Developer posts and news about this game.
Someone noticed that an algae pool located indoors was not working and showing a strange temperature reading. They helpfully sent me their saved game, in which I found a corruption that made room data load incorrectly. I don't know exactly how it happened or whether anyone else h
Some changes as listed below. You may also be interested in the guide I just published - I played the game for one in-game day and logged my choices - you might find some useful tips in there. Changes in v1.2.2 - Changed "kW" to "MW" throughout the game. - Lamps and room lighting
After some feedback I've decided to give 8 food rather than a meager 2 units at the start of the game. This game is meant to be a little difficult but not so much that people give up in frustration! This should mean that you don't need a mush churn so early in the game. Hopefully
Happy New Year! Until now, if the map generator created any islands - which it sometimes did - then they would be forever inaccessible. Now, you can connect them up with bridges. There is now also a map generation option that deliberately breaks the landmass up into several islan
Added one more engineer, bringing the maximum number of colonists to 11. This was requested to help with maintenance of large bases. To be honest there is no particular reason why the limit has to be this low - I might add more later but hope this helps for now!
The first significant update since the 1.0 release. Not a massive update, but it does add a very useful new building - the geothermal power plant. Research this tech at the geology lab and expand your base to reach a geothermal vent, and you'll have a reliable source of power. No
I've made water brighter and added a subtle animation effect. Maybe more significant updates to follow if there is a demand for it - let me know!
This update fixes a bug that could sometimes cause areas to have the wrong temperature or light level after loading a game. This seems to have been caused by some of the room data not being completely cleared from memory after leaving one game and going into another.
This update fixes a bug that could cause a black screen or error when loading a game in which some doors had been locked in the closed position. Apologies if you were affected by this one, and many thanks to the person who sent me the information I needed to find the problem! A s
Just a very minor diagnostic update as unfortunately a small number of players have encountered bugs that were not reported during Early Access. The only change in this release is that a log file will now be created earlier, and slightly more information will be recorded. Bounty
After a year in Early Access, Sigma Draconis v1.0 released at the weekend. Not sure if this is for you? Give the demo a go! You can play the first part of the game for free, and if you like it you can continue by buying the full version. There are a still a few days left to go on
Sigma Draconis was released to Early Access on 10th April 2020. In the year since the game has received significant updates every month, and has I believe been greatly improved as a result. Today I have removed the game from Early Access and marked the version number as 1.0. I wi
I've added a user interface component to show progress for the Steam Achievements. You can find the button for this under the in-game options menu.
Here's the March update. The main change is to add 16 achievements. There are also some UI improvements. Note that you will need to start a new game to unlock achievements - saved games created in previous versions will not work. Here's the full list of changes: Changes - Added 1
A very minor update to say that I've enabled Steam Cloud for the game. This means that when you exit the game, saved games will be uploaded to Steam. If you play on another computer, you still have access to your saves. If the upload causes a problem for anyone - the files are up
Here's the February update. This one makes a new map type available, which replaces the old "severe climate" option. Launch a rocket from the original map type to unlock it. If you already did this before, you'll need to load up your latest save and launch the rocket again. I wou
This is a very small update with a couple of fixes. Changes - Adjusted the path-finding around metal and organics stacking areas, to reduce the likelyhood that colonists will be unable to find a route past them. - Fixed a flaw in the plant seeding system that could cause whiteflo
Happy New Year everyone! Here's the January update. Not a huge one in terms of new features but I've made quite a number of small improvements, including an item on the colonist panel with more information about what colonists are eating and how they feel about it. Most significa
This is the monthly update for December. The main feature of the December update is the new Checklist. It is meant to act both as a tutorial and as a reference guide. There are over 50 items to complete, taking you all the way from gathering the first resources to launching a roc
A small bugfix and diagnostics update. Changes - Fixed crash when alt-tabbing from full screen. - Log files now written to %userprofile%\documents\SigmaDraconis\logs (previously they went in the game installation folder) - Enabled some additional logging for the game startup proc