Controllers welcome. • New: play with a game controller. The left stick moves your hunter, the bottom face button Phase Steps, the menu button pauses, and every menu now has a glowing focus ring with button prompts for your pad. Supported controllers rumble when the horde lands a hit. Touch the screen and touch controls take over again. • Bug: "Replace your saved run?" and "Discard saved run?" were plain system pop-ups that a controller simply could not answer. Fix: they are now proper Bellgrave panels you can answer with one button. Your saved run appreciates being asked politely.

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What's new in 2.5.0 • Your hunter used to take on the entire horde with exactly one weapon, like bringing a single spoon to a siege. Level-ups now offer other hunters' weapons too: carry up to three alongside your own and level them all. • Max a found weapon while holding its paired passive, and the next boss chest evolves it into something much louder. • Bosses now drop treasure chests that roll 1, 3 or 5 upgrades. Elites sometimes drop one as well. Follow the golden beam. • The horde's entire battle plan used to be "walk at you." Now chargers lunge down marked lanes, casters lob dark blasts, binders trap you in rings with one way out, brutes slam the ground, and some swarmers burst when they fall. Every attack shows its danger zone on the floor first, so it's fair. Mostly. • Kill streaks of 25, 50, 100 and 200 now pay bonus experience and coins, and swarms charge in to the sound of a war horn. • The dungeons got a full makeover: new stone floors, lantern light around your hunter, sparks, smoke, blood on the flagstones and a ritual circle under every boss. • Runs now open on a loading screen that prepares everything up front, so the first minute stays smooth. Each area gets its own painting while you wait. • Auto level-up used to open the level-up window, make you watch, and then pick anyway. It now just picks and tells you what you got. • The Run Lost screen on iPad was taller than the iPad. Every menu now fits iPhone, iPad and Mac, and level-up cards finally have room to breathe. • Power-ups glowed so hard they turned into anonymous white blobs, and one reliquary coffin was roughly the size of a bus. Both have been returned to reality. • Some projectiles flew around wearing rings, halos and spare parts, like a magpie's jewellery box. Every weapon now flies as one clean shape: silver knives, a golden hammer, a ruby orb, a spinning shuriken and proper forked lightning. • The menus used to play cheerful tavern music, as if the apocalypse had a happy hour. They now play the theme of the realm you're about to enter, and it carries straight into the run. • After a big wipe, a retry or a phone call, the music sometimes packed up and left. It now stays for the whole hunt. • New sounds for enemy attacks, power-ups and treasure, and new music for boss fights, the Foundry, the Crypt, the Cathedral, the Plague Quarter and Overtime. • A new blue-flame intro on iPad.

Updated for iOS 27 with compatibility and reliability improvements.

• Our bosses were taking the same dance class. All eight now have distinct attack patterns, clearer warnings and proper openings to fight back. • The Hunters screen was using stand-ins. It now shows the actual 3D hunters you play, with a clearer camp and easier menus. • Experience drops looked a little too disposable. They're now bright, faceted crystals that are easier to spot. • Real life interrupts runs. Save a paused run and continue later, with your choices and earned rewards kept safe. • The store sometimes forgot to tell the menus you'd paid. Purchases, restores, approval delays and refunds now update correctly, with clearer messages and a retry option. • Asking for a review during combat was a bold survival strategy. Apple's rating prompt now waits until you're safely back at camp.

• Daily challenges were a little too clingy: quitting or restarting could drag daily settings into the next run. They now let go properly. • Sharing an imported setup used to pack your own modifiers by mistake. The code now carries the settings actually used by that run.

• Instant and very short runs now show sensible per-minute stats instead of dividing by the concept of time. • Tidied the end-of-run summary so every result renders consistently. • No new dungeon furniture. Just fewer mathematical ghosts.

• No shiny new features this time. This is a housekeeping release — brooms, screwdrivers, the works. • Everything under the hood got a once-over so future updates land smoothly. • If you notice absolutely nothing different, that's a ten out of ten from us.

Fixed a run summary bug where an immediate or zero-duration result could show misleading kills/min or gems/min values. Also tightened the game-over overlay copy path so challenge-run summaries build and render reliably on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

A little polish and behind-the-scenes improvements.

Bellgrave 2.0 "Seeded" — the resurrection update. We fixed the game, then fixed the parts of the game that were quietly judging you. - Added a dodge. Turns out "stand still and watch" was not, in fact, a control scheme. Phase Step lets you slip through a boss's attack, and nailing the timing rewards you for it. - Curse Depths: you wanted harder. We built a whole ascension ladder from Surface to Nightfall so you can keep wanting it until you're sorry. - Builds actually diverge now. The upgrade pool used to funnel every run into the same character. We took it out back. Reroll, banish, or Lock your offers and build your own mess. - Mastery Keystones: you now get stronger even when you lose, which is convenient, because see above re: Curse Depths. - Overtime Crescendo: beating the final boss no longer ends the run. It just gets worse. You're welcome. - Hunter's Chronicle + Nemesis: a completion grid, and a list of the specific things that keep killing you, so you can hold a grudge with proper documentation. - New darker biomes beyond the cathedral, because you'd seen the cathedral. - Seed-share: share a seed or QR and a friend lands in the exact same dungeon, horde, and loot. Now nobody can claim you got lucky. - One-shot brag card at the end of a run, for posting your triumphs and/or your humiliations. - Fixed the buy button nobody could find. Yes. Really. It was hiding. It's not anymore. - Fixed the rating prompt that was apparently allergic to appearing. If you're enjoying Bellgrave, it'd love a word now. Still pay-once. Still no ads, no subscriptions, no account, all on-device. iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Bellgrave 1.1.11 — Ursok finds his fur • Ursok the bear hero spent the last few builds prowling the catacombs completely bald. Turns out his fur, claws and armour textures had quietly wandered off the build manifest, so the poor lad was rendering as a shiny grey gummy bear. He has his coat back now. • Every other hunter politely pretended not to notice. We noticed. • No gameplay changed — Ursok hits exactly as hard as before, he just no longer looks like a balloon animal while doing it.

