- Our Biggest Update Yet! - 23 July 2026
New FeaturesAdded a bench option to travel to your last-used fast-travel point.Added the Hearthstone relic, allowing travel back to Shrinekeep from a Traveller’s Shrine.GameplayImproved ladder controls, including more reliable double jumps and the ability to dash away using directional input.Improved Fly Hook reliability, especially during quick inputs and around overlapping orbs.Improved player recovery after falling into hazards.Fixed several rare cases where the player could become stuck or lose control.Fixed an exploit allowing players to climb indefinitely using double jump and Air Dash.Fixed issues affecting the Damned Reach spell when interrupted.Improved enemy combat behaviour and targeting.Fixed some enemies, including Bulkers and Rogue Scavengers, occasionally becoming unresponsive.Fixed controller drift causing attacks to face or hit in the wrong direction.Fixed vendor purcha…
- 30% off at the Winter Sale! - 19 December 2025
Here ye, here ye! Winds of Arcana: Ruination is finally back on sale! Catch us while you can at 30% off! Join in the fun in our discord!
- WoA PATCH NOTES 1.201 - Map Updates & Difficulty balancing - 13 December 2025
Map Updates: All map images have been updated with more granular path details for improved clarity.Wayfinding Improvements: Added additional landmark illustrations to maps to help players navigate more intuitively. Localization Fix: Resolved an issue causing errors in the Assassin quest in Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and German versions of the game. Camera Fix: Fixed a camera issue during a combat encounter in Iron King Way.Difficulty Balancing: Rebalanced difficulty multipliers — Story Mode is no longer overpowered, Normal Mode has been slightly eased, and other modes have been adjusted accordingly.Modex Update: Updated the Wyrmling image in the Torih Modex.Soft-Lock Fix: Fixed an issue where players could become stuck if they entered the Peak of Sacrifice without a required ability.Frost Debuff affecting Fly Hook: The Frost debuff no longer affects the Fly Hook ability.
- 🏆 Nominate Winds Of Arcana: Ruination for the 2025 Steam Awards! - 27 November 2025
Hello brave adventurers!We're thrilled to see Winds of Arcana: Ruination challenge players the way it has. We have seen the clips, the rants, the triumphs, and the the close calls that nearly sent controllers flying. Through all of it, you stayed curious, determined, and willing to walk deeper into Lirna. That means the world to us.So if Winds of Arcana has ever made you curse, laugh, or finally land that perfect hit, we would be honoured if you consider nominating us for the Best Game You Suck At category in the Steam Awards. While we think that category fits us perfectly, please feel free to pick any other category that feels right to you!Every nomination helps our game reach more players who enjoy a challenge with heart. More than that, it lifts up a small team that poured everything we had into this project. How to NominateGo to (Current page): https://store.steampowered.com/news/?e…
- Hotfix 1.1.0.4 Critical Fixes for Hammer(Qavayr) & Assassin fight - 24 November 2025
Fixed an issue where Assassin fight would cause bugs for users playing in Simplified Chinese and Korean languagesFixed an issue for Qavayr +2 pertaining to Aerial Rhythm which would cause the aerial attacks to not function as required. Contact us/meet other players in our Discord!
- PATCH NOTES 1.103 - DASH AWAY! - 22 November 2025
ChangesPlayerDecreased Dash cooldown so you can zip around more frequently.Fixed a hazard respawn issue where the player could incorrectly respawn mid-air after touching an aggro surface.Resolved a sneaky bug where certain weapon upgrades were corrupting weapon behaviour.Player–Enemy collision problems should now be largely resolved. (We’ll continue refining this in a future patch.) Mesh and Material ChangesImproved Bonehead’s material, making it brighter with a subtle VFX highlight to draw attention during encounters.Fixed incorrect mesh rendering in the Pits of Wrath level. Moving PlatformsReduced the travel speed of moving platforms in Blighted Woods to prevent the minor “end-of-track hop” players were experiencing. Camera AdjustmentsBlighed Woods – Glider Area: Tweaked camera behaviour so the player no longer slips out of view during the glide. Scene ChangesSmoothed and balanced pla…
- The Speed Force Update - 19 November 2025
IMPROVEMENTS/NEW FEATURESPlayer ImprovementsReduced Sword Combos to 3 from 5Sword attacks can now be cancelled at any point, improving combat fluidity.Parries can now also be cancelled.Hammer attacks can now be cancelled at any point.Chakram attacks can now be cancelled at any point.Increased Chakram combo speed and reduced the delay between sheathing and unsheathing.All attack animations now feature smoother blending.Reduced the overall knockdown chance from enemy attacks.Increased player recovery speed and reduced knockback duration.Player improvement work is ongoing, but the changes in this update should feel significantly better compared to the launch build.FIXESScene/Level Fixes:Seat of Valour: Replaced a faulty lift that occasionally failed to trigger when accessing the Ihn’xahr boss fight.Broken Kingdom & Peak of Sacrificea. When respawning from contact with an aggro surface in t…
- Launch Stream - 16 November 2025
The game is live! Dive in! Check out some tight platforming, snarky skulls, and vengeful bosses! If you have any questions, feel free to drop a comment or hop on over to our Discord and ask us directly!
