Version 0.2.4 (Frozen Tundra) has officially left the beta branch, and is now in the stable branch! We'd like to thank everyone who downloaded the beta and provided feedback. You do not need to unsubscribe from the beta branch if you are currently using it, as both beta and stable branches have been updated. Now, on to the details.



The following are changes from the previous 0.2.3b beta branch version.

• Added a changelog viewer in-game on the main menu
  
• Added a basic glossary, accessible from the game options (escape) menu in-game
  
• Act selection will now default to highlight the highest act you can play, instead of always act 1
  
• Vendor in town now has a restock button, with the cost increasing when you refresh the store, and decreasing while you adventure
  
• Rock Beast attributes, abilities, and AI reworked/buffed a bit to make him a bit more challenging and interesting
  
• Enemies that are immune to certain damage types will now also resist related effects, so they won't have 0 damage DoTs displayed all the time
  
• Midbosses at the end of recon missions will no longer give useless in-mission items, and instead 2 books and 2 relics
  
• Reduced the introductory costs of Research Lab and Nano Lab buildings to be more similar to Forge
  
• Vending Machines now show up as an icon on the map, and are a bit more common

• Fixed Samuel's (Lawbringer) Lawman passive being able to counter attack counter attacks, which created a possible infinite counter loop
  
• Fixed Maximus's (Blacksmith) Whetstone skill having an infinite effect duration
  
• Fixed Carlos' (Super Soldier) Altered Genes passive description to properly describe what it does
  
• Fixed Cleanse skill being unable to target self when used by heroes other than Lydia (Priestess)
  
• Fixed bug where a summon would sometimes not be called as expected after changing forms on Claire
  
• Fixed help text on relic crafting menus always saying the cost will be 100 soul gems, even after owning the cost-reducing upgrade
  
• Fixed in-battle description for Wensho's (Monk) Stone Skin skill
  
• Fixed Mutant Twins boss sometimes being able to skip phase 2 of the fight
  
• Fixed Act 2 Mirror Recon mission sometimes not generating Mirror boss
  
• Fixed Antagonist relic triggering heal from stun damage dealt to self (such as from Padded Helmet relic)
  
• Fixed Dark Knight husk's Sever Soul ability being able to apply death debuff to Claire

If you missed the previous beta changelog with the original release of version 0.2.0, these are the major changes from that version that are now live.

• A new act, with new enemy types, relics, encounters, and a useful new item when you defeat the final boss
  
• 15 new characters to find and unlock, bringing the total available to 40:
  
  • Banshee: Scream and wail over your fallen allies, and possess those that are still alive
    
  • Barbarian: Cleave your foes in two with a massive claymore, and scare them into submission with a mighty roar
    
  • Caveman: Command a mighty Sabertooth tiger while bashing your enemies over the head with primitive weapons
    
  • Cleric: Banish the undead from the battlefield, and use holy magic to protect and heal your allies
    
  • Cursed: Ignite a fearsome inner fire as an endless undead skeletal warrior
    
  • Dark Knight: Wield the forces of dark magic and armor to crush your foes and steal their life energy
    
  • General: Inspire and directly command your allies to victory, and conscript new ones to replace those who fall
    
  • Ice Mage: Assault the forces of evil with bone-chilling blizzards and protective frozen armor
    
  • MedBot: Keep your friends in top-top shape with this automated medical bot from AutoMedico(tm)
    
  • Ninja: Keep to the shadows, utilizing crafty ninja tools like shurikens and grappling hooks
    
  • Necromancer: Exploit risen zombies to be your literal meat-shields, as the master of death itself
    
  • Pioneer: Boldly forge a path forward with the hunting and tracking skills of a true outdoorsman
    
  • Sasquatch: Literally hurl your allies into the fray with the awesome strength of a massive bigfoot
    
  • Viking: Battle on the bloody edge of aggression and wield the lightning power of Odin himself
    
  • Vul: Stay versatile and nimble as you juggle aggression and defense with this vulpine heroine
• A new form for our hero, Claire: Frozen form. Empower your allies with icy technology, and deploy blizzard-summoning drones
  
• Two new Time Break skills to unlock

• Special midbosses (Big Blob, Broodmother, etc) now only appear in the actual midboss fight. Other "extreme danger" fights are now elite fights vs husks and higher-power enemy groups, such as Triple Wrestlers or Death Worms
  
