Rogue Command

Released: May 14, 2026
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Last updated: 11 Sep 2026, 23:15 GMT

Updates & announcements

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01 Jul 2026Developer post
Improved attack behavior - V1.0.9
Attack behavior improvements - Update 2 One of the most contentious details of the game discussed post 1.0 was the invincibility on the PCX Core Extractor objectives. We have tackled this from two sides with this update: Your units will no longer try to attack invincible enemies.
Attack behavior improvements - Update 2
One of the most contentious details of the game discussed post 1.0 was the invincibility on the PCX Core Extractor objectives. We have tackled this from two sides with this update:
Your units will no longer try to attack invincible enemies. This means mainly that the objective buildings will no longer draw the fire of your units when trying to finish the level.
This is further supported by the protection now having a 10 second delay before it kicks back in, making it a lot easier to manage stragglers wandering in range.
Most of the rest of the update is concerned with quality of life changes, like a brightness setting and bugs that have been reported by multiple people.
Coming Soon - The Berzerker
As I am writing this I am setting up a build that will allow me to do full runs to test the next specialist:
The Berzerker
So I hope you are ready to get some nasty critical hit combos going and maybe get some melee runs in in preparation.
Feedback on recent balance changes?
I also wanted to ask how the recent changes have affected your gameplay. I saw that some of you were not on board with the recent balance patch, especially the turret changes.
I have not yet checked back in with the data, but definitely wanted to get your anecdotal experience on this as well. So how have your turret focused runs been going? Did I do Castle dirty or is it still feeling like a viable choice?
Read the full patch notes below.
Version 1.0.9 FULL PATCH NOTES
GENERAL CHANGES:
Destroy Core Extractor Objective: added a 10 sec delay to the invincibility when PCX combatants are around. Aim is to make the cleanup phase on these less fiddly, please let us know if it feels better this way.
Player units now ignore invincible enemies (like Core Extractors with PCX units nearby) as auto attack targets.
Added skip button to hack reward screen.
If engineer dies during level-finished-animation it does not count as life loss.
Changed obstacle bush spawns, so they can never be dead ends. Added a Notification, clearer description and visual effects to make more clear what is going on.
Another stab at my fog nemesis in Auburn Borealis: seems like I found the fix. So if you still experience the dense fog on the Nightfall Borealis Biome, know that it will be fixed very soon. Thanks to everyone who shared info on this. Since I can not reproduce this on my machines, I literally would not have been able to fix this without your help.
SETTINGS:
New brightness setting (under “Visuals”)
BUGFIXES:
Show heat unlocked message only after having beat ascension 15 (and not 14)
Show correct ascension / heat level in run stats string on run results screen
Fixed and improved visual effect for Castle Healing beam extension
Fixed Scythe Boss variant win condition for heat levels.
Improved previous fix for Timeouter headless.
Reward map: show glow effect in progression indicator for stage 1
Fixed issues where PCX Bug Tank Factory could rotate weirdly.
Robo Medic & Blockade Tank: fixed not being able to shoot while moving
Be sure to reset time speed to default when starting Ascension 15 end sequence
BALANCE:
Adjusted spawn rate of obstacles that can spawn new fields.
Heavy MG Tank: cost 480 → 500; additional cooldown reduction on turbo 30 → 20%
Heavy MG Tank Factory: cost 1400 → 1600; max Capacity 3 → 4
Robo Medic: production Duration 30 → 26; max Health 60 → 75; attack Cooldown 2 → 1,4
Robo Medic Factory: cost 340 → 370; max Capacity 4 → 5
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16 Jun 2026Developer post
Big Balance patch and some important fixes - V1.0.7
BALANCE & BUGFIXES - UPDATE 1 This is our first big patch post 1.0 launch. It addresses some of the more annoying bugs you have sent us and shifts the balance on a lot of things. Balance : the goal was to address outliers. We like that the game has quite a big variance, but t
BALANCE & BUGFIXES - UPDATE 1
This is our first big patch post 1.0 launch. It addresses some of the more annoying bugs you have sent us and shifts the balance on a lot of things.
Balance: the goal was to address outliers. We like that the game has quite a big variance, but there were some things that we could see very clearly as being a bit problematic. Thanks to everyone who shared their feedback with us and who enabled the data analytics. We will keep an eye on this and keep tuning.
Bugs: there were some instances of the units not attacking correctly when standing still, which was due to a conflict with the idle state. This should be completely fixed now.
Both of these are also the main push of what we are currently working on, before we will set our eyes on rolling out the next specialist.
FOG PROBLEMS:
The volumetric fog solution we are using has some unfortunate inconsistencies. Some levels have very thick fog, but only on certain machines, or GPUs, or driver versions... we still do not know exactly. As far as I know this is mainly an issue in the "Auburn Borealis" biome. The problem with this one is, that we just can not reproduce the behavior we see on screenshots/videos that some of you have share with us. So we only know if it is fixed when the change it out in the wild. We think this is still present in this version, but also think it will be fixed in the next version.
Version 1.0.7 FULL PATCH NOTES
GENERAL CHANGES:
Added an element that shows the loading screen tooltips when you pause a battle, so people with fast PCs can still have time to read them.
Added a notification that shows the game saves between runs, to ensure you will know you can continue a run later on.
Show base difficulty in battle preview widget
Show run info bar on run results screen including used archive tokens and base difficulty
Tweaked the tree spawning rules on some Biomes to be a little less prone to overgrowths
We also rolled out a change on the core extractor objective, that was adding delay to the invicibility, but we had to roll that back, because it could lead to a state where the level was not winnable. We will add that again once we fixed that problem (I only include that, because I had communicated this to some people already).
BALANCE:
The goal with these changes is to address extreme outliers. These could be Enemy variants that show up as runkillers, like the PCX Elite Bore Division. Or they could be blueprints that result in extremely high win rates, like the Weather Tower. I try to not be heavy handed with the changes, because I think overall we are already in a pretty good place balance wise.
Another secondary goal is addressing a state where the factory cap leaves you in a situation where you can not really increase your capability to put out combat forces.
PCX Changes:
Adjusted costs for some enemy units and buildings
reduced attack range of PCX Launcher and Light artillery slightly
CF Transporter basis unit spawn reduced by one CF3, attack range slightly reduced
Adjusted starting setup for some enemy variants.
slightly decreased HP and damage of Small slimes.
Player Changes
I will separate these into Nerfs & Buffs, sometimes it is not that clear cut though. Sometimes it is a shift in the role of the things. I like using cost increases since I still feel like overall our economy is a little to generous.
Nerfs:
Castle: Active skill size and damage reduced. Attack rate decreased. Construction and skill cost increased. Castle is a clear outlier
Weather Tower: reduced attack range and attack rate.Increased cost and MP cost of the active skill and increased active skill damage. Probably still insanely strong due to the special way this thing can attack, but I want to deemphasize the turret part a little.
Raised price of the Energy Sniper Mech
Boulder Cannon Turret reduced cap by 1, raised price and slightly reduced range
Crystal Matrix Reader: now starts at MP at 50% and crystal per target is reduced from 100 to 80
Laser Cannon Turret: increased cost and reduced attack rate slightly
Shotgun Turret: decreased salvo size from 12 to 10 bullets. Decreased range by 1. Increased HP.
Railgun Turret: reduced range. Increased cost.
Heavy Rocket Launcher: increased cost and MP cost of skill. Slightly reduced the size of the explosion but increased its damage.
Ranger Turret: increased cost, decreased MP and base attack damage.
Double Cannon Turret: increased cost. HP and area of splash damage increased.
Panic Turret: Increased cost, increased sight and HP, reduced attack speed and duration of the panic. Massively increased damage. This is another one I am unsure about. Maybe the panic should need an active skill instead of being a passive. The changes are supposed to make it actually do some damage and have staying power as a turret.
