We are proud to announce that after months of hard work and some brutal city restoration, IRONHIVE joins Steam, and we can finally share the details with all of you!


IRONHIVE is a deck building strategy game about surviving in a dying world. As the Ironlord, it falls on you to build your colony amidst death and destruction, expand and sustain your population, and leave a worthy legacy to pass on to the future.



Here are some of the things you can expect from your stay in the Colony:

• Build Your Colony: erect living and utility quarters, create structures required for production, defense, and social cohesion. If you do not provide the required resources and stability, prepare for imminent collapse.
  
• Manage Your Deck: Use the hand you’ve been dealt wisely. Each turn represents a season you survived, and stability is quickly lost if you don’t play it smart.
  
• Take In the Palpable Atmosphere: Enjoy the thick brushstrokes of the game’s art and feel the oppressive and desolate mood of your city.
  
• Explore a Ruthless World: Send out expeditions to the Wasteland in search of vital resources, technologies, and items. The sweeter the reward, the higher the risks involved.
  
• Secure Your Legacy: Use the Book of Ashes to write down your people’s history. Choose cultural or historical characteristics that will influence your colonies, giving you new talents or bonuses. Choose wisely.
  
• Weave Your Story: Each decision directly impacts your fate. All narrative events are interconnected, weaving into a rich history for each of your Colonies. Stay sharp: don’t let the world’s changes creep onto you and deal with crises accordingly. Ruin is always one bad decision away.

We hope this gives you a good idea of what to expect from IRONHIVE in the future. From now on, follow our Steam page and wishlist the game to stay posted on all further developments. And if you wish to see even more of the game, subscribe to our Twitter and join the CRITICAL REFLEX Discord server for regular updates.

Let us live to see another day, together.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2679070/IRONHIVE

We’re thrilled to be announcing our new pirate-themed city builder and real-time strategy game ‘Republic of Pirates’, coming to Steam in 2024! Set sail to the heart of the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy and establish a pirate utopia. Create a resource-based economy, grow your population, engage in real-time naval combat, and navigate complex diplomatic relationships with rival superpowers as you search for the ultimate fortune and glory.

For a first look at this swashbuckling narrative-driven strategy sim, check out our brand-new announcement trailer as featured in the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted showcase:



Create a resource-based economy – Utilise over 100 unique buildings to provide resources and infrastructure, upgrade to new industry tiers, and develop your pirate citizens' skills.

Engage in real-time naval battles – Command a fleet of ships, engage in real-time strategic combat, and utilise the tactical map to plan and execute your next raid.

Conduct diplomacy – Establish and manage dynamic relationships with pirate clans and trading companies to harbour rivalries and forge alliances.

Expand your fleet – Construct 8 unique ship classes and customise your fleet’s appearance. Recruit talented captains and hone their skills to unlock new specialisations and combat tactics.

Undertake missions – Attack settlements, collect bounties, strike trade deals and race
against time to fulfil urgent faction requests.

Flexible gameplay modes – Build a legendary pirate utopia in a narrative-driven campaign with over 30 hours of content or customise your experience in freeplay mode.




During this Golden Age of Piracy, intrepid freebooters seek their fortune upon the high seas, black-sailed marauders prey upon Spanish treasure ships returning from the New World, and opportunistic privateers, emboldened by their ‘letters of marque’ reap the profits of war from their influential patrons.

At the centre of this cutthroat world lies the 'Republic of Pirates', a powerful league of pirate clans bound together by their shared ambitions and code of honour. But while the early days of the confederacy were prosperous, greed and jealousy soon began to spread culminating in a vicious mutiny and final bloody breakup. It now falls upon your shoulders to set out to reclaim your father’s legacy and bring justice to the traitors who wronged you!




In 'Republic of Pirates' you’ll be tasked with founding a modest outpost on a remote Caribbean island and growing it into a sprawling pirate settlement with a self-sustaining economy. Construct production buildings such as sugar plantations and rum distilleries to cultivate and refine resources, and distribute goods via a network of couriers, warehouses, and black markets to increase the wealth of your citizens.

Visit the inn to recruit talented captains and utilise the shipyard to build up a powerful fleet before taking to the waves in the name of conquest. Command your ships in real-time as you plunder merchant vessels, clash with rival pirate clans, and liberate islands to add to your burgeoning republic. Expand your reach while shrewdly navigating complex diplomatic relationships with influential trading companies, and rise above the global superpowers of the time!



In the coming weeks we’ll begin posting regular updates on Steam, providing deeper insights into the core gameplay mechanics and systems that you’ll need to master in order create the ultimate pirate utopia!

