releaseAug 30, 2026
Garden of Witches Exits Early Access with Overhauled Combat and Story Finale
Garden of Witches, the roguelike from Team Tapas, reached its 1.0 release on August 28, 2026 — ending an Early Access period during which the community contributed bug reports, balance feedback, and unexpected playstyle discoveries that shaped the game's development.
What changed
Story
- Epilogues 2 and 3 are now available, continuing from the Early Access Epilogue 1 and concluding the story of Sil and the other witches.
- New skills unlock as players progress through the Epilogues.
- Challenge content becomes available after the story is completed.
Combat system
- The Attribute, Synergy, and Rune Systems have been removed entirely.
- Their functions have been redistributed into the individual mechanics of Scissors, Spells, Imprints, and Relics.
- Scissors and Spells now carry a wider variety of per-skill mechanics, including Charging and Combo interactions.
- Builds are now shaped not only by which skills a player selects, but by how those skills are actively used.
The studio's stated rationale for the overhaul: as systems accumulated during Early Access, combat grew broader in options but narrower in practice — players often cycling skills off cooldown in predictable patterns. The redesign returns decision-making to moment-to-moment execution rather than pre-run construction alone, a shift that reframes the game's fundamental loop for returning players.