Sidestep Legends — patch notes and updates
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| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Announcing Moose Builders! | 2026-06-16 | NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENTIntroducing Moose Builders, a factory game about moose crafting solar panels! Grab a shovel, gather your friends, and prove that moose are the greatest engineers in the desert. Wishlist the game on Steam! It really helps supporting me as an indie game developer |
| Moose Diver is now available! | 2025-11-10 | Moose Diver is now available!An incremental game about a moose diving in the ocean for coins!Get it here on Steam! You can get all four of our games with a discount in the Lingon Studios bundle. And if you own any of the games already you get the remaining games with the bundle discount. |
| Announcing Moose Diver! | 2025-06-02 | NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT Introducing Moose Diver, an incremental game about a moose diving in the ocean for coins and treasure! Wishlist the game on Steam! It really helps supporting me as an indie game developer https://store.steampowered.com/app/3738330/Moose_Diver/ |
| Our new game Moose Miners is out now! | 2024-05-10 | Moose Miners is now available! Moose Miners, an incremental game about moose mining gems is now available! Have you ever dreamt about taking control over a mining corporation run by moose? Now you can! Get it here on Steam! You can get all three of our games with a discount in the Lingon Studios bundle. And if you own any of the games already you get the remaining games with the bundle discount. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2591410/Moose_Miners/ |
| Announcing Moose Miners | 2023-09-21 | Hi everyone! Today I am announcing my next game, Moose Miners. It is an incremental game about moose mining gems! Have you ever dreamt about taking control over a mining corporation run by moose? Now you can! Wishlist it now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2591410/Moose_Miners/ |
| Update 1.2 Bug fixes and balance changes | 2023-05-13 | Time for another smaller update, but it hopefully has a larger impact on some of the builds in the game with some buffs to upgrades that did not feel impactful enough. The xp amount increase from upgraded minions should hopefully make it easier to come back in a round where the minions have become too many since if you manage to kill some of the large ones off you will level up quite quickly. Features/Improvements New upgrade Holy Fire Count. Increase the targets damaged by Holy Fire by 1 Increased the limit of active gold coins on the map from 256 to 512 Balance changes Increased the xp gained from upgraded minions from 2 times the base amou |
| Update 1.1 Bug fixes and some combo upgrades | 2023-04-20 | Time for an update. Happy to see a bunch of you on the leaderboards already. This update is mostly about bug fixes, but I have added a few new combo upgrades as well. Full patch notes below Features/Improvements New combo upgrade Dash Healing Potion, reset the cooldown of the Healing Potion ability when using dash New combo upgrade Healing Potion Attack Speed, gain 50% attack speed for 3 seconds after picking up a healing potion New combo upgrade Healing Circle Attack Speed, gain 50% attack speed while standing inside the Healing Circle Balance changes Changed the max health requirement for the No Room For Mistakes achievement from 50 to 60 s |
| hot fix for 1.0 patch | 2023-04-13 | Fixed a crash issue with blink lava pool upgrade |
| Full release and 1.0 update patch notes | 2023-04-13 | The full release of Sidestep Legends is here! In this post I will present the new things that have been added in the 1.0 update, future plans for the game and the detailed patch notes for the update. Important note: This update includes some rearranges in the skill tree and therefore your skill tree will be reset. All your spent gold will be refunded. Just remember to level up the upgrades you want to have again when starting the game. Summary of early access updates For those of you who only played one of the earlier versions during early access let's start with a summary of what has been added in the previous updates during early access. If |
| Full release date announcement! | 2023-04-06 | I am happy to announce that the full version of Sidestep Legends will release on April 13th 2023. With the full release the price of the game will be increased to match the amount of content that has been added and the new content that will be coming in the 1.0 update on the release day. So if you or any you know have been thinking about buying the game but haven't gotten to it yet, now is a very good time to do so. The price will be increased from the current $2.99 to $4.99 or your regional equivalent. So what is coming in the 1.0 update? Let me tell you. There will be three new characters to unlock and play, each with a new starting ability |
