Sources
Every developer post, patch note, store page and Steam thread the guide cites inline, in one place. Pages link the specific post next to the claim it supports; outside references such as videos and databases are linked where they appear.
Developer announcements and dev logs
Posted by Team Lazerbeam on Steam.
- Shroom Patch Notes: 0.6.41
- Shroom Patch Notes: 0.6.39
- Shroom Patch Notes: 0.6.24
- Shroom and Gloom explodes into Early Access!
- Release Date Reveal! Shroom and Gloom Aug Dev Log!
- Charging towards Early Access, 100K Downloads & Demo Days! SnG July Dev Log!
- Next Fest Demo! 200K Wishlists! Localization announcement!
- Huge demo update! Early Access release announced! Shroom and Gloom Jun Dev Log!
- Deckbuilders Fest! 170K Wishlists! More Mushies than you can handle! May Devlog
- Game Dev Is Hard! New level preview! Mar '26 Shroom and Gloom Dev Log
- We hit 150k Wishlists! Shroom and Gloom - Feb '26 Dev Log!
- Award win & insane booth at Playtopia Fest! Dec 2025 Shroom and Gloom Dev Log
- Overwhelmingly Positive & new levels revealed! Shroom and Gloom Oct 25 Dev Log!
- 9 million views, 100K wishlists & Meta-Jam! Shroom and Gloom Sep 2025 Dev Log!
- 80K Wishlists, Demo update and NorthernLion! Shroom and Gloom Aug 2025 Dev Log!
- 2 months of demo updates lead to this! Shroom and Gloom 0.4.71 is here!
- Shroom and Gloom bursts into Turn Based Fest with monsterous update!
- A Mac OS build, huge milestone, and a new Interview!
- Celebrating our first person roguelike deckbuilder hitting Steam!
Prototype devlogs
Team Lazerbeam's itch.io page, before the Steam release.
- Team Lazerbeam devlog on itch.io: Shroom and Gloom drops new demo, announce Devolver as publisher, bursts onto Steam! May 2025
- Team Lazerbeam devlog on itch.io: Our game's going viral! Shroom and Gloom Dev Log
- Team Lazerbeam devlog on itch.io: It's all happening! Shroom and gloom Devlog Mar 2025.
- Team Lazerbeam devlog on itch.io: Shroom and Gloom Mega Updates
- Team Lazerbeam devlog on itch.io: Will Shroom and Gloom Live Or Die? Our Monster Halloween Update!
- Team Lazerbeam devlog on itch.io: We did it! Shroom and Gloom Prototype is here!
Steam store data
The store page, achievements and Steam's public web API.
Steam discussion threads
Developer replies and player reports. Player posts are one player's experience.
- Rerolling bugs
- Softlock: Reroll, Dig, Papers
- Tips for beating gunkworm with the activist?
- ADD ITALIAN PLS
- French language
- Can't play the game anymore!! Please help
- No card to De-Gunk. Feels weird, almost broken.
- Does the Janitor ~REALLY~ need two Scavenges?
- The game was pretty cool, until I got to the Facility.
- Hardlock in facility campground
- need a faster way to get to a new run after loss
- Feeding Frenzy
- Move speed went WAAAAYYYY down
- Mulit attack upgrade bug & fuse box bug
- Activist's innate Forsight doesn't always activate.
- Secret Room in the Lab.
- Cant feed tabby cat
- repeating the second boss in forgotten path for 2x rewards
- Reroll is broken
- Freezing on startup after the newest update.
- 兔子?的复制效果会导致卡牌添加的多段攻击效果被移除
- The patch doesn't feel like it fixed The Vault in any way.
- Why Does New Card Damage Keep Going Up?
- Rewards vanish when using reroll, gets softlocked
- Difficulty?
- Concerns about overall card design and difficulty scaling
- Lab is too RNG coded
- Secret tunnels?
- Sectret tunnel bug
- the activist
- Undiscoverable area in The Facility?
- I understand the Janitor now
- Robert's family loves him
- Any insight into the robot you can interact with after camp in facility?
- Licking Toad in shops always leads to removal of explore cards
- Pig toad constantly fails
- Employee handbook in explore deck
- Can't progress after going through secret tunnel
- Suggestion : make the hover-able text more obvious
- Some Controller Support Thoughts
- Activist's full deck doesn't show up when feeding the camp toad
- A Bunch of Bugs - With Screenshots!
- Hard mode?
- Auto-walk Toggle Please
- Card Unlocks?
- What does "resets healing" on a card mean?
- Achievements bugged?
- Controller support please!
- Option for Menu Setting
- Proposed Balance Changes And My Thoughts On The Game
- Blue mechanical room need tweeking.
- Old Frog Gift
- Has anyone figured out what "storing gloom" does?
- Does demo progress transfer to the full game?
- Love the game, but some of the damage-reducing armor enemies in the Facility are in dire need of a fix
- Concerned Parent Did NOT Unlock (Possible Bugg)
- Janitor needs healing potential
- The Gunkworm thoughts
- What does "There is more to be discovered here..." on an obstacle mean?
- Is there a good amount of variety yet?
- 中文玩家Bug反馈说明
- Love the game, hate the janitor
- Please allow control rebinding
- Is there an ending yet?
- 打了两遍最终boss,尽头一开门,一进去就死了,咋回事?
- Please Give an Unlocks/Quests Screen & other Feedback
- Toad king gives the wrong achievement
- Concerned Parent not unlocking
- Issue with Janitor
- Gloomslayer achievement
- FAQs here!!
- Procedural Generation ?
- Steam Deck performance?
- Is the final boss of the Facility still being balanced?
- No Achievement For Beating game?!?!
- Automatic walk
- Backwards Movement?
- Brazilian Portuguese translation!
- Dear Devs
- So what's the idea with Rest?
- Please change the rest shortcut
- we really need a saving optoin
- Invert Y-Axis
- Auto-Walk
- Is this game designed for keyboard and mouse?
- Unable to play. I see the "W" card but nothing is happening
- looking forward to the full native controller support
- Hopefully there will be a german translation and IOS/Nintendo Switch ports!
- Meta Progression
- french translation
- Pls port to Nintendo Switch
- No more scythe
- WIll this be touch compatible??
- Controller support
Steam user reviews
Quoted only for what a reviewer experienced, never as fact about the game.
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Official places to follow
Where to talk about the game is on community; what each patch changed is on updates.