Polymorphic Games has begun to emphasize playable simulations in our current projects, with the goal of using our games as tools for teaching concepts in evolution, ecology, and data literacy. To this end, we making Project Hastur a free-to-play game so that more people can use it to run experiments and explore (and test) the evolutionary model. We are working on research papers that use Project Hastur as an evolutionary simulation and will post news about those as they are published.

The complete Project Hastur campaign is now available! Battle the evolving Proteans through thirteen maps on all three moons of the Moirai system. Upgrade your weapon systems to build ferocious lightning turrets, blistering flamethrowers, deadly Veksler Beams, and more. Experiment with evolution on any of fourteen different maps. And learn the terrible secrets of Project Hastur.

This update fixes an issue some people were having that kept them from moving past the main menu. It was related to some differences between regions that we hadn't run across in our testing. Clearly, we need more friends from more far-flung places. We're very sorry to anyone who experienced this issue.

This also fixes an issue where you can place PHDs in experiment mode in Crater Mountain. There aren't supposed to be any PHDs in experiment mode, and they made weird things happen.