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Quickpatch v1.623b
Hi royals! This is another quickpatch because I wanted to use the newest version of our engine which should be more stable on finicky systems. But I also took the opportunity to fix two leftover bugs in the codex and ma…
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Patch Notes for v1.623: Another round of bugfixes
Hi Royals! Well, I was self-indulgent and hid a funny interaction in the last patch, and now I reap the consequences. There were a few new bugs, and it also made some pre-existing bugs more noticeable. So here's a new p…
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Quickpatch v1.622b
Hi Royals! I hope you're having a nice Summer Sale. All our games are 40% off, just so you know. Anyway, that's not why I'm here. We just updated the game with another quickpatch. We're trying to get the game as stable…
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Patch Notes for v1.622: Bugfixes
Hello Royals! It's been a little while since the last patch, and only a few minor bugs were reported in that time, so we figured we'd fix those and hopefully be done with this update! If you find anymore bugs, please le…
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Enter the Final Checkmate
Hi Royals! Just a quick shout out for a new game coming out today: Enter the Chronosphere! Very much like Shotgun King, it's a turn-based action game, and very much like Shotgun King you will be dealing with placement a…
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Patch Notes for v1.621: Even more bugfixes
Hi Royals, It's very important to us that when you get your butt handed to you by the game, you cannot put the blame on bugs. This new stability patch goes one more step towards achieving this. This patch fixes the last…
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Patch notes for v1.620: More bugfixes
Hello Royals, Here's another patch just in time for your regal weekend! This one fixes almost all the issues that were reported to us. We're just left with one tiny issue with the rebooting button in the modding interfa…
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Patch Notes for v1.619: Bugfixes
Hi Royals, Thank you so much for all the love on the Bad Company update! Somehow the game got its highest number of simultaneous players during the weekend, 4 years after its original release. That's crazy! We are so, s…
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Shotgun King 1.6: Bad Company Update - Available Now!
Dear Royals, This month Shotgun King turns 4 years old. 4 years in which more than half a million of you got the game and made it the success it is. We're eternally grateful. And what better way to express our gratitude…
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New Shotgun King Beta, up now
Hello Royals, After quite a few weeks of closed beta, we're getting ready for release with a quick round of public beta! v1.6 adds quite a lot of new content, and some rebalancing, so it's far from impossible that thing…
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Shotgun King now on mobile (+ new beta for PC, coming soon)
Royals, today is a special day. For years, you've asked us if the game would ever be on mobile. Some even justified their query, saying that they would simply really love to play the game while on the throne. And one ha…
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Crashfix on tutorial
Hi royals, It has come to our attention that the last build broke the tutorial. Now we all know that you're all very intelligent (perhaps more intelligent than players of other games, but we don't have the numbers) and…
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Crashfix on Steam Deck and MacOS for Chinese and a few other languages
Hi royals! It's been a little while but we finally found some time to fix the issues with some of the languages on Steam Deck and MacOS. We sincerely apologize for the time it took to figure this one out. To be complete…
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Thank You for 500k Units!! + other news
Hello royals! As the game turns 3, we have reached a little over 500,000 units bought or activated on Steam! This is a huge milestone for us. Back when we created Shotgun King over a weekend, we never thought the game c…
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Patch notes for v1.515g: German translation update
Hi all, This is a really tiny patch, since we didn't get any new bug reports since v1.515f! (yay for that!) When we did the 1.5 update, we tried to have all the translations updated in time for it, and for the most part…
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Take the survey and tell us what you think would make the game better!
Happy new year royals! 2025 is here and while we don't have definite plans yet, we are hoping to do another content update this year. We already have a few ideas, but we figured it couldn't hurt to ask your opinion on w…
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