Demo update - 1

Auto-detect Steam language

Previously, if you ever opened the language picker in settings, the game would lock that

choice in forever and stop following your Steam client's language. The language dropdown now

has an "Auto (Steam)" option at the top — pick it and the game tracks whatever language your

Steam client is in, switching immediately without a restart. If you still want to pin a

specific language, just pick that language from the dropdown like before.

Smoother rendering

The cost of drawing each frame is cut in half. In a stress-test scene with 3,000 adventurers,

6,000 enemies, and 2,000 buildings, frame time dropped from 48 ms to 23 ms. You won't notice

individual frames during normal play, but when a battle kicks off the framerate stays much

steadier. This pass only touches how the game draws — none of the game rules changed.

Ranged classes can't see-through the fog anymore

Mages and Rangers used to see 3 tiles further than their attack range. That meant a single

mage standing still revealed enemies up to 15 tiles away — basically punching a hole through

the fog of war. Now vision matches attack range exactly:

• Warrior / Guard: 8 tiles (unchanged — they're melee, base vision applies)

• Ranger: 14 → 11 tiles

• Mage: 15 → 12 tiles

Combat logic is untouched; your units can still attack at the same range. They just stop

showing you enemies they couldn't realistically perceive.

Small fixes

• steam_api.log no longer ends up as an empty file — every launch now leaves a proper record

• Steam store page art has been refreshed