Developer posts and news about this game.
Hi everyone, For the past few months, I haven’t been working on Sapiens, and the time has come to talk about that. Sapiens development is now on hold temporarily. I will return some time next year. I still very much intend to release 1.0, and then continue to add to Sapiens for t
Greetings! I have been making great progress over the past few weeks on conflict. The first step was to add a banish command. This is long requested, and was necessary for conflict, to be able to tidy up any elderly stragglers if you take over an AI tribe for example. So this now
New in 0.6.1.2: Pregnant, elderly and children sapiens now move away from sapiens belonging to hostile or unmet tribes Fixes bug where restricted building materials wouldn't be saved if you placed a building without issuing the build order Fixes bug where the 'build more' button
It's been a slow few months of development, with a number of sicknesses slowing things down, and some big tasks requiring the update of a lot of assets. But we finally have an update! I had planned to work on more features first, but this contains a fix for the graphics driver re
This update adds seven different breeds of fish! It also brings new detailed textures and shaders, improves all animal models and behaviors, adds a range of colors for alpacas and woolskins, and contains a number of bug fixes and balancing tweaks. Fish can only be caught via spea
Hi everyone! A new update that has just gone out, which adds two major new features: Canoes, and point and click mode. Canoes are simply hollowed out logs, which provide a small amount of storage space, room for one sapien, and very fast transport over water. As well as making it
With the release of the Sapiens 0.5 multiplayer update, a lot of the previous roadmap is now complete. Your feedback has helped to lead the direction of the game, and I have a few new features I want to add, so it’s time for a complete new roadmap! This roadmap covers all of the
New in 0.5.0.79: - Fixes bug where you couldn't enable mods in previously created worlds - Fixes crashing bugs when using translation mods, enabling storage sharing, and a couple of other rare crashes
Hi everyone! Multiplayer is off to a great start in Sapiens , it’s amazing seeing the impressive builds and screenshots being posted around the community, and I really appreciate all of the feedback, reviews and kind words of support. This update focuses on improvements for when
Multiplayer In multiplayer, you each control a tribe, and can work cooperatively, sharing and connecting your villages to create trading hubs, shared accommodation, and large scale building projects. Play in persistent dedicated servers, host a LAN game, or invite a Steam friend
Hi everyone! This is just a quick announcement to let you know that the Sapiens 0.5 update is now open to everyone for testing on the unstable branch. I am aiming for the 18th of July for the full release. Multiplayer is of course the biggest new feature in 0.5, and though there
Hi everyone! I’ve been making great progress on the next big update, and have some news to share, Sapiens 0.5 will come with full multiplayer support! Sapiens 0.5 will be available to everyone in 2-3 weeks time, on the unstable branch, with the full stable release coming in July.
Thanks everyone for all of your support throughout 2023! The 0.5 update is progressing nicely, and over these past couple of weeks I’ve made a lot of progress on multiplayer and AI tribes. But with the update just about to enter the first testing phase, it’s still going to be ano
Hi Sapiens fans! I've been working hard on the big 0.5 update, and it is getting closer to being ready for testing. There are still a few more weeks of development left to go, but it's definitely time to share some details about what's coming. So what's new? Firstly, AI Tribes! N
With this update your tribes will now function much more efficiently, and if they still don't quite do what you want, you now have a lot more control by prioritizing orders. New in 0.4.2: AI and fixes: - You can now prioritize any order at any time. Sapiens will tend to choose pr
0.4.1 is a minor bug fix update, mostly fixing issues relating to AI around compost bins, but with some important other fixes too. - Fixes issues with sapiens getting stuck delivering to compost bins - Fixes issues when restricting the use of rotten resources in the resources pan
This second major update to Sapiens introduces new challenges and game mechanics, tools, weapons and building materials, and your tribe can now enter the bronze age! Windstorms Every couple of years or so, you can now expect to experience a windstorm severe weather event. These w
Sapiens is progressing nicely and the next big content update "Windstorms" will be ready to launch one week from now. The update is available for testing now on the unstable branch if you'd like to get an early look and help find those last few bugs. Full release notes are coming
The next Sapiens update is coming along nicely, and I thought it was time to let you all know how things are going. After taking a bit of a break over Christmas, I started the new year working on a new mechanic for improving soil. So in 0.4 we will now have compost, manure, and m
You can now play Sapiens on your Mac! Sapiens now runs natively and performs great on both Apple silicon and Intel. Sapiens was always designed to be a cross platform game, which meant it took only a couple of weeks to add support for macOS, and it made a lot of sense to do this