Hello good people! Maybe youve heard it before, maybe its the first time you hear it: Next week on the 28th of May our newest game Reus 2 will hit the Steams! Were happy to see the lessons weve learned from Renowned Explorers and Godhood put together into Reus to create a true fresh new Abbey Game! Except what you can expect from us: depth, colorfulness, and a playful heart.

Ok, but why didnt you create Renowned Explorers 2!?

Take the next step with us

In the previous tales, we shared stories of the start of Abbey Games. Today, we share about the exciting exploration of Renowned Explorers! One thing was certain; The Abbey was filled with chaotic energy! All the monks, old and new, sat together and basically mashed ideas together to see what would come out. A big difference from the four that basically set the line for Reus! It's safe to say the game went in all kind of directions! It was going to be an action RPG! No, an RTS! No! A turn based game! No, a fighter!(?)
One of the early mock ups of Renowned Explorers. Not only the game was an adventure, we even started making our own tech: AbbeyCore. It was an engine made from scratch. All these factors gave us a lot of fun, but also little to show in one year. And we only had one year left to make something! Safe to say, things were getting hot.... It was time to get serious...
Our attempt to getting serious. The monks double downed on the events, treasures and characters, while keeping the encounters interesting and fresh. Of course, there was still room for fun. One event had the dialogue of an... adult... movie (without obscenity, think of Hildegard!) as a test case. However, it did got sent for review by our editors, who were kind of puzzled on what this whole dialogue was about! Also, have you ever tried clicking on Earl's portrait in an encounter? You should. ;) The release of Renowned Explorers was rocky at first, but a tight community and the helping hand of a legendary reviewer helped the game to climb to the top! Would the Abbey even still be making games without that review? Maybe we would've switched to the darkside, creating AbbeyCoin or NFT's. Luckily, we don't live in that timeline!
A museum of your pieces, that sadly never made it. We learned a lot from Renowned Explorers; The humor and character of Renowned Explorers is an important thing for our current secret project! But after two expansions and a lot of fun creating stories and characters, it was time to move to the next game. The development of Renowned Explorers already showed some cracks in the walls of the Abbey, but Godhood would really force us to define ourselves. Tune in next Monday to see the third chapter of our tales at the news section of the Godhood page! P.S. If you want to chat with us, feel free to join our Discord or follow the Abbey Games Developer!

- Fixed ice-cream van in Egypt. - Fixed some missing images. - Fixed a number of spelling errors. - Removed outdated Godhood announcement in main menu.

Dear Renowned Explorers! It is time to end the much loved Community Challenges with a bang! The amazing Challenge Organizers, said to be descendants of Pinkerton himself, have one final enormous challenge ready for you! Not a random number either; it will be the 200th community challenge! Challenge #200: The Award Ceremony Of course, we would humbly want to thank all of the Challenge Organizers for their amazing effort. Without them, Renowned Explorers wouldn't be half this vibrant and loved. We are honored to have had such amazing fans helping us out for so long! Now why would you participate in such a challenge? Well, not only is it the moment to show off one of your many renowned talents. No my good Explorer, it is also a way to eternalize your achievement with a unique wooden figurine that you can win by leading one of the 15 categories!

The event runs for 3 weeks. Meet your rivals! Discuss strategies, but keep your ace up your sleeve! Impress your dog/love-interest/country with astonishing discoveries. Beat that French clown, and claim your title as most Renowned Explorer!!

Hello explorers! The year is coming to an end, and thus comes the ritual of reflecting on the past. As many of you have been following us loyally, we would like to share our thoughts with you! But first; some Godhood news!

Godhood Update 1.2 Coming Soon!

Reflecting on 2020

The Future

Best Wishes

Hello Explorers! We're releasing a big update for our Early Access title Godhood! To celebrate this joyous occasion, Godhood is now on sale with a 30% discount! [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/917150/Godhood/]
Check out the store page for more info on the update! - Greetings from the Monks

That's right, young gods, we finally have a release date for our new game! Two moons from now Godhood will be available for everyone to play! On July 10th we will launch our strategy god game into Early Access here on Steam. This will be the first opportunity to play our new strategy god game. We're incredibly excited to move to this next stage of development. From July 10th onward, we'll be using community feedback to improve Godhood in our continuing monthly updates. Exciting times for sure! To prepare for release with us, make sure you wishlist the game on the store page. This will send you a notification once the game releases, and also helps bring the game to a bigger audience! If you know anyone you think would be as into Godhood as you are, we'd really appreciate if you could share the game with them, for example by sharing our launch-date tweet: https://twitter.com/AbbeyGamesNL/status/1134110185402884096 Follow our development updates here https://community.abbeygames.com/threads/godhood-available-in-steam-early-access-on-july-10th.188/ ~ Abbey Games

Thanks to the community's effort on social media, Kickstarter backers of our upcoming god game Godhood have unlocked a free copy of Renowned Explorers! Next to that, there's a stream of Godhood later today. Read all about it in this kickstarter update: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/abbeygames/godhood/posts/2422233

