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Demo in Next Fest now!
Excited to announce that Folk Emerging is participating in the June 2026 Steam Next Fest, which runs from today, June 15th, until June 22nd. Play the newly updated demo now, with a brand new map! View on Steam Please le…
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Folk Emerging Demo - Patch, June 14th 2026
This demo patch includes the following changes: Design Food waste now gets calculated based on stockpile that will remain after consumption at the end of each turn Baseline Food Forageable decreased for all species by -…
Store3 changesFixPerformance - Folk Emerging
Folk Emerging Demo - Scarcity & Abundance Update
This is a larger update that includes a new demo map seed and the following changes: Design Species in ecoregions uninhabited by Bands now slowly gravitate towards approximately equilibrium populations Resource costs fo…
Store40 changesFixMaps - Folk Emerging
Folk Emerging Demo - Natural Disasters Update
NOTE: This is a larger update that may break older demo saves! It includes the following changes: Design Added new weather phenomena and tile states: Wildfires, Burned, Floods, Fertile Soil Added river flooding Reworked…
Store29 changesFixGameplay - Folk Emerging
Folk Emerging Demo - Climate Adaptations Update
NOTE: This is a larger update that may break older demo saves! It includes the following changes: Design Removed Band-level Climate XP, added Tribe-level Climate XP. Each turn, if a Tribe has a Band in a Climate, the Tr…
Event25 changesFixGameplay - Folk Emerging
Folk Emerging Demo - Patch, April 7th
This demo hotfix patch includes the following change: Fixed AI movement bug introduced in the latest update that would sometimes severely limit AI band movement and splitting, which also led to worse AI scores and survi…
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Folk Emerging Demo - Update, March 30th
This is a larger update that includes the following changes: Design Watchtowers now extend visibility in 3-tile radius when adjacent to Band Watchtowers now provide Morale only when defending (both campsite and structur…
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Folk Emerging Demo - Patch, March 18th
This demo patch includes the following changes: Increased Health bonus from Herbalist trait (from +7 to +10 for Shaman, from +3 to +5 for Chief) Person view and pinned characters view now update after each event Special…
Event6 changes1 numericFix - Folk Emerging
Folk Emerging Demo - Update, March 12th
This is a larger update that includes the following changes: Design Added a new Band action, "Scouting Mission", which lets players select a visible tile and temporarily reveal any unrevealed tiles adjacent to it. It co…
Event13 changesFixMaps - Folk Emerging
📣 Full game coming JULY 2026!
Excited to announce that Folk Emerging will release in July 2026! More details and the exact release date will be announced closer to the launch. Here is the most recent major demo update, which you can play now: view P…
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Folk Emerging Demo - Patch, February 23rd
This demo patch includes the following changes: Game files size optimized down from 3.1 GB to 1.5 GB Fixed incomplete urban dwellings not getting saved correctly Fixed urban dwellings not showing when loading saved game…
Announcement3 changesFix - Folk Emerging
Folk Emerging Demo - Update, February 21st
NOTE: this is a larger demo update that may break older demo saves. This update includes the following changes: Design Happiness & Risk of Disputes: Removed Band attribute "Risk of Disputes", everything that used to mod…
Event11 changes1 numericFix - Folk Emerging
Folk Emerging Demo - Patch, February 14th
This demo patch includes the following changes: Enabled probabilistic effects for event outcomes and converted various events to use this, adding more uncertainty, risk, and reward After choosing an event outcome with p…
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Folk Emerging Demo - Patch, February 11th
This demo patch includes the following changes: Various UI improvements and polish New text body font Domestication now works via a Production Focus (similar to Foraging), so it no longer happens every turn but only whe…
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Folk Emerging Demo - Patch, February 3rd
This demo hotfix patch includes the following changes: 'confirm split' button in band splitting panel no longer get pushed off screen when increasing UI scaling setting disbanded bands now remove from their foodweb any…
Announcement6 changesFixGameplay - Folk Emerging
Folk Emerging Demo - Patch, February 1st
Hotfix release for demo build: lowered probability of AI attacking structures extended UI field showing year person died so it doesn't cut off double digits added shadow to autobattler unit action text & arrows for bett…
Announcement7 changesFixGameplay
