Hey Clockmakers, remember when we moved the launch of Hell Clock to avoid a new PoE league? 

Well, we have to push back the Cursed War expansion's release as well... GGG has pushed their next Path of Exile 2 update to May 29, and that’s simply too close for comfort for us. We know exactly where everyone in the ARPG community will be spending their precious free time that week, and to be completely honest, we'll be right there with you, grinding and playing Return of the Ancients.

While we know a delay is always frustrating, releasing Cursed War just four days later simply wouldn’t make sense. As a small studio with a very limited marketing budget, we also rely heavily on content creators for our launch visibility, and the vast majority of them will be playing the much bigger game in PoE 2. So to be clear, Cursed War will not drop on June 2nd. We’re moving it by a few weeks, and we’ll be announcing the new date very soon.

The silver lining is that this gives our team a little extra runway. We’re using these additional weeks to add even more polish, crush a few extra bugs, and make sure the Cursed War experience is top-notch on day one.

We’ll be announcing the new release date very soon. But we didn't want to leave you empty-handed today. To give you a taste of what’s coming, here is our brand-new trailer that dives deeper into the dark story of Cursed War:

We expect some of you to be disappointed by the date shift and we completely understand.  But this will give you more time for Return of the Ancients and Cursed War, and we can’t wait to see what you think when we drop the expansion.

Stay tuned here and in our Discord[www.discord.gg] for more updates and the new date.  Thanks for your patience and support.

Besides the Cursed War news that you'll soon be enjoying, we have another announcement to share and a very special request for our community in Brazil.

Hell Clock has been selected as one of the 10 FINALISTS for the Brasil Tá Pra Game award!

For those who might not know, this is an initiative by Embratur alongside Abragames, aimed at rewarding games that showcase innovation, our culture, and the talent of the Brazilian gaming industry to the world.

We're competing in the Popular Vote category, and that's where you come in! Winning this award isn't just a massive honor, it also comes with a prize that would be an absolute game-changer for us as an indie studio, helping us invest even more into the quality of the game for you.

Since this voting is focused on national promotion, it requires a CPF (Brazilian ID/Taxpayer number), which means only our Brazilian players can participate in this phase.

If you dig our work on Hell Clock and want to give Rogue Snail a boost, please take a minute out of your day to vote for us!

• 🗓️ Deadline: Voting closes on June 26, 2026.

• 🔗 Where to vote: https://votacaoembraturlab.lovable.app/

• ⚠️ Important: You will need to enter your CPF simply to validate that it is a legitimate vote within Brazilian territory.

We're counting on the strength of our BR community to bring this award home! Thank you so much for always having our backs and for your endless support.

- The Rogue Snail Team

Hey backlanders,

We are grateful for your patience with us for the last 4 months, as we locked in to finish developing Hell Clock's big first expansion.

We are proud to present the official reveal for Cursed War:

Uh, this is awkward...

A couple of days ago, another ARPG gaming company (the one with the gears grinding) announced a big update for one of the biggest ARPGs in the world. And it's on the same weekend as us, basically.

We had the June 2nd date locked for a while now. Had trailers and press releases already submitted to press and events, so it was too late to change the date on the videos and such.

Obviously a tiny studio like ours cannot compete with them, we would be crushed completely, so unfortunately we will need to delay. We are working with our publisher Mad Mushroom on a new date, and will announce it as soon as possible, hopefully over the next few days.

We are very, very sorry about this whole situation, but hopefully we can use this additional time to make sure Cursed War is even more polished when you do get to play it.

Now that the sad part is out of the way, let's talk about some fun stuff!

Cursed War's main features are:

• New Story Content: relive the gruesome War of Paraguay in Act IV

• New Skills: unleash the power of 7 new Active Skills and 20+ new Relics

• New Monsters and Bosses: over a dozen new creatures of Hell to challenge

• New Locations: explore a dark fantasy version of Paraguay

But that's not all! You don't need to buy the Expansion to enjoy the huge Update 2.0, which will come for FREE to all players, and features:

• Endless Nightmares: a new Endgame system - our own spin on "mapping" endgame, where you get to build your own dungeon as you play it by making a choice of Shards every 7 floors. Progress through 16 Tiers of difficulty, taking your builds to the limit!

• Journeys System: a reason to start fresh with a new save file, with new mechanics, challenges and rewards

• Journey of Nightmares: the first Journey will have dangerous Nightmare Portals opening all over the game, and powerful new Nightmare Relics await those who conquer their terrors

• New Endgame Zones: Both Ascension and Endless Nightmare will take place exclusively in all-new zones created for endgame

• "All Skills Available" Mode: Start new Campaign save files with access to all Skills - no need to wait to put together the playstyle you want

• 63 New Unique Relics: We are adding many new Unique Relics to shake up the meta. Yes, this is not a typo. There are sixty-three new Uniques for you to loot, and make OP builds with!

• Improved Dungeon Generation: We are also improving the way our dungeons are randomly generated to make the game feel less repetitive. Enemy spawns are now completely procedural, and we have also made improvements on the variety of dungeon layouts

• Full Version of Ascension: Our experimental Ascension game mode will come out of Beta in patch 2.0! Expect a fully working Penance Tree, new randomized zones, rebalanced progression and difficulty up to Hell 100, a new "Starting Loadout" feature, and faster and more meaningful runs.

• Performance and Quality of Life Upgrades: We are squeezing every last drop of performance from Unity engine with this one, and adding some much-requested QoL features on top of that, such as "Point-per-point Respec" of all Trees and Constellations

• New Steam Achievements: A lot of Steam Achievements are being added, both for the new content and for crafting and endgame. You may notice those already showing up on your game page - these will only be unlockable when patch 2.0 hits!

Thanks for your support, and see you back in Hell very soon!

Cheers!

~Mark and the Hell Clock team