NEW - TITLES — 30 new titles to wear under your name on the leaderboards and on Rivals cards. Supporter-exclusive, like nameplates: 5 with the first pack, 10 with the second, 15 with the third. - SIX NEW DEATH ANIMATIONS — enemies now come apart according to what they are made of. Stone and steel shatter, wraiths thin into vapour, slimes splatter and pool, and the things from the Cosmic Abyss collapse inward into a pinpoint of light. Bosses get their own version of whichever one fits them: bigger, slower, brighter. - FOUR NEW ACHIEVEMENTS AND AVATARS — for your first blessing at the Prayer Stone, your tenth, your hundredth, and for carrying the Offering to its final milestone. - DEEPER WORD ARTIFACT DROPS — clauses begin dropping with higher chance at floor 50 and verbs at floor 60, both rare and scaling with depth. Past floor 60 a single run can turn up glyphs, clauses or verbs. - NEW TOOLTIPS — elite modifiers explain themselves the first time you meet one, and the game now tells you when two items can be merged. All tips can be switched off in Settings. IMPROVED - Leaderboards: long scores read on two lines so names and titles are never clipped. - Illustrated icons on the main menu for New Adventure, The Shrine, Rivals, Leaderboards and the Word Artifact. - The Beastmaster's pack picker is easier to find, and free pet slots fill properly. - Battle shop prices no longer overflow their cells at four figures, and gold reads the same way everywhere. - A tighter battle layout on smaller iPhones — SE and mini especially. - Surpassing a fallen climber now awards soul essence that scales with the floor. BALANCE - The Offering has been rebalanced. Its eight milestones now run from 10,000 to 6,000,000 gold — it was reaching its ceiling far too easily. - The merchant's divine perk is significantly weaker. Rerolling your way into a full set of divine items is no longer realistic (sorry!). - Phoenix's Rebirth is once per floor, and now says so. FIXED - Ronin's Broken Banner: the bonus reported as "not working" was a text error. The set was always doing what its code said — two tiers simply described the wrong effect. The descriptions now match. - Trapper's mark now slows enemies, as it always claimed to. - Hemorrhage: a health potion no longer clears the bleed instantly. - The boss mechanic banner could get stuck across the arena until the next floor. - Several skill-tree perks listed effects that did nothing, and a few nodes shared a name inside the same class. - Clearer errors when the App Store is unreachable, a purchase is awaiting approval, or a restore finds nothing to restore. - Game Center sign-in and score submission are more reliable. - Text that could be clipped or misaligned in languages other than English.

- The Quest Board is a proper system now. Forty new quests across daily and rare, six new kinds of objective, and legendary quests that climb their own ladder: clear one and a harder version takes its place, so the tab never runs dry. Rewards are worked out the moment you claim them rather than when you accept, and the board refills instead of draining. It looks the part now, too, with parchment notices pinned to wood. - Twenty new divine items, doubling the collection. Among them: the Unwriting Edge, Verdict Everlasting, the Hungering Coil, Wyrmscale Grips, Crown of the Repeated Hour and the Warden's Last Refusal. Each carries its own rule rather than just bigger numbers, and they drop from bosses and divine chests as before. - Six new events join the descent. The Vaultkeeper's Debt lends now and collects later. The Mask Merchant trades in scars you keep. The Mirror That Lies makes you fight yourself. The Stray asks to come along. The Two Doors changes the battle ahead before you walk into it. And the Hollow Choir will trade two unspent skill points for a glyph from the Author's Word, up to three times a run, always handing one over even if you own them all, because a duplicate is still worth salvaging. - The Stray costs you nothing to keep. Adopt it and it fights alongside your chosen companions instead of pushing one out of the pack. The Beastmaster's pack picker is findable now as well, and a newly unlocked beast fills a free slot on its own. - You can star an item to protect it. A favourited piece is skipped by every bulk operation, Sell All, Sacrifice All, and both sell and sacrifice by rarity, so the one thing you were saving cannot be swept away by a mistimed tap. The altar, forge and empower cells show the star and the upgrade arrow too. - Two new legendary merchant artifacts. The Golden Horseshoe means nothing can be taken from you, from your bag or off your back, and pays 10% more hero XP and gold besides. Message in a Bottle leaves a parcel waiting on every new floor, with your Magic Find deciding what is inside. - Merchant skills now appear as buff pips in battle, with their own art, so you can see what you actually bought. They also last one run rather than forever, which is what they always said they did. - The Rogue's Backstab finally does what it promises. It used to advertise a guaranteed dodge and deliver a coin flip. Now it arms Vanish, a real buff you can see in the strip, and the next enemy attack misses outright. It waits until it is spent, with no timer. - Word fragments can no longer be lost. Every path that could drop them is closed: the rewrite racing cloud sync, a merge that brought spent copies back, a save arriving emptier than the one already on your device. There is now an audit that fails loudly if a new field is ever added without merge rules. - Eighteen new prestige avatars for achievements that never had one, a launch screen with proper credit, a force refresh button on the leaderboards, and surpassing a fallen run now pays souls that scale with how deep that run went. - Fixes: a battle that could stall when an enemy died to a lingering effect, stun showing a frost icon instead of lightning, enemy status badges overflowing their row, and a set of layout problems on iPhone SE and 17e, including cut off borders, an off screen quest banner and a pause button sitting on the EXP bar. Keep climbing, Tim

