- Stay Frosty Wintertime Event - 20 December 2025
Do you feel that chill in the air? A storm is on its way! From December 20th to January 2nd, Roundguard is celebrating the wintertime with a special event! The dungeon is blanketed in a fresh coat of snow, the jingliest jingle bells are here to welcome you, and the dungeon denizens are dressed for the weather. You know what that means... Pom pom hats! Put on your fuzzy slippers and try your hand at two weeks of unique daily challenges with winter rules. Look out for snowballs snowballing and icy winds blowing through every day. Hungry for more?We released the demo for our next game, Arcane Eats, just last month and it's full of delicious deckbuilder combos and our signature cheeky vibes. Please give it a taste! Good wishes to you all for a cozy end of year with endless marshmallows in your hot cocoa!
- Halloween Tricks & Treats! - 24 October 2025
Hey friends,Happy spooky season! To celebrate, the Halloween Tricks & Treats event is live right now in Roundguard! Go put on your costume, smash some pumpkins, and crush some spooky themed daily events for the next week in honor of the Great Pumpkin, the roundest gourd of all. Roundguard will be on deep discount on Steam and mobile throughout the event, so it’s the perfect time to tell a friend or pick up a copy to keep in your pocket. But you need more to do this weekend? Check out the Roguelike Celebration! It’s one of the coolest, weirdest, nerdiest, funniest roguelike-themed events I’ve ever been to. I won’t be doing a talk there this year, but many other very clever folks will be. We’ve got Arcane Eats in their Steam sale event, along with a ton of other great roguelikes and roguelike-likes to pick up and wishlist. Give you more, you say? Well fear not (or maybe do), because Dames…
- Introducing our next game: Arcane Eats - 8 June 2025
After years of updates and support for Roundguard, we’re very excited to finally announce our next game, Arcane Eats! It’s a roguelike deckbuilder with a delicious twist – build a cuisine-themed deck of cards, cook up combos on magical cooktops, and serve fantastical meals to hordes of hungry monsters. It’s crisp and crunchy card play tossed in roguelike spices with a heaping side of culinary puns. I’m a big foodie and I love games about cooking, but I’ve always felt like there’s something missing. Most cooking games focus on following recipes and speedy execution. Cooking can be about that for sure, but the kind of cooking I love most happens when you let go of following a recipe – when you improvise with the ingredients you have at hand, when you experiment to find new taste combos, when you try to understand the underlying mechanics so you can make your prep work even more efficient…
- Stay Frosty Wintertime Event - 20 December 2024
Do you feel that chill in the air? A storm is on its way! From December 20th to January 2nd, Roundguard is celebrating the wintertime with a special event! The dungeon is blanketed in a fresh coat of snow, the jingliest jingle bells are here to welcome you, and the dungeon denizens are dressed for the weather. You know what that means... Pom pom hats! Put on your fuzzy slippers and try your hand at two weeks of unique daily challenges with winter rules. Look out for snowballs snowballing and icy winds blowing through every day. Good wishes to you all for a cozy end of year with endless marshmallows in your hot cocoa!
- Halloween Tricks & Treats! - 28 October 2024
Roundguard is back with its annual Halloween event! From Oct 24 to Nov 1, the whole dungeon is celebrating with fun costumes, spooky vibes, and unique Halloween-themed daily challenges every day. Let's get dressed up, smash pumpkins, and eat tons of candy! Have a happy Halloween!
- Stay Frosty Wintertime Event - 20 December 2023
Do you feel that chill in the air? A storm is on its way! From December 20th to January 2nd, Roundguard is celebrating the wintertime with a special event! The dungeon is blanketed in a fresh coat of snow, the jingliest jingle bells are here to welcome you, and the dungeon denizens are dressed for the weather. You know what that means... Pom pom hats! Put on your fuzzy slippers and try your hand at two weeks of unique daily challenges with winter rules. Look out for snowballs snowballing and icy winds blowing through every day. Good wishes to you all for a cozy end of year with endless marshmallows in your hot cocoa!
