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What Leyline announces about Guildrun, summarised in plain words, signed and always with the link to the official post.
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Guildrun patch 0.5.14, the last regular demo patch: closed beta next, 3 acts, Tuesday leaderboard resets
On 20 October 2026 Leyline published the last regular patch of the Guildrun demo: from now on the studio works only on the full game, a closed beta is coming soon with a new 3-act structure, and the demo stays online. The leaderboards now reset on their own every Tuesday at 7pm CEST, and five bugs are fixed.
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Guildrun patch 0.5.13: co-op mode in playtest, a new hero for the spooky season, 17,000 demo players a day
The weekly demo update of 13 October 2026 is short: Leyline playtested the co-op mode of the full game and added another new hero in keeping with the spooky season, while the demo gets five fixes, four of them suggested by players. The note also says that more than 17,000 people still play the demo every day.
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Guildrun patch 0.5.9: Aleco's balance patch buffs items, relics and class modifiers, nerfs Defense reduction
The weekly demo update of 15 September 2026 brings the first balance patch by Aleco, Guildrun's lead designer, after his break: numbers only, mostly buffs to items, relics, class modifiers and a few hero specializations. Only Serrated Dagger and Precision Conduit get weaker, and Assassin's Supremacy Filigree is reworked.
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Guildrun passes 100,000 Steam wishlists in four days; the demo tops 10,000 concurrent players
Four days after the reveal, Leyline announced that Guildrun had passed 100,000 wishlists on Steam, with more than 10,000 peak concurrent players in the demo's first weekend and a 95% positive rating. Updated on 28 July with the studio's own numbers: over 275,000 demo players and a median playtime of almost four hours.
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Leyline announces Guildrun, a PvE roguelike autobattler, and puts a free demo on Steam
On the evening of 15 July 2026 the Munich studio Leyline revealed Guildrun and opened its free demo on Steam, listed with a 16 July release date. The demo alone has 25 heroes, 180 specializations, more than 300 relics and 100 items, 8 difficulties and an Endless mode, after six months of weekly alpha patches.