We hope you enjoyed playing Renowned Explorers as much as we enjoyed making it. We've learned a lot of lessons along the way and believe Godhood couldn't have happened without your support and enthusiasm. As you may know, our upcoming game Godhood lets you create your own religion. But we also want to give you the chance to help create Godhood! You can do so by backing the Kickstarter campaign for the game, that just went live. If Kickstarter is not for you, but you do want to help us out: there are other ways! We talk about it in this post over on our community forum. Thanks for your help! From the Abbey, Sincerely, -Joni

Hey there explorers! The third and final expansion for Renowned Explorers: Quest For The Holy Grail, the Soundtrack, the Art Book and the Renowned Explorers: Definitive Edition are out... now!
The expansion contains a new expedition in which you follow in the spiritual footsteps of a certain whip-wielding archeologist in search for the ultimate treasure in the Middle-East. Meet mysterious Djinns, alluring belly dancers and even some spoiled cats! And what are those dastardly Anti-Explorers up to this time? The best part: this new expansion will be completely free for all current and future owners of the Renowned Explorers base game! The DLC should be granted automatically after tonight's update.

Special Community Challenge

Soundtrack and Art Book

Definitive Edition

Abbey Community

Hey there explorers! As you might know from last week's announcement, tomorrow (Thursday, 7:00PM CET) we'll be launching the last Renowned Explorers expansion pack, a Soundtrack, an Art Book, and Renowned Explorers: Definitive Edition collecting all the Renowned Explorers content in one bundle! Today we especially want to highlight what you're going to get out of the Soundtrack and Art Book. Let's have a look!

Soundtrack

Art Book

Quest For The Holy Grail Community Challenge

We have been teasing for a while now that we weren't completely done with Renowned Explorers, so we are proud to announce the third and final expansion:

Renowned Explorers: Quest For The Holy Grail DLC

Soundtrack and Art Book

• A remastered Original Soundtrack with the best music from the game, including all expedition and overworld music
• An Art Book with a selection of concept and in-game art, including never before seen sketches for characters that didn't make the cut!

Renowned Explorers: Definitive Edition

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Three years ago, Renowned Explorers: International Society was first released! It's been an amazing few years with multiple pieces of DLC, tons of patches, and an amazing community that still organizes a weekly Community Challenge. And we're not done yet! Even though we're still working hard on Godhood, there's more Renowned Explorers to come, so a small celebration is in order. If you participate in this week's Special Anniversary Community Challenge and join our Discord, you have a chance of winning a key for one of our games or DLCs! So go forth, and make Mama Rivaleux proud! ~ the monks from Abbey Games

As some of you may know, our other game Reus celebrates it’s fifth birthday this week. Before we start the festivities on that tomorrow, we thought it would be nice to patch in a little nod to the giant god game in Renowned Explorers. Can you spot it below?
But that’s not all, of course. Like many patches before it, this one contains some minor fixes and rebalances of which you can read up in the patch notes. So, the spotlight might shine on Reus for a moment and behind the scenes we’re also working on some unannounced stuff, but we’re definitely not planning on jumping airship from Renowned Explorers for the foreseeable future. There are still some great unexplored stories out there for our crew! And although we can’t really wait to tell you about it… we will wait to tell you about it. Expect some announcements later this year! And until then:… Happy adventuring, ~ the monks from Abbey Games

Disclaimer: April Fools! After the release of the original Renowned Explorers in 2015 and the More to Explore and Emperor's Challenge DLC in 2016 and 2017 respectively, we're planning to release another expansion to the Renowned Explorers universe in 2018. The Renowned Explorers community has given us a lot of input about what direction they want the game to take and we figured it's about time we really listen. So without further ado, we're proud to present: Renowned Explorers - Daring Dates!
In this DLC, instead of taking a crew of three explorers on an epic adventure of tales and treasure, you can take one crew member... on a date! That might sound easier than it is, though. Renowned Explorers' band of characters is made up of seasoned explorers, and they are hard to impress! Where to go on your first date, for example? The Museum? Paris? Or straight to the exotic hideaways of the Emerged Island in the Caribbean?
And that's just picking the location... How about picking the right outfit?! A date is essentially a lot like an expedition: you have to prepare for it. Bring the wrong gear or start an encounter with an aggressive attitude and you might kill the mood in just one turn.
If all goes well, though, and you play your cards right as a 19th-century globetrotting Casanova, you might even get the chance to go on a date with the most Renowned of all the Explorers: Mathieu Rivaleux!
Renowned Explorers: Daring Dates is still in development and it's too soon to pinpoint an exact release date. But if you want to stay posted and maybe even try your chances in a closed beta encounter with Anna or Victor, for example, be sure to sign up for the Abbey Games newsletter or stay in touch through the Renowned Explorers community hub. We hope to see you on some adventurous dates sometime in 2018! ~ the monks from Abbey Games