• Shift, and skills that cause position shifts, can now target and trade places with downed allies
  
• Improved husk AI for Rocker, Immortal, Lawbringer, Marine, and Medic
  
• Bosses now have an innate 75% resistance to interrupt type skills (such as Chuckles' Honk skill)
  
• Added a new distortion that adds holy damage to attacks
  
• Added "BLOCKED" text when damage is negated by a skill or effect, instead of showing nothing

• Samuel's Lawbreaker trait level 3 now applies to allies as well as Samuel
  
• Yukiko's Execute can now target any critical enemy, instead of just Melee range
  
• Darius' Grenade skill damage reduced from 125-175 to 100-150
  
• Darius' Smoke Grenade skill dodge bonus decreased to 35% from 50%, but the effect no longer diminishes every turn.
  
• Zeke's Dropkick skill damage increased from 1.25x to 2x Power
  
• Zeke's No-Sell new blocks up to 100% Max HP damage before ending, instead of reducing damage for 2 turns.
  
• Wensho's Stone Skin now blocks 1x Focus damage, and non-dodging effect is removed. Level 3 blocks now more damage types.
  
• Wensho's Chakra now heals allies for 1.5x Focus instead of 0.5x, and level 2 restores 1.5x Focus MP
  
• Ambroise's Incision skill has replaced his old basic "Scalpel" skill, and he now has a new skill, Bubo Burst
  
• Javed's Adrenaline Rush Power bonus moved to level 2
  
• Harry's Suppressing Fire now cannot miss
  
• Harry's Non Combatant trait now lasts for 5 turns or until targeting an enemy
  
• Lydia's Piety trait's focus bonus decreased from 20% to 10% of Discipline
  
• Lydia's Healing Word power increased from 0.4x Focus to 0.8x Focus
  
• Lydia's Renewal power increased from 0.25x Focus per turn to 0.5x Focus per turn

• Fixed bug where Marine's Rucksack relic did not interact properly with gadget restoring skills or distortions
  
• Fixed a few automated skills from being able to be triggered when the character should be unable to act
  
• Fixed possible rare crash from Yukiko's Dagger relic
  
• Fixed occasional bug with idle animation being overridden incorrectly when an effect ended
  
• Fixed bug where face menu overlay was not re-enabled after opening and closing the party menu
  
• Fixed some occasional animation issues with Ambush and Hide skills
  
• Fixed occasional issue where effect icons and a few other things in battle were sometimes briefly scaled wildly large or offset incorrectly
  
• Fixed HP/MP changed values not displaying when viewing relics to add or remove

This patch includes some bugfixes and balance changes based on player feedback, as well as some polish and system additions for the Act 2 release that we wanted to get added. We are now approaching a version which should be ready for the main branch soon.

• Introductory recon missions are now split into 3 separate missions -- one for each midboss, with some different encounters for each. If you've already passed the original intro mission in your save, the game will count this as having already passed all 3
  
• Added two new enemy types to stage 2, with a few new battles for them: Soul Master and Mammoth
  
• Reworked Spirit Well fight to have more defined and easier to follow phases. The overall general theme is the same.
  
• Reworked Zombie enemy to be more challenging. It can revive itself into a weaker form, but its HP has been reduced. It also gains a free turn when its allies are downed, and can counter attack. A few zombie encounters have been changed based on these changes.
  
• Improved AI for Cursed husk, so it will use Rekindle and Bone Shield appropriately
  
• Improved AI for Ninja husk, so it will attack with shurikens as well as ninja tools, and not spam caltrops
  
• Reworked Thorg (Viking) a bit, to solidify his frenzy and crit theme
  
  • Blood Rage now guarantees critical hits at level 3
    
  • Battle Cry now restores MP cost at level 2
    
  • Battle Cry now lasts 5 turns
    
  • Thunder Hammer now default fight skill, always hits at level 3, Lightning always hits
    
  • Raider trait now increases damage with more Power instead of HP
    
  • Throw Axe now refreshes duration on hit at level 3
    
  • New Berserker trait that modifies Frenzy
• Reworked a few of Maximus' (Blacksmith) skills
  
