Druidwalker is out on Steam NOW! It is the next peaceful game produced and published by Coldwild Games!

Get the game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2231060/Druidwalker/?utm_source=announcement_steam

Step into the role of a druid preparing the forest for winter. Delve into the heart of the mystical forest, explore its paths, and experience the beauty of nature. Druidwalker provides a peaceful roguelike adventure, where challenges offer opportunities for growth and reflection. Rest at the bonfire, rejuvenate, and continue your journey with renewed vigor. The game features traditional instrumental music, creating a peaceful and immersive experience.

Watch the trailer here: youtu.be/-7Ho_vyXo80
It's a short experience, but a lot of love went into creating this one, so I hope you'll decide to give it a try! :) The game has been created by a multinational team of developers located in Latvia and published by Coldwild Games.

Hope you have a great week ahead,
Elizabete from Coldwild Games

Attention all survivors! The Early Access release of Stories from the Outbreak is finally here!



Embark on a turn-based roguelike zombie RPG with a shorter scenario that immerses players in the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. With 11 unique characters, more than 15 enemies, and three expansive maps, the gameplay is challenging, and permadeath adds to the intensity.

Form a team of survivors, traverse the area maps in search of shelter and supplies, fight zombies, and decide the fate of your crew. The game explores the apocalyptic atmosphere through pixel art and characters that speak to each other, showing polarization in views. Will different opinions prevent them from reaching their goals?

The game is available on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Join the fight for survival and make your own story in a world overrun by the undead!

Get the game here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1968630/Stories_from_the_Outbreak?utm_source=steamnews27march

Thank you for supporting us in our journey. Join us in our discord server to share your experiences, give us feedback, and connect with others survivors.

Best regards,
Elizabete and the rest of the Coldwild Games team

We are announcing our new game - Stories from the Outbreak!

Stories from the Outbreak is a turn-based zombie RPG. Lead a group of survivors trying to escape a dying world.

Check out the Steam page : https://store.steampowered.com/app/1968630/Stories_from_the_Outbreak?utm_source=announcement_steam
And here is the trailer: https://youtu.be/LkVayy4U2Ag
To celebrate the occasion, all of our finished games are discounted. Enjoy!

Our next game, Lazy Galaxy 2, is launching now!

Lazy Galaxy 2 is an idle/clicker game with base-building and RTS elements. It stayed in early access for more than 6 months and on full release, you can experience these new features:
- mod support
- idle combat
- late-game upgrades and improvements
As well as other bug fixes/balancing and quality of life improvements.

Get the game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1477950/Lazy_Galaxy_2/?utm_source=steam&utm_campaign=release_day
And as we are celebrating the Full Release of Lazy Galaxy 2, we are announcing discounts for all of our games!



Thanks for playing our games and supporting us! Hope you'll enjoy Lazy Galaxy 2 as much as we do!

If youd like to learn more about the game or want to hang out with devs and other Coldwild Games community members, youre welcome to join us at: discord server.

Want to help us out? Consider spreading the word via Twitter, Reddit, etc. and leaving a review on Steam if you enjoyed the game!

Have a great rest of the week,
Elizabete and the rest of the Coldwild Games crew

Lazy Galaxy 2 is set to launch on Tuesday, Mar 15, 2022!

Here's a new trailer to celebrate the occasion and show you the latest features of the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIHHx1Ew7KM

On full release, you can expect these major content changes:
- mod support
- idle combat
- late-game upgrades and improvements

As well as other bugfixes / balancing / quality of life improvements.

Make sure to wishlist the game here and get notified on release:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1477950/Lazy_Galaxy_2/

Exciting news - The 2022 Lunar New Year Sale is starting now and runs until February 3rd. And we are participating too - some of our games have discounts!!! Grab them cheap while you can ;)



Click here to see what games of ours are on sale: https://store.steampowered.com/franchise/ColdwildGames/list/35132

Thanks for playing our games and supporting us!

Have a good weekend,
Elizabete and all of our Coldwild Games crew.

It is that time of the year again

WINTER SALE IS ON!



The last and the biggest of game sales this year is live! Winter Sale starts now and runs untilJanuary 5, 2022. If you havent finished your Christmas shopping this year, Steams Winter Sale could help you get that list checked. ;)

Have a fun 2 weeks!

Click here to see what games of ours are on sale: https://store.steampowered.com/franchise/ColdwildGames/list/35132

The day is here! Lazy Galaxy 2 is launching into early access.



For the last 8 months, we've worked hard to bring this vision of Lazy Galaxy 2 to you. Despite early access state, the game should be offering much more depth compared to full release of the first Lazy Galaxy entry.