Disclaimer: April Fools! After the release of the original Renowned Explorers in 2015 and the More to Explore and Emperor's Challenge DLC in 2016 and 2017 respectively, we're planning to release another expansion to the Renowned Explorers universe in 2018. The Renowned Explorers community has given us a lot of input about what direction they want the game to take and we figured it's about time we really listen. So without further ado, we're proud to present: Renowned Explorers - Daring Dates!
In this DLC, instead of taking a crew of three explorers on an epic adventure of tales and treasure, you can take one crew member... on a date! That might sound easier than it is, though. Renowned Explorers' band of characters is made up of seasoned explorers, and they are hard to impress! Where to go on your first date, for example? The Museum? Paris? Or straight to the exotic hideaways of the Emerged Island in the Caribbean?
And that's just picking the location... How about picking the right outfit?! A date is essentially a lot like an expedition: you have to prepare for it. Bring the wrong gear or start an encounter with an aggressive attitude and you might kill the mood in just one turn.
If all goes well, though, and you play your cards right as a 19th-century globetrotting Casanova, you might even get the chance to go on a date with the most Renowned of all the Explorers: Mathieu Rivaleux!
Renowned Explorers: Daring Dates is still in development and it's too soon to pinpoint an exact release date. But if you want to stay posted and maybe even try your chances in a closed beta encounter with Anna or Victor, for example, be sure to sign up for the Abbey Games newsletter or stay in touch through the Renowned Explorers community hub. We hope to see you on some adventurous dates sometime in 2018! ~ the monks from Abbey Games

The community just kicked-off Challenge #100! "A hundred challenges, A million resources". Join this week's cooperative challenge, win prizes and get your name in the game!
Veteran and new explorers alike have been creating, joining and winning weekly community challenges for a hundred weeks now. As developers we're super happy and eternally grateful to see creative use of the game week after week, especially by such a wonderful community! A special hats off to the 'Challenge PI' group, organizing the challenges since number #45. You're the best! To celebrate Challenge #100, we're promising rewards to those participating in this weekly challenge. #100 is a special one, as it's cooperative instead of competitive. This means that there's a shared goal, and if you as a community reach it, we promise to immortalize the weekly challenge and all its players in-game, as well as raffle copies of our games and DLC among all participants. The goal? Find the challenge here

Renowned Explorers Legacy on Developer Twitch Stream

The community just kicked-off Challenge #100! "A hundred challenges, A million resources". Join this week's cooperative challenge, win prizes and get your name in the game!
Veteran and new explorers alike have been creating, joining and winning weekly community challenges for a hundred weeks now. As developers we're super happy and eternally grateful to see creative use of the game week after week, especially by such a wonderful community! A special hats off to the 'Challenge PI' group, organizing the challenges since number #45. You're the best! To celebrate Challenge #100, we're promising rewards to those participating in this weekly challenge. #100 is a special one, as it's cooperative instead of competitive. This means that there's a shared goal, and if you as a community reach it, we promise to immortalize the weekly challenge and all its players in-game, as well as raffle copies of our games and DLC among all participants. The goal? Find the challenge here

Renowned Explorers Legacy on Developer Twitch Stream

It's time to face the truth. Renowned Explorers is not the only expedition game on the market. You will all have noticed the copycats from The Curious Expedition ALSO have an expedition management game out on Steam. SUSPICIOUS, right? Therefore, it only makes sense that people ask us ALL THE TIME how this game is different from "that other game about 19th century explorers?" Well, for one, Renowned Explorers is the better game of course! We even have 8 times as many pixels in our game!
To settle this once and for all were running a discount to make it easy for you to pick the right game. Theres a very deep discount of 67% on Renowned Explorers in Steams Daily Deal today, running for 48 hours. Not convinced? Want to compare both games for yourself? Well, like the gentlemen we are, we quite literally bundled forces with the folks from Maschinen-Mensch to make that a lot easier for you as well! Or cheaper, at least These games are hard! For your investigative convenience, the Curious Expedition vs Renowned Explorers bundle has just appeared in the Steam store! At a unique discount of 65% you can pick up both games at once. And if you already own either one of them, you can also complete the set at a stacking discount, which means owners of the Curious Expedition can now obtain Renowned Explorers at a 75% discount!
If youre interested in seeing us go through the hardship of actually playing that inferior product of a game called the Curious Expedition, you can visit this special website Theres also some footage of the Maschine-Mensch people in total awe after playing through a bit of Renowned Explorers for the first time. Great stuff. Furthermore, we just released patch #25: Family Matters which adds some surprises next to a lot of fixes and rebalancing. So, lets boot up one or more of these expedition management games and have some Happy adventuring, ~ the monks from Abbey Games

