*FIXED MOUSE NOT LOCKING TO FULL SCREEN CORRECTLY.

*CHARACTER MOVEMENT HAS BEEN ADJUSTED TO ALLOW FOR DIRECTION CHANGE DURING ATTACK AND DODGE ANIMATIONS. SHOULD MAKE IT EASIER TO DODGE OUT OF HARM, NOT INTO IT.

*UPDATED RITES TAB TO MORE ACCURATELY REPRESENT CONTROL SCHEMES.

*A PORTION OF INCOMING DAMAGE IS NOW CONVERTED TO POISE AND STAMINA TO HELP KEEP FIGHTS GOING FOR LONGER, AND ENCOURAGE A MORE AGGRESSIVE PLAYSTYLE.

*FIXED ISSUE THAT CAUSED ENEMIES TO NEVER DROP HEALING ITEMS. ADDED SOUND EFFECT FOR EACH ITEM TYPE.

*OPTIMIZED DISTANT BUILDINGS IN EKERA TO HELP WITH PERFORMANCE.

"Mononoke no Kuni” will be showcased at WePlay Expo 2025, held in Shanghai from November 22–23, 2025!

WePlay is one of the largest game and pop-culture events in China, bringing together indie games, AAA titles, creators, streamers, and fans from around the world.

At our booth, visitors will be able to play a hands-on demo of the game.

A demo version will also be available on Steam—please look forward to it!

In addition, to celebrate our participation in WePlay, we will be hosting a fan vote—both at the booth and on Discord—to help determine the game’s official main visual.

If you are attending the event, we would love for you to visit the Mononoke no Kuni booth at B23!

WePlay Expo 2025:

https://www.weplaymore.com/japanese

Event Dates: November 22–23, 2025

Venue: Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Centre (Hall H3)

Booth Number: B23

Mononoke no Kuni Discord:

https://discord.gg/Ayskd8J4B8

We look forward to seeing you there!

We will be selling the illustration book, acrylic cards, stickers, framed illustrations, and other items offered as rewards for our crowdfunding campaign at BOOTH, under the title "Magicami Fighting Game Club Direct Sales Store"!
https://den-wgc73nft9i.booth.pm/
There are many illustrations that were not available when the crowdfunding campaign began, so if there are any that you would like to see, now is your chance!
We are currently accepting applications until December 20th, so please apply early!

Greetings soldiers of Genua! Remember our OG demo where Callon & Orvus go on their first mission in the border town of Lendene? The team has been working hard incorporating all the art, UI, VFX, sound design, and cut scene updates we worked on for the Ruiners Pass demo into our original prologue so we can combine the two into one amazing "first chapter". Stay tuned, we're getting close to finishing testing...

We released two additional patches in October where we added in the new cathedral playable area and also fixed some combat and directional bugs. One of our most common bug reports was not being able to use potions to heal characters outside battle, and that is fixed now :)

What's coming up?

• Polish prologue updates and bug fixes

• Adding language selection screens and translation text (working on French, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, Spanish, Russian at the moment with more to come)

• Integrate new cutscenes

• Continue visual polish of cathedral interior and resolve camera angle issues

Check out some screenshots of the cathedral interior! There's some tricky puzzles in here, so keep an eye out for clues and watch out for the undead...

We also continue making new sprites and animations for characters and NPCs, this month's preview is Noa, a Zenuan elder, and a beetle you may have to fight later on.

We took a break from doing a Youtube dev diary last month but will have one to share within the next few weeks! However, we've seen some awesome streams and videos come out over the last month from content creators still discovering Aegis Force. Check them out today!

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Erick Landon RPG

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Make sure to join our Discord so you can keep up on our development progress, give feedback to the devs, and see the latest news!

Join the Discord!

We're putting the finishing touches on the prologue update and will share with all of you once the first chapter is completely integrated and ready to play. We've still got a long list of things to do to make the playing experience even better and your comments help us build this out further! Oh and keep an eye out for the upcoming Steam Winter Showcase starting in a couple weeks, we're excited to be part of it :)

Thank you all so much for spending time playing our demos, reporting bugs, and sharing creative ideas on what you'd like to see in the world of Genua. Until next time!

