Defender's Quest 2: Mists of Ruin Steam news

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• Release dateJan 30, 2025
• DeveloperLevel Up Labs, LLC
• PublisherArmor Games Studios

Genres: Indie, RPG, Strategy

Company pages: Developer: Level Up Labs, LLCPublisher: Armor Games Studios

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Defender's Quest 2: Mists of Ruin Steam news

Defender's Quest 2: Mists of Ruin news collects recent Steam feed items, update posts, and announcements that SteamPulse can associate with this app.

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• Version 1.2 release - 20 January 2026

  Version 1.2 patch notes:Gameplay: Updated advanced missions from 8-1 onwards to be more difficult.Gameplay: Added a new backer enemy! This is a geometric boss designed by one of our early backers. Get ready for some lane management challenge - check it out on mission 8-1 in Advanced difficulty!Gameplay: Fixed bug with projectiles failing to move when shot perfectly horizontal or vertical.Gameplay: Cordelia's Larva bonus buffed slightly.Gameplay: Cannoneer is invincible to mortal wound now. Oops.UI: Fixed world map automatically centering on the wrong position.UI: Fixed "Battle" button being too far below the map location.Text: Fixed missing CN/KR popup text.Text: Fixed splash damage multiplier text in tooltips.Text: Fixed display of +% values on Terror bonuses.Text: Fixed incorrect Burn values displayed for some skills.Text: Fixed some overlap on the credits screen.Thank you for all of…

• v1.1 - Localizations + bugs and QoL - 25 July 2025

  Hello everyone! This is our first large update since launch and the star is the integration of 6 new languages! We fixed a bunch of alignment and spacing issues by hand, but a few may still remain - feel free to let us know in the discussions threads.We did a rebalance pass on XP leveling to be closer to our original goal. The XP required to level is different now - your current levels in your savegames shouldn't change, but it may take longer to hit your next level.Gamepad support is significantly improved on most screens now. There's definitely still some work to do to get it to where we want it, but you should find it a lot more manageable and without some of the stranger behavior that existed before.We also fixed some annoying bugs (enemies getting stuck, some AoE weirdness, and a silly bug that could knock enemies back into your own ship if they went past the beginning of the map.…

• DQ2 Soundtrack launched - 27 May 2025

  We're happy to announce that Kevin Penkin's awesome* DQ2 soundtrack is available for sale! Kevin reworked all of the tracks so that instead of looping they have a nice conclusion, all the better for your listening pleasure. Also, all tracks have been remastered in high-fidelity with lossless WAV versions available in addition to high-quality 320 kbps MP3s. *Can you tell Anthony's a total fanboy? :D

• 2nd attempt to fix crash for non-English characters in Windows - 18 February 2025

  Hopefully we've settled the problem in which users with non-English characters in their usernames are seeing a crash on startup. If you can confirm either way please let us know here! Thanks!

• Hopefully fix non-English username crash, but Hyde nerf - 5 February 2025

  We've been seeing crashes on startup for users with non-English usernames in non-English locales. We think we've finally nailed down the cause and this build will hopefully fix that. Additionally, Hyde's boost 5 was accidentally way OP and that's been toned down a bit.

• After a decade of delays, Defenders Quest 2 is finally out, bringing with it wild character designs and nostalgic tower defense shenanigans - 2 February 2025

  The first thought that popped into my head upon dipping my toes into Defender’s Quest 2: Mists of Ruin is that they don’t make tower defense games like this anymore. The second thought was that my tea was suddenly stone cold and that the past four hours had mysteriously disappeared. This is pure videogame comfort food, if you’ve even the slightest bit of nostalgia for the latter era of flash game design, and the boom of the indie scene. This may be a relic lost in time, after over a decade of delays , but it still shines bright... Read more.

• Hotfix - widescreen, demo saves, Deck gamepad - 31 January 2025

  Ok, quick hotfix. Thanks everyone for the bug reports! Hit a few of the more annoying issues: Widescreen should behave a lot better now Steam Deck controller issues should be improved Save games from the demo will hopefully work now A few text typos

• Defender’s Quest II - Now Available! - 30 January 2025

  Hello everyone! I’m as shocked as anyone else to say this, but Defender’s Quest II is now available on Steam! It has been a long journey with a development schedule in the Duke Nukem Forever timescale (though still shorter!), but we’re finally here! This is obviously not how we planned things, and we regret that our backers had to wait half a generation to see the results of our work. But, we were committed to finishing the project despite all of the challenges, and we can now say we’ve accomplished that. Development speed picked up over the past 18 months or so when we secured support and funding from our fantastic publisher, Armor Games. Just after that, Patrick McCarthy joined the team and really drove the game forward. While intending to focus on level design, he ended up doing a ton of programming, and when Lars had to step away from the project Patrick took over and almost complet…

• Defender's Quest 2 Development Update - 8 November 2023

  Hey everyone, It’s been a while since I’ve updated you on development progress on Defender’s Quest 2 and I wanted to take some time today to give you an update on where we’re at. Due to some family emergencies on the development team, we’re pushing the launch back to 2024 to give us time to take care of ourselves and our families. Your support means the world to us, and we want to make sure we’re releasing a game that lives up to our and our players’ expectations while ensuring the team is well looked after. The game is in the final phase of development, which means we’re spending our time fixing bugs and putting the final bits of polish into the game. I can’t wait for you all to play it, but in the meantime here are some of the newest things I’ve added to the game: We’ll be posting more updates as we lead up to launch. Thank you for being a part of this journey! - Level Up Labs

• Defender's Quest 2 Demo Livestream for Steam next Fest (Friday) - 21 June 2023

  Defender's Quest 2: Mists of Ruin is the sequel to the cult classic tower defense game, Defender's Quest: Mists of Ruin. The classic character-driven tower-defense gameplay is back, with all new characters, all new abilities, and a host of new monsters to fight. Catch this event as developer co-lead Lars Doucet shows off the new demo, but also details the game's long history of development and what exactly has transpired since the first game come out. Feel free to ask questions during the livestream.

• Defender's Quest 2 Demo Livestream for Steam next Fest - 21 June 2023

  Defender's Quest 2: Mists of Ruin is the sequel to the cult classic tower defense game, Defender's Quest: Mists of Ruin. The classic character-driven tower-defense gameplay is back, with all new characters, all new abilities, and a host of new monsters to fight. Catch this event as developer co-lead Lars Doucet shows off the new demo, but also details the game's long history of development and what exactly has transpired since the first game come out. Feel free to ask questions during the livestream.

• It took 10 years to make it happen, but the sequel to one of my favorite tower defense games is finally almost here - 6 April 2023

  Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten is an excellent tower defense game, and so it wasn't surprising that in 2013, a year after its release, a sequel was announced. And then, nothing happened... Read more.

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