Liner Notes: the Mechs Tape update that explains itself

If the cassette is the game, this update is the little folded paper inside the case that tells you what’s on it.

Tap anything to find out what it does

Morale, scrap, tapes — they’re right there at the top of the map, and now you can tap any of them. You get a plain-language card: what it is, and how to get more of it. No wiki, no menu-diving. Forgot what tapes are even for? Tap it. (They’re your currency and your get-out-of-a-bad-roll button, turns out.)

A heads-up before you bottom out

When one of your supplies drops low, the map gives you a one-time nudge: here’s what’s about to hurt, and here’s how to climb back out. It fires once per resource per run — so it helps the first time it matters and then gets out of your way. No nagging. You’re trusted to handle it from there.

Your supplies follow you into the moment that counts

You make your real decisions on the encounter screen — fight, talk, scavenge, walk away. So your morale, scrap, and tapes now ride along at the top of that screen too, tappable for the same help. You shouldn’t have to remember what you’re short on while you’re deciding what to risk.

The dice do the damage now

This is the one I’m happiest about. Mechs Tape has always shown you every roll — the d6 pool tumbles right there, hits light up green. But the numbers used to change a half-second early, before the dice landed. Subtle, but it made the roll feel like set dressing on a decision the game had already made.

Fixed. Now the wound track, your morale, the tapes — nothing moves until the dice settle. The result lands because the dice landed. The killing blow even tumbles now instead of just snapping to “you win.” Cause, then effect, the way it should feel.

And the words read right

Every encounter description now starts with a capital letter and reads as clean prose, top to bottom. A small thing. Small things are the whole update.

That’s v0.12.0. It’s live and free in your browser — no account, no install, plays offline once it loads. If you’ve bounced off a roguelike because it never told you what anything meant, this is the build to try.

Go see what’s out there. 📼