Precision Artillery: increased cost
Spy Tower: increased cost
Energy Transfer Turret: decreased slow time to 1. increased damage from 3 to 8 but increased attack cooldown from 1 to 3.5. Slightly increased cost.
Rocket Swarmer: decreased unit cap by 1. Decreased burn duration but increased attack damage. Increased factory cost.
WallBlock: increased cost, increased HP, decreased armor
Homing Missile Turret: Increased cost and increased Max HP
Armored Harvester: decreased base harvest rate from 2,5 to 2,4
Core Harvester, cost increased
Robo Bombs factory and unit cost raised slightly
Robo Bomb Battery cost +30 and MP cost +5
Marine Blast Tower, cost +60, skill cost +5 MP
Buffs
Mantis: ah my dear Mantis…it is by far the negative outlier for lost runs. I think that mostly comes from the fact, that it needs a completely different playstyle. I will still give it a nice starting HP bump.
Incinerator: increased HP, reduced skill cost, increased damage of direct hits from the active skill and attack damage.
Energy Hunters: reduced build time and factory cost, slightly increased damage, shield and unit cost
Robo Micro: HP and attack range raised slightly
Little Lighter: Factory cost reduced, HP increased, range slightly increased.
Energo Saurus: Increased attack rate and damage of Energy Spirits (this also benefits other things that can spawn them). Increased move speed and HP. Raised unit cap by 1.
Firebooster: decreased factory cost, slightly increased unit cost. Increased attack rate, damage and HP
Siege Bomb: unit and factory cost reduced. Explosion radius slightly increased.
Claw Bot: Increased HP, slightly increased factory cost.
Hover Collector: Crystal capacity increased by 5.
Sniper Racer: removed solo passive, increased damage and range, increased Spy Cam sight range, raised cap slightly.
Repair Trike: HP increased, cost increased, damage and attack rate increased. Area of active ability increased.
Robo Grenadier: doubled sight range, slightly decreased attack range making them a lot more self reliant. cost +10. attack cooldown -1s. HP +20
Swarmer: Increased cost, raised HP from 50 to 75
Stun Walker: Damage and attack range increased, cap increased, unit & factory cost decreased
Bomb Bike: increased factory cap 4 to 6, slightly increased cost, increased damage
Buckler Mech: HP +60. Factory cost +100, unit cost +20. Factory cap +2, unit cap -1, so overall unit cap 12 instead of 5.
Lightning Tank: increased the width of the attack beam
Tick Walker: Factory cost -20. Skill damage +10. Attack damage +0,4.
Flame Walker: factory cost -80.
Hacks
Underdog: lower cap raised to 180
Battle Archive:
Refinery cap node: only affects the harvester factories now.
BUGFIXES:
Better position defending and auto-attack behaviour: units should not come to stop in a state where they ignore enemies in range, idle animation should now set in properly when idle and auto attack targets that are non-attackers now will be switched to attackers if they come into range
Fixed loudness distance curves, so shot sounds should still be audible when the cam is zoomed out. Some of these audio sources are buried deep in some unit, so if you notice a sound not being audible when you zoom the cam out, please let us know.
HEAT: fixed scaling on production time bonus for enemies on high heat, so it should no longer reach negative values.
F4 now only selects non-building harvesters
Fixed missing healer tag on Recon Forward Base spawn
Fixed Robo Timeouter attack and changed it so only the ones that hit their target get destroyed.
Fixed CF transporter sound being non locational.
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27 May 2026Developer post
Small patch
WELCOME NEW ENGINEERS! We are so happy with how many new players have joined us since the 1.0 launch! The amount of feedback has been amazing and a bit overwhelming too. We are still working our way to read and document everything. But here is a first patch addressing some of the
WELCOME NEW ENGINEERS!
We are so happy with how many new players have joined us since the 1.0 launch!
The amount of feedback has been amazing and a bit overwhelming too. We are still working our way to read and document everything.
But here is a first patch addressing some of the issues that have popped up.
We also added a little additional layer of highlighting to the engis as well as a small icon on their HP bar so it should be easier to find them or notice them, when you accidentally have them in a group.
You can see the highlight below.
Eagle eyed readers might also spot a hint for the next specialist...
We also made some additional changes to the easiest difficulty to make it a little more meditative.
And of course we fixed some bugs that have been reported.
More coming soon, thank you so much for playing!
-- Mario & Martin
P.S: as always, if you want to be the first to get new changes you can just opt into the beta branch in the games Steam settings. It's where we always push new changes to, before we roll them out for everyone.
Version 1.0.5
BALANCE:
MEDITATIVE DIFFICULTY: added longer build times to enemy units and made enemy builder drones less effective, so it will take them longer to construct new buildings.
Made small adjustment to some enemy setups
GENERAL CHANGES:
Added some new hints for the loading screen
Added additional highlights to Engineers, to make them stand out more. Also made sure their Health bars will always be shown on top of other units bars.
BUGFIXES:
Fixed missing image on PCX Healing Spire
Hopefully fixed weirdly thick fog on Forest biome
Set incinerator active in balance file, so it should be appearing in the moddable files now.
Headhunter “flashlight” now only active, when it has actived its active skill.
Empty options file now should not happen any more - but if it does:
Empty options file does not result in the game not loading any more
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14 May 2026Developer post
1.0 IS LIVE! TIME TO UNLEASH THE CASTLE
IT IS DONE! After 1.5y in Early Access and 6.5y of development: Rogue Command is done . Martin and me (Mario) just pushed the button and released Rogue Command - our first game - onto Steam as a fully grown, no longer Early Access, game. Even with the 1.0 we are not quite done wi
IT IS DONE!
After 1.5y in Early Access and 6.5y of development: Rogue Command is done.
Martin and me (Mario) just pushed the button and released Rogue Command - our first game - onto Steam as a fully grown, no longer Early Access, game.
Even with the 1.0 we are not quite done with it yet, there is some more cool stuff coming down the line.
But: it is now the game we wanted to make, at the level of quality we wanted to achieve. And it has an awesome new trailer:
Watch on YouTube
THE GAME WE WANTED TO MAKE
When we set out we wanted to make a singleplayer RTS game that allows you to have the feeling of discovery when coming up with creative builds that we had learned to love from games like Slay the Spire and Monster Train.
But we wanted it to feel right. Like a real RTS game, one of the ones we grew up with. We love auto-battlers and tower defense and all the cool little sub genres that have spun off. But we wanted to have you control your units, build your bases and manage an economy. We wanted it to play like StarCraft or Command & Conquer Generals.
Throughout all of development these two guiding ideas were the basis for every decision.
a great feeling RTS
with a huge variety of crazy builds
And we actually pulled it off! We have thousands and thousands of players and many of them have played it for dozens or hundreds of hours.
And even though this is an insane game to tackle as a duo, we managed to make a game that (as of writing this) sits very comfortably at 91% positive reviews. That is fricking nuts.
When I was writing a press release about our 1.0, I had this thought that, if we could show this to our teenage selves, this probably would have been their favorite game. And while the game is far from perfect, I think that is really the case.
THANK YOU!!! - ALL THE WAY FROM THE DEMO TO EARLY ACCESS TO THE FULL RELEASE
We worked really hard to get here. But a big part of why the game has turned out as well as it has, is because it found its community.
From the demo release early 2022 (I had to double check this for a second and then take a deep breath...) there were those of you who saw something cool in our game. And then took time out of their lives to share your thoughts with us. I am sure here and there things slipped through the cracks, but we really tried to read everything. And then we tried to synthesize this feedback with our guiding ideas and find solutions that stayed true to both the intention of the feedback and our vision.
Oh... and then there were of course hundreds and hundreds of tiny to small to gamebreaking bugs, that you helped us track down and fix.
If you have ever taken the time to share your feedback with us, either here on the Steam Forums, in a video or our discord: thank you. It meant so much.
WHAT'S IN THE 1.0 RELEASE

