Torment Hexus

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• Patch Notes·18 Sept 2026Official

  Torment Hexus v0.51 patch notes

  The big one here is I fixed the "allies are enemies for one turn" bug. Sorry about that! It was a build-only bug, i.e. didn't reproduce inside the editor, which made it harder to track down than expected. Gameplay/Balance changes: - Using water to put out fire tiles now creates a protective steam cloud, instead of a damaging burst of steam. Using fire on Wet combatants still creates the steam burst. - Reduced the flame-gathering range of Fire Tornado from 4 to 3; reduced targeting range from 7 to 5. Holy cow, how overpowered WAS this spell originally?! - Magshield will still create counterattacks when you're hit for 0 damage. - Orichalcum Bomb now works with Reallocate and Cluster Grenade. - Cluster Grenade loses 1 subfragment (the v2 spell keeps all 5). - Big Red Button now has a 5-turn cooldown instead of being 1x/fight. - Common Ground is now cheaper than its upgrade, instead of vice-versa. - Reduced cost of Contempt Draught from 6 to 4. - The Jotun's mines can be destroyed. Bugfixes: - Fix a bug causing summoned allies to be flagged as enemies for the first round of their existence. This was a weird one! - Fix a crash when cleaning up status effects. - Fix player's movement being wasted if they click on themselves after having set a movement waypoint. - Safety Protocols no longer stops Canine Implant's damage overflow or other "revenge"/"damage share" effects. - Spells that move the player (e.g. Power Slam) also slide the match-3 board. - Fix Plush Tapir's HP reward being inconsistent. - Chickenscratch Map can only replace regular map fights (and not e.g. ambushes or event fights). - Acrobatic Ribbon now works properly with long-distance teleports. - Cluster Grenade shows its explosion AOE when targeting. - Fix Cluster Grenade's subfragments sometimes failing to explode. - Fix being able to get wholly inappropriate items from events if you already have every item that the event is coded to allow you to receive. You now get a random item from the common/uncommon/...
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• Patch Notes·12 Sept 2026Official

  Torment Hexus v0.50 patch notes

  Gameplay/balance changes: - All events in the Labs and Penthouse biomes have been re-paginated and color added to their texts, to hopefully help legibility. - Added several new events to Labs and Penthouse, and associated items and fights. - Add a button to the pre-run screen to fully-randomly-pick all remaining spells. - Fire Tornado's damage has been decreased (from 5/6 per fire to 3/4 per fire) - Banshee 2 has improved mana storage. - Stencil is limited to 1x/turn. - Rage Spray is limited to 1x/enemy/turn. - Changes to Tempo are flagged in the combat log. - The end-run screen uses a differently-colored border for spells that were equipped during the final battle. - Software and food items are noted as such in their descriptions. - Reduced casting cost of Impale and Spinkick. Bugfixes: - Hopefully fix a bug that could cause paranoia modifiers to apply twice. - Fix summons (e.g. Pillar, Spirit Fragment) leaving behind invisible corpses that Revenant could turn into allied zombies. - Fix mages being unwilling to cast summoning spells (specifically Extinguisher, Smartstorm, and Smartknife). - Safety Protocols don't block self-damage, e.g. from poison, Panic Button, etc. - Worn-Out Wristcomp won't generate new spells with low durability. - Music spells don't double-charge for mana on the turn they are cast. - Fix Reallocate not reliably hitting enemies / adding mana drain statuses. - Fix a bug causing status effects to fail to spawn when there are valid tokens on the match-3 grid. - Fix a bug in the pre-run spell selection screen that could allow players to be unable to choose a utility spell. - Chickenscratch Map is unable to override ambush fights. - The final boss is visibly tagged as human. - Fix UI issue on end-run screen. - Toolbox can only take effect once (as was always intended). - Synthsoft is now actually software. - Fix misc typos in events. - Fix Lounge Mage event potentially being unable to display all of the player's potential options.
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• Patch Notes·5 Sept 2026Official

