- Patch Notes: Widescreen and On-Screen Controls - 16 September 2026
Hi everyone!More fixes and improvements ahead of the 1.0 release on September 24, 2026 at 10:00 AM PST. Desert textures update: Widescreen support: the game now fills ultrawide displays properly instead of stretching or cropping the view. On-screen controls Rendering optimization Thanks for playing,The Codex Mortis Team
- Patch Notes: Fixes and Balance - 15 September 2026
Hi everyone!This update collects fixes and balance changes for the last Early Access patch, the one that brought the deckbuilder and the isometric view. Most of it comes from your reports, so thank you for sending them in.Quick Reminder: CODEX MORTIS leaves Early Access on September 24, 2026 at 10:00 AM PST. Progression & RewardsFree Packs: fixed the counter that was including packs from schools not available yet. It now shows only the packs you can actually open in the current version. Boss rewards: fixed the guaranteed drop of 1 scroll and 12 runestones. The fix also covers world bosses, the Sand Tomb guardians and the Hierophant in First Mercy. Caster bosses no longer grant a duplicate rune on top of that. Ashes: added a shared counter below the souls counter, including while opening packs. It appears once you earn ashes for the first time, recognizes older saves with a positive bala…
- New Update Is Live, and Codex Mortis Full Release Arrives 09.24.2026 - 10 September 2026
Hi Necromancers! This is the last Early Access update for Codex Mortis. It is live today, and the full 1.0 release follows on September 24, 2026 at 10:00 AM PST. We prepared a short teaser that shows both changes in motion. Watch it below, then read on for the detail. Build your deckWe rebuilt the way a build comes together. You assemble your own deck of cards (skills and spells) and carry it into combat as your loadout, so you decide what you will be casting before the first wave arrives. Booster packs widen the pool you build fromPoints you earn in your runs buy booster packs, and opening one adds new skills and spells to your collection. Every pack you open widens the pool your next deck is built from, and the collection behind your deck screen keeps growing for as long as you keep playing.The whole game is isometric nowWe reworked the entire game to an isometric angle and remade the…
- Full Release Is Close, Codex Mortis Is 20% Off! - 2 September 2026
Hi Necromancers! Full release is getting close, so if you have been waiting to pick up Codex Mortis, we started a 20% off sale today.What is coming in the full release:Every map is isometric nowWe are adding more heroesMore skills, so there is more to combine and more room to build around a specific destruction plan.More Apocrypha levels The biggest change is that, in the full version of the game, we are rebuilding how you put your build together. In full release, you will build your own deck and open booster packs to get new skills and spells, so what you have to work with grows as you play.Thanks for playing,The Codex Mortis team
- Beta Tests of the Full Release - 10 August 2026
Hi Necromancers! If you want to help us making final polishes before full release, we kindly invite you to join our Discord server and visit #join-beta-codex-mortis.It is not the stable branch, so expect bugs and balance moving around. Here is what you can test right now: Story mode maps are isometric. Forgotten Graveyard, Sand Tomb and Blood Bath with a full art pass.The new hero roster and character skins. Every sprite regenerated for the new perspective.The new skills. Five new schools next to the original five, all with their final visuals, and every skill now has a cast time stat separate from cooldown.Apocrypha is still work in progress- CRUNCHFEST & GROLAF
- Road to Full Release - 7 August 2026
Hi Necromancers! Right, time for a proper catch up. We have been quiet for a bit and there is a good reason for that, because we are getting the game ready for full release and a lot of things got torn apart and put back together in the meantime.Here is what has been going on in the crypt.The whole game is isometric nowThis is the big one and it is the reason everything else took as long as it did. We moved CODEX MORTIS from the old top down view to an isometric perspective. Every character sprite in the game is new. While we were there we also grew the playable roster to 31 characters. 200 skills, 10 schoolsHarvest, Death Knight, Spiritism, Desolation and Apothecary are alongside the original five. Feedback from the last beta round was that too many skills were still on placeholder visuals; every skill now has its final art implemented. Cast time on every skill.This one needs a little…