The 1.0 we rolled out today is coming with awesome new content.
5 new Ascensions: 11 to 15 are introducing a bunch of new enemy units and variants and most importantly 5 new bosses, including the final boss right at the heart of the PCX threat.
The Castle: our new turret specialist. An incredibly powerful defensive structure in its own right, it also allows you to rain down destruction all across the map with its powerful global active ability. If you ever thought Rogue Command could support a turtle playstyle better, I think you are going to have a lot of fun with this!
WHAT IS YET TO COME
As hinted in the intro, there is more coming for Rogue Command in the future.
more specialists
more enemy variants
We'll use the influx of new players to get more feedback and data on balancing.
We will continue to eliminate as many bugs as we can.
That's what we know for sure and the folder of ideas is filled to the brim, so let's see where the journey takes us.
A PERSONAL NOTE
(maybe don't read, if you want to just be hyped up...)
On most days it felt very natural and incredibly fun to be present in the community for me. Sometimes it was hard not to get shaken by a harsh (and worse correct) bit of feedback when a day was already tough. And there were some very very tough days.
I was not sure, if I should include this part here, but to me it is very ingrained in how the game came to be.
The pandemic shattered our workflows at a time where the two of us just had gotten into the groove. It was weird and scary and psychologically challenging. And it made being a parent a lot harder, something I talked about a lot with my mother.
And right in the thick of that situation she got the news that she probably had cancer (that is why track 30 on the Soundtrack DLC is called "waiting for that call").
Then the possibility became a certainty. She got treatment and got better for a while. A year of normalcy the amazing modern medicine bought us against the odds.
But then the cancer came back. Our visits and calls became shorter, because she no longer had the strength. And then the summer before the game went into Early Access, she passed away.
She never played games herself, but she was always curious when I was still living at home, instead of judging them. And incredibly supportive when I started to work on a game myself. She always asked about the state of the game, asked if another youtuber had made a video and listened to me talking about game design hot takes for hours. I miss her everyday.
And not long before my mother passed another very close family member received a devastating cancer diagnosis. A fight that is still ongoing and weighing on me, even as I am trying to get hyped for our full release here.
So if you took the time to say something nice (or something tough, but in a nice tone) throughout the last years, thank you. The comments often really helped me getting my focus back or, on the really bad days, even getting out of bed.
And if Martin had not been such a profound anchor for me on top of being an amazing human to work with, there is a very high chance the game would have never come out and our awesome little company would have never gotten its first full release. Thank you.
--Mario
Alright. Deep breath.
And now let's roll out some tanks, shoot the PCX to pieces and have some fun!
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01 May 2026Developer post
Rogue Command is leaving Early Access on May 14
ROGUE COMMAND FULL RELEASE - MAY 14 It is almost time. After more than 6 years in development and 1.5 years in Early Access our game is ready to go into 1.0. Rogue Command Full Release is coming May 14. 1.0 UPDATE CONTENT The launch will be accompanied by a big content update: Ca
ROGUE COMMAND FULL RELEASE - MAY 14
It is almost time.
After more than 6 years in development and 1.5 years in Early Access our game is ready to go into 1.0.
Rogue Command Full Release is coming May 14.
1.0 UPDATE CONTENT
The launch will be accompanied by a big content update:
Castle joins the roster of Specialists and expands it to 8. Castle is all about turrets and super weapons, giving those of you who love to turtle a much-requested dedicated starter.
The difficulty climb through the Ascension levels extends from 10 to 15, as 5 new Ascensions with unique bosses and modifiers complete the gauntlet. These include the final boss that caps off the fight against the planet-devouring PCX.
LAUNCH DISCOUNT
Rogue Command will have a 30% launch discount, bringing it down to $13.99 from $19.99, our lowest price yet.
MORE NEWS SOON
I will write a longer post when we are launching. For now there is still some small bugs to fix and a lot of Emails to write.
But let me tell you, we are very excited. And so thankful for everyone of you who took the time to give us feedback or leave a review. We tried our best to incorporate as much of your thoughts as possible while staying true to our original vision for the game.
edit: why did no one let me know, I misspelled "Early Acces" in the title. XD
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02 Apr 2026Developer post
Balance Update and some important fixes - Early Access Upate #17
Update #17 (plus hotfix) Most importantly this update addresses an issue where your units and turrets would not target enemy spawns correctly, making some enemy types incredibly frustrating to deal with. This was the reason we decided to push this out early. Apart from that we ar
Update #17 (plus hotfix)
Most importantly this update addresses an issue where your units and turrets would not target enemy spawns correctly, making some enemy types incredibly frustrating to deal with.
This was the reason we decided to push this out early. Apart from that we are currently working on balancing, so good chunk of those changes are now going live as well.
One of the bigger changes, is that the Mantis redirect mechanic has been removed and instead it just takes half damage from all sources.
UPDATE:
We just rolled out out 0.9.103 a hotfix, since there was a small chance that some runs would not start correctly due to some changes.
See the full changelist below.
BALANCE:
AI Changes:
prevented some higher tier AI variants to show up in earlier runs.
Removed some starting buildings from the PCX Tunneler Variant in earlier Ascensions.
minor build time adjustments to make some tank AI variants a little bit weaker.
Changes to player units / buildings
BUFFS:
Ranger Tank: sped up projectile and increased hit box to reduce the chance of missing moving targets, also slightly raised cap and damage
sped up MG Truck panic projectile, but reduced the duration of the effect a bit.
MANTIS - removed redirect, now simply takes half damage instead.
Headhunter active grants attack cooldown reduction as well. Slightly buffed stats.
Stun Walker: Increased allowed unit and factory cap. Reduced cost. Better damage and attack rate.
Swarmer: Significant better stats
Laser Tank: better attack and extended skill range
Shotgun Bot: damage increase. large skill damage increase. unit cap raised.
Rocket Walker: faster attacks. quicker production
Tier0Tank: Factory cheaper. Slight damage increase
Fire Drag: increased damage and improved production
Defender Tank: improved production caps and improved production time
Welding Runner: Attacks very quickly now, damage adjusted, but DPS improved a lot. Skill changed to a ranged skill. Unit costs more, but factories costs less. Should be pretty good now.
Robo Time Outer: better movespeed, damage and range
Mine Layer Hover: drastically reduced skill cost, increased attack damage and speed. Added shield. and mine damage
Bomb Creep damage, HP and speed increased
Support Trike: damage increased. skill heal greatly increased and radius increased, factory cap increased
DEBUFFS:
Energy Sniper Mech: increased factory cost, reduced range by 2
BUGFIXES:
Fixed enemy being able to spawn behind player on some maps
Fixed Cull Turret passive not triggering on spawns and buildings
Fixed: some PCX units being too big on cards, making them unreadable
Fixed Mantis having outdated description in all languages but EN
Units can attack non-unit-spawns again
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19 Mar 2026Developer post
Hotfix - V 0.9.97
Version 0.9.97 Just a quick hotfix for some nasty little bugs. BUGFIXES: Don’t trigger ai unit stuck handling if movement is disabled (e.g. if PCXSiegeArmor is using its active skill) Place status icons of entities at the right position again Allow use of ESC to close tutorial wi
Version 0.9.97
Just a quick hotfix for some nasty little bugs.
BUGFIXES:
Don’t trigger ai unit stuck handling if movement is disabled (e.g. if PCXSiegeArmor is using its active skill)
Place status icons of entities at the right position again
Allow use of ESC to close tutorial windows - if you tried this before it actually led to a state where the game was basically soft locked.
If you are on beta the fixes will come over there later today. Do not switch back to main, it might mess up your saved run.
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18 Mar 2026Developer post
A Big Step Forward - Early Access Update #16
A big step forward... Early Access Update #16: Version 0.9.94 This update changes the game a lot. Summing up the highlights: ROBOS: It makes Robos more viable with a whole list of balance changes, new hacks & upgrades. NEW UNITS, HACKS & UPGRADES: More than 10 hacks and u
A big step forward...
Early Access Update #16: Version 0.9.94
This update changes the game a lot. Summing up the highlights:
ROBOS: It makes Robos more viable with a whole list of balance changes, new hacks & upgrades.
NEW UNITS, HACKS & UPGRADES: More than 10 hacks and upgrades each, 4 new units and 2 new support buildings help fill out some gaps.
REWORKS AND REBALANCES: A lot of units, hacks and upgrades have been reworked. For example the Core Harvesters can be redeployed now. Robo Marines shoot a triple salvo, making them benefit more from their bounty skill and many more small and big tweaks.
UI OVERHAUL: We rearranged some of the UI to make it more coherent and to add clickable buttons for some functions that previously were only accessible via hotkeys.
BATTLE ARCHIVE: It makes some painful but necessary changes to the Battle Archive by replacing Universal Armor and Universal Shields.
RETROACTIVE ASCENSION ACHIEVEMENTS: If you beat a higher ascension, you will now automatically be granted the earlier ones as well.
PERFORMANCE: It should greatly improve performance.
I will keep it a bit shorter and go back to work, where there is a lot going on…
HELP US FOR THE FINAL EARLY ACCESS PHASE:
As the version numbers suggest (Although that is actually pure coincidence) we are quickly approaching version 1.0. There is new content cooking on the beta branch, that could use your feedback! A new specialist and new Ascensions are being tested and will be held there until we launch out of Early Access.
You can simply access the beta branch by enabling it in your steam library, right clicking the game going to properties -> Game Versions & Betas -> changing the branch to beta. Although called “latest unstable version” it is very rare that there is actually instability going on, usually it is our way to get feedback on new content. So if you want to help us out on the last stretch to 1.0 we would greatly appreciate you playing the beta and giving feedback either here on the Steam Forums or our Discord.
Read the full changelist below:
Version 0.9.94
GENERAL CHANGES:
Key rebinding now supports side mouse buttons (Mouse Back / Mouse Forward)
new PCX Variants and units
Combat Engineer rework - can now teleport to refineries.
Called down buildings now trigger chests
Don't show health decimals on card
Upgrades "Vampiric Attack", "Burnout Culture", "Material Transfer" and "Consume Death" cannot be assigned to Bombs any longer (except for Rocket Marines)
Upgrades “Infested Skill” and “Robust Skillset” can only be applied to blueprints with active skill that is not a toggle
Upgrade “Skill Damage” can no longer be applied to Robo Marine
Unlock all ascension Steam achievements up to the current beaten ascension
AI: If possible a Builder Base won't be built at the same location two times in a row
AI now avoids placing Builder Bases at unreachable positions
AI units now have a chance to flee in combat
Cleaned up some effects which should lead to less hitches when new units spawn
Cleaned image size scaling to use less RAM and initialize units faster
Improved visual on some smoke trails
changed building selection visual to better resemble their pathing size.
