters roster, and transfer pickerXP bar remains visible at level 100+ and turns gold for paragon progressHover the paragon badge to see current bonusesTavern heroes are always recruited without paragon levelsNew cursed item: Kelifos, Shield of the Titans — auto-casts Fortify (permanent) and Guard on encounter start, grants 90% damage reduction while fortified, and increases vitality by 200%.Supporter Pack owners are no longer limited to 6 teams.It is now possible to delete a team.Added a stat filter to the inventory to quickly and easily filter items and gems by multiple stats.New cursed ite…
- Patch v0.0.180 - 16 March 2026
ChangesNew Cursed Item: Inevitus, Staff of Doom — A new intelligence cursed weapon. Its unique effect, Inevitus, casts a permanent Shadow Beam on the enemy with the highest max health based on your first equipped Shadow Beam skill. The beam retargets automatically when the current target dies.Doom Catalyst — Shadowbolt now detonates Doom from any warlock on the target, not just Doom applied by the casting warlock. Re-application no longer creates duplicate Doom stacks when the caster already has one on the target.
- New class: ⚡Shaman ⚡ - 14 March 2026
Hello everyone!Introducing the 7th class of Nocturnal Quest: The Shaman. The Shaman is a very powerful class with a crazy Lightning specialization that fries all enemies, and an essential Spirit specialization that makes every build more powerful. With the Shaman, it is now possible to push to much higher floors, and approach the ultimate feat of 10,000. Here is some lightning fun from one of the most powerful builds of the end game:The Lightning Shaman has one offensive skill: Chain Lightning. The rest of her skills are debuffs/totems with incredible power. Here is another build powered by the Spirit Shaman: Dozens more effects are coming soon, that will enable even crazier builds as you ascend to higher floors! Discord • TikTok • YouTube
- Patch v0.0.178 - 14 March 2026
ChangesNew Cursed Item: Fotia, Molten Whip of Fire — A new intelligence cursed weapon. Its unique effect, Molten Whip, allows your burn damage ticks to critically strike.New Cursed Item: Flamecaller, Staff of the Sun — A new intelligence cursed weapon. Its unique effect, Flamecaller, causes your Fireball to proc your first equipped Ray of Fire at 10× damage on the target without triggering its cooldown. Only one ray per target at a time, but multiple rays can fire concurrently at different targets.QoL: Middle click to max talent rank — You can now middle click on talents in the hero view, blacksmith, and bestiary talent trees to add max ranks (same as holding Ctrl).UI: Quadrillion (Qa) health display — Unit portrait health now shows the Qa suffix for values above 1,000T instead of displaying large trillion numbers.Fix: Firestarter talent tooltip — Description now correctly shows percent…
- Patch v0.0.177 - 13 March 2026
ChangesMonsters on floors below 15 are now 1 level lower (minimum level 1), easing the early game difficulty curve.Monsters no longer roll for higher rarities until level 6 (previously level 3), keeping early encounters more manageable for new players.FixesFixed Burning damage double-dipping with Inferno: burn ticks no longer get amplified by Inferno stacks a second time, since the burn pool is already calculated from amplified damage. Stacks still accumulate from burn ticks.Fixed Burning debuff showing "Remaining damage: 0" with nearly full duration left — the burn pool now drains by the base tick amount rather than the amplified amount.Fixed Infernal Feedback gem combo incorrectly using cumulative damage dealt instead of current remaining damage for its feedback calculation.Totem effects (Air Totem, Grounding Totem, etc.) and other encounter-start effects now apply before turn order i…
- Patch v0.0.176 - 13 March 2026
ChangesVarious performance improvements.Added the Spirit Shaman specialization.Added a new Spirit Shaman cursed item: Aetos, Spirit Staff of the Sky.Added 2 new gem combos for the Spirit Shaman.Added number abbreviations in various places.Toxic Cloud remaining damage stacking has been reduced from 50% to 10%.Lingering Venom amplification has been reduced from 20% to 10%.Added another 1000 inventory slot expansion to the Automagus.Added a new inventory sorting option for "Number of modifiers", so that items/gems with more modifiers (stats) appear first.FixesFixed a bug where Vitality Regeneration (Warrior) and Primal Regeneration (Lycan) health regen was not accounting for vitality bonuses from talents like Titanic Vitality and Boundless Vitality if those talents were added afterward.Fixed an issue where Moonlit Predator could proc while it was the Lycan's turn, making all skills in cd a…
- Patch v0.0.175 - 13 March 2026
ChangesAdded a new class: Shaman. Only the Lightning spec is available. Spirit spec coming very soon.Added 2 new gem combos for Lightning Shaman.Added a new cursed item: Keravnos, Staff of Storms.It is now possible to click on the "Possible modifiers" section to get the modifier you want, spending as many runes as it takes to roll it.Max cooldown reduction changed from 85% -> 95%.Reduced the cost of cloning gems by roughly 50%.Gold no longer increases exponentially after floor 1000.Gold is now capped at 100T, in order to restore players that got too high values.
