This patch focuses on making Hungry Horrors run better. The cooking station, seasoning station, craving changes, and card discards are all noticeably smoother. We also updated the version of Godot the game is built on, which brings further under-the-hood improvements.

We are also opening a public Beta branch on Steam. This is a separate branch where you can try upcoming features before they reach the main game. To opt in, right-click Hungry Horrors in your library, go to Properties > Betas, and select the beta branch.

The first feature available there is Banquet mode.

(BETA) Banquet mode - a short-form roguelike: 3 acts, permanent death, dishes awarded after every monster battle, and monster tastes revealed before each encounter. New princess variants available: Basic, Random, Stinky, Clumsy, Diet, and Lazy.

Loch and Megaliths dishes - new dishes added for both biomes.

• Performance: cooking station UI, seasoning station UI, craving changes, and card discard all less laggy

• SFX file sizes reduced

• Slippery now gives evasion based on x2 deck size

• (BETA) Banquet mode: boss damage scales more gently

• (BETA) Banquet mode: hunger values scale faster

• (BETA) Completing a steak in Banquet mode triggers an unlock animation the first time you return to mode select

• Apply Seasoning correctly overrides slot

• Dish card correctly shows applied seasoning

• Seasoning can be correctly overwritten

• Visual bug when removing the final inventory item no longer persists

• Repeating loot rewards removed

• Cleanse correctly unmires dish cards

• Vendor loot now populates correctly

• Cooking a single dish on the campfire no longer breaks the audio server

• No longer possible to get a recipe chest if there are no unlocked recipes left to learn

• {version} placeholder replaced with correct version number on welcome popup

• Pot Hook hunger boost bonus now correctly carries over to the next turn

• Saucier hunger boost bonus now correctly carries over to the next turn

• No longer rewarding duplicate spices

• Loot filters corrected based on act number

Features marked (BETA) are only available on the Beta branch. To opt in, right-click Hungry Horrors in your Steam library, go to Properties > Betas, and select the beta branch.

Thanks for your continued feedback and bug reports. More to come.

A balancing and bug fix focused patch today. Loot rewards, dish stats, fishing, biome spawning and more have all been looked at, plus nine new golden cookware pieces and quality of life improvements throughout.

New Golden Cookware — nine new golden cookware pieces are now in the game.

Loot and spawning — loot rewards rebalanced and now spawn correctly across all biomes.

Skippable animations — you can now skip the silver ingredient placement animation and boss intro animations.

Inventory sorting — dishes are now sorted by flavour and craving by default, with name as a tiebreaker.

Failinis now has an inventory where you can place dishes for him to eat.

Lugh opens the shop directly after your first meeting with him, skipping the dialogue.

Seasoning station — improved controller and keyboard support, and it now auto-assigns to an empty slot if one is available.

Fishing spots despawn after 10 catches. Fishing loot rewards have also been rebalanced.

Mode changes

• Spicy mode: Horror levels reset on vanquish

• Culinary mode: ingredients dropped are now based on cookbook recipes you have unlocked

Other changes

• Spice Hit: removes spice and deals -2 damage per spice removed

• Craving Strike: removes a craving chain item and deals -3 damage per item removed

• Cast Dislike, Hate and Bait now target ingredients based on what you have unlocked

• Feasting dish now gives x3 ingredients

• Crosh Curin restores 100% stamina

• Firkin shield corrected to award 10 per free discard

• Nook event (Clavie Burning): now correctly causes stamina loss instead of cinder gain

• Toxic Bite correctly applies poison

• Omer Casserole Deep Freeze amount corrected

• Ingredient loot reward rebalanced

• Slow Cook and Perishable correctly trigger at turn start

• Dish hunger calculations for loved dishes with statuses like Blight corrected

• SFX no longer occasionally plays twice at once

• Bog Horror rooms now have a campfire for Culinary mode

• Seasonings correctly apply status in Culinary mode

• Nook Wassailing correctly awards Gravy instead of Vegetable Gravy

• Rampart applies the correct amount of shield

• Indulge now waits for the craving chain retrigger to finish before the monster turn starts

• Controller: some popup menus were not focusing buttons correctly

• Controller: Banquet modes can now be selected with the d-pad

• Campfire was sometimes showing incorrect details about dishes and seasonings

• Saltbox max stamina awarded calculation corrected

• Removed audio from radio buttons during initialisation

• Rally no longer fires on self serve

As always, bug reports, feedback and suggestions are welcome in our Discord[discord.gg]. We read everything.