A long list of different optimizations that should improve performance overall and remove a lot of the worst dips in performance
Heat Level Display changed from Roman Numerals to normal numbers prefixed by an "H”
PCX Fortress has a cooler death now.
Strength Drop should no longer cause a slow down
CONTENT ADDITIONS AND CHANGES:
New Unit: Siege Bomb (XP Level 20)
New Unit: Robo MG Bot (XP Level 39)
New Unit: Hover Jumper (XP Level 37)
New Unit: Med Walker (XP Level 34)
New Super Weapon: Precision Artillery (XP Level 37)
New Support Building: Strength Uplink (XP Level 26)
Removed Hacks: Ambient Destruction, Rush Home, Explosive Obstacles - because basically nobody ever picks them.
New Hack: Protect The Squad (XP Level 0)
New Hack: Efficient Fortifications (XP Level 34)
New Hack: Got your back (XP Level 0)
New Hack: Drive By Hit (XP Level 25)
New Hack: AdvancedEngines (XP Level 30)
New Hack: ElusivePack (XP Level 5)
New Hack: Blurred Target (XP Level 19)
New Hack: Targeted Blast (XP Level 29)
New Hack: Concussive Blast (XP Level 50)
New Hack: Critical Strength (XP Level 25)
New Hack: Overconsumption (XP Level 0)
New Hack: Scattered Optics (XP Level 32)
New Hack: Robust Benefits (XP Level 0)
New Hack: Robotic Solidarity (XP Level 7)
New Hack: Strengthened Impact (XP Level 35)
New Hack: Get Well Sooner(XP Level 47)
New Hack: Healing Expertise (XP Level 8)
New Hack: Loaded Bots (XP Level 12)
Reworked Hack: Melee Uprising
Reworked Hack: Crystalline Undergrowth
Reworked Hack: Efficiency Model
Reworked Hack: Rich Wood
Reworked Hack: Spider Buddies
Removed Upgrades: Anti Burn Coating - because nobody picks
New Upgrade: Advanced Targeting (XP Level 21)
New Upgrade: Advanced Reload (XP Level 10)
New Upgrade: Spark Of Resistance (XP Level 31)
New Upgrade: Sticky Finish (XP Level 37)
New Upgrade: Wrecking Ball (XP Level 47)
New Upgrade: Terrain Clearance (XP Level 50)
New Upgrade: Back To Base (XP Level 42)
New Upgrade: Future Rewards (XP Level 14)
New Upgrade: Focused Blast (XP Level 22)
New Upgrade: Delayed Detonator (XP Level 12)
New Upgrade: Shared Charge (XP Level 16)
New Upgrade: Attack Upgrade (XP Level 0)
Reworked Upgrade: Ghostly Protector
Reworked Upgrade: Armored Attack
Reworked Healing Fire - Incinerator Specialist Hack
Reworked Shrinking Fire - Incinerator Specialist Hack - is now called Persistent Flames
BALANCE:
Robo Rebalancing: Factory cost for a lot of Robo Factories decreased
Reworked Core Harvester - can now use the skill to manually redeploy.
Increased the allowed maximum factory of a lot of starting units factories
Incinerator Active ability sequence happens a lot quicker, making it more reliable
Heavy MG Tank: Skill and passive reworked with Turbo instead of self-burn
MP ChargeBot: Skill and passive reworked with Robust instead of self-burn
Changed Hack: Quantity over Quality - HP reduction now only 15% instead of 30%, Cost reduction still 20%.
Changed Hack: Long Reach gives +2 instead of +3 range.
Changed Upgrade: Team Taker - now with slightly lower upside and a way smaller downside.
Changed Upgrade: Benevolent Ghost - now applies effect to most damaged units instead of closest and to 5 instead of 3 targets.
Changed Upgrade Payback: Duration increased to 10 sec from 8.
Reworked Bounty Bot skill and buffed it
Improved Health Boost Upgrade from 20 to 50 HP
Upgrade Critical Exit: target and duration increased.
Upgrade: Premium Choice - effect improved slightly
Robo Poker attack rate and damage buffed
Small Health Boost Hack gives 20 instead of 10 HP
Meta Node: Healing Home Base Range increased
Healing Rush Upgrade: Heal increased from 1 to 5 HP
Robust Revival Upgrade: chance increased to 30 from 25
Frontliner Upgrade: Tradeoff more favorable.
Robo Micro now has an active ability that grants it stealth.
Changed spawn limit and lifetime on Leaking Egg effect to be more intuitive with description.
Mantis - Recovery passive changed to trigger with a fixed range instead of sight range. So raising sight is no longer a disadvantage for Mantis
some objective buildings block player building construction like PCX Builderbases
changed A5 building armor to an HP boost on A7
BATTLE ARCHIVE CHANGES:
Universal Shields: Replaced by Shield Recharge Time node
Universal Armor: Replaced by Advanced Armor
Armor Shred: Replaced by Critical Armor Rounds
Healer Boost Node max level increased to 10
BUGFIXES:
Prohibit exception that occurs if Phase Walker gets killed while targeting the Phase Walker skill
Siege Bomb no longer falsely triggers hacks for vehicles to appear.
Prevent exception that may occur if ai wants to produce something in the moment the level finishes
Advanced Reload cannot be given to Furnace any more
Shift-left-click in Battle Archive not always incremented node as far as it could - this is now fixed
Heavy MG Tank no longer has an unused skill range value, falsely allowing those upgrades to be applied
Turret Veterancy - Fixed that some Turrets and super weapon / support buildings did not have a max rank value, preventing them from reaching Veteran status.
If AI units get stuck they try teleporting out of the situation instead of being stuck forever
Core Harvesters now can deploy on cells with other units on it as long as it is no other Core Harvester and they cannot undeploy on building cells.
Hotfix: battle archive view enabled in shops by default.
Advanced armor Battle Archive node works as advertised
Med Walker heal lines no longer hang around when there is no healing target
removed some auto playing particle systems from some obstacles
Bugfix: Light Artillery shoots three times again
future reward behavior matches description
fixed Datapod highlight ring
fixed PCX Bombers not attacking correctly
Fixed small typo in Flame Walker skill description
Attacks on things that can't be attacked (like crates) will be converted into attack move on this position instead
Display mana tooltips on card again
Fixed typo in tutorial
Fixed: Left click for attack move order could be blocked by projectiles
Fixed: PCX turrets tried to answer attacks even if target is out of reach and in between did not target anything else
When auto-attacking and target flees out of range choose a new target if existent
PCX Dragon Bug correctly immune to Burn status
Static Eater ability now only targets enemies
Don’t Touch Me - Hack now also affects enemy spawns
Engineer Death Stun now gets retriggered and should also catch enemy spawns etc.
Fixed Missile Truck impact sounds not playing
Fixed Swarm Walker Egg playing sound in selection screen
Select Idle Harvesters doesn't select busy Core Harvesters any more
Fixed: entities that visualize something with a circle when selected hide it if applying a skill
Visualization circles don't need another selection click to update their size anymore
Changed settings to have vsync turned off as default correctly
Fixed Weird green ring on FireMech Card
Fixed Battle Archive Factory Cost Reduction not working correctly
Fixed Battle Archive Skill Damage Increase not being applied to correct targets
Fixed Production Boost Tower skill effect not disappearing
Fixed Battle Archive Node that allows engineer range now matches the description
Fixed PCX Crystal Cleaner skill effect and visual match correctly now.
Fixed: MechCommander skill doesn't activate reliably on PCX Units
Fallback win condition: if all enemy buildings and units are destroyed the player wins
Fixed PCX Pokers with high attack rate having trouble dealing damage
Now Cooldown changes are reflected in fire point delays, too
Fixed Player Unit Chests will no longer spawn Spawns.
Fixed Battle Archive Building MP Charge node info not being reflected on cards.
Upgrades "Advanced Targeting", "Critical Growth", "Critical Slowness" and "Payback" can no longer be applied to blueprints without attack damage
Reroll button is deactivated for a second after clicking to prevent spamming it
Battle Archive: if using shift left-click: correct visual and audio feedback if fully upgrading or failing to do so
Fixed PCX Fortress no longer deals friendly damage
Fixed Strength icon not showing correctly on some turrets and buildings
Fixed options menu headers being very ugly in some languages
Added visual indicator when Marine Blast Tower is ready.
Added missing death state for CF Transporter
Fixed CF Transporter Description
Fixed missing localization for Fire Bomb
Fixed Firebrand PCX loca and some logic
Fixed some buildings status effect particle systems and icons not being wired correctly - there still might be some missing, let us know if you encounter something off.
Fixed Enemy Sense Battle Archive effect not scaling correctly with sight range of engineers.
Lower the probability that crashes occur when the level is loading or while in combat
Thanks for reading, let us know if you have any questions, we usually try to answer every comment here or in the forums (although sometimes it might take us quite a while).
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23 Dec 2025Developer post
Unlock the Archive! - Keep earning XP levels - Early Access Update #15
KEEP EARNING BATTLE ARCHIVE POINTS AS LONG AS YOU WANT! Early Access Update #15: Version 0.9.88 While the list on this update is a lot shorter than the last major ones (mostly because we had more smaller updates in between this time), this one has a feature that many of you have
KEEP EARNING BATTLE ARCHIVE POINTS AS LONG AS YOU WANT!
Early Access Update #15: Version 0.9.88
While the list on this update is a lot shorter than the last major ones (mostly because we had more smaller updates in between this time), this one has a feature that many of you have been asking for:
THE PROFILE XP CAP IS GONE
Ok, it is not completely gone, but it has been raised from 50 to 500,000. I am fairly certain that will never be reached. But hey, if you get there let me know and I'll be happy to raise it again. :)
So if you want to you can keep pushing through the XP Levels as long as you want.
THANK YOU FOR A GREAT 2025!
Thanks so much for the support you showed us this year. Everybody who took the time to write a review.
Everybody who sat down and wrote a feedback thread in the Steam Forums.
And thank you to our amazing Discord Community.
You all helped make the game that much better and every encouraging word helped us keep going and trying to fix issues, add cool new stuff.
We are very close to done with what we wanted to have for our 1.0 launch, which feels amazing and that release will be such a good package thanks to you.
So much love and thanks from two friends in Germany who took on this crazy project and let's have an amazing 2026 together.
Martin & Mario
Oh yeah, read the full patch notes below.
Version 0.9.88
GENERAL CHANGES:
Profile XP level is now basically uncapped. So you can keep earning Battle Archive Tokens as long as you want.
Minor particle changes
BUG FIXES:
Deselecting by clicking ground now also deselects neutrals and enemies
Run Results: fixed the delay between two unlock containers
Fixed the possibility of having no crystal field at player start position
BALANCE:
Production boost tower cost and skill cost increased.
Robo Marine attack changed to three shot salvo, damage per shot and attack rate decreased. DPS changed from 3,56 to 4,8. Weapon Range +0,5
Robo Micro cap and production duration buffed.
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22 Dec 2025Developer post
Version 0.9.86 - Pinning Card Tooltips and Bugfixes
Version 0.9.86 - Pinned Tooltips, Ground Click to deselect and Bugfixes This is a small update that addresses some bugs and adds some quality of life improvements and bugfixes. Pinning Tooltips When you hover over a card tooltip you can now right click to pin it. This allows you
Version 0.9.86 - Pinned Tooltips, Ground Click to deselect and Bugfixes
This is a small update that addresses some bugs and adds some quality of life improvements and bugfixes.
Pinning Tooltips
When you hover over a card tooltip you can now right click to pin it. This allows you to see nested tooltips or look up what entity an upgrade or hack would spawn.
Expanded Population Cap Information
We also expanded the tooltip on factories, so now it should be more clear what the state of your building and population cap is.
Option: Clicking Ground Deselects
If you want you can now set the game to deselect everything when you click on the ground. So if this how you prefer your game to behave you can now make it so!
Coming next - unlocked XP cap!
If no issues pop up in the version currently on the beta branch we can hopefully roll out the next update, which will remove the Profile XP level cap very soon, which will allow you to keep earning archive points basically indefinitely.
Read the full Patch Notes below.
Version 0.9.86

