---

If you've seen our new Early Access Content RoadMap, you probably know that today, Builders of Greece will welcome some very special guests. Some of them are kind and caring, others do not shy away from violence... and all of them, without exception, are extremely powerful!

Without them, the culture and development of Ancient Greece would not have been the same. And it's not just about wonderful temples, altars, or the godsfearing everyday life of all social classes 🙏 Shared beliefs helped cement communities, making it easier for them to work together and pursue common goals. You and your subjects must also stand before the Gods to gain their favor... or ignite their wrath. And so - let's welcome them to your Polis!

---

All of the Gods will gladly accept your prayers and appreciation. However, to effectively demonstrate your devotion, you must first prepare an appropriate place. Religious buildings are perfect for this purpose, the first of which is the Altar. Once the Altar or other building of this kind finds its place in your city, you will gain access to the new panel shown below 👇

(Click to expand)


In the Faith panel, you can see the satisfaction of individual Gods and learn how they can help you with their favors. Each of the religious buildings can be dedicated to one of the Patrons, and it is up to you to forge your own mortals-to-Gods strategy!

Will your Polis become a place of worship, or will you satisfy them with the bare minimum? Will you commit to one particular God, or will you try to be on good terms with them all? 🤔 The decision is yours alone, and each choice will have its consequences... To make your task easier, we have prepared a short cheat sheet!

---

🏹 Artemis - Goddess of hunt, wild nature, moon and animals - thanks to her support, your ranged units will be more efficient in battle, and your Hunter's Hut will produce more meat

💕 Aphrodite - Goddess of love, beauty and desire - with her help, your population will grow and reproduce faster, providing you with a stable influx of new subjects

🍇 Dionysus - God of wine, theater and ecstasy - through his passion for celebration, he will help you prepare important rituals that other Gods will surely appreciate

🔥 Hephaestus - God of fire and craftsmanship - thanks to his divine endurance and strength, Hephaestus improves the combat potential of your infantry units

😇 Hestia - Goddess of family, travelers and newborns - her kindness and caring nature strengthens the bonds between the inhabitants of your city and allows more of them to fit under the roof of one house

---

The most effective way to win a God's favor is by performing special rituals in a dedicated place of worship. Preparing such rituals is often time-consuming and can be expensive, as the appropriate goods are needed to carry them out. Nevertheless, as you already know, it is a profitable investment. Especially since ignoring the jealous Ancient Gods is not a good idea...


• scare animals away from your hunting grounds
• cause a plague of infertility
• spark off the degradation of tools and valuable items
• turn other divine beings against your Polis
• cause random houses to fall into ruin...

And unfortunately, there may be more such negative effects! ☠️ With that in mind, be sure to carefully plan your relationships with the inhabitants of Olympus.

---

While the introduction of the Faith system is the biggest change in today's Patch, it is not the only one. Based on your feedback, we also decided to make a number of changes to another very important feature of the game, namely the Technology system.

An overhaul of the Technology system is aimed at increasing its influence on the game throughout its course 🧐 This means that your development decisions will now have an even greater impact on how your entire Polis performs. Moreover, from now on you have the possibility to choose the development path that best suits you, which was not so strongly emphasized before.



More specifically, the Technology system has been divided into two kinds of perks: basic and elite ⭐ The first of them is necessary to push your city forward, while the latter will show their full potential in the mid and late game. Thanks to precisely adjusted gradation, elite perks will affect areas such as various production modifiers or the improvement of combat units.

---

Many of you, eager for new challenges, asked about new maps. We have done our best to fulfill this request, and so... we're happy to announce that with today's update, two new unexplored lands have appeared in Sandbox mode! And this is by no means the end - we will soon present you with even more maps, both in Scenario and Sandbox modes. Explorers, rejoice! 😁

• Olympus Island - land of plateaus and plains, with a few gentle descents to the blue sea. A perfect place to build a vast, powerful Polis stretching to the horizon. If you dream of a city built at different heights, this place is just perfect.