- Codex Mortis is 20% OFF + New Beta - 25 June 2026
Hello Necromancers!To celebrate Summer Sale, Codex Mortis is 20% off right now! COMING AT FULL RELEASEFull Release is fast approaching, so let’s see what you can expect in the full version of Codex Mortis:STORY MODE, revitalized - updating graphic of EVERY map in the game Everything from current Discord beta - 200 skills, 10 schools (including the five new ones), and the Mutation SystemMutations and synergies, completed across the entire roster - plus a full skill balance pass.A wave of new playable heroesAPOCRYPHA - the 2nd chapter of the story campaign - finished and complete.THE DISCORD BETAIf you want to help us making final polishes before full release, we kindly invite you to join our Discord server and visit #join-beta-codex-mortis.So what’s new in beta:Five NEW schools of magic join the originals:Harvest - the scythe made law. Sweeping melee and wide AoE reaping.Death Knight - h…
- Codex Mortis Joins Bullet Hell Fest! - 8 June 2026
Hi everyone,We’re happy to announce that Codex Mortis is taking part in Bullet Hell Fest! It's a great time to join the fun as we’ve just added to new story levels, and more are coming soon :) Apocrypha The Chapel Of Perpetual Bloom
- New Level is Live - The Chapel Of Perpetual Bloom - 3 June 2026
Hi everyone, A new level is now live ːsteamhappyːEnter the The Chapel Of Perpetual Bloom. Where death finds no rest, the garden devours stone.What to expectThe Blooming meter - cull Rebirth Seeds to drive the meter up; every seed that blooms drags you back toward ruin.Casters -ranged threats marked by a cyan outline; cut one down and it drops a rune.Minibosses - the Seraph Cantor and the Petrified Revenant rise from the procession as elite, armored targets (8 runes per kill).Gardener of Perpetual Bloom — the finale boss: a relentless hunt and a downpour of seeds.Time limit - fail to break the bloom in time and the Gardener comes for you regardless. Thank you for playing CODEX MORTIS.More updates are on the way.- CRUNCHFEST & GROLAF
- Apocrypha - The New Story Mode Level Is Live - 29 May 2026
Hi guys! A new story mode begins: Apocrypha. The first chapter is out now in this update.The Overgrown Grave - a cemetery from the age when Life returned to the world… and then began to rot.This is not a dead graveyard. It's a place where life has invaded death. Roots push corpses out of the soil. Flowers grow from skulls. And the Cult of Life still calls it a miracle.In this campaign we explore the origin of necromancy itself - not as evil magic, but as the first heresy against endless growth. Because when Life forgets how to end, death becomes mercy.This is the first level of the mode - more chapters are coming, but The Overgrown Grave is in the game right now. Go play it.Jump in, break it, tell us what you think. Drop your feedback in the comments or on Discord and we'll tweak as we go.Also in this update:On-Hit Effect - new on-hit effect. Reworked so it reads cleanly on big enemies…
- The Mutations Update - 21 May 2026
Hi everyone!This is the biggest content drop since launch. Two big systems, hundreds of new ways to break the game. Patch is live now, and to celebrate - Codex Mortis is 20% OFF on Steam!Before we dive in - here's short trailer showcasing the update:Mutations are here!We've spent the past few weeks rebuilding spells from the inside out. Mutations live on top of your existing skills and change how they work. New projectile patterns, new AoE shapes, new summon archetypes, new aura types. 249 in total, spread across 31 skills.A taste of what's in:Bone Spear:Bone Cone - five spears fanned in a 60° cone, instantBone Carousel - eight spears in a 360° nova around youBoomerang Spear - every hit spawns a returning spear from the impact pointChain Bone - bounces between three enemies in rangeDeath Nova:Cemetery Cross - four-armed cross AoE instead of a circleMaelstrom - spawns a gravity well that…
- Community Update #15 - Spell Mutators, 1500 Mutations & Level-Up System - 29 April 2026
