This update adds a new event called Altar of Tears and includes changes to decks, balance, blessings, curses, bosses, map generation, and more.

• Added new map event "Altar of Tears", which lets you combine lacrima
• Added "Lacrima Pack" option in Shop
• Added choices to Rest event
• Added creature/demon art by vil
• Added unique named enemies that appear in regular fights
• Added new animation and music when winning a run
• Added new shop music
• Added 3 player profiles instead of the "Reset" button in collection (thanks Pablo Murphy)
• Added highscore for deck selection and winning a run
• Added sound when getting a new curse

• Bloodsucker deck has been changed (total revamp)
• Mercenary deck has been changed (replaced Capture with Recruit)
• Fight rewards no longer depend on enemy lacrima
• Reduced icons on map tiles to 3 to make runs a bit faster (thanks Marc / PepperHeadGaming)
• There are now only unique symbols on map tiles
• Adjacent map tiles should no longer contain the same events
• Unknown now has a lower chance to be a regular fight
• Increased chance of fights having at least 3 lanes and 3 enemies starting in chapter 2
• Card upgrades in Study are now capped by chapter
• Cards with 5 slots now only appear in chapter 3 (shops and treasure chests)
• Reduced maximum despair from 67 to 58
• Reworked blessings, curses, and bosses
• Replaced Capture with Exile: Exiles target non-boss creature
• Replaced Steal Lacrima with Fracture %: Disables one random lacrima slot of target creature
• Replaced Permadeath with Obliterate: When this creature kills a target with physical damage, exile target
• Renamed Anima to Grudge
• Renamed Sacrilege to Pray
• Renamed Hemorrhage to Rip
• Renamed Steal Gold to Mug
• Creature score now includes total damage done
• Removed several triggers (i.e. OnGlassCannon)
• Boss minions now have fewer lacrima (thanks Auri)
• Cards with Defender now always have 0 ATK
• Ally Debuffed and Ally Buff can now only be triggered by allies of the card, not the card carrying the trigger itself (same as Ally Attack, and Ally Death) (thanks Blankity)
• Overcharged no longer counts as a debuff and no longer activates debuffed triggers (thanks OKftw)

• Added animated border to card that is currently attacking
• Added animations for selling and sacrificing cards
• Added animation for boss card appearance
• Added animation for lacrima rewards
• Added subtle particles when putting down or moving cards
• Added gold particles when opening treasure
• Added player damage particles on target lane and a red screen border
• Added more lacrima activation effects (with object pooling)
• Added a new effect when a card is triggered the first time in a turn (thanks Max)
• Added inventory zoom button, which scales up cards and lacrima slots
• Added description for "Add Lane"
• Added description for "First Strike"
• Added description for fractured slot
• Added total kills to Rage description
• Added total fights to Fightbound description
• Added button decorations
• Added red despair symbol on cards in hand which will increase despair to 100%
• Added tip that tells you that creatures revive after fights.
• Tip about moving creatures now only shows if you have never moved a creature to another lane before
• Made it easier to click on boss node (thanks Auri)
• Exiting certain final node (e.g. shop) on a map tile no longer prematurely marks it done
• Reroll and Lacrima Pack prices are now red when not affordable (thanks Auri)
• Gold display now counts up/down when value changes
• Changed overcharged description to hopefully be less confusing
• Lane sprites on the board now fade in/out
• Made sure that Automatons/Demons spawned from Spells always spawn on target lane (thanks Auri)
• Sacrificing a card now also animates lacrima to inventory
• Card events now start bigger, especially damage numbers
• End turn tooltip now only gets shown in the beginning of the game (thanks Auri)
• Exhume now has a different description on enemies
• You can now press triangle / mouse middle click to remove a lacrima from a card (thanks EnchanteurW)
• Cards in collection are now shown twice as big
• Clicking on an empty space on the board deselects current card
• Card rotation now resets when dragging it away from hand and letting go
• Made sure resolution is set correctly on Steam Deck