In this version, you are going to see:

Hello, Coldwild Games players! The day has finally arrived our next game, Lunas Fishing Garden is here!



Grab a rod and get ready to unwind! Youll enjoy:

• Catching fish (obviously) using two different play styles
  
• Planting trees and other greenery the way you want to make the Garden shine!
  
• Chatting with the Gardens memorable inhabitantsjust try not to insult any geckos!
  
• Delightfully colorful and lively pixel art
  
• Cheerful, catchy, original music
  
• Easter eggs for our Merchant of the Skies players
  

Hello everyone!

Coldwild Games is happy to announce a direct sequel to Lazy Galaxy game, called, *drumroll*, Lazy Galaxy 2. Yup, you've heard it right. We've taken the name of the first game and added "2" besides it.

You can check it out here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1477950/Lazy_Galaxy_2/

What can you expect from it? Glad you asked!



Lazy Galaxy 2 is an idle/clicker game with base-building and RTS elements. Lead an evil (albeit lazy) alien race to conquer the universe! Expand your base, fight vicious foes, and conquer the galaxies. Acquire combat experience and convert into candy, the most precious alien resource!

It tries to expand upon Lazy Galaxy 1 formula by adding maps/spatial conquest, paired with pre-built player campaigns and greatly enhanced basebuilding system. You don't even need to play the first game to enjoy it.

Lazy Galaxy 2 is a game that you can run minimized while watching your favourite Netflix show. Build the base, check out the universe map and send your fleets to start the conquest. No micro-transactions are planned, the game is a single-player premium, pay-once, keep-clicking-forever title.

Wishlist the game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1477950/Lazy_Galaxy_2/

On January 26, 2016, Coldwild Games has gained an official registered company status.



Today, we are celebrating 5 years of service. We got where we are thanks to all of you and we always welcome new players to our games. To celebrate the occasion, all of our games are discounted for a few days. Hopefully you'll be able to discover something new and try it out :)

Thanks for playing our games and here's hoping for many more years ahead of us.
Best,
Vladimir & Coldwild Games Crew

P.S. If you'd like to support us further, please consider wishlisting our next game, Luna's Fishing Garden:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1477790/Lunas_Fishing_Garden/

We are happy to say that we are working on another peaceful game, called Lunas Fishing Garden!

Lunas Fishing Garden is a cozy fishing and building game.

Check it out / wishlist it here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1477790/Lunas_Fishing_Garden/

Catch more than 20 types of fish, each with their own behavior, trade in the resources to Luna, and use them to build a garden of your dreams, all taking place on an imaginary Pacific archipelago. Designed to be a relaxing experience, players can play at their own pace and experience the game how they like it.

Check out the trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHDHKwGB_s8

We are happy to launch our game, Merchant of the Skies in early access!

In this game, you'll be able to explore the world, have a few mystical encounters and establish your own trading company. In its current state, the game has about 8-10 hours of gameplay which we hope you'll enjoy.

This is our best game so far and our second early access title. We are 100% confident that we'll be able to bring it towards the successful full release together with you.

You can get it here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1040070/Merchant_of_the_Skies/

To celebrate it, we are setting the discount on Lazy Galaxy, Lazy Galaxy: Rebel Story and Frequent Flyer. Grab them cheap while you can!

Jump into our discord channel if you have any questions or just want to hang out with us.
Best,
Vladimir & Helen, Coldwild Games team

Coldwild Games is Happy to announce our new game, Merchant of the Skies! Become a captain of an airship, traverse the world of floating islands, trade, get rich, build your own settlement and establish your own trade empire!



Merchant of the Skies is a trading / base-building game with RPG elements. It's going to be released in Early Access on May 30, 2019. Find more info on the Steam page here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1040070/Merchant_of_the_Skies/

Hey everyone!

We're happy to add another translation to the game: this time it's a Japanese language :) To celebrate it, we've started a 40% discount!



To add to that, we've also published our new game, Lazy Galaxy: Rebel Story, which you can check out here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/533050/Lazy_Galaxy_Rebel_Story

Great news everyone!

Lazy Galaxy: Rebel Story is now available on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/533050/Lazy_Galaxy_Rebel_Story

To celebrate that, anticipate discounts on all of our previous titles. Go get them while you can!

If you have any questions, you are always welcome to join us at our discord channel: https://discordapp.com/invite/013oJVAEt1l3JM1wC

Hey everyone!