If you have any questions in the mean time please feel free to comment on this post and we’ll be happy to answer.

Until then,

PQube and Crazy Goat Games
 

Adventurers!

We're excited to announce that Unforetold: Witchstone will release into Steam Early Access
on January 25, 2024. Check out our latest trailer below!



Thank you for embarking on this journey with us. Every step, every spell, every story is brought to life through your passion. As Unforetold: Witchstone unfolds, we savor the magic that we create together.

Here’s to the adventure that awaits!

- The Spearhead Games Team

Howdy y’all

We’re excited to announce Wild Bastards!

Revealed during PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted, Wild Bastards is a hybrid FPS/strategy game with heart-pounding tactical combat, detailed management systems, and a roguelike campaign. It’s the spiritual successor to the highly popular strategy shooter Void Bastards, so it features similarly great mechanics and art, but all in a new setting.

Check it out for yourself in our first trailer!



And where do you fit into this cosmic showdown? Well, partner, you travel from planet to planet to recruit, manage and gun sling with a team of 13 outlaws, each of whom has their own weaponry, special power, and growth tree.
You’ll juggle injuries, settle crew disputes, ride through the galaxy, explore and plunder planets, strategize your attacks, and shoot anyone or anything that gets in your way.

Wild Bastards will launch on PC in 2024. To keep up on all things Wild Bastards, make sure you add Wild Bastards to your Wishlist and follow these channels:

X(Twitter): https://twitter.com/wildbastards
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildbastardsofficial
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wildbastardsofficial
Discord: http://discord.gg/bluemanchuofficial

And don’t forget to follow @Modus_Games as well.
Until next time gunslinger!

• Updated the description of the Lucid Sash bonus effect to better reflect how it functions.
  
• Updated the description of the Stunned debuff when applied to a Raid Boss.
  
• Added a new Advanced Setting to show the combat attack timers in seconds instead of percentage.
  
• The Gem Storage has been renamed to the Item Vault and is unlocked by the new Item Vault Building Upgrade.
  
• Players that have built the Gemcutter's Cabin Rank 3 prior to this update will automatically be granted the Item Vault Rank 1 unlocking the ability to store Gems within the Vault.
  
• The Item Vault can be further upgrade to allow for the storage and filtering of Ascendancy Relics.

• Merged the +Armour Rating and +Armour Rating % passives for Warrior.
  
• Merged the +Evasion Rating and +Evasion Rating % passives for Ranger.
  
• Merged the +Barrier and +Barrier Multiplier passives for Mage.

• Damage Over Time effects can now critically strike by default.
  
• Updated the Censure Enchant to grant +6% Ailment effect. (Was the ability for DoT's to crit).
  
• Pin Down -> Critical Chance now grants +3% Critical Strike per rank (was +2%).
  
• Gravedancer -> Critical Ailments now grants +10% Critical Chance and +25% Critical Damage to attacks that would apply a Bleed, Poison, or Ignite.
  
• Introduced a new Class Passive that reduces the Duration of your DoT effects.

• Meteorites can now be Transmuted 1 time.
  
• Imperial Stars, Heartstones, and Shifting Pearls can now be Transmuted 2 times.
  
• Jewel of the Empire can now be Transmuted 3 times.
  
• Added the Decaying Fragment, a new DoT Gem.

• Cut Ruby now grants +5 Adaptive Damage (was +2) and +50% Damage (was +20%).
  
• The Set Bonus for Cut Ruby now causes your Attacks to gain +1% Double Damage for each 10% of the targets remaining HP (was +4% Damage Multiplier).

• Cut Opal now grants +300 Health (was +120) and +1% Healing Effectiveness (was +1.2 Health Regen).
  
• Cut Opal now has a set bonus requirement of 5 (was 6).
  
• The Set Bonus for Cut Opal now grants 2% Less Damage taken for each 10% of missing Max HP (was -5% Damage Taken).

• Cut Peridot now additionally grants +1% Fate.
  
• Cut Peridot now has a set bonus requirement of 4 (was 6).
  
• The Set Bonus for Cut Peridot now grants a 10% chance when a Monster is slain to gain 5x the Gold drop (was +5% Fate).

• Cut Amber now grants +50% Damage (was +25%).
  
• The Set Bonus for Cut Amber now grants 8% More Attack Speed for 5 Seconds after using an Offensive Cooldown.

• Polished Fang now grants +1% Critical Chance (was 0.1% Health Gain on Hit).
  
• Polished Fang now has a set bonus requirement of 4 (was 5).
  
• The Set Bonus for Polished Fang now causes your Critical Strikes to restore 1% Max HP (was +5% Critical Chance).