- Patch v0.0.174 - 12 March 2026
ChangesAdded a new item effect to help against the dreaded Fatigue!Added 19 new achievements:1. Gladiator: Beat floor 1000 in any journey as a Gladiator (Only one hero in team, a warrior)2. Headhunter: Discover all creatures in the Bestiary3. Ultimate Conquest: Beat floor 10,000 in the Citadel4. Wombo Combo: Activate a gem combo5. Gucci: Equip a level 20 item6. Classy: Embed a gem7. Cursed: Craft a cursed item8. Dusterino: Salvage a gem9. D.E.I.: Have a team with 5 heroes with no duplicate classes10. Alchemist: Brew a potion11. Upgrades!: Upgrade a skill12. Power Infusion: Successfully infuse an item with a gem13. Fancy Place: Decorate the tavern with a gem14. Money Talks: Buy a legendary item at the shop15. Top Talent: Recruit a legendary hero in the tavern16. More!: Clone a legendary hero17. Gem Fever: Clone a gem18. Unoriginal: Clone an item19. Leader of the Pack: Beat floor 1000 in…
- Patch v0.0.173 - 11 March 2026
ChangesNew item effect!
- Patch v0.0.172 - 11 March 2026
ChangesNew Shadowforge Item: Nurros, Staff of Darkness — A cursed INT staff that automatically casts your equipped Darken Mind, Dark Desire, and Soul of the Infinite at the start of each encounter. These effects no longer expire. Soul of the Infinite now targets all allies.Added option to sort inventory by Rarity.Clone Hero — Clone any hero from the hero view, duplicating all equipped items, gems, skills, and effects. Costs Runes of Echoes, Orbs of Power, and gold.
- Patch v0.0.171 - 11 March 2026
ChangesAdded Shop Auto-buy upgrade in the Automagus, which displays auto-buy settings in the shop for runes, free item and other items based on rarity.
- Patch v0.0.168 - 11 March 2026
ChangesAdded the Bestiary, which tracks enemy kills and awards talent points for powerful town-level effects.Back-row enemies (Skeleton Warlock, Dark Druid, Frost Wraith, Fire Elemental, Acolyte, Gargoyle) now have a 5% chance to spawn as elite on floors above 150.
- Patch v0.0.167 - 10 March 2026
ChangesAdded new cursed item "Lunyx, Claw of the Moon" — a Lycan sword with the Moonlit Predator effect: when another allied Lycan attacks, you have a 10% chance to join them by using your next available equipped Black Claw.Reduced Shadowforge material costs by roughly 50%.Updated Howl of Terror and Alpha Howl skill icons with new night-themed artwork.FixesFixed a bug where greater modifiers lost their greater status when absorbed through the Conflux.