Improvements

• Lockpicking now shows the current lock’s difficulty level

Fixed

• Shop sell prices being excessively low

• Fixed collision issues in Grasslands Factory

• Fixed a bug causing unique items to be lost on load if equipped

• Fixed a bug causing attachments to get stuck and become unremovable (existing bugged attachments won’t be fixed, however you can force-fix it by replacing the attachments instead of removing)

• Fixed a bug causing required containers for repeatable missions not resetting correctly

• Fixed Trouble by the Sea incorrect mission marker location

• Fixed Trouble by the Sea not spawning AI correctly

• Fixed a bug causing dialogue options to be missing for the Trouble by the Sea mission

• Fixed several instances of object fade in/out occurring far too aggressively

• Fixed floating objects in Runner’s Village

• Fixed a bug causing zombie bears to not cull at long distances correctly

• Fixed VSS laser sight not being positioned correctly

• Fixed GEN 2 gear missing texture in character menu screen

• Fixed Catcher-42 marksman laser not facing the correct direction

• Fixed a bug causing crafted items to be 0% condition

Hey Era! The Jigoku Update is now available over at Plasma Corp! Read more about it here:

https://era.graalonline.blog/jigoku-plasma-update/

We've also included a slew of patches and preparations for future Plasma updates which you can read about here:

https://era.graalonline.blog/developer-patch-notes-plasma-corp/

Thanks for your continued support!

-Fixed an issue where setting the automatic uncoupling device to the “Couple” position before coupling caused the train to become unable to proceed once the cars were mechanically connected.

*Correct procedure: the automatic uncoupling device should be set to the “Couple” position after the actual coupling takes place.

-When the automatic uncoupling device is set to either “Couple” or “Release,” it will now return to the “Drive” position after 5 seconds (spring-return type).

-Removed the ride-quality scoring that occurred at the moment of coupling.

-Fixed an issue where the “Door Hold Open” switch stopped functioning after coupling when “Forced Driver-Only Operation” was enabled.

-Door switch can now be assigned to a single key for opening/closing.

-Door switches can now be assigned to separate keys for left/right operation.

(Left/right is based on the direction of travel.)

*When using separate left/right keys, doors can currently be opened without inserting the door key.

-Fixed an issue where the sunshade did not move after coupling.

-Added a TimeTable folder next to the executable file.

It contains the timetable and diagram (same as those distributed on the website).

*Original text(Japanese)*

一部修正のアップデート

・連結前に自動解結装置を「連結」位置にして、車両が機械的に連結された時点で進行不能となる不具合を修正しました。

※ただし、正しい取り扱いとしては、自動解結装置を「連結」位置にするのは、実際に連結した後になります。

・自動解結装置を「連結」または「解放」位置にしたとき、５秒経つと「運転」位置に戻るようにしました。（ばね復帰タイプのため）

・連結の瞬間の乗り心地関係の採点をなくしました。

・強制ワンマン設定時、連結後に開保持SWが動作しなくなる不具合を修正しました。

・ドアスイッチの開閉を同一キーに割り当てても動作するようにしました

・ドアスイッチの開閉を左右別にキー割り当てできるようにしました。（左右は進行方向基準です。）

※左右別のキー操作で開扉する場合、現状鍵の差し込みをしなくてもドアが開くようにしています。

・連結後に遮光板が動かない不具合を修正しました。

・実行ファイルの場所にTimeTableフォルダを追加しました。中にスタフとダイヤグラム（ホームページで配布しているものと同じ）が入っています。

There is a brand new Steam store trailer for the game. Please check it out and maybe tell me your opinion of it. It's been praised by the people I've showed it to. It was all made by me.

Sincerely,

Gene

Welcome to the v1.4! It's sure been a long time coming (half a year!) and I'm glad to finally get it out there! You can read the patch notes below.

Within the next week, I'm gonna be rolling out a patch to fix any bugs we find / make balance changes. Also, I'll be making a nubby news post pretty soon to talk about the future of the game. Until then, enjoy!

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V1.4 PATCH NOTES:

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Big additions in V1.4:

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-Added the cosmetics menu to the game! In the cosmetics menu, you can unlock and use a bunch of different cosmetic nubby skins to play with in game AND you can also unlock and play with a bunch of new item skins to spruce things up a bit! Both nubby skins and item skins are unlocked using stars. There are some special nubby skins and item skins that are unlocked by getting achievements and making progress in the game.