• Cut Malachite now additionally grants +3% Critical Damage
  
• The Set Bonus for Cut Malachite now causes your Attacks to gain +2% Critical Chance for each 10% of the targets remaining Max HP (was +25% Critical Damage).

• Cut Sapphire now grants +30 All Resistance (was +30 Elemental and +30 Physical Resistance).
  
• Cut Sapphire now has a set bonus requirement of 5 (was 6).
  
• The Set Bonus for Cut Sapphire now grants 0.5% of your Max HP and Barrier as All Resistance (was +150 Melee, Ranged, and Magic Resistance).

• Cut Amethyst now grants +10 Adaptive Damage (was +4) and +150% Damage (was +40%).
  
• The Set Bonus for Cut Amethyst now grants +5 Mastery Levels for all Skills.

• Elementstones now grant +400% to their respective element (was +200%).
  
• Elementstones now additionally grant +25 Elemental Penetration.
  
• The Set Bonus for Elementstones now grants 10% of your Elemental Resistances as Penetration (was +200% Elemental Damage and +200 Elemental Penetration).

• Ferrous Core now additionally grants +25 Physical Penetration.
  
• The Set Bonus for Ferrous Core now grants 10% of your Physical Resistances as Penetration (was +200 Physical Penetration).

• Steel Prism now additionally grants +3% Increased Armour.
  
• The Set Bonus for Steel Prism now causes you to deal 20% More Damage while a Shield is equipped.

• Fixed a bug where Item Drop Toasts could be displayed for Items that were Auto Scrapped by the Gem Storage Filters.
  
• Fixed a bug where Raid Mission Previews would not correctly highlight on hover.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Prepare Mission Menu could be closed by clicking inside the Menu window.
  
• Fixed a bug where attempting to Donate too many high value materials could cause the Donation Credit result to overflow.
  
• Auto cast settings have been hidden on the Character Tactics menu until the relevant upgrades have been unlocked.

RCMonstetruck: Set RCMonstetruck physics replication from default to predictive interpolation...
RCMonstetruck: RC Monstertrucks LODs off.
Paintball: Projectile now also interpolated...
Paintball: Projectile lag fixed on the client.
Paintball: Shot cheat fixed.
Paintball: Paintball map - Some overlapping issues fixed.
Overall: Fixed ping display bug.
GG-Party-Mode: Landscape grass fixed at the Hacker-Tower.
GG-Party-Mode: Fixed transportable locations.
GG-Party-Mode: Added light distance for the Police Station.
GG-Party-Mode: Condition bound to velocity.
GG-Party-Mode: QuickTimeEvents done and implementation ready, MiniMap / Map bug fixes...
GG-Party-Mode: Police Station & Prison - Design Update, Insides & Collision!
GG-Party-Mode: Interact in PC instead of ALSPawn + QuickTimeEvent for testing implemented into...

Wild Bastards - Steam Wishlist NOW here: {LINK REMOVED}https://bit.ly/getwildbastards


🤠 Build & maintain a gang of 13 outlaws
🧨 Tactical showdowns
🗺️ Strategy – Traverse procedural planets, plan ahead, loot, and strengthen the gang
🪐 An ever-changing lawless galaxy

Coming soon to PC!

Follow Wild Bastards here:

• Twitter
  
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• Tiktok
  
• Reddit
  
• Discord

Today's patch brings tangible combat improvements and addresses the latest feedback in various aspects. For the next update, we are preparing new Survival content, crafting elements, a trading system, and more.


Let's take a look!





First of all, the click-attack remains and is incorporated into the updated system.

Simultaneously, it allows you to hold the attack button to enter a controlled stance mode and perform attacks in a manner we were testing before, but improved.

As you move the cursor, it controls both stances blending and inverse kinematics. When you move it a certain radius, you perform an attack in the corresponding direction, and aim at your target. It's akin to swinging with your mouse or drawing an attack.



We updated the turn caps to make the combat more controllable and weightier.

Different actions activate different turn caps. When holding the attack button while entering stance mode, it's one turn cap, when the attack in this mode begins, it's another. When attacking by clicking, it's also a different turn cap.

The goal is to make it easier to aim, track enemies, and land attacks without excessive camera movement.

It also makes special attacks easier to perform accurately, and chopping becomes a more satisfying process.



The attack angle is now being tracked more accurately, so you may notice that the performed attacks align more closely with your desired direction, especially when holding down the attack button.





Now it's possible to activate the block almost instantly. Keep in mind that it doesn't activate when you are in a hit reaction. When it allows you to block, your task is to choose the direction correctly, which is quite intuitive when you try to aim at the attacking blade.