- More optimization — the camp, menus and skill tree now sit completely still when you do, and battles cost less per hit. Cooler device, longer battery. - New in Settings: Reduced Effects, for fewer battle particles, and Upgrade Hints, which badge loot that beats what you're wearing (with a sensitivity slider). The overheating pop-up no longer interrupts fights — the setting is there if you want it. - The pray stone now wakes after floor 1 and every tenth floor after that, offering two blessings out of twenty-four. Only one can be active at a time, so every waking is a real choice — and if you leave without picking, the offer waits for you. - Donations are no longer capped. Every coin feeds one long track with eight milestones, from 1,000 gold all the way to 1,000,000, each paying permanent rewards for the rest of the run. Keep climbing, Tim

- Big performance pass across the whole game — smoother battles and noticeably less battery drain, especially in crowded fights with splash damage. - Defeated enemies now shatter into pixels. - Fixed loot sometimes snapping into your bag instead of flying to it. - Fixed enemies vanishing before their death effect finished playing. - Fixed a tutorial stall when the training dummy died in a single hit, and Word companions now appear right after the tutorial.

THE AUTHOR'S WORD 4 new heroes — Ranger, Chronomancer, Ronin and Stormcaller. Fourteen in total. 20 new floors. Beyond the Origin (101-120) continues straight out of the Floor 100 ending, across two acts of puzzle encounters and two new guardians. The Author's Word — collect 37 Word Fragments (Glyphs, Verbs, Clauses) and socket them into your Word for permanent meta powers. Hall of the Fallen — surpass heroes who fell in other players' runs and claim their souls. New leaderboards, including Word Collector and a floor-60 speedrun race. Balance, localization and stability fixes throughout.

- Supporter nameplates are now visible to other players on the leaderboards and in the Hall of the Fallen — show off your background across the whole tower. - Fixed the class filter on the leaderboards running off the edge on smaller screens (the row now scrolls).

New Class: the Monk — a free, unarmed martial artist who chains every strike into a growing Combo, then unleashes Hundred Fists to spend it all in one devastating flurry. The longer the chain, the harder you hit. Monk gear & sets — dedicated weapons, robes and prayer-bead focus items, plus two new sets with combo-powered bonuses: guaranteed flurries, shockwaves, and Iron Body defense. New combat VFX — crisp new pixel-art effects for the Monk's strikes and Hundred Fists. Show off your nameplate — supporter nameplates now display to other players on the leaderboards, the Hall of the Fallen (yours too), and friend challenges. See before you unlock — locked portraits, frames and nameplates now show a live animated preview, so you know exactly what you'd get. Bigger rivalries — souls rewards for beating friend challenges and avenging fallen heroes have been boosted. Polish & fixes — clearer skill cooldowns, tidier leaderboard text, Codex lore consistency, and lots of small improvements. Thanks for playing — and for all the feedback. Keep it coming! — Tim

NEW CLASS — THE BEASTMASTER Tame wild beasts and fight alongside your pack. Summon animal companions, unleash the Werewolf form, and hunt through all 100 floors with a brand-new playstyle. RIVALS, FRIENDS & MY RUNS Challenge friends with shareable ghost codes, re-send challenges from any of your past runs in the new My Runs feed, and race head-to-head for bonus souls. Plus bug fixes and performance improvements. Thank you for playing!

