v0.2.93 — A bigger star map, a cleaner voyage, and the sound in your hands

Everything new since the last update: a wider star chart, a run that's harder to break, the soundtrack and the typing under your control, and a great deal of writing pared back to the bone. The demo and the full game both update to v0.2.93.

A bigger star map

• Set course for distant stars. Past the heliopause you can steer for far-off named stars — centuries-long voyages are allowed, hard-capped at four hundred years. The ship makes one light-year a year, so a four-hundred-light-year world is a four-hundred-year crossing: a real gamble, and one that will almost certainly cost the colony.

• Dozens of new real catalogue stars fill the middle distance on every bearing. Anything past your reach shows locked.

• The opening leg holds its course out to the heliopause, and habitable worlds no longer turn up right beside Sol — they're rarer overall, a truly green world is rare, and the scarcity scales with the difficulty you chose.

The sound is yours now

• Music Player. Under Settings → AUDIO, turn the music off entirely, randomise the running order, or choose which tracks stay in rotation. A SOUND FX on/off switch silences effects outright. Five new ambient tracks have joined the rotation.

• Gentler typing sounds. TYPING SOUND now offers SILENCE, CLASSIC, SOFT BLIP or LOW PULSE — two softer ticks for anyone who finds the classic clack grating. All of it is remembered between sessions.

The voyage reads truer

• Drier landing and colony writing. The first-season-on-the-ground accounts and the late-voyage decisions were tightened to the game's plain register.

• Wider German, French, Italian and Spanish. The founding directives, the landing choices, and the mood-shaded variants of voyage events now read in native language rather than falling back to English.

Fixes that keep a run alive

• A softlock is gone — certain crisis and governance decisions could leave the game waiting on a prompt it never showed, blocking the year and even saving. They always clear now.

• Cryo-pod failures only claim colonists actually in a pod — never a child or an awake watch-stander.

• Quiet years on the ground read as the ground, not as if you were still under way, and the landscape view holds until you dismiss it.

• The low-power crackle is now a reactor thrum that spins down as power falls, and vessel names with accents render cleanly.

Make it yours

• Name your ship — or let the void pick. A RANDOM button on the title screen draws from a pool of 62 vessel names: colony and community names alongside nods to famous ships from science fiction and the great expeditions.

Under the hood

• Achievement pop-ups stay up long enough to read, and no longer vanish when you click.

• Smoother landscape pan at planetfall, and the colonist manifest reads exactly 1000 at departure.

Thank you for playing — and for the reports that drove most of this list. — Garan Lorn, Selenodrome