Hello, chums! It's time for another big demo update, just in time for our Steam Next Fest showing! Eep!

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Returning demo players will not recognize the opening scene for the demo, as we have inserted an entirely new section to better orient players and introduce Iris to the island! Not only that, there are new treasures and new rooms to discover in the rest of the demo.

Players can now choose to respawn upon death (for a limited number of lives). If they run out, they return to their last checkpoint. Lives are restored when using checkpoints.

Clockwork Ambrosia also makes use of a new save slot system.

The equipment and weapon screens have received an overhaul to make them more intuitive and quicker to use. Let us know what you think!

Also, players can now save weapon loadouts for easy swapping between their favorite builds.

• New opening prologue section

• New rooms and some layout changes

• New weapon mods to find

• Water art and effects are greatly improved

• Enemy Armor absorbs damage from projectiles based on the number of pips the enemy has

• Missile Launcher deals increased damage to armored enemies

• New in-game menu system; use shoulder buttons to tab through weapons while editing

• New save slot system: progress is now tied to a single save file

• Bosses now have their own unique health meter

• Armor reduction is now displayed in the damage popups when damaging an enemy

• The game now has a system icon!

• Fixed an issue where collision detection behaved incorrectly in rare instances

• Fixed an issue where OpenGL errors would sometimes appear for certain systems

• Fixed an issue where shoulder buttons for Xbox Input controllers wasn’t always recognized

Hello, friends! We’ve been heads down building the rest of Ambrosia's world, tuning up systems, swearing at spreadsheets, and trying to make our bosses slightly less cruel (or more interestingly cruel, depending on your perspective). But we decided it would be a good to take a break from these machinations to bring you something in the meantime - an updated demo that brings a number of fairly substantial changes. For those who already played, the scope of the demo is unchanged in terms of areas and enemies. But we've polished up some rough edges and also added some long-requested features and balance updates. Let’s go through what’s new.

Textures have been reauthored. Everything pops just a little more now. And someone has really gone and made a mess of some of the stages! So if it looks different, that’s because it is. We wanted the demo to better reflect our intended atmosphere—more depth, more grime, more personality

A balance pass has been applied across the weapon and mod system. Our goals: elevate delight, reward deliberate use of equipment, and fix a few internal numbers that have been bothering us for months. Meanwhile, crafting has evolved into an upgrade system that is available for preview in the demo… Which also means more equipment is now lurking in the demo’s crevices!

Affected tools include:

• Breaker Cores: New mod that gives you additional shots for more pew pew.

• Split Stage: New mod that shoots a missile forward and back

• Treen Guard: Grants "Fragile Armor" which cannot be mended outside Checkpoints

Oh yeah, another minor change is that the player has the "Mend" action by default (rather than needing to pick up a piece of equipment for it), so no more missing out on a crucial recovery option if you miss a chest!

The two demo bosses have received at least minor reworks. Attack patterns have been adjusted. Some behaviors were overhauled. One or two were quietly taught some manners. The final fight also includes updated mechanics, most of which are telegraphed, all of which are dodge-able (in theory).

We are not naming names, but one boss in particular no longer enters a death spiral loop if you hit them in the leg at exactly 0.03 seconds after phase 2 starts. Probably.

• You can now return to the title screen during game play. Handy!

• Fixed an issue where armor icons on boss gauges didn’t blink when damaged

• Fixed an issue where players with AMD 7000 series GPUs would see game crashes or texture errors

We’ll have more to share soon on some of the engine-level improvements (including a fun one involving water), but for now, feel free to give the demo another go and send us your thoughts. If you manage to softlock yourself in an endless mineshaft again, please at least tell us how you did it.

Thanks for playing.

—The Clockwork Ambrosia Team