New Leaderboard: Achievement Score — your lifetime achievement points now rank you against the world (and your friends). Every unlock counts. Soul Rebirth — a new permanent Soul Forge upgrade that pulls you back from death once per run. Fell on Floor 70? Get back up. Supporter Packs — optional, cosmetic-only portrait & frame sets for anyone who wants to support a solo dev. No power, no pay-to-win — just flair on the leaderboards. (Most portraits & frames are still earned free through achievements!) Sharper look — redesigned stat icons with crisp pixel-art badges across battle, inventory, and the shrine. Achievement fixes — Pacifist, Ultimate Offering and a few others now unlock exactly when they should, and sacrifice tracking is accurate. Big localization pass — menus, Codex, quests, curses, achievements and more, now properly translated across English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Russian and Chinese. Plus smoother camp Armory item details and lots of small polish. Thanks for playing — and for all the feedback. Keep it coming! — Tim

A big content + polish update, plus important fixes. NEW New events: Mirror Pool (duplicate an item), Blood Pact, Abandoned Campfire, and The Reliquary (draw set pieces). New camp stations: a Donation altar and the Quest Board. Camp armory: Sell All and Sell by Rarity buttons. Rate & Share buttons added to the main menu. New Ancient Coins history log for Eternal Climb. Divine chests can now appear after Adventure bosses. IMPROVEMENTS Cleaner merchant screen: clearer active bonuses and a new "this run" stats section. Tidier curse selection layout in Eternal Climb. Lots more translations and text fixes across the game (events, settings, feedback, bosses, perks, and more). UI polish on the main menu, character select, prayer, and challenge screens. FIXES Per-class Ancient Coins leaderboards now update correctly. Fixed stat values being cut off on some devices. Fixed a crash when selling items in bulk. Fixed boss skills occasionally skipping their cooldown. Various smaller bug and layout fixes. Thanks for playing — and please leave a review if you're enjoying the climb!

Version 1.5.3 - Camp view fix — the camp + six stations + Alchemist class now show for every player (were hidden behind a build-flavor gate in v1.5.2) - Minor UI/UX polish and bug fixes Thanks for playing! Tap the heart in Settings to leave a review.

Version 1.5.2 — The Alchemist & Camp NEW — ALCHEMIST CLASS A brand-new playable class. The Alchemist channels absorbed shop items into permanent power. Class skill EXPLOSIVE CONCOCTION consumes every active absorb buff to deal AoE damage that scales with the buff count. Passive CONCENTRATED ESSENCE amplifies absorbed stats by +30%. Exclusive ALEMBIC equipment slot. Full 28-skill skill tree plus 32 stat traits. Innate +10% bonus to all shrine sacrifices. NEW — THE CAMP The Shrine is fully redesigned as a diegetic camp scene. Six interactive stations replace the old tabbed UI — each is a place you can tap. NEW — SIX CAMP STATIONS SHRINE ALTAR — sacrifice items for permanent stats this run. PRAY STONE — pray for a divine blessing, now rendered as a slot-machine spin strip with sprite-icon outcomes. FORGE — pay gold to Enhance an item with a new affix, or Reforge to reroll every affix on it. ARMORY — inspect, equip, and swap gear between battles. MERCHANT TENT — visit the merchant, donate gold, unlock relationship bonuses. QUEST BOARD — take on Regular, Rare, and Legendary challenges. NEW — QUEST BOARD OVERHAUL Daily and weekly quests are gone. The new structure is Regular / Rare / Legendary tiers. 12 new Legendary quests added to the catalog. Rare tier has a manual REFRESH RARES button (gold cost) instead of a 7-day calendar. Completed quests now require a CLAIM tap — no more silent auto-grants. Regular and Rare rewards boosted ~3×, Legendary boosted 2×. NEW — PRAYER SLOT STRIP The Pray Stone replaces the old channeling bar with a slot-machine-style spin animation. Five tiered outcomes — Nothing, Minor Blessing, Blessing, Divine Favor, Miracle, and the brand-new ASCENSION — cycle past with their actual sprite icons, then land on your roll. Minor Blessing and Blessing tiers can now drop raw GOLD or XP instead of stat lines. NEW — ASCENSION TIER A new prayer outcome above Miracle. 1% chance to drop a guaranteed Set-rarity item — your fastest in-run path to a Set bonus. NEW — CAMP ARMORY The Armory station gives you the battle inventory outside of combat. Full equipment grid with portrait, HP/XP bars, and stat row; 28-slot bag with class slot and merchant artifact. Items merge with the same flying-sprite + rarity glow + impact-flash + pixel-burst landing the battle inventory uses. NEW — CAMP TUTORIAL New players are walked through every station in the camp via a guided spotlight + Continue tour. Existing players who already finished the tutorial skip the tour — their progress is respected. POLISHED - Every camp sheet now sizes to its content — no more empty bands below the prayer strip or the forge selection - Empower has a fully visual result phase with before/after stat comparison - Burn-bar timing on the EMPOWER button matches the SACRIFICE flow exactly - Slot strip lands on a single smooth bezier curve instead of ticking between speeds - Camp station labels show a notification dot when an action is unfinished at that station - Settings + Dev tools buttons added next to THE SHRINE header for parity with the battle pause menu - Continue button from the shrine pause menu now resumes back at the camp, not an empty battle - Quest reward boosts: Regular/Rare 3× gold + XP, Legendary 2×, quest XP now goes to player XP instead of merchant XP Thanks for camping out! Tap the heart in Settings to leave a review.

