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Free Soundtrack Expansion!
To commemmorate the impending release of The Next World: Planetary Exploration, our beefy expansion to the original game, we're adding the expansion's music to our regular soundtrack, free of charge. It features several…
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Exciting New Developments - Seeking Testers!
Illuminated Games is now recruiting diligent testers for a massive TNW expansion that is about to hit beta. If you're interested in experiencing the game in a completely new way, this is your chance, and now is the time…
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Exciting New Developments - Seeking Testers!
Illuminated Games is now recruiting diligent testers for a massive TNW expansion that is about to hit beta. If you're interested in experiencing the game in a completely new way, this is your chance, and now is the time…
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1 Month On -- With Soundtrack!
The Next World is one month old today! The growing pains are past, bug reports have become virtually nil, and this all deserves a celebration. So with great fanfare we are now releasing the official TNW soundtrack! All…
Store1 change - The Next World
1 Month On -- With Soundtrack!
The Next World is one month old today! The growing pains are past, bug reports have become virtually nil, and this all deserves a celebration. So with great fanfare we are now releasing the official TNW soundtrack! All…
Store1 change - The Next World
The Next World -- Released!
Red dust flutters in the dry, desultory breeze. The wreckage of the starship Exodus lies scattered across miles of empty ground. The broken pieces of what was supposed to be your home. There's no air and no life but wha…
Event1 change - The Next World
The Next World -- Released!
Red dust flutters in the dry, desultory breeze. The wreckage of the starship Exodus lies scattered across miles of empty ground. The broken pieces of what was supposed to be your home. There's no air and no life but wha…
Event1 change - The Next World
The Story of TNW
The seed that would become Next World began, when one young teenager went out on a limb and pulled an old PC game called Outpost 2 out of a bargain bin. It was an underrated, unexpectedly literary gem of real-time strat…
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