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Possession v21 (The Sunken City) Released. Five Year Anniversary!
September 24, 2024 by Weirdfellows
A little late, but Possession launched five years (and a few months) ago! This update adds the "Sunken City" special level. This was previously a mod I made to show how modding worked, but since moddi... Continue reading
Possession v20 Released (Bug ifx)
December 31, 2021 by Weirdfellows
Possession v20 has been released, fixing a bug that could cause the game to lock up during the final boss fight... Continue reading
Possession v19 Released (Bug fix)
November 21, 2021 by Weirdfellows
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Possession v19 has been uploaded. Occasionally, for some reason, the game would save without the player character being placed on the map, causing a crash when you'd try to load the save. I haven't id... Continue reading
Possession v18 Released (Crash Fixes)
July 31, 2021 by Weirdfellows
Fixes a couple of crashes that showed up on level 2 involving Necromancers and their controlled undead... Continue reading
Possession v17 Released! (Text Resizing)
April 17, 2021 by Weirdfellows
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V17 has been released. Demos probably won't be updated just for this. Basically the only changes are new settings for resizing the text. UI Changes: New font size and tooltip font size settings. New s... Continue reading
Possession v16 Released! (Bug fixes)
January 09, 2021 by Weirdfellows
Possession v16 has been released. Fixes: Fixed a crash that could be caused by a Swamp Witch spell UI/UX Improvements: Pressing the "target" button (default x) while in targeting mode now switches out... Continue reading
Possession v15 Released! (Minor bug fixes)
September 27, 2020 by Weirdfellows
Possession v15 has been released. Fixes: Fixed a crash that could occur when possessing piles of bones in the Mausoleum Adjusted how click-to-move handles previously seen enemies, should stop less fre... Continue reading
Update on the Future of Possession
July 18, 2020 by Weirdfellows
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Summary: Due to personal events I've decided to move on to working on new projects, and probably will not be releasing more content for Possession, though I will continue to fix bugs. If you want to f... Continue reading
Possession v14 Released!
June 20, 2020 by Weirdfellows
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Possession v14 is released! (Full versions, anyway; and demo versions still pending) This is mostly a bug fix release. Fixes: Fixed mausoleum and graveyard having their IDs stored as "true" in the gam... Continue reading
Possession v13 (The Mausoleum Update) Released!
January 19, 2020 by Weirdfellows
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Biggest change this version is the introduction of the Mausoleum as a potential first level. It has the same creatures as the Graveyard (because I think they're a good set to learn the game on), but a... Continue reading
Possession v12 Released!
December 04, 2019 by Weirdfellows
Possession v12 is now available for download. New Features: Rather than auto-assigning points to your stats when you kill an enemy, you can now choose which stats you want to increase from the charact... Continue reading
Possession v11 Released!
November 16, 2019 by Weirdfellows
Content Changes: Removed the "Adjusting to New Body" condition Levels are now generated 60 x 60 tiles rather than 75 x 75 tiles. This also decreases the number of creatures on the level (but the densi... Continue reading
Version 10 (UI Scaling) Released!
October 04, 2019 by Weirdfellows
Version 10 of Possession is now available. I'm changing the version numbers to reflect the release number, rather than sticking with semantic versioning (1.X.X), because it didn't make much sense. Int... Continue reading
Possession v 1.0.8a Released (Crash fix just for itch.io version)
September 13, 2019 by Weirdfellows
A bug fix has been pushed that fixes a potential crash when receiving an achievement. This would have probably been most noticeable when going to Level 2 for the first time. This bug only affected the... Continue reading
Possession v 1.0.8 Released!
September 08, 2019 by Weirdfellows
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PossessionVersion 1.0.8 is now available. Interface Changes: - You can use the Enter key on the numpad everywhere you can use the main Enter/Return key - You can now select "it" as your pronoun when s... Continue reading
Possession v 1.0.7 (the zoom update) Released!
August 15, 2019 by Weirdfellows
Interface Changes: You can now zoom in and out. This can be done using the scroll wheel, or by using the - and = keys on top of the keyboard - rebindable from settings, of course! Only applies to the... Continue reading
Version 1.0.6 (the minimap update) Released!
August 04, 2019 by Weirdfellows#minimap, #release, #possession
Interface Changes: There's now a minimap! It can be disabled from the settings page. The stairs up are now colored yellow in ASCII mode, and have an up arrow attached to the tile in graphical mode. Th... Continue reading
Possession Version 1.0.5 Released
July 22, 2019 by Weirdfellows#update, #fixes
Version 1.0.5 of Possession (and the demo) are now available for download. Crash fixes in this version: Fixing crash from going up stairs as a brainiac or braineater Fixing crash from vase being broke... Continue reading
Possession is Released!
July 20, 2019 by Weirdfellows
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#release
It's been a long journey, but Possession is finally available to purchase for Linux, Windows, and Mac! Possession is a traditional turn-based roguelike where you play as a ghost trying to make your wa... Continue reading
Music done, release set for July 18th!
June 18, 2019 by Weirdfellows
The last music track is finished! It's for the Tavern level, you can listen to it here: http://weirdfellows.com/files/possession2/tavern.mp3 More excitingly, this marks the completion of the game! I'm... Continue reading
Happy New Year!
January 30, 2018 by Weirdfellows#possession, #roguelike, #devlog
Happy New Year! It's still January here so I can still say that. Here's where things stand for Possession going into 2018… First of all, I thought I'd changed the Steam release date from January... Continue reading