Coldwild Games is happy to bring you the demo of our next game, Lazy Galaxy: Rebel Story :)



Just go to the page below and click on "Download Demo" - the steam will add it to your library! Please bear in mind that this is still somewhat Work In Progress, so some things might not work properly, but overall the demo gives a good impression on what to expect from the first two levels of the game. Enjoy and please let us know your feedback.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/533050/Lazy_Galaxy_Rebel_Story/

Best,
Vladimir

Hey everyone! Steam is rolling out the new developer feature :) Basically this is also going to be the page that lists our games.

I'm not removing the other game reviews, but I'm waiting for Steam to customize the lists better (otherwise it gets a bit confusing).

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the updated Lazy Galaxy: Rebel Story page. I've recently updated it with the new screenshots and the gameplay is getting much more crazier. :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/533050/Lazy_Galaxy_Rebel_Story/

Translation by KSS! Hoping to bring it to as many languages as possible so that more people will be able to enjoy it :) If you want to help out by translating the game into your own language, let me know in the comments!

Best,
Vladimir

Hey everyone!

Great news! We're working on a new game in Lazy Galaxy universe.

Here's the steam page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/533050/Lazy_Galaxy_Rebel_Story/

It's going to be a shoot-em-up roguelite, where you take the other side of the conflict and try to destroy O'Xelg base.

An old robot named H-34-RT wakes up in a derelict space station orbiting his home planet. His civilization was destroyed long ago by evil O'Xelg, but he has yet to figure that out. After an initial shock, he decides to follow his old defense routines: that means fighting the invaders, even if he is alone now.



The idea is that you control a fleet of up to 3 fighters rather than one, this will allow you to switch formations to better avoid enemy fire or focus yours.

The game will feature rogue-lite systems (you'll pick the permanent bonuses that boost your ship during the walkthrough) and multiple possible weapons that you can pick during the level.

Apart from that: we're still going to support this one, in fact there's a small patch coming out next week. :)

Stay tuned for more news!
Best,
Vladimir

Hey everyone!



As of today, the trading cards are available in the game :) If you've played the game before - they should appear in your inventory automatically. Expect a major announcement next week.

Happy playing!
Best,
Vladimir

Hey everyone, after a month of work, we are happy to bring you the next game update.

Most major thing: Korean Translation mod by player Skynet, built-in into the game. You can now play the game in Korean language! :)

Apart from that, the game has the following changes:
- Cooking Queue
- Double Craft at once
- Repeat Craft
- Tortoise Supportive heal based on percentage
- Galaxy Conqueror upgrade adjusts the infinite combat max level according to formula: 20 * star systems conquered * (galaxies conquered + dimension number). Should make the late-game much less repetitive and you won't have to cross first hundreds of levels again
- Updated game fonts: should be a bit more readable + added French characters (who knows what might happen? ;)

As usual - if you have any comments or suggestions, you can join our discord chat or write them here.

Happy playing!
Best,
Vladimir

Hey everyone!

After reading forums / discord chat, I understood that we need to improve the crafting system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKRu5nI1EAw

There are two ways this is going to happen:
1) crafting queue
2) simultaneous crafting
3) "repeat last craft"

Here's the video where I talk about it / show how it works :)
+ there's a small surprise towards the end.

Expect this patch on Thursday, this or next week.

Best,
Vladimir

Hey everyone!

Here's a small vid outlining what will happen within the next two weeks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMsl2pBeyiA

We want to make your gaming experience smoother, so the small patch will be out to tune some things, thanks for letting us know!

One awesome person volunteered to see if it's possible to translate the game into French language; if anyone else is willing to help others enjoy the game in their own language (by helping us with translation into your native language) - that will help greatly :) Just let me know here and I'll write the instructions (it's a simple text file with lines).

Thanks for your support so far and thanks for playing the game!
Best,
Vladimir

Hey everyone!

Here's a small vid outlining what will happen within the next two weeks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMsl2pBeyiA

We want to make your gaming experience smoother, so the small patch will be out to tune some things, thanks for letting us know!

One awesome person volunteered to see if it's possible to translate the game into French language; if anyone else is willing to help others enjoy the game in their own language (by helping us with translation into your native language) - that will help greatly :) Just let me know here and I'll write the instructions (it's a simple text file with lines).

Thanks for your support so far and thanks for playing the game!
Best,
Vladimir

Hey everyone!