We spent this one making the game smoother when things get hectic: • Damage numbers used to make the game stutter every time you landed a hit — turns out we were rebuilding the font from scratch on every single number. We stopped doing that. Crit storms are buttery now. • Level-ups are smoother. We build the overlay before you need it instead of scrambling the moment you ding. • Moved the sound effects off the main thread so they stop tripping over the rendering.

Fresh screenshots, a new App Store preview, and a quiet polish pass. • Tightened a few rough edges under the hood so the horde swarms you that little bit smoother. • Same dark cathedral, same 8 bosses, same 11 hunters — now with a trailer that actually shows them off. Pay once. Own it all. Go get mobbed.

• Daily challenges are now actually the same dungeon for everyone. They never were. Sorry, leaderboards. • Lucien, Ashwalker, Nyx, and Gideon can finally evolve their weapons — the recipe math was hiding the last rank. • The magnet upgrades now magnet. Vacuum Crown owners: your crown is no longer decorative. • Backgrounding mid-run now pauses the game instead of feeding you to the horde.

Behind-the-scenes polish and a tidy-up.

What's new in 1.1.6 • Equipping a Mantle quietly deleted all of your other purchased upgrades — armour, recovery, reroll/skip/banish charges, luck, greed — for that run. You paid for them, then a Mantle ate them. Mantles now stack with everything else, as nature intended. • The "rate this game" prompt was gated behind winning the entire game twice, which is to say almost nobody ever saw it. It now appears after a hard-won boss kill, like a normal, well-adjusted prompt. • The daily-challenge "Retry" button replayed a different, random seed but still logged it to the daily leaderboard — politely corrupting your own scoreboard. Retries are now honest practice runs. • Patched a rare dungeon-layout crash that could trigger with an empty room list.

Bellgrave now runs buttery smooth. We rebuilt how the game draws each frame. The simulation ticks at a fixed rate, but we used to just slap the newest state on screen and throw away the leftover time between ticks — which your eyes correctly read as a faint, maddening micro-stutter. Now we interpolate between ticks, so your hero, the entire horde, and every boss glide instead of hiccup. • Fixed: the between-frames judder that made motion feel slightly seasick. • Smoother hero, enemy and boss movement and animation. • Same dark cathedral, same 8 bosses, same 11 heroes — just no hitching while they swarm you. Go get mobbed. It looks great now.

What's new in 1.1.4 • Search-listing tidy: trimmed the keyword field of dedupe waste ("rpg games, rpg adventure games" — pick one) and added the actual phrases people in this genre search for (vampire survivor, bullet heaven, horde survival). The Japanese and Korean fields finally use the genre's native-language search anchors instead of romanised "rpg". No change in-game.

What's new in 1.1.3 • Won a run? The game might quietly ask if you'd leave a review. Only fires after victories, only after a few of them, and never twice in the same month. It will never break your run.

Swept the crypt. The horde was unimpressed. A few enemies learned new tricks. A few projectiles learned manners. Boss room slightly more dramatic, slightly less unfair.

Bigger, smarter boss fights — and a rock-solid run. • Every boss now has a signature mechanic to read and react to: consecration rings, cross-slice beams, ground-slam shockwaves, void blooms, Butcher-style charges, poison novas, meteor slams, and a tightening eclipse ring on the final encounter. • Sacred Pool finally drops a healing pool every 5 seconds as described — step in and top up while you keep killing. • Stability overhaul: fixed a rare SceneKit deadlock that could freeze mid-run on iPad, and polished how projectiles render over loot beams and bone piles. • Victory and boss-reward screens now sit properly centered on iPad and Mac, with clean internal scrolling at any orientation. • Hero-specific voice lines for Fenrik, Theron, and Rotgar — no more chatter about someone else's weapon. Thank you for playing Bellgrave. Break the eclipse chain.

Bigger, smarter boss fights — and a rock-solid run. • Every boss now has a signature mechanic to read and react to: consecration rings, cross-slice beams, ground-slam shockwaves, void blooms, Butcher-style charges, poison novas, meteor slams, and a tightening eclipse ring on the final encounter. • Sacred Pool finally drops a healing pool every 5 seconds as described — step in and top up while you keep killing. • Stability overhaul: fixed a rare SceneKit deadlock that could freeze mid-run on iPad, and polished how projectiles render over loot beams and bone piles. • Victory and boss-reward screens now sit properly centered on iPad and Mac, with clean internal scrolling at any orientation. • Hero-specific voice lines for Fenrik, Theron, and Rotgar — no more chatter about someone else's weapon. Thank you for playing Bellgrave. Break the eclipse chain.