FEATURES:
Up to two tooltips that are showing cards can now be pinned with right mouse click
SETTINGS:
New option toggle: Clicking ground deselects
GENERAL CHANGES:
Additional factory tooltip which shows the unit and building cap
If map generation fails too often a fallback map will be used instead of throwing an exception
BUG FIXES:
Fixed card tooltip not vanishing in intermission screen if showing a card tooltip in deck overview and pressing escape to close it
Fixed typo in meta progression reroll description
Fixed calculation of wrong target cell that could happen if (attack) move was placed on unreachable ground
XXL Bomb triggers correctly if initial target has died
BALANCE:
Adjusted Incinerator specialist hackseption in settings menu resulting in invalid resolution and frame rate options
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10 Dec 2025Developer post
Version 0.9.85 - Options Graphics Settings Hotfix
Version 0.9.85 Hotfix update: as mentioned yesterday this is the second part of out options menu fix. Everything should work as expected now. Version 0.9.85 BUG FIXES: Fixed Incinerator accidentally having the Robust tag, making hacks and upgrades associated with that show up. Fi
Version 0.9.85
Hotfix update: as mentioned yesterday this is the second part of out options menu fix.
Everything should work as expected now.
Version 0.9.85
BUG FIXES:
Fixed Incinerator accidentally having the Robust tag, making hacks and upgrades associated with that show up.
Fixed exception in settings menu resulting in invalid resolution and frame rate options
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09 Dec 2025Developer post
Version 0.9.84 - Bugfix update / option to disable volumetric fog
Version 0.9.84 Hotfix update: we just fixed some important bugs with this one. Very likely there will be another bug fix update tomorrow, since there is another weird bug where the graphics menu dropdowns for resolution do not work. This is already fixed on the beta branch, so yo
Version 0.9.84
Hotfix update: we just fixed some important bugs with this one. Very likely there will be another bug fix update tomorrow, since there is another weird bug where the graphics menu dropdowns for resolution do not work. This is already fixed on the beta branch, so you can just switch to that version, if you want to make a change there. We had to make some changes to the options menu, because it would often just not initialize correctly when you opened it the first time and the fix for that broke some other things.
We think we caught all of them now, sorry if you were affected by these issues.
Version 0.9.84
OPTIONS:
New option toggle: Enable volumetric fog
BUG FIXES:
Fixed projectile on PCX Hunter Jeep and Stun Walker
Fixed Options Menu showing a blank page very often when it gets opened the first time.
Fixed Controls Menu not extending far enough down after added new controls
Fixed endless loading bug if run is lost, or won or returned into main menu from level in the first two minutes and then immediately starting a new run or continuing the old one
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03 Dec 2025Developer post
Incinerator, Glossary, Controls Update, More Options - Early Access Update #14
Incinerator, Glossary, controls update, expanded options - Early Access Update #14 Update 14 takes us a huge step closer to what we want to have for the 1.0 release of the game. New fire specialist, the Incinerator and some new units. Steam Achievements Big update to the unit con
Incinerator, Glossary, controls update, expanded options - Early Access Update #14
Update 14 takes us a huge step closer to what we want to have for the 1.0 release of the game.
New fire specialist, the Incinerator and some new units.
Steam Achievements
Big update to the unit controls, getting a lot closer to the intended behavior and to how players of SC2 would expect it to behave.
Patrol Command
More options to customize your camera and some more control customization.
Glossary
A lot of Quality of life improvements, like a different style for consumable drops and new warnings.
Post Fight Statistics
INCINERATOR
This update comes with a hot new specialist. Capable of raining down fire missiles from a long distance it has maybe the most powerful active ability in the game. Incinerator is all about using fire to your advantage.
Some details on the Hacks around it might be changed a bit. But those are coming very soon and are no drawback to the fun of just watching the world burn.
ACHIEVEMENTS
We have them now!
A lot of you asked for it and we always said, we wanted to add them relatively shortly before we reach 1.0. So here we go.
UPDATED UNIT CONTROLS & PATROLS
One of the big remaining issues with the core gameplay was that the Attack move and Force attack setup felt very foreign to most players. And on top of that the idle aggression and attack move implementation could lead to your units being a bit over eager sometimes, which could lead to scenarios, where they would start wandering around the map or spreading out in enemy bases in an overly aggressive way.
We have changed that setup and the behavior quite a bit, so if you are familiar with SC2 controls, the game should feel a lot more familiar. Attack move now only is a thing when you order it on the ground and an Attack order on a target is now always a direct attack order.
This has freed up CTRL to be used as a select all of type button.
The uhm, passive aggressive idle behavior of our units has also been toned back quite a lot, giving you better control over their combat engagements.
Additionally we changed the way you assign units to control groups to work as in SC2 as well. Including the way shift behaves.
A patrol order has also been added. A single click will have the units move between their current position and the target location. If you want to have more control you can add multiple waypoints to the patrol by holding shift and letting go of it when you are done. The units will engage all enemies they spot and then continue their patrol.
NEW OPTIONS
Another thing that has been asked for in your feedback many times is having more control over the behavior of the camera.So this update adds ways for you to control the camera speed, disable edge panning - which will make playing on the Steam Deck a lot easier I think. There is some more options as well, that allow you to tailor some things to your preference. Check the full changelist down below for the details.
GLOSSARY
The glossary also goes live for everyone with this update.
I wrote a whole article about that recently, so check that for the details, or even better: just pause the game and read up on how Armor worked again or why you are struggling against those enemies with the cogwheel in their HP bar. Or why you should avoid attacking enemies on higher ground.
COMBAT STATISTICS
Sometimes after a hard fought battle it is nice to be able to look at some numbers. That's why we added a post combat statistic screen. That gives you some juicy insight into all kinds of different aspects of the last fight.
Not all of them will feature such high numbers as this one from one of our discord users, who is playing at a wayyyy to high Heat Level. But it's not about the size of numbers, it's what you can learn from them.
QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS
Did you know that some Drops are multi-use while some of them are consumable? Well if you did, then you read their description, which so far was the only way to learn about that difference.
Now consumable drops get a little red highlight and some additional detail in their border frames, so they are easier to differentiate. Some people have suggested also sorting them into two groups, I am not sure, if that is necessary and would love to hear your opinion on that or if the graphical highlights are enough.
Also Skill Buttons and their hotkeys will stay in chronological order of when you received them in your deck. So their order will be stable throughout a run and no one will suddenly steal the Q key from your specialist.
There is more, but I think the text is long enough.
BETA BRANCH UPDATES
If you want to get all the updates early and help us test out the new changes, you can switch your game to the Beta branch in your Steam library. Right click -> Properties -> Betas and select the beta from the dropdown menu.
See the full list of changes below.
FULL CHANGELIST:
Version 0.9.79
STEAM ACHIEVEMENTS:
Added Steam Achievements
FEATURES:
Patrol command (you can queue up several patrol positions with shift)
Added a Glossary to the database and in game.
Post level stats
CONTENT:
New specialist: Incinerator
Added some new tutorials
New unit: Hover Jumper
New unit: Care Tank
New Enemy unit: PCX Repair Tank
New Biome: Cave in