Thanks for your feedback so far :) Based on your comments, here are the list of changes:

- window can be resized (the cursor won't change for now, but if you place it on borders of the window / top left corner and then drag it - the window will resize)
- mods: drops_from tag added for supply boxes [the supply box can now drop from other supply boxes]
- increased the max general level (from 50 to 150)
- space engineer legacy, every sixth ship you buy is discounted by 99% rather than giving it for free
- byproduct upgrade typo fix
- if you sold your living quarters and had a ship on auto-build (which will now be impossible to build due to a lack of specimen) - the ship display is going to stay so you can remove the auto-building

Thanks for playing and keep that feedback coming!
Cheers,
Vladimir

Hey everyone!

Thanks for your feedback so far :) Based on your comments, here are the list of changes:

- window can be resized (the cursor won't change for now, but if you place it on borders of the window / top left corner and then drag it - the window will resize)
- mods: drops_from tag added for supply boxes [the supply box can now drop from other supply boxes]
- increased the max general level (from 50 to 150)
- space engineer legacy, every sixth ship you buy is discounted by 99% rather than giving it for free
- byproduct upgrade typo fix
- if you sold your living quarters and had a ship on auto-build (which will now be impossible to build due to a lack of specimen) - the ship display is going to stay so you can remove the auto-building

Thanks for playing and keep that feedback coming!
Cheers,
Vladimir

Great news! After multiple patches, addition of mods, items, crafting, star system conquest and new game+ modes, Lazy Galaxy goes into full release, together with its final big content patch!



- Clans: similar to guilds, you can only select one. There are three guilds now: space engineers, warrior's league, brotherhood of relics. In addition to bonuses, the clans have their own drawbacks. You can combine them with guilds to see what works best!

• Space Engineers focus on quality ship building and item crafting. They provide boosts for tier 2 buildings.
  
• Brotherhood of Relics offers increased relic productivity and moves a limit on building multiple relics, but it comes at a cost of spaceport.
  
• Warrior's League focuses on combat, offering big boosts to ship health and damage but sacrificing scientific gains in the process.
  

Great news! After multiple patches, addition of mods, items, crafting, star system conquest and new game+ modes, Lazy Galaxy goes into full release, together with its final big content patch!



- Clans: similar to guilds, you can only select one. There are three guilds now: space engineers, warrior's league, brotherhood of relics. In addition to bonuses, the clans have their own drawbacks. You can combine them with guilds to see what works best!

• Space Engineers focus on quality ship building and item crafting. They provide boosts for tier 2 buildings.
  
• Brotherhood of Relics offers increased relic productivity and moves a limit on building multiple relics, but it comes at a cost of spaceport.
  
• Warrior's League focuses on combat, offering big boosts to ship health and damage but sacrificing scientific gains in the process.
  

Hey everyone!

Since only five days are left before the release, I wanted to give a brief overview of what's happening with Lazy Galaxy development and what can you expect with the release patch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH1sTd_XqYk

Basically the patch adds ui/ux changes, but there will also be three new late(r)-game guilds.

If you can - please spread the word about the game on Mar 22 (reddit/twitter/facebook).

Don't forget to join our discord or comment here if you have any questions! :)

Cheers,
Vladimir

Hey everyone!

Since only five days are left before the release, I wanted to give a brief overview of what's happening with Lazy Galaxy development and what can you expect with the release patch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH1sTd_XqYk

Basically the patch adds ui/ux changes, but there will also be three new late(r)-game guilds.

If you can - please spread the word about the game on Mar 22 (reddit/twitter/facebook).

Don't forget to join our discord or comment here if you have any questions! :)

Cheers,
Vladimir

Hey!

As reported by a lot of you, using generals on a missions did not update the task window (thus conquered points remained unchanged and prevented the jump).

The hotfix addresses the issue, as well as removed limitations on displaying ship costs past the second galaxy. (basically you'll see all ships at starport even if you don't have enough money to buy them).

Let me know if something else comes up and we'll try to fix it ASAP. Thank you for playing!

Cheers,
Vladimir

Hey everyone!

At last, we are ready to publish the latest Lazy Galaxy changes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmpZWaxaeOw

General and automatic combat
First of all, we're super excited to introduce the new general system!


After conquering two galaxies, you will be able to send the general to fight in your place. As usual, build your fleet, click on the point that you want to conquer, but this time there will be a choice that allows to send the general instead of you.

Your ship is taken away to power the general army, you stay on your base screen while general fights and gathers rewards. You can then collect by simply clicking the reward button on star map!

Mod Support

After that - there's a ship modding support, which essentially allows you to add custom ships to the game :) Set up your weapons / hulls / prices and put your own sci-fi ships into the game! You can find out more in our wiki.

Release Date
Finally, this marks the last serious content patch. We're going to release the game on March 22, and during these two weeks before release we'll be doing more polishing / ui improvements and minor feature adjustments.

