JOIN THE CLOSED PLAYTEST TOMORROW!!!
Ephemera Games
Jan 15
🔥 Third Closed Playtest Starts Tomorrow! 🔥
Hello KernelHeads!
Tomorrow we’ll be starting our third closed playtest , and we’re excited to finally put a ton of new changes into your hands.
If you’d like to participate, you can sign up directly from the Steam store page 👍 That said, we highly recommend joining our Discord as well:
discord.gg/KernelHearts
That’s where we: • Answer questions • Chat with the community • Collect feedback in our dedicated forums
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What’s New in This Playtest
- New Level added before the Seraph fight
- Relic Drops that appear over time in the map and grant passive bonuses
- 4 New Mementos, each with 5 unique effects
- Reworked Lost Souls System — now shared between players and obtainable from Stray enemies
- Coffins reworked into Purifications More angels, more chaos, and a true test of your build
- Fully reworked Gabriel & Hanniel boss fights
- Ping system for multiplayer
- Emote system for multiplayer
- Automatic input detection (keyboard / gamepad)
- Reworked dodge system
- Multiple UI reworks
- Sin Events System As the Sin meter fills, random events will trigger across the map
- Status Effects & Ailments
- End-of-level Result Screen Featuring your stats… and a funny song by Diego.
and there’s a lot more that we probably forgot to mention.
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Thanks again to everyone supporting the game and helping us improve it with your feedback. We’ll see you in the playtest!
This announcement was originally published by Ephemera Games on Steam on Jan 15, 2026.
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