Worship

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  Account Progression - Eldritch Prophecies

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  Tackle a growing list of challenges and objectives called prophecies, each unlocking a different reward:

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  Gods unlocks

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  Permanent upgrades

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  New content for your next runs

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  Skins for cultist, followers and blood

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  Cult base trophies

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  Lore and Bestiary entries

• – Over 90 prophecies to complete and rewards to obtain!
• – Lore entry and Bestiary
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  You can now unlock lore and bestiary entries and read them between your runs in a dedicated UI accessible from the eldritch prophecies menu.

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  40+ Lore/Bestiary entries to obtain

• – Final Area - Cabal Marshlands
• – Final Test of Faith - Mortals’ Last Stand
• – 3 New Worshippable God Aspects
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  Basically new gods with their own kit, mechanics and playstyle that explore different facets of An-Ansgaidh, Hubryus and Kessessa.

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  An-Ansgaidh, Shepherd of Martyrs

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  Hubryus, Nightmares Shaper

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  Kessessa, Mother of the Coven

• – Fast Travel
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  Finishing major encounters creates a portal to your cult base

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  Town portal ritual can be unlocked through prophecy reward

• – 10 new random encounters
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  We won’t say more about them we want you to discover them in game!

• – 1 new major encounter, with variants - The Tainted Farm
• – 5 New utility building
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  Cursed Garden

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  Lighthouse of the Faithless

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  Fighting Pit

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  Eleanor Soul Vessel

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  Follower Transmuter (previously an encounter, was overhauled as a utility building)

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  Existing utility buildings have been updated to also provide passive buffs:

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  Summoning mirror: now also gives all your summons +20% Max HP

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  Blood Factory: now also gives your cultist +30% Max Blood

• – 20 new upgrades, including 6 new rituals
• – New enemies
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  Coven Witch

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  Tome Familiar

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  Ancestral Huntress

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  Folhorror Neonite & Elder Folhorror

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  \[Redacted name] - Final Boss

• – Over 13 new music tracks by our very own Léandre Monette to accompany the new content!
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  If you want to listen or buy the full 40+ tracks OST, you can do so on Steam or Bandcamp

Gameplay Changes 14

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  Balancing. A lot of balancing. On all aspects of the game.

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  So much balancing that it’s impossible for us to list all of the changes. But starting from 1.0 all subsequent patches will contain detailed information for balancing changes.

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  We’d love to hear your feedback about the balance of the game in the 1.0 update.

• – The swarm command can now make your followers drop their carried object in the sockets your swarm over.
• – There’s now a section in the cult base for Trophies.
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  Trophies can be obtained by certain prophecies. They adorn your cult base with sculptures of your exploits.

• – Throw behavior on controller was improved and made faster and more precise.
• – Various improvements for the symbol recognition. It should be more lenient to recognize less precise shapes.
• – During Eleanor and Uhr boss fights, the walkway is now obstructed by a damage area, encouraging you to stay in the arena.
• – The sealing path of the Sealed titan encounter was improved.
• – Blood blob encounter was overhauled.
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  The more you hit the blob before it explodes, the more animal corpses are ejected from it. Then you can tribute all the corpses for a reward. Basically a timed piñata.

• – Each cultist memorial encounter now has its own rewards, based on the tomb visuals.
• – Improved and streamlined tutorial.

Optimization 2

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  We made major optimization for the game at large, both CPU and memory wise. The game should run a lot smoother for everyone!

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  Also worth noting that we are now officially Steam Deck verified! Enjoy Worship on the handheld if you so desire!

Bugfixing 4

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  We squashed hundreds upon hundreds of bugs! Too many to list here, but starting from the 1.0 all subsequent patches will contain more information for which bugs were fixed.

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  The game has never been this stable. If you’ve played the game during early access, you can expect a much smoother experience.

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  Let us know if you encounter any leftover bugs and we’ll get them fixed asap!

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  The bug form is accessible here!

Detailed Features 1

• – In case you missed it from our past update!

Account progression - Eldritch prophecies 3

Final area and Test of Faith 4

Follower Cap (Introduced in past update) 6

Worship finally has a release date for the 1.0: November 4th 2026! 2

Why an update before 1.0? 1

Follower cap - Start small, grow big 17

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  The amount of followers you can command at once is now capped.

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  Follower cap grows as your cult progresses in a run.

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  It progresses at a certain devotion threshold in each area.

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  It can be increased through some upgrades.

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  When 1.0 launches, the cap can additionally be permanently increased through eldritch prophecies

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  Excess followers are stowed in the cult base.

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  They can be summoned at any time to replace lost followers.

• – Each god and aspect now has its own follower cap.
• – Conversion ritual now additionally summons followers from your reserve if your cap isn’t met.
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  Updated conversion ritual description to reflect its new utility to summon followers from reserve.

• – New building in the cult base, the follower chapel.
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  This is where your excess followers are stowed.