SETTINGS:
New option toggle: Select All Combat Units includes Combat Engineer (and default is off)
Camera move speed setting added (will be refined for value span)
New option toggle: allow attack-move on friendlies
New option toggle: enable screen edge pan
New option toggle: enable color blind mode for health bars
New control hotkey setting: refund building
Refined camera move speed setting
GENERAL CHANGES:
There is no more force-attack or attack-move on units/buildings. Attack button or hotkey (“A”) activates (force-)attack on units or buildings (no matter if friend, neutral or enemy) and attack-move on ground
When executing an attack-move the search radius is a bit different (max(5, weapon range) instead of max(sight range, weapon range))
If units are ordered to stop somewhere (but not to hold position) they only follow enemies in a short radius around the stop position
In-Game card view status effects now have descriptions as tooltips
Pressing Ctrl while clicking on a player unit or building selects all visible ones of the same type (same as double clicking on it)
Pressing Shift + control group number adds selected units / buildings to given control group
Pressing Alt + control group number removes selected units / buildings from all control groups and sets given control group to only the selected units / buildings
Pressing Alt + Shift + control group number removes selected units / buildings from all control groups and adds them to given control group
Pressing Delete key destroys selected buildings (without confirmation dialog) and refunds parts of the cost
You now can hold shift to place down multiple buildings without re-selecting them
Health Bars for Engineers and Specialist now have a border and are a bit bigger than normal units.
Sort skill buttons (and hotkeys) by order in deck.
When selecting Phase Walker a second circle shows the current skill range.
Consumable Drops have different highlight color.
Unit lost message - audio coming soon.
Cooldown for unit under attack message increased.
Made crystal altar a little more distinct from “shootables”.
BALANCE:
Smart Fires created by Burning Droplets are only half the size
Heal Drop: slight rework for more clarity.
Removed charge up on Charge Laser Tank, Energy Sniper Mech and Lightning Tower. The charge causes issues that are hard to solve and does not add that much. So it will no longer be used.
Crystal growth drop no longer triggers on synthetic crystals and some other special cases.
Increased shield regeneration cooldown from 4 to 6 sec.
Combat Engi HP increased
Increased HP of neutral buildings to prevent them being so easily killed by accidental damage.
PCX Launchers will not be present on the start of a level.
Decreased difficulty of some earlier enemies and increased that of later ones to smooth out the curve a bit.
Lightning Tank active ability moved to Stun Walker instead.
Mantis redirect targets closest ally instead of most healthy visible.
T0 Artillery Tank buffed
Shield drop effect reduced to a reasonable amount
Care Tank: Skill range and sight range increased.
BUG FIXES:
Prevent controls options list from being cut off on non 16:9 displays.
If switching profiles switch the tutorial state, too
If tutorials have been reset prevent weird loading behaviour when continuing run
fixed: Buildings in fog of war can be directly targeted by drops
fixed some harvester attack sounds being audible all over the map
added some missing localization
fixed damage boost for Elite Units meant for their Skill Damage being applied to the attack damage instead.
Fixed heavy lags that could happen with hack Unsettling Flames and burning PCX Builder Bases
Fixed missing light in Shop Deck View.
Fixed walking back to old position after Phase Walker teleportation
Prevent Harmless Opener Meta upgrade from having enemies build their buildings a lot faster too.
Prevent Units from sticking over the card info
Wisdomes and Coin chests will no longer appear in the last level
added missing critical tag to some hacks
fixed PCX Prison icon
fixed Specialist cost not reduced by metagame cost reduction node
removed unmentioned MP passive effect on mana drop
incinerator deactive
metaprogression fix, skill size affects buildings too
Fixed bug that prevented level finishing scene from playing correctly sometimes
Fixed erratic behavior of some homing projectiles.
Fixed incinerator specialist hack tier 2
Fixed bug, where cards would not be all shown, if you opened the deck view very quickly
fixed some unit images
fixed PCX construction sites gaining HP from ascensions and heat, making the enemy build slower.
removed some unnecessary assets which could affect some load times or increase project size.
Fixed missing skill description on PCX Garganto Mech
Fixed mission localization for Phasewalker
Fixed some Hacks not showing up in offers due to a missing tag.
Prevent border assets leaving gaps in some cases.
Fixed tooltips on cards sometimes being triggered unreliably.
Fixed Orbital Artillery targeting effect being spawned multiple times.
Fixed skill size icon overlapping with its text when the size had multiple digits
Fixed Missile Mech sometimes forgetting to play its walk animation when moving
Attack-move calculates new destination if desired destination is not reachable (any more) (same as move command does)
Crystal Dust Catcher does not benefit from the meta harvester cap upgrade
Don't show command chain markers when changing the rally point of a factory
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28 Nov 2025Developer post
Rogue Command Soundtrack is out now!
Rogue Command soundtrack is out now! We just released the soundtrack for our game, as a standalone DLC and as a bundle with the main game. I am very happy about this, because of two things: I made all the music . So it is very cool to have it out there as a package like this. In
Rogue Command soundtrack is out now!
We just released the soundtrack for our game, as a standalone DLC and as a bundle with the main game.
I am very happy about this, because of two things:
I made all the music. So it is very cool to have it out there as a package like this. In my actual Steam library!
But the reason we are releasing it, is that people kept asking for it! Not a crazy amount, but enough to make me finally sit down and put in the not insignificant work to put all of the files together, make some cover art, set up a new steam page etc. And that just feels awesome.
Buying the soundtrack is the only way you can support the game beyond buying it, so know that doing so will be hugely appreciated.
Thanks to the people who kept asking for this and have a great weekend everyone.
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13 Nov 2025Developer post
Glossary Incoming
Wait how did Armor work again? - Look it up in the glossary! The next update will add a feature that has been asked for many times: A Glossary where you can look up all the different concepts and systems in the game.... (Well at least the ones we have written entries for.) So let
04 Oct 2025Developer post
Version 0.8.74 - Unity Security update
Version 0.8.74 Unity Security update : Unity discovered a vulnerability in their engine that is serious enough that they told everyone to update all editor versions AND the apps they built with them. This is that update. They say windows and valve have already been informed and a
26 Sep 2025Developer post
Small balance patch
This patch just has a couple of small adjustments. Slightly improving most economic starters and nerfing the armored harvester a little bit. Balance will be worked on a lot in the coming weeks.
26 Sep 2025Developer post
The Metagame Update - Early Access Update #12
Introducing the Battle Archive - Early Access Update #12 Our new metaprogression system is live for everyone now! We have had some chunky updates before, but this is probably the biggest change to the game yet. Rogue Command moves from a more roguelike oriented progression system
Introducing the Battle Archive - Early Access Update #12
Our new metaprogression system is live for everyone now!
We have had some chunky updates before, but this is probably the biggest change to the game yet. Rogue Command moves from a more roguelike oriented progression system to a roguelite system. This means that you unlock ways to actually gain strength between your runs, not just new stuff to add to the pool.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
The battle archive allows you to invest archive tokens into a huge tree of different upgrades. You gain tokens for every profile XP level and for every new ascension you beat. Assigning points is super easy:
You left click to assign, right click to unassign. Shift buys or sells the whole stack. And if you want something that is further along the tree it will automatically buy the nodes you need to get there.
This makes experimenting with different loadouts super easy. Adding a couple of armor stacks for example really helps making your turrets more of a reliable backbone.
WHY ARE WE INTRODUCING THE BATTLE ARCHIVE?
I have said a lot about that in the last post, when we announced the feature. The most important reason is that we really think it makes the game more fun and more motivating to conquer. The additional layer of tinkering and experimentation really underscores what Rogue Command is all about, coming up with the most bonkers builds and especially those that support your playstyle.
SUBJECT TO CHANGE - LET US KNOW HOW IT FEELS!
Please note, that the Battle Archive might still change significantly. Nodes might be removed, costs might change. Getting the balance right on this is going to take some time and most importantly your feedback.
BATTLE ARCHIVE AND BALANCE - HARDER IS MORE FUN, RIGHT?
The game has been rebalanced from scratch as well. We took a lot more time to actually play test the game ourselves with and without battle archive updates and have really ramped up the difficulty.
Really significantly this time.
Balance is maybe the most important thing we want to focus on before going out of Early Access. For me (Mario) personally, this is the most fun I've had with the game. But I am very aware how skewed my perspective is on this, so please let us know how it feels for you.
Also please do not hesitate to adjust the base difficulty if you feel the game is too hard now, that is why the option exists. The description for the Engaged difficulty was not quite correct, but it is now.
NEW HOTKEYS
Another really great addition are some new hotkeys. From F1 to F5 you now have a set of choices to select:
F1: all visible combat units. I find myself using this all the time. Often you want to just have the army you can see.
F2: still selects all combat units all over the map. When you want to go for that all in attack... or desperately need everything to come back to defend...
F3: Select all harvesters. Again something I use all the time to trigger the harvester skills, really handy.
