From October 17 to November 2, the halls are strewn with bat-filled pumpkin husks, arranged as offering to the great Halloween Worms of Pestilence and Horror.

To prepare, we finally reveal the ancient rite used to POWER UP BOSSES TO NIGHTMARE DIFFICULTY:

• Upon teleporting to any boss domain, you find your landing spot encircled by small stones.
  
• Using the attack button, action each stone individually, moving clockwise from left to right.
  
• You know the action is accepted if the button does not trigger an attack.
  
• You will see the beast's power level increase if you have performed the ritual correctly, along with a floating follower.
  
• Perform the ritual twice to further increase your chance to be slaughtered.

Have you grown over-confident? Time to raise the challenge. The beasts are hungry.

You will be consumed.

Apologies for the cheeky cross promo, but we've just released our new game Regular Human Basketball!


If you were into playing Crawl with mates, we hope you'll love this too. It's a very different style, but we've tried to maintain the same friendship ruining experience as Crawl :D

Regular Human Basketball is the multiplayer party-starter that has your team wrestling to control your giant mechanical death machine. Yelling orders, flipping switches, and shootin' hoops in a post-apocalyptic basketball showdown!

You can play RHBB with 2 or more players, same-screen local like crawl and online too. The more players, the more shouting and falling over!

We'd always hoped to allow online play in Crawl. I spent a good chunk of time working on it, but eventually had to admit it wasn't going to be possible while maintaining what narrow grasp on sanity we still held.

But recently we noticed some people in the community playing online using something called Parsec. We've played a bunch with it ourselves now and had a great time, so we're happy to be able to give it the Official Powerhoof™ Severed Thumbs Up of Approval®!

Parsec basically lets you stream a game, and have friends watch and play along with their own controllers. Latency was my biggest worry, but it wasn't a problem when we played, certainly no worse than our dodgy indie implementation of online multiplayer would have been ;)

It's really quick and easy to get it set up, and it's also free if you host games on your own computer. Check out our friends at Stumpt playing Crawl online with it!

1. Download the client from http://parsecgaming.com
   
2. Run it and create an account. Get your friends to do the same.
   
3. If you want to host, click "Add A Computer". In settings you can set what apps your friends can see/control too.
   
4. To join a friend who's hosting, add them using their Parsec username, and request to Co-Play.
   
5. Run the game, and friends can play just like they're sitting next to you!

If you have any issues with Parsec, chat to them on their discord here.

And some more news while we have your attention...

We've just set up a discord channel, so come say hi, maybe find some people to play Crawl with! https://discord.gg/n7t76sZ


Our next game now has a steam store page and is coming very soon! So check it out and get wishlisting!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/661940/Regular_Human_Basketball/

Crawl 1.0 is here and 20% off all week!

The ancient golden colossus Tezekcal has awoken, brought to life by an evil shaman’s still beating heart. Take possession of his limbs with your ghostly companions to crush intruding heroes into dust.

Check out the insane new trailer.

New features include:

• New Boss: Tezekcal
  
• New playable monsters:
  • Demonic scorpion queen with devastating projectile attacks.
    
  • A flying beast with a disembodied eye that can attack from the opposite side of the room.
    
  • A poison spitting snake.
    
  • A Powerful high priestess that teleports and summons seeking runes.
• Hymns enable heroes to steal from other players. Take their gold, weapons, even swap all their equipment.
  
• Achievements/Quests.
  
• Steam trading cards.
  
• Loads of tweaks, balancing, bug fixes, and more!

The official soundtrack is finally available as well. Get it here!

Enjoy!

Crawl 1.0 is here and 20% off all week!

The ancient golden colossus Tezekcal has awoken, brought to life by an evil shaman’s still beating heart. Take possession of his limbs with your ghostly companions to crush intruding heroes into dust.

Check out the insane new trailer.

New features include:

• New Boss: Tezekcal
  
• New playable monsters:
  • Demonic scorpion queen with devastating projectile attacks.
    
  • A flying beast with a disembodied eye that can attack from the opposite side of the room.
    
  • A poison spitting snake.
    
  • A Powerful high priestess that teleports and summons seeking runes.
• Hymns enable heroes to steal from other players. Take their gold, weapons, even swap all their equipment.
  
• Achievements/Quests.
  
• Steam trading cards.
  
• Loads of tweaks, balancing, bug fixes, and more!

The official soundtrack is finally available as well. Get it here!

Enjoy!

We're here with another Crawl update to bring in the new year! If demonic bat-winged flying eyeballs are your jam we've fleshed out their monster upgrade tree. Then there's new traps, special christmas treats for your hero as well as a horde of tweaks and bug fixes.