Hi Everyone,Quick look at what's brewing in the crypt:Spell Mutators — we're building a system that lets spells fundamentally change behavior mid-run. Not just bigger numbers — new patterns, new triggers, weird side effects. Same starter spells, completely different runs.1500 mutations in review — yes, fifteen hundred. All currently being tested for balance, feel, and synergy interactions. The ones that survive will start landing in builds over the coming weeks.New Level-Up System in testing — we're reworking progression so leveling up actually feels like a decision:Rarity now affects how many upgrades are on a single card — rarer cards carry more upgrades, spread across more spells.Milestone levels grant a mutation to one of your spells.No more spell level cap.We're also testing unlocking spells mid-run instead of having your full kit from the start.All of this is live on the Discord b…
- Community Update #14 - New Spell & BETA TESTS! - 23 April 2026
Hi everyone, Gargoyle Guardians marks the last new spell for a while. We want to shift focus to polishing the upgrade system, adding more meaningful variety between runes, and experimenting with spell mutators. This is the kind of work that benefits from player testing - so we'll be running beta tests through our Discord. If you want early access to experimental builds and a say in what ships, join us there.Join our BETA TESTS!New Spell: Gargoyle Guardians (+ 6 Synergies)Summon stone sentinels carved from funerary rock. They simply circle, and wait, and kill whatever comes close enough to touch stone.Synergies:Burning Guardians (+ Soul Burn) - Soul Burn on contact, pulsing flame aura from statuesBleeding Guardians (+ Hemorrhage) - Hemorrhage stacks on contact, bleeding mists from statuesWeakening Guardians (+ Weaken) - Weaken on contact, crushing weakness aura from statuesSlowing Guardi…
- Community Update #13 - Rotbanner Herald&Minion Animations - 22 April 2026
Hi everyone, New update! Let's dive in :) Minion AnimationsAll minions in the game now have proper animations.New Spell: Rotbanner Herald (+ 6 Synergies)A tanky standard-bearer from the Summoning school whose rotten banner poisons the air around it. Plants a sickly green rot aura that ticks every 0.5s, dealing damage over time to every enemy standing in it while stacking Slow and Weaken so they can't just walk out.Very high HP, very low contact damage - this is a support unit, not a fighter. Heavy mass means it resists knockback and stays anchored in the thick of the fight.Smart AIHeralds actively seek the densest enemy clustersManager-style target assignment: the biggest cluster is claimed by the closest herald, the second biggest by the next, and so onMultiple heralds automatically spread out across different packs instead of piling on the same spotUpgradesMax Heralds (+1)Herald Healt…
- Community Update #12 - Blight Carrier, Scroll Rewards & Fixes - 21 April 2026
Hi everyone, CODEX MORTIS is in Early Access. Your feedback shapes the game directly. If something is not working for you, please share it on the Steam forums or our Discord - it helps far more than a negative review and we read and respond to everything.New Spell: Blight Carrier (+ 6 Synergies)Summon a swarm of plague-ridden carriers that sprint straight into the densest cluster of enemies and detonate on impact — burst damage where you need it most.Summons 3 carriers per cast that seek out the thickest enemy packsPrioritizes bosses, mini-bosses and elites in target selectionDetonates on contact OR when killed — every carrier explodes, periodWhen no enemies are in range, carriers fall into formation around youUpgrades: Max Carriers, Blast Radius, Carrier Speed, Damage, CooldownSynergies:Burning Carrier (+ Soul Burn)Bleeding Carrier (+ Hemorrhage, max stacks)Weakening Carrier (+ Weaken)…
- Changelog: Bug Fixes, Malediction Seed & Vein Whip Shot - 19 April 2026
