1.6.1 · THE FIRST LESSON • New climbers meet Bunbuku: in a short lesson of five rooms he talks you through the jump and double jump, attack and PARRY, the DASH, the WALL JUMP and the shrine's cards, then sends you on your first climb. SKIP is always there. • No more dead ends: a fork in the tower is drawn only when both of its ways lead on. • The game no longer hangs after an ad that does not close. • HOW TO PLAY: every button and four new topics (PATHS, FUSED PATHS, CAVES, THE DARK TIDE), from the (i) on the main menu and from the pause. • HEARTBEAT: on your last heart, the phone beats with it (OPTIONS > GAMEPLAY). • Caves open the way you came in, and a path's card waits until you have read it. • SHORT CLIMB: beating its last guardian is the summit. • OBON LIGHTS, season 2 (from 26 October): lanterns in the tower, the SOUL BRIDGE TRAIL and the OBON SCARF on the season road. • Your PLAYER ID in OPTIONS, and smaller fixes.

1.6.0 · THE DAILY BOARD • A new menu with the Daily Board: everyone climbs the same tower each day. See today's best climbers and your own place, and finish in the top 1%, the top 10% or the top half of yesterday's board to earn Sumi or jade the next day. • Made for iPad: the climb, the menus and the touch buttons fill the big screen. • Coming back pays: a welcome-back gift, streak rewards (and a way to mend a broken streak), and a first week of named steps for new climbers. • New looks: ten patterned trails and scarves, two new sets and the Ronin's Bundle. Your first Sumi purchase comes with a bonus: as much again, up to +650 Sumi. • Pick your language on first launch: the whole game speaks 10 languages. • Redrawn enemies, a new app icon, new jade, Sumi and candles, and every screen drawn by one hand. • Ads that respect your climb: no break after a record or your first death, and more optional rewards. • A gift for every climber: +150 jade and +30 Sumi.

1.5.1 · GAME CENTER • Game Center is here: three leaderboards — Highest Floor, Short Climb: Best Time and Guardian Road: Best Time — and 28 achievements worth 815 points. You'll find them in Apple's Games app too. • A quiet sign-in: nothing pops up before your first climb ends. Tap RANKS on the menu (or OPTIONS > GAME CENTER) to sign in and open the boards. • The first time you sign in, your best floor, your best times and the achievements you already earned are sent, so you start on the boards. • Crisper pixel art: the world is drawn on whole pixels on every iPhone (no more doubled or missing rows), guardians and enemies no longer stretch, squash or tilt, and sprites whose blades, sickles and robes were cut off at the edges are whole again. • KUBI-KIRI, KIYOMORI and the BLACK RONIN were cleaned up where their pixels had broken, and the spear samurai now flinches with his spear in hand. • A won duel counts toward its achievements at once. • Italian now loads on every iPhone (some players got the game in Turkish).

1.5.0 · THE WANDERING TRADER • Meet Bunbuku, the hooded tanuki who sells cards in the tower. His stall now has a face: he greets you, tells you what each card does for your path, bows when you buy, shakes his head when your souls fall short and waves you off. • Leaving the shop is easy: a big LEAVE plaque and the ← button, both clear of the screen's edges. • Your stick, your way: on first launch choose a FIXED JOYSTICK (it stays put) or a FREE JOYSTICK (it appears under your thumb). Change it any time in SETTINGS > CONTROLS. • A calmer first day: one question at a time and never during a climb, no full-screen ads in your first session, and RETRY after the tutorial starts a SHORT CLIMB. • The button the tutorial names now glows, and every quick tap counts, even at the screen's edges. • Photos, GIFs and scrolls you share carry the game's App Store link. • The CHRONICLE opens after two climbs. • Fixed a rare dead end that could trap you under a roof you couldn't pass. • Fixed a shrine that could open empty late in a long climb, with no way out: it now offers the merchant's HEALING TEA or KI INCENSE. • Fixed: reopening the game could restore an older cloud copy of your save (candles, jade, Sumi). Your latest progress now always stays. • DAILY CHALLENGE: the first climb each day stays free; another one that day uses a candle, like every climb.

1.4.1 • A precise touch stick: a short push moves at full speed in eight clear directions, and the stick follows your thumb, so turning around is a short move. • The game now speaks Russian, French and Italian. • Duel invites carry the App Store link: a friend without the game joins in one tap. PAPER AND INDIGO • The game is no longer black and white: screens are washi paper and indigo, with vermilion as the one accent. • Every icon has been redrawn as one family: one outline, one light, shapes that stay with you. • Buttons, panels and cards speak the path cards' language, with one vermilion main button on each screen. • A new end screen: your floor on a hanging scroll, one line and what you won, and a big RETRY beside it. • The tower is dressed in paper and indigo: a washi sky, indigo rock and a single vermilion accent. THE PATHS • Every path now has its own card: 22 hand-drawn living cards. Sets are hanafuda, masteries are hanging scrolls, fusions are cards split in two. • When a path wakes, a ceremony begins: the card falls, its kanji is brushed in, the red seal is pressed. • While choosing a card you see which path it walks. A card that will wake a path wears an AWAKENS stamp. • While you climb, your paths ride under your hearts: which path, how many cards to go, which one is awake. • The Chronicle's PATHS gallery: the cards you found come alive, the rest wait in the dark. • Trails and scarves shed glints, petals, embers and moondust.

PAPER AND INDIGO • The game is no longer black and white: screens are washi paper and indigo, with vermilion as the one accent. • Every icon has been redrawn as one family: one outline, one light, shapes that stay with you. • Buttons, panels and cards speak the path cards' language, with one vermilion main button on each screen. • A new end screen: your floor on a hanging scroll, one line and what you won, and a big RETRY beside it. • The tower is dressed in paper and indigo: a washi sky, indigo rock and a single vermilion accent. THE PATHS • Every path now has its own card: 22 hand-drawn living cards. Sets are hanafuda, masteries are hanging scrolls, fusions are cards split in two. • When a path wakes, a ceremony begins: the card falls, its kanji is brushed in, the red seal is pressed. • While choosing a card you see which path it walks. A card that will wake a path wears an AWAKENS stamp. • While you climb, your paths ride under your hearts: which path, how many cards to go, which one is awake. • The Chronicle's PATHS gallery: the cards you found come alive, the rest wait in the dark. • Trails and scarves shed glints, petals, embers and moondust.

THE INK UPDATE • DUEL: Send a friend a short code. Race up the same tower for 5 minutes, then fight on the temple roof. Each samurai has 50 health, and a round can last two and a half minutes. • KIYOMORI'S SUMMIT: The last guardian waits at the top of the tower. How you climbed decides which of three endings you get. Then, if you like, the Endless Tower. • THE SPEAR: A second weapon. Beat the first guardian, then tap the samurai on the menu. • GUARDIAN ROAD: Five guardians in a row. Your time is your record. • Eleven enemies are redrawn. The tanuki holds up its bomb, the ashigaru carries his banner and shield, the yūrei wears a white shroud and long black hair. You know them at a glance. • Every item has one drawing at every size: the small jade in the crow's chest is the jade in your purse. • Ink scenes on the duel, candle, shop and summit cards. • New scarves and a new enemy, Kuro-Yari. Enemies no longer pop into view: they step out of a circle of ink.

• The tower comes alive: crows on the ledges take off as you pass, butterflies drift through the bamboo, incense rises over the temple and cranes cross the moon. • Your progress is safe: delete the game, install it again and pick up where you left off. • Hanging lanterns now glow. • A reminder when your candles are lit again. • Small fixes.