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Patch #1 – July 25th, 2025
Hi everyone! We’ve just released Patch #1 for Vessels of Decay — this is the first major post-launch update, and it includes a wide range of fixes and improvements across combat, abilities, movement, level progression,…
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Verified for Steam Deck: Play Vessels of Decay wherever you want! ✅
Steam post image Greetings, survivors! We have some good news for you today: Vessels of Decay was reviewed and got verified for the Steam Deck! So, what does that mean for you? It's quite simple! You can enjoy our retro…
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Vessels of Decay is OUT NOW! 🔥
Steam post image Greetings, survivors! The day has finally come: Vessels of Decay is OUT NOW! And so civilization has ended, and something else awakened in its place. From the world’s decay, ancient creatures stir, rise…
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Play the Vessels of Decay Demo as Part of Steam Next Fest!
Steam post image Happy Steam Next Fest kick-off day, friends! Once again, it's about time for the fabulous Steam Next Fest! Until June 16 an endlessly large number of demos are live here on Steam, connected to hundreds…
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Vessels of Decay will launch June 19; demo available NOW! 🔥
Greetings, survivors, I’ve got some amazing news to share with you today: Not only did Vessels of Decay receive an official launch date – mark your calendars for June 19th! – as Next Fest is kicking off soon, we also ha…
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Vessels of Decay will launch this Summer; new playtest live NOW!
Greetings, survivors! Yeah yeah, I know ... It's been a while since I've published the last Vessels of Decay update. December 2022 to be precise. Time flies! But here I am again, with nothing but good news: V essels of…
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Last news update of 2022
Here’s the last news update of 2022! Since I’m (finally) done with the platforming, I could move on to fix bugs and work on other areas you gave feedback on during the playtest. One very important feedback you gave was…
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Merry Christmas!
God Jul everyone! In Sweden, we celebrate Christman on the 24th, and so our Christman newsletter will too! So Here are some Christmas lore! It’s Christmas! And now is your chance to glimpse into the future using some ol…
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News and Christmas Event!
🎄 News and Christmas Event!🎄 Christmas or ‘Jul’ as we call it in Sweden is closing in and we would like to do a Wish-for-a-ingame-feature-for-xmas event! Are there any features you would like to see in Vessels of Deca…
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More platforming
I might have gone a bit overboard and gotten a bit sidetracked with the platforming, but I take your feedback seriously. I think this will make the game so much better, and makes for better and more intuitive level desi…
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Platforming 2.0
The playtest is over, and I've been going over all the bugs and feedback you all gave. It was really awesome that so many played, and the feedback was really helpful! The most common feedback people had was that the pla…
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Updated Playtest build.
Hi! I've just uploaded a new version for the playtest🎮 I fixed a lot of the bugs you reported, and also implemented some of the suggestions you had. To make things easier for those of you who wanted to stream your game…
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Playtest feedback and bugfixes
It's really nice seeing so many people playtesting Vessels!🥰 I'm currently looking over the feedback and working on bugs that people have found. Some of them were unexpected😅 Come join us for the chance to find some b…
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⭐️PLAYTEST REGISTRATION OPEN NOW⭐️
⭐️PLAYTEST REGISTRATION OPEN NOW⭐️ The playtest for Vessels of Decay will be live soon and available for a limited time only! Make sure you register so you don't miss out! WHEN: SOOOOOON! WHERE: RIGHT HERE ON STEAM! HOW…
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Trolls, Snakes and Boars
Here’s some Wednesday Vod news! A lot has happened in the weeks since the last update. So I thought I just list some of them below. Trolls got a new brighter stone texture. • Started working on a new area: Shaman’s den.…
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Stats and Abilities.
Hi! Hope you all had a great weekend. The coming week is all about stats and abilities. At the end of last week, I started to take a hard look at the exp, level, and ability system in-game and thought about what I could…
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