It's time to face the truth. Renowned Explorers is not the only expedition game on the market. You will all have noticed the copycats from The Curious Expedition ALSO have an expedition management game out on Steam. SUSPICIOUS, right? Therefore, it only makes sense that people ask us ALL THE TIME how this game is different from "that other game about 19th century explorers?" Well, for one, Renowned Explorers is the better game of course! We even have 8 times as many pixels in our game!
To settle this once and for all we’re running a discount to make it easy for you to pick the right game. There’s a very deep discount of 67% on Renowned Explorers in Steam’s Daily Deal today, running for 48 hours. Not convinced? Want to compare both games for yourself? Well, like the gentlemen we are, we quite literally bundled forces with the folks from Maschinen-Mensch to make that a lot easier for you as well! Or cheaper, at least… These games are hard! For your investigative convenience, the Curious Expedition vs Renowned Explorers bundle has just appeared in the Steam store! At a unique discount of 65% you can pick up both games at once. And if you already own either one of them, you can also complete the set at a stacking discount, which means owners of the Curious Expedition can now obtain Renowned Explorers at a 75% discount!
If you’re interested in seeing us go through the hardship of actually playing that inferior product of a game called the Curious Expedition, you can visit special website this special website There’s also some footage of the Maschine-Mensch people in total awe after playing through a bit of Renowned Explorers for the first time. Great stuff. Furthermore, we just released patch #25: Family Matters which adds some surprises next to a lot of fixes and rebalancing. So, let’s boot up one or more of these expedition management games and have some… Happy adventuring, ~ the monks from Abbey Games

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Its been a while, but we have a new patch for Renowned Explorers in store for you. This patch focusses on families, introducing events around relatives of Pedrinho, Charles, Dolores and Rivaleux! Next to that were trying to surf on the hype of PUBG and Fortnite's Battle Royale with a new storyline on the Lost Island expedition.
Furthermore, this patch fixes a lot of small things and adds tiny pieces of surprise content, but it mainly focusses on rebalancing. You can see all the details in the patch notes. We also have a nice surprise coming up later today, especially for very fanatic explorers who think that one exploration game set in the 19th century is just not enough Stay tuned. Happy adventuring, ~ the monks from Abbey Games

It’s been a while, but we have a new patch for Renowned Explorers in store for you. This patch focusses on families, introducing events around relatives of Pedrinho, Charles, Dolores and… Rivaleux! Next to that we’re trying to surf on the hype of PUBG and Fortnite's Battle Royale with a new storyline on the Lost Island expedition.
Furthermore, this patch fixes a lot of small things and adds tiny pieces of surprise content, but it mainly focusses on rebalancing. You can see all the details in the patch notes. We also have a nice surprise coming up later today, especially for very fanatic explorers who think that one exploration game set in the 19th century is just not enough… Stay tuned. Happy adventuring, ~ the monks from Abbey Games

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During the 80 hours after release of The Emperor's Challenge DLC hundreds of players cooperated in the 'Around the World in 80 Hours' community content challenge. In their devoted effort they collected 2911 treasures across all expeditions and unlocked the Bronze, Silver and Gold tier rewards of the challenge. Part of the deal was that each tier would force Abbey Games to create free extra content. A deal is a deal, so today's patch introduces the following changes:

Secret Shop with Epic Items (Bronze Tier reward)

New stories in the Mali Mystery and the Hungarian Fort (Silver Tier reward)

Stockholm Split - a new Entourage Shop (Gold Tier reward)

If you're reading this post, you could already be playing the new Renowned Explorers expansion, so let's keep it short! This expansion pack for Renowned Explorers takes you all the way to the Far East. It’s packed with new content and also provides an entirely new way to play the game! If you want to learn more about the new expansion, or simply want to find a buy button, you can go to: The Emperor's Challenge Store Page.

News from Transylvania! - Free Base Game Update

Around the world in 80 hours - Community Content Challenge

Get your blimps ready! The new expansion for Renowned Explorers is releasing in less than 24 hours: The Emperor's Challenge will be available for sale at 10:00 PDT / 19:00 CEST or your local equivalent. You can wishlist it here right now to get a notification at release.
Now, there are a few special announcements for tomorrow:

Bonus - Free Content Update for the base game

Around the world in 80 hours - Community Content Challenge

• The challenge starts tomorrow at release and will last only 80 hours
• This challenge can only be beaten if the community works together.
• Each reward tiers unlocks extra content that we'll then create in the coming weeks.
• More details tomorrow.

Celebration Twitch Stream

• Join us here: https://www.twitch.tv/abbeygames
• Tomorrow, May 10th, 18:00 CEST / 9:00 PT (1 hour before release)
• Count down with the monks.
• Sneak preview of the first Daily Emperor's Challenge ever!

New characters in The Emperor's Challenge Renowned Explorers offers new adventures on each and every playthrough, but once in a while there's an extra special occasion. Like on May 10th, in 2 weeks, when we release The Emperor's Challenge! A full-sized new expansion pack. We júst released a trailer and a store page, both full of new information regarding the expansion. In short:

• 4 new characters
• a new 4-star expedition
• a whole new game mode: The Emperor's Challenge

Hey explorer, good chance you're just coming in from this amazing Humble deal. In that case: Welcome aboard Renowned Explorers! There's a few things you might want to know before your first game... Or actually, no. Just start playing your first game. You'll be fine. But perhaps read this introduction to Renowned Explorers' wonderful community right after.
Emilia discovers a pirate with a budding interest in botany! So since you're here, it's worth knowing that Renowned Explorers' community is as vibrant as it is skilled and knowledgeable. Here are some pointers if you want to hop in, or simply want to learn more about the game:

• Player-made guides
• A fan-made wiki
• This week's Weekly Community Challenge (Open to all levels, but recommended after you've finished at least 1 playthrough)
• Dozens of fan-fiction stories about Renowned Explorers
• Discussions, get all your answers here. Like we said the community, the community is very knowledgeable, and friendly too! Plus, us devs we'll be reading everything there!
• If you have any technical issues, we'll be here, at your service.

