The game switched to a peer-to-peer networking model. Before this change, matches were hosted on US servers and ping kinda sucked outside the US.

We went from WebSockets to WebRTC: the room creator hosts and everyone else connects directly to them. This benefits all players: you'll get smoother games with players near you.

And yeah, since I'm not paying for servers anymore, MouseWars will stay free forever :D

The only disadvantage is that room discovery is no longer available, so you have to share a link or room code with your friends, but I believe we can use our Discord for matchmaking.

Have fun! 🐭🔫

Dear Magicians,

The Magicraft 1.2 Update featuring the free Dave the Diver crossover DLC is now live! 🎉

Head over to the store page to claim and install it:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4099830

To celebrate the upcoming Halloween, the Halloween-themed appearance set is now available!

Get an extra 10% off when you purchase the Magicraft + Halloween Costume Bundle!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/61584/

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/61584/

A Diver arrives in the world of magic?! 🐟

Harpoons, sushi, and perilous underwater adventures—what kind of surprises await this time? ~

New Set: Dave — starts with the unique weapon TripleGun and comes equipped with the new spells Triple Projectile and Harpoon.

When using the Diver Dave set, you’ll always enter the crossover stage and encounter the underwater bosses. After clearing the crossover stage for the first time, there’s also a chance to meet them again while using other sets!

TripleGun: A specially designed underwater firearm that fires three evenly spread bullets with each shot.

Triple Projectile: Fires three evenly spread bullets. Hitting enemies 30 times will charge up one Fishing Harpoon.

Harpoon: Dave’s signature weapon. Tap Space to fire a single harpoon, or hold Space to charge up and unleash all stored harpoons at once for massive damage!

New Relic Series: Harpoon Tips

Enhanced Harpoon Tip: Harpoon damage +15%.

Poison Harpoon Tip: Hitting an enemy with a harpoon applies 2 stacks of Poison.

Lightning Harpoon Tip: When a harpoon hits an enemy, 40% of its damage is transmitted to enemies within a 5-meter radius, up to 3 times.

Ice Harpoon Tip: Hitting an enemy with a harpoon freezes the target for 2 seconds.

Flame Harpoon Tip: Harpoon damage +40%. Hitting an enemy with a harpoon causes them to take damage equal to 4% of their max HP per second for 2 seconds (0.4% for bosses).

Extended Harpoon Tip: Increases harpoon capacity by +2.

When using the DAVE THE DIVER Set, opening a chest grants 1 random enhanced Harpoon Tip. After upgrading, there’s also a chance to obtain an additional one — don’t miss any treasure chest on your journey!

New Chapter I Boss: Giant Squid

An abnormally large squid — soft-bodied but razor-toothed. It’s said to have a strong ammonium flavor and is completely inedible.

New Chapter IV Boss: Truck Hermit Crab

A gigantic hermit crab that dwells in the Blue Hole. It lives inside a scrapped truck thrown into the sea and only comes out at night.

New Chapter V Boss: John Watson

Said to be a former Navy SEAL, he now operates within the Blue Hole as the leader of the violent organization Sea Blue.

On your journey, you’ll encounter Dave’s old friend Bancho and discover powerful spells within the Sea People’s dwelling, uncovering the truth behind the adventure.

New Scene Added: Bancho Sushi Restaurant (Spring)

New Scene Added: Sea People’s Dwelling (Store & Reforge)

The warm glow of greenish candles replaces the campfire’s light — the world of Magicraft is about to welcome its most “bewitching” season!

The familiar home camp has taken on a whole new look: pumpkin lanterns and Halloween candies are scattered everywhere, eerie tree shadows entangle cobwebs, and all your NPC companions have eagerly changed into their festive costumes!

🏚️ Camp Theme Revamp – Halloween Magic Camp

🎃 Special Character Outfit – Pumpkinhead Magician

👻 NPC Surprise Costumes – Trickster Companions

*Halloween-themed content is only visible after purchase on the Steam store.

Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4100710

Optimized the code structure, upgrading from MonoBehaviour to DOTS, resulting in improved baseline frame rates.

Enhanced visual effects for certain spells.

Improved collision handling for summoned entities.

Temporarily removed: Giant Troll, High-pressure Stream; will be reintroduced after optimization is complete.

