- The Unyielding Marsh Update - 20 April 2026
New ContentUnyielding Marsh: Added a new area and corresponding key.Greg: Implemented new character.Text Adventures: Added 3 new events.Dialogue: Added new dialogue for the Purest Soul; the Mangled Heart now speaks.Barks: Added a few more barks to the player.Gameplay MechanicsScream Mechanic: Press "Q" to scream. This produces significant noise and causes Curios to react, making items on the ground much easier to locate.Checkpoint System: After 5 deaths, the player will now respawn at Level 4 instead of Level 0.Combat: Added a base attack on 'Space'. This attack is significantly stronger if the player is holding a Knife.Character Updates:Inky now has a base "goop" attack on 'Space'.Impure now functions the same as the Ink.Transmutation: The Bone Candle now transmutates the following:Torches into FirewoodBandages into BloodCandles into Page FragmentsRocks into CrystalsRitual Feedback: Fa…
- LINEAR CALAMITY RELEASE - 23 January 2026
LINEAR CALAMITY HAS BEEN RELEASED!After all of this time waiting, I'm proud to announce I've finished the game and already have released it on the 21st, as I'm a solo developer, even after a lot of time testing the game, I may have missed a few bugs, hopefully nothing too game-breaking.On the full release there are 3 different endings, all related to giving enough souls to the right character, the game takes a bit over 2 hours to beat once you know what you're doing.My tip is to play on the hardest version and suffer as much as possible trying to get sanity to completely avoid the monster.Also, you can easily get a bunch of souls in Death's Dark as long as you get rid of the pigs (and as long as you're able to also survive the specters at night).As much as I'd like to have a lot of translations, I really can't afford anyone to do it and also wouldn't want to use AI to do it. For now onl…
- PREPARING FOR RELEASE - 3 January 2026
A lot of changes from the last demo update until this current versionHonestly, even if only 10 people play this, it was worth it as this is my first finished project even if it has some (or should I say A LOT) of rough edges...I will try to update this game every now and then, fix bugs, add more contentSome of the content planned for release was scrapped, maybe I'll re-add once I manage to know exactly how to fix some of my broken code...This game was really fun to make and even before basically starting from scratch once, I still think everything up until now was worth it...I will try to playtest some more and find issues until January 21st, the planned release dateAlso Steam requires some other things to happen before actually releasing the game, so if I'm not here by 21/1, probably something happened to delay this date.
- Demo Update 20/10 - 20 October 2025
I took a few weeks off, but now I'm backAdded some new things here and there...New FeaturesPepper variantsYou may use a bone candle and some blood to turn a bell pepper into a hell pepper.Hell peppers are not that useful YETbut some times a hell pepper plant creates a doom pepper, which is actually really powerful for taming/leveling souls and for some of the magic, removing tainted and impure conditions, replacing them for a sear.Also when doom peppers stay in your inventory for too long, they turn into ghost peppers which can be used to be given to souls just like aetherium/necroplasm and holy/unholy water, but more effective.Now the survivalist can actually trade red crystals for items just like the trader, may change the loot table later but for now it's the same.ChangesAngels may spawn on the first room after a certain amount of deaths.graves will spawn on purgatory much earlier.Bu…
- New Demo Version (08/09) - 8 September 2025
New ThingsThe Crow: Now when you start taking too long a crow will spawn trying to guide you to the exit. You can kill it, disabling this forever.New Starting screen: Now you can choose the language from the start.Ectoplasm: Now souls can spawn ectoplasm puddles when idle, these have 2 different variants, Aetherium and Necroplasm, both can be used to purify/corrupt souls, you can also combine them to make holy water, unholy water and stale water, that can also be given to souls.You can combine Aetherium with Rocks to make Red CrystalsSouls will gain affection when fed.Souls will drop ectoplasm depending on their power (hidden stat, drops more with more power, can be increased by feeding mainly stale water) and purity, pure souls give more Aetherium, impure souls give more Necroplasm.Added a few new soul accessories, eyeliners, blush, runes and new horns.Added a new level decoration.Adde…
- New Demo Version (29/08) - 30 August 2025