Bug Fixes Level-up golden wave particles are visible again. A skipped system registration caused the entire particle system update to never run, which silently broke level-up VFX, allowed "zombie" particles to accumulate, and suppressed secondary burst effects. Fixed a memory leak caused by world-pickable spawn attempts. Tome pages, artifacts, urns, and scrolls could burn up to 180 entity IDs per spawn attempt when positions were rejected. Long runs with frequent pickups (e.g. Soul Harvest builds) eventually crashed with max entities reached. Fixed a memory leak in Corpse Explosion. Each explosion left behind a non-recycled VFX marker. Builds that chained many corpse detonations over a run could hit the entity cap and crash. Fixed a memory leak in Crimson Rain. Every cast created a permanent rain-controller entity. Spammy casts over a long session contributed to the entity cap crash. Fi…
- New Difficulty: Mortis + CDR Bug Fix - 18 April 2026
NEW DIFFICULTY: MORTIS The ultimate challenge for Mortis Mastery veterans has arrived. Beyond Apocalypse lies a tier that scales infinitely with your power. What is Mortis? A brand-new difficulty tier (Tier 8) that breaks the traditional scaling rules. Instead of fixed multipliers, Mortis scales dynamically with your Mortis Mastery level — the stronger you grow, the deadlier the world becomes. Unlock Requirement Reach Mortis Mastery Level 1. Available on every world you can access — no per-world Apocalypse completion required. Scaling Formulas Your paragon level drives three separate multipliers: Enemy HP: 40× × (1 + Level/25)^1.7 Enemy Damage: 20× × (1 + Level/60)^1.2 Soul Rewards: HP × (0.5 + Level/200) What This Means at a Glance Mortis Lv Enemy HP Enemy DMG Souls/Kill Farm Efficiency vs Apocalypse 0 40× 20× 20× 1.0× (parity) 25 130× 30× 81× 1.25× 50 259× 41× 194× 1.5× 100 617× 65× 6…
- Community Update #11 - Grave Tumor & Gnashing Orbit - 17 April 2026
Hi everyone,Two new spells for y'all :) New Spell: Grave Tumor (+ 7 Synergies)Lob a massive necrotic mass that crushes all enemies in its path as it slowly rolls toward a random foe. Pierces unlimited enemies with its heavy, slow-moving body.Grave Tumor Armor (+ Bone Armor) - +1 projectile per active Bone Armor orb, +15% damageBurning Tumors (+ Soul Burn) - each hit applies Soul Burn, +15% damageBleeding Tumors (+ Hemorrhage) - each hit applies Hemorrhage, +20% damageWeakening Tumors (+ Weaken) - 20% chance to Weaken on hit, +1 projectileIcy Tumors (+ Slow) - 20% chance to Slow on hit, +1 projectileTerrifying Tumors (+ Terror) - 20% chance to Terror on hit, +1 projectileConfusing Tumors (+ Confusion) - 20% chance to Confuse on hit, +1 projectileNew Spell: Gnashing Orbit (+ 7 Synergies)Fling a spinning bone jaw at a random enemy that returns to you boomerang-style, striking every enemy i…
- Community Update #10 - Blood Magic Spells & Leaderboards - 16 April 2026
Hi everyone, We're back with another update :) Two new spells and global Mortis Mastery Level ranking!New Spell: Blood Lance (+ 7 Synergies)A crimson lance hurled at the nearest enemy. Instead of firing volleys like Bone Spear, it pierces straight through targets - the more you upgrade it, the deeper it drills through hordes.Animated projectile with a blood drip trail7 synergies across Blood Magic, Soul Magic and CursesBone Armor synergy - each active orb grants an extra level of pierceNew Spell: Hemobolt (+ 7 Synergies)A heavy blood clot hurled slowly at a random enemy. On impact it bursts like living tissue, spawning smaller bolts that fly out to other enemies nearby - a true clot cascade. Works on walls too - crashing into the environment still detonates the burst.Base 5 child bolts per burst (upgradeable to 7+)Shatter effect on impact - same sprite fragmentation used by dying enemie…
- Community Update #9 - Mortis Mastery: Endgame Meta-Progression - 15 April 2026
Hi everyone, Endgame meta-progression is here. As always, your feedback shapes the game directly. If something is not working for you, please share it on the Steam forums or our Discord - it helps far more than a negative review and we read and respond to everything.We also would love to invite you to watch our devlog: Mortis MasteryA brand new prestige system for veteran necromancers. Once you've maxed out all Fundamentals, a whole new layer of character growth opens up - keep spending souls on an endless progression path instead of hitting a dead end.Gain Mortis Levels by spending souls. Each level grants 1 Mortis Point to invest however you like. Cost scales with level, so every level feels earned.Four Fundamentals CategoriesDistribute Mortis Points across:Offense - Damage, Cooldown Reduction, AreaLethality - Crit Chance, Crit DamageDefense - Max HP, HP Regen, ArmorUtility - Movement…
