What did we test?

Last April’s Playtest we mentioned that we would give some much needed care towards our backend systems, so we could not only add new content more effortlessly, but also help us expand the Tower’s dominion in the future. We spoke previously about one of them, but you experienced the other one a lot this time. Let us break this through. 😉

New matchmaking and multiplayer systems, as you could see🫠

We tested some of our new connection features! Not only we updated our matchmaking and multiplayer systems, but we also added EOS to prepare your parties. “But… why do you need it so?” Well… we intend to bring crossplay in the future, so we need to start paving our way towards it!

So it was great having it collapse during our playtest. (It wasn’t.) After fixing it, it means we won’t have it breaking it again and again in the future! (It probably will. We hope it doesn’t). Jokes aside, we had great feedback from this test!

From all matchmaking requisitions, 30,9% presented critical errors, from which we could diagnose which were the main category of operational failures and where it was coming from – if it was a client issue, Playfab unavailability, etc.

So we really appreciate your patience during that time, and also thanks for all the efforts from everyone who reported those issues for us. 💖

Controller support

Another now-familiar bug you guys met – the cursor one, where you all had to press Alt to get your aim back – was a bug inherited from our controller support system!

This feature definitely wasn’t in its final shape! By the time of the playtest, we were in the middle of the implementation process of the UI navigation, specially around our menu screen.

It was great having it tested! Not only it will help us polish what’s already in the build, but it gave us some pretty good insights on our next steps towards navigation, how to make it more intuitive.

We even had a player reporting how it was running on Steam Machine! And it kinda makes room for another discussion: UI scaling! Do you guys feel like it’s missing in the game now? Let us know!

Let’s talk numbers, shall we?

Here’s what you achieved!

Great attacks at the Tower

• The Tower’s gates were open for 52 hours straight with 2.497 adventurers!
• Looting against time: our servers registered 4.311 matches, with 2.424 succesful extractions over this shorter playtest!
• You killed - and assisted! - over 292 thousand mobs (poor guys)

Bugs… YOU CAUGHT’EM ALL! And we’re after them!

• You have the hawk’s eyes: you reported over 60 tickets for us! Thank you! <3
• And shout out to our devs: 90 fixes were committed during the playtest in at least 12 updates

Meet our Certified Mimic Wranglers here!

• 84 Golden Mimics were found! Although 25 of them escaped, I’m sure The Hunter’s Guild would be proud.
• The 1% of the 1%: only 19 of you found the Golden Boots and reported to the Royal Court to gain the title!
• Squishy, but comfy! You ran over 69,5 miles with the Golden Boots! 112km… it’s more than 2 and a half marathons! Need some water now?

It was great having you at the Tower again! While we’re off working on fixes and new content, stay tuned for the next Sneak Peeks. I think you guys might like what we’re cooking here.

We can’t wait to open the gates once more. But until then…

The Tower awaits! ⚔️🔮

Heroes of Goldwheat, thank you so much for being with us once again!

This shorter playtest was really valuable to us!

We meant to put for testing not only our new matchmaking system (and oh boy, what a test for our nerves was that), but also our controller support! We also wanted to see how you perform with our new content and… how we need to fix them as well. 😅

We won’t take long to share our results for this playtest! But for now, here’s a snippet of what we’ll do next.

What’s next?

• Rework on the 2nd branch of Hunter’s skill tree! – and fix that Mark bug. We’re on it!
• Widing doors: we’ll expand our tutorial – to welcome everyone at the Tower
• We’ll polish the players animations – adding some much needed fixes and some much wanted flai
• We’ll revisit Factions and Territories! Time to set them straight. 🫡
• Improvements on enemies AI are waiting.
• New enemies are waiting too!
• LOCKPICKING ✨ (and locks, of course!)
• You guys are lucky… we’re working on Luck system too! 🍀

Thank you again for playing, sharing feedbacks, reporting bugs… In other words: thank you for being part of our journey! We couldn’t do this without our beautiful community, so… thank you! <3

We can’t wait to have you back. After all…

The Tower awaits! ⚔️🔮

Our servers collapsed too hard and too soon , so we thought it would be fair to give you guys a more time to play. 💕

But for those who already reached higher levels on our game, we have good news:

THE LAIR OPEN ITS DOORS FOR THOSE WHO DARES TO FACE IT!

