Changelog

New features

• Runess has a website, in English and Italian: «Website» at the top right of the title screen opens it.

Additions

• When the princess writes a new page in her diary, a little book in the bottom left shows it as she writes, and a bookmark next to your promises reminds you of the pages to read at the lectern.
• Fifty new gifts: eighteen simple, sixteen medium and sixteen major, each from a fairy tale, with its own icon and, if it touches the bolt, its own mark on the comet.
• Five new secret rooms: roughly one secret room in two holds, besides the chest, something of its own, a light and its own icon on the minimap.
• New secrets, deep down in the castle.

Changes

• The updates are shorter, split into new features, additions, changes and fixes.
• Vases and crates no longer show a hint: a bolt still breaks them.
• Between floors, in the chart of the descent, the floor the pink door's stairs lead to now sits on top of the one it replaces.
• At the lectern, the pen writes the diary's new pages before your eyes.
• On the title screen, updates, website and wiki are small icons at the top right, drawn like the gifts' icons: hover over one to see its name.
• Doors stay open once opened: they no longer close.
• The promises a knight leaves you fly from him to the counter, instead of a message.
• «Report a problem» in the pause menu now really sends your report to the developer, with the screenshot; without a connection it stays saved in a folder.

Additions

• A new keepsake, after the sixth-floor guardian: from then on trinkets turn up in vases, crates and shops.

Changes

• The HUD has been redone: courage is a star next to the mana, timed effects are badges by the minimap, item, spell and pocket have their own slots, and the icons are new.
• The pause menu has been redone in the HUD's style, with details for everything and a menu to quit.
• The title screen has been redone: «Continue» resumes your last princess, and each princess has her own card.
• The television of past descents now stands in the altar room, with a sofa and a rug; the room and its corridor are tidy.
• Exploding enemies show where they'll blow on the floor, like the guardians' attacks.
• Achievements, timed gifts and gift messages are shown more cleanly.
• E takes what you're looking at, not just the nearest thing, and never through a wall.
• Seven keepsakes have a single grade: buying them all now takes 847 promises.

Fixes

• Swooping enemies no longer stick in front of your face.
• Altars rising from the floor no longer come up under your feet or block the way.
• Enemies that burst from the floor or reappear no longer leave you stuck inside them.
• «Get unstuck» only puts you where there really is room.
• The television and the updates no longer spill out of their frames.

New features

• Trinkets: pocket knick-knacks you use only once, and nobody tells you what they do.
• A new keepsake that replays all your past descents, how they ended and your records.
• The princess has a body: you see it looking down, in her shadow and in the pause menu, and many gifts show on her.
• In the pause menu, «Get unstuck» if you get stuck, and «Report a problem», which sends a report with a screenshot.
• A comic book to collect.

Additions

• The guardians of the first floors have their own combos.
• Many more vases and crates to break, in lots of new designs.
• The castle is more furnished: rugs, hanging things, furniture against the walls, columns and arches in the big rooms.
• One more secret, for those who have reached the end of the story.

Changes

• The enchanted bolt is a little comet, and every gift that touches it leaves its mark.
• Close-range enemies are no longer pinned down by your bolts: you have to dodge.
• On the first three floors guardians have more health, and frost, sleep and hexes last less on them.
• The fountain room is a crossroads to different rooms of the floor.
• Items on the minimap come with a keepsake, and some keepsakes change their grades.
• The stars of a constellation want different guardians.
• The encyclopedia has been redone and opens without freezing the game.

Fixes

• The game no longer freezes for a few seconds when a big guardian appears.
• Furniture no longer sinks into the walls, and traps and trapdoors no longer flicker.
• Big enemies no longer get stuck in doorways, and arena traps no longer cover trapdoors.
• In the pause menu, after a click on nothing, arrows and the controller start again from the button you were on.

New features

• Music arrives: a theme for the menu, tracks that start now and then on the way down, and a track for the story's battles.
• Companions: gifts that follow you through the castle, one at a time, each helping in its own way.
• The completion percentage, on the save slot and in the achievements.
• The story is split into acts, announced when you wake up.

Additions

• Two new guardians.
• New sounds: entering the game, raising a shield, at dawn, picking up potions and gifts, and your heartbeat when you're nearly done for.
• New achievements, one per constellation and one per area; a few have been removed.
• New secrets at the bottom of the castle.

Changes

• Guardians are animated piece by piece, and monsters' eyes glow in the dark.
• Every guardian shows on the floor where it's about to strike, in the colour of the attack; if you're inside it you notice it from the edge of the screen and a hum too.
• Heavy blows shake the view (it can be turned off); volumetric fog has been removed.
• Promises in your pocket stay if you die, but unspent ones are lost when you go through the great door.
• A fallen guardian leaves a random gift, not always a major one.
• Constellations are earned one star at a time, and in the planetarium the slots are frames.
• The board only shows what you've bought and what you can buy now.
• Settings only apply with the Apply button.
• In the diary you only write on the floor you're going down to, and the chart between floors reaches only that far.
• Objects for spells only turn up after the magic tome.
• Two steps of the story arrive in a different way, for you to discover.
• The mouse pointer is a magic wand.
• With a controller the talent tree is walked the way it reads.

Fixes

• The summary at the great door and the pause menu no longer spill off the screen.
• In the diary, mouse and controller no longer take the pointer away from each other.
• Esc while waiting for a new key just cancels.

New features

• Screen effects, to switch on one by one in the video settings, instead of the retro filter.
• The princess's diary fills up by itself: she writes down what matters in her descents.
• The furniture in the princess's room can be moved.

Additions

• Fifteen new enemies, and a few chests that aren't chests.
• New secrets in the castle.

Changes

• Many enemies are animated piece by piece, some remade, with eyes that glow in the dark.
• Enemies have new moves: they sidestep, dodge bolts, circle you, take turns in packs and flee when nearly dead.
• The board arrives in a present after the first descent, and some keepsakes only give a riddle until you buy them.

Additions

• Every achievement has its own medal.
• The wiki has a page about talents.

Changes

• The board is a drawn chalkboard, like the diary, with all the grades of each keepsake.

New features

• Courage and talents: levelling up lights the stars of constellations, chosen by looking at the sky from the princess's room.
• Tomorrow's tale: in the diary you write how a floor you can see will go, and every page has its price.
• Spells instead of the blink: six more to learn, one in hand at a time.
• The spell study, and the maze-like library where the magic tome is found.
• The room where you get ready to descend, with the great door and a summary of what you bring along.

Additions

• Keepsakes have three grades.
• A new keepsake that marks on the minimap what there is to pick up.
• Every gift has its own pixel-art icon, and a spinning medallion on the altars.
• A new page of tomorrow's tale.

Changes

• Every lit talent, like gifts, gives enemies a little more health.
• Some gifts and keepsakes do something else, and those that affected the blink now work for any spell.
• The pause menu is bigger, split into tabs, opens on talents, and has «Back to title».
• The shield sits at the bottom with its state, sun and moon under the minimap, and loading has its own hourglass.
• The smoke enemies come out of tells you who's coming.
• When you create a slot you no longer choose the easy game.
• From floor 4, arenas leave a gift a little less often.

Fixes

• With a controller, the settings always show where you are.