ARRIVAL: ZERO EARTH

Released: Jan 12, 2024
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Last updated: 13 Sep 2026, 08:46 GMT

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14 Jan 2026Developer post
New jounitus game: Finger Party available!
Hello! A new game by me has just been released on steam and is available to buy: Finger Party! View game page On a surface level, Finger Party might look a bit different than ARRIVAL: ZERO EARTH, but I think if you give it a try, it is very much a jounitus -style game. Please che
25 Aug 2025Developer post
Demo for upcoming game: Finger Party released!
Hello! So nice to see you! Just wanted to let you know, that a demo for my new upcoming game Finger Party was just released! Download the demo here: Finger Party Please go check it out and give feedback, much appreciate it! - jounitus
10 Feb 2025Developer post
New Game Announced: Finger Party!
Hello all, long time no see! After working for Arrival: Zero Earth for three years I was happy to start working on new game prototypes. Today I'm happy to announce a new game: FINGER PARTY! If you found Arrival: Zero Earth interesting, I think Finger Party will also float your bo
12 Jan 2024Developer post
ARRIVAL: ZERO EARTH v1.0 Early Access Exit & Retrospective
Retrospective on the Game Hello all! ARRIVAL: ZERO EARTH has finally exited Early Access and graduated to the 1.0! About three years ago I started working on something that would eventually evolve into the game it's today. About two years ago I released the first playtests and de
Retrospective on the Game
Hello all!
ARRIVAL: ZERO EARTH has finally exited Early Access and graduated to the 1.0!
About three years ago I started working on something that would eventually evolve into the game it's today.
About two years ago I released the first playtests and demos to the public.
About a year ago the game started the Early Access journey.
When the early demos/prototypes were released two years ago, seeing your favorite youtubers playing the game was a very surreal feeling. This together with the feedback from the players encouraged me to work more on the game.
After the first demos and playtests I decided to spend a year before even launching it in an early access. In hindsight I could have probably launched the early access earlier after the initial exposure, but I wanted to add more of the ideas I had for the game and polish the game before launching the early access.
The great thing when launching the early access is that you got a lot of feedback in a short amount of time time and you were able to see some features or fixes requested more over the others.
Things added and changed during Early Access
During the early access I tried to make it so that most of the updates released would be based on the feedback received from the players when the early access was released.
Some of the Features added during the Early Access, most based on the player feedback:

BIOMES (Originally there was only the snow biome when Early Access Started)
Multiple fixes to hopefully improve the unit visibility in the middle of the action and explosions
Made the game slightly more challenging
Movement Tweaks (now "lag" less behind other units and removed the "stand still to attack")
Custom sprites for all the units
Achievements
Leaderboards
Keyboard Keybindings
Graphical Improvements (especially the icons/ui)
Stats Screen that shows the damage done by units and various other stats
More Enemies
More Units
More Items
Localization to 11 new languages
Thoughts about feedback etc
I appreciate all the feedback received, even when I couldn't add everything requested to the game, I think all the feedback was really high quality and I could see the point from the player's perspective from the feedback.
It's also important for the players to give criticism since that's the best way for the developers to know how the players feel. I think it's good to try to see all criticism as something positive as long as it's something constructive.
I was surprised by how nice everyone has been and how encouraging people were especially during the early steps of the game. I hope that everyone knows that generally people are very nice, polite and well-meaning.
So thank you everyone who's been here for this journey, it has been a great motivator to know that people are interested in this game!
I hope everyone has had fun playing the game and those who have not tried it yet, will have fun playing it.
- jounitus
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12 Jan 2024Developer post
1.0.0 - Early Access Exit and Small Localization Fixes
Hello! As stated previously, this release to exit the Early Access is mostly a version number change. My hope is that Steam Algorithm Gods are on my side on this day and the stars are correctly aligned. I also hope that my marketing efforts have had some effect. Thanks to everyon
Hello!
As stated previously, this release to exit the Early Access is mostly a version number change.
My hope is that Steam Algorithm Gods are on my side on this day and the stars are correctly aligned. I also hope that my marketing efforts have had some effect. Thanks to everyone who has streamed or made a video of the game previously or will make one in the future, it means a lot!
Changed in 1.0:

Changed the version number to 1.0
Small localization fixes
I will post a small retrospective of the game after this for you to read, after I have pressed the button to exit Early Access, stay tuned!
Edit: Here's the link the the retrospective: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1613580/announcements/detail/7252550832869453066
- jounitus
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21 Dec 2023Developer post
The game will exit Early Access on January 12 2024!
Hello All! ARRIVAL: ZERO EARTH will exit early access on January 12 2024! As mentioned in the earlier post, it would have been nice to officially exit the Early Access before the Steam Winter Sale with the previous big localization release a few days ago, but I wanted to spend ti
15 Dec 2023Developer post
0.23.0: Big Localization Update - 11 New Languages Added
Hello all! As one last bigger update before leaving early access, localizations were added to the game. The game now has localizations for 11 languages. French German Spanish Polish Russian Brazilian Portuguese Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese Turkish Japanese Korean I hope
Hello all!
As one last bigger update before leaving early access, localizations were added to the game.
The game now has localizations for 11 languages.