| Update 0.5.7 Reroll, Banish, Lock, Area and Revive | 2023-03-10 | This update adds a much needed feature for these types of games. The ability to steer the randomness a bit with the help of Reroll, Banish and Lock. If you have played other games in this genre you probably recognize them, but in short here is how they work. You can use them when levelling up. Reroll will replace the upgrades options with new ones. With Banish you can remove an upgrade entirely from the pool of this run and it will be replaced with another one. Lock can be used on an upgrade option to keep it for the next level up, useful in the case where you get offered more than one upgrade that you would want to pick. In order to get char |
| Hotfix for patch 0.5.6 | 2023-03-03 | Fixed a crash issue that could happen when using the lava pool upgrade for healing circle or healing pot |
| Hotfix for 0.5.6 | 2023-03-03 | Fixed the description of the healing potion upgrade in the skill tree |
| Update 0.5.6 New hostile abilities! | 2023-03-03 | Time for a new update! This update adds some more variation for the hostile abilities in the waves and also some hostile ability variation on the different maps. It also comes with a rebalance of the difficulty. The game should now hopefully feel much less frustrating and not be too hard for new players. The curse upgrade has also been reworked and split into different categories so you through the skill tree can increase the difficulty with for different upgrades for anyone that finds the game too easy after the difficulty adjustments. Also two new abilities that can be unlocked, both healing abilities to help you keep the health up during t |
| Update 0.5.5 Minion update part 2 | 2023-02-09 | So last patch while making the combat a more interesting made it a bit too hard to get going in certain cases. There were very small margins that decided if you would have a really good run or simply not having a chance to survive at all getting overrun by the number of minions. This patch which is part 2 of the minion update will fix that mainly by having the stronger minion types start spawning of certain waves instead of being able to spawn from the start. There are also some changes that increases the ability to regain health. Additionally two new minion types have been added. Features/Improvements Added meat as a possible drop from Vases |
| Update 0.5.4 New minions and new Combo upgrades! | 2023-02-03 | This update is the first part in making the minions and fighting against them more interesting. Two new minion types have been added and the minion upgrade behaviour has been clarified a bit. Additionally there are some balance changes and some new combo upgrades for some of the abilities that did not get any in the last update. Lastly this update includes a crash handler that saves a minidump of the game state in the case of a crash. So if you encounter a crash, have a look in the Steam discussion board for a pinned post about how to send me a crash report so I can fix whatever was causing the crash as soon as possible. Features/Improvements |
| Update 0.5.3.1 Hotfix | 2023-01-27 | Fixed a crash that happened when blocking a CC with the Unstoppable ability with Unstoppable Cooldown on hit unlocked and fewer than 4 abilities was unlocked |
| Update 0.5.3 New character Grendel's Mother! | 2023-01-27 | This update includes a new character called Grendel's Mother. She has a passive ability that let's her attack while moving, which is something a few of you have asked for in the Steam discussion forum. She also comes with a new ability (that of course all the other characters can unlock in a run as well) called Bloodlust. It increases the basic attack speed when active which fits well with Grendel's Mother's ability to attack while moving. You can see a short gif of her with the Bloodlust ability active here below. This update also comes with a bunch of new combo upgrades, upgrades that unlock if you have unlocked two specific abilities. So t |
| Hotfix 0.5.2.1 | 2023-01-23 | Fixed an issue where the game would freeze sometimes |
| Update 0.5.2 smarter boss | 2023-01-23 | Time for a new update! This one is mainly about improvements in the boss encounter and some balance changes. Features/Improvements New boss chase behaviour, it will now find its way to all areas you can hide in Some modifications to The Forge map Made the fire fork flames stay stationary for a short duration after the spawn Balance changes Reduced the boss health from 3000 to 2000 Boss will now sometimes chase clones if active Hooks and Root projectiles are no longer cast during boss sequence Increased the miss distance of hostile abilites when stealthed Increased the attack range of minions from 1.0 to 1.5 Reduced the number of hostile abili |
| Hotfix 0.5.1.1 | 2023-01-16 | Fixed a bug causing The Ghostly Nun to not be able to walk through obstacles |
| Update 0.5.1 better collision handling | 2023-01-13 | Thanks everyone that has bought the game so far! This update will be a small one since I have been mostly occupied with other post release stuff. But it brings some important improvements to the collision handling for the character and a few balance tweaks and bug fixes. Features/Improvements Improved the collision handling for the character. It will now more along the collider of obstacles instead of just stopping. Improved the colliders in some areas in Asag's Forest Balance changes Increased Hardened Shield base duration from 2 seconds to 5 seconds Reduced the number of duration upgrades for Hardened Shield from 5 to 3 Increased Unstoppabl |