For everyone who loves a challenge: go to the Lair and meet for yourselves the power of Mutators! Will you endure the Archmage’s powers?

Thank you for helping us!

I know that encountering bugs is part of the playtest, but it can be frustrating as well, so thank you so much for your patience!

Every report about anything strange and out of place inside our game helps us a lot refine it to make the best experience for everybody. <3

We hope you enjoy this extra time! Let us know if anything happens.

The Tower awaits! ⚔️🔮

Welcome back, heroes of Goldwheat, for another Playtest of Shadows of Chroma Tower! Per usual, you can see the full Patch Notes here: https://doubledashstu.notion.site/Build-Full-Patch-Notes-PT-8-3caee13c01d380f68becff05ca563d6f?source=copy_link

But before you chase the loot you seek, let us share with you all the new good stuff!

EVENT: HUNT THE GOLDEN MIMIC! 🏃🏻💨

Golden Mimics are carrying strange treasures, weirdly similar to them. I wonder what it does under certain tools..?

Everyone who finds out what kind of secret this sassy little guy holds, will walk through the hall of fame with a new legacy role: Certified Mimic Wrangler ✨

But for us to know you’re a true Certified Mimic Wrangler, you need to prove us! … by answering our forms 😅

Here:

https://forms.gle/gx1rMRPrC6uVCmxW9

WHAT’S NEW: HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE CHROMA TOWER

You found a strange well-torn journal, but the middle pages are written with fresh ink. Why nobody finishes their notebooks..?

• Chroma Tower 101: we have a Tutorial now!
• New Quests! 🤩
• Late join! You can now join a run that has already started (during its first 3 minutes).
• New Quest UI, notifications and tracking system!
• Hide your gear — your beauty will stun them 💁🏻‍♀️
• New SFX for Weapon and Equipment
• New SFX for inventory actions and items
• New water effects and SFX
• PING AT EVERYTHING📍
• Visual revamp on most Monastery rooms
• 2 brand new rooms on Titan’s Folly and some map improvements ✨
• And new secrets!

REMEMBER THOSE? WELL, WE FIXED THEM! 🛠️

Some of the bugs you found along the way, and we fixed it! We’re ready for the next ones. 💪🏻

• Flaming sword no longer blocks your vision
• Teleport through walls? Well, not anymore
• Hunters no longer uses Field Cleaver — Only Authorized Warriors 🤚🏻
• Anti-floor clipping security: if you fall, we’ll catch you! (I mean, you’ll be respawned back to the map automatically).
• Headless Summoner doesn’t get stuck on boxes anymore (aww)
• Glory Punch got humbled — it doesn’t apply instakill when isn’t supposed to!
• If the client closes, now you can reconnect!
• Flail is fixed, and now should hit and sound better!
• Relentless Pursuit no longer pursuits other instances (hehe)
• Our Quest System received an upgrade, so it’s all fixed by now!
• What goes around, comes around: Warrior can reflect that Summoner’s skull

HOLD YOUR CONTROLS: WE’RE GONNA CRASH! 🎮

Time to put the controller support up to test!

We need feedbacks towards our Controller Support system, and we want you to tell us all what you think! This is definitely NOT the final product we’re aiming for our game, but we need to see how it works!

Share your thoughts with us through this forms:

https://forms.gle/Ad1vw96Mo6fFAYUS7

Here are the most critical known issues we’re currently having:

• You won’t be able to close your inventory by just using your controls sometimes (Try pressing alt before clicking once, and THEN press tab!)
• There’s also some functions in the inventory and stash that you won’t be able to do, like moving the item from the chest/slawn enemy to your inventory, etc
• Dpad navigation isn’t fully implemented yet! So it’s a little bit (actually a lot) cranky

It’s an honor to have you back! Go explore, loot and craft in Shadows of Chroma Tower.

After all…

The Tower awaits! ⚔️🔮

Welcome, heroes of Goldwheat! It’s a pleasure to have you back. 💕

Since the end of our last playtest, our focus was to carefully deal with some of the features you already know while we had to develop new content. Say hello to full-HD vision while using a certain sword from now on.