Version 1.5.1 — Wardens of the Endless Cycle NEW — 10 ETERNAL CLIMB BOSSES A brand-new boss roster exclusive to Eternal Climb mode. Khoros the Ouroboros Warden, Mavros the Veil-Stitcher, Pyrrhion the Curse-Forger, Selene the Lantern of Names, Janus-Khoros the Twin-Crowned, Chronara the Hourglass Witch, The Choir Without Tongues, Vorthax the Architect, Aurynn the Sun-Devourer, and The Eye Beyond the Climb. Each has 2 phases, a unique skill pool, a signature mechanic (Cursed Bind, Veil Stitch, Forge Strike, Name Drain, Twin Strike, Time Reverse, Soundless Summon, Tower Fortify, Solar Flare, Marked Sight), and full codex lore. NEW — RUN-SHUFFLED BOSS ORDER Each Eternal Climb run shuffles the boss order. Floor 10 picks 1 of 10, floor 20 picks 1 of the remaining 9, and so on — no two runs share the same boss sequence. NEW — CODEX BESTIARY SECTION "Wardens of the Endless Cycle" — codex entries unlock as you encounter each boss. POLISHED - Eternal Climb boss stats now normalize to the current floor for consistent difficulty regardless of which boss the shuffle picks - Elite modifiers no longer stack on EC bosses — their kit + phase mechanics carry the encounter - Chest gold costs rebalanced at low floors — early-game chests are finally affordable (a floor-1 Iron chest now costs ~96 gold, down from 324) - Idle breathing animation amplified — enemies clearly breathe on screen instead of being still - Flying enemies (bats, wisps, dragons, ghosts, eyes) now hover with an organic 2D drift path - Elite enemies show a threat-tier rim glow — orange for 1 modifier, gold for 2, red-gold for 3+ — replacing the cluttered particle aura - Phase 2 transition banners fire correctly for all Eternal Climb bosses FIXED - Splitting elite copies in Eternal Climb now inherit the parent's stat normalization - Phase 2 stat transition preserves floor-aware scaling instead of reverting to the boss's nominal-floor baseline - Eternal Climb boss sprites correctly mapped to the atlas Thanks for climbing! Tap the heart in Settings to leave a review.