- Day One Patch — Thank You for the Incredible Launch! - v1.004 - 16 November 2025
Thank you for diving into Winds of Arcana: Ruination! Your feedback has been invaluable, and today’s update is all about refining your journey—cleaning up progression quirks, fixing collision issues, and improving the overall feel of exploration. Please keep the reports coming; we’re listening and polishing the game step by step with your help.NEW FEATURESAdded a new option: Disable Controller Vibrations in Accessibility settings.BUG FIXESGameplay & ProgressionFixed an issue where Aryn’s starting position in Shrinekeep was incorrect after returning from Oryn Forest.Resolved an exploit allowing players to obtain Wall Climb earlier than intended, granting premature access to later areas. (Correct sequence now requires Wisp Hook first.)Removed Player Lock for most small loot items across the game, improving movement flow.Fixed an issue where standing under certain platforms and taking thei…
- Release Announcement - Winds of Arcana: Ruination - 15 November 2025
The game is out! We’ve spent years building this world, its dangers and breathless wonders, its hidden corners and silly characters. And over all those long days and nights, through playtests, builds, feedback, memes, and glorious chaos… you helped shape Winds of Arcana: Ruination into the game it is today.Thank you. Truly. This community has shaped the game more than you may ever know, and we’re deeply, genuinely grateful for it. 💙The gates are now open. Aryn’s story becomes yours to explore. See you on the other side… in the Ruins. ⚔️ Join the rest of the adventurers on our Discord.
- Steam Next Fest Demo is Live! - 13 October 2025
Greetings, folks! Winds of Arcana: Ruination is part of the October 2025 Steam Next Fest! To celebrate, we have a new and polished demo, with updated visuals and performance improvements! Here are a few notes from our dev team for this demo:This demo features 3 Magic Weapons, 1 Soul Crest, and 4 Relics to let you experience the core combat features of the game.You can also find 2 pulsating boss fights to try out your favourite weapons and powers.Some paths have been closed to provide a curated demo experience.Please note you cannot complete any quests in this demo.The full game will contain more weapons, secrets, and platforming abilities (grapple, double jump, wall jump, etc.) for you to explore a rich metroidvania world!Once you’ve tried the demo, we would be thrilled if you could take some time to fill out our feedback form. It would help us greatly in making some useful tweaks to th…
- Winds of Arcana: Ruination Livestream! - 2 October 2025
Come see our game in action!
- Updated Demo/Second Community Playtest Open! - 26 September 2025
Greetings, folks!We are pleased to announce that our second community playtest is now live, and it is open to everyone, through our updated public demo!That's right, there's no sign-up form or any restrictions involved. Simply download our demo from the store page, and you're in!Then what makes this a "playtest", you might wonder? Our team will actively monitor the performance of this build for the next few days, and we would like to request anyone who has played the demo to fill out this form after they have spent some time with the demo.Feedback FormHere are a few notes from our dev team for this demo:This demo features 3 Magic Weapons, 1 Soul Crest, and 4 Relics to let you experience the core combat features of the game.You can also find 2 pulsating boss fights to try out your favourite weapons and powers.Some paths have been closed to provide a carefully curated experience.Please no…
- Winds of Arcana: Ruination Demo Gameplay! - 18 September 2025
Watch gameplay from the latest build of our demo!