  • Whetstone changed to simply last for 3 turns without the decay effect
    
  • Vulcan's Hammer relic now gives +10 Power for each SkillType.Buff on the wearer
    
  • Added Imbue skill, which temporarily grants the powers of Maximus's relics to a target ally
    
  • Temper skill is now available as an alternate ability
• Drex's (Cursed) Throw Skull skill now costs HP, instead of MP
  
• Rafael's (Sentinel) Infinity Generator passive now also has the MP skill type tag
  
• Alacrity Implant relic bonus increased from 0.25x to 0.35x Speed

• Fixed Og's (Caveman) Throw Spear Level 2 and 3 not applying correctly
  
• Fixed possible crash from Undying distortion
  
• Fixed possible crash from Jed's (Pioneer) Bear Trap skill if it killed an enemy at the same time as resetting
  
• Fixed crash related to Mirror Image skill
  
• Fixed missing battle flavor text for Korr (Sasquatch)
  
• Fixed scroll wheel not scrolling skills menu as expected when a hero has more than 8 available skills
  
• Fixed animation displaying hero's weapon when using Toss skill through a relic
  
• Fixed bug where certain skill underlay effects appeared under map inlays instead of over them
  
• Fixed bug where effects were not being applied to heroes properly during tutorial
  
• Fixed Act 2 being available when Act 1 was still incomplete
  
• Fixed possible infinite loop from Zone D skill on two characters
  
• Fixed taunted targets being unable to target a hiding taunter
  
• Fixed Incanter enemy being unable to use Dark Shroud skill as intended at higher levels
  
• Added a fix for an occasional issue where menu text was offset incorrectly in battle

This is another small patch to address some issues reported in the recent beta branch update.

• Fixed popup menu being able to appear partially off-screen on conduit-space map
  
• Fixed crash when using Cain's (Maelstrom) Stasis Net on certain enemy types
  
• Fixed Rafael's (Sentinel) Forcefield dealing reflect damage to melee attacks, instead of ranged attacks only as the skill implies
  
• Fixed attribute calculations in menus not reflecting changes from passive skills granted by relics, such as from Korr's Solitude.
  
• Fixed Max HP calculation on Viking Warhorn relic
  
• HP/MP will now properly update color to green or red when looking at changing stats from equipping relics
  
• Fixed a crash from a certain battle with invalid data
  
• Fixed a crash when closing menu too fast after breaking down a relic
  
• Fixed a crash from opening status menu on a summon's turn
  
• Fixed description on Kiara's (Banshee) Possession skill to reflect that it can't be used on an Undead target

• Vikki's (Vul) Tranquil and Hunter stances are now powered by Technique, instead of Power and Focus
  
• Slade (Rocker) no longer gains a free turn when using Jam
  
• Stasis Time Break Tech now has a greatly reduced effect vs Boss enemies
  
• The Twins boss will no longer counter DoT type damage with Backhand
  
• Added a much more visible "red skull" effect when a character is afflicted by a death effect, such as Queen's Bite, along with a tutorial popup for the first time you see it
  
• Added a tutorial popup for the first time a player hero is taunted
  
• Added a couple more new encounters to Act 2
  
• Bosses now just have more Max HP instead of giant amounts of endurance. The total HP on them is unchanged.

This is a small patch to address some issues reported in the recent beta branch update.

• Fixed skill level display in skills menu when level is adjusted by a source other than training (distortions, or Korr's Solitude for example)
  
• Fixed Sovras' Pale Servant not being flagged as Undead
  
• Fixed a crash from Sovras' Undying passive
  
• Fixed George's Conscription skill always being level 2
  
• Fixed a crash from using George's Command to order Claire to transform
  
• Fixed Zeke's finisher doing extra healing
  
• Claire now starts battle in selected form, rather than transforming into it. This fixes some issues with certain relics or skills not triggering on battle start properly when on secondary form
  
• Fixed subskill display for Vikki's Vulstaff and Winter's Gift in skill menu to show details additional skills that have not been unlocked through level up yet. This also fixes a crash when viewing these.
  
