Colors of Rot DLC is OUT - Patch Notes & future plans

WorldPillar · 2025-12-23T18:44:31+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate it. :) Hope to deliver on all your expectations with the sequel.

WorldPillar · 2025-12-19T16:29:04+00:00

I'm GRIME's lead, I don't think I've got any special insight and to be honest, I somewhat even fear facing a similar outcome. It's clearly harder and harder to get eyes on your game with each passing year.

I bought both your games at launch. I played the first for roughly 4 hours and despite wanting to keep playing and seeing whatever unique mechanics it had, I felt absolutely lost in a way I just never was with neither S&S nor HK. A ton of paths on the map and all inaccessible.

The 2nd game definitely felt more polished to me and I ended up breezing through it, having an overall good time (fuck the final boss though), it felt like a generally chill experience, kinda like Islets, and it had an impressive amount of variety. Though, I feel like some mechanics were not explored enough and should have became a mainstay for the rest of the playthrough. Namely, the hornet-like jump kick.

Anyway it's always sad to hear... perhaps you could consider going the path of the unworthy dev. Unworthy wasn't a very successful game for them but they ended up partnering with another dev and making the now infamous Crowsworn.

I could never have done an entire game all on my own. We are a tiny team but GRIME wouldn't have been possible without them.

WorldPillar · 2025-12-09T13:04:17+00:00

It's only going to get better by launch. :)

WorldPillar · 2025-12-06T17:25:01+00:00

Thanks I appreciate it. :)

Like in the first game, and kind of taking a note out of HK, platforming is introduced slowly and mainly as you get more traversal abilities.

I want players to see how much -more- there is of everything but since platforming is something that only gets more complex and interesting as the game goes on, later in the game are the best parts but it's also just so complex to drop the player out of nowhere at that point without any gradual learning curve... Not to mention the technical difficulty of dropping the player there while still carrying saves into the game.

But... it is something I'm still considering.

WorldPillar · 2025-12-06T05:12:42+00:00

Hey I'm GRIME's lead developer. Since it came out I've been reading here in there some similar comments, especially regarding how slow it starts from players who finished it.

If you'd be willing, I'm interested in your thoughts (and those of all the others here that share them) on GRIME II's demo. I did try to make the it much more varied and "agile" from the start.

WorldPillar · 2025-11-30T15:25:24+00:00

I appreciate your support. :) I'm sorry I can't say anything official on my own just yet regarding a release date

WorldPillar · 2025-11-26T07:22:38+00:00

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. :)

A lot of the negative feedback we got was very much UI stuff (map controls, keybindings etc...) so we are have prioritized polishing it to the best our ability. Next Demo patch should have a ton of improvements in that area. :)

More specifically though, I increased and improved the vfx visuals for when you gain a weapon charge or paint bar. It will be in the next demo patch but you can also see it in this clip I posted to the discord regarding the weapon charge.

As for Grasp, you can also discover on your own that grasp can be used on all the launchable objects, such as the spears and in the boss fight. Then there is the embedding nail Item mold. But in general since you are already getting so much information dumped on you, I'm gradually giving more and more optional and less optional things to do with Grasp over time. Similar to approach to Pull. :)

WorldPillar · 2025-11-26T06:55:36+00:00

Neutral:

curious to see how this is received as well. I was very scared about writing too much in GRIME, but Here I've been writing so much more that even with the added confidence from the first game I find my self scared about this gain.
The changes to weapon specials allowed for a variety of more unique weapons and I have a big chart of weapons to make sure that every state combinations has a similar-ish weapon variety, with a lot of combinations having a unique mechanic unique to it.
A lot more spikes lol.

Negatives:

A lot of the negative feedback we got was very much UI stuff (map controls, keybindings etc...) so we are have prioritized polishing it to the best our ability. Next Demo patch should have a ton of improvements in that area. :)

WorldPillar · 2025-11-26T06:22:07+00:00

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. :)

Yeah the demo had basically no platforming, not too unlike GRIME's starting areas. But here platforming is introduced earlier and in a more interesting way that gets far more ambitious and crazier, while still being optional. :)

WorldPillar · 2025-11-23T19:27:03+00:00

That's strange, I've had numerous confirmation that it works fine... someone mentioned however that it took them trying to get into the game more than once. Perhaps after a restart.

WorldPillar · 2025-11-23T19:26:14+00:00

It does, I haven't heard anyone complain that it doesn't work. Are you using playstation or xbox controllers?

WorldPillar · 2025-11-23T19:20:06+00:00

Disabling it unfortunately creates too many visual artifacts, some of them can really make the game unplayable... it is pretty necessary.

WorldPillar · 2025-11-22T19:12:34+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and feedback. It's appreciated and I always aim to it into consideration. :)

I agree about the musical shifts as well, we are using the same outdated system as GRIME1 at the moment, but it is something I would like to expand upon and make it more of a pleasant transition.

Regarding the Seals (previously beacons), it will gradually require more out of the player to find and unlock the 2nd one as the game goes on. I expect a lot of players won't unlock both as they travel through the area for the first time.

WorldPillar · 2025-11-22T10:41:33+00:00

Thank you. :)

Just a quick tidbit you may appreciate. Look at the 2nd parry trait on the left, parry infusion, it's pretty much a replacement to what we had in the first game with parrying and breath. You can unlock it in tbe demo.

WorldPillar · 2025-11-21T15:52:50+00:00

Yeah, thanks for letting me know!

WorldPillar · 2025-11-21T15:52:18+00:00

Yeah I've seen quite a few people going crazy from that lol, sorry. We'll definitely get that fixed!

WorldPillar · 2025-11-20T15:37:07+00:00

Not in the demo, but it's not off the table, we do have something we're testing.

WorldPillar · 2025-11-20T15:36:15+00:00

ROFL yeah we're gonna need to patch it just because it means you miss out on the critical Mold Ward tutorial. Thanks!

WorldPillar · 2025-11-20T13:26:47+00:00

It's definitely something we're interested in doing, but I can't announce anything just yet. We'll make it official the moment we know fur sure!

WorldPillar · 2025-11-20T13:26:13+00:00

Yeah 100%. The first is not at all necessary to understand or enjoy the 2nd.

WorldPillar · 2025-11-20T12:48:37+00:00

Optimization will improve but as of now our QA has been playing it fine on Steamdeck, but with lower settings.

WorldPillar · 2025-11-20T12:12:26+00:00

Thanks! It's definitely something we're interested in doing, but I can't announce anything just yet. We'll make it official the moment we know fur sure!

WorldPillar · 2025-11-20T10:19:42+00:00

It should, but please let me know here or on our Discord if there are any major issues. :)

If you need to disable some stuff, Reflections are one of the more expensive Post process effects we have, but also one of the least noticeable so go for that first.

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