For detailed information on the code refactor and potential impacts, please refer to:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2103140/view/547875764461112901

Optimizations:

● Reduced performance cost of floating combat text and removed immunity text when instantly killing Bosses or elite monsters.

● Minor art adjustments to global lighting and the camp.

● Optimized NPC Bella’s outfit details.

● Added confirmation UI in the spell activation interface.

● Optimized scarecrow key interaction.

● Minor tweaks to certain monster behaviors.

● Minor UI adjustments.

● Minor level adjustments.

● Adjustments to some sound effects and music.

Adjustments:

● Removed potions: Pure Castor Oil, Illusion Potion.

● Removed curses: Misfortune, Doom.

● Fixed the issue where the achievement Superior Firepower Doctrine could be earned in the training room.

Spell/Item Balances:

● Arcane Barrier: Max Mana +200 → +400, Magic Block 15 → 30, Damage per point of mana 5 → 3.

● Magic Vine: Mana regen per segment 20/35/50% → 16/24/36%, Max Mana per segment 10/20/40% → 16/24/36%.

● Arcane Explosion: Damage 15/45/135 → 16/48/144.

● Ray of Disintegration: Damage 68/136/272 → 72/144/288.

● Adava Keravda: Upgrade requirement 120/240 → 100/200.

● Frost Crystal: Rarity changed from Rare → Common.

● Echo: Rarity changed from Rare → Common.

Choo Choo Engineers!

Good news, our weapon technicians have been able to upgrade the Wrecking Ball and Vampire blade with auto targeting/swing options. You can now set them to auto rotate or auto snake.

Note: For the wrecking ball you must have at least the first Hurl Level purchased or else the auto rotation will not be able to kick in. There just isn't enough oomph until you upgrade the Hurl Level.

I personally use the Snake motion once I have an auxiliary weapon blowing stuff up for resources. The auto rotation is really helpful early on for cleaning the area and getting all available resource.

As for bosses I strongly recommend switching back to manual and keeping the wrecking ball or vampire blade constantly attacking to bring those bosses down as fast as possible!

Thanks,

GTGD

Greetings from Com2uS!

v8.8.8 has been updated on Steam today, and an auto update will be held to install the new version.

The process won't take long, but you may experience a sudden crash if you are logged in when the update begins.

Please make sure to come back to the Village and end your game safely to save your game data before the update starts.

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\[Update Schedule per Server]

Global - 12:45 AM PDT

Europe - 9:45 AM CEST

Asia - 3:30 PM TST

Korea - 4:00 PM KST

Japan - 4:30 PM JST

China - 3:30 PM CST

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​※ You won't be able to enter \[World Arena, Arena Interserver Battle, and World Guild Battle​]​ during \[12:00 AM - 12:45 AM PDT], and other content can be played normally.

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v8.8.8 Update Details

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※ The addition of Original Monsters for the TEKKEN 8 Collab previously announced has been rescheduled to the last update of November due to internal development adjustments. We appreciate your understanding as we work to deliver them in their most complete form.

▶ \[World Arena] Challenge Battle New Season

Period: Nov. 1, 12:00 AM PDT - Dec. 31, 6:59 AM PST

* The new season will open across all servers after a rest period from Oct. 31, 8:00 AM until 11:59 PM PDT.

(* Rankings and records will reset during the rest period.)

- Challenge Battle rewards will be reset. Take on new goals and earn rewards.

- The following Challenge Battle Monsters will be available for the new season.

* Challenge Monsters above can be used until Dec. 31, 6:59 AM PST,

and will be replaced with a new set when the new season begins on Jan. 1, 2026 12:00 AM PST.

* Monster info of some of the same Monsters from the previous season has been updated as follows.

- Rune Set Change

: Wind Dragon Knight \[Violent + Seal → Violent + Nemesis]

: Wind Totemist \[Violent + Revenge → Violent + Will]

: Water Twin Angels \[Violent + Will → Swift + Will]

- Usage Info Change: Fire Valkyrja "Ally Protection" → "Revive"

- Rune Stat Change: Fire Archangel's Attack Speed decreased by 2

\[View Monster Details]

▶ Challenge Battle Improvements

- The number of Monsters available for selection has been increased from 12 → 14.

