October was one of those months where coffee mysteriously evaporates and sticky notes breed on every monitor. Good news: the grind paid off. We’ve been heads-down polishing core systems and building brand-new places to explore, all in preparation for our next major content drop. Grab a comfy chair - here’s what we cooked up last month!

A massive tree rises from Day Island and yes, you’re going inside. Expect branching paths (literally), pockets full of loot, and encounters that make this risky exploration worth your while.

Day & Night island folk speak their own tongue. Find dictionaries, learn the language, and unlock NPC quests that reward recipes. Progress on this island now feels like actual cultural immersion (with loot).

Meet Runes and Rune Shards. Slot runes into any weapon or tool to unlock unique effects and upgrade them with shards to amplify the build you love. Theorycrafters and min-maxers - this is your playground!

Roofs now hiding what’s beneath until you’re in the right spot! Exploration becomes a tactile puzzle: peek, step in, reveal. More “aha!” moments guaranteed!

We actually planned it a bit later, but decided to pull this forward to sync with save-format changes.

• Use maps to permanently uncover cells on the world map.

• Random maps still work like before for a quick reveal.

• The compass now erases a single cell (no more accidental full resets - RIP, panic!)

From entry to depths, it’s moody and dangerous. New foes, side rooms, and risky routes. Come prepared - your Enchantments will matter!

We’re part of a big party this month! Our buddies at Hypetrain Digital are celebrating their decade-long hype anniversary and to mark the occasion, Tinkerlands will be 25% off the current price starting November 10. Perfect time to bring a friend (or three)!

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That’s a wrap for October! As always, our Discord doors are open - come report bugs, find co-op partners, or just show us your most cursed base layouts!

Enjoy your adventure in the Tinkerlands, and see you under the Tree!
— The Tinkerlands team

We’re thrilled to share some exciting news with our community: KARMA: The Dark World has been honoured with not one or two, but three awards at the 2025 NYX Game Awards!

🏆 Best Original Soundtrack
🎧 Best Music & Sound Design
🖥️ PC Game – Best Music

These awards recognize the incredible work of our team, especially composer Geng Li of LM Audio Productions, whose haunting and immersive score helped bring the world of KARMA to life!

We’re deeply grateful to the NYX Game Awards for this recognition, and to all of you, our players, for your continued support.

If you haven’t experienced the soundscape of KARMA: The Dark World yet, now’s the perfect time to dive in. And if you have, we’d love to hear which tracks or moments stood out to you most.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3439760/KARMA_The_Dark_World__Soundtrack/

Thank you for being part of this journey with us, Pollard Studio and Wired Productions.

Hello gardeners!!! 🌸

The big day has finally arrived :-) 

Dream Garden is out today on Steam! Design and shape the landscape, add decorations and foliage, trace patterns in the sand, and spend hours crafting beautiful garden dioramas to your heart’s content. Available on Steam!!

We are enormously proud of what we have made with Dream Garden. We hope this game can be a zen retreat for people looking to escape the stress of everyday life. 

Thank you so much for your support, and happy gardening!

We can’t wait to see what you all create, so please do share your gardens and tag us on our socials and join our Discord!

All the best,

Campfire Studio team

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🧡 Thank you for your support!
Set up your new caravan area and expand your Sunset Motel today!

🌅 This is just the beginning!
More exciting updates and surprises are on the way! 🚀

The Sunset Motel Team 💛

3 achievements and one debuff fixed

Building your party is one of the fundamental and defining aspects of Pathbreakers: Roaming Blades, and this makes it a lengthy topic to discuss. There are many things to consider when assembling your group of mercenaries, but in this devlog, we will dive into the process you will face when picking the members and how they will serve you in battle, and the roles they play outside of combat.

By default, you can field up to 8 units in battle and maintain a total roster of 14, though certain Company perks can expand these numbers.

We want to preface that many of the things we are going to discuss are ultimately based on personal preference and playstyle. We’ll be focusing on setups that would appeal to most players, but we are eager to see which combinations and “meta” you will be able to find and exploit!

A well-rounded party usually starts with strong frontliners. Sellswords and Knights are the classic choices for tanking, relying on heavy armor and high HP. However, there are alternatives: Monks and Rogues can both act as more agile, evasive tanks if built for it.

Having some healing resources is usually a safe bet, which is where the Vestal shines the most. The advanced class Paladin also has some options there.

Still, players who prefer to rely on consumables can stock up on health potions or employ an Alchemist to enhance their effectiveness. Hardcore players might even skip a dedicated healer entirely, focusing instead on raw damage and efficiency. Just remember to plan for a well-equipped infirmary in your caravan to treat wounded mercenaries after battle!

Most battles can't be won without taking out the opposition, so while tanks and healers will keep your crew alive, someone's going to have to focus on taking down the enemies.

On that front, most classes have their ways of dealing damage. The Sellsword tends to focus on a single target in melee range. The rogue is a bit more balanced, with single target, multi target, and debuffs, and even ranged options, but they won't be as sturdy.