• Fixed characters being able to shift and trade positions with summons
  
• Fixed a crash from Korr using Toss on summoned Snow Drone
  
• Fixed summons being viewable in status menu, which sometimes caused a crash
  
• Fixed a possible crash from map effects like draining cloud
  
• Fixed a possible crash at end of tutorial

• Added icons for tier 1/2 midbosses so you can see which one you're going to face
  
• Added a couple more maps to act 2 encounters
  
• Slade's Jam subskills are now visible in the skills menu
  
• Sovras' Undying passive activation chance buffed from 5% to 10%

It's here! Version 0.2.0b (Frozen Tundra) release is finally available to play! We are releasing this into a new Beta branch at first, before an official Stable release, so that we can head off any major bugs and finish up a bit of polish here and there. Still, all the content is available and playable right now, and everything should be able to go to the main branch pretty soon.

Opting into a Beta branch is easy on Steam. Simply right click Time Break Chronicles in your Library, select Properties, and then click "Betas." From there you can select the Beta branch from the dropdown, and Steam will download the files for you.

There's a lot of new content for you to explore in this update. We'll separate it out below, into a few categories.

• A new act, with new enemy types, relics, encounters, and a useful new item when you defeat the final boss
  
• 15 new characters to find and unlock, bringing the total available to 40:
  
  • Banshee: Scream and wail over your fallen allies, and possess those that are still alive
    
  • Barbarian: Cleave your foes in two with a massive claymore, and scare them into submission with a mighty roar
    
  • Caveman: Command a mighty Sabertooth tiger while bashing your enemies over the head with primitive weapons
    
  • Cleric: Banish the undead from the battlefield, and use holy magic to protect and heal your allies
    
  • Cursed: Ignite a fearsome inner fire as an endless undead skeletal warrior
    
  • Dark Knight: Wield the forces of dark magic and armor to crush your foes and steal their life energy
    
  • General: Inspire and directly command your allies to victory, and conscript new ones to replace those who fall
    
  • Ice Mage: Assault the forces of evil with bone-chilling blizzards and protective frozen armor
    
  • MedBot: Keep your friends in top-top shape with this automated medical bot from AutoMedico(tm)
    
  • Ninja: Keep to the shadows, utilizing crafty ninja tools like shurikens and grappling hooks
    
  • Necromancer: Exploit risen zombies to be your literal meat-shields, as the master of death itself
    
  • Pioneer: Boldly forge a path forward with the hunting and tracking skills of a true outdoorsman
    
  • Sasquatch: Literally hurl your allies into the fray with the awesome strength of a massive bigfoot
    
  • Viking: Battle on the bloody edge of aggression and wield the lightning power of Odin himself
    
  • Vul: Stay versatile and nimble as you juggle aggression and defense with this vulpine heroine
• A new form for our hero, Claire: Frozen form. Empower your allies with icy technology, and deploy blizzard-summoning drones
  
• Two new Time Break skills to unlock

• Special midbosses (Big Blob, Broodmother, etc) now only appear in the actual midboss fight. Other "extreme danger" fights are now elite fights vs husks and higher-power enemy groups, such as Triple Wrestlers or Death Worms
  
• Shift, and skills that cause position shifts, can now target and trade places with downed allies
  
• Improved husk AI for Rocker, Immortal, Lawbringer, Marine, and Medic
  
• Bosses now have an innate 75% resistance to interrupt type skills (such as Chuckles' Honk skill)
  
• Added a new distortion that adds holy damage to attacks
  
• Added "BLOCKED" text when damage is negated by a skill or effect, instead of showing nothing

• Samuel's Lawbreaker trait level 3 now applies to allies as well as Samuel
  
• Yukiko's Execute can now target any critical enemy, instead of just Melee range
  
• Darius' Grenade skill damage reduced from 125-175 to 100-150
  
• Darius' Smoke Grenade skill dodge bonus decreased to 35% from 50%, but the effect no longer diminishes every turn.
  
• Zeke's Dropkick skill damage increased from 1.25x to 2x Power
  
• Zeke's No-Sell new blocks up to 100% Max HP damage before ending, instead of reducing damage for 2 turns.
  
• Wensho's Stone Skin now blocks 1x Focus damage, and non-dodging effect is removed. Level 3 blocks now more damage types.
  
