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- Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
It's a Bug Hunt: Dead Reckoning Devlog
The three big things since cameras 1. The colony landing phase: the game keeps going after you land For most of development, "you land" was the end of the game. Now it's a hinge. You pick a descent protocol, the CRT lat…
Event12 changesFixServer - Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
05.05.2026 Devlog - Cameras work! and other things
A v0.1.329 hotfix shipped earlier today, and almost immediately the new build started reporting CAMERAS broken on Steam — every bay flipping to STATE: OFFLINE / "Feed unavailable. Camera node not responding." I want to…
Patch notes5 changesFixGameplay - Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
19.04.2026 - Post-Demo Patch Notes
Hey everyone, First off -- thank you. Genuinely. The demo has only been out a few days and the feedback has already been incredibly helpful. Every bug report, every "this confused me," every "I abandoned my run because…
Event7 changesFixGameplay - Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
COLONIST HANDBOOK — NOW AVAILABLE
We've been busy incorporating your feedback and building out the game — and today we're releasing something we've wanted to make for a while: the Colonist Handbook. It's a 20-page in-fiction player manual written as a b…
Announcement - Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift Demo has released!
The Dead Reckoning demo is live Dead Reckoning is a text-heavy generation-ship colony sim with a CRT aesthetic — a thousand colonists across interstellar dark, and a pile of decisions that almost never have a clean answ…
Patch notes3 changesCompatibilityGameplay - Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
Demo launches April 16!
We are releasing a demo on April 16! Dead Reckoning is a specific kind of game — terminal UI, permadeath, 400 years of slow civilizational drift. The demo covers the first 30 years of the voyage. Enough to know whether…
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The Ship Has Left Earth — Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift is on Steam!
Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift is a slow-burn colony ship management sim about the journey to a new world — and everything that goes wrong along the way. You don't control individual colonists. You set policy. You make…
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