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• Announcements·27 Aug 2026Official

  Backdraft Demo Version 0.4 - Heat Level Challenges

  New Heat Level System - Run difficulty modifiers that unlock and stack as you complete them - 1: Opponents are harder - 2: Opponents have better decks - 3: Opponents carry an extra artifact - 4: Player starts with fewer lives - 5: Final opponent has an extra life Combat Upgrades - Upgrade now levels up a card for the duration of the current combat - Once a card is max level, it continues to gain +1 like Sharpen/Strengthen - Rivet: Rally changed from Sharpen to Upgrade - Elric: Hero power changed to "Whenever you kill an enemy, Upgrade all Attacks in your hand" - Nettlewick: Hero power changed to "At the start of your turn, Upgrade a random Attack in your hand" - Lux: Hero power changed to "Whenever you draw a Minion, Upgrade it" Balance Changes - Guard cards changed from Team Block to targeted Block - Corvus: Start of turn damage is now blockable - Feed the Flame: Reduced to 1 energy - Bundle Up: Reduced to 1 energy, gains Exhaust - Crystallize: Starts and scales better - Boro & Moltra: Block gain increased from 2 to 3 - Cup of Whimsy: Changed to discount a random card in your hand each turn - Cinderion: Cost reduced to 1, health and attack reduced by 1 - Wicken: Cost reduced to 1, health and attack reduced by 1, Torch now goes to top of the draw pile - Antara: Shard now goes to the top of draw pile - Volo: Random Attack now goes to the top of draw pile - Polgar: Now +2 damage for each ally with Block Versus Mode - Second Player receives an artifact which grants +1 Energy on their first three turns - Versus companions are now randomly chosen from all elements excluding their own - Combat Scene in the match is now only cosmetic, doesn't affect which Companions are chosen - All minions are now available as companions - All 48 companions come with their own pack of cards - Hero Decks have been reworked/rebalanced - Can select the difficulty of your opponent when playing bots Visual - Artifact acquisition now has a special trail VFX instead of the artifact spin - Minion...
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• Announcements·2 Jul 2026Official

  Backdraft Demo Version 0.3 - Versus Mode Is Here

  New: Versus Mode - Versus is now live in the demo: play online against a friend or offline against bots - Both players start with 80 HP and 3 lives - Every hero brings their own fixed deck - Each match is fought in a random world, and you each get different cards from that world's element, so no mirror matches - A random player goes first; the player going second starts with 10 Block and 1 extra energy - Lose all your HP with a life to spare and you respawn in place at full health - After each death you draft 1 of 2 artifacts, and the one you pass goes to your opponent - First to 3 kills wins New Playable Hero: Elric - Elric, the Frozen Prince, is now playable in the Gauntlet alongside Tara - Both heroes are available in Versus Gauntlet Changes - Lives now respawn you mid-combat instead of returning you to the shop with a loss, so you can fight your way back into combats you would have lost - Flawless Gauntlet runs now earn a gold badge and a dedicated summary stat Visual & UI - New hints for shopping, basics, enchants, and kill bonuses - Full localization in 19 languages, with a language dropdown in Settings and auto-detected defaults - Lives are shown as hearts on the health bar in both Versus and Gauntlet - New Kill Cam when you defeat an enemy hero or take one of their lives - New combat log across the top of the screen shows everything that happened - Health bar scrolls continuously during multi-hits - Artifacts animate into your inventory on purchase - New VFX for respawns, blessings, minion rallies, and more Bug Fixes - Fixed Cascade interacting incorrectly with Flow - Fixed a Backlash win/loss discrepancy - Fixed duplicate artifacts appearing in the shop - Fixed gold and HP effects playing when nothing actually changed - Fixed Escape on the Gauntlet continue prompt risking your run - Fixed the settings button while the settings menu is open - Smarter Versus bots - Fixed Cauldron's Arm animation
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