The 2/14/2026 update of Interdict is now available! https://ferretdev.itch.io/interdict

This update adds over 30 new skills for you to discover: archery, great weapons, and polearms all have expanded options, and a new type of skill has also been introduced: Leadership skills! Leadership skills provide various bonuses to non-Leaders in your party, but take care: if a Leader dies, non-Leaders will suffer significant penalties instead!

Among the new skills are two starting skills that enable permadeath for individual characters: Royal Blood and Cursed Blood. Royal Blood adds permadeath but gives a small amount of bonus points to boost attributes with, Cursed Blood just adds permadeath with no bonus at all for extra challenge.

Also included is a change to how blue cells work: blue cells now revive all dead party members instead of just one, but are found much less frequently. This should create some interesting decisions about when to use them, as well as make it easier to recover from near party wipes, especially early on.

The last major feature of this build is significantly updated status descriptions that are now precise about what effects they have on characters, making it easier to accurately plan your strategy and tactics.

Please enjoy, and good luck on your adventures! As a closing note, I’d like to remind folks that I’m phasing out use of this blog, which is why I’m only announcing every *other* Interdict update here now. If you want the most up to date information, please follow the itch page, or even better, join the FerretDev.Org Discord where you can chat with other Demon and Interdict players and stay current on Interdict’s development.

Cheers!

I’ve released a small update for Interdict, which you can grab now at Interdict’s itch page: https://ferretdev.itch.io/interdict

The new build, among other things, reigns in the power of Banshees a bit. Funereal Wail spamming was just a bit too effective, and a bit too difficult to counter. In the 3/15 build, they cannot use the Funereal Wail ability directly any more, instead, it is only used as a reaction to one or more of their allies dying.

Of course, this means they needed something else to do with their actual turns, so they now use Psionics and warcries. The overall effect should still be a scary monster, but one which gives more options for countering and combating it.

Additionally, the new update includes improvements to the Hide, Flying, and Exorcism mechanics. The Hide changes are particularly nice: Hidden status now allows you to use any hostile action on any enemy, regardless of your position, the enemy’s position, or the normal range of the ability. This allows hiding to be useful to a much wider variety of characters, and will hopefully lead to some interesting ideas and character builds.

Don’t forget that there is now a FerretDev Discord where you can talk with other Demon and Interdict fans. I’m usually around too, and happy to answer any questions you have about either game. You can join the FerretDev Discord using this invite link: https://discord.gg/9vuDeKfPPg

Finally, as a reminder, I will be phasing out this blog in favor of Interdict’s itch.io page and the FerretDev Discord over time, so updates will eventually no longer be posted here. Please follow me on itch.io, add Interdict to your itch.io collection, or join the FerretDev Discord if you’d like to remain up to date about Interdict.

Thank you, and good luck on your adventure!

The first update for Interdict has been posted over on its page at itch.io: https://ferretdev.itch.io/interdict

Interdict’s first update includes some balance adjustments based on player feedback, three new species of monsters (resulting in over 60 new possible monsters you can encounter), and several new skills to discover and use for creating the perfect party.

Also, feel free to join the FerretDev Discord if you’d like to chat with other players about Demon and Interdict: https://discord.gg/9vuDeKfPPg

As a reminder, I will be slowly phasing out this devblog and website as we go from here out. I’ll continue to post Interdict updates here for a bit, but eventually everything will be done through the itch page linked above.

Cheers, and good luck on your adventure!

Hello! I’m happy to announce that Interdict: The Post-Empyrean Age’s first public release is now available for download!

I’m not going to say much more about it here, as I intend for itch.io to be my primary website going forward, so instead, here is the link to that, where you can read all about it and grab a copy to play.

https://ferretdev.itch.io/interdict

Also new as of now, I have created a Discord for both Demon and Interdict, which you can join with this invite.

https://discord.gg/9vuDeKfPPg

However, if you prefer to hang out in the roguelikes Discord’s Demon channel, don’t worry, I don’t plan to leave that, so you can still find me there like before.

I hope you enjoy this new adventure. I look forward to working on it and improving it for many years to come, just as I did with Demon. Good luck, and thank you for your support and kind words over the years.