0.7.36: browser and Android fixes, painted nameplates, and boss entrances

25 October 2026 Version 0.7.36 30 min read

Four pictures in a two by two grid: Wally waving on his entrance page in front of his village at dusk, six painted lord nameplates, Rex Mortifer's souls pouring out of his open ledger, and the Vow of War room torn open onto a city under siege.

0.7.36 is out on Steam, the itch.io downloads, the browser version, the Android download and the demo. Most of this update is fixes. In the browser the page froze while the game loaded, and the title screen's signposts could blow up to fill the screen. On phones the game's memory climbed through a run, and the long zoom out past the desk had been switched off since 0.7.30 because of a crash. Those are fixed, and so is a crash on a Mac's first launch. Then there is a lot that is new to look at: painted nameplates for every lord and warlord, a new entrance for elite and boss fights, pop-ups that arrive as sheets of card, a new vow room, a carpet of two lands under the last fight, and relics are now called pins.

The browser version

The title signposts. Hovering a signpost on the title screen lifts it on a spring. That spring was worked out once a frame, so any frame of 50 ms or more (a hitch, or a machine running under 20 fps) made it run away: the board grew without limit, flickered at its edges and went off the screen. A playtester was left looking at a giant Quit board. The springs now step in small slices of time and are held to their range, so a slow frame can no longer throw them.

Loading. The page used to freeze while the game loaded: 11.5 seconds with nothing drawn and no input taken on a fast PC, and 81 seconds with Chrome slowing the CPU to a quarter of its speed. It now loads the way the desktop version does, behind the studio card, which keeps drawing the whole time. The longest stall left is about 3 seconds (6.6 with the CPU slowed), and the title answers the pointer 15 to 19 seconds after the page opens.

Frame rate. In the browser every draw call is paid for twice, once by the page and once by Chrome's graphics process, so the work went into drawing fewer things. The dots along the map's trails were one draw each and are now drawn together: a run's first map went from 2,368 draw calls to 464. The mug, plant, tape and the rest of the desk around the mat are no longer drawn when they are out of shot, which takes a first fight from 1,518 draw calls to 1,268 on every platform, with the same picture.

The whole campaign. A recorded run was then played through the browser version in Chrome, from the title to the end: all three acts, 16 fights and 83 screens in 30 minutes. Its memory stopped rising at the end of act 1 at about half of what the browser allows, and stayed there through acts 2 and 3.

Phones

The long zoom is back. In 0.7.30 the long zoom out past the desk was made desktop-only, after a phone crashed a few seconds after zooming out of the first fight. The cause has now been found. A looped sound tells the engine where its loop ends, and the room's clock tick, the weather and the other long backing sounds all set that end one frame past their last real frame. A desktop reads whatever happens to be there and carries on. A phone keeps guarded memory after a big block, the clock tick's loop ended right on it, and the game crashed. Every looped sound now ends on its last frame, and the long zoom works on phones again. On every platform, the wind over the fields in the long zoom now plays all 9.5 seconds of its loop instead of repeating the first 1.9.

Memory. A phone's memory use climbed screen by screen through a run, and a game holding a lot of memory is the first one Android closes. The biggest parts of that climb are gone:

Text caches. The engine keeps a cache of letter pictures for every font at every size it has drawn, and never empties one. By the end of a run these held 151 MB of memory and 123 MB of video memory on a phone. The ones the game no longer draws from are now cleared when the screen changes, and on a phone and in the browser all of them are cleared as you go into a fight and at the end of each act.
The title screen's marchers. Each marching figure kept its picture for the rest of the session, so after sixteen minutes on the title the game held 412 of them, about 310 MB of video memory, and carried them through the whole run. Now it keeps the pictures on the road and a small store of the rest.
The long zoom's room was built behind every fight from its first frame, about 25 MB of memory and 20 MB of video memory each time, and about 1,070 extra draw calls on a phone. On a phone it is now built the first time you zoom out that far.
The highlight clips for the end-of-run reel kept every frame in memory after saving it to disk, 17 MB by act 2. They let go once each clip is saved.
On 0.7.35, the guard that frees pictures when a phone runs short of memory mistook the game's own start-up for a climb, and cut every picture budget to a quarter for the rest of the session on some phones. It now waits until the game has finished starting.