• Twitter
• Twitch
• Newsletter
• Subscribe to Steam group

The full size comic can be found on our website. You can also subscribe for our newsletter there so you don't miss the expansion release and other important news. We're currently running a closed beta for this expansion. If you want to join, please fill out this form. After the closed beta is over, it will just be a few weeks until release! - Abbey Games

Beta - The Emperor's Challenge expansion

Livestream

• Join us here: https://www.twitch.tv/abbeygames
• Thursday evening (April 6th) 19:00 CEST / 10:00 PT
• Be the first to see the theme reveal special...
• Closed beta kick-off for a selected few (don't forget to sign up!)

Abbey Games is working hard on the upcoming expansion. We're at the point that all the new content and gameplay is coming together. We'll just take a little while longer to complete the entire experience. For those who can't wait to hear news there's already a small hint available somewhere. Just start up the game :) In the meanwhile we're always looking for new explorers that want to join the Society. With the new expansion coming up it is a good time to discount Renowned Explorers to under $5 for the very first time! We hope to welcome lots of new adventures, storytellers and strategists to Renowned Explorers' wonderful community. If you're a new player, don't forget to check out the forums, guides, wiki and weekly challenges. They're full of handy info and fun! Finishing the new expansion is our main priority. But for the occassion we decided to work on and release another patch so that the game is fresh and fixed for adventurers old and new alike! Patch #22 has some fixes and balance changes, but most importantly it adds an Insight Limit which we felt was needed for a while now. For details, you can read the patch notes here. If you have an unfinished campaign you want to finish without the Insight Limit, please play with the fallback branch enabled. - Abbey Games

Today's Deal: Save 75% on Renowned Explorers: International Society!*

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A quick update from the Abbey; the community of explorers has blazed through Challenge #50! The highest possible outcome was unlocked when the community finally reached the Platinum medal!. As promised, 4 new items are added to Sydney's shop! Go there and see how useful a boomerang can really be! Besides that, some issues where fixed and we tried to add +2 fun to the game through some small changes. You can read the full patch notes here! We hope you'll enjoy exploring Renowned Explorers many secrets! - Abbey Games

Every week for almost a year now there's a unique Weekly Challenge that lets you experience Renowned Explorers in a fresh new way. This week marks the 50th of these challenges! It's a testament to the spirit of this community. To celebrate this occasion challenge #50 is a very special one... See the challenge right away. For starters Challenge 50 is a cooperative challenge in which the community has a shared goal of achieving 100,000 to 500,000 Renown! On top of that this challenge has a special set of rewards, of which the most exciting one is that the monks here at the Abbey will actually create unique new content if certain Renown thresholds are achieved. That's right, if you play a nice round of Renowned Explorers we'll squeeze in extra hours to get you new content for the upcoming patch. Of course the next DLC will be our main priority still. Find the full list of rewards below!

Rewards

• Raffle 2 REIS Steam keys among participants (to keep or give to friends)

• Raffle 2 REIS Steam keys
• Raffle 2 More To Explore Steam keys
• We'll create and add the CORK HAT item to the game in the next patch.

• Raffle 3 REIS Steam keys
• Raffle 3 More To Explore Steam keys
• Raffle 3 Reus Steam keys
• We'll create and add the CORK HAT item to the game in the next patch.
• We'll create and add the HISTORY BOOK item to the game in the next patch.

• Raffle 5 REIS Steam keys
• Raffle 5 More To Explore Steam keys
• Raffle 5 Reus Steam keys
• We'll create and add the CORK HAT item to the game in the next patch.
• We'll create and add the HISTORY BOOK item to the game in the next patch.
• We'll create and add the BISCUIT BOX item to the game in the next patch.
• BONUS: During the stream we'll drop a hint towards the upcoming second DLC for Renowned Explorers.

Livestream

New DLC

Dear Explorers, today we look back upon a year rich of history and progress for Renowned Explorers. All of it is certainly worth celebrating and we will do so in many ways! Please do read on or switch to our livestream right away.

Patch #19

Discounts

Livestream Celebration

Save 60% on Renowned Explorers: International Society during this week's Midweek Madness*!

Renowned Explorers: International Society is a strategy adventure game set in a fictitious 19th century world. It introduces a unique attitude-based gameplay that challenges both your tactical and storytelling skills.

“It's genuinely great, it's one of my favorite games this year so far. It's got so much going for it, so much depth, so much character, so much replayability, great systems, unique concepts in combat, awesome presentation...”
TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit

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Following renewed interest in the game, we're continuing work on Renowned Explorers through at least August. For now, that means a fresh patch #18, with juicy content and a ton of balance and fixes! Let's go through some of the highlights. If you rather read the full patch notes, check here.

Shangri-La

Captain Hatice

No-one escapes destiny

More adventuring

The More To Explore release is just two weeks ago but it's already time for new content. Patch #17 adds the content that was unlocked in the 48-hour Community Content Challenge in which a whopping 190 explorers joined forces to unlock all tiers of content. So, what's new?

