Ember and Blade Demo - Patch Notes (2025.10.15)

Our first demo patch is live!

Huge thanks to everyone who played during Steam Next Fest and sent us feedback, it’s been a big help.

This update focuses on combat tuning, a few key bug fixes, and some general stability work.

Let’s get into it.

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Game Balance Adjustments

• Slightly increased damage of Baphomet’s slam attacks

• Slightly reduced damage of Baphomet’s quick attacks

• Reduced Baphomet’s HP from 330,000 → 300,000

• Increased the effect of the “Birthday Cake” relic

• Relic crafting cost is now fixed to 1 Amber

• Increased stats of blessings with low selection rates

• Increased initial cooldowns for certain powerful blessings

• Added a cooldown reduction effect when leveling up blessings

Narrative Adjustments

• Reduced the trigger rate of repetitive auto-play conversations in the field by half

• Increased the cooldown of repetitive auto-play conversations in the field by 10x (e.g., 30s → 300s)

(This is change is to respond to community feedback that the protagonist’s voice lines were firing too often and pulling focus from the gameplay. We’re still tuning the overall dialogue tone and delivery for both the main character and NPCs, so expect more adjustments in the future milestone.)

Bug Fixes & Stability

• Optimized assets in The Forsaken Library

• Fixed an issue where certain achievements could not be completed

• Fixed a bug where the relic crafting cost kept increasing

• Fixed an issue in Arbor’s Crucible where certain trial buffs and restrictions failed to stack correctly

• Fixed crashes that could occur in specific situations

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We’re incredibly thankful for everyone who played the demo and shared feedback with us.

Your comments are helping us refine every part of Ember and Blade before release so please keep them coming!

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