Battery. On one phone the game drained the battery and ran it hot even while plugged into a computer. It drew a whole frame sixty times a second on every screen, and nearly every screen has something moving all the time: the marchers on the title, the dolls on the map, the soldiers bobbing in a fight. On phones the game now draws sixty frames a second while anything is happening (a finger on the screen, a card in flight, a fight playing out) and thirty while only those idle loops move. With battery saver on, or the phone running hot, it draws thirty throughout, fights included.

Macs

On a Mac the first launch could crash while the window was sized to fit the screen. Reduce Motion skips the animation that set it off, which is how some players got past it. The window is now sized outright, with no animation.

The Steam overlay never loaded on any Mac build until now, because of a mistake in how the game was signed. It loads now, so Shift+Tab and the War Council's Invite work on a Mac.

Invite also no longer depends on the overlay anywhere. If the overlay doesn't open, the War Council lays out its own list of your Steam friends who are online, the ones already playing first, and each Invite goes straight to their Steam chat.

The War Council table with the King in the host's seat and three open seats. Over it lies an Invite Friends plate listing three friends: Coral (Playing now) with a greyed Invited button, Sam (Online) and Wren (Away), each with an Invite button, and Done at the foot

Painted nameplates

Every enemy lord's nameplate is now painted on an object out of his own world. Gorehoof's is the fence rail he charged through, with his name burnt in. Rex Mortifer's is a page torn from his ledger with his name as the heading, Verdy B. Queen's is the gift tag she was tied up with, and Calvin's is a block of sea ice with his penguins standing on it. There are 46 plates, each painted separately in English and all ten translations, so in German Gorehoof's rail is branded Bluthuf. They land and stay still.

Ten enemy nameplates on a dark background, each a different object with a name on it: a split fence rail with Gorehoof burnt in and two tusks lashed across one end; a torn ledger page headed Rex Mortifer with an iron crown on the corner; a pink gift tag reading Verdy B. Queen with a ribbon, a flower and a bee; a plank daubed Grix the Goblin with a shinbone behind it; a stone slab rising into a volcano cone reading Magma Magnate; a block of sea ice reading Calvin, Emperor of the Floe with three penguins on top; a log with Simple Ton hacked into it; a calling card reading Fear Drinker beside an iron goblet; a strip of sheet music with Lamenta under the notes; and a log with mushrooms and Amanita, the Sporecrown on a bracket fungus

The 14 warlords' signs take any name. Each is drawn in several widths, and the game picks the narrowest one that holds your name and prints it in that warlord's own lettering. The Gunslinger's is a reward bill nailed to saloon planks. Here he is under the sample name Marigold, facing Gorehoof, with the two ends of the same moment cropped side by side:

Two views of one battle side by side. On the left a cowboy stands on a blue base under a sign of weathered planks with a yellowed bill nailed to it reading MARIGOLD. On the right a huge purple boar in a gold crown stands among his pieces under a wooden fence rail with Gorehoof burnt into it

A new entrance for elite and boss fights

Elite and boss fights now open on the lord's entrance page. A screen-sized sheet rolls on from his side of the board, printed with his own lair, and he comes out into the middle of it the way he arrives at his phase breaks. He lands with a slam, the camera creeps in while he holds, and the page peels back off onto the field. A boss holds for 2.3 seconds and an elite for 1.4, and a click cuts the hold short. This replaces the big sign that used to be ripped off the screen; ordinary fights still open under that.