| Hotfix | 2023-01-09 | Fixed a bug causing hotkey rebinding to not work |
| Sidestep Legends is releasing into Early Access today! | 2023-01-09 | Today is the Early Access release of Sidestep Legends. Hope you are as excited about it as I am. At 7:00 PM GMT+1 is when I will push the Release button so be ready! It will cost $2.99 or your regional equivalent so hopefully all of you that are interested in the game will afford it. The price will increase a bit at or just before the full release so if you don't mind buying an Early Access game now is good time to strike. Compared to the demo the Early Access release includes 3 new characters, 2 new maps, 3 new abilities and a bunch of new upgrades. The currently planned content for the full release mostly revolves around more of these thing |
| Demo patch notes 0.4.4 | 2022-12-12 | This update does not include much changes in the gameplay since that work is going into the Early Access release. But since I have been working on adding controller support and remapping of controls for the Early Access release I thought I might as well release that as a demo update. Features/Improvements Added controller support Added support for rebinding controls If using weapon dash on a target out of range the character will now queue the command and move towards the target Improved responsiveness when using Weapon Dash on a new target while Weapon Dash is active Bugfixes You can no longer unlock upgrades that are not available in the ga |
| Demo patch notes 0.4.3 and Early Access release date announcement! | 2022-12-03 | I am very excited to announce that Sidestep Legends will release in Early Access on January 9th 2023. There is also a new update to the demo to celebrate this. It is a smaller update this time and most coming updates to the demo will be as well, since most of my time now will be spent creating content for the Early Access release. Features/Improvements Added more things to the map. The map is not almost complete the lower left area of the map will get some more love before the Early Access release though. Added minion death animation Bugfixes Fixed error in description of Weapon Dash upgrade Fixed a bug causing weapon dash to make it possible |
| Demo patch notes 0.4.2 | 2022-11-25 | Another smaller update, but it should improve the gameplay quite a bit with the more interesting upgrades being available earlier on. Features/Improvements New ability, Weapon dash. Dash to through a target minion and deal 40 damage to it. If the target dies the cooldown of Weapon Dash is reset. Combo upgrade for Weapon Dash and Hardened Shield. Using Weapon Dash grants a stack of Hardened Skin which increases the armor for a short duration stacking up to 10 times. Combo upgrade for Weapon Dash and Channel Heal. Weapon Dash now heals for 3 health when hitting an enemy. UI showing active buffs and debuffs . Added help text for how to move and |
| Demo patch notes 0.4.1 | 2022-11-17 | This is a smaller update as most of the work lately has been more behinds the scenes preparing for future updates and the full version. But I managed to do some additions and improvements to the demo as well. The gif below shows the new splash attack upgrade in action. Features/Improvements Added more shininess to the renderer Added some more stuff on the top right part of the map. More love to the other areas of the map is coming. Added new unique passive, Attack Speed. Increase the attack speed by 150%. Available as a boss reward Added new unique passive, Splash Damage. Basic attacks deal damage in an area around the target hit . Available |
| Demo patch notes 0.4.0 | 2022-10-30 | This update adds classic MOBA PVE combat. Fight against ever spawning minions and kill them before they become too many and overrun you. Features/Improvements Improved visuals of health bars Minions, will spawn at the start of the roads towards the edges of the map. If they manage to walk through the whole path they will upgrade in power and size and chase the player until they die. Basic attacks. Typical MOBA auto attacks. Use it to kill minions or attack the boss. Can be upgrades in skill tree and through various in game upgrades. Throw ability. Throw your weapon in target direction and deal damage to every unit it passes through Swing abil |
| Demo patch notes 0.3.8 | 2022-10-12 | This updates adds a new ability and fixes the UI for ultra-wide screens. Features/Improvements Added menu music Made upgrade buttons disabled for a short while after appearing to help avoid selecting an upgrade by mistake when playing with the left mouse button New ability Hardened Shield. Gain armor for a short duration Upgrades for Hardened Shield ability An upgrade for Channel Heal when Hardened Shield ability is unlocked Bugfixes Fixed a bug causing the player to rotate weirdly at some angles Fixed some menus not being usable on ultra-wide screens Fixed parts of the UI not being centred on non 16:9 screens Fixed obelisks and vases not cas |