  Torment Hexus v0.49 patch notes

  Hey folks, just a small patch to fix a couple of crash bugs. Gameplay/balance changes: - Tweak the visuals for the Whirlwind spell. - Add flavor text for graffiti elementals. - New paranoia modifier: Armored Personnel. Bugfixes: - Fix potential crash due to lack of thread safety. - Fix crash when getting bonked by enemies with special melee effects. - Claw Hammer now works with Razorwire. - Flag some enemy abilities as "unmutable"; in particular, this fixes dolphins and the final boss being immobilized by Red Tape. - The combat log is a bit better about explaining where damage comes from. - Fix the combat log's small box being visible on the pause screen. - Fix misleading text in Principal Mage's description (her damage share works as long as interns are anywhere on the battlefield).
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• Patch Notes·4 Sept 2026Official

  Torment Hexus v0.48 patch notes

  Gameplay/balance changes: - Enemies with "instant" damage abilities now mark the tiles they could hit next turn, when you select their tile. - If an enemy is human, robot, or flying, this is mentioned in their creature info card. - New Body spell: One-Inch Punch. - New Paranoia modifiers: Worn-Out Wristcomp (spells can break) and Safety Protocols (enemies can't hurt each other). - 4 new item syntheses and a couple of new regular items. - Replace the Tampon item with Windlass Tourniquet to avoid propagating harmful urban legends. Saves that have the old item will lose them, sorry! - Platinum Padlock gives a shield that blocks 10 damage, instead of providing full immunity. - Added access to the pause screene from the post-fight rewards screen, spell swap screen, and spell upgrade screen. - Added access to the combat log on the end-run screen. - Fires may no longer be summoned on a tile that is already on fire. Bugfixes: - Disable unused draw layers; this may result in a minor performance improvement during combat. - Switched to forward rendering; this also may result in a performance improvement. - When combatants get pushed or have their facing change, they update their warning tiles; should fix (again) the final boss' super move lying about which tiles it would hit. - Fix music spells not being re-castable while active. - Fix Body/Cyber/Formwork/Graffiti domains not being pickable by the "Random" option. - Fix spell picking UI allowing you to skip taking domains in favor of more utility spells. - Fix combatants casting spells toward the top-left when they can't target anything else. - Fix allied combatants' summoning spells summoning enemies instead of allies. - Fix 12-Pack synthesis not spawning. - Add a "utility domain" icon to the spell picking screen. - Fix Heavy Lifter fight not ending when the boss is bootlooped. - Fix some paranoia modifiers granting the player +30 max HP. - Fix Mana Sludge paranoia modifier allowing upgraded spells to be found. - Fix Fragmen...
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• Patch Notes·26 Aug 2026Official

  Torment Hexus v0.47 patch notes

  Gameplay/balance changes: - Added a new music track to the back half of the Labs biome. This track will be added to the official soundtrack on Steam momentarily. - Added a prototype assitive input (bound to Q on keyboard, or the left face button on gamepads, by default). At the moment, this input jumps the tactical cursor between enemies, ordered by their distance to the player. Feedback welcome! - Added a visual effect when the input mode is changed, for gamepad/keyboard users only - Added a text brightness slider to the options. - Added the player's inventory and spells to the end-run screen. - Add a couple of new items. - Caffeine Pill, Rude Gesture, and Pride Pin are all less common (Rude Gesture drastically so). - Bosses have smaller reward baskets: one boss-tier item and one spell each. - Final boss's dash-punch is restricted to axial directions. - Razorwire is immune to earth-element damage. - Banshee tick damage increased to 5/turn; Banshee 2 gains 3 mana storage. - Unison summons cannot be Haunted/Banshee'd and are immune to Unison damage. - Pillars and other inanimate objects cannot experience doubt. - Catseye Kobold is uncommon. - Add flavor text to Glamorous and Collector. - Adjustable Wrench, Glamorous, and Defunctivore are limited to 1x/enemy/turn. - Titanium Flare's Ignited status cannot stack. - Shop inventory is now correctly restricted to shop-tagged items (so e.g. Fox cannot try to sell you the Rude Gesture unless you sell it to her first). Bugfixes: - Fix one of final boss's moves lying about which tiles it would hit. - Fix champion earth mage's dash punch retargeting if she/the player moved. - Fix Rejuvenate not charging properly off of kills. - Fix Mana Battery being completely broken. - Fix Tango being able to turn damage from bleeds into bleed statuses. - Hopefully fix a rare crash involving status effects. - Enabled vsync, which should hopefully fix reports of screen tearing. - Improve performance when large numbers of damage tiles (e.g. fir...
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