If you like the game - please leave a positive review, those things really help during release. Even one or two lines tremendously help the game get noticed.

Full changelog

• After conquering your first galaxy, you will be able to pick your own fleet with each jump! If you are not fighting - you can send out your general to do the job for you.
  
• Modding: Ship validation & submission
  
• Modding: Tags will be automatically assigned to mods based on contents when uploading/updating
  
• Modding: You can now write change log for your mod updates inside the game
  
• Modding: You can choose not to update mod description, when submitting an update. That's in case if you had a good description that you wrote outside the game (e.g. in steam client)
  
• Added setting to disable/enable damage text in battles (better performance? no promises?)
  
• Fixed bug that used wrong items after sorting
  
  Thanks for being awesome and as usual, if you have any questions - do join our discord channel!
  
  

Hey everyone!



1.4 patch is here! Not much QA/UX changes, the patch focuses on adding mod support, allowing you to make custom items!

Full change list:

• Mod Support
  
• Inventory: Sort Items By Level
  
• Inventory: Sort Items By Name
  
• Inventory: Open All Boxes
  
• Bugfix: if you have 0 species - they won't click on asteroids, even if you have genetic auto-clicker upgrade
  
• Trying to address the slowdown issue (improved pooling, tell us if it helps!)
  

Hey everyone! We've baked a new patch!



Coldwild Games is happy to bring you the next major patch in our early access series :)

This time we're adding an item / crafting system and various optimizations. Let's start from the crafting.

We got a new building!

It's called "Space Oven." It's used for cooking awesome stuff. You can upgrade it to cook even faster, but it's quite costly (both in upgrade price and energy consumption).

Finally, you can click on it or on your inventory button to start the crafting process. The Space Oven becomes available on third star system.

The cooking process itself

The cooking works in two ways: first, you can combine three similar items to get a stronger one OR you can try combining three different items to see. The recipes are left for you to discover, but we might make a wiki later on :)

There are total 28 new items in this patch. Those items give you permanent boosts that affect your building production, ship damage and strength, offline production, species growth and battle rewards.


Inventory Screen

Balance
Thanks to your feedback, we know that increasing the amout of star systems to beat the galaxy made the game feel grindy. Now each galaxy has 5 systems that needs to be conquered, but the enemies encountered will be considerably tougher (base level grows).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuNcBq53H0U

User Experience
A lot of effort went into improving the user experience. Bullet / damage text were optimized to work much faster, so your average performance should improve greatly.

The statistics window has also been added to show your progress / total numbers in the game.

We've also received a lot of reports on occasional crashes. We're sorry that they were happening: we've analyzed them and those seem to be results of internal workings of unity engine (to which we don't have any access). We've updated the unity version and the crashes did not occur on our side anymore, but let us know if this continues to happen and we'll be monitoring the situation closely.

Full patch notes

• New Building: Space Oven, allows you to craft the items! Becomes available in third galaxy
  
• Crafting system: combine 3 same items to get improved item or experiment with combining the items together!
  
• 28 new items added
  
• Asteroid Map Points grant supply boxes upon completing; player can pick one item from them to boost his stats
  
• Sabre Weapon Damage Type changed to heat
  
• Made Trader offline bonus stack multiplicatively with the rest production bonuses
  
• Statistics Window
  
• Fixed Player Damage/HP multipliers: they no longer apply to enemy ships
  
• Galaxy Jumps now award candy too
  
• Fixed wrong discount that was applied to ship ugrades from blessings
  
• Candy amount gained from candy boxes in space battles is scaled with the current level of an encounter
  
• Candy is formatted like any other resouce
  
• Candy tooltip is updated every second when moused over
  
• Ship health bar dissappears, when ship gets destroyed or ship's health reaches 0
  
• Frame limiting option in background mode
  
• Performance impact of damage text in battles is reduced
  
• Bullet/projectile instantiation rework, should improve performance / memory handling
  

Hey everyone!

Due to the big scope of the task, there won't be a patch this week. We simply want to work out the item system completely before pushing it to live version.

We do have a more detailed overview on how items are going to work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkQgRlz_AOk

To make it short:
- You will be able to get supply crates from the battles. From these supply crates, you will be able to select one item of your choice (the item that you need the most)
- Combining three items of same level produces more powerful item of the next level
- There are some hidden recipes that you can try and figure out by experimenting with item combinations :)

Cheers and we're really excited to bring you the item system next week.
Vladimir

Hey everone! No patch this week, but just a heads up on what's going on and what you can expect next week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IUK0peBTy0&feature=youtu.be

Basically, we're working hard on eliminating crashes / improving performance, as well as introducing item system to make your late-game more exciting.