• Fixed Doomed always resetting to 3 turns when re-applied
• Fixed atonement details not going away after moving the mouse away
• Fixed status effect icons not always re-aligning correctly when a status effect gets removed
• Fixed bug when summoning a Minion with a spell
• Fixed redraw info not disappearing when pressing the redraw button
• Fixed error when playing a creature which causes full despair and destroy the creature that you'd want to replace
• Fixed some cases where pressing end turn would not be queued correctly, i.e. while long trigger chains are being resolved
• Fixed bosses showing random decoration
• Fixed minions mixing defence and offence lacrima for "target newest enemy"
• Fixed bug where buying a card from shop re-appears after restarting the game
• Fixed card tooltips not disappearing when destroying a card with a spell
• Fixed menu error when playing a spell caused enemies to exhume cards
• Fixed softlocks when getting despair outside fights (mainly for Mercenary)
• Fixed case when stealing gold from your own creatures (i.e. with a spell)
• Fixed edge case where OnDeath trigger would cause a chain reaction and the card would get killed again
• Fixed being able to still play a selected card if it was already discarded

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This update adds five new Atonments (previously called "circles of hell" / "difficulty circles") and a new run starter layout.

• "Difficulty Circles" are now called Atonements
• Added new Atonements layout, which lets you unlock new Atonements after winning
• Added five new Atonements for a total of 15
• Added new layout for starting a run
• You can now hover over the selected Atonements in the upper left corner to show what you selected
• Exhume, Draw Card and Discard Card now always only just work once and display no other value
• Mercenary: Adjusted starter deck (+3 low-cost creatures)
• Mercenary: Added permanent Curse (Abyss of Avarice)
• Unknown icons on maps now turn into what they actually are when clicked
• Lacrima value modifiers are now calculated by the order in which they are slotted into the cards (from left to right), i.e. Double + Deckbound is worse than Deckbound + Double
• Added tooltip in shop to show that you can only sell 1 card (thanks cyangmou)
• Added tooltip in shop to show that sold cards return their lacrima to inventory (thanks cyangmou)
• Added tip to tell you to customize your cards if you haven't already after a few fights (thanks cyangmou)
• Added tip that you can adjust game speed (thanks cyangmou)
• Inventory button is now shown when choosing rewards (thanks cyangmou)
• You can no longer leave the shop with right-clicking (thanks EnchanteurW)
• Added description for Repeat (thanks Auri)
• "Captured" now only gets triggered when capture was successful (thanks Qwerty)
• Added "lacrima to inventory" animation when stealing lacrima or selling cards
• Added animation when getting a new curse
• Added description for Bleed to Harvest + Hemorrhage
• Added info when hand is full when trying to draw a card

• Fixed issue where if you won with 5 Atonements they wouldn't get mastered (thanks Auri)
• Fixed issue when trying to capture a charmed ally (thanks Auri)
• Fixed despair rain not stopping when a run ends or when going back to title
• Fixed Exhume ignoring hand size limit
• Fixed lacrima in collection always showing even though they weren't discovered yet
• Fixed card score not working correctly (thanks Qwerty)
• Fixed fight not set to done when all enemies were captured or all lacrima were stolen and leaving no lacrima to choose from (thanks Qwerty)
• Fixed card scaling issue in game end screen when having lots of cards in the deck and switching to "Statistics" tab
• Fixed disappearing blessing rewards when choosing a blessing reward, opening inventory, and closing inventory
• Fixed bug when selling a card in a shop while having a full satchel
• Fixed menu issue when getting new curse outside of a fight (thanks Auri)
• Fixed bosses triggering "Damage Taken" while having Immunity (thanks Qwerty)
• Fixed capture not revealing next enemy during player's turn
• Fixed issue where casting Automaton + Void (or any other offence lacrima) on an empty lane would cause a spell not to work again in the rest of the fight (thanks Auri)
• Fixed issue where "Magic Hand" would trigger at the start of a fight, but no enemies were revealed on the board yet (thanks Auri)
• Fixed issue where playing a spell with Offering + Automaton on an ally creature would only play Offering and then stop casting (thanks Auri)