The block animations have been adjusted and new angles have been added, making it more diverse. This also allows and requires better precision.



Increased arrow damage and headshot damage multiplier.

Slowed arrow flying speed, now, it and its trace are more visible in flight.

Improved string pullback - feels more satisfying.



Added ragdoll bleeding on hit.

Viking ragdolls are now more stable, still not perfect, but they are no longer thrown far away when walked over. They fall more naturally after a death hit.

Animal ragdolls have also been adjusted, they will need more work as they can still be thrown in certain cases, but the jittering has been significantly reduced.





Added first options allowing the selection of enemies for single-player Deathmatch: 1 melee, 3 melee, 3 melee & 2 archers.

Also, added a slow-motion option in single-player Deathmatch – hold the T button.



Decreased the wood amount obtained from hitting trees. Ensured a more accurate proportion between big and small trees. Smaller trees will no longer fall from two hits.

Decreased the amount of iron obtained from hitting ore.

Increased the amount of stone acquired from hitting rocks.

Increased the quantity of meat and fat obtained from each animal.



Added noticeable tree shakes on hit.

Fixed holes under the trees. Some got roots.

Max wood stack is set to 100.

Fixed issues with some actions, such as dodge, not working with the timber axe.



The ship is now faster, easier to rotate, and shouldn't bend too much when rotating.



Tweaked further for a sunnier summer, less rain and more clouds during autumn.



Adjusted it's chasing distance, so the deer should stalk you less now, just drive it away, if it's still annoying, let us know.

Adjusted its footsteps sounds and reduced attenuation.

Repositioned deer around the map and slightly reduced their numbers.



The issue of an animal biting or hitting an invisible wall in front of it has been fixed.


Thank you for sharing feedback, we hope you enjoy this update!


Skål!
Blackrose Arts

Howdy steam followers.

Just a quick note we will be holding a closed Beta testing and content creators event on Sat Dec 16th. The time is oriented to cover both Europe and North America as best we are able.

This will happen primarily via our official discord where anyone can sign up to participate. If you like to stream or create videos, tiktok, etc.. That is just a bonus and all are welcome.

There will however be limited openings as our ability to manage a larger event would be a bit overwhelming at the moment. We expect to give access to approx 200 players maximum for the coming session.

Our discord is easy enough to find! click below and get in touch!



more details can be found at our discord and the specific event is also listed there.

Exfil testing Event

In addition we are starting to have a variety of our testers create gameplay videos and we will start now and continue to share these great partner videos with all you fine folks as we make progress.

Big shout out to GLID gaming and their collective efforts to make this video and testing session possible.



Enjoy! Feel free to give us feedback in our discord.

Firstly let me apologize for any confusion with this update. The update requires starting a new game. If I could have, I would have prevented this but alas, it was unavoidable.

However, if you really want to continue your current game, I have provided a legacy version 1.1.7, which you can access via: "Islands of the Caliph > Properties > Betas" and select "version1.1.7" from the drop-down menu.

If you really want to continue your current game in the updated game, this is also possible, but your maps may get messed up due to changes in the update. Scroll down for instructions on how to do this...

Several new features and fixes have bee implemented.

Steam Achievements are now active in the new version. 15 Steam Achievements are ready for you to enjoy.

Some stairs in the game were exhibiting very strange behavior. I believe all of these have been fixed. You should be able to go up stairs without this weird behavior now.

The Necromancer fight had a bug where it would disappear if you saved and loaded the game after the combat began, but prior to defeating him. This should now be resolved.

The torch was having an issue freezing when passing between areas. This should no longer happen.

Some icons for mosques, caretakers and trainers were not showing up on the map. they should all now appear as intended.

If you really want to update your current game to work with the latest version, it is inadvisable. However, I don't believe it will cause any game breaking bugs. Your maps may get a little messed up if you do this, and I am not sure if or how it will work with Steam achievements, so please don't say I didn't warn you.

To do it, go to "C:\Users\*YOUR USERNAME*\AppData\Local\Islands_of_the_Caliph\Save_*#*"

Where *YOUR USERNAME* is your actual username on your computer.
And *#* is the save slot number of your game.

Open your game folder and find the "save.txt" file.

In that file the first few lines will look like this:

SAVED GAME: 2,
Version 1.1.7,
INVENTORY,

Simply change the second line like this:

SAVED GAME: 2,
Version 1.2.0,
INVENTORY,

And then save the file. Now you will be able to load your old game in the new version.

I do not like making promises I cannot keep. However, I do not foresee any other changes going forward that will require starting a new game. This should be the last time this is necessary. Thank you for your patience! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or concerns - michael@schmidtworkshops.com