Let us know if you have any questions :)
Cheers,
Vladimir

We are aware that some save files could have been corrupted after patch and there's a hotfix for that (you are safe to launch the game now - it shouldn't happen anymore).

However, you'll need to manually do the following things to restore your save if it crashed before:

To restore your save on windows:

Hey everyone! You've mentioned the resource gain slowing down later on in the game, as well as the need for hard-reset mechanics (lose all the candy, gain cool bonus).

Well, we're happy to say that this patch starts addressing those comments. New Game+ mode is going to be there for hardcore players, while simple game ending will give you a chance to complete the universal conquest :)

Here's the video of me explaining the changes and the reasoning behind them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UQ4EPuDEF4

• New Game+ mode (you can actually complete the game now!), which allows you to reset your progress and gain a permanent powerful boost (they stack if you complete the game multiple times!)
  
• Ship Selection is saved across battles
  
• AutoPurchase Reworked: can now arrange the specific number of ships purchased
  
• Galactic Map introduced (shown between galactic jumps, informative screen that adds importance to this process)
  
• Building Multipliers introduced: special researches that multiply total building production by a constant number
  

Hello,

Previous patch reduced the boss rewards too much. This one increases the boss rewards by 100 times.

We know that current situation in the game does not leave you with much options past ~first 100 hours of play and we're going to address this ASAP in the next patch by adding more content.

Thanks for your patience and reporting this to us.
Cheers,
Vladimir

Hey!

It has became apparent (thanks to many reports) that the current scavenger balancing is a big problem, as it grows too fast from enemy costs.

Unfortunately, this often made the late-game past 90hours unplayable (because it reached numbers over the limit) due to HUGE numbers accumulating.

There's no way I can fix this without hurting your resources, but I'm trying to do it in the mildest way possible.

Therefore, here are the changes for this quick patch:

- Scavenger upgrades give fixed incomes (sorry, capping the previous resource amounts to E50, because the resource gathering got waaay out of hand)
- Reduced Tasty Conquest upgrade costs (was impossible to get with normal resource gains)
- Destroying enemy ships give you basic reward of 20 metal and 15 fuel per destroyed ship level

Hey!

We've been getting a lot of feedback from you guys since our 1.1.0 patch so we wanted to act on it as soon as possible. This patch introduces 17 new achievements and upgrades (a lot of them aimed at your own combat ship improvements), as well as improving ui / balance.

Here's the video of me explaining what's going on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JVDsbWbFFg

The full list of changes:

• Starry Background rework / warp adjustments - this should probalbly fix the crashing in late game
  
• Ship health / attack bonus from planets works properly
  
• New Genetics Window - should be much more intuitive for newer players
  
• Huge number fixes (the game won't crash / hang when the number exceeds e308)
  
• Achievement button notifications are properly displayed now
  
• Boss Rewards Decreased
  
• Ship Info panel shows values after upgrade; ship purchase button also shows price post-upgrade
  
• Max planet upgrade level is capped to 800
  
• Map Improvements: conquest progress is shown on star map; conquered planets are easily distinguishable
  
• New building upgrade panel
  
• 17 new achievements (ranging from early to late game)
  
• 17 new upgrades
  
• Asteroids have bosses every 15 levels
  
• AutoHeal genetic upgrade added (battle heals are picked automatically every 3 seconds)
  
• Experimental: Candy affects resource gain (exp,metal,fuel) from enemies in battle
  

Hey everyone! Bringing some happy news before New Year, out first big patch is going live! Check out the devlog if you want to know the reasoning behind the changes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPowUnDqabo

Full change-log:

• Star Map added! You'll have to conquer all points on starmap before you can progress further.
  
• Star Map planets can be upgraded into three types: breeding (gives bonus to specimen growth), military (ship strength increase), supply (resource gain percentage boost)
  
• Star Map Planets can also be upgraded if you spend metal on them, this will increase their efficiency
  
• Star Map: infinite combat point on right bottom corner offers the way to fight enemies infinitely
  
• Balancing: reduced enemy difficulty: not it will scale at a much slower rate (i.e. level 300 had 3000 summed up enemy ship level (~each ship would be level 375), now it will have 2500 (each ship will be level ~312))
  
• E notation added (can be toggled in gameplay settings);
  
• added mass-upgrade tooltips to upgrade building / ships
  
• fixed a bug when cannons were not being properly displayed above ship
  
• ship list in hangar shows ship level + dismiss ship button (without sending into battle and retreating lots of times)
  