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  You can interact with it to get followers from your reserves (same as using conversion ritual)

• – New upgrades that increase your follower cap have been added:
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  Gospel of the Devout

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  Gospel of the Prophet

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  Gospel of the Old Ones

Cult base portals - Travel faster 3

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  Finishing major encounters creates a portal to your cult base.

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  Interacting with a portal teleports you and your followers with anything they are carrying to the cult base.

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  When 1.0 releases, a Town portal ritual will be unlockable through prophecy rewards.

Gameplay changes 10

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  A big balancing pass has been done on almost all aspects of the game. Another pass will be coming with the 1.0.

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  Notable mentions include balancing on gods’ starting kits, enemy quantity, the procedural generation data and more.

• – Each god now has its own follower cap as part of its kit.
• – Major encounters are now revealed by default on the map.
• – Your cultist now reveals fog in a wider radius on the map.
• – The pathways leading to the battle arenas in the test of faith are made inaccessible once the fight begins.
• – Major encounters now have a visual delimitation on the map. This should make it less confusing for players to know where to look to solve a major encounter.
• – 3 gods are now unlocked right out of the gate, until the 1.0 drops, after which you’ll have to unlock them through a specific set of eldritch prophecies.
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  Once the full game launches, you will be able to unlock these gods and their alternative aspects though their own eldritch prophecies.

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  We didn’t want the new player to have to go through a temporary unlock process and then have to do it again “the right way” with prophecies when 1.0 drops. That is why we decided to make them available by default for The End Is Nigh update.

An-Ansgaidh, Weeping Calamity is the recommended God for new players. 13

• – After commanding a follower to go to a position, if they find nothing there they go back to you instead of waiting there until recalled.
• – Symbol recognition has been improved across the board.
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  The system should be better at identifying drawn shapes.

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  The shape indicator (bubble above the cultist) should be faster and more reliable.

• – Some shapes have been changed in some encounters:
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  Uhr sigil “Kessessa Hand” was replaced by the new “bloom” shape

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  This shape was harder to draw than the other 2. The new shape matches the others’ “difficulty”.

• – �Blood pattern ruins” encounters now require the cultist to activate the shape for completion.
• – The follower transmuter encounter has been removed and will come back in a better shape for the 1.0.
• – Added a fifth relic in the last section of the tutorial to improve player understanding.
• – Made animals unaccessible in the Shattered Plateau to improve player understanding.
• – Devotion amounts required have been rebalanced.
• – A handful of other changes since the last update.

Eldritch Prophecies & lore entries 4

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  In preparation for the 1.0 launch, you will see a new button on the main menu to access the Eldritch Prophecies.

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  You’ll have to wait for the full launch for the awakening of Jyanbrha, the Many-Armed Omen. Until then, prophecies won’t be available for you to see and complete.

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  From the eldritch prophecy menu, you can access the lore entries menu.

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  A single lore entry will be available in this update. We hope you look forward to unlocking all of them when 1.0 launches.

God Variants - New unique ways to play 2

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  In the god selection menu, you’ll see 3 locked God Aspects. They won’t be unlockable until the 1.0 launches.

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  We hope you look forward to seeing what kind of powers they bestow to cults that worship them.

Skins for cultist, followers and blood 1

Bugfixing and other changes 15

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  Worship now runs on Unity 6. This shouldn’t cause any noticeable changes.

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  Over 100+ bugs were fixed between the last update and this one. We still have some to tackle before 1.0, but the game should be more stable than it ever was. Here are some of the more noticeable bugs that were fixed

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  Issues with enemy engaging combat and health bar not displaying.

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  Issues when throwing followers.

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  Issues with liftable objects.

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  Music was sometimes breaking/not playing what it was supposed to play.

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  Fixed issues with the symbol recognition indicator (bubble above the cultist).

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  Fixed various issues causing softlocks/being unable to use certain actions.

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  The cursed troupe encounter was sometimes not completed properly.

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  Fixed players being able to save and quit during cultist death animation.

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  Fixed camera issues with some enemies.

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  Fixed completion problem with painter’s chapel encounter if you attacked the guards after drawing the shape but before interacting with the painter.

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  Some environments weren’t properly handled by the procedural generation.

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  Fixed some issues with Uhr.

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  Many many more.

Known issues and stuff we are actively working on 4

Tokyo Game Show 1

Consoles 1

Summary 8

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  Worship is coming out of early access on Steam and PlayStation 5 on November 4th 2026

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  The End is Nigh - a pre-launch update launches today to introduce gameplay changes, game balancing and bug fixing for the current live game

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  Chasing Rats Games is visiting Tokyo for the Tokyo Gameshow as part of the official Indie 80 selection

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  An additional console for Worship is soon to be announced

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  A couple of reminders of frequently discussed subjects:

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  A more detailed overview of what to expect for Worship 1.0 has been shared in our previous update. We hope you look forward to it!

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  The multiplayer support for Worship has been cut from 1.0 development. All marketing material and storefronts have been updated to reflect that. You’ll be the first to know if we get to develop it as post-launch content.

• – That is all for today. As always, thank you for everything and enjoy the prelaunch update coming out today!