On the battle board, the camera is close on a man in a yellow cardigan. A sheet of paper rolls across the screen from the right, its pale back curling over, and lays down a village at dusk under a big striped moon: thatched cottages, a church tower, an inn sign with a wolf on it. The man rises into the middle of it waving, a watering can in his other hand, lands with a burst of paper bits and holds there smiling while the view creeps in. Then the page peels off to the left and the board is back

The act bosses' plates

Each act boss's nameplate stands in a little paper scene of his own: the Elder Treant's roots and leaves, Verdy's blooms and bees, Wally's daisies by day and moths at moonrise, the Magnate's volcano, Rex's ledger riffling, the Colossus venting steam, the Avatar's squall and frost, and Calvin's floe landing in the sea. On the screen after you beat him it bursts out in full and keeps going. Over his head during the fight it plays quietly, with fewer and smaller pieces. Reduce Motion turns it off. Here is the Magnate's, on a plain backdrop:

A stone slab with Magma Magnate in orange letters, a volcano cone rising out of its top edge. Paper shards burst out around it, a tall cut-paper flame jets out of the crater and black lava bombs fly out; an ash cloud billows up and breaks apart. Then the volcano keeps going quietly: smoke rolling off the crater, a lick of lava, a gold coin flicked up and falling back

Pop-ups are sheets of card

Every pop-up that used to fade in and vanish is now a stiff sheet of card, and each one comes on and goes off its own way. The first-launch notice hangs on a pin. The spoils' ask is tossed onto the mat, and March On sweeps it off toward the road. The settings Yes and Cancel are dealt face down and turned up, the New Game ask stands up off the page, the quit plate drops from a height, feedback slides across the desk, the language flap drops down and the run's last ask rises like a postcard. A sheet lifted off the desk throws its shadow under it, and its buttons' words stay balled up until it has landed facing you, then unfold.

The upgrade confirm lifts the card out of the grid and slides its upgraded self out from under it, turning over once. The event's potion toll stands each flask up off the stone, and an answer knocks them over. A pop-up on its way out no longer holds the screen, so what is under it answers clicks while the paper goes. Reduce Motion keeps the old quick pop-in.

Relics are pins

Relics are now called pins, in English and in all ten translations, everywhere a player reads the word. Only the name changed, and every pin does what its relic did. Three names changed with it. The Sealed Reliquary event is now Pinned to the Grave, the Reliquary Auction is Going, Going, Pinned, and the Ashen Reliquary pin is the Cinder Cottage. Two Steam achievements, Trinket Fancier and The Vault, say pins too.

The Victory screen after a fight: a Spoils of War sheet lists 30 Gold, a Chaos Cocktail, Add a card to your deck and Choose a pin, each with a Claim button, under a run bar whose right end holds four enamel pins

In the treasure vault the pin cards stand up off the floor instead of fading in see-through over the gold. The pin you take leaves a hole in its card and flies to the bar, and the room waits until it is pushed home before going back to the map.

In the paper treasure vault, a pointer clicks the chest; its lid bursts open in a fan of orange paper rays and three pins fly out onto three index cards (Deadman's Fuse, Unblemished Shield, Splint Kit) that stand up off the vault floor. The pointer picks the Unblemished Shield; its pin lifts off the card, leaving a small hole, and flies up into the run bar at the top

Every pin you take is pinned into the bar now. The newest always gets the bar's last slot, and the older ones step back into the "+N" count. Before, a pin with no slot left landed on the count as a sparkle and was never pinned in. On a phone the run bar is a single row of tiles.

The treasure vault on a phone just after a pin was taken: three large index cards, the middle one with a pin hole where its pin was. Across the top, the run bar is one row of tiles: health, gold, three empty potion slots, Leg 1, the deck, and a row of pins ending in the horn pin just taken and a +2 chip

Swearing a vow

Vows now wait for your first win. Until you have won a march once, no vow stops on the map and the run bar shows no vow mark, so a first march is the three acts on their own. In co-op the party goes by the host's profile. On the first map of your first march with vows, Uncle Jim puts up a new note, "3 vows to Act 4", with a drawn loop: the pawn hops the three act cards, each card's corner flies into the vow triangle over a face-down fourth card, and card IV turns over.

Each vow's gain and cost now lie beside its card from the moment it is dealt, gain on clean paper and cost on scorched paper, so there is nothing to click to read them. A co-op playtester asked why they had to. On a phone there is no room for the notes, and one tap still reads a vow.