• bugfix: if you upgraded ship and it will cost _lots_ of money: the ship won't disappear from your starport anymore
  
• galaxy walker updated: gets %x percent bonus per max enemy level in infinite combat mode
  
• added downgrade button (can downgrade the ships in case they got too expensive)
  
• highlights added to ship purchase panel, should give better ui feel
  
• after conquering a point on star map, you can return your ships back home
  
• hotkeys added: B to enter / exit build mode; Tab to show / hide current objective
  
• new upgrade: jumper - allows you to "time warp", essentially restarting the game without advancing to next solar system. You get accumulated candy from experience (but not completion bonus candy). Useful if you want to stall or if you are stuck and want to do a soft restart.
  
• new upgrade: weird patterns - get 2% exp income for every conquered point on star map
  
• galaxy conqueror steam achievement should be working now
  
• found and fixed one of the potential causes why game could have been crashing occasionally during auto-purchase if it stayed on long enough
  

Hey everyone!

First full week of early access is coming to an end, but we already have enough feedback to keep us going for a few months :) Keep it up everyone, we love hearing from you. Here's the video where I sum up everything that we're working on and will hopefully be available before New Year.

https://youtu.be/dXjpGQzj59Y

Happy Holidays and let us know your comments / feedback!
Yours,
Vladimir

Hey everyone!

Judging by feedback so far, I've decided to adjust the ship balance (reducing enemy damage a bit, while buffing the bosses in later game).

This patch introduces ship damage: ship weapons have a type now, and that type deals different damage to different types of armor. You will be able to check its description in the ship info panel. This shouldn't disturb late-game idle gameplay too much, but the strategic gameplay at the beginning of the game should make the game feel fairer and allow players to find right ship combinations to deal with specific enemy (mostly boss) threats.

I'm also tackling the different bug reports. Without further ado, here goes the list:

• steam achievements for the amount of bosses killed should work now
  
• adjusted enemy dreadnought rocket launcher position
  
• graphics: slightly randomized laser hit position (they don't hit enemy center only anymore)
  
• damage types: weapons perform differently vs different kinds of armor
  
• reduced the size of damage text (since there's so much of it)
  
• bosses are not going to collide into you and instantly take out one of your ships
  
• friagtes are going to be stronger (increased bullet damage by 50%, laser damage by 100%)
  
• dreadnoughts are going to be weaker (decreased rocket damage by 50%)
  
• fixed the bug when intergalactic cannon appeared only after finishing the first star system of any galaxy (should now appear when you clear the second star system for the first time)
  
• ship info panel will now show limited info on ship weapons: the weapon type (you'll see the stats if you hover on it) and the dps
  
• showing ability hotkey near ability name in combat
  
• showing simple tooltip when hovering on ship selection panel in combat
  
• can open enemy / friendly ship info by right-clicking on ship selection panel
  
  Thank you for playing and keep being awesome! Let me know if you have any other comments.
  Cheers,
  Vladimir
  
  

Hey everyone! Thanks for being awesome and for your support so far.

Here's a 4 minute video outlining what's happening now and what to expect within the few next weeks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVSYCBfetnI

In addition to that, I'm pushing another small patch, followed by a few fixes:

• z-order fix: buildings won't 'fall behind' after new one has been built in the place of demolished building
  
• species won't click on dead meteors
  
• upgrade tooltip fix
  

Hey everyone,

Thanks to your feedback, I understand that there are later-game balancing issues + some unexpected crashes (with no progress being saved). That sucks and I'm tryint go address it as fast as I can. Here's what I changed with this patch:

• AutoSaves every 2 minutes
  
• Balancing: increased player ship hp; this is a start of a larger balancing fix (it's clear that late-game needs a rebalance): right now the 25-level-health-multiplier increased to 2, enemy 25-level-damage multipliers are also getting closer to 2 (reduced dramatically from 3 and 4). I will keep adjusting the values accordingly. The next bi-weekly patch will mostly focus on balance.
  
• As a temporary solution, the buildings affected by "Base Clicker" spawn small "red lightning" particles to indicate that they are currently affected
  
• "Purchased All Available Upgrades" won't lag so much anymore
  
• Base clicker description fix: works for 20 seconds instead of 10 seconds (I don't want you to be clicking on this stuff to death, people)
  
• Ship Level is shown in hangar (but no "dismiss" button yet - work in progress).
  

