Deckbound 0.9.0 — Endless Descent, the Frozen Citadel, Weekly Challenge & Hallow

Halloween is here (until 3 November)

• The Haunted Grove opens at the Dungeon Guide: pumpkins, scarecrows, will-o'-wisps and the Pumpkin King

• Beat him to take home a limited Jack-o'-Lantern pet (the Tailor sells it too, but only while Halloween lasts)
• Haven gets pumpkins, candles, cobwebs, bats and spooky music

Endless Descent

Your most-requested feature! Beat a dungeon's final boss and a second staircase appears next to the Victory Portal.

• The floors never end: every depth takes you to a different dungeon
• Enemies get tougher the deeper you go, but gold pays more too
• A boss guards every 5th depth
• From depth 10, enemies roll affixes: Shielded, Splitting, Vampiric, Volatile, Giant and more
• More strange encounters down there, and a new Endless leaderboard
• Your loot is still at risk: hold T to teleport home and bank it, or push your luck

A fifth dungeon: the Frozen Citadel

Unlocked by defeating the Demon Lord. Six new frost enemies, a new boss, the Frost Sovereign, and its own music.

Bosses have a second form

At half health, the main bosses transform: they grow, change colour and switch to a deadlier attack pattern. Save something big for it.

Weekly Challenge

A new seeded run every week, the same for everyone: Heat 3 with two twists (including new ones like Famine, Elite Swarm and Frail). Your first attempt is ranked on its own leaderboard.

Deck synergies & loadouts

• Synergies: build around a theme and get a bonus all run, like Pyromancer (6+ fire cards), Frostbound, Stormcaller, Venomous, Gravecaller, Bulwark, Marksman and more. The Deck Builder shows which are active and which are close
• Loadouts: save up to 6 named decks per class ("Burn Mage", "Frost Mage") and switch in one click

New events

• Blood Forge: give up max health to upgrade a card
• Travelling Trader: buy a heal, a rare card or a mystery relic
• Ancient Fountain: heal, grow tougher, or fill a flask

Leaderboards, records & friends

• A Friends toggle on every leaderboard: Daily, Weekly, Boss Rush and Endless
• Records at the Dungeon Guide: your last 20 runs (with the full deck you used), plus the Endless and Boss Rush boards
• Steam Rich Presence: friends can see what you're up to, like "Mage - Abyss 12 (Heat 4)"

Quick Restart & new Settings

• Quick Restart from the death screen or pause menu: straight into a new run, same dungeon and Heat
• Settings now has tabs and lots more options: key rebinding, window mode, frame rate limit, FPS counter, damage numbers on/off, expedition timer, pause when you alt-tab, mute in background, and reset to defaults

Fixes

• Deck Builder: adding or removing a card no longer jumps the list back to the top
• Esc could stop opening the pause menu (and Settings) after some windows closed
• Steam Deck & Linux: hosting a Steam party works again
• The controller stick deadzone setting now applies from the moment the game starts
• Changing a volume slider no longer resizes the window
• The Daily Challenge can no longer roll the secret area