- Attack Speed will now be displayed on the Monster thumbnails, and Monsters can be sorted by Attribute or Attack Speed.

- You can now apply Transmogrifications you own to the Challenge Battle Monsters.

- You can now view your ranking, win rate, and battle record when pressing the Summoner profile.

- The \[Spectate] shortcut button on the Challenge Battle main screen has been replaced with a \[Rankings] shortcut.

- Your current total win count will now be displayed in the Victory Reward menu.

- A new cutscene has been added to clearly indicate when a Challenge Run is over.

- A new Challenge Battle section has been added to \[Profile > Record] to show your highest single-run win record.

- A new Challenge Battle section has been added to \[Guild Info > Guild Member > Member Rank > Arena].

▶ World Arena 2v2 Team Battle

- Period: Nov. 10, 12:00 AM - Nov. 23, 7:00 AM PST

- World Arena 2v2 Team Battle achievements have been reset.

▶ Other Improvements and Changes

- Pressing the \[Power Up Selected] button on the \[Power Up Selected] results pop-up will now automatically select all eligible Runes.

- \[Profile > Change Costume > Ellia's Collection] The acquisition sources and detailed info of costumes and rides will now be available.

- \[Craft Building > Others] Ellia's Costumes can now be crafted as complete sets instead of separate parts, with reduced total crafting costs.

※ If you have unfinished costumes before the v8.8.8 update, the complete set will be automatically granted after the update.

- Following the Magic Shop's full slot unlock, a related achievement will be revised as follows.

(As-is) Any New Arrivals? / Expand the item slot in the Magic Shop 3 times / Crystal +10

(To-be) Any Runes for Sale? / Buy a 6★ Rune from the Magic Shop / Crystal +10

▶ Monster Errors Fixed

- (Wind/Light) Arcane Weapon \[Crushing Swipe]: Fixed an issue where the increased harmful effect activation rate at Lv. 5 did not apply to the cooldown increase effect.

- (Dark) Arcane Weapon \[Limit Drive (Passive)]: Adjusted the skill animation for smoother transitions.

- (Fire) Arcane Weapon \[Emergency Drive (Passive)]: Fixed an issue where the Monster's skills could be used manually in the World Arena when it was in the mechanical frame state after taking fatal damage.

▶ Game Errors Fixed

- \[World Arena] Fixed an issue where the Monster auto-selection feature (by Favorites order) did not function properly when the network connection was lost and the selection time expired.

- \[World Arena > Info > Season Reward] Fixed an issue where the preview for \[Dark Omen Fragment] was available in Water Attribute.

- \[Power-up Circle] Fixed an issue where a Monster's level EXP was incorrectly applied after Evolution.

- \[Shop > Glory > World Arena] Fixed an issue where the pop-up image of Legendary Rune Box was displayed incorrectly.

- \[Transmogrification Building] Fixed an issue where the preview of certain Transmogrification Items was rendered abnormally.

- \[Guild Shop] Improved the sorting for Monster Summoning Pieces and fixed an issue where Wind Imp Champion's Summoning Pieces could not be purchased in bulk.

- Fixed an issue where certain special rules of Siege Battle Tournament Season 19 were applied incorrectly in the test battle feature. Please refer below for the correct special rules for this season’s Siege Battle Tournament.

Fellow Necromancers,
 

We apologise for the delay! While the Citadel may be a big place, in truth QuietPenguinGaming is just one person (me), and life has been pretty full-on lately.
 

Before I fully wrap up development for Necromancer For A Week, there were two things I really wanted to do:
 

1. Add more enemies

2. Introduce another game mode
    

With life being so busy, finding an achievable and realistic way to do #2 was proving difficult. I really wanted it to be some sort of draft mode where you pick extra Moves and your team changed between Battles, but I just couldn't figure out a fun solution that I liked and that could be coded in a decent time-frame.
 

Then while reading over the NFAW feedback form, I came across this submission:
 

"Silly submission; Nomnomicon - Book with teeth. Starts with 2 or 3 random neutral tome moves (could be at start of fight, could be upon selection. But if upon selection it would be funnier if they remained a mystery until after it is selected) only learns neutral tome moves, even from regular tomes."