- Sign-ups for our Community Playtest are now open! - 7 August 2025
Greetings folks! As promised, we have a very important update: our first ever Winds of Arcana: Ruination Community Playtest is finally here! That's right! You can be some of the first people in the world to fully experience what the team has been working on for the last four years. By signing up and participating in the playtests, you'll help by giving us your valuable feedback as we push towards the game's release in 2025. This is absolutely crucial for us as we want to know what you guys feel about everything in the game so far. Not only that, but if you decide to participate in more than one playtest (yes, we have MANY planned), we plan to have some goodies to give out for your time and hard work... But hurry! We have limited slots available. Sign up here! Deadline: August 10th, 2025 - Sunday @ 11:59 PM IST or 11:29 AM PT If you have any questions, feel free to drop a comment or hop…
- July 2025 - What We've Been Upto! - 16 July 2025
Greetings, folks! We know it’s been awfully quiet this past month. However, we’re back with important developer updates for Winds of Arcana: Ruination! As you may recall from our last update, we had taken the decision to skip Steam Next Fest: June 2025 Edition and target the festival after. We’re glad to report that we are making good progress on the Final Demo for Steam Next Fest: October 2025 Edition (October 13 to October 20). You can expect a host of changes made based on our amazing community’s feedback. Expect a ton of improvements, including better controls, more animations, visual effects, sounds, and new content in the form of a new biome, several yet to be seen enemy types and of course, a brand new boss fight. We’ll have more to show and discuss once we are closer to October! Apart from that, progress on the Full Game has also been slow but steady! In addition to the above me…
- May 2025 - Dev Update on Final Demo - 21 May 2025
Greetings, folks! It’s been a hot minute, but we’re back with some very important updates to share with you all. So strap in, because it’s a bit of a doozy… Let’s get the big one out of the way. As you may recall, we had promised in previous dev updates that we are looking to release the next and final Winds of Arcana: Ruination demo for the Steam Next Fest: June 2025 Edition. However, after much discussion with the team, we have taken the decision to push the Final Demo to Steam Next Fest: October 2025 Edition (October 13 to October 20). This was not a simple nor easy decision for us to make. But after reviewing all the feedback we’ve gathered since the last four physical events, the IGU Steam demo (which you can still play!), content creators and our amazing community - we felt it was the right call to delay the Final Demo to October 2025. We do apologize for not being able to meet th…
- Play the New Winds of Arcana: Ruination Demo Today! - 17 April 2025
⚔️ Surprise! A new Winds of Arcana: Ruination demo is available to download and play on Steam ⚔️ That’s right! After premiering our latest demo at GDC 2025 - we are now ready to unleash the floodgates and have it available to EVERYONE during the Indie Game Utsav 2025 festival. A couple of things to note: this demo is NOT going to be the last one. The Final Demo, which we are still slaving over as we speak, will be premiering closer to the Steam Next Fest: June Edition 2025. But until then, we wanted to give this as an appetizer before the main course, to show our huge thanks to our amazing fans and supporters in our community. Seriously, you guys rock and we would love to know what you think. Lastly, because this demo was meant for physical events, there might not be as much content in this demo compared to the one from last year. This was intentional and is NOT fully representative of…
- April 2025 - Indie Game Ustav Announcement! - 8 April 2025
Greetings, folks! Last month was quite busy for us, but we are back from GDC week and have some news to share! For those unaware, our team debuted a special Winds of Arcana: Ruination demo at three major events back to back in March. We got to showcase the game at Courage XL, Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco, and finally GDAI’s India Pavilion at GDC 2025. The response was fantastic and overall, we feel it was a great opportunity to demo and collect feedback from a new audience. With that being said, what does April have in store for us? Based on everyone’s feedback, we are continuing to refine and work on the next major demo. While we can’t say for sure when we will be able to give a definitive date, all we can say is that this one is going to be HUGE. We’re talking a new biome, a new boss fight, more platforming… essentially, this will be the final demo leading up to the game’s offi…
- March 2025 Dev Update - 3 March 2025
Greetings, folks! It’s been a hot minute, but we have some news to share on the development progress of Winds of Arcana: Ruination. Firstly, we really want to thank everyone who provided feedback on our downloadable PC Demo 2.0. All your Steam forum posts, your messages on our Discord community, as well as what several content creators had to say… we combed through it all! It’s because of your valuable time and feedback that we are able to shape WoA:R into something special. Now let’s get into the meat of it! Here’s what we’ve changed and added since our last showing: Fine-tuned and improved the combat system Brand new animations for Aryn. Updated VFX and SFX. Added a whole bunch of side-quests with new characters! Not to mention some new tracks for exploration and battle! And that is just the tip of the iceberg. We have even more things added and built for the game that, unfortunately,…