F4: Select idle harvesters - while the harvesters usually seek their next patch on their own, sometimes you might accidentally send them somewhere else or forget to deploy the Core Harvesters (cough, cough, not that I ever do that...).
F5: Select all buildings with active abilities. This makes going for the super weapon type buildings a lot more fun.
These new keys currently do not have UI elements associated this will likely come later down the road.
HEAT LEVELS UPDATE
Heat levels have also been updated and are a lot harder. Feedback we have gotten indicated that it felt like too much of a slog to get a point where it becomes really hard and therefore we ramped those up as well. This might very well mean that if you have gotten deep into the Heat levels, you will have to find your sweetspot somewhere lower.
Heat overall is still a bit weird. The idea of an endlessly scaling monster is scary from a game design perspective, since there is nothing we can do to make this balanced at all. We know a lot of people still really enjoy the punishment, but please be aware that there is no guarantee for the heat modes to be beatable beyond the single digits.
BUGS!
As always we also have a huge list of bug fixes. I am not completely sure, but I think this might be the longest list we ever had... It was a lot of work to even put together from the backlog. So I thought I'd just mention that we are also always working on that front.
BETA BRANCH UPDATES
If you want to get all the updates early and help us test out the new changes, you can switch your game to the Beta branch in your Steam library. Right click -> Properties -> Betas and select the beta from the dropdown menu.
See the full list of changes below.
FULL CHANGELIST:
Version 0.8.69
GENERAL CHANGES:
BATTLE ARCHIVE: Added permanent roguelite progression element, that allows you to assign points earned every XP level to a big number of different improvements.
From now on it is not allowed to place buildings within skill range of Builder Bases
The building buttons of the engineer now are deactivated if the building is too expensive
Algorithm that centers camera on selected entities now centers on centroid of biggest cluster (instead of centering on centroid of all selected entities)
Added skill description for PCX Crystal Cleaner
Changed how some spawned objects that should not block the path are placed
adjusted HP bar segments for grown HP values.
New hotkeys: select combat units on screen, select all harvesters, select idle harvesters, select buildings with an active ability
Combat engineer now will also be selected when selecting all combat units or all combat units on screen
The settings and the profile folders containing the savegames will now be saved in %userprofile%\\AppData\\LocalLow\\Feneq\\Rogue Command\\ instead of directly in the game directory (to prevent write protection of these directories by ransomware protection software)
Now the profiles can be fully reset or only the tutorial and story intro can be reset
BATTLE ARCHIVE
Added some new nodes and replaced some that had more “hack-like” functions.
New range node
Many changes to cost balance
Changed amount of tokens gained per heat level to 5
Corrected spawn HP node description.
Corrected phrasing on Universal shields node.
Fixed a couple of descriptions and adjusted some costs and values.
Changed the balance on a lot of nodes
changed some upgrades to specific to non-turret buildings.
New node: Turret Range
Shift-click now works correctly
BALANCE:
This patch completely rebalances the game. The overall base difficulty is a lot harder.
Changed rich crystal buff to a percentage increase.
Exciter Beam Cruiser no longer attacks automatically while moving.
PCX Tank (the big one) has gotten a roof machine gun.
Machine Gun Turrets have been buffed quite a bit
All support Tank specialist hack upgrade effects now apply to all allies and are stackable where applicable. But duration is reduced.
Monster Mode Ray is now consumable
Mantis Mech Bad Table Manners effect now occurs on a slight delay and therefore will effect the target area of the teleport, not the are around the origin location.
Ascension enemy value scales increased
Heat enemy values increased significantly
Some minor adjustments to some enemy units. Still mostly making them stronger.
Slight nerf to Armored Harvester.
Adjusted the effects of some drops.
Raised minimum needed distance for AI Buildings from player start.
Chests can no longer be damaged
PCX Roof Turrets on Builderbases attack cooldown slower
Increased the difficulty changes per Heat level.
Further changes to make some enemies stronger.
Reduced hover harvester income rate and capacity
Rich crystals now raise the harvest rate of harvesters that are working on them.
CONTENT:
New Unit: Rocket Swarmer
New Upgrade: A Little Better
New Ancient Building
Better death effect for PCX Dragon Bug
New Drop: Beast mode ray - non consumable weaker version of monster mode ray.
BUG FIXES:
Show damage of Bombs on Card again
Fixed: Extra Cargo from Battle Archive: it now does not give additional harvester(s) + refund any more
Better way to handle pathfinding between building corners and cliffs
PCX Builderbase turret role added
Fixed resilient growth hack not working correctly
Spider Spawns, Bomb Creeps and some mines can now trigger crit damage
Correct node logic behind the new building nodes from 0.8.67
Added missing supporter role on some buildings that also use skills.
Don't set rally point for ai buildings
Fixed exceptions thrown by the PCXTank card
Spawn walker HP boost for spiders works as advertised.
Removed broken hack “Confusing panic”.
Added harvester role to crystal dust catcher.
Fixed CF Backpack not triggering correctly.
Fixed Armor Shred Meta Node not being able to stack.
Combat Engineer HP raised.
Missing Cost and skill type fixed on boulder turret
Fixed Engineer death stun and PCX Prison stun not working on shielded units
Better obscurance for background when deck view or single card view are open
Ancient Blessing meta node should always work now and the tower is selectable.
Fixed certain bullet hits triggering their hit event twice.
PCX Tank roof turret also affected by stun/slow.
Fixed PCX Crystal Cleaner passive not working correctly
Fixed Ranger Turret Critical effect not working
Fixed Factory Death Defender meta node can no longer trigger specialist factories.
added visual confirmation for Data Pod event unlock.
Fixed: reroll button wasn't clickable if disabled because of no-more-items-to-show before
Only present upgrades in shop that have a viable target
Rush Beacon teleportation now works as expected
Melee units could have had trouble approaching their targets in the last update. This is now fixed
Fixed some of the cases where units could get stuck on the map
Fixed situations where enemy bases don’t spawn properly
There were situations in which the MG Truck never hit its target. This is now fixed.
The egg hatchlings of the Swarm Walker specialist now spawn at the correct positions (and not where the egg was injected), the eggs fire at the correct targets and maybe some more related bugs with other skills are fixed now
The possibility that units get stuck between buildings (or obstacles) and cliffs should now be smaller
Fixed (rare) exception that could occur if ai has building on the map border
Prevent clicks on the frame of the minimap to control the camera
Small Healing Spire now shows effect range when building or when selected.
Smart Grenade Marine shows impact are for skill
DropButtons can no longer be clicked when deck overview is opened
Rush Beacons and Extenders can receive veterancy
Defender Tank status effects will also be applied to the roof turret
Fixed size of smart fire from Fire Mech Skill
Fixed lighting in Intermission screen deck view
Fixed Rush Beacon extender missing Spawn role
Fixed sound playing when viewing weather tower in database
Fixed CF Burners not targeting correctly in many cases especially towards higher ground targets.
Fixed Fresh Air Hack being linked to wrong Hack
Fixed Buckler Mech not being able to attack when attack speed got too high
Fixed XP Level 26 containing too many unlock items, so the list would overflow
“Specialist Lost” Warning no longer displaying when temporary spawn versions of the specialist dies.
Fixed Buildings not displaying status effect icons below their HP bar
CF Backpacks should no longer spawn anything when the player was the origin.
Drop Texts for Armored Production and Favorite Toy now specify if they can stack.
Monster mode and Beast mode ray clarify stacking rules as well.
No more battling for origin of card value change between difficulty, ascension and heat
Prevent audio spike in main menu after splash screen: start background music only after volume is set
Increased text size of some elements of the in-game menu map info widget and the run results screen to prohibit vanishing of the character "i" in full hd resolution
Prevent PCX Corrosive Detachment from building second PCX Base Control
Clamp volume settings between 0% and 100% to prevent loud audio if these settings get corrupted
Fixed differences between values in card view and entity stats widget
Start game clock only after the player clicked on the start button
Melee units that got a higher weapon range through upgrades or relics might have stopped too far from target units to attack them. Now they will always try to get close to them independent of their weapon range.
Fixed: If Engi died while moving out of the way of a called down building he wasn't able to build any more
Duplication Ray can no longer target Engineers
Upgrade reward: don't present upgrades that can not be applied
PERFORMANCE:
Added preloading of SpiderSpawns and RoboZombos to avoid stuttering when spawning larger groups of them
If a bunch of units target an unreachable unit or building the performance should be much better now
Prespawn Bomb Creeps
CRASHES:
Changed some memory management stuff to reduce crashes
MOD SUPPORT
Added missing harvesters to exampleEntityBalancing.tsv
Put Mod directory directly in Rogue Command directory to avoid problems with cloud saves (and to make it independent of the chosen profile)
Original post
22 Aug 2025Developer post
Expanded Metagame Incoming
Rogue Command is going Roguelite We're currently working on a huge update that will change up the scope of our metagame by a lot. What does the new metagame look like? At the moment Rogue Command is a roguelike . In the sense that you never get any upgrades between runs that make
09 Jul 2025Developer post
Early Access Update #11 - small fixes and a visual upgrade to level end sequence
Version 0.7.61 Just a small update with some cosmetic modifications and a fix for a rare error that made the game unplayable for some players. GENERAL CHANGES new win/lose animations for the battles. new biome variant BUG FIXES: Added missing localization to buckler mech skill Ho
Version 0.7.61
Just a small update with some cosmetic modifications and a fix for a rare error that made the game unplayable for some players.
GENERAL CHANGES