• Hera Island - this unique island boasts a long, straight shoreline that can be used for maritime trade and fishing. Inland stretches a vast plain, the edges of which are marked by high, inaccessible yet majestic mountains.

Thank you for your time, Builders! We wish you many new awesome adventures in the mystical world of Ancient Greece. May the Gods bless you all! 🙏

---

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1273100/Builders_of_Greece/

---

[h4]Viking Frontiers[/h4]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1304430/Viking_Frontiers/

[h4]Crown of Greed[/h4]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1697870/Crown_of_Greed/

[h4]Gimle: The Broken Prophecy[/h4]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1765920/Gimle_The_Broken_Prophecy/

Survivors,

a new update is now available!

After some users reported problems with the game's rendering, caused by hardware incompatibility with DirectX 12 (the game's default), there is now an in-game option to switch between DX11 & DX12.
The DirectX version can be changed through the settings menu.

Please consider that the game needs to be manually restarted after a new DirectX version is applied for the effect to take place!

Update to v0.6.6:

• The first tutorial steps now display the corresponding gamepad keys when starting the game with a gamepad
  
• The language menu can now be controlled with a gamepad
  
• The settings menu can now be controlled with a gamepad
  
• The controls menu can now be controlled with a gamepad
  
• Added a DirectX selection option to the settings menu (the game needs to be restarted to load with the new selected DirectX version)
  
• The save menu opens now instantly, even with multiple big savegames present (with multiple big savegame files present, the opening of the save menu took up to a minute of loading time, depending on the hardware and file size)
  
• Added default graphic settings for the Steam Deck (only for the default start up, when no save file for the settings is found)

Thank you for your ongoing feedback and support!

Yesterday's News is a 3-8 player online party game in which you write newspaper headlines using the words your friends wrote down.

Get your creative juices flowing when writing random words in phase 1, before getting a random hand of words in phase 2. Make sure your headline fits the given news item best so that everyone votes for your headline in phase 3!

UI Updates

Regarding the bugs encountered by some commanders in the experience of the “New Generation of Seniors” seasonal activity, which prevented them from completing the seasonal tasks, we have now resolved all of them after technical troubleshooting.
The bugs have been fixed after technical investigation, and will be updated online later through hotfixes without stopping the service, thank you for your understanding!

We've already sent out compensation to the commanders who had problems via email. Commanders, please take the time to redeem the props, and thank you for your support.


If you have other questions, you can contact our official customer service:
Xiaer microblogging: isysy9999
Miner QQ:2082242724
EvaLine：kefux
Eva Discord: mrzj520

Over a thousand new Buds joined us in our Closed Beta, and we welcomed back players from our original Next Fest demo. It’s been a pleasure to watch you all wibble and wobble around the Island, building, growing, exploring… and getting up to all kinds of physics-based mischief.



We’ve also been absolutely blown away by the positivity and support of our growing community. Our devs worked hard to deliver four separate hotfixes during the beta, and that was made possible due to the dedication of our community, and the high quality detail of their bug reports.

If you visited Southfield in our Closed Beta and want to leave your feedback, please do fill out our form. We appreciate all your thoughts, suggestions, and constructive criticisms. It’s how we make our game grow into something great! You can also share your thoughts with us by joining our community Discord.


During our Closed Beta, we challenged our VIBs (that’s our Very Important Buds) to compete for points, building, growing, automating and exploring. As our first ever Creator Cohort, we were so excited to see what they’d get up to, and they did not disappoint!



Creator Cohort #1: (Team Frog) Chaos_n_Order, WaddlesToddles, RhapsPerhaps, BillieTrixx, GeekyN8, (Team Axolotl) lofiLondy, JaneDash, Mistantics, Mama_Lumi, AzureBay


We asked our VIBs to colour coordinate their crops, creating a rainbow farm, featuring as many of Southfield’s various vegetation as possible. We had some amazing submissions, and our team whittled it down to two positively perfect veggie patches.



