The newest character is here, a pair of twins called Kuro and Shiro! Use their ability to swap between the two, utilizing their unique bonuses and their ability to wield different weapons in order to adapt to any situation!

Additionally, we have a large list of balance changes today, primarily buffs aimed at helping bring some of the weaker upgrades on par with the rest, allowing for greater build diversity.

Summoner

• Summoned Eels now gain 20% more damage with each rank
  
• Summoned Sardines now gain 20% more damage with each rank
  
• Summoned Flying Fish now spawn 10 seconds faster initially and spawn 3 seconds faster with each rank
  
• Summoned Sea Urchins gains 20% more damage each rank
  
• Summoned Dogfish gains 20% more damage each rank
  
• Summoned Sea Slug no longer has a cooldown, occuring every roll. Damage and slow increased each rank.

Utility

• Movespeed bonus from rank 4 Hard Hat increased from 3 -> 5 seconds

Botanist

• Watering Can now only waters up to 4 seeds, chosen randomly

Equilibrium

• Bonuses from Yin and Yang increased to +20% per rank

Ki Charge

• Attack Speed from Ki Jab increased by 5% each rank

Constructor

• Increased base Metal Fragment drop rate, reduced drop rate increase from evolved upgrades
  
• Sprinkler now waters 2 seeds at base, increasing by 2 each rank
  
• Crystal Cannons now fire +1 Crystals at max rank

Quickstep

• Backstab crit increase raised from 20% -> 40%, max rank Roll Cooldown increased 10% -> 15%
  
• Precise strike damage increased from +40% at rank 1 and 3 to +50%, max rank Roll Cooldown increased 10% -> 15%
  
• Changed Opportune Strikes max rank +25% Crit Damage to +15% Roll Cooldown
  
• Doubled the EXP and Metal Fragments received when Stealing with Pickpocket

Scientist

• Virus slow increased 30 -> 33%, Virus Damage Reduction increased 30% -> 66%
  
• Self-Upgrading Robot damage and swingspeed per floor increased 50%->60%, Reach and Arc increased 25%->30%

Spectral

• Spectral Barrier default size increased by 50%
  
• Spectral Shuriken fly faster and spawn 2 seconds more often

Warlock

• Vital Trade hp cost reduced 50% -> 25%, crit chance remains 50%
  
• Starving Wound heal from boss kill increased 60 -> 75

We hope you've been enjoying Sue Shi Survival! This will be the last main patch of Early Access as we start gearing up for full release. The next big update should include multiple characters, upgrade sets, and new gameplay features, so look forward to it! As always, don't hesitate to reach out if you encounter any issues or have any feedback, and if you've been enjoying the game perhaps consider leaving a review, it helps a lot. Have fun!

Hey everyone, just a few updates today based on recent feedback.

• Rerolling no longer has a chance to show you the same upgrades, unless no others are available
  
• When entering a hatch at the end of a floor, all pickups on screen such as xp orbs and metal fragments will now come to you, automatically collecting them.
  
• Fixed an issue causing Starfish's shadows to render below Founder structures
  
• Fixed an issue where auto-attack would continue to swing at bosses while they played their death animation
  
• Fixed an issue where bosses still damaged structures during their death animations
  
• Buffed Feline Essence - The 9 lives you receive now refresh on every floor
  
• Increased the health of all Founder structures

Hope you enjoy! We look forward to hearing any other feedback you might have.

Hey all, hope the year's treating you good so far.

This week we've added the newest character, Takamagahara. Take a more pacifist approach as you create a portal to the afterlife, allowing the ghosts to pass on in peace.

Additionally, there's a new ability tree, Founder. The upgrades in this tree may take a bit of time to get going, but once they do their benefits are well worth it. Whether it's a shelter to protect yourself from harm, a farm to increase your experience gains, or a turret for that added offense, you're sure to find something useful in this tree for every build.

Lastly, in order to help ensure even more people can enjoy the game, we decided to add an optional easy mode toggle to runs. When enabled, enemies will be weaker and you'll hit harder, allowing you to push past any barriers you might've previously run into. However, while in easy mode, achievements will be disabled. We want to make sure everyone's on an even playing field when earning them, that way they can still mean something. You can still use easy mode to help win a few runs, get blue and red scales to unlock weapons and runes, and then tackle the game again on regular mode to get those achievements.

Hope you enjoy, as always feel free to reach out if there's any issues/complaints, either in the comments below, the community discussions, or over at our Discord[discord.com]

Hey all, quick patch to start the week, expect the usual larger patch toward the end of the week with a new character and upgrades.

• Added a heal and reroll option to the level screen
  
• Adjusted health and speed of enemies to make the early game a bit easier
  
• Small visual update to stop enemies flickering when they overlap
  
• Rune costs reduced to make them more accessible
  
• Increased Scales earned from Boss kills
  
• Increased pickup range
  
• Tweaked Auto Attack system to make it more reliable and better handle large enemies

Thanks for all the feedback, as always, let us know if there's any issues/ideas. Have fun!