new win/lose animations for the battles.
new biome variant
BUG FIXES:

Added missing localization to buckler mech skill
Hopefully prohibit the creation of corrupted save/option files and handle them better if they occur
Original post

Updates & announcements

Attack behavior improvements - Update 2

Coming Soon - The Berzerker

Feedback on recent balance changes?

Version 1.0.9 FULL PATCH NOTES

BALANCE & BUGFIXES - UPDATE 1

Version 1.0.7 FULL PATCH NOTES

GENERAL CHANGES:

BALANCE:

Player Changes

BUGFIXES:

WELCOME NEW ENGINEERS!

Version 1.0.5

IT IS DONE!

THE GAME WE WANTED TO MAKE

THANK YOU!!! - ALL THE WAY FROM THE DEMO TO EARLY ACCESS TO THE FULL RELEASE

WHAT'S IN THE 1.0 RELEASE

WHAT IS YET TO COME

A PERSONAL NOTE

(maybe don't read, if you want to just be hyped up...)

ROGUE COMMAND FULL RELEASE - MAY 14

1.0 UPDATE CONTENT

LAUNCH DISCOUNT

MORE NEWS SOON

Update #17 (plus hotfix)

A big step forward...

Early Access Update #16: Version 0.9.94

HELP US FOR THE FINAL EARLY ACCESS PHASE:

KEEP EARNING BATTLE ARCHIVE POINTS AS LONG AS YOU WANT!

Early Access Update #15: Version 0.9.88

THE PROFILE XP CAP IS GONE

THANK YOU FOR A GREAT 2025!

Version 0.9.86 - Pinned Tooltips, Ground Click to deselect and Bugfixes

Pinning Tooltips

Expanded Population Cap Information

Option: Clicking Ground Deselects

Coming next - unlocked XP cap!

Version 0.9.85

Version 0.9.84

Incinerator, Glossary, controls update, expanded options - Early Access Update #14

INCINERATOR

ACHIEVEMENTS

UPDATED UNIT CONTROLS & PATROLS

NEW OPTIONS

GLOSSARY

COMBAT STATISTICS

QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS

BETA BRANCH UPDATES

FULL CHANGELIST:

Rogue Command soundtrack is out now!

Buying the soundtrack is the only way you can support the game beyond buying it, so know that doing so will be hugely appreciated.

Wait how did Armor work again? - Look it up in the glossary!

Version 0.8.74

Introducing the Battle Archive - Early Access Update #12

HOW DOES IT WORK?

WHY ARE WE INTRODUCING THE BATTLE ARCHIVE?

SUBJECT TO CHANGE - LET US KNOW HOW IT FEELS!

BATTLE ARCHIVE AND BALANCE - HARDER IS MORE FUN, RIGHT?

NEW HOTKEYS

HEAT LEVELS UPDATE

BUGS!

BETA BRANCH UPDATES

FULL CHANGELIST:

Rogue Command is going Roguelite

What does the new metagame look like?

Why did we decide to do this?

How will it impact the balance?