• The "Variable Gear" DLC now unlocks 8x speed.

• The target quantity for the repeatable challenge quest "Collect Equipment" has been adjusted to 5,000.

Hey Explorers!

You report, we listen! Here’s a fresh patch for the Astrobotanica demo, addressing many of the most common bits of feedback you’ve shared.

Previous save files might not work perfectly with this update. For the best experience, we recommend starting a new demo save.

⚠️For the updated performance settings to apply correctly, open the graphics options, select “Defaults”, then set DLSS to OFF before re-enabling it if you’d like and finally, reapply your preferred settings.⚠️

Here’s what’s new:

• Improved game performance

• 2× more water sources in caves (How to refill Hydrotool?)

• Quick-store items to chests

• Reworked game resolution system

• Repositioned the bowls puzzle for better clarity

• Increased inventory size (10 more slots in backpack!)

• Better inventory handling (Now you can drag&drop and more)

• Bulk adding items to construction ghosts

• Critical fixes to building system (Now you can build inside the house!)

• Harvesting without holding the button

• Crafting tonics with ingredients from backpack

• Easier pet taming

Please give the demo another try and let us know how it feels!

If you enjoy the improvements, leaving a review would really help us out. 💚

The Astrobotanica Team <3

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Thank you for being part of the Astrobotanica community. Let’s grow something extraordinary, together! 🌱🌟

Reupload of earlier patch that includes:

• Fix for cctv not working at lower scalability settings
  
• Achievement adjustments

As always, thank you for playing and sending your feedback through various channels. As a thank-you, I wanted to create a free content update to expand the replayability of the game. Big, big thank you again. While the game didn’t reach as many people as I hoped, I’m grateful that people still play it and seem to enjoy it.

The Armory update gives you new ways to replay the content, hopefully creating more fun.
Big points are:

• 6 new weapons

• New weapon drop game mode

• 3 new difficulty modes

• Expanded Score Attack mode with offline leaderboards

• Russian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese localization

I’ve added new weapons to spice up your runthroughs. You can access these guns from the new Armory menu by enabling "random weapon drops". This feature gives enemies a random chance to drop a weapon from the pool of available guns.

Since these new weapons can break the flow of the game, they only work in levels you’ve already beaten, and they disable time trials. Mostly because some of these new guns are really overpowered, which leads me to...

In the Armory menu, you can enable up to 4 different difficulty modes.

• Normal: Your regular experience as you’re used to.

• Hard: Doubles enemies’ HP and armor values. This has actually become my favorite way to play, and part of me wishes it was the default at launch. It forces you to hack enemies and use the environment. If you’ve been playing without linking enemies for multi-kills or breaking armor, you’re in for a rough time.

• Overclck: Enemies double their values again, and everyone has armor now. You’ll need to use hacking abilities and powerups to gain the upper hand.

• G1itch: The hardest mode doubles HP and armor values, gives everyone armor, and doubles their damage. Boost mode and slow-mo in hack mode will be your best friends here.

Each difficulty also awards a new badge in the level select, depending on what difficulty you’ve beaten the level on. It forces you to play Deadwire the way it’s meant to be played and ties directly into the enhanced score mode.

With all the new weapons and difficulty modes, I’ve also expanded Score Mode. If you didn’t notice before, you can toggle it on in the level select. Eliminating enemies now gives you score, and performing different actions or hacks gives even more. Combos and accuracy increase your multiplier, and with the new update, you can get even higher multipliers depending on the selected difficulty.

Each level now has an offline leaderboard that keeps track of your top 3 scores across all difficulties.

This update adds localization for Simplified Chinese, Russian, and Japanese. Enjoy!

• Pause menu now shows control keys

• Fixed bug where score bonus had to be 1 or scores broke

• Language now saves and loads correctly on close and reopen

• Fonts now change for specific languages

• Hard mode now includes HP, armor, and score modifiers

• New weapons

• Difficulty HUD icon now displays and saves correctly

• Level 22 “Boost Me” side objective made more consistent

• Level 24: "Don't blow the barrels" side objective was triggered too early

• Time Trial now blocked if weapon drops are enabled

• Swords now correctly get stuck on panic walls

• Edited enemy placements and amount in various initial levels for smoother onboarding

• Smaller bullet trails for weaker weapons

• New SFX for new guns and bike explosion

• New vfx for crashes, explosions and deaths

• Enemy HP bar gets destroyed on bike explosions

• Corpse angle correctly sets angle on explosion deaths

• Armory menu updated for new weapons and difficulty options

• Changed “L/R” to “Left/Right” for easier onboarding

• Overlay sprites now render correctly above 3D effects

• Gamepad hack UI correctly hide when not overlapping objects

• Deadzone enlarged for smoother movement

• Crosshair lerps its speed and moves slower overall for smoother aiming

• New icons for D-pad and sticks

• Back button changed to B instead of Y (expected standard)

As always, thank you so much for playing! If you like DeadWire please feel free to leave a review, that really helps us solo-developers.