 

This seemed like a fun idea! Having a Monster capable of both starting and learning any Move in the game would satisfy my desire for another game mode that let players combine Moves from many Monsters, while also being something I could realistically implement.

 

So, without further ado I introduce to you: Nomnomicon Mode!

Selectable just like any other difficulty, this will replace every Tombstone in your run with a Nomnomicon. It will have a random HP value from 35, 40, 45 or 50 (with 35 and 50 being the rarest), and 4 starting Moves chosen at random from any Move in the game EXCEPT a Move your chosen Starter knows or could learn. The first Move is guaranteed to be Offensive, but the other 3 could be anything; same with its Move Tomes. You can even get duplicates!
 

I've done a lot of playtesting and balance tweaking to figure out the best solution to make this idea fun. It's still random, but in a way that runs still feel winnable and interesting (only 2 or 3 starting Moves ending up being too few, and without a guaranteed Offensive Move too many Nomnomicons were unusable).
 

With the release of this game mode, I just need to add some more enemies to the game and then I'll be considering NFAW to be a finished project. While I may still continue tweaking balance numbers here and there, and perhaps adding a little bit of content should inspiration strike, I am excited to move on to figuring out what my next game will be.
 

I want to give a massive thank you to the user who submitted the idea for Nomnomicon, and to everyone for being so patient with me while I got this update out. I know it's been a long time coming!
 

I'll leave you with a couple of bug fixes and a balance change:

 

 

Etisara:

• Parasitic Offense - Tooltip reminder text was bugged (wouldn't show Dazed totals correctly, and could go into negative numbers)

• New Strain - Text said 'Forget' twice.

 Hexiboar:

• Close Your Eyes - the 'Blind Charge' tooltip still had the old effect text (+4 instead of +3)

 Volcurtle:

•  Self-Destruct tooltip text wasn't consistent.

 

Stat-saving:

 

A couple players have submitted issues where stats weren't saved despite them reanimating that Monster in a run. I've done my best to track down the issue, but I could only reproduce this bug intermittently. If this occurs again, please let me know and be as detailed as possible (eg are you completing the run all in one sitting, or saving and coming back later?).

 

 

Pengilla:

• Bicep Flex - No longer has 'Forget'.

 

This is a Monster that I've been wanting to give a slight buff to for some time, and while 'Forget' on Bicep Flex was cool from a flavour standpoint (only got 2 biceps to flex!), it was unnecessary from a balance point of view.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Update Details]
Please check for more details regarding the update from in-game notices or from official website.

We fixed some minor bugs

・Adjusting the button position

・Text correction

Bug fixing:
- Fixed issue with bolt counts on the score panel

Balance:
-Attack speed upgrade slightly nerfed

Improvements:
- Minor SFX adjustments
- Minor UI changes

This game was released without any further updates or bug fixes due to its immature development process.

Therefore, I have decided that maintaining this store page would create an unpleasant experience for users who might download the game.

Therefore, I have decided to discontinue the store page. I would like to apologize to all users who have shown interest in this game, and I will return with an even better game.

Hey barkeeps! We have heard your feedback and have started making some changes, starting with this small patch. We are excited to bring a major content update in the coming weeks, stay tuned!

• 3 additional songs by our composer Nick Gay (Xinkc)

  • 2 additional tavern themes, unlocked in the medium and large taverns

  • Pirate event theme

• Price tags to display cost of character upgrades in the Compendium

• Getting busted by the guards no longer ends the current day (unless you are on your last heart).

  • Getting busted once often resulted in bankruptcy, which ended the run. This felt very harsh and made your ‘health’ irrelevant. This adjustment restores meaning to health and feels more fair.

• Adjusted layout of the medium tavern

  • Many people felt the medium tavern was too big of a step up from the small tavern, both in size and in number of seats.

• Increased player move speed in Medium and Large taverns

• Fixed defense event reward scaling

• Fixed scaling issue with character upgrades on certain event days

• Fixed issue where the thief could come back to life in certain circumstances (sneaky!)

• Fixed issue where event characters could not spawn on relevant event days if not unlocked in the compendium

• Fixed issue where the king's detection cone was considered part of his interaction area

  • “burger”

• Fixed looping issue with defense event theme music