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Released May 11, 2022 $19.99 Mixed Counts toward your Steam games

Source of Madness

By Carry Castle · published by Thunderful Publishing

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About Source of Madness

Source of Madness is a game tagged Roguelite, Lovecraftian and Action by Carry Castle, released May 11, 2022. It has 1,415 Steam reviews (Mixed). The Steam games most like it include Dreamlands, The Last Case of Benedict Fox Definitive Edition and 古巫竞技场 Ancient Witch Arena.

Source of Madness is a side-scrolling dark action roguelite set in a twisted Lovecraftian inspired world powered by procedural generation and AI machine learning. Take on the role of a new Acolyte as they embark on a nightmarish odyssey.
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Everything Steam lists for Source of Madness · record updated 1 day ago

Steam store

Overview

App ID1315610
Release dateMay 11, 2022
Last change number39323160
Last record update1 day ago

App info

App type
Game
Developer
Carry Castle
Publisher
Thunderful Publishing
Steam profile
Counts toward game count and achievement totals · checked Nov 1, 2025
Franchise
Thunderful Publishing, Source of Madness
Technologies
Unity detected

Platforms

Windows
Steam Deck
Verified
Controller
Full support

Features

10
Single-playerFull controller supportSteam AchievementsSteam CloudPvPShared/split screen PvPShared/split screenRemote Play TogetherMulti-playerFamily Sharing

Related apps

Patches

Patch notes

13
  1. May 29, 2024 Slumbering Patch and New game trailer!

    Greetings and salutations! I am happy to announce that Midnight Horde got an alpha trailer and Source of Madness got lots of fixes and improvements! Okay back to the actual Patch! Major Changes Exiting the safe save scene now saves the run…

  2. May 19, 2024 New patch soon!

    Greetings and salutations! I'm working on a new patch and if you would feel so inclined, you can help me test it. I will combo this patch with announcing the first trailer of Midnight Horde, once the patch is ready to set live. To try the …

  3. Jul 2, 2023 Balance patch in the Beta Branch

    Hi everyone! So I have done some balance work and tweaks based on feedback in the reviews. Mostly adressing early game cheese with some aoe weapons and nightmare difficulty boss hp. This patch is not live in the main branch but exist in th…

  4. Feb 27, 2023 Hotfixes and smaller changes

    You no longer need to beat a difficulty to access the difficulty altar and all difficulties. Fixed Bug: Ambience Volume slider not working General menu alignment improved Prevented damage flashing on some inanimate objects "Cannot unlock s…

  5. Jan 7, 2023 Asus minor update

    Okay updated to 1.1.3 minor changes but properly tested this time.

  6. Jan 5, 2023 Reverted ASUS hotfix

    Reverted ASUS hotfix

  7. Jan 5, 2023 Minor ASUS patch

    Updated gifs to behave better for ASUS AURORA effects

  8. Sep 7, 2022 Multiplayer player mapping changed

    We now let you pick between 1-5 players in the menu, instead of automatically assigning all connected controllers at the start of a game.

  9. Sep 6, 2022 UI scale interaction with tooltip fix

    In some extreme cases the tooltips can grow outside the bounds of the screen when max UI scale is set. To fix this it now is moved slightly upwards based on the number of line of texts it has if it is in the lower part of the screen.

  10. Sep 2, 2022 Minor bug fix

    Bug fix: Found an invisible monster in new game ++

  11. Sep 2, 2022 Mini fix

    Bug fix: Multiplayer was not localized

  12. Aug 15, 2022 Patch: Back from Summer

    Greetings and Salutations Items, bugs and UI readability. In this patch we have improved UI scaling and readability when you zoom in to improve readability for smaller screens like the Steamdeck. We have also done some balancing and a lot …

Builds

1
BuildBranchUpdated
14535454publicMay 29, 2024

Depots

Depots

5
IDNameSystemsSizeDownloadManifest
1315611 — Windows 2.12 GB 1,018.3 MB 7832260022781841723
1315612 — Windows 2.67 GB 1.45 GB 7152092599821263429
1315613 — macOS 1.58 GB 654.3 MB 5375533525722482355
1315614 — Linux 1.70 GB 690.6 MB 1510099244293722316
1315615 — English Windows — — —

Branches

1
BranchBuildUpdatedAccess
public 14535454 May 29, 2024 Open

Configuration

Install foldersteamapps/common/Source of Madness

Launch options

3
ExecutableArgumentsSystemsDescription
Source of Madness.exe Windows
MAC BUILD.app\Contents\MacOS\Source of Madness macOS
Source of Madness.x86_64 Linux

Cloud saves

Space per player47.7 MB
Filesup to 10
Save locations1
RootPathPatternSystems
WinAppDataLocalLowCarry Castle/Source of Madness/saveslots/{64BitSteamID}/saveslot_*.savWindows

News

  1. Mar 18, 2025 · Community Announcements Save on new rogue-like Reignbreaker with our latest bundle!

    Calling all rogue-like fans! We have some exciting news! Reignbreaker - a high-octane medievalpunk action rogue-like from Studio Fizbin - has just launched! Peep the launch trailer 👀 To celebrate, w…

  2. Jul 11, 2023 · Community Announcements Balance and Monster Ninjas

    Hello there! So you might have seen the other news post about the beta branch, I did some more work on it and think it is ready to be released into the wild. Hopefully these changes result in a bit m…

  3. Feb 19, 2023 · Community Announcements Well Being + New Game!

    Greetings and salutations! I have a secret announcement to make! MIDNIGHT HORDE! It is a game I have been wanting to make and have been sketching on for quite some time! Midnight Horde is a gothic ho…

  4. Dec 23, 2022 · Community Announcements Physical Release!

    Source of Madness gets a limited physical Nintendo Switch release in January! It will be quite special being able to hold your game and it is childhood dream coming true! So if you want something mor…

  5. Sep 9, 2022 · Community Announcements Steamdeck Verified!

    I am happy to announce that Valve has confirmed that Source of Madness now fully support the Steamdeck! Why not send us a screenshot of it on your steamdeck to celebrate? It would make us very happy …

  6. Sep 1, 2022 · Community Announcements Multiplayer

    Greetings and salutations! We are happy to finally release our secret project, a local multiplayer versus mode! You can play it online with Steam's "Remote Play Together" system! We are now also full…

  7. Jul 1, 2022 · Community Announcements After Summer

    Hello, We are almost done with a new quality of life patch that will improve game balance, fix bugs, perfomance and text readability on smaller screens. This patch will hopefully be released once we …

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