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Steam News4 July 20261mo ago

Release set to July 16 + 1.6.0 live

Esteemed C-level titles and office drones Patch 1.6.0 fixes numerous bugs reported by the community and also brings some suggested UI improvements, including a "jump-to-executive-location" shortcut and some better hints

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  • Gameplay
changedPatch 1.6.0 fixes numerous bugs reported by the community and also brings some suggested UI improvements, including a "jump-to-executive-location" shortcut and some better hints regarding NPU chips.
changed1.6.1 Fixes - Fix desert arcology location error caused by fixing typos in 1.6.0 that would cause a crash
added1.6.0 Fixes - Kryzalis NPUs can now only be installed if they are in your inventory and not in your external storage. - Fix 100+ typos in dialogue and descriptions of items, companies, missions and ideoclusters - Guard against a crash that could happen when mass-selling stuff fast - Reduce laggyness for trade screen - normalize & decrease sound of airplane and helicopter - executives with multiple professions that share the same courses/feats: these feats now only show once in the executive techtree - "start project" prompt now only appears for projects with fulfilled requirements - add tooltip hint how available NPUs are counted (storage vs external storage) - Fix a crash that could occur when selecting "the Glow" for a psychology check - Harden against a potential crash for skill check abilities that scale with a resource - When choosing to continue playing after the ending, monthly board meetings will not be cancelled anymore - Conditioning now counts down hours remaining correctly rather than showing 0 hours when less than a day is left - Add control for weather sound volume (e.g. rain)
changedUI improvements
addedAdd tutorial instructions how to use Kryzalis NPUs
addedAdd shortcut button in executive overview that allows jumping directly to executive's location on the map or floor in a company

Holonoptic changes

changedPatch 1.6.0 fixes numerous bugs reported by the community and also brings some suggested UI improvements, including a "jump-to-executive-location" shortcut and some better hints regarding NPU chips.
changed1.6.1 Fixes - Fix desert arcology location error caused by fixing typos in 1.6.0 that would cause a crash
added1.6.0 Fixes - Kryzalis NPUs can now only be installed if they are in your inventory and not in your external storage. - Fix 100+ typos in dialogue and descriptions of items, companies, missions and ideoclusters - Guard against a crash that could happen when mass-selling stuff fast - Reduce laggyness for trade screen - normalize & decrease sound of airplane and helicopter - executives with multiple professions that share the same courses/feats: these feats now only show once in the executive techtree - "start project" prompt now only appears for projects with fulfilled requirements - add tooltip hint how available NPUs are counted (storage vs external storage) - Fix a crash that could occur when selecting "the Glow" for a psychology check - Harden against a potential crash for skill check abilities that scale with a resource - When choosing to continue playing after the ending, monthly board meetings will not be cancelled anymore - Conditioning now counts down hours remaining correctly rather than showing 0 hours when less than a day is left - Add control for weather sound volume (e.g. rain)
changedUI improvements
addedAdd tutorial instructions how to use Kryzalis NPUs

Esteemed C-level titles and office drones

Patch 1.6.0 fixes numerous bugs reported by the community and also brings some suggested UI improvements, including a "jump-to-executive-location" shortcut and some better hints regarding NPU chips.

The game is set to release July 16 on Steam, with bigger changes to the emotion and resource systems queued for the first major patch afterwards. The free demo will stay available after the release.

As always, thanks for the great feedback that is making this game better, and here the full list of changes:

1.6.1 Fixes - Fix desert arcology location error caused by fixing typos in 1.6.0 that would cause a crash

1.6.0 Fixes - Kryzalis NPUs can now only be installed if they are in your inventory and not in your external storage. - Fix 100+ typos in dialogue and descriptions of items, companies, missions and ideoclusters - Guard against a crash that could happen when mass-selling stuff fast - Reduce laggyness for trade screen - normalize & decrease sound of airplane and helicopter - executives with multiple professions that share the same courses/feats: these feats now only show once in the executive techtree - "start project" prompt now only appears for projects with fulfilled requirements - add tooltip hint how available NPUs are counted (storage vs external storage) - Fix a crash that could occur when selecting "the Glow" for a psychology check - Harden against a potential crash for skill check abilities that scale with a resource - When choosing to continue playing after the ending, monthly board meetings will not be cancelled anymore - Conditioning now counts down hours remaining correctly rather than showing 0 hours when less than a day is left - Add control for weather sound volume (e.g. rain)

UI improvements

  • Add tutorial instructions how to use Kryzalis NPUs

  • Add shortcut button in executive overview that allows jumping directly to executive's location on the map or floor in a company

  • Add a tutorial message hinting how to use Kryzalis NPUs

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Steam News / 4 July 2026

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