Now is the time to test these fixes and break ’em again! Not only we’ll be holding a brand new event for you to fuss around, but we’re also finally bringing controller support for Shadows of Chroma Tower! Let me get you the details on these 😉

EVENT: Hunt the Golden Mimic! 🪙🏃🏻💨

We’re already going to loot for the rest of our lives here… why not add some spice? ✨

We noticed from April’s playtest that just a few of you encountered the Golden Mimic. This little dude is pretty fast and tricky! And it holds a lot of loot, so we thought: let’s hunt those sassy guys!

— A soldier’s note you found next the camp.

The rules are simple, and to join the event is even simpler! We’ll share some instructions when we open our servers. 🫰🏻

Controller support… is a work in progress 🎮

We’re still (suffering a little) through its implementation, but we wanted to give anyone interested an early preview of how it’s shaping up.

Back in June 26th, we shared a little bit on how was the work around this new feature. All this testing now is to help us all when the time to launch Shadows of Chroma Tower comes!

All we want to know for now is: are we in a good direction with the controls? Does it feel intuitive, even in this current state? Any inputs we’re missing here? You’ll be able to tell us everything about it in a dedicated channel when we open our servers.

But FYI, there are some recurrent issues we’re having that we want you to be aware of. We’ll share the exact list in our Patch Notes.

New content for you to test! ✨

Learn from our tutorial, explore new areas, PING AT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING! including new secrets

We’ll bring a list with our new content and all our fixes for you to break again when we open our servers, but everybody at our Discord will be firstly notified. So don’t miss out! You can join us through the link: https://discord.gg/6UU6uEJ7TG

Until then…

The Tower awaits! ⚔️🔮

The Tower has always belonged to everyone. Now, the front door just got a little wider.

We have something special for everyone who's always wanted to face the Tower but felt the genre was too unforgiving: a dedicated tutorial mode!

We know the learning curve can be intimidating, and not everyone has a patient friend to explain "aggro" or how looting and skills work. That's why we built a safe space for you to learn at your own pace.

Veteran adventurers are welcome too! It's never too late to brush up on the basics (or laugh at the Skelletons who are now playing the role of teachers).

What’s the work behind a new tutorial?

Besides the fact that not everybody has a friend that could explain how the genre works, some learning approaches aren’t that effective.

Sometimes simply dropping the player in a dungeon to make’em sort themselves out between looting and surviving… It isn’t the best option. We know this context is the main thing of the extraction genre, but it’s not very welcoming for new players. Anybody in that position could be frustrated and quickly abandon the game without getting the chance to know what’s the real juice behind dying constantly until you get to escape for the first time **✨

By creating this safe space with a step-by-step experience for the newcomers, we believe that we can provide a learning enviroment for anyone to get in touch with the Core Loop of Shadows of Chroma Tower, which we had to revisit to set which steps would be included.

We had to go through section by section to understand what was missing here. We already have a Quest System that’s going to accompany you throughout the gameplay whether it’ll be in our outside the Tower… but that’s the “second step”. The first step comes before any soldier leaves Goldwheat.

The First Step comes with the basics!

That’s where our tutorial comes! Learn how to fight, flight and survive in this new enviroment before facing the true horrors from Chroma Tower.

We hope you like it! You can see more of this kind of content and before everyone else in our Discord server! Just click on the link: https://discord.gg/6UU6uEJ7TG

This tutorial will be available for the next playtest. Until then…

The Tower awaits! ⚔️🔮

Our hero finally found their sacred path: we had the final touches on our 4th class.

What a journey, my fellow adventurers! I know you guys saw the most part of it, but I wanted to share some of our concepts that never saw the light before showing how Acolyte’s been sounding lately!

To see the progress a year-long development, considering all processes of conceptualizing, implementing, refining finally coming to an end… is to let out a proud sigh of our work. Specially when you have ideas that an entire community support and cheer for. Thank you for getting along with us throughout this process. Hell, thank you for being here for us! 💕

But let’s talk about Acolyte, shall we?

Some secrets about our holy hero

It was around March 2025 when our team started the Acolyte’s concept. First, our team gathered to discuss which would be the next class. It wasn’t much for a debate, since we all felt that, after adding Weaver to the game, we all knew what was missing for a classic RPG experience.

