Underboard — Patch 1.0.3

Released: 2/9/2026, 10:05:52 PM

Source: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2376610/view/527619081975628910

Summary (AI)

Patch 1.0.3 in Underboard adjusts the game's difficulty curve to provide a gentler start for new players by reducing enemy item power and quantity in the early zones. The first zone boss now has 40% less maximum health, making the initial encounters easier, while enemy stats gradually scale in later zones but remain slightly lower overall. Higher difficulty boss versions accessed through alternate dialogue remain locked until their zone is completed and retain their previous health values. These changes aim to balance early-game challenge without reducing difficulty at the top end, with ongoing feedback welcomed for future adjustments.

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The amount of enemy items will slowly ramp up in the following zones, but it will still end up with a couple less items by zone 4. Only the items in zone 4 retain the same power of the previous enemy items.
The first zone boss now has -40% Maximum Health. For those who fought her in the demo, this is almost the same value as she has there.
The Maximum Health of zone bosses will slowly ramp up in the following zones, but it will still end up with a bit less by zone 4.
The higher difficulty versions of zone bosses accessible through their alternate dialogue options are now locked until you complete their zone successfully, and they still retain their previous Maximum Health values.
We still want to keep a similar level of challenge that the game had at the top end, but by this we are mainly talking about the last zone and the higher difficulty versions of zone bosses accessible through their alternate dialogue options.
To achieve this we've done the following changes:
We'll keep checking how players are feeling about the difficulty to see if there are other broad or targeted changes we could do to improve the difficulty curve, so please keep sharing your feedback!
Let us know if you think we're on the right track as well, that helps us too.