- Halloween Tricks & Treats! - 24 October 2023
Roundguard is back with its annual Halloween event! From Oct 24 to Nov 1, the whole dungeon is celebrating with fun costumes, spooky vibes, and unique Halloween-themed daily challenges every day. Let's get dressed up, smash pumpkins, and eat tons of candy! Have a happy Halloween!
- Patch Notes 2.0.3 - 23 March 2023
A couple bug fixes here: Fixed some Italian localization issues. Fixed Elite quests/fights sometimes repeating too much. Fixed the top Encore ranks not respecting the Relic requirement if you used a controller to try and start it even though it says its locked.
- 3 Year Anniversary + Mobile Announcement! - 13 March 2023
Wow, it's been 3 years since we first launched Roundguard and it's been quite the journey! With your support, Bob & I followed our dream to make Wonderbelly Games our full-time jobs, and we've been able to keep adding to Roundguard to make it bigger and better. Thank you for your encouragement, for your feedback, and for sharing our game with a friend. It means the world to us.
- Stay Frosty Wintertime Event - 20 December 2022
Do you feel that chill in the air? A storm is on its way! From December 20th to January 2nd, Roundguard is celebrating the wintertime with a special event! The dungeon is blanketed in a fresh coat of snow, the jingliest jingle bells are here to welcome you, and the dungeon denizens are dressed for the weather. You know what that means... Pom pom hats! Put on your fuzzy slippers and try your hand at two weeks of unique daily challenges with winter rules. Look out for snowballs snowballing and icy winds blowing through every day. Good wishes to you all for a cozy end of year with endless marshmallows in your hot cocoa!
- Halloween Tricks & Treats! - 17 October 2022
Roundguard is back with its annual Halloween event! From Oct 24 to Nov 1, the whole dungeon is celebrating with fun costumes, spooky vibes, and unique Halloween-themed daily challenges every day. Let's get dressed up, smash pumpkins, and eat tons of candy! Have a happy Halloween!
- Patch Notes 2.0.2 - 29 June 2022
Now that they've been in the beta branch for a while without any issues, here's the newest set of fixes and quality of life features for everyone in the main branch. Enjoy! Added "Show Leaderboard" to settings menu for those who want to skip the end of run leaderboard presentation. Added button to skip run review tally and wheel spin presentations (same button as dialog skip). Fixed skeletons not respecting immunity removal trinkets/bonus properties when they were resurrected by a lich. Fixed skulls not remaining targetable with the special wild vines bonus property for a board after save/load. Fixed in game user name not getting updated if you changed your steam account name after creating your save file. Fixed bug with quitting at a precise frame while going in the exit bucket and then continuing causing all kinds of silly issues. Hopefully fixed that pesky bug that caused certain eli…
- Patch Notes 2.0.2 Beta Branch - 21 June 2022
Here's a few more bug fixes and polish items folks have been requesting! Because they touch some of the core flow between game states, I'm gonna let them hang out in the beta branch for a little bit before bringing them to the main branch. Let me know if you see any issues with the new options. Added "Show Leaderboard" to settings menu for those who want to skip the end of run leaderboard presentation. Added button to skip run review tally and wheel spin presentations (same button as dialog skip). Fixed skeletons not respecting immunity removal trinkets/bonus properties when they were resurrected by a lich. Fixed skulls not remaining targetable with the special wild vines bonus property for a board after save/load. Fixed in game user name not getting updated if you changed your steam account name after creating your save file. Fixed bug with quiting at a precise frame while going in the…
- Patch Notes 2.0.1 - 26 May 2022
Just a few small bug fixes for issues that some helpful folks have reported to us... Fixed Goblin Poet defeat trinket pens destroying each other if you get a bunch going at once with druid wild vines. Fixed another soft lock edge case when skipping the final Gift Giver dialog. Fixed Warrior Sideshow bomb rules to make its timing for coming out to explode the gold pots totally consistent on different resolutions. Thorns visuals on the enemies now hide correctly when they are cleansed by a clear gel cube. Fixed Organized Lich elite not playing their resurrection particles when reanimating a skull. We're happy to see some extreme high scores utilizing the new Encore ranks and features! Keep them coming, and thanks for playing!