-Added new supervisor: "Dwarf Tony". Unlockable with stars.

-Added "The Nubby Trials" as challenges to the game. This is a set of 5 difficult challenges where you attempt to beat a normal 80-round run. The main point is that every 10 or so rounds, the game activates a "trial" that is basically a mini challenge. Trials range pretty heavily in effect, and they're all meant to throw a curveball in how you'd normally play the game to encourage using all your nubby knowledge to beat a run, instead of relying on your typical go-to builds. There are 5 trials per difficulty level of the nubby trials, and 5 difficulty levels. This means that there's 25 total trials to overcome in the entire nubby trials series of challenges.

-Added steam achievements

Item & Perk additions:

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-Added upgraded versions of ALL food items (including new food items added in this update)

-Added common food item: "Jelly"

-Added common food item: "Tri-Bagel"

-Added new item category, "Evil", exclusive to nubby trials. Evil items cannot be moved, upgraded, sold, or otherwise destroyed.

-Added 8 and a half new "evil" items, exclusive to nubby trials

Item & Perk Tweaks/Reworks:

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-All ultra-rare black market items have been moved to the rare item pool.

-Slight rewording of donut item description.

-Slight rewording of starfruit item description.

-Soup crackers (rare tier food item) moved down to common tier

-Chip and broken chip now give you +1 reroll instead of instantly rerolling when you eat them.

-Reworked mollusk item. Mollusk is now a common, non-corrupted octony exclusive item.

-New mollusk effect: Nubby launched -> Mutates into a random common item that is not currently in your inventory for the rest of the round.

-New mollusk+ effect: Nubby launched -> Mutates into a random rare or ultra-rare item that is not currently in your inventory for the rest of the round.

-Reworked asbestos item. Asbestos is now a common corrupted item.

-New asbestos effect: 4 pegs halved -> Mimics the non-upgraded effect of the item in SLOT 2, but keeps its own trigger.

-New asbestos+ effect: 4 pegs halved -> Mimics the upgraded effect of the item in SLOT 2, but keeps its own trigger.

Bug Fixes:

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-Fixed game-ruining issue where some players weren't able to get past the title screen without the game crashing. (Note: This is a half-fix because this issue is due to save corruption in the autosave save file. While I cannot fix the issue of save corruption itself, I made some tweaks that ensure that you won't get permanently locked out of the game if your autosave file does unfortunately get corrupted.)

-Asbestos insulation particles now affected by defined particle settings

-Fixed loud "popping" noise that occurs when many asbestos insulation summons are destroyed simultaneously

-Fixed physics bug where nubby could get stuck on the upper left/right corners when playing on the hunter tony supervisor

-Fixed board-clear fireworks particles crash

-Fixed skip tutorial button crash

-Fixed squirmy having a 1/51 chance to metamorphosize instead of a 1/50 (as advertised). Nerfed to unplayability.

-Fixed the raygun perk's delay in its spinning animation.

-Changed The Mystery Box Perk's name to "The Mystery Box Perk" instead of "Mystery Box Perk".

-While playing as octony, the squid item price is now 5 coins instead of 6, like it's supposed to be.

Other changes:

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-Seeded runs no longer update supervisor highscore or update supervisor wins count.

-Added a button on the title screen that links to the nubby wiki

-If you try to play your current ongoing autosaved run in a newer version of the game (e.g. when you update the game), your autosave file will be deleted when you try clicking the "load game" button on the title screen, instead of deleting automatically. It will also give a small dialogue box that explains that your autosaved run was deleted due to incompatibility. This is partly a fix for the save corruption softlock mentioned above, and also to prevent bug report false alarms.

-If you beat all challenges AND all new nubby trials levels: changes color of challenges gui background, challenges screen background, and you get a sticker!

-You can no longer move items around in your inventory while the board is restocking

-For the "food effect" sound fx in cafe nubby, the audio will play at normal pitch when an effect successfully triggers instead of 1.3x normal pitch

-Removed the soup crackers "item transform" sound fx

-Adjusted upgraded flame thrower sound fx (lower pitch)

-Lowered volume of supervisor unlock jingle sound fx

-Added item sound fx for asbestos

-Added item particle effects for asbestos

-Added item sound fx for uranium rod