The Vow of War room: three vow cards (Just War, The Art of War, Submit or Fall) laid round a triangle whose top corner already holds a ballot box. Beside each card lie a clean note for what it gives and a scorched note for what it costs, and a scorched note at the lower left says Choosing any Vow of War gives the next enemy commander +30% health

While you hold Hold to Swear, the vow's own picture tears through the room. When the hold fills, the picture pours back into the card, and the card is crushed into the shape of its corner and hammered into the triangle. It arrives white-hot and cools to its own colour.

Under an A Vow of War banner, the Submit or Fall card is held: a torn hole opens behind it and spreads until a cardboard city under siege, with riders and burning towers, fills the screen. The picture snaps back into the card, the card is crushed into a white-hot wedge and hammered into the bottom-left corner of a triangle in a burst of sparks, where it cools to orange

The third vow makes the triangle. Its corners part, hang and slam together, light bursts out, and the land your three vows make is named. Each of the 27 lands has its own crest, thrown out of the triangle, its own little paper scene, and its name unrolling on a ribbon in its colour.

A paper triangle with three filled corners (a ballot box, a torch, a throne) hangs over a lantern-lit valley. Its three pieces lift apart, turn and slam back together in a white flash; light shafts burst out, a sun-and-shield crest with orange pennants is thrown down beneath it, and the name The Crusader Commons unfolds on an orange ribbon, with Beat the act 3 boss to march on to Act 4 underneath

Act IV

Act IV's last boss is now your previous build, not the one that just beat act 3. Before, a march with no friend's build waiting fought itself. Now it is a friend's unbeaten build if there is one, then your previous build, and only on your first march past act 3 the build that just won. In co-op no two mirrors are the same player's build.

A playtester's Act 4 boss died on its first turn. With no army on the board, a Kicked Anthill on each side traded wounds back and forth in a single frame until one commander fell. A pin answering a wound no longer sets off another wound pin. The AI that played that boss also kept playing a card that cost it health, so the card-playing AI shared by the mirror, Auto-play and co-op's AI seats now weighs what a play buys: it won't draw with nothing left to draw, or pay health in the last quarter of its own.

The mirror stands as tall as your warlord now (its doll was drawn a third shorter), a Power it plays shows its own picture instead of a stand-in flame, and its Commander's Heart breaks the way yours does, with the same banner, on every seat in co-op.

A battle board with the King at one end and a cowboy warlord at the other. The screen goes dark, a big pink heart cracks in two, and the cowboy pops up in front of it firing his pistol into the air, under a torn red banner reading Gunslinger, The Heart Breaks

At the door of Act IV, Uncle Jim now dresses as the government your three vows make. There are 27 new portraits, one for each, and he keeps his on the Act IV map and in the coronation dance. Here are twelve:

Twelve cut-paper portraits of Uncle Jim, the squirrel in spectacles, each in a different outfit and named underneath: The All-Seeing Throne, The Republic of Omens, The Clanholds, The Iron Imperium, The Legion Republic, The Veiled Order, The Court of Fortune, The War Assembly, The Shepherd Throne, The Concord of States, The Crusader Commons and The Undying God-Emperor

His walk-up on the road there has a third line, his word on what you stand for, one for each of the 27. For the God-Emperor: "So it's The Undying God-Emperor, with every city kneeling and you ruling forever. Forever is a long time, sprout, so I packed snacks."

Uncle Jim in gold robes with a sun-ray crown on a night road lined with lanterns and pale columns, beside a taped note that ends: So it's The Undying God-Emperor, with every city kneeling and you ruling forever. Forever is a long time, sprout, so I packed snacks

The carpet under the last fight is now two lands. Each of the 27 lands has a carpet of its own, with its crest's emblem in the side panels, its band in its own colour, and its three vows' colours as the stripes. Your land's carpet lies on your side and the mirror's on its side, blending into each other across the middle. A side whose vows make no land keeps the Throne's own midnight carpet, and so does the browser version, which leaves the 27 carpets out to keep its download small. Here the left side's vows make The Free Villages and the right side's The Conqueror's Wheel:

