Crownhold Demo v0.8.3 — What's New 👋

This update focuses on performance, stability, and making the game's systems easier to understand. Thanks for the bug reports... several of these fixes came directly from your feedback.

In addition I'm also working on the sieges that comes later in the game - I plan to run a playtest in July and anyone interested will be able to join via an announcement on the Steam Page:

Back to the patch: here's what changed in v0.8.3.

Features & Improvements

• Significant performance optimizations across the board

• Major stability improvements, especially around Alt-Tabbing

• UI overhaul... cleaner panels, improved theming

• New splash screen + language selection on first launch

• Improved prestige reset flow

• More explanations about systems and things like demo limits

• Smoother transitions between screens

• More UI sounds

• Gamepad mode improvements (still in Beta!)

Bugfixes

• Fixed resource panel positioning

• Fixed locale migration bug that auto-confirmed locale for existing save files

• Fixed NPC density

• Camera panning no longer triggers GUI sounds, tooltips, hover effects, or forces panels open... much cleaner now during navigation

Thanks for playing the demo! If you hit any bugs or have feedback, please share it.