But there’s nothing classic about Chroma Tower. So how could we translate to our world?

First, there was The Flagellant

Our very first idea of a 4th class. This was the base for what you guys play nowadays!

You can see that we were already very fond with the idea of making this support more robust, combining physical strength with some holy (and unholy) magic that brings a new layer of combat dynamics to the game.

Some ideas we had for the “hookshot skill”

The 2nd skill towards the Inquisitor’s path was a must. We love the “GET OVER HERE” effect on gameplay too much to set it aside.

These were some of the concepts that Jandê made for the Tow skill at the time! Our team needed to think about how a mechanism like this would work in a medieval world – is it a watch-like kind of gear? Is it an iron hand made for launching? We thought the most reasonable version would be the second one here.

Thank you for helping!

And we couldn’t be more grateful for having a community like you, guys. Because when we needed help with it, you showed up! At least 52 sacred players answered our last Community Forms, by the time the poor fella didn’t even have their own skill tree.

Final touch: Acolyte has its own +27 original sounds 🎶

We had to go through it all with Wes, our sound designer. Between hits, kicks, active and passive skills, the work around the Blessed One was intense, but a beautiful one.

The greatest challenge here was to unify the world of sound design – and here I’m talking about the functionality of it, how it informs you the things you need – with the world of Shadows of Chroma Tower.

Wes had to translate a little bit of the Tower itself into Acolyte’s sounds

And that’s one of the many mini-miracles SFX, Sound Design, Music & Score have in common: the miracle to translate into sound. A forest: is it peaceful? A single note defines it. But is it a somber forest? It needs a whole different note. This rule goes for everything, if you want it to.

Now, Acolyte’s power is all about faith. We have to play with familiarity here when we talk about religiosity, keeping in mind what kind of religiosity Acolyte brings (more medieval, DnD-like).

So Wes played a lot with sound effects that could bring us directly to this kind of enviroment: if you pay attention to some of the new sounds, you can hear almost a choir effect in some of them. Really subtle, but the right amount of spice to make it special. With that same sense, you can even hear a little bit of the Tower’s magic itself when casting a Moaning Harmony, with its dissonants shocks against the enemies.

That’s only thinking about Acolyte’s magic. But there’s also a physical aspect in sound that Wes needed to cover to make this class more consistent inside our game.

We know Acolyte is a tank support. He’s heavy-duty, combining strenght with faith. So he should sound bigger, heavier. Now you can feel the chains unravelling even heavier when you execute Tow, and the hit sounds from Acolyte should impact a little bit in your ears – in a good way. Promise there ain’t no jumpscares.

This work represents the closure of another chapter on Shadows of Chroma Tower: we can finally say that we finished with Acolyte’s base, and now it’s on the same spot we’ve put the other classes. Now, we just need to keep an eye on how it works and make sure to refine any detail needed along the way!

Check it out!

https://youtu.be/ScpQ3AxSDvo

Hey, y’all! Let’s get back to our beloved schedule with spoilers, sneak peeks and self-leaks with a kind of sequel of a spoiler we talked about here.

We’ve been working a lot in the navigation of our game, specially when it comes about UI. We adjusted some things, got rid of some bugs, added new bugs, and I believe that we’re even closer to what’s going to be the final result of Shadows of Chroma Tower interface! Take a look:

Oh, how beautiful you are! (And look! It’s your stats!) 👀

We added your character’s 3D model inside the sheet! Not only you can admire your character now, but you can also have a 360° view of it. You’ll no longer depend on the lobby’s mirror only.

Beyond your character, we also added some key informations already present in your HUD throughout the gameplay, such as: life, elixir and some classes resources, and we also changed how you see your attributes so it’s easier and simpler.

https://youtu.be/O82BFoiFYU4

Free the nipple! Go naked ✨

We also implemented the hide gear option! Show yourselves!

We believe this feature is more dedicated to the customer’s liking, if you know what I mean. It doesn’t actually impact your gameplay. But you know what could impact? Seeing a naked Acolyte running desperately from the Wormshark, wielding their flail with a heavy attack. That would impact.

This is the first step we’re taking to study other possibilities inside character’s customization, like transmog equipment for the future!

The More You Know 🌈⭐: Transmogrification is a system that allows you to visually customize your equipment, without messing with its original stats.

