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Steam News20 January 20265mo ago

V0.0.34 Early Look January 20th Patch

Additions Sub-ideologies have proper points to get interesting and plausible party popularity results. Worked on implementing opponent research within election campaigning. It has not been fully tested yet.

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Full StateOS: The Political Sandbox update

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What changed

1 fix2 additions3 changes0 removals
  • UI and audio
  • Gameplay
changedAdditionsView politician has been completely redesigned UI wise to be more like a wikipedia article. Including wikipedia articles for elections as well. These are mainly mockups for now and have not been fully implemented into the game yet.
addedAdditionsAdded back the theme creator to the new engine. You can create themes and delete them. Prevented existing default themes from being edited. Only custom ones can be edited or deleted. Significantly improved the randomize theme generation for easily testing of themes.
addedAdditionsAdded Theocracy as a main ideology and Neoliberal was added as a sub-ideology of liberalism.
fixedBug FixesCleaned up several files in the code base.
changedBug FixesImproved the UI for election details and you can click on the candidates to see their information now. Incumbents are marked as incumbents. Caught up to parity from the legacy version for this UI just about.
changedWorking On:Finishing up UI mockups for the wikipedia esque pages.

StateOS: The Political Sandbox changes

changedView politician has been completely redesigned UI wise to be more like a wikipedia article. Including wikipedia articles for elections as well. These are mainly mockups for now and have not been fully implemented into the game yet.
addedAdded back the theme creator to the new engine. You can create themes and delete them. Prevented existing default themes from being edited. Only custom ones can be edited or deleted. Significantly improved the randomize theme generation for easily testing of themes.
addedAdded Theocracy as a main ideology and Neoliberal was added as a sub-ideology of liberalism.
fixedCleaned up several files in the code base.
changedImproved the UI for election details and you can click on the candidates to see their information now. Incumbents are marked as incumbents. Caught up to parity from the legacy version for this UI just about.

Additions

Sub-ideologies have proper points to get interesting and plausible party popularity results.

Worked on implementing opponent research within election campaigning. It has not been fully tested yet.

View politician has been completely redesigned UI wise to be more like a wikipedia article. Including wikipedia articles for elections as well. These are mainly mockups for now and have not been fully implemented into the game yet.

Added back the theme creator to the new engine. You can create themes and delete them. Prevented existing default themes from being edited. Only custom ones can be edited or deleted. Significantly improved the randomize theme generation for easily testing of themes.

You can select ideologies you'd want for parties in the world generation options.

Added Theocracy as a main ideology and Neoliberal was added as a sub-ideology of liberalism.

435 U.S House seats are now within the game and with relatively realistic distribution of house seats.

Bug Fixes

Cleaned up several files in the code base.

Improved the UI for election details and you can click on the candidates to see their information now. Incumbents are marked as incumbents. Caught up to parity from the legacy version for this UI just about.

Working On:

Finishing up UI mockups for the wikipedia esque pages.

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Steam News / 20 January 2026

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