https://eordgame.com/ 2026-10-16T12:00:00Z Elliot Bonneville https://eordgame.com/updates#motives-and-burdens 2026-10-16T12:00:00Z

Creatures now choose what to go after by what they are, not by who you are, and what you carry finally weighs something.

<p>Creatures now choose what to go after by what they are, not by who you are, and what you carry finally weighs something.</p><ul><li>Wolves and ghosts go after people and other beasts; the guardian keeps to its post. Possess a wolf and its pack leaves you be and turns on the body you left behind.</li><li>Anything you hit, shove or throw at will turn on you, even its own kind, and badly hurt wolves break off and run.</li><li>You can drop anything you carry, wear or hold from the inventory (d). Creatures that die leave their gear where they fall.</li><li>Carrying too much slows you down: past your limit you're burdened, and past half as much again you're overloaded. Your load shows on the character sheet and in the inventory.</li><li>A scavenger now wanders the undercroft, picking up and using what it finds.</li><li>On phones, a Self button opens your character sheet (@ on a keyboard).</li></ul> https://eordgame.com/updates#a-moment-to-look 2026-10-16T12:00:00Z

When a creature comes into view, the game says so and holds the next turn for a moment, so nothing slips in and out of sight before you've seen it.

<p>When a creature comes into view, the game says so and holds the next turn for a moment, so nothing slips in and out of sight before you've seen it.</p><ul><li>A creature coming into view is announced (&quot;A wolf comes into view.&quot;) and turns wait about half a second.</li><li>Holding a movement key doesn't carry you on past it: let go and press again to keep moving.</li><li>The cursor, the throw target and a walk's destination no longer show up in mirrors or through portals. They're drawn once, where they are on screen.</li></ul> https://eordgame.com/updates#how-you-see 2026-10-16T12:00:00Z

The world under the hood was rebuilt so every creature and item works the same way, and what's on screen is now what your character can actually perceive.

<p>The world under the hood was rebuilt so every creature and item works the same way, and what's on screen is now what your character can actually perceive.</p><ul><li>Fox-blooded characters see ghosts plainly. Everyone else only feels a patch of cold air.</li><li>Stoneborn and fox-blooded darkvision shows the dark in shades without colour.</li><li>Fighting something you can't see now reads &quot;Something misses you.&quot; and a blow your armour stops reads as glancing off.</li><li>Being slowed now makes you act less often, turn by turn, rather than skipping whole turns.</li><li>Your torch burns, gets knocked loose, douses in water and relights the same way as any other light.</li><li>Saves from before this update can't be continued. Start a new run.</li></ul> https://eordgame.com/updates#click-to-walk 2026-10-16T12:00:00Z

Click (or tap) anywhere you've seen and your character walks there, one turn at a time, and stops the moment something needs your attention.

<p>Click (or tap) anywhere you've seen and your character walks there, one turn at a time, and stops the moment something needs your attention.</p><ul><li>The walk finds its own way around walls, water and fire, through portals too, but only over ground you've seen or remember.</li><li>It stops when a creature comes into sight, when you're hurt, when something new turns up in the message log, or when you press any key or click again.</li><li>With a creature already in sight, a click takes a single step instead, so you never sleepwalk into a fight.</li><li>Clicking into the dark still takes one step towards it.</li></ul> https://eordgame.com/updates#phones-and-mirrors 2026-10-16T12:00:00Z

Moving on a phone is now a swipe or a tap anywhere on the map, and reflections no longer run a step ahead of you.

<p>Moving on a phone is now a swipe or a tap anywhere on the map, and reflections no longer run a step ahead of you.</p><ul><li>Swipe on the map to walk, or tap a spot to step towards it. The on-screen d-pad is gone, so the map gets the whole screen.</li><li>Reflections in mirrors and the views through portals now move in step with you instead of one step early.</li></ul> https://eordgame.com/updates#the-character 2026-10-16T12:00:00Z

A run now starts with a choice of race and class, and fighting is rolled from your stats and gear instead of a flat hit.

<p>A run now starts with a choice of race and class, and fighting is rolled from your stats and gear instead of a flat hit.</p><ul><li>Four races (human, sylvan, stoneborn and fox-blooded) and four classes (warrior, hunter, qi cultivator and scholar), each with its own stats, traits and starting kit.</li><li>Five stats: might, agility, vitality, spirit and literacy.</li><li>Equip what you carry in your hand, on your body and in your off hand. Swords, spears that reach two cells, quarterstaffs, leather armour, iron cuirasses and bucklers.</li><li>Melee is rolled: agility decides whether you hit, might how hard, armour how much gets through. You can shove things, too.</li><li>Stoneborn and fox-blooded characters see a little way into the dark without a torch.</li></ul> https://eordgame.com/updates#saves 2026-10-15T12:00:00Z

Close the tab in the middle of a run and it's waiting when you come back.

<p>Close the tab in the middle of a run and it's waiting when you come back.</p><ul><li>The game saves as you play, in your browser's storage, and loads the run when you return.</li><li>Saves are small and quick to load, even after a long run.</li><li>Death ends the run and its save, as it should.</li></ul> https://eordgame.com/updates#glyph-ui 2026-10-15T12:00:00Z

The panels, the message log, the inventory, the help and the developer tools are all drawn by the game's own renderer now, on the same grid as the map.

<p>The panels, the message log, the inventory, the help and the developer tools are all drawn by the game's own renderer now, on the same grid as the map.</p><ul><li>One look from edge to edge: health and torch meters, your pack, what you're looking at, and the message log, all in glyphs.</li><li>Works the same on a phone, with a layout that fits a narrow screen.</li></ul> https://eordgame.com/updates#portals-and-mirrors 2026-10-15T12:00:00Z

Space in Eord no longer has to be flat. Mirrors reflect sight and light, and portals join two places so you can walk, look and shine a torch straight through.

<p>Space in Eord no longer has to be flat. Mirrors reflect sight and light, and portals join two places so you can walk, look and shine a torch straight through.</p><ul><li>Mirror walls reflect what's in front of them, including you. Light bounces off them too.</li><li>Portals join two distant cells. Step in one side and you come out the other, and you can see through before you go.</li><li>Creatures see and chase you through portals and around mirrors by the same rules you do.</li></ul> https://eordgame.com/updates#first-light 2026-10-15T12:00:00Z

The first playable build: a night on the proving ground, a torch, and a world that follows its own rules.

<p>The first playable build: a night on the proving ground, a torch, and a world that follows its own rules.</p><ul><li>A simulation where fire spreads through dry grass, water puts it out, oil burns and floats, and lightning runs through anything wet.</li><li>One light for the whole world. What it doesn't reach is black, and what you've seen stays on the map as a memory.</li><li>Fire, oil and lightning to throw, wolves that are afraid of fire, and stairs down into the dark.</li><li>Every run comes from a seed, so the same choices always play out the same way.</li></ul>