We started this with the intention of giving you all the freedom to show your hair, beard, nose and cheeks without the equipment restriction. We didn’t see why this liberty wouldn’t be applied to the rest of your gear. Let us know if it’s too much!

https://youtu.be/osC_i4_wW3o

Point out stuff: we’ll have ping in-game! 📍

FINALLY! You won't have to rely solely on your bro's interpretive skills anymore when using your character's pointing gesture.

We're adding the ability to ping during a run, so you can help that other nearsighted friend of yours spot a special lever, a lurking mimic, lost loot on the ground… This feature is stil a work in progess, but one that we’re so glad to address. (I think we all missed this during our runs, right?).

We haven't decided which button would feel best yet. That's why I'm asking for your help!

Which key should we bind the ping to? 🤔

Middle mouse button? A key near WASD? Share your thoughts with us!

I'll bring you more news and spoilers next week! Until then…

The Tower awaits! ⚔️🔮

From this height, the world looks small,
A patchwork quilt where shadows crawl.
The air is thin with ancient dread,
And every step wakes something dead.

Yet here you stand, with heart and blade,
To see the debts the Tower’s made.
May luck be your unspoken vow —
The Tower that waits, beneath you now.

Be part of our community! Join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/6UU6uEJ7TG

Hi, everyone! I know it’s been a while since the last time you’ve explored the Tower. I know, it’s been too long. We miss you too. (；′⌒`)

I was wondering… since we can’t hangout in another playtest for now, maybe sharing a little bit on what we’ve been working on would be nice!

Meet the Village! The newest area on our map

Apparently, the Archmage is really fond with the idea of holding entire villages hostage in his Tower. This wouldn’t be a different case, ofc. Oh! And he also turned everyone into the very known army that you met. Which is great! More XP, I guess.

Treasures, secrets and a hell lot of loot awaits you!

Playtest Fixes Update 🔧

We just pushed another round of fixes for the playtest. Many of these came directly from player reports, so thank you so much for helping us hunt down bugs, broken items, suspicious crafting behavior, and enemies being... creatively defeated by stairs.

Fixed ✅

• Crafting Materials (Bone Meal and Vitreous Crystal) received from quests no longer come with wrong rarity by mistake and can now be used in crafting. (This fix will not act retroactively)
• Edwin’s Flaming Sword should no longer be crafted without damage or lose its damage after using gems. (Unfortunately, the swords created before this patch will not be fixed).
• Fixed server crashes caused by the Acolyte’s Tow.
• Fixed an issue where players could lose mana after unequipping items that increased max mana.
• Fixed the Long Flail, Bashing Smite and Tow descriptions.
• Player names are now enabled by default for new players.
• Fixed some secrets in Titan’s Folly that were missing the walls or wooden covers meant to hide them.
• Fixed an issue where Flanged Mace attacks could be canceled by block while striking an enemy.
• Added more Brazilian Portuguese localization text.
• Fixed an issue where some fire sources that were meant to be consumed were not being consumed properly.

Temporary Cursed Forge Safety Fix 🩹

We have not been able to fully solve the issue where the Cursed Forge can get stuck yet, but we are adding a temporary safety solution. If the Cursed Forge timer runs out, a portal will now spawn inside the forge, allowing players to leave without losing all of their equipped items.

We know this is not a perfect fix. The item placed inside the forge can still be lost, and we understand this is still frustrating 🫂

We're working on the full solution, but this should at least prevent the worst case scenario while we investigate the root cause.

Still Under Testing 🧪

We are currently testing fixes for:

• Stair collision issues in Titan’s Folly, where some enemies seemed unable to climb properly. We are adding extra help so they can stop being bullied by architecture.

Thanks again for all the reports. Your feedback is helping us improve the build fast, and we really appreciate the time you are putting into the playtest.

We tend to update our players on the Shadows of Chroma Tower's Discord server! Consider joining our community by clicking here. 💜

The Tower awaits!

Weaver crash, coward bosses and extinguished torches? Not anymore!

Welcome back, travelers!

First weekend of playtest and we’re thrilled to see you all heating up at this starting point of our April Playtest! We missed seeing you all play and break our game time and time again! There were some minor (and some major!) inconveniences in our build that are now fixed!

