Astromino

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• Announcements·30 Aug 2026Official

  Endless Mode tweaks & fixes, achievements, alternate hero outfits, and more!

  achievements... 14 of them!achievements the game knows you already qualify for are awarded retroactively when starting up the game, however a few things were never logged (like clearing 5 rows with the drop of a single piece), so you'll have to re-perform those feats to get the achievements - sorry!endless Mode (& related) changesin Endless Mode, there's now fewer nodes to visit overall - in particular, there's one fewer shop and treasure nodewhen choosing a treasure reward in Endless Mode, the Coin reward now always gives 0 Coin!the first time you enter Endless Mode, a dialog pops up to tell you about these and the other Endless Mode mechanics changesthe Astrolabe relic got totally revamped - it was always a bit OP, and in Endless mode, where it was not hard to gather up a few Astrolabes, it was just ridiculous, so I took the opportunity to do something unique with itEncyclopedia entries for Endless Mode heroes got fixed upjust for a bit of funthere's a new "Retro look" filter in the settings menu that adds bloom, chromatic aberration, and scan lines. It's disabled by default while I do testing on more hardware (Macs, and older PCs) to make sure it doesn't crash, but please do give it a look and tell me what you think!the outlines of focused/hovered buttonsafter beating the full game, alternate-color outfits become available for every heropressing an arcane sequence of buttons on the title screen opens a hands-off soundtrack player - ↑↑↓↓←→←→BA (I feel like I've seen that somewhere before...)other changesv-sync can now be disabled in the settings menuJapanese & Zulu translations got some fixes & improvementsthat's it for now!a public demo is coming soon - no later than the end of September! in the meanwhile, I'll continue to polish things up in preparation (like that way-too-longly-named Samarzhoustian Flute...)
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• Announcements·16 Aug 2026Official

  visual updates to many screens, two new songs, and: a new Endless Mode

  many thanks to all the people play-testing these early builds! while this is not the final update before the public "version 1" release, the updates leading up to that point will likely to be polish updates (which this update also includes a lot of). translation fixes, performance improvements, stability updates... that kind of thing. that said, you never know: maybe I'll get inspired to add some new hero 🤷‍♀️ and depending on how well the game sells, maybe I'll make be making updates for years to come (as I did with Mysterious Space). TIME WILL TELL!until then, here's what changed in this release!Endless Modeafter beating the game with every character, you unlock New Game+; when winning a New Game+ run, you're now offered to continue playing in Endless Modeand that's all I have to say about that! play to find out more!visual updates to various screensSector 2 now has asteroids flyin' all over the place, for more visual flavorSector 3 now has goopy plasma goopin' all over the place, for more visual flavorthe hero selection screen has been rearranged, and now - finally - features a "Back" buttonthe inventory and piece-selection screens for shops have all been redone, including allowing scrolling through your list of pieces - for a while it's been possible that your list of pieces grew to take up more than the height of the screen, and that's especially true now with Endless Mode!the Encyclopedia got a new table of contents screen, the enemies and relics are now in alphabetical order, AND: shop keepers now get their own entries!the screens for changing keyboard and gamepad bindings got some little layout tweaks, including language-indepedent key labels for many keysvisual updates for enemieshard versions of enemies now have recolored versions of their art (when you're facing a tough version of an Astral Cyclura you'll know!)the "Pulsar" enemy effect - where they blow up columns of your pieces - now comes with particle effects and minor screen shakenew statsthe run end...
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• Patch Notes·12 Jul 2026Official

  bugfixes, text clarifications, and some little visual tweaks

  the couple gameplay tweaksx2 damage stamps now cost 1 more money compared to other stampswhen a player has Somatic Chit, garbage floor-type enemies no longer create rows that should (but fail to) immediately clearreducing confusionreplaced all usage of the term "soft drop" with more widely-understood textwhen a dialog is open, content outside the dialog is now dimmedchanged the look of "choose one"-type buttons (for example, language selection and graphics scaling/zoom selection)you can now press "ESC" to close the Encyclopediavignette & end-of-run textvignette text now disperses and fades out after clicking "Continue"the "Victory!" and "Run End" text has been removed, replaced with more-thematic text depending on the exact conditions of win or lossbug fixesreduced "aggressiveness" of going full screenimproved support for crazy-high resolution displaysreduced instances of sound/music lag if some background process spikes your CPU usagefixed timing of star pulses for the Penrose Escape song
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• Announcements·1 Jul 2026Official

  a new feature at the shop, a couple new relics, and...

  this is largely a polish update, filling in missing graphics, adding new graphics, adding new sounds, etc. that said, the shop has a new service on offer, and a couple new relics were added.shopyou can now pay to remove a piece from your bagyour character now appears in the shop... as do new shop keepers - there are three, one per sectorshop tooltips are no longer obscured by your character's title or on-hand moneyrelicsas mentioned: there's a couple more :P (you'll have to discover them for yourself!)a bugfix related to Somatic Chit + garbage floor enemiesmusic & soundone new trackstars now pulse to the beat - I went overboard and hand-entered custom cues per song (more musically-timed visuals may come in a future release!)buttons now make sounds when interacting with themremoved the jingle that used to play when you won an encounter - enemies have their own "ya got me!" noises, anywayencountersevery boss finally has a graphic! no more "BOSS GRAPHIC" placeholder :PStratochasm has received its own death sound effectyour character's title and on-hand money is now displayed in the upper left (now matches the sector map and shop)like monsters, your character now falls off the screen upon defeat (no SQUISH sound effect, though - maybe later?? :P)improvements for other languageswhen starting up the game for the first time, it will ask you to select your language, instead of defaulting to Englishin the language-selection menu, selecting a language immediately changes all on-screen labels, and the dialog stays open until you click the OK buttongeneral UI/UX changesthe scene transition visual effect got a little redotransitions are used between more game states, and more consistentlythe black darkness wibbly effect animation no longer pauses during transitionsthe end-of-run screen now shows more info about the stuff you collected during a run, and is presented a little differently from beforeand I think that's it for this update!there's probably some other little tweaks I'm...
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• Patch Notes·24 Jun 2026Official

  beta build for music-cued visuals is available

  I took ~1 week off Astromino development, but I'm back! :)I've got the beginnings of a new system that cues visual effects based on music, because music is rad! but because it might not be stable, especially for Mac users, I'm publishing it as a "beta" build in Steam.you need a secret code to access the beta builds, SO: if you'd like access to the beta build, get in touch - all you early players know where to find me!once it's proven not to crash, I'll release a more-complete version of the update to the main version of the game!
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