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Steam News11 August 202510mo ago

Demo v0.5 released

Greetings, bluffers! Today marks a big day in the realm of Bonaparte's Bluff, as demo version v0.5 has been released!

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Greetings, bluffers! Today marks a big day in the realm of Bonaparte's Bluff, as demo version v0.5 has been released! This update contains many changes, the most major of which are:

What changed

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  • UI and audio
  • Events
  • Gameplay
addedYou can now save replays of your games, and play them back with the Replay Viewer! To save a replay, click the "Save Replay" button after completion of a game. Alternatively, you can enable the "Save Replays Automatically" option in the Options menu to automatically save a replay at game completion.
addedYou can now save and manage many different formations, instead of just one! To create a new formation, just click the "New Formation" button on the Formations menu. (Note that you will only be able to do this if all of your existing formations are completed.)
addedA full playlist of twelve music tracks has been added to the game! If you want to exclude certain tracks from the playlist, you can choose which tracks are included in the playlist by going to the "Manage Music" menu on the Options screen. (Note that these music tracks increase the size of the game build to approximately 210 MB.)
changedA minor change has been made to the game's notation, and the game's tutorial has been updated to reflect this.

Bonaparte's Bluff changes

addedYou can now save replays of your games, and play them back with the Replay Viewer! To save a replay, click the "Save Replay" button after completion of a game. Alternatively, you can enable the "Save Replays Automatically" option in the Options menu to automatically save a replay at game completion.
addedYou can now save and manage many different formations, instead of just one! To create a new formation, just click the "New Formation" button on the Formations menu. (Note that you will only be able to do this if all of your existing formations are completed.)
addedA full playlist of twelve music tracks has been added to the game! If you want to exclude certain tracks from the playlist, you can choose which tracks are included in the playlist by going to the "Manage Music" menu on the Options screen. (Note that these music tracks increase the size of the game build to approximately 210 MB.)
changedA minor change has been made to the game's notation, and the game's tutorial has been updated to reflect this.
  • You can now save replays of your games, and play them back with the Replay Viewer! To save a replay, click the "Save Replay" button after completion of a game. Alternatively, you can enable the "Save Replays Automatically" option in the Options menu to automatically save a replay at game completion.

  • You can now save and manage many different formations, instead of just one! To create a new formation, just click the "New Formation" button on the Formations menu. (Note that you will only be able to do this if all of your existing formations are completed.)

  • The game is now integrated with Steam Cloud, allowing for settings, formations and replays to be backed up onto the cloud!

  • A full playlist of twelve music tracks has been added to the game! If you want to exclude certain tracks from the playlist, you can choose which tracks are included in the playlist by going to the "Manage Music" menu on the Options screen. (Note that these music tracks increase the size of the game build to approximately 210 MB.)

Additionally, some minor features are also included:

  • The game screen now displays your username, instead of "Demo Player".

  • All 25 CPU opponents, their designation and their playing strength are visible. (CPU opponents above Level 0 continue to be unavailable to be challenged in the demo.)

  • A minor change has been made to the game's notation, and the game's tutorial has been updated to reflect this.

This is expected to be the final demo build of Bonaparte's Bluff, unless fixes are necessary. See you soon, for the full release!

-BoltFromTheGreen

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Steam News / 11 August 2025

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