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Click here for help on accessing the Unstable branch! InDev 31 Unstable 1 has arrived, this is the first release of the InDev 31 series, covering the brand new migration system, and tossing in a ton of technical changes to the game's various display modes. Check out the change log for details! You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)

InDev 31 Unstable 1 Change Log

Migration System

You can now send villagers from one village to another connecting village or new region via the new migration tab on the left panel.
You now will only get "freebie" villagers and resources on your first region. After, you must send migrants to connecting regions to establish them.
When starting a new connected regions you will get up to 15 migrants as soon as you place your camp. After, you will get anywhere between 5 and 10 a day until all incoming migrants have been completely exhausted. During this time you can still receive nomads as usual.
New Building; The Migration Way Station. It enables access to the new migration tab so you can send villagers to nearby regions as well as increases your maximum amount you may send per day.
When sending migrants to new regions, the villagers will become migrants in the morning, and actually leave at midday.
The village will only send healthy, young and single adult villagers out of the village.
The world map now allows you to start anywhere you want for your first region, but blocks expanding into other regions unless you send migrants there first.
When visiting a new expanding region you get up to 15 migrants as soon as the camp is placed.

Display Modes

The game can now be played in borderless full screen. Although on Mac and Linux, some versions may still display your task bars.
When using traditional full screen (the old style), you can now change the game resolution.

Interface Changes

Reworked a large amount of the world map GUI to support the new data in migration system.
The mouse is now a hardware cursor.
Hid the mouse and overlays when you use the hide GUI button.
You can now move the map and zoom on the main menu.
Removed the splash screen from the game entirely.
Re-added the save-only, data views and hide topography buttons to map editor.
Added the required building's name to enable a tab to the disabled tabs on the left panel.
Fixed render ordering of the map buttons so they are not under the buildings on the world map.
Reworked the "You Lose/Abandon Region" GUI.

Miscellaneous Changes

When your population hits zero, you now "lose" the map and are ejected to the world map.
Nomads and provisioners now arrive and leave on the edges of the map rather than random locations.
Nomads and provisioners can no longer arrive in locations that can not reach the village, unless the village is completely blocked off.
Nomads are now slightly more willing to pathfind to the village once they spawn.
Removed Limbo from the game entirely, as it has been replaced by the migration system.
Main theme on the main menu no longer loops.
The game will no longer save until the region has actually been "started" by placing down your camp.
Time is now frozen until you place your camp.
Added new world map tips for the migration system.
When starting a new game, the game now picks a random location in the center of the map as the default map position.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a crash if lake water levels dropped while a road was under the water.
Max upgraded and filled crystal harvestry light map fixed.
Fixed some minor font rendering issues on the world map.

[ 2018-06-20 13:21:10 CET ] [ Original post ]

Retro-Pixel Castles

Raymond Doerr Developer

SixtyGig Games Publisher

2019-10-14 Release

Strategy Simulation Singleplayer Tags

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🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Very Positive (7080 reviews)

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Game Concept

Retro-Pixel Castles is at heart a godlike village simulator, but it also throws in plenty of familiar game play mechanics from classic 90s era real-time strategy games like Warcraft, along with some tower defense and survival elements in an attempt to create a new kind of village simulator. The goal is to try to bridge the gap between the depth and complexity of traditional village simulators, the fun of godlikes and the simplicity of real-time strategy.

Key Features

You can't win!
The problem nearly all village simulators tend to face is you seem to eventually reach a point where you can't lose the game. You become so skilled at knowing exactly what to do and in exactly what order, the game loses all of it's appeal and you eventually run off to play something else. That's not the case with Retro-Pixel Castles, it aims to make a game you can't win. Every game day, the game gets progressively harder. In RPC you will eventually lose. The goal isn't to win, that's not possible, the goal is to see how long you can survive!

Build a village, and die trying!
A major part of the game is village management, and trying to discover new and creative ways to use the tools at your disposal to keep yourself alive as long as possible.

Several Game Modes
Currently, the game offers two main game modes. Survival and Peaceful, Survival is the game the way it was meant to be played, as a brutal survival style village sim. Peaceful on the other hand has nearly no monsters, and plays out much like a traditional village simulator with some godlike and RTS elements sprinkled on top. More game modes are planned like the upcoming Sandbox mode where you basically are given unlimited resources and access to play around with the engine.

Godlike Elements
Not only can you manage your village, but you also have many godlike abilities at your disposal. You can alter the terrain, blast enemies from afar, heal your villagers and speed up resource growth.

Unlock Content Through Gameplay (Coming soon!)
In RPC, you will find yourself in a harsh and unforgiving environment, constantly trying to find new ways to keep your little villagers alive for just a few more days. As you play, you'll unlock more content, like additional buildings, items and units you can use in your next attempt to see if you can survive even longer than the last!

Even though you can't beat this game, you most certainly can make progress in it! Every round you play you'll gain experience, unlocks, and other interesting goodies that will expand the game.

Tons of map set themes!
Every set of maps will follow a certain theme (Forest, Desert, Underground, etc). Most of the current screenshots only feature a few of these map sets. But many, many more are planned.

The Soundtrack!
A full original soundtrack, made by Bibiki Garcia that blends orchestral instruments in a way fans of old 1990s era PC gaming will love and remember!

DRM-FREE

SixtyGig Games is a DRM free independent game developer! Retro-Pixel Castles will not now or ever in the future have any sort of DRM! Piracy protection only hurts you guys, the loyal paying players. So you rest assured knowing that once you buy yourself a copy of Retro-Pixel Castles you'll never again have to concern yourself with nagging questions about if you can continue playing the game down the road due to something like always-online logins, lost registration codes or because you bought a new computer and you're only licensed to put the game on one. All I ask from you is to be reasonable and responsible, you can buy the game and play it as much as you like, wherever you like. Just tell your friends to support my DRM-Free philosophy and buy their own copy! Free Content Patches, no paid-DLC

100% FREE CONTENT PATCHES/DLC!

I don't believe in paying for Downloaded Content. If you buy Retro-Pixel Castles you will have access to the entire game and all the content I'll ever create for this it, forever! I believe DLC is greedy, and you deserve to have the full gaming experience from day 1, right out of the (figurative) box!

Have a say!

Your feedback is extremely important. You can reply here or head on over to the Official Website and help shape the direction of development! :)

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Most 64 Bit Linux Distros (Must support Java)
Processor: Intel i5 or equivalent (Dual Core with Hyper-Threading)Memory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD 4400 or equivalent. 1280x720 resolution or higher.
Storage: 1 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: OracleJDK or OpenJDK 8 Required (OpenJDK bundled with product)
RECOMMENDED SETUPOS: Most 64 Bit Linux Distros (Must support Java)
Processor: Intel i5 or equivalent (Quad Core)Memory: 8 GB RAM
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Most Dedicated GPUs. 1G+ VRAM / OpenGL 1.3+
Storage: 1 GB available space

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