New Cities (Tier 3)

New Andean Quest (Tier 2)

New Stories (Tier 1)

Quality of Life

Invite your crew around the campfire to hear their stories, visit entirely new places full of secrets and challenges and redefine your strategies! With this new expansion pack for Renowned Explorers you'll be able to go on countless new adventures with more personality, more treasures and more control. Learn more about the expansion on the store page or watch the trailer on YouTube below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Sjf7ANUAQ

Launch Discounts

48-hour Community Challenge

Patch #16

Dear Explorers, at the moment of this writing we're less than 24 hours away from releasing the first paid expansion pack for Renowned Explorers: More To Explore. This is a very exciting moment for us monks at the Abbey, as it will determine the future of our labor of love.
Harry, Earl and Hildegard camping outside the store, waiting for release. We hope Earl makes it. We've been actively patching Renowned Explorers after release, and with this new step for the game, we'll continue this effort. We promise to extend this post-release work until the end of August. At a later time we'll decide what happens after that. For now at least we're focusing on Renowned Explorers!

Content Challenge

• Tier 1 (50 Medal Points): You're not the only traveler...
• Tier 2 (100 Medal Points): A dark force terrorizes the Andes...
• Tier 3 (150 Medal Points): Muscat & San Francisco

Good day, explorers! Today we can finally reveal the upcoming expansion pack for Renowned Explorers. In less than a week, on May 31st, you will find Renowned Explorers: More To Explore, a paid content and gameplay expansion, for sale.
It's a project which we've worked on for several months to make sure we're adding true value to the base game. More To Explore contains new expeditions, but most importantly it introduces new gameplay features which vastly increase strategic options and roleplaying, allowing for even further replayability. If you're curious what's in the expansion, then go discover the store page we put online today. If you find yourself interested, please consider wishlisting the DLC.
If you want to read more about how the expansion came to be, Joni, our composer and producer, wrote a blog post on exactly that last week. Read it here.

Continued Support

While Manuel is in Malmö, Sweden for the Nordic Game Conference, our Abbey is buzzing with work on the expansion for Renowned Explorers. We'll release info on that real soon. All I can say right now is that it's closer than you might think :) In between the expansion work Adriaan and me found the time to create a small but interesting patch that adds a new entourage member, balances certain gameplay and fixes a number of reported issues. You can read the full patch notes here, but let's focus on a few things right here:

Rio Reworked

Ivan's Captain Perk

Other changes

Are you looking for more Renowned Explorers, both expeditions and features? Do you want to help us out? Sign up for the closed beta and join us in testing the upcoming expansion! We're also looking for entirely new players. Read about sign-ups on the bottom. Expansion If you've been following development of Renowned Explorers, you already know that for the past few months we've been working on an expansion, alongside releasing patches. Our goal is to release more expeditions so that there are even more secrets and locations to explore. We're also improving and adding features so that the strategy, roleplaying and replayability of the game is improved! Why a Closed Beta? By now we've completed most of the work, which means we can move into the closed beta phase. In this phase we want to test with a couple of dozen players in secrecy to find out whether new features and content work as intended. Does everything work as expected on the technical side? Any bugs? And are they fun for everyone's playing style? Participating in the beta means playing the game in secrecy, and talking directly with the devs and other testers about your findings. Testing with new players Some mechanics are important immediately from the first playthrough (but can be enjoyed just as well if you're a long-time player). To test these we're looking in particular for players that have played very little or not at all. If you've just installed Renowned Explorers, please consider to sign up and already get the expansion experience, which we think is a big improvement over the base game. We also have slots for more experienced and veteran players. Signing up! To sign up for the Closed Beta, simply send an e-mail to info at abbeygames dot com. Make sure to add the following info: [olist]

One or two lines about why you want to join. [/olist] We have a limit on the amount of testers, so it could be that you are not invited or only at a later point. In any case, we will let you know. More expansion info Curious about the expansion? When we're satisfied that the expansion quality is good, we will send out more news about release date and pricing. From that point on you will hear more about its contents as well. Make sure you stay up to date by following us in one of the ways shown on our website. Click on the image below to go there, thanks! - Abbey Games

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In the last two weeks Renowned Explorers welcomed a lot of new players. The road to becoming the Most Renowned Explorer is a long one, so the community racked up quite a lot of new playtime. This strengthens our belief that Renowned Explorers has a long future. A good reason to keep devoting support to it every week. And if you didn't know yet, we're working on an expansion with new features and expeditions! For Patch #14 we changed Ivan's captain perk, added two small events, did a bunch of balance changes and fixed new and old issues that came up during all the new playtime. Check the patch notes to find exactly what things changed. We're also doing a simple gameplay stream tonight on Twitch. It starts in about 45 minutes from posting this, at our Twitch channel. AbbeyAdriaan and I will host it and we'd love for you to tune in, so that we can get to know you a little better. We'll be discussing Patch #14, but it's mostly playing the game and answering questions. Have fun with Patch #14! Twitch details April 14th (today) 17h GMT; 19h CEST; 10h PDT https://www.twitch.tv/abbeygames