French
German
Spanish
Polish
Russian
Brazilian Portuguese
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Turkish
Japanese
Korean
I hope adding these localizations will boost the sales at least a little bit and that more players can enjoy the game.
Even before entering Early Access I was wondering if I should add localization BEFORE entering the early access, but I decided to postpone it to the end of Early Access, since I worried making updates would have been more difficult with the localizations in the game.
At some point I however did remove all the hard-coded English texts from the code so that eventually things would be easier to translate.
Even after receiving the translated texts, it was still a bit of work to make sure all the texts fit the UI and the fonts render correctly etc.
Leaving Early Access
As said earlier this was the one last big update before leaving the early access.
My plan is now to focus on marketing the game, so that I don't have to rely on just hoping the Steam algorithm blessing the game and the stars being aligned correctly, when the transition happens.
I could have left the early access already before the Steam Winter sale (which would have been nice), but then there wouldn't have been time to promote the game, so I decided to move it to 2024. I think it's also nice to have translations out for a while before the exit out of early access.
The move out of early access will be mostly changing the version number to 1.0 and clicking the button on Steam to get out of early access, as the majority of the players still have a lot of content to unlock in the game. There might be small patches before that, if necessary.
Thanks everyone for the support. I appreciate everyone who's been here during the Early Access!
- jounitus
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15 Nov 2023Developer post
0.22.0 - Juhani Removal / Achievements for Starting Units / Movement Tweak
Hello! As the game is moving towards the 1.0 release out of early access, I've had to put some thought into what to do with some of the existing features in the game. Removal of Juhani One of the features I was originally really excited about was "Juhani". You could visit Juhani'
Hello!
As the game is moving towards the 1.0 release out of early access, I've had to put some thought into what to do with some of the existing features in the game.
Removal of Juhani
One of the features I was originally really excited about was "Juhani". You could visit Juhani's home and he would tell you about the places and events around the town.
Although I originally liked the idea, the feeling that you have to visit Juhani's home in the middle of the run started to feel like a slog, and visiting Juhani took you out of the core gameplay.
Also, Juhani's description of events and places was maybe a bit too wordy and didn't leave too much to the imagination.
"Places" Tweaks
Juhani -feature was developed close to the "Places" feature which was to give a bit more variety to the snow biome (back then there was only the Snow biome). When the additional biomes were added I think it gave more variety to the runs which I was happy about.
Discovering these places would give you an achievement for finding them, but some players reported that it was unclear what was the point of discovering a place.
The places are still in the game to give some variety for the snow biome, but they don't give the achievements anymore. I hope this makes the game more straightforward and makes the game less confusing.
Achievements for Completing Runs with Starting Units
For each run you complete with a specific starting unit, you now get an achievement.
The only requirement is that you start with a specific unit, but the game doesn't force you to have only that specific unit until the end, for example.
I hope that this still incentivizes players to try out different units that they would not otherwise try.
Movement Tweak
One of the feedback from the players has been that it can feel unfair when the unit members die because they lag behind the other units when running around the level.
The game has now been tweaked so that the unit members lag less behind others and they stay as a closer group even when running long distances.
Other Fixes

[community feedback] Make dragon damage area slightly smaller
Fix the issue where it looked like XP points flew below the ground when collected
Updated the mailing list url
Thanks again everyone for your support and feedback so far!
- jounitus
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26 Oct 2023Developer post
0.21.2 - Difficulty Tweaks and a bug fix
Hello! On the previous 0.21.0 the difficulty was probably made a bit too hard, so here is a small update to hopefully tweak the game to a bit more enjoyable direction. Change enemy spawn distance back to 50 (from 30): Now the enemies should spawn a bit further away, to give a bit
Hello!
On the previous 0.21.0 the difficulty was probably made a bit too hard, so here is a small update to hopefully tweak the game to a bit more enjoyable direction.