A mage brings solid ranged and AoE options, but they are quite frail and need careful positioning and protection to bring out their full potential.

Rangers excel at long-range attacks, and Bards are jacks of all trades, with a lot of team buffing options.

A mix of tanks, a healer, a few ranged units, and a solid front line is probably a setup that will appeal to most players, but in the end, it's up to the player and their style.

Making your party is not only about damage, tankiness, or healing. While in combat, you must also rely on the various members’ utilities and quirks that can help you defeat your opponent by gaining the upper hand, thanks to their unique traits.

Some units have very high mobility and even the option to become invisible, so trying to blow up specific enemy units from the start is a viable strategy too.

The above considerations are typical when it comes to a balanced team, but there are many other factors to consider.

For example, the elemental environmental effects are a point of consideration. A player can mostly ignore them and be fine, but at the same time, they can be pretty powerful, so many might be tempted to set up a team that can utilize as many as possible.

There are two main setups that utilize elemental interactions. Water + electricity is the first. This setup utilizes water puddles, which slow down most units, and electricity, which propagates damage through connected water tiles. The effects can be fairly potent, but there's always the risk that your own people will be in the water and exposed to the shock.

The other main setup is electricity + fire. This combination is about creating volatile motes on the battlefield with electrical attacks and then exploding them with fire. Electrical motes don't have any effect by themselves, but if you detonate them with a fire attack, they create a high damage explosion and a burning effect. The DPS can be impressive, but again, you have to make sure your own people don't get roasted!

Choosing classes with easy access to elemental effects that you'd like to take advantage of is certainly a worthwhile consideration when deciding on your crew.

That being said, no single strategy will "always work". Some enemies will be resistant to fire, water, or electricity. Some will be very evasive, and others have high physical damage mitigation. Having a few different options is safer than having a one-trick team.

There are many other combos a player might consider when forming their team. An example is “attacks of opportunity”. All units have "attacks of opportunity" (by default, they have 1 per turn), which are triggered by moving outside the range of an attacker's melee weapon. This helps your frontline punish opponents who try to get past them to reach your squishy backline.

But there is more to it than that. Some mercenaries you can hire, mostly the Knight and the Monk, have access to displacement abilities, either pushing or pulling other units. Forcefully moving a unit can trigger attacks of opportunity from teammates. As such, Knights and Monks can easily act as multipliers when positioned to maximize their displacement capabilities.

There are risks to such strategies, of course, as they tend to leave some units overextended or exposed, but it's a high-damage setup.

Many other combinations exist, some more subtle than others, many of which we probably haven't even thought of. A clever and resourceful player will find many ideas for building their team. Even with multiple units of the same class, how the player allocates their skill points can result in wildly different capabilities, so options abound for interesting compositions.

One other consideration is keeping extra units on your bench as backup for when other characters get hurt, or for particular encounters if a player favors a very specific strategy that might not always be the best. Some of the benched units can be assigned to crafting, manning cannons and ballistae on your caravan, and the like, and they become more effective at it at higher levels, so keeping a benched roster that's in good shape is a good idea.

And don’t forget about dungeon exploration! Different types of mercenaries have different dungeoneering specialties, so ensuring the player has extra exploration tools to compensate for their dungeon crew's weaknesses is a good idea.

Finally (and for some, possibly the most important aspect), you wouldn't be building your party if you didn't have options to customize it. The player can set the name, biography, and visuals of all their units, customizing them to their liking.

And that is all for today’s devlog! This was a meaty one for sure, but we really wanted to share with you all the potential and depth that we designed for the party building system that you will experience in Pathbreakers: Roaming Blades.

If you don’t want to miss out on the next devlog and keep up to date with our latest news, start following us on our socials and be the first to know!

Hi fellow Setup Designers! 🎧🖌️

The big day has finally arrived :-) 

Dream Garden is out today on Steam! Design and shape the landscape, add decorations and foliage, trace patterns in the sand, and spend hours crafting beautiful garden dioramas to your heart’s content. Available on Steam!!

We are enormously proud of what we have made with Dream Garden. We hope this game can be a zen retreat for people looking to escape the stress of everyday life. 

Thank you so much for your support, and happy gardening!

We can’t wait to see what you all create, so please do share your gardens and tag us on our socials and join our Discord!

All the best,

Campfire Studio team

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Hey Baristas!
We’ve brewed another update full of fixes and polish to make your café smoother than ever.

Fixes & Improvements
• Customer tab in the recipe book has been closed.
• Ingredient icons like chocolate and caramel now use spoon visuals instead of knives.
• Fixed cold tea pivot issues.
• Ingredient lists now display proper dots before each item.
• Croissants no longer reset each day — they now stack properly based on what you already have.
• Quest spawning logic improved — states now trigger correctly without dependency issues.
• Special customers (Milkman and Mechanic) can now appear at the end of the day.
• Fixed issue where Info pop-ups stuck after upgrading machines (milk & grinder).
• Added day tracking for when each shop gets unlocked.
• Permit Shop localization now refreshes correctly when unlocking (syncs with game language).
• Starting a new game now clears leftover objects and saves properly.
• Thieves can no longer spawn while the Police are present.
• Upgrade Shop UI now includes a smooth scale animation when purchasing upgrades.