Today marks an important day for the community of Renowned Explorers, as we're about to welcome a lot of new players. That means new people to compare highscores to, more strategy discussion, more adventure stories and more of whatever nice things communities bring! We've been working together with Humble to make Renowned Explorers available for the subscribers of the Humble Monthly program. This means that not only will we see an influx of players from there, Renowned Explorers will also be in the spotlights as one of the top games of the bundle. Unfortunately you can't buy the bundle anymore, so to give people who missed out an extra reason to join our International Society, we're running a 33% discount for the coming week. Let's hope that a lot of new players join in!
Chairman Pinkerton will not get a lot of sleep these days, but he's always fond of new recruits! Some history Renowned Explorers has been released 7 months ago and the veteran explorers among you know that it has already been a long adventure since. During initial release in September we received a lot of warm reception from the first players (93% positive!), but we weren't even close to recouping development costs. While the game itself was, and is a huge achievement for us, we want to keep doing what we do! Fortunately there were still a lot of people we could reach with this game (and there still are). So we decided to keep working on the game a little longer and in October we released the Mali expedition to all players for free. Right after its release we were in for a surprise: a renowned Youtuber humbled us with a strong recommendation to buy Renowned Explorers, and perhaps even better: he compared us to FTL. With renewed confidence we started our 2015 bi-weekly Patch program. While we planned to only do gameplay updates and fixes, we couldn't keep monks Adriaan and Marlies to create some extra content now and then. In December we had a great Winter sale and also started doing Weekly Challenges on the forums. It's basically a highscore competition, but it's also meant as inspiration for the story writers in the community. At that time we felt confident enough to start working on an actual full-size paid expansion. Future This new expansion will contain both new expeditions and gameplay features. We'll tell you more about it as we go. It is always a risk for game studios to continue working on a released game, but we made that choice with confidence, as we see people play many hours, and requesting even more content. It's very rewarding to work for the veteran and rookie players, and we get to improve something that we hold dear. We hope this new surge of players will make Renowned Explorers and its community better, and we count on your help with that, be it by playing, posting, or just being friendly! Make sure your explorer-wannabe friends know about the discount, and hope to see you in the forums! Have great adventures, - Abbey Games

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The new main menu (left) and with community and news feeds minimized (right) Patch #13 is online for Windows, Mac and Linux. Our content team is working on the expansion, so in the meanwhile the programmers have been working on a New Main Menu and on decreasing memory usage. Renowned Explorers attracts more players every day, and a part of those players play for dozens or even hundreds of hours. By now it's clear to us that Renowned Explorers' future is going to be a long one. This is the main reason Abbey Games is devoting most of its time to creating an expansion pack with new expedition content and a Campfire feature that will greatly extend replayability with more metagame progression. This paid expansion will still be in development for a while, so in the meantime we've worked on a few things that will make the game and the community more accessible to new and existing players. In short we've updated the Main Menu, decreased Memory Usage and did some gameplay tweaks and fixes. For the full details on this patch, please read the Patch Notes. Reworked Main Menu The main menu was getting a little crowded as we were adding in new features and content. Now that we're also adding in News and Community windows, we needed a new design with some more polish. We hope you'll like it. We'll use it to keep you up to date about important developments in Renowned Explorers. Decreased Memory Usage To lower the memory requirements, and make longer play sessions feel more smooth, the programmers worked hard to cut in half the initial memory usage. To further help new players with start-up issues, we've also added in compatibility warnings which will pop up at the start of the game if it detects that a new player's system potentially doesn't meet the minimum specs. To read about the gameplay tweaks and fixes, please read the Patch Notes. In the coming weeks we're working hard to finish the expansion. In the meanwhile, we hope to see you around here. Have lots of fun with the game!

With Patch #11 shipped in 2015, we came to the end of our Patch Promise to launch biweekly patches. Right now we're focusing most our resources on bringing you the announced expansion as soon as possible. However Renowned Explorers is still being played by lots of explorers every day, so we're learning more and more about its design. We decided to release another patch today to address some bugs, and to do many balance changes that make more strategies viable, fun and rewarding. I invite you to read the list of detailed changes here. In the process however we couldn't keep ourselves from making more content, which is why the Highlands expedition is now a bit bigger and contains new stories to explore. Make sure to visit it on your next expedition! We'll host a Twitch stream starting soon (18:00 GMT / 10:00 PST) to discuss the new patch, and inform you about the progress we've been making on the expansion. We're running a small contest as well. Hope to see you all there! Abbey's Twitch Channel

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After months of updates we present you with the last update of our patch program in 2015. For those that want to keep discovering things in the new year, we have just announced great news on our Twitch channel:

We're busy working on an expansion for Renowned Explorers!

Freeplay after 5th Expedition

Encounter movement

A few months ago we promised to update Renowned Explorers every two weeks in 2015. Even in these last few weeks, we have 2 more big Patches planned for you! One for today, and one for later in December. These patches greatly increase the replayability of Renowned Explorers so that you can have many more fresh adventures next year. And while our patch program will not continue in 2016, we will be announcing exciting news for Renowned Explorers's future. It will be even better than bi-weekly patches so keep an eye out the coming weeks! But for now, let's introduce this patch's major changes. Read the full notes here, including many small balance changes and fixes.