Until next time!

• The Tavern Keeper now respawns more quickly after being defeated.

• The respawn interval for general NPCs has been shortened.

• The increase rate of crafting proficiency gained from item production has been raised.

• For dual-handed or bidirectional weapons, when the player does not make large camera movements, left and right attacks will now alternate more smoothly.

• Fixed an issue where the game could not proceed properly when using pickaxes or axes in certain situations.

• A warning popup will now appear if a save file fails to load properly.

• Fixed an issue where Leadership would not increase while having a Dongmu hired.

• Fixed an issue where certain lakes were displayed abnormally.

• Player distance is now displayed by direction in multiplayer sessions.

Hello everyone 👋

This small update focuses on player convenience and accessibility so more players can enjoy the game comfortably on repeat playthroughs.

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• You can now skip the entire game introduction

• Skipping creates a checkpoint at the start of gameplay

• Pressing Continue after skipping will drop you directly into the game world with no intro and no tutorial sequence

• If you want the full story intro and all tutorial tapes again, choose New Game

• Added a Skip Intro Cutscene feature to jump into the game faster

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I read the reviews mentioning that some players dislike the typing minigame and felt it was too mentally draining.

The skip function makes sure everyone can enjoy the story and gameplay without feeling like they need to fry their brains to progress. The minigame still exists for those who enjoy it, but now you can bypass the intro and get right into the core game experience.

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This feature was highly requested by players who finished the intro and wanted faster restarts or easier access to later playthroughs and testing.

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Thank you for the support, feedback and patience. I will keep improving the game and listening to your thoughts. More updates and polish coming soon.

Stay safe and enjoy the game
Tarba Paul Cornel

November is heating up, Senpai... you ready? 😈

Grace and Harlee are waiting for your touch, Ninja Amy’s back for another steamy mission, and Serina is eager to join your harem. Violet is also putting on her doctor’s coat… but something tells us that’s coming off fast. 💓

Oh, and Black Friday’s already teasing with a lineup of your favorite Year III girls. 😉 Join now and don’t miss out!

Year III Guaranteed Summon: Nov 3rd ~ 10th
Revival: Secret Mission with Ninja Amy: Nov 3rd ~ 12th
Serina Step-Up Event: Nov 3rd ~ Jan 15th
Crazy Value Step Bundle: Nov 3rd ~ Jan 15th
Special Discount Pack: Nov 3rd ~ 18th
Pre Black Friday Limited Summon: Nov 3rd ~ Dec 2nd
Katherine Drop Rate Up Summon: Nov 4th ~ 9th
Kuji Gacha Event: Nov 4th ~ 11th
Special Offer Bundle CG Pack: Nov 4th ~ 9th
Violet Doctor Cosplay Event: Nov 4th ~ 17th
Crazy Bundle: Nov 5th ~ 25th
Flora Skin Pack Revival: Nov 6th ~ 21st
Freya’s Love Forever Revival: Nov 8th ~ 19th
Juliana Drop Rate Up Summon: Nov 9th ~ 14th
Special Offer Bundle CG Pack: Nov 9th ~ 14th

TL;DR: The game’s full release is delayed to 2026, hopefully May or June, will confirm closer to the release date. As Gabe Newell said, “Late is just for a little while, suck is forever,” and I think we’d all rather it didn’t suck.

Arcadie: Cold Lands will unfortunately not release in 2025.

The choice was simple; either do a rush job of it and release something I would not be proud of and disappoint most of you, or keep working at my current pace, and delay the release.

I opted for the latter, and I think most of us can agree that it's the better choice.

I’m now hoping, and planning for an early 2026 release.

Stay tuned, and see you soon!

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Do not miss out on this fantastic opportunity to maximize your gains and power up your progress. Plan your activities wisely to make the most of every Adventure Thirst point!

 

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We hope you enjoy this late summer festival~

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