The Game is Mostly Complete!Yet, it's not.I basically have everything ready to simply slap the ending in there and call the game finished.I've been waiting a while to do that but anyways.I'll just list everything I've added to the game.New FeaturesAngelsNow angels will spawn on limbo after level one.Good luck getting to limbo though.Angels will take pure souls ONLY and this will kinda increase your character's purity slightly.You'll need multiple angels and pure souls to do this.The Which can get souls from you.The witch may appear after you get influenced by her, if she appears, she is able to get souls you're carrying, you can refuse, but she won't really like that.Pumpkins and Jack o' LanternsI know it's not halloween but it was too easy not to add them to the game.You may find pumpkins as the main source of food in purgatory.Jack o' Lanterns are created by using a ritual candle on a…
- New Demo Version (22/8) - 23 August 2025
New Update!I've added a new area, souls and new enemy AI in this version, keeping it short.First of all, I've been updating the current pt BR translation and checking if everything's working as expected... Hopefully I'll add support to other languages as time passes.The New AreaNow while exploring, you may find an unusual key, different keys lead to different places, as you might guess.The new area is called Death's Dark.That's where the souls gather.You may find the new pigs, the shadows and find out that staying in the dark is not the brightest idea...When you stay a few seconds in the dark, you'll get Gloom -> Dread -> Despair, which leads ultimately to death.In this new area, there's a day/night cycle, during the night, shadows may come to chase you, they can quite easily get rid of campfires or your light level...During the day it's almost as dangerous as the limbo, so you can expl…
- New Demo Update! (12/8) - 12 August 2025
Major AI ReworkNow the monster has a new appearance + a lot of changes that will break the predictability it had, while not losing complexity or turning a complete chaotic beast.Now the monster starts as a weakling that can barely walk towards you.It is really weak and slow, also can't listen or even smell the player when it first spawns.But it evolves over time.It will turn into a smart unforgiving hunter that will lead to certain death if you let it get stronger.But as before, keeping yourself sane prevents this.I could go on and on about what the new AI can do, but I think playing with it will be much better than hearing about state machines.New FeaturesFish now will spoil, turning into "chum", a new baitSquids can be fished from any weak bait (such as mushrooms)Added Calamari from frying squids.Added black ink from letting squids spoil.Added a new weird fish, caught by using chum as…
- The Translation Update - 6 August 2025
TRANSLATION SUPPORTFinally the game is able to be translated to multiple languages, for now, I have only added support for pt/BR, but later (with some community help) I want to add other languages. Now that the base is already working, it won't be as hard to implement others.Other things on this updateAdded a few new materials for a new progression item.Wax: you can melt a candle completely using a cooking pan (select the cooking pan then the candle) to get waxtip: you get a cooking pan by either spending a torch + a normal pan or by using a lit campfire to instantly turn a pan into a cooking pan.Bone: You can get bones from corpses or skeletons. You may use 2 bones to craft bone meal.Using wax and bone meal together crafts a bone candle, that will be important next version.Lantern fish: By using wax as a bait in the fish trap, you may trap a lantern fish, when used, reveals the positio…
- THE GREAT REWORK - 2 August 2025
The game got a massive rework, but don't worry, I'll guide you through everything.Before it was a basic generic shooting roguelite on a topdown 2D perspective... boring.(Not that it was bad, but that wasn't what I really had in mind...)The new Linear Calamity and how it worksNow as you can see, I basically remade the game from ground up.But first some yapping about where I've been, if you care.After my PC got fried up, I got really demotivated to work on the old linear calamity and eventually this lead to me abandoning the project entirely...Until I got back to playing some games I liked, such as darkest dungeon and something clicked after I played through some weeks and stumbled into the thing from the stars and I had an idea to go back to Linear Calamity with some new found passion. Also, yeah, college sucks and I got burn out from it but anyways.THE NEW LINEAR CALAMITYNow the game wo…