- 3,000 Players In 2 Months! Thank You! - 8 March 2026
Hello everyone!Discord • TikTok • YouTubeThank you so much for all the feedback, bug reports and feature requests! I can't believe 3,000 people have played and (mostly) enjoyed the game. In the past 2 months, we have come a long way, with many micro features, QoL updates and polishing. There is a long way to go until 1.0. I would like to encourage all of you to join us on Discord and post (or DM me, @Nykta) ideas about features you enjoy, features you would like to see implemented from other idlers, and things you would like improved or removed from the game. As you may have noticed, the vast majority of feedback is implemented pretty fast!The development team is just me and my cat Nala for now, but with the new Cosmetic DLC, I hope to hire some help to replace the AI graphics. If you haven't already, come join us on Discord (https://discord.gg/D9Ds982cQD) to discuss builds and feature…
- Patch v0.0.165 - 8 March 2026
ChangesAdded Thanatos' Xyphos, a new cursed Warrior sword — its unique effect, Thanatos' Wrath, removes Execute's health threshold and applies a bleed for 200% STR, increased by 50% per empty skill slot.Increased Rune of Echoes max drop chance in the Citadel from 2% to 10%.Shadowforge material costs now scale exponentially with item level (1,000 at level 1 up to 100,000,000 at level 20).FixesItems added to the Jeweler's Conflux will now appear faded out in the inventory.Blizzard comets from Andar'Al now count toward Ice Comet's skill usage, allowing it to progress toward rarity upgrades.Intimidating Howl duration now scales with skill level and rarity (15s base, increasing with investment).
- Patch v0.0.164 - 24 February 2026
ChangesAdded a new cursed item for poison rogues: Dilitirion, Venom of DeathFixesVoid Explosion can now crit, as intended.Fixed Howling Terror tooltip.
- Patch v0.0.158 - 7 February 2026
ChangesAdded an Automagus upgrade to further increase inventory size by 1000.Added a new cursed item: Nykta, Dagger of the VoidFixesFixed an issue where enabling auto-ascend mid-run would wait for a win streak before ascending.Fixed an issue where if a unit died during its turn, it kept casting skills until its turn ended.Tavern and Shop prices now depend on max hero level, and not on max floor cleared, as intended.Fixed an issue where selling all similar gems would also sell embedded gems.Optimized "Salvage All" button to work instantly, even for 10k gems.Optimized inventory to list thousands of items without lagging.
- Patch v0.0.157 - 6 February 2026
ChangesEmbermark cooldown has been reduced to 60 seconds.Bleeding, Burning and Poisoned will now keep ticking while receiving hits, instead of delaying ticks by 1 second every time.Gem level on each floor is now visible in tooltips in the floor picker.Added a new Agility potion.Added new bosses every 50 and 100 levels, as well as new materials.Added the Shadowforge upgrade for the Blacksmith, which can be puchased from the Automagus for 10M gold. It allows crafting Cursed items with unique effects and high stats, for Super and Ultra Boss materials.FixesEmbermark now properly increases the hero's damage by the stated amount.Fixed Alchemist UI material reduction amounts now applying.
- Patch v0.0.151 - 5 February 2026
ChangesImplemented a Turn Tracker in combat view to make it easier to figure out whose turn is coming up.You can now middle/ctrl click on inventory categories in the filters to exclude that category (useful for quickly hiding gems for example).It is now possible to buy all runes from the shop with middle click, in addition to ctrl+click.Implemented a seed auto-buy features which can now be unlocked at the Automagus.In the Botanist, the 20% bonus of fertilizers and the Ogre trophy is now multiplicative instead of additive, which makes it competitive against hero bonuses.In the Botanist, Frozen Crown now boosts speed by 20% multiplicatively to other bonuses, as opposed to the current 10% additive bonus.FixesFixed an issue that bloated the save file and caused regular fps spikes.Hidden skill XP from legendary (max) skill tooltips.Equipped potions will now have a border to indicate their ra…
