One Year Anniversary Content Update!

In honour of this, I have pushed a major content update to the game!

THE HEATED RIVALRY UPDATE: An unauthorised, underground sporting competition has been gaining popularity amongst the City, but not everyone is happy to see their hobby finding mainstream attention; when a major bout between House Sedillo and House Lovini receives violent threats, it's up to the rebirth to figure out who's responsible before it's too late.

• over twenty thousand new words of content (bringing the full game's final word count to over 260k words!).

• choose to support House Lovini or House Sedillo in a branching storyline with dozens of new choices.

• two potential romance options.

• three new Steam achievements.

• five new music tracks and additional art specifically for Heated Rivalry itself.

HEATED RIVALRY is accessible for new players from the Antisocial Crimes Bureau Hub by the end of Chapter Three (once you've received the "Chapter End Available" alert).

For returning players, you can access the new storyline from the ACB Hub between the end of Chapter Three and the end of Chapter Four — depending on what you've already done in the story, you might need to reset the ACB Hub itself to accomplish this, so I've added a new button specifically in "Options Menu > Console/Debug Logging > Reset Map for Bonus Content" that will get this accessible in your current playthrough without needing to start a fresh save file. Do NOT click this button if you're currently in a storyline with the ACB (you can check by opening that Hub first, but make sure you switch to a different Hub before clicking the button) as it WILL make you lose progress.

This update also includes bug and performance fixes (details in the release notes below). And if you haven't picked up the game yet, the anniversary update also comes with a 10% discount for the next week!

Thank you for your support — if you enjoy the game please leave a review as this is massively, massively helpful for indie devs like myself.

Release Notes: April 03 2026 —

• 81.030426 release.

• Alcyone's first birthday! In honour of it, a free content update on all platforms has added a brand-new Encounter for players to experience. Enjoy "Heated Rivalry" — an unauthorised, underground sporting competition has been gaining popularity amongst the City, but not everyone is happy to see their hobby finding mainstream attention; when a major bout between House Sedillo and House Lovini receives violent threats, it's up to the rebirth to figure out who's responsible before it's too late.

• "Heated Rivalry" adds two romance options, over twenty-thousand additional words of content (bringing the game's total wordcount to over a quarter of a million words!), five new music tracks, additional art, and three new Steam achievements. It's accessible from the Antisocial Crimes Bureau after completing the main storyline for Chapter Three (once the Chapter Menu becomes available).

• Updated Unity to Unity 6.3 (6000.3.11f1).

• This migrates the underlying graphical pipeline to the new Render Graph system, bringing performance improvements to all platforms.

• The Story and Status Trays now no longer disable post-processing when they are visible and the underlying map is blurred (if both blur and post-processing are enabled).

• Improved visual fidelity of the Story and Status Trays if blur is disabled.

• Fixed a bug with the saves menu where the overwrite confirmation would still remain on screen if you tried to save in another slot instead.

• Fixed the Encounter "Life Echoes" not resetting the Antisocial Crimes Bureau Hub once you've completed it.

• A few fixes to some writing and art assets in the OG game.

• Made the "delete everything" button from the console in the Options menu a bit more scary-looking.

• Added a "reset map" button for returning players to access the anniversary content — load a save file, go to Options Menu > Console then click the Reset Map button (make sure you don't have the Antisocial Crimes Bureau Hub already open).

• Alcyone: The Last City is now compatible with Steam versions on NVIDIA GeForce NOW — it was never incompatible, per se, I just didn't realise that I needed to manually and deliberately enable it.