Rhaps delivered a truly spectacular farm plot, organised by crop colour! They even included some vibrant trees, all crowned in a perfectly timed rainbow arching over Southfield. We took that as a sign that this submission was a true shiny!

Despite having a few setbacks during beta, Mama_Lumi bounced back like a Boinger crop to create a wonderfully vibrant Rainbow Farm. Lumi was very proud of her accomplishments, and for good reason! Just look at these cute little plots. Such variety and colour, a fantastic effort!

We asked our dev team to vote, and we have a winner...



We challenged our VIBs to build their Buds a brand new crib during the beta. We loved seeing all the different uses of building materials, and the care our creators took in finding great locations with good views!



Chaos_n_Order opted for a stone and glass combination, with a large glass wall opening out onto the Pleasant Plains – bringing the outside inside! We also loved their use of arched pieces to do something a little different with the upstairs windows (and improve ventilation). The whole build was framed with a quaint little fence, carving out a place to call their own.

JaneDash blew our team away with her elevated home, using the Island’s natural landscape to add height and creating an impressive staircase entrance. Jane also included diamond shaped windows for epic views, balconies and a sky view when Bud needs to snooze under the stars!

And the votes are in...



We wanted to see how far our VIBs could send their Squapples on the longest conveyor belt Southfield has ever seen… and one submission was stand out, hands down, the best and longest conveyor belt ever build in our game!



RhapsPerhaps sent their Squapples, boinged their Boingers, and even bounced their Bud for miles. An astounding feat of engineering, 10/10.



Our fourth challenge was called “Picture This”, where we asked our VIBs to capture a funny moment from their time playing Southfield in closed beta. Chaos_n_Order delivered with their screenshot aptly named “Praise C4 Tower”, showing their Bud raising their arms in the air while a great towering structure behind them looms.



Meanwhile, Mistie was having a very relatable “This Is Fine” moment, with her Axolotl Bud passed out on the floor, on fire, refusing to move. We’ve all been there, right? But there can only be one winner…



And finally, we asked our VIBs for a GIF That Keeps On Giving. The challenge? Capture a moment from the beta that best reflects your experience.



Lofi_Londy came in strong with a pride-perfect Axolotl stretch beneath a vibrant rainbow, making us feel all warm and fuzzy. Then the explosive submission from WaddlesToddles gave our whole dev team a laugh. Gotta be careful around those Kabume crops!


There were so many great submissions that didn't make it into this recap, and some great clips that might not have been part of our five challenges, but gave the whole dev team a good giggle regardless. From Mistie's community creating a compilation of her talking about her Boingers, to BillieTrixx noticing that the seedmaker sounds eerily similar to the Thomas the Tank Engine theme tune!

Also literally any time one of our VIBs set themselves on fire... Here we have AzureBay accepting her fate having clearly eaten some very spicy vegetables.



Congratulations, Chaos_n_Order, WaddlesToddles, RhapsPerhaps, BillieTrixx, and GeekyN8 - with the most amount of points won, Team Frog is taking it home this time!

And a huge well done to lofiLondy, JaneDash, Mistantics, Mama_Lumi, and AzureBay of Team Axolotl. In the end, the votes came very close. We enjoyed every stream and every silly clip... And can't wait to see what you get up to next! Both teams will be receiving an in-game medal for their Bud to wear with pride.

We'd love for you to go check out other content from our VIBs, who have been the life force behind our Closed Beta! You can also join in the conversation on our Discord, and be the first to hear about any news and updates.

If you're interested in applying to be in the next Creator Cohort, and join our VIBs in future challenges, you can apply via the Southfield website (currently accepting applications).

Thank you again to everyone who joined us for our Closed Beta. As a token of our appreciation, we've created some Southfield wallpapers for you to download (these will be shared in our Discord). We've also added Dancing Bud (see top of post) as a sticker everyone in Discord can use!



