v0.7.0

BY THE OPERATOR30 OCTOBER 2026

The health bar is gone. You read your health off the hero now.

Health without a HUD

• The caged demon heart is gone. As you get hurt, the damage shows on the hero. Blood soaks in and runs down them, and they drip and cough blood from the mouth.
  • Samurai: bleeds red and coughs it up.
  • Crone: her scalp bleeds.
  • Fallen: bleeds black in thin white-outlined strands, moults feathers, and his halo flickers.
  • Marine: plasma leaks out of the gaps in his armour, the suit sparks and smokes, and his visor flickers.
• The screen bleeds with you. A dithered blood vignette throbs in time with the heartbeat you hear. Near death the world drains to grey and the music sinks under a low-pass filter.
• Kills push it back. Every healing kill backs the vignette, the grey and the muffle off for a moment.

Ultimates

• Every ultimate has its own sting. The Samurai says ONIGOROSHI in a low, bassy voice. The Crone howls (two wolves out of a snarl) with volcano booms on the flash and every pass. The Fallen gets uncanny celestial singing over monks chanting. The Marine gets a digital warning beep and a submarine dive klaxon.
• The music gets out of the way for ultimates only. It now fades almost out for the whole ultimate and swells back after. Nothing else ducks it any more: not hits, kills, roars or boss slams.

Marine

• Heat builds six times slower, and the HEAT DUMP is an event. At full heat it whites out the screen in rings, steam and fire, and throws everything within reach away from him for a little damage. An OVERHEAT, VENTS OPEN error box hangs over his head for the hot window. Heat still only ever helps.

Boons

• Fixed: WORLD CLEAVER never fired. A full coil of the Samurai's heavy now cuts the whole car, as it says. The heavy wave of CRIMSON CRESCENT was broken the same way and is fixed too.
• HUGINN AND MUNINN: Odin's two ravens now fly with the Crone for the whole run, circling over her and hunting whatever comes in. HRAFN still sends two more.
• Quiet boons now show themselves: frozen demons turn to ice statues, HIDE OF THE BEAR, BERSERKSGANGR and STIGMATA ring the hero while they're active, and haste leaves afterimages.
• Every one of the 60 boons is now tested on every hero it can go to.

Interface

• The input guide beside the screen lists only specials now. The HÖGG, GLIDE and JETS rows are gone.

On the site

• Patch notes, here, with the game playing itself in place of screenshots. It's linked from the demo page under FRAME DATA.
• The frame data and patch notes pages open on the game's own dripping HELLEVATOR logo.