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Steam News25 October 20258mo ago

Major Demo Update

This is a fairly substantial update, including an improved intro, many UI improvements and a lot more visibility into all the things going on in the game, like a legend for the map modes, or the display of empire cultur

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  • UI and audio
  • Gameplay
changedThis is a fairly substantial update, including an improved intro, many UI improvements and a lot more visibility into all the things going on in the game, like a legend for the map modes, or the display of empire cultural values.
changedTogether with the extension to 2 years, the demo should now give you a fairly good piece of gameplay.
addedI am also adding a "testing" branch. If you want to get updates like this early, go to the properties of the game in Steam and look at "betas". You should be able to simply subscribe to the testing branch.
addedThis update is going live on the testing branch first, because it still lacks a few translations that I need to add (for new texts). If you play in English anyway, everything should work. Otherwise, wait until the next update and everything will be localized.

Trade Anchor changes

changedThis is a fairly substantial update, including an improved intro, many UI improvements and a lot more visibility into all the things going on in the game, like a legend for the map modes, or the display of empire cultural values.
changedTogether with the extension to 2 years, the demo should now give you a fairly good piece of gameplay.
addedI am also adding a "testing" branch. If you want to get updates like this early, go to the properties of the game in Steam and look at "betas". You should be able to simply subscribe to the testing branch.
addedThis update is going live on the testing branch first, because it still lacks a few translations that I need to add (for new texts). If you play in English anyway, everything should work. Otherwise, wait until the next update and everything will be localized.

This is a fairly substantial update, including an improved intro, many UI improvements and a lot more visibility into all the things going on in the game, like a legend for the map modes, or the display of empire cultural values.

Together with the extension to 2 years, the demo should now give you a fairly good piece of gameplay.

And it's an important step towards the full game release.

I am also adding a "testing" branch. If you want to get updates like this early, go to the properties of the game in Steam and look at "betas". You should be able to simply subscribe to the testing branch.

This update is going live on the testing branch first, because it still lacks a few translations that I need to add (for new texts). If you play in English anyway, everything should work. Otherwise, wait until the next update and everything will be localized.

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Steam News / 25 October 2025

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