We'll also be giving the community a sparkly star sprout to jazz up their Bud come early access, as another little way of saying thank you for playing, and for all your feedback. If you enjoyed our game, please do consider adding us to your wishlist. And as always...

Stay wibbly,
Flop 💙

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2959940/

You know a lot, really A LOT, about the intricate mechanics behind the core gameplay of Food Truck Empire. 🤓

But what about the people that make the world of our game so interesting and varied? Time to talk about the possible customers you get to meet throughout your culinary journeys. First up, Normies, Kids and Blue Collars! 👨‍👩‍👦👷






They like everything and don’t have very high standards overall, but that doesn’t mean you get to slack off in the kitchen - you still have to prepare their food in a timely manner. Also, they mostly prefer basic ingredients like meat and produce, so you have to buy the best quality food to really WOW them with your dishes. 🤩



Normies shouldn’t be overlooked, because their raving reviews can make or break your business and make your food parks that much more popular with the largest crowd in the city. 🏙️




Kids have their own schedule because of school and after-school activities - so you can take advantage of that and start building your empire on the smallest customers. In Food Truck Empire, Kids get to spend their own money, but their parents are also around - so you can cook 2 birds with 1 stove… or something like that. 🤨



One caveat, though… They are VERY picky about their food as we all are aware. You have to be careful what you serve them, especially concerning more unusual ingredients. Remember: when in doubt, grilled cheese can never go wrong. 🧀
There are a lot of kids in the neighborhood, so make sure to include them one way or another in your expansion plans. 🚚




They mostly spend time around the Serenity Sawmill for obvious reasons. To become a successful Emperor, you have to be fast about your food - those people are looking for a cheap bite in the morning or during their break from work. No need for exquisite dishes or elaborate compositions - give them a meaty burger that will fill them up for the day and you are good to go. 🍔



Blue Collars also spend time in other places after work, but to fully profit from their tastes, you have to adjust your plans to their lifestyle. Maybe it’s worth keeping one dedicated food truck stationed right outside the Sawmill to have the food ready for those hungry workers. Experiment and grow your empire with different customers! 👨‍🔬



Stay tuned for more posts regarding providing excellent service to different groups of people.
If you’re hungry for more info on Food Truck Empire or have any questions regarding this post - let us know below in the comments. 💭



https://store.steampowered.com/app/1872970/Food_Truck_Empire/

Threads
Twitter
Facebook
Youtube
TikTok

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2778580/ELDEN_RING_Shadow_of_the_Erdtree/

A big thank you to our first batch of alpha players! For playing the alpha, for filling out the main survey and for giving us so much useful feedback for the further development of GROUND OF ACES.

Our team member Ben has been going through ALL OF IT – the main survey results and all the direct feedback from the in-game-form – and made an extensive overview for the dev team. Our dev team immediately started working on the first improvements based on your feedback and they continue to focus on getting Alpha 2 ready for you. The plan is that we can release Alpha 2 around the start of summer (exact date tba). We are also working on a roadmap that we want to share with you soon.

Meanwhile, our communication team and Dave, our 2D artist, have been working on something new. We want to start introducing key characters and bring more storytelling into our communication about Ground of Aces on social media sites, with the idea that these characters will also be part of the game at a later stage. This concept is very fresh and a work-in-progress, so we are asking you for your feedback and your thoughts while introducing these characters. We have been posting the profiles of the first four characters on our social media channels and we still have a few left to reveal. You are welcome to leave your feedback in the comments.

INSTAGRAM | TWITTER | FACEBOOK | TIKTOK



Ben will keep you updated about changes in the latest internal game version in his Base Builder Monday videos. You can find the videos on our YouTube channel. Here you can see the latest episode about the new terraforming feature:



You can find more episodes with more insights into how the game is evolving HERE.