Demo v2

i have updated the Steam Demo for the June Next Fest!

There's a lot of cool new things: upgrades, bit of danger, and a new biome! to name a few.

Happy to announce that the number 1 feedback request, mouse-wheel zoom, has also been added!

The game is still in Production (alpha) and set to release sometime Q3 2026. I'm still working on a number of new features that are not yet available on the Demo v2. In fact, there's likely going to be a Demo v3 sometime in the future.

Note: During playtesting I found a small number of issues, none game-breaking, and I'm already working on a hotfix that I'll upload tomorrow before next fest starts :)

NEW THINGS AND CHANGES

• The demo now ends before late-game starts, at around 30-45 mins of gameplay

• You can now select an upgrade on Civilization level up

• Monument now grants experience instead of an upgrade

• Upgrades are now explained, and can be seen on the Overview panel

• New arid biome that takes at 30% to 50% of the world

• Each tile now has a % of how wet-dry it is

• Forestlodge produces slower on arid biomes

• Farmhouse cannot be placed on tiles that are too dry

• Added time of year and seasons

• Game now tracks time of year instead of clock time

• Weather is now tied to seasons

• Farmhouse works faster during rain, and slower during snow

• Settlements now deteriorate if they can't produce gold

• You can now get a Game Over if you run out of settlements

• New messages for important game events

BALANCE

• Settlements now produce 1 gold per module instead of 2

• But Gold production speed is also 80% faster

• Prices and experience are adjusted to account for gold generation

• Settlement expansions can now only be placed within 2 tiles of the settlement's center

• Settlements can be placed closer to each other and to mountains

MISC

• Added mouse wheel and home/end keys to control the camera zoom

• Switched to hardware cursor

• Added arrow keys to control the camera

• Lots of art tweaks and improvements

• Improved sound for Sender instruction UI

• When you order a new settlement the builder is now a whole group instead of one lonesome dude

• Generation of valid placement grid is faster (before it was already fast though)