The last fight's board seen from above on a big woven carpet. The left half is a grassy green with pale green side panels showing a thatched cottage with a smoking chimney; the right half is a deep red with red panels showing a burning spoked wheel, and the two blend through brown across the middle of the field. On the left stand a tree stump with a sprout, a little white tower and a broken sword stuck in the ground; on the right, a pink and gold wheel of fortune on a stand, a blue sea serpent in its waves and a torch. The King stands at each end of the cardboard lanes

The toys round that field are the two sides' vows now, one for each vow, each in its own side's half and in its vow's own colour: the Assembly's ballot box, the Uncarved Block's stump and sprout, the Leviathan rising from its sea, Sun Tzu's bamboo book and command flag, the khan's torch, the Inner Citadel's tower, Fortune's wheel and its little king, and the throne under heaven's cloud. Just War keeps its broken sword. Click a toy and it plays. Fortune's wheel spins, and a hard enough spin throws the king off:

On the red half of the carpet, a pink and gold wheel of fortune stands on a wooden A-frame with a little crowned king in red sitting on top. The wheel spins round twice and the king waves his arms to keep his balance. On the next poke it spins hard and throws him off: he tumbles to the carpet in a puff of dust, sits a moment, then hops back up onto the top of the wheel

Finishers

Rex Mortifer has a new finishing move, The Ledger Closes. The warlord ducks the hand that caught him at the false death, cuts the ledger off its chain and holds it open at him. Nine leaves turn, a soul tears out of each, and the souls drag him spinning into his own book, which is slammed shut. It replaces the soul jar crushed in a fist.

In a teal-lit underworld, a crowned king charges a tall crowned skeleton in a purple robe. The skeleton grabs at him and closes its hand on nothing as the king ducks and cuts a red book off the skeleton's hip. He holds it open: pale ghosts stream out of its pages, swarm over the skull and drag the skeleton, spinning and shrinking, into the book. The king slams it shut and holds it over his head, the skeleton's crown and staff left lying on the board

The Grave Tide's finisher pulls the plug. A paper whirlpool opens under him, he turns like a cut-out on a turntable as he goes down, a folded newspaper boat circles after him, and then the tide drains back down the wall.

On a sandy board under a sheet of sea water, the king pulls a plug on a chain out of the pool at a grinning sea-green giant's feet. A paper whirlpool opens, the giant spins round and goes down the hole with a folded paper boat circling after him. The camera opens out to the back wall, where a harbour scene shows through the water, and the waterline drops down the wall and is gone

When a boss's break changes the stage, the camera now glides back to take the whole change in and comes home afterwards, and the fight carries on while it does. Reduce Motion, or a camera you are dragging, keeps your view. Here is Simple Ton's turn, set off on its own without the banner before it:

A close view of one cardboard lane on a blue felt blanket, the king at one end and a big green troll at the other. The camera glides back until the whole blanket and the meadow card on the back wall are in frame; a ruck runs through the felt like a kicked rug, the near corner flips up and flops back, and the card on the wall drops crooked on one tape. Then the camera glides back in to the lane

In battle

When an enemy spell is coming for your commander and he is off screen, a thin red arc on the edge of the screen points at him. It breathes faster as the spell gets close and flares if he is hit.

The camera is pulled in on the far half of the field, with the player's commander off the left edge. On that edge a thin crescent of red paper breathes, its nib pointing out at him. Four bolts fly in toward him, and as they hit the crescent flares wide and pale, then sinks back into the edge

The gold guard ground a guard volley lays round your commander now stirs with its card. It swells out from him once it is laid, and again whenever you point at, tap or read the volley's card.

The player's commander stands on a sheet of gold paper taped round the edges, with four blue shield marks at his feet. The pointer rests on the small Warden Volley card over his head: the card grows to reading size and the gold sheet swells out from him and prints brighter while the card is read, then settles when the pointer leaves

Every enemy card read now tucks your hand away, and nothing else stands up beside it: no unit card, no spell telegraph and no tip. One of Uncle Jim's notes already up steps out of sight until the last card is filed.

The first time the Warden Volley is seen it is brought up big beside the player's commander, with a Bleed note and Click anywhere to continue under it, and the hand of cards tucked away

While a summon's arrow is green and locked on a spot it can land on, a faint glint runs down it from the card to the tip.