Enjoy your cozy café, and keep those cups filled! ☕💛

Don't forget to give us your feedback by reviewing Cats & Cups on Steam! 💛 - Click Here to review!

G'day again Rat Racers.

I may have accidentally regressed replays, this small patch fixes them so items behave as expected again.

All changes:

• Fixed a bug with CPUs where items were used immediately upon acquisition.

• Improved item usage heuristic used by CPU racers.

• Fixed a bug that could break replays if an item was acquired from a Cheese Rocket payload the same frame an item command input was used. (aka. Square or R2 on a DualShock(R) 4 controller)

• Slightly improved network time synchronisation of the race countdown.

• Changed the "winning race" condition for the win-rate system to only count 1st place finishes.

November is here (what even is time?) and the Movember 'Handlebar' DLC is available once again! Many of you have requested the return of this magnificent moustache, so here it is once again.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3253670/Isonzo__Movember_Handlebar/

The Handlebar Moustache remains accessible in game after January 5th once bought. It's only available on Steam.

See someone in Isonzo rocking the Handlebar Moustache? Snag a picture and send it through on Discord for a chance to win some limited-edition merch! Do be sure to keep the lad alive for the picture.*

*We are not responsible for what may or may not happen after the picture is taken.

1. Hop on Isonzo.

2. Keep an eye out for anyone (that isn't yourself) with the Handlebar Moustache. He may be friend, or foe.

3. Take a screenshot of his pretty Handlebar Moustache-adorned mug!

4. Submit the screenshot in the dedicated channel on our Discord Server.

It doesn't matter how the screenshot is taken. You could of course walk up to him and ask if you can take a picture. You could also take a picture without him noticing, maybe even from far away through your binoculars! However, he must be alive in the picture.

Are you the proud owner of the Handlebar Moustache yourself? Be sure to equip it! We'll leave it up to you to decide how to deal with the paparazzi. You're of course allowed to join the contest yourself, but you'll need to find someone else with the moustache.

The submissions deadline is Monday, November 17th.

We're giving away 3 sets of limited-edition WW1 Game Series Anniversary Pins (each including Verdun, Tannenberg & Isonzo) and 6 custom-made Jam tin Grenades filled not with explosives, but with mints! Winners will be randomly selected from the valid submissions in the dedicated Discord channel.

Currently, we're only able to ship within Europe. If you're from outside of Europe, you can still participate in the contest if you'd like to send the prize to a European friend. Do make sure you have permission from that friend to send us their address!

Mental stress plays a big factor in war. Being able to kill on command, keep charging under artillery fire and live under inhuman circumstances all take a serious toll on one's mind. Many of the soldiers lucky enough to make it home alive would bring the war with them as PTSD or shell shock.

Even though WW1 isn't even remotely close to being the first war, it is the first time post-war trauma was formally recognized by doctors and society. And even that faced skepticism, as many simply assumed soldiers were faking it to not be sent back to the front lines.

We understand a lot more about mental health and healthcare in general now, but stigmas remain. Many choose to avoid healthcare, either because it'll blow over, it can't be that bad, or they're expected to be a man and bottle it all up. This is where the Movember Organization comes in!

Movember continues to shake up men’s health research, and transform the way that health services reach and support men, taking on prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health and suicide prevention with unwavering determination.

They have raised millions for men’s health, thanks to a passionate network of global Movember supporters. These critical funds have delivered more than 1,320 men’s health projects around the world. Funding hundreds of biomedical research projects and developing some of the largest prostate cancer registries in the world, based on the real-life experiences of hundreds of thousands of men. Since taking on mental health and suicide prevention in 2006, Movember has emphasised the importance of better social connections, early recognition of what men’s poor mental health looks like, and how clinicians can better respond to men in distress. They want to make sure more men know what to do when mental health issues appear, and that their supporters are better prepared to step in when they need it.

Movember will continue championing new research, cutting-edge treatments and healthy behaviours. Advocating for inclusive, gender-responsive healthcare systems that are tailored to the unique needs of men, women and LGBTQI+ people, from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds. In doing so, Movember hope to forge a future where barriers to healthy living are overcome, stigmas are removed, and where everyone has an equal opportunity to live a long healthy life. By improving men's health, we can have a profoundly positive impact on women, families, and society. Because healthier men mean a healthier world.

This moustache is a symbol of solidarity, plus it’s hard not to respect someone sporting such an impressive upper lip accessory. We hope the moustache adds a little bit of fun, whilst doing good!

- Daniel Cooper, Global Innovation Director at Movember

Last year, we ended up raising €2,849.53 for the Movember Organization through the DLC here on Steam. This year, we're again donating all proceeds on the Movember Handlebar DLC to the organization. Support the cause!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3253670/Isonzo__Movember_Handlebar