Updates

Polish, quality of life, and fair play

• HUD editor: rearrange your in-run HUD to lay it out the way you like.
• Revamped settings: reorganized, searchable settings that save reliably, with sensitivity, FOV, and one-click performance presets.
• Interface themes: recolor the whole menu from a theme picker.
• Profile pictures and moderation: custom profile pictures, screened by an automated image model plus human review.
• Faster and smoother: a big performance pass cut boot time and removed in-game stutters.
• Stronger anti-cheat: reworked, more centralized anti-cheat with much stronger replay and run validation to keep leaderboards honest.
• Removed: the house/stronghold system and the old "flawless" mode were retired as the game refocused.

The RPG comes to life

• New content: a big wave of enemies and hunting targets, boss fights, and multi-room dungeons that pay out chests and XP.
• Gathering economy: mine ore and chop wood with tiered tools that gather faster as you upgrade them.
• Crafting, smithing and cooking: turn materials into bars, gear, and food, with a hands-on crafting minigame and batch crafting to make many at once.
• Skills and progression: more skills to level, gear that changes how you fight and gather, and a collection log tracking your clears, kills, and playtime.
• Quests and dialogue: NPC quests with dialogue and objectives that track as you play.
• Rebuilt replays: a leaner, high-fidelity replay system; watch replays straight from leaderboards and profiles.
• Steam sign-in: sign in with Steam, alongside Discord login.

AimRPG is on Steam

AimRPG went live on Steam. Wishlist it on the Steam page to hear the moment it releases.

A new team, and a ground-up rebuild

The biggest change wasn't in the game, it was behind it. AimRPG grew from a one-person project into a team of specialists. Day to day it's driven mostly by Crin and River, the two biggest contributors by time and progress, now backed by around 16 volunteers. Artists are working together on the game's look and feel, and the security and programming side has grown enormously: highly skilled reverse engineers and pentesters from around the world, including people known for cracking major AAA titles, alongside security engineers and networking engineers who have worked on FAANG-scale platforms. The game also runs on a custom StrongDot engine built by titoot, the developer behind KeyDot.

With the new team came a fresh start for the game itself:

• Rebuilt from the ground up: the client was rebuilt as a faster, more modular native app.
• Encrypted runtime delivery: the game now streams from the server as encrypted modules at runtime, so startup is far faster, updates are smaller, and new content can arrive without a full client patch.
• Real-time co-op: team up with other players in live co-op dungeons and boss fights.
• Live spectating: watch other players' runs as they happen, and see who's online and what they're playing from a new players list.
• New account backend: a rebuilt backend with a refreshed Discord sign-in.

Benchmark Arena, Collection Log & smoother play

• Benchmark Arena, a brand-new competitive aim benchmark with its own tab. Play a fixed set of scenarios for one overall rank that measures pure aim, and it becomes your primary profile rank (your aim-training ranks move to a hover).
• New Collection Log, browse every hunting monster by area to see which drops you've obtained, with per-monster drop counts, time played and drop rates on hover (even for drops you haven't found yet).
• Made combat more RNG and RuneScape-like, enemy attacks now roll within a min/max damage range instead of a fixed hit (nothing hits harder than before).
• Profile polish, your sidebar opens with a personal chip showing your avatar (click it to change your picture), plus a cleaner, always-visible rank badge.
• Smoother gameplay, hunted down and eliminated the stutters and freezes that used to hit your first and mid-run rounds.

Player profiles & Steam

• New public usernames, pick your own unique display name, separate from Discord.
• Custom profile pictures.
• Connect your Steam account to your profile.
• Viscose and Voltaic benchmark ranks now displayed on your profile.
• Fixed the black 3D world on some GPUs, broader graphics-card support.
• New settings: separate frame-rate caps for menus and when the window is unfocused.
• Stronger cheat detection (hardware triggerbots, timing manipulation) with fewer false flags.
• Tablet / absolute-pointer input is now blocked in ranked play.
• Replay storage now only keeps your genuine personal-best run.
• Clickable profile chip in the hub and a tidier online-player count.
• Various stability and crash fixes.
• ✅ Sent the Steam game application, the game has been submitted to Steam.

Wider GPU support, reworked replays & boss polish

• Now runs on more GPUs, automatic fallback to a compatibility renderer when Vulkan isn't available.
• Replays reworked, separate downloaded and personal-best folders, delete buttons, and your osu-style rank shown on each replay.
• Replay viewer now plays the round's gameplay sound effects.
• Higher-resolution replay recording.
• Vile Siren boss polish.
• Combos now survive a single miss.
• Miss sound cue now plays in every click scenario.
• Defenses against hardware cheats.
• Fewer false anti-cheat flags on high-polling-rate mice.
• Improved privacy, player account IDs are no longer exposed publicly.
• Sharper profile avatars that update within about an hour.
• Fixed window-close behavior (Alt-F4, the X, and Exit).

Anti-cheat overhaul, sharper replays & new content

• Windows-only for now, the game refuses Linux/Wine at boot. This is temporary, until the open-source Linux version and server are released.
• Massive client anti-cheat rework.
• Server-side anti-cheat improvements.
• Massive increase to replay sampling rate, far more precise recordings.
• Smarter replay-analyzing anti-cheat.
• Siren boss updates.
• New external auto-updater tool.
• New soundtracks and art.

Security finalized & replay upgrades

• Finalized reverse-engineering protections and security.
• New settings: custom hit-sound, customization, and camera/loading options.
• Replays now show played time, FOV, and sensitivity.
• A detailed replay-data display screen, plus cleaner replays.

Big update: security, forensics & polish

• AimRPG is becoming a community project, gathering an art team to create epic cinematics, rather than being built by one person.
• Massive anti-cheat & anti-reverse-engineering overhaul.
• New replay forensics system.
• Vile Siren boss reworked.
• Improved input & aiming, more accurate sensitivity and FOV controls.
• Small Smithing tweaks.
• Frame-time stutter optimizations.
• Tracking scenarios: an on-screen arrow now points to a target after it leaves the screen.

The site is live

• Launched the public site at aimrpg.com.
• Added the gameplay trailer to the home page.
• Opened a Contribute page for people who want to help build the game.
• Started this Updates page, and game changes will be posted here from now on.