The Ember Hounds card is lifted out of the hand and a green arrow curves from it to a summoning spot on the field, where the pointer rests; a faint pale glint keeps running up the arrow from the card to the tip

The Chaos Cocktail now holds its verdict up as a flask over the whole screen, with its name, a line on what it does and a Throw button, and the calamity waits for you to throw it. Every battle wheel spins faster now, and a click, tap or button press hurries it onto its wedge.

Mid-battle, a paper wheel of fates rolls in and spins to a stop; the winning wedge's icon lifts off into a glass flask with a storm cloud inside, held up over the dimmed field with the name Chain Lightning, the line Lightning arcs through up to 8 enemies for 10 damage each, and a Throw button. The flask is thrown, breaks in a blue splash, and lightning arcs into the enemy line

The Cyborg's Copy Chip can take a villager off Wally, and that villager now carries the moon with it. After 10 seconds on the field it turns into its werewolf, and 10 seconds later back again, with its wounds carried across. A ring on the ground round each one shows its clock. In this clip the clock is wound forward:

On a sandy field, three Joggers in green tracksuits and Big Ed in a red plaid shirt stand on blue bases with a thin clock ring round each. The rings run out, the four of them flicker into werewolves, a huge grey wolf among them, and a few seconds later flicker back into the villagers

Coins tossed off a body under Colossal Stomp's foot wait for the foot to lift, so you can see them spin.

Between fights

Leaving the draft, each pack's crest now flies at the screen and marks it its own way, and the warlord breaks through the paper along the marks. All 21 packs have their own mark and their own sound. Behind You! stabs through from behind and wrenches the cut open, Primordial Growth splits the paper along its roots, and Pandemonium wrings a whirlpool hole.

On the draft pavilion, the King cheers while his three pack crests fly at the screen: a cloaked figure stabs a dagger through the paper from behind and wrenches a gash open, green roots burst a hole through the upper left, and a purple whirlpool spins a hooked hole open on the right. He charges, the screen cracks along the marks and he bursts through onto Uncle Jim's swamp

Click the sign on the title screen enough times and a chain snaps. It hangs and spins on the other one. A few more hits drop it, and a new sign swings down.

On the title screen, the hanging Cardboard Conquest sign is clicked over and over until its right chain snaps; it drops to hang by its left corner and spins round on the one chain, showing its plain brown back. A few more clicks and it falls off the bottom of the screen, and a fresh sign swings down on two chains

On the draft screen your sign hangs over your warlord's head, as it does in battle. Under his feet, the Back plate covered it on a phone.

The Assemble Your Arsenal pavilion on a phone screen: the King stands at the left with his Paul, Warlord of the Realm sign hanging over his crown, three pack cards in the middle, and the Back plate at the bottom left under his feet

Your own achievement pops no longer carry the red "Achievement earned" caption, and a new warlord's painted sign is bigger on the pop.

An achievement pop under falling confetti: a pirate doll with an eye patch and a parrot dances in a gold starburst, beside a cream plate with a gold ribbon reading New warlord unlocked!, a black painted sign reading Pirate, Warlord of the High Seas, and the achievement name Yo Ho Ho

When a new warlord is revealed, the starting deck shows each card once, with "3 x" or "2 x" in cut paper before any you hold more than one of. On a phone the signature pin fills the left side of the stage.

The new-warlord reveal on a phone: a pirate stands on a ship's deck under his sign. On the left a large Signature Pin note reads Letters of Marque: Draft a fourth pack at the start of each run. On the right, under Starting Deck, three cards, the first two with the counts 3 x and 2 x before them

The Feather Bedroll now heals you fully when you rest in a craft room (it used to add 25% of your maximum health). Under the Eclipse Lens, which only lets you heal between acts, the Rest bed stands greyed out with nothing under it, when resting has nothing else to give you.

The Craft Room diorama: on the left a bed shown entirely in grey, with a grey Rest tag and nothing under it; on the right a green tape dispenser in full colour with Craft and Permanently upgrade a card, and a Move On button below

On the spoils, March On no longer asks if you want to leave rewards behind when you opened a pick and skipped it. It still asks about anything you never looked at.