Completely new Tech Trees

Pedrinho's new Captain Perk

Supplies

Twitch Stream

Fan Fiction Directory

Going on dangerous and exciting expeditions around the world puts your crew through a lot of stories and emotions. That´s one of the reasons Renowned Explorers focuses so much on the characters. To flesh them out a bit more, and increase the number of stories that can emerge in the encounters, we added a bunch of new speech icons. There´s about 30 new ones, spread over the whole cast. We focused on those personalities with much to gain. If you´ve played Renowned Explorers during the past few days, you already saw some new speech icons that put the encounters in the mood of Thanksgiving. This patch removes those and replaces them with about 30 new ones. Read the patch notes for the whole of Patch #9 here. Remember that Renowned Explorers is on a 40% discount during Steam's current Exploration sale. There's two more days to act on that, so spread the word :)

In our bi-weekly update schedule for this year, we're introducing Patch #9. It brings a lot of balance changes to treasures and other strategic elements in dominant highscore builds. Some other items/treasures got boosts. And if you go on an expedition in the coming 24 hours, you will notice a nice little nod to Thanksgiving that brings new fun to your encounters. Read the full patch notes here. Since many expedition leaders participated in the previous story and highscore challenge, we've decided to introduce a weekly challenge. If you're looking for a new challenge in Renowned Explorers, or want some roleplaying constraints, then definitely take a look at Diplomacy for Dummies. It runs through the weekend, so submit your highscores and stories in time. Steam just started the Exploration sale. Obviously a near-perfect fit for Renowned Explorers, so we decided to do a big discount to welcome new fans. Our continued work on the game is made possible by you and the other fans that bought at full price. But to make Renowned Explorers and its community grow for the future, the game is currently on sale with a 40% discount. Be sure to tap your hesitating friend on their shoulder or perhaps even buy them a Thanksgiving gift ;) As always we're continuously improving the game. We have a nice little addition that we'll give to you in the weekend. For now, go give some Thanks in Transylvania, Mali or the Caribbean. Have fun, adventurers!

In our promise to update Renowned Explorers every two weeks in 2015, we bring you Patch 8. It gives Molly, Kwame and Bia more powerful and fun captain perks. We also changed quite some treasures, events and balance. Head to the patch notes to see the details. For those wondering about the new captain perks, we're posing a challenge. In what scientists call 'a dumb challenge' you are required to bring a crew with only non-scientists, led by one of the reworked captains. We're looking for highscores and stories. Go here for more info. Renowned Explorers has a long life. With the community growing and more updates on the way it might be hard to keep track. To stay up to date about larger updates, sign up for the Abbey Games newsletter or check the website. Now, don't wait any longer. Go test the new captains and treasures. Rivaleux is already on his way!
Use Bia to gain fame and power for defeating legendary foes.
Group Molly with more rogues and become filthy rich.
Make friends all over the world with Kwame as captain.

This weekend is Halloween and we found it to be an appropriate theme for our latest update. We’re still full of ideas for Renowned Explorers so we’re trying different approaches for each update. This one is all about the mysterious and spooky legends around Halloween. For that reason we won’t tell you exactly what we changed. Instead it’s up to you to find out where we introduced new free stuff and what it leads to. In fact, it might very well be that The Gargoyle Code, as we dubbed this mystery, is not solvable by you alone within reasonable time. So if you're looking for clues, make sure to share what you've found here on the Community Hub. Of course you can still unravel the mystery entirely alone as well. And we might add.. solving it will change your game forever. The Halloween update is part of our promise to update Renowned Explorers every two weeks in 2015. Don't expect content updates every time. We focus on balance and fixes, but we'll try to sprinkle fun new events and other things here and there as well. Happy Halloween!

Since our release in September we have had a very positive response by a community full of Renowned Explorers. For us developers it's great to be in the forums when people are so appreciative of the game we've been working on so hard. And many of you are helpful in making the community a nice place. This response inspired us to expand upon the game with a new expedition, available now as a one-time free DLC, which is automatically downloaded. You'll find the Mali Mystery is a level 2 expedition. This means it's available as a choice right after completing your random starter expedition. Except for this large content boost, we'll be updating the game with smaller updates every two weeks for the rest of 2015. These will focus on balance, but might contain new secrets and adventures too :) You'll meet new characters and discover fresh adventures and treasures in a set of new environments in Mali.
On top of this we've added Leaderboards. You'll find them in the main menu. They'll show a list of all your own campaigns, both successful and failed ones. But what is more interesting to aspiring World Famous Explorers is that you can now also compare your best scores with the best scores of your Steam friends. Time to start thinking about your optimal strategy with Ivan! Now, it's time to start discovering all the new mysteries in Mali. We hope you'll enjoy it! If so, please consider writing a positive review and leaving a comment in the Community Hub. That always helps and shows us we should do this more often ;) Go find yourself some treasures, explorer!