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- Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
Dead Reckoning v0.2.108
Fixes — the star chart, a cluster of soft-locks, event timing, and a balance pass. Thank you all. Fixes The star chart keeps your route and target while you move it. Panning or dragging the chart no longer drops the das…
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Dead Reckoning v0.2.106
A follow-up to v0.2.105; more fixes straight from your reports. Thank you for the detail, as always. Fixes No more soft-locks after you land. Settling a world left the voyage running underneath the colony — probes still…
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Dead Reckoning v0.2.105 — Hotfix
Another batch straight from your reports — thank you for the detail. Fixes Anniversary events now wait for the actual anniversary. Events that look back on a past decision — the fifteenth anniversary of the night of arr…
Event4 changesFixGameplay - Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
v0.2.104 — Hotfix: counts, softlocks, achievements, and event-text fixes
Dead Reckoning v0.2.104 — Hotfix Thanks for the flood of reports today — a fast batch of fixes. Fixes Crew counts now show your living colonists. The register and roster were still counting colonists who had died, so yo…
Event12 changesFixGameplay - Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
Dead Reckoning — Update notes (v0.2.97 → v0.2.101)
Dead Reckoning — Update notes (v0.2.97 → v0.2.101) The demo and the full game both ship from v0.2.101. The headline since the last notes: survey probes became a real system — a scarce bay you fabricate and aim, and now…
Event20 changesFixPerformance - Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
24 hours to launch: One Final Thank You
Well, it's here. 4 months ago I had a tiny, broken game that I had put on itch. I had started making it as a way to relax from starting a theatre festival from the ground up, never thinking that it would be interesting…
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What's Ahead — A Roadmap for Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
Steam post imageThe poor, procedural art depiction up here isn't the future; it's the past. This was the first asset I built in Dead Reckoning. It was the start of a concept, and I hope it shows how far it's come — and…
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Dead Reckoning v0.2.96 — Living Death Toll, Named Voices, Landing-Scenes
A narrative-correctness and clarity release. This folded additional minor releases into this release. The demo and the full game both ship from v0.2.96. Casualties, and the people behind them Losses are counted from you…
Event6 changesFixGameplay - Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
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 bo…
Event14 changesFixGameplay - Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
It Takes a Colony: Another Thank You
I've said I made Dead Reckoning as a "solo developer"; that's not really true. I made it and coded it on my own. But a game this size doesn't get built by one person, and every screen you sit in front of is held togethe…
Patch notes9 changesGameplayUI/audio - Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
Press Continue: a Personal Dedication
Press Continue This game is dedicated to my childhood friend Franco. I met Franco in Grade 7, and we bonded immediately. The common ground was video games, and it turned into a fast friendship. We were about one thing,…
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v0.2.90 — Interface, Crew, and Fixes
A roll-up of five builds (v0.2.86–v0.2.90). Major additions: a top-to-bottom interface overhaul, a searchable crew manifest, ship-born colonists who live real lives, and a run of fixes spanning Steam achievements to lan…
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Dead Reckoning — Demo Hotfix (v0.2.87)
Dead Reckoning — Demo Hotfix (v0.2.87) A quick patch for issues reported on the forums this week, led by a fix to colony establishment. Thanks to everyone who wrote these up — the detailed landing reports made the first…
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Dead Reckoning — Big Update v0.2.81
This is a large one. I finally took the plunge and merged a huge branch, which ended up breaking the game after I added it, so we've jumped to v0.2.81 into a single push. New late-game content, a new ending, the entire…
Event25 changesFixUI/audio - Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
Dead Reckoning v0.2.77 — 06.12.2026
Dead Reckoning v0.2.77 — The Endgame Deck, a Reshaped Survival Curve, and a Full Editorial Pass The first store build since v0.2.74. It folds three tagged-but-unshipped versions (0.2.75–0.2.77) into one push, so it is a…
Event18 changesFixBalance - Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
A thank you to the crew of Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
I made and coded Dead Reckoning on my own. But a game this text-heavy doesn't get sharp by itself. An artist and three writers gave their time to read drafts, critique them, polish the prose, and shape the narrative, an…
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