The Shaman's Ark

Three new languages: Spanish, Korean and Traditional Chinese. Improved translations. Various gameplay improvements. Bug fixes and stability improvements.

Hey everyone! The world of the Ark has just received its biggest update ever! The world feels more tactile, the tutorial is clearer, the controls are smoother, and the enemies are tougher! Here’s a list of changes - and trust us, it’s far from complete!In this update, we’ve improved combat, hints, and the interface, and fixed bugs that could get in the way of your progress.Collectible XP. Defeated

Hi, it's Andrey and Yana! This update is all about the boss fights. The first bosses now step into battle and back out of it smoothly, and they've become more alive and beautiful along the way. If a boss beats you, you won't have to walk all the way back: you'll wake up close by and can try again right away. You can now also fight with the mouse: just swipe toward the rune. Controllers got some lo

Hey everyone, A smaller one this time — smoothing over a few things that could trip you up, plus another pass on the writing. • Boat travel: fixed a bug where taking the boat could strand you out of bounds. You'll land back on solid ground every time now. • Boss soft-lock: fixed a lever in a boss arena that could lock you out of progressing if it was hit twice. • Landing indicator: the landing mar

Hey everyone, This one's mostly about how the game feels to move through. - **Camera:** no longer clips through walls, columns, mushrooms, or temple geometry, and won't shove in to face-level when you pass behind them. Object and character pop-in is gone, and it moves more smoothly when grazing terrain. - **Landing indicator:** jumping now shows where you'll touch down - and the marker turns red o

Hey everyone,The Ark has reached new shores. **The Shaman's Ark is now fully localized in Japanese.**It represents careful work, and a decision we're proud we made. Japanese players have a deep, passionate community around atmospheric indie games, and they deserve a version of the Ark that feels like it was written for them, not translated at them. Every faction name, every piece of boss dialogue,

Huge thanks to everyone who reached out about the Wendigo bug: during the fight on Hardcore difficulty, the QTE segment could break, making the boss unbeatable.The issue is now resolved — enjoy the game!

Some players reported that QTE battles against late-game bosses felt unfair. At first, I thought it was just my own terrible reaction time, but… I dug into it, investigated the issue, and found a problem with input detection when the runes in QTEs were moving too fast. Now all battles - especially the hardest ones - should feel much fairer. From now on, every mistake you make during a shamanic rit

Now you can't accidentally skip the quest with the recipe book. Removed the ability to skip the battle with the secret boss. Added a new achievement. Optimized memory cleaning, now there will be no short FPS drops during the battle.

Optimized scenes of combat rituals. This significantly reduces the load on the video card during QTE.

Fixed an issue where Shaman would twitch and bounce when hitting the ground at low fps

Optimization of 3D objects: added reduction in rendering quality at a large distance. Fixed several bugs. Added the ability to skip both cutscenes at the beginning of the game (but I do not recommend you do this, there is a plot!)

- Fixed several typos in the text - Fixed textures in trance - Fixed flies on the Fly Giver boss - Foundation for NG+ mode (it's in development, it's not in the game yet!)