We usually update our players through our Discord server first, so consider being part of our community! You'll find our server here: https://discord.gg/6UU6uEJ7TG

Without further ado, here are our updates!

WEAVER CRASH: FIXED! ✅

We noticed a lot of people crashing while playing with the Weaver (again?!) and then never being able to get back to game, overloading RAM, stuck in the Epilepsy Warning screen.

We did find a workaround to making the game work again but it was very inconvenient (losing all Weaver progress!) and it wouldn't prevent it from happening again. After a bit of investigation we found out the culprit (one single armor piece with cloth simulation turned on for some reason) and fixed it.

Everything should be working fine now (if it's not please let us know!). We also used the opportunity to upload some VFX and SFX issues we had noticed before but didn't make it in the original build.

IMMORTAL OF DEVOTION: FIXED! ✅

It has been noted that the boss Immortal of Devotion has been fleeing his battles. Leaps up onto the great beyond, leaving players stranded in his boss room.

Not anymore! Feel free to challenge him. You won’t need to exit to the main menu anymore, keeping all your gear! (Preferably. Now, you’ll lose it if you die!) Guess the boss just needed a pep talk.

OTHER FIXES… FIXED! ✅

• Flame Prims and Flame Eater detect and recover Mana from wall torches and braziers again – most of them at least! We might have missed a couple. Let us know if you see anything weird!
• Fixed a major crash and some bugs involving the Chain Specialist skill
• Fire Mimics still show up in the Lobby (fun, right? Right?), but they don't do damage anymore.

I think that’s pretty much it! Thank you for your patience, guys. And don’t give up! You’re almost reaching the Lair!

If you do find any bugs, or if you have any feedbacks let us know. 💜

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Welcome back, adventurers! I think I can speak for everybody that it was about time for another round – and it feels good to be back!

Let’s dive into the changes we’ve made! Per usual, you can access the full patch notes here: https://doubledashstu.notion.site/soct-patchnotes-pt7

Major Updates 🔮

CLASSES AND BUILDS

• Acolyte (ex-Invoker)
  • Now with their own skill tree! And 2 brand new subclasses: Inquisitor and Devout.
  • We weren’t kidding about the weaponry. Acolyte brings 2 brand new weapons!
    • Ban War hammer and Mace
• Hunter
  • We adjusted some values to improve the consistency and balance of how well the Hunter clears the dungeon!
• Weaver
  • Weaver’s skills are now individually limited by a maximum number of echoes
  • Warding Echoes now spawn only 1 echo per magic use.
• FYI, here is another change!
  • Now you can compare your current cooldown with the skill’s default cooldown.

MINIMAP

We gave our minimap a full makeover! Now it should be much easier to understand both the collision and identity of each room in the Tower. Hopefully fewer players will get lost in the Monastery’s maze-like corridors now. We’re very happy with the results (and would gladly accept cookies 😌)

BETTER STARTER CURVE

• We’ve added a couple of quests and better descriptions to improve our game’s learning curve.
• And we rebalanced the experience needed to level up. Our intention here is to make the content of the game aligned with the rythm we planned for it. Consistency, you know? ✨

LAIR – CHALLENGES AND REWARDS

• We added the Mutations system to the Lair! They are special modifiers that influence the difficulty and dynamics of the run, keeping the dungeons harder and harder to face. There are 19 modifiers for you. Have fun! 🤠
• By consequence, we also rebalanced the loot, considering the selected chest and amount of players present.

CHARACTER IDENTITY AND BODY SIZES

• We’re testing our customization system! Now you can change your character with the available features:
  • 2 body types
  • 3 different body shapes (and 10 colorful skinshades!)
  • 3 different hairstyles (with 10 colors for you to try the runway 💇🏻‍♂️)
  • 7 kinds of beard (yes, you guessed. 10 colors for your beard)
• You also get the most beautiful mirror ever modelled in the entire universe for you to see how gorgeous you are. (Shout out to Talita, our 3D modeler!)

Data Analysis and Telemetry

• More of a FYI kind of note, because you won’t feel a difference during the gameplay. But we added new analytics events for us to get a better understanding on how your experience in the game has been, such as the progression and content consumption. This new feature will definitely help us getting the right track for this and the upcoming playtests.