• Monsters
  
  • An eyebat bomber who fires powerful explosions
    
  • A cluster of three eyebat hatchlings, who work together and can heal eachother
• Traps
  
  • The Double Beam Trap fires in two directions, bisecting the battle with its violent searing light
    
  • The Homing Spike Block is magically drawn towards living flesh
    
  • The Dart Spout Trap fires a fast and deadly dart in front or behind
    
  • The Small Spike Block triggers more quickly than its larger brother
• Christmas pressies for your hero
  
• And more!

As usual, you can check out the full list of changes on the community forums, and leave us comments in there to tell us what you think!

We're here with another Crawl update to bring in the new year! If demonic bat-winged flying eyeballs are your jam we've fleshed out their monster upgrade tree. Then there's new traps, special christmas treats for your hero as well as a horde of tweaks and bug fixes.

• Monsters
  
  • An eyebat bomber who fires powerful explosions
    
  • A cluster of three eyebat hatchlings, who work together and can heal eachother
• Traps
  
  • The Double Beam Trap fires in two directions, bisecting the battle with its violent searing light
    
  • The Homing Spike Block is magically drawn towards living flesh
    
  • The Dart Spout Trap fires a fast and deadly dart in front or behind
    
  • The Small Spike Block triggers more quickly than its larger brother
• Christmas pressies for your hero
  
• And more!

As usual, you can check out the full list of changes on the community forums, and leave us comments in there to tell us what you think!

Wreak havoc on the living with oodles of new haunting opportunities for spirits. Farm ectoplasm by rattling chains and bringing paintings to life, or possess stray barrels and furniture to throw at unsuspecting heroes! If you're feeling fishy, we have a turret-spawning fish-like wizard, and a gargantuan fish with a horribly powerful bite to play with.

• New Monsters:
  • A gargantuan mutated fish with a mighty chomp and a deceptively agile roll
    
  • Magic wielding monks hide their fishlike bodies beneath hooded robes, hurling water spells and summoning beastly fish turrets
• New Object Haunting System:
  • Ghosts can farm ectoplasm by animating props around the dungeon
    
  • Many props can be levitated and thrown as makeshift traps
• New Usable Objects:
  • Paintings, mirrors, shackles, bleeding grates and haunted stocks for ghosts to animate
    
  • Trees can now be drained by heroes to gain Vitality
    
  • Heroes can find bonfires, to rest and regain health
• Mimics: Some of our chests can now be inhabited to turn them into vicious monsters
  
• Halloween Pumpkins! Don't try to eat them, I'm pretty sure they're full of bats
  
• Loads of tweaks and bug fixes Yaaay!

Check out the full list of changes on the community forums!

Wreak havoc on the living with oodles of new haunting opportunities for spirits. Farm ectoplasm by rattling chains and bringing paintings to life, or possess stray barrels and furniture to throw at unsuspecting heroes! If you're feeling fishy, we have a turret-spawning fish-like wizard, and a gargantuan fish with a horribly powerful bite to play with.

• New Monsters:
  • A gargantuan mutated fish with a mighty chomp and a deceptively agile roll
    
  • Magic wielding monks hide their fishlike bodies beneath hooded robes, hurling water spells and summoning beastly fish turrets
• New Object Haunting System:
  • Ghosts can farm ectoplasm by animating props around the dungeon
    
  • Many props can be levitated and thrown as makeshift traps
• New Usable Objects:
  • Paintings, mirrors, shackles, bleeding grates and haunted stocks for ghosts to animate
    
  • Trees can now be drained by heroes to gain Vitality
    
  • Heroes can find bonfires, to rest and regain health
• Mimics: Some of our chests can now be inhabited to turn them into vicious monsters
  
• Halloween Pumpkins! Don't try to eat them, I'm pretty sure they're full of bats
  
• Loads of tweaks and bug fixes Yaaay!

Check out the full list of changes on the community forums!

Hack and skewer with the vermin soldier's blighted halberd, or spawn a writhing rat army to command with our rodent summoner. New ways to trick your friends await in the murky depths, with devious artifacts and powerful new magics.

• New Monsters:
  
  • The vermin soldier wields a vicious halberd
    
  • The rodent summoner commands a writhing rat army
• Reworked Store Teleporter system helps new heroes get to the store for upgrades
  
• Expanded Magic Weapon system with magic all magic now displayed in weapon art, and new magic types:
  
  • Cosmic Strikes
    
  • Explosive Strikes
    
  • Life Steal Strikes
• New Artifacts:
  
  • The Medal of Honour makes your spells recharge faster on a kill streak
    
  • The Monster Hand makes your monsters' special attacks recharge faster
    
  • The Hymn of Betrayal robs the leading hero of a random artifact

And as usual there's a whole heap of smaller tweaks and bug fixes this time too, see the full list of changes on the community forums!