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Aug 20, 2026My death screen was lying to players
When you die in Grim Hand you get a short chronicle. A few lines about what happened in that run. Turns out some of those lines were made up.
There's an altar in the game. You can climb it yourself, which kills you. You can sacrifice your companion. Or you can sacrifice your weapon. A couple of players told me the death screen said they fed a companion to the altar. They never had a companion.
The reason is dumb. I stored the choice as a number. 0, 1, 2. But the list of choices isn't always the same. If you have no companion there is no companion option, so "sacrifice your weapon" moves up from 2 to 1. And 1 was the companion line. The game recorded the right number and told the wrong story.
Easy fix.



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