- The Encore 2.0 Update has arrived! - 28 April 2022
Today we’re rolling out yet another free major content update, the Encore update! This huge expansion gives each hero their own series of escalating Encore ranks to explore, and adds tons of new gameplay variety and new rewards to unlock if you can survive it all. New Encore mode! Once you complete a normal run for the first time, you now unlock Encore mode. Each Encore rank adds new variety and challenge, encouraging you to experiment with each hero. The higher you can climb in a hero’s ranks, the higher the difficulty and the more gold potential each run holds. The upper limits of the leaderboards are now anyone’s guess! New bosses! Too comfy with the Alchemist, the Cycloptopus, and the Giant Worm? We’ve flooded the dungeon with new variants! Try your hand at defeating these new dangerous lab experiments, answer the question of how many Cycloptopi you can fit in a room, and discover t…
- Patch Notes 2.0 Beta Branch - 21 April 2022
Localization is here! This update includes all supported languages, so if you've been waiting to try the beta until it was able to speak your language, now's the time! We're getting VERY close to launching this thing, so now's also the time for any final feedback before a larger audience gets to join in on the fun. Since we're so close to releasing it in the main branch, we're merging the leaderboards back together with the wider world with this build too. Here's the detailed changes: All localized languages fully support the new Encore content now. Fixed bug where mastering the endless mode relic last would not pop the achievement for mastering all encore relics (until you mastered any other relic again) Fixed Polymorph Staff frogs getting cleaned up after each round instead of waiting around for you to bonk them. Fixed soft lock with the final boss fight if you polymorphed certain ene…
- Patch Notes 1.4.4.4 Beta Branch - 23 March 2022
Huge thanks to the folks submitting beta issues and feedback! Got a bunch of fixes here to smooth things out: Fixed Focus relic bomb not initializing properly if you save and quit and reload before taking the first shot in a room. Fixed extremely rare crash that could happen in final boss fight at the moment of victory. Fixed Endless Mode relic not triggering mastery where it said it would (was triggering at floor 106, instead of 91). Fixed hero projectiles getting deleted as soon as they were fired if you were too high above the board. (overly aggressive out of bounds clean up logic). Tricloptopus bosses now behave like all other infected enemies (give poison on contact and get replaced with a little mushroom when they die). Fixed Text Effects setting not applying to the "UI on the fritz" woe until the next board. Now applies immediately. Fixed scarab multipliers for the new encore rel…
- Patch Notes 1.4.4.3 Beta Branch - 17 March 2022
Another couple quick fixes... Fixed bug that allowed repeated encounters with the same elite before they should be seen again. Fixed crash if you played a round with potion imps, then a round without them right afterwards. Fixed incorrect Relic unlock event... Relics that should unlock for winning the Sideshow were unlocking for winning Rank 2 instead. Keep the feedback coming! We're especially curious now if anyone can really win on Rank 5 with each hero... Let us know if you can pull it off, or if it's just way too hard!
- Encore Beta Achievements - 17 March 2022
We've just added 16 new achievements to the Encore beta. These are only achievable in the beta branch until we release the Encore update officially on the main branch. Please let us know if you're on the beta branch and think you should have unlocked one, but it's not working for you! Otherwise, good luck going after the new goals!
- Patch Notes 1.4.4.2 Beta Branch - 16 March 2022
Just a quick update here with some fixes to bugs reported in the beta branch the last couple days: Fixed soft lock if you won a round and unlocked the new Encore mode at the same time as unlocking one of the high score relics. Fixed the rank not showing up correctly on the leaderboards for the first few ranks, and playing the Sideshow intro dialog on rank 2 instead of the Sideshow. Fixed duplicate dialog if your first ever attempt with a hero was on their Sideshow rank. Thanks to those of you playing and filing bugs/feedback! We appreciate it so much!