Version 1.5 — Eternal Climb Update NEW MODE — ETERNAL CLIMB Endless ascent unlocked at floor 11+. Draft a new elite curse every 2 floors, fight bosses every 10. Earn Ancient Coins to spend on the new Chests perk tab. NEW META — CHESTS TAB 12 new permanent upgrades powered by Ancient Coins — more chests, bigger hauls, set hunters, divine echoes, and Eternal-tier perks. DEEPER CHARACTERS - Level cap raised from 20 → 35 - All 7 classes now have skill-tree trait nodes — 224 new traits for fine-grained build customization POLISHED UI - Redesigned event screens with hero artwork and multi-select merchant buying - Refreshed Bestiary tab with region icons and compact entries - New Challenge panel during ghost battles shows your run vs. the ghost at a glance - Main menu Continue / Shrine buttons rebuilt with character portraits BALANCE & FIXES - Eternal Climb floors 1-9 now ease in new players with a gentler stat curve - Gold and XP no longer inflate on elite enemies - Shrine prayers and donations now show real (post-scaling) bonuses - Class auto-unlock fix — Rogue, Mage, and other gated classes unlock correctly on existing saves - Run summary screen now fits properly on iPhone SE Thanks for climbing! Tap the heart in Settings to leave a review.

Floor 10 boss balance & safety net The Gatekeeper has been retuned: lower HP, attack, and defense in both phases, plus fewer minions in phase two. New players should see a much smoother first encounter. Added Divine Mercy: a once-per-run revive at 50% HP if you fall to any boss. The Shrine watches over you on your first attempt. Entering a boss floor (10, 20, 30...) now fully restores your HP. Save your potions for what comes next. VFX animation & effects fixes Now all class specific skills have proper VFX effects and animations with particles. New meta upgrades Two new permanent upgrades in the Shrine: HP Potion Mastery and MP Potion Mastery. Each level boosts the healing and mana you get from potions for every character class. Class passives — Berserker & Necromancer Death Wish (Berserker) and Soul Harvest (Necromancer) passives now appear in the active-buff bar with proper class artwork. The stats bar now shows the green "up-arrow" when these passives push your attack higher, just like any other buff. Battle Cry now displays its real skill icon instead of a generic fallback. Fixed a bug where buff icons would revert to a generic icon after the first turn. Quality of life Snappier enemy targeting: switching targets is now near-instant instead of fading slowly. Quest progress bars no longer overflow past their container when you exceed the goal. Pixel typography is now used consistently for floor markers (F1, F2...) and skill cooldown counters. Shield visuals on the HP bar have been corrected. Massive localization pass The merchant Grimwald is now fully translated, including greetings, quotes, quest names and descriptions, mood-driven reactions to your purchases and rerolls, level-up celebrations, and artifact reveals — across Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, and Spanish. Battle-view merchant chat bubbles (about 95 short reaction lines) are now translated in all supported languages, with a Chinese-friendly pixel font. Achievement detail screen: "Points", "Unlocked", "Locked", and the unlock date now translate properly. Item merge screen: the "Upgrade to..." label is no longer stuck in English. Russian: the merge verb has been polished from "Слить" to the more natural "Объединить". A pile of smaller English-only strings throughout the UI now respect the player's language setting, including quest descriptions that previously didn't update when you switched language mid-game. Trial paywall flow For players still in the free trial, the run-pause-and-resume flow has been rewritten so your progress is never lost when the paywall appears at the end of floor 10. Thank you for playing LootShrine. As always, please use the in-game "Need help or found a bug?" link if anything misbehaves — bug reports and ideas go straight to me.

COMBAT & ENEMIES • 8 new Elite enemy modifiers: Teleporter (row swap VFX), Linked (chain invulnerability), Phased (stealth telegraphs), Adaptive, Parasitic, Splitting, Reflective, Explosive • Major enemy scaling rebalance across all floors • Floor 10 Gatekeeper difficulty tuned for smoother progression SHRINE REWORK • Prayer system redesigned — no more "Nothing" outcomes; every prayer grants a blessing scaled to current floor • Devotion perks reorganized with clearer progression UI / UX • Redesigned sacrifice and empower tabs with stat comparisons • Boss phases now use pixel-font stats for readability • Improved combat VFX and overlay animations LOCALIZATION • Expanded Russian translation coverage across the entire game • Fixed language switching — in-game language changes now apply instantly FIXES • Resolved save-corruption bug affecting some long runs • Miracle prayer outcome now correctly rolls Legendary items • Numerous small polish fixes throughout

- Floor 10 boss rebalanced (easier Phase 2) - Extra Attack now shows visible damage numbers - Contextual tooltips for new players - Event encounters redesigned - Minor bugs fixes and UI/UX improvements - Localization fixes

- Added support for Game Center leaderboards and achievements - Minor bugs and UI/UX fixes