• Wensho's Chakra now heals allies for 1.5x Focus instead of 0.5x, and level 2 restores 1.5x Focus MP
  
• Ambroise's Incision skill has replaced his old basic "Scalpel" skill, and he now has a new skill, Bubo Burst
  
• Javed's Adrenaline Rush Power bonus moved to level 2
  
• Harry's Suppressing Fire now cannot miss
  
• Harry's Non Combatant trait now lasts for 5 turns or until targeting an enemy
  
• Lydia's Piety trait's focus bonus decreased from 20% to 10% of Discipline
  
• Lydia's Healing Word power increased from 0.4x Focus to 0.8x Focus
  
• Lydia's Renewal power increased from 0.25x Focus per turn to 0.5x Focus per turn

• Fixed bug where Marine's Rucksack relic did not interact properly with gadget restoring skills or distortions
  
• Fixed a few automated skills from being able to be triggered when the character should be unable to act
  
• Fixed possible rare crash from Yukiko's Dagger relic
  
• Fixed occasional bug with idle animation being overridden incorrectly when an effect ended
  
• Fixed bug where face menu overlay was not re-enabled after opening and closing the party menu
  
• Fixed some occasional animation issues with Ambush and Hide skills
  
• Added a fix for occasional issue where effect icons and a few other things were sometimes breifly scaled wildly large or offset incorrectly
  
• Fixed HP/MP changed values not displaying when viewing relics to add or remove

And last, but certainly not least, we'd like to extend our thanks to the community for passing on your bug reports and feedback as we go along in early access. You've all been helpful and supportive, and we'd like to wish you all a happy holidays and a hopeful 2021! Come and join the community on our discord at https://discord.gg/m9MAfrP if you haven't already.

We are getting very close to the release of Frozen Tundra, so we've got another upcoming character teaser for you today, to whet your appetite.


The Frozen Tundra abounds with evil and undead, so a holy man of strength and conviction will be invaluable in your efforts to defeat the cult's minions. Brand wields a blessed Holy Mace, ready to smash evil with holy damage. He can Consecrate the earth, and read the undead their Last Rites to banish them from the battlefield for good. As a man of the cloth, he also provides healing and holy protection to allies.


Speaking of undead, Kiara is our first undead hero. Cursed to an existence as a ghostly banshee, Kiara mourns the loss of her allies with piercing screams and wails, dealing Sonic damage to the enemies who felled them. As a ghostly spirit, she is incorporeal, making her hard to hit, and she can also possess an ally to empower them with her own abilities. Kiara works fantastically with heroes who fall and are revived regularly, such as Carlos or Javed.

We've got a medium-sized update for you today, which includes some bug fixes, and changes and additions to some of the core systems of the game, based on your feedback.


The Book Binder is an upgrade you can now purchase on the Library building. It will allow you to convert stacks of duplicate Skill Books into other random books. With enough books, you can even just craft an Encyclopedia to train any skill.

The three unlockable town buildings now have a special upgrade that can be purchased multiple times, with an exponentially scaling cost. They each grant +1 to three different attributes for all heroes.

Our goal with these changes is to remove some of the hurdle for new players in selecting from the available item bundles, and to give more freedom to choose various mission items without worrying about cost.

• Item bundles when starting a mission are now free, but the number of slots for them has been reduced.
  
• You can only select one of each type of bundle.
  
• We have removed some of the more "advanced" bundles from the starting list to help guide newer players into selecting more useful stuff early game. Additional bundles can be unlocked via town upgrades.

Our goal with these changes is to increase the choice of paths you can take during the mission, instead of tending to always just go for the path with the most camps.

• Camping Supplies have been changed to a new item: Stimulant Pod. These allow you to restore 15 stamina to all allies at any time from the party item menu, as opposed to requiring a camp to use them.
  
• Camp sites have been reduced to only appear before the mid and end boss fights, but they now restore 30 stamina for free.
  
• One Stimulant Pod is now a guaranteed reward from Extreme Danger combats.
  
• You can bring a free Stimulant Pod via an Item Bundle when starting a mission, and of course find them in battle or chest rewards.

• Cain's Chaos Storm level 3 now returns 25% of MP instead of 50%.
  
• Cain's Unstable Generator now also reduces MP healing he receives by 50%.
  
• Downed allies now also count as "critical" for skill effect purposes.

• Missing achievements have been added for the recent Hero Pack heroes (Clown, Linebacker, Maelstrom). If you've already rescued them, the achievements should be awarded the next time you visit town.
  