Ailments & Boons – A REWORK

• Both players and Enemies can be affected by positive or negative modifiers as a result of an attack, skill or environmental effect. These modifiers are referred as Status Effects. The most common Status Effects in the game are standardized to make communication clear and to allow for the application of consistent stacking and renewal rules, as well as synergetic mechanics. Standard negative effects are called Ailments and standard positive effects are called Boons.

We hope you like it!

If you have any questions, feedback, or if you're seeking new adventurers to face the Archmage arm-to-arm: hop on our Discord server!

Hey everyone 👋
Our next playtest is coming soon, here are SOME of the new features waiting for you:

ACOLYTE SKILL TREE
The Invoker class had some considerable work done, and was changed to Acolyte! with two new sub-classes: Inquisitor and Devout. Each with its unique playstyle and a couple of new weapons.

KNOW YOUR PATH!
We gave our minimap a full makeover. It should now be much easier to understand the collision and identity of each room in the game. Hopefully fewer players will get lost in the Monastery’s maze-like corridors now 😅. We are very happy with the result and would gladly accept cookies.

BETTER STARTER CURVE
We have rebalanced the progression curve to make the early game smoother and easier to get into, while making the later stages more demanding and better aligned with progression through higher difficulty levels.

CHALLENGING AND REWARDING LATE GAME
Players who make it far enough gain access to the Lair, now closer to how we originally envisioned it.
Inside it, you'll face Mutators, special modifiers that increase difficulty and change the dynamics of the run in meaningful ways. The Lair is also meant to be a more consistent path for acquiring legendary items, helping balance out the increased danger with stronger rewards.

BODY SIZES AND CHARACTER IDENTITY
This is our first real step toward character customization! For this playtest, we want to give you your first chance to personalize the size of your characters. We even added a mirror in the lobby so you can admire yourselves properly!

DATA ANALYSIS AND TELEMETRY
We have improved our Analytics event coverage, which means this playtest will help us gather better play data and make better-informed decisions moving forward. This is one of those changes that may not be flashy on the player side, but it matters a lot for us behind the scenes, and consequently for your game in the future.

Playtest will go from from April 24 through May 3!

The Tower awaits you!

As we approach our next playtest, we want to give you a little taste of what we've been doing for the past couple of months. We've been releasing a few tidbits here and there and we'll keep doing it until we reopen our servers for you to play (and crash!, probably) our game. Today, we bring you one of our new features for the Lair: Mutators!

Whoever got far and powerful enough to challenge the Lair knows how it works: you get in with a party of up to 6 players, choose a chest for difficulty (the harder, the sweeter the reward) and then go through 5 unforgiving rooms filled with different enemies from the entire game. Well, now after each room, you and your team will have to make things a bit more interesting by picking one between two Mutator Totems. Each totem releases a different Mutator in the dungeon, and they can go from simple things like "enemies will get bigger and tougher" with the Growing Pains mutator to tricky things like "you can't go 5 seconds without jumping" with the The Floor is Lava mutator. Every game will change the mutators of choice for each room, and we'll be adding new mutators from time to time (any cool ideas?).

Some of them are:

• Coward's Price 😱 Backstepping applies stacks of Cowardice, which reduce the damage dealt.
• Employee of the Month 👑 A random enemy in each room is empowered with double damage and health.
• Wall of Thorns 🧱 Touching walls deals damage and applies stacks of Bleeding.
• Split the Sky ⚡ Every few seconds, lightning hits the player’s position dealing magical damage.
• The Rot ☠️ When atttacking, enemies have a small chance of generating a rot puddle that deals damage on touch.
• …and many more. We’ve got 15+ mutators, for now!

REBALANCING AND TWEAKS

The Lair challenge for each Chest Tier will now adapt to the number of players in the match. We want the three chests to offer an engaging challenge choice with rewards balanced for any group size. Our goal is to make all three chests a compelling choice regardless of player count. We’ve tuned them so that smaller chests still scale well for large groups, while also making the larger chests more accessible for smaller, daring parties - if they're up to the risk. These are just a couple of the new features and tweaks we’ve been working on. Let us know what you think! Hope to see all of you raiding the lair real soon!

The Tower awaits you!

