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- Approaching Infinity
One Year Anniversary!
Approaching Infinity released 1 year ago! Thanks to everyone who helped make it such a success. And for those who haven't started their journey yet, I offer you 25% off for two weeks. I've long considered this game to b…
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Major Update!
Largest post-launch update yet! The game has been stable for months and I've put that time to good use: New Ships When the Shipyards DLC launched, I announced a contest to see who could come up with the best new ship id…
Event16 changesFixGameplay - Approaching Infinity
Controller Support Beta
Greetings Captains, Admiral IBOL here. I spent the holidays (and a lot of sick time) playing so many console games that I finally plugged a controller into my computer and, well, one thing led to another, I started dete…
Store9 changesFixCompatibility - Approaching Infinity
Winter Sale and New DLC
Approaching Infinity is 25% off for the Steam Winter Sale. Explore an infinite procedural universe full of danger, aliens, loot, and lore. Play a min-maxing game of tactical supremacy or casually investigate space, plan…
Store10 changesUI/audio - Approaching Infinity
Version 2.1.0b and the Shipyards DLC
In preparation for the launch of the new Shipyards DLC, I bring you fixes, changes, and new features. Please update to version 2.1.0b today! Shipyards DLC Design your own starting ship! Spend points to assign stats like…
Store19 changesFixGameplay - Approaching Infinity
Shipyards DLC Beta Test
The Shipyards DLC is coming Nov. 17th: [dynamiclink href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/4151410/Approaching_Infinity_Shipyards/"] And you can test one of its major features right now: Design Your Own Starting Ship!…
Patch notes7 changesCompatibility - Approaching Infinity
New Features For All Players
Greetings space captains. Today version 2.0.20c1 is released for all players. I hope it will be the stable standard while I plan out the next few months of continued development. So what do you get in 2.0.20c1? Builds &…
Event17 changesCompatibilityGameplay - Approaching Infinity
Autumn Sale 20% Off
It's time, Captain. The infinite galaxy awaits! But what is your mission? Planetary exploration? Bounty hunting? Asteroid mining? Trading? Salvaging shipwrecks? Recovering powerful alien artifacts? Destroying the galaxy…
Patch notes1 changeMaps - Approaching Infinity
Builds Beta, Creature Cages
Beta 2.0.19F+3 Everything you're about to see is in the "betafromnowon" branch, but should reach all players within a week, as long as everything checks out. Anyone can play the beta branch, and it won't break your save…
Store13 changesFixCompatibility - Approaching Infinity
New Quests, Items, and Locations... and... PLAYABLE!
Greetings space captains! Development continues, 12 years and counting. PLAYABLE! Approaching Infinity has been found to be "playable" on the Steam Deck. You may have already known that, since there are thousands of dec…
Store15 changesFixGameplay - Approaching Infinity
Disease Cures & Cryptid Hunt
Hail space captains! Work continues, and it's equal parts bug fixes, player suggestions, and crazy developer tangents... One of the biggest complaints of the past few months is diseases. They're supposed to be terrible,…
Event26 changesFixGameplay - Approaching Infinity
Freezing, Features, and Fixes
Freezing Cryo weapons now have a base 25% chance to freeze enemies! Anything that resists cryo is immune to this effect, and so are all creatures on frozen planets. The Transmutor skill "Elemental Trigger" adds 33% chan…
Event16 changesFixBalance - Approaching Infinity
Cryo-Chamber For Everyone!
Things have been great since the official launch back in April, the game hit "overwhelmingly positive" and I've enjoyed having a stable build up for the past month. But it's time for some updates! Everything here is rel…
Event28 changesFixGameplay - Approaching Infinity
Update #169
After a week at the beach, and before 4th of July, I addressed some issues, added some features, and tweaked some numbers. This is released for everyone, version 2.0.14a: Fixes: I fixed a lot of issues with mutated dise…
Patch notes10 changesFixPerformance - Approaching Infinity
Cryo-Chamber Beta
Now that there are 14 officer classes but only room for 6 at a time, I'm finally experimenting with a long-time player request: a place to "drop off" your officers so you can hire someone with a certain set of skills...…
Patch notes7 changesFixGameplay - Approaching Infinity
4 New Officer Classes!
Sure sure, we already hit 2.0 and full release. But after 12 years, I CAN'T STOP! So here are 4 new officer classes you can unlock, and these are * special *. This is so exciting for me! I haven't designed new classes f…
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