• Fixed bug where Cain's Unstable Generator level 2 effect procced at level 1.
  
• Fixed some display bugs with Darius and Samuel's gun sprites' visibility timing.
  
• Vendors now play a "ka-ching" sound when you buy something, instead of no sound.

Version 0.1.14 is here, with our first Wanderer Hero Pack: three new heroes for you to rescue in endless mode! This update also includes some other updates and changes.

• First off, the three new heroes. These heroes are classified as "wanderers" and can only be rescued in endless mode (of any tier).

Get ready for a barrel of creepy laughs with Chuckles and his ridiculous enemy-stunning gadgets. Fire pies into enemy faces, bonk them on the head with an oversized mallet, or break their concentration with a well timed honk of a clown horn.

Master the chaos of a storm with Cain and his high-tech lightning controlling armor. Unleash a devastating Chaos Storm, control your foes with his Stasis Net, and power up your allies' MP with his restorative generator skills.

Coming in fast and furious straight from the gridiron is Paul, ready to lay the lumber on whoever is in his way. Trash Talk your opponents to throw them off their game. Change stances from Zone Defense to Blitz to swap from a defensive to offensive mindset. With his heavy pads and helmet, Paul can also take a beating, nullifying large amounts of physical damage.

• Zeke's skills have been adjusted and retuned to buff him a bit.
  
• The "All Characters" list in town has been redesigned to more easily fit more characters on the screen at once, and hidden characters from Frozen Wasteland are displayed
  
• Grey Blob enemy is now called Spiked Blob, with a new spiky sprite design to better convey what it does
  
• After rescuing a character, the skill they grant to Claire will be displayed as part of the post-rescue dialogue.
  
• Scan Time Break skill now automatically opens status menu after using it, for ease of use.
  
• Fixed no longer being able to select targets in battle by clicking on them.
  
• Fixed a possible crash if Berserk distortion was applied to Claire.

We hope you all have fun with the new heroes, and maybe enjoy trying some new strategies with them! Our next major update will be Frozen Wasteland, and we'll keep you updated as we get closer to that release.

Today we've got a preview of 2 heroes from our upcoming first Hero Pack, coming later this month! We are still working away on the Frozen Tundra content, but we wanted to make sure to get some new heroes out for you to play with! This is a smaller content release that will add "wanderer" heroes that can be rescued only in endless mode.


Just in time for Halloween, Chuckles the Clown is here to bring the creepy laughs. Claire is not a fan of clowns, but even she can't deny the healing power of laughter. Whether it's bonking enemies on the head with a large squeaky mallet, throwing pies to blind them, or honking his clown horn to interrupt their attacks, Chuckles heals his allies with every action he performs. Just don't ask him where he gets the endless supply of balloons.


You have probably already met Rafael, the Sentinel, and perhaps wondered who the Sentinel Corps use their Forcefields to protect in their universe. Meet the Maelstrom, master over the awesome power and chaos of a lightning storm. Cain's armor is equipped with a Volatile Capacitor and Unstable Battery, which allows him to quickly recharge his MP, share some MP with allies, and damage enemies randomly with discharges of lighting. When his MP is full, he can unleash the devastating Chaos Storm, laying waste to his foes.

We've got another upcoming character teaser for you today, as we continue to work on the next content release. We are hoping to have a smaller "character pack" content update soon for you, as well. We'll post more on that in the near future.

Now, on to the character teaser!


Straight from the labs at AutoMedico, a division of Quinn Enterprises Inc., Medical Unit 21 is ready to serve the healthcare needs of civilians and militaries alike. Fully automated, MU21's AutoAid OS is always standing by, ready to act at a moment's notice. Wounds and ailments are a thing of the past with AutoMedico's patented Heal Beam technology. In addition, with Self Repair functionality, MU21 needs little to no maintenance. Contact your AutoMedico sales representative today!


Jed is a rugged pioneer and trapper from the early days of western expansionism. As an expert survivalist, used to rugged living off the land, he loses stamina more slowly than others, is able to get more use out of healing items, and can even find some extra items from time to time. When forced to fight, Jed is armed with a powerful black powder musket. It may take a turn to reload, but it packs a punch. However, if he can, Jed prefers to lay in wait, set traps, and ambush his prey with a well timed aimed shot.