The amounts of feedback so far has been overwhelming. Keep it coming! :) I'm addressing most popular requests / bugfixes. Here's the full patch:

• affordable researches are better visible
  
• meteor click amount increases the more you click on it (it's much more profitable to fully destroy asteroids with clicking)
  
• candy dropped from the bosses are now properly counted towards achievements
  
• ui: fixed negative exp bug (negative amounts of exp necessary to gain candy)
  
• ship deaths should be a bit prettier now: heavily damaged ships spawn small explosions around them
  
• ship deaths: if ship speed is < 250, it gradually stops instead of speeding up like before. should reduce the deaths from bosses
  
• balance: sabre ship base speed buff (240 -> 260)
  
• ui: build button tooltip fixed (does not mention 'razing' anymore)
  

Hi everyone!

I got a few reports about ships not being destroyed properly, although I could not replicate it, it's a serious issue that I'm trying to address. This patch should hopefully fix the problems with "zombie" ships.

Changes:

• Fixed some cases when ships were not properly exploding after destruction (and continued fighting for you)
  
• "Too Advanced" upgrade has the proper bonus description now (it gives 25% to advanced building production)
  
• Galaxy Walker achievement description changed
  
• Laboratory Button stays in place when you build a second lab
  
• AutoLaunch icon does not appear unless the relevant genetics are unlocked
  

We're happy to say that Lazy Galaxy is finally out in Early Access!

To answer some questions that might arise, here are the plans for further development: http://steamcommunity.com/app/724470/discussions/1/2906376154318032359/

We have an overall vision for the future, but your suggestions / wishes and comments are more than welcome and we plan to introduce features accordingly. We're going to have a voting process for new feature introduction, so stay tuned for the news!

Make sure to join our discord channel: https://discord.gg/013oJVAEt1l3JM1wC if you want to talk to us or share your feedback :)

You guys are the best! Thank you,
Vladimir

Hey everyone,

This is going to be the last devlog before our December 15th release, so it's going to be brief (but still important!):

I've worked on the auto-purchase function this week, allowing playerss to go into even more idling (if they want to). One can set the ship on auto-purchase and go afk. The game will purchase the selected ship type automatically and launch them to space! How cool is that?

Here's the video showing this functionality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn_bYDvBiYM

Let me know what you think :)

Cheers,
Vladimir

Hey everyone!



This week was spent on polishing / making the game prettier. We're working on improving UI and spreading the news about the game!

Changes:
- Balancing: early-game bosses have been made weaker; felt like a wall before and was not really proportional to other enemy types encountered
- UI: New upgrade panel, should be much prettier

- Players can now toggle ship outlines to better recognize the ships in-game
- Settings panel available from battle

More details:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdq6xcoYbb4

Only 12 days before release, we're really excited about that!

Hey everyone! This week has been pretty productive: I've done working on Linux / Mac testing, and everything seems to be working!

Here are some other significant changes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vee8t9FSSWg

Hey everyone!

This week has been spent working on late-game content. As soon as you gather good amounts of candy, you will be given access to "genetics." Those are late-game upgrades that increase the productivity of your specimen (making your population grow fast!) and the effectiveness of production (speed up your factories even further!), there are also two game-changing genetic upgrades that will greatly improve the resource gain rate in the early stages of new galaxy conquests.

We've also worked on making player ships a bit more distinguishable in battles. Still working on the best way to do this, but for now we offer this chevron solution that shows a small icon by your ships.

Only four weeks until release are left, and we're sure going to do our best to bring you the game you're all expecting.

Cheers,
Vladimir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm-HMHJdgBE

Hey everyone! Another week spent on preparing the game for release!

This week was spent on:

Hey! :) I've been doing the devlogs on my personal youtube channel, but since the Steam page went live - I think it's a good idea if I describe what has been done recently to keep you all updated!

This week was mostly spent polishing / balancing the battles. There were new ability animations, but the biggest achievement this week was actually figuring out the solution on how the battles should work.

The thing is: the battles were very short, which is great if you are looking mostly for idle experience, but they felt a bit awkward if you were looking for tactical experience where you'd heal, use abilities, evade projectiles. There's not much tactics if shot exchange instantly ends within 2 seconds with most of the ships dead.

To fix that: I've added a special value that determines if player wants to fight longer or have more of an idle experience. It's a simple slider in settings, all that it does is multiplies the hp of BOTH sides by a selected value from 1 to 5. Since the damage remains the same, the battles can become significantly longer, where skill will matter much more: the more projectiles you will dodge, the more health boxes you will be able to collect and prolong your starfighting experience.

Here's the further video with explanation if you want to see how it works in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_q_BTdx-Kg

Thanks for reading and stay tuned for weekly updates (and, of course, the release on Dec 15 :)

Cheers,
Vladimir