Co-op

When an ally recommends an option, their warlord's face now pokes up on the card's top edge, grinning, and the card is ringed in their colour. Press the option you recommended again to take the recommendation back.

A Choose a card to add pick of three cards: Insight, Muggers and Adrenaline. The Gunslinger's laughing head pokes up out of a green paper strip on the top edge of Muggers, which has a thin green ring drawn round it, and a note above reads Gunslinger endorses this option

Your own plaque in the wait window has a Pins button.
A player is never seated as "Open seat"; the host seats them under their Steam name.
An ally in a craft room is shown as "In the craft room".

On a phone

The muster shows all twelve player colours, in two rows of six, each a fingertip wide. It used to show one chip, yours, which read as the only colour there was. In Settings the colour chips are bigger too, and every word on the Settings sheet is 1.6 times the size.

The Settings sheet's Game tab on a phone: Game, Audio, Display and Controls tabs, three tick boxes, a Tooltip delay slider, and a row of twelve large square colour chips under Player color

The upgrade confirm shows the card before and after at the full height of the screen, with the question and Confirm beside them.

The upgrade confirm on a phone: two big Archers cards side by side filling the screen's height, the plain one and the upgraded Archers+, with a green arrow between them, and to their right Upgrade this card? over a Confirm button

A minigame's small board is brought up to fill the screen, up to 1.8 times its old size.

The Keeper of Three Doors on a phone: three tall wooden doors fill most of the screen, door 1 picked with a gold frame and door 2 opened onto a skull, with Empty. Keep your door, or switch? on a taped slip above and big Stay and Switch buttons below

Tap an open card in your hand again to set it down. On a pick from your hand, the card you are reading moves aside so it never covers Confirm.
Pin picks fill the stage, and Uncle Jim's check-in and send-off sheets are cut to fit a phone.
Many buttons, chips and tabs got bigger to tap: the title's corner buttons, the Compendium's tabs and rows, the map's ink tools, the battle's feedback quill, and every short button.
A long event page scrolls instead of shrinking its words.

The Siege Works robot

The Siege Works pieces are a little wind-up tin robot now, with glass eyes in brass rims, cog ears that turn, a steam whistle on his lid, gears behind a round chest window and a key in his back. He has a new song too, "Come and Get It".

Four little clockwork robots on cream paper: a steel-blue tin robot with a cream face, round glass eyes, cog ears, a steam puff from a whistle on his lid and gears behind a round chest window; the same robot with lashes, rosy cheeks and a copper braid; the same robot in oxblood red and gold; and a dark iron robot with glowing amber eyes in front of a big cogged ring

Also in this update

Every enemy card's flavour line, the vow cards' oaths and Wally's last stand are now translated in all ten languages.
Keyword tooltips say what the keyword does and stop. The fine print came off about 50 of them.
An upgraded Instar is stronger from its first molt.
The boar lord is just Gorehoof now.
Feedback typed in another language reaches the developer with an English translation beside it, so write in whichever language you like.
The first-launch notice about gameplay stats now says that if you send feedback, you may get a digital thank-you note.
The Travelling Medic stands on the event's first page again, and has his left arm back in Bottled Three Times Over.
The gambler in Double or Nothing is called "he", as he is drawn.
A potion pulled off the belt is let go even when the bar rebuilds under your finger.
A held map pencil no longer swallows clicks meant for a form over the map.
On Uncle Jim's send-off, pointing at a pin that names a unit shows that unit's card, as on his check-in.
On a controller, the highlight no longer rides a picked pack into the crest strip.

Known issues

On a phone, in the chest-pick minigame, the two chests you did not pick fade out see-through.
A lucky Flurry's "Nine Lives!" can peek out from behind Colossal Stomp's foot for half a second.
An enemy volley's card can sit on the screen edge right over the new red arc.

This post went out to players on Steam and itch.io on 25 October 2026, and is kept here. Comments and questions are read on either of those, in the Discord, or through the quill in game.