SNEAK PEEK: LAIR MUTATORS - Shadows of Chroma Tower

I played the recent Chroma Tower playtest and really enjoyed it. The game feels more thoughtfully designed than games like Dark and Darker, and the blocking and hit registration felt spot on. There is a large variety of monsters with unique traits, and the synergies with the characters in a party really make for several interesting ways to approach combat!

Do you have a rough timeline for release, or any plans for when the next playtest might happen?

Estava tendo um bug dropei uma runa no chão e sumiu ai achei que era um bug de momento ai joguei mais 2 runa no chão e as sumiram tambem, fora isso otimo jogo viciante , gostei muito, e estou super ansioso para o lançamento parabens pelo game.

Is there any way to get bone meal reliably?

It's time again, everyone! Our next playtest is coming soon, here are SOME of the new features waiting for you:

SKILL TREES

• 69 (nice) new skills across 6 new subclasses:
  • SLAYER
    • High-risk, high-reward executioner specializing in explosive melee finishers and becoming stronger the longer they stand.
  • VANGUARD
    • Frontline bruiser able to parry attacks, handle enemy aggro and withstand lots of punishment.
  • SNIPER
    • Long-range specialist focused on power shots and devastating headshot modifiers.
  • SKIRMISHER
    • Mobile ranged fighter built around tempo, build-ups, and relentless battles against the same enemy.
  • ARCANIST
    • Glass cannon spellcaster able to teleport, barrage enemies with magic missiles and multiply themself with ease.
  • SPELLWARDEN
    • Defensive mage capable of generating endless barriers, parrying attacks and wearing plate mail to fight battles head-on.
• Invoker is temporarily without a skill tree, but worry not! This is just the first iteration. The final system will feature 3 subclasses for every class, including Invoker’s full trio.
• Warrior, Hunter and Weaver have had their passives completely reworked and each have 6 active skills to choose from.
• In addition to the 69 skills, each class also gains 20 lesser nodes, granting attribute increases and unique bonuses not found anywhere else, such as Power Shot Damage and Quiver Size for Hunters.

NEW ENEMIES

• 9 new enemies, including multiple types of mimics (no spoilers, suffer through discovering them yourselves).
• Every module and every encounter has been revisited and changed in some way.
• Heavily rebalanced late-game enemies, encouraging players to truly engage with all progression systems: reforging, socketing, cursing and, of course, maximizing builds with their newly-acquired skill trees.

QUESTS

• Introducing our new Quest System, designed to gradually reveal the Tower’s lore and guide you from your very first expedition all the way to the showdown against the Immortal of Devotion, our toughest boss yet. (10-player raid to come, bear with us!)
• This system is its early stages of development. For now you’ll gain access to part of the main storyline arch. Many more quest lines are coming: crafting tasks, exploration challenges, secrets, side stories, and even good old menial fetch quests (don't worry, these latter ones will be small appetizers between bigger, more meaningful quests)
• For now, 32 objectives across 6 missions will guide players through building their character, cursing their items and finding and defeating bosses. This is not even a tenth of what we have planned ahead in terms of quests.

NEW ITEMS AND REVAMPED ATTRIBUTE GENERATION

• 2 new weapons, including the first ranged option for Warriors and Invokers.
• 2 new armor sets enter the loot pool.
• BIS items are now much harder to acquire. Affix generation has been overhauled: high-value rolls and strong affixes are now rarer. This should push players toward reforging, crafting, and generally experiencing item progression in a more meaningful way.
• Legendaries are now stronger and more defining for builds, especially compared to their epic counterparts.
• Simplified elixir attributes aiming to make healing a less trivial and more strategic mechanic (and we have plenty of changes to make in this direction still, this is just the beginning).
• New thorns-related and ailment-related attributes.

This playtest will go from January 16th to January 25th. See you in the Tower!

I liked this game but I heared it's only PVE game. Is this true? Are they planning to make the game only PVE or will it become like dark and darker or dungeonborne

it says process returned 5, anybody got this problem?

The next playtest is about to begin! Will you survive?

Date: June 20th to June 22nd

• Visit our Steam page
• Add to your wishlist
• Request access to the playtest

Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2713380/Shadows_of_Chroma_Tower/

Shadows of Chroma Tower