Hey all, hope the holiday season has been good. We wanted to kick off the New Year with a bang so we've got a pretty big patch this week. 2 new characters, a new upgrade tree, enhanced visuals to give the game more depth, optional post-processing, some balance tweaks, and a brand new auto-attack setting.

Nukekubi - Fight alongside your detached head as this peculiar fighter. Can be unlocked by surviving for 4 minutes at 10 or less hp.

Onmoraki - Collect the spirits of your fallen enemies to summon spirit crows to aid you. Can be unlocked by winning a run with at least 5 Skulls equipped.

Think carefully when picking these upgrades, as great power always comes at a cost. Trade in your health for various strong bonuses, but be careful not to leave yourself too wounded.

We've given the enemy sprites a bit of a touch up to help make them pop more, as well as enhancing the visuals with some light post-processing. By default this is enabled, but it can be completely turned off in the settings.

Not everyone likes to manually aim their attacks, and that's okay. Whether it's simply a preference of style or so you can focus your attention on more important things - like not getting hit - you can now enable auto-attacks in the settings menu. While enabled, your character will automatically target and swing at the nearest enemy whenever close enough. Attacks aren't guaranteed though, they can still miss if you manage to run out of range before the swing finishes.

We've made a few changes to the systems to hopefully help ease the early game.

• The cost of all Runes has been adjusted
  
• The cost of most Weapons has been lowered
  
• The movement speed of enemies on floors 1-4 has been lowered slightly
  
• The health of bosses on floors 1-5 have been lowered slightly

As always thanks for playing, if you want to contact us or leave feedback you can do so on our Discord[discord.com] or in Steams Discussions. We hope you enjoy the new content and will see you again in a week for more. Happy New Year!

The newest character Kyonshii is now available! They can be unlocked by getting 15 upgrades to max rank during a single run of Standard or Blitz. We hope you enjoy them!

Additionally, the new Spectral upgrade tree has been added to the game. Use the ghostly powers of your enemies against them as you harness ethereal powers and equipment to help take back your sushi restaurant!

Finally, among other balance changes a new Hasty Seed was added to the Botanist tree. Watering this seed will grant you stacking movement speed bonuses.

Thanks for checking out Sue Shi Survival and we hope you've been enjoying it. As for the roadmap I mentioned in a previous post - We've decided not to set any exact dates on when Early Access will end, however you can expect to see patches similar to this one every week for the foreseeable future. That means new characters and upgrades weekly, with smaller patches dotted in between to address balance and any potential issues that might arise.

If there are any questions, concerns, general feedback, or if you just want to chat, you can reach us in the comments of this post, on the Community Hub, or over at our discord[discord.com]. Enjoy!

Hey again, just tossing out a few more tweaks, nothing too big just yet.

• Nerfed Sue's passive a small bit
  
• Buffed most other character's to make up for their generally higher difficulty
  
• Adjusted the late game exp curve again to make things a bit harder in the later floors
  
• Nerfed a few of the seed upgrades as the Botanist tree was a little too strong at the moment.

Glad to hear some of the visibility options we added have helped. If you have any other suggestions let us know!

Hope you're all enjoying the game! Just pushing a small patch for now to help with some visibility problems and to tweak the scaling of the game a bit.

We want to ensure runs stay unique and diverse and your choices matter when leveling, so some adjustments have been made to the late game leveling curve as well as the difficulty of the post-5 floors. These changes should only affect runs that choose to continue beyond floor 5, and are aimed at making the "endless" floors more of a challenge to see how far you can get, rather than going infinite every single time.

Additionally, Sue's healing has been lowered a small bit. Her survivability compared to the rest of the cast was too high that it made it hard to justify playing other characters. She's still intended to be more forgiving than others, but toning her down a bit allows us to open up more healing options through upgrades, that way getting hit on other characters won't feel as punishing as it currently can.

Finally, some players mentioned issues with keeping track of their cursor and projectile visibility, especially in the late game. Now when Visibility Mode is turned on in the settings, enemy projectiles will have a yellow outline to help them stand out, and your cursor's size will be doubled, so hopefully that helps.

Thanks for playing! If you have any questions, issues or suggestions feel free to comment here, in the community hub, or over on our discord at https://discord.com/invite/eGVr5wU

First of all I just wanted to give a quick thanks to everyone who purchased the game and are giving it a go! Second, some of you may be wondering what the plan is going forward as we haven't released an official roadmap for early access, so I just wanted to give some quick insight.

The first few days of launch are going to be primarily focused on ensuring everything runs smoothly. We tried as best as any two person indie team can to ensure as bug-free and enjoyable of an experience as possible, though we're well aware these things will crop up regardless. If you do have any issues or suggestions we'd love to hear about them either in the Steam Discussions, or over on our Discord at https://discord.com/invite/eGVr5wU

Once any initial problems are dealt with we'll plan out a proper roadmap for character and other content updates, but Early Access should see frequent content updates at least every week or two, and balance and bug fixes every few days.

Thanks again for playing, and if you have any suggestions or complaints at all we'd love to hear them. A big part of Early Access for us is to have an environment we can easily take and build on player feedback. Hope you enjoy the game!

- Rain