Change enemy spawn distance back to 50 (from 30): Now the enemies should spawn a bit further away, to give a bit of breathing room.
Now the enemies attack at the same speed as before the previous update. The previous 0.21.0 update made some enemies attack 50% faster, but that change is now changed back.
[community feedback] Fixed a bug where the small enemies wouldn't spawn any green XP on start of the run, if they were one-shot killed (for example with missiles)
I didn't want to change too many parameters on this update, since it's always a bit risky. It's possible to tweak things further, depending on how this update feels.
Note: You will probably still take more casualties than before, but the changes in the previous update (like more default coffins and new items) should hopefully balance that.
Please keep giving feedback, I do read all of them. It's important to know how players experience and feel about the game and a lot of players might experience things differently, so all the feedback is always welcome.
I've mentioned this before, but the goal is that everyone (including the casual players) would enjoy the game, so the game is not targeted just for the hardcore players.
- jouni
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16 Oct 2023Developer post
0.21.0 - Difficulty Changes / Leadersboards Cleared / Early Access update
Hello All! In this update, the goal was to give a small extra strategy layer in terms that you can now gain new empty coffins during a run (not just four hard-coded coffins as previously) and there are a few more items to help with the survival too. Enemies were made slightly mor
Hello All!
In this update, the goal was to give a small extra strategy layer in terms that you can now gain new empty coffins during a run (not just four hard-coded coffins as previously) and there are a few more items to help with the survival too.
Enemies were made slightly more challenging to compensate for the new items. A lot of time was spent trying to find a nice balance with the difficulty, but please give feedback if the game feels too difficult.
New Items

Invincibility Length - How long units are invincible to damage after the first casualty
Extra Coffin - Gives you an extra coffin
Extra Crematorium Chance Up - Increase probability of extra Crematorium
Two owned unit types in Ale-Pub - Chance of seeing two already owned unit types in Ale-Pub
Enemy Tweaks

Increase the number of enemies per wave on later levels, but decrease the maximum number of waves
Increase most enemies attack rate slightly.
Slightly increase Sword Enemy damage area size
Increase Walker Enemy movement speed
Default Coffin Count Increased
The default coffin count is now increased from 4 to 6.
Extra Coffins
You can now find extra coffins (an item) from Chests and S-Market.
Crematorium Updates
Crematoriums now cremate one coffin per crematorium.
There is a new item, which allows you to get a second crematorium on level.
You can also get an extra crematorium from the secret underground construction bunker.
Ale-Pub Updates
The Ale-Pub got overhauled in what sort of units it now provides.
Now there is a higher chance that at least one unit is one of the ones that you have already hired. I hope this makes it a bit easier to get the builds or units you want.
There is also a new item that improves the chances of Ale-Pub offering TWO of the units you have already hired.
Leaderboards Cleared
The leaderboards are now cleared, since the game difficulty changed in this version.
Thoughts about 1.0 version
About a week ago the game reached ONE YEAR in early access! I think the game has made great progress in early access and I'm pretty happy with the game.
Although there is no real urgency to release the 1.0, I also don't want to drag the game too long in the early access.
Currently, my thought is to release the 1.0 at the end of this year (2023) or somewhere at the start of the next year.
I'll post more information the closer we get to the 1.0 release!
Other Changes

Move the camera a bit closer to the action
Refactor Ale-Pub to more likely show units that are already hired
Fix the stat name of "Extra Ale-Pub Chance Up" item from "Extra Mercenary Chance" to "Extra Ale-Pub Chance"
That's it for this update. Please give feedback on the new difficulty.
If the difficulty feels too difficult, as a temporary workaround you can use the "coffins" accessibility setting in the Settings dialog to give extra coffins for the run.
- jounitus
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04 Sep 2023Developer post
0.20.0 - Keyboad Configuration / Custom Keybindings
Hello again! Custom keybindings have been requested multiple times during the early access, and now the feature is finally here! Currently, only keyboard keybinds can be configured, but I think most of the players use the keyboard to play the game and the gamepad layout works pre
30 Aug 2023Developer post
0.19.0 - UI and Icon Visual Revamp / Item Pool Tweaks
Hello All! The original goal of this update was not to go so heavy on the UI improvements, but this update ended up being a bigger visual revamp (in terms of UI and Icons). The UI and Icons have been a bit of an eye-sore in the game and there have been comments about it during an
Hello All!
The original goal of this update was not to go so heavy on the UI improvements, but this update ended up being a bigger visual revamp (in terms of UI and Icons).
The UI and Icons have been a bit of an eye-sore in the game and there have been comments about it during and before the early access, but now with this update, I hope things look a little better in the game.
It might take some time to get used to the "new look", but I think things are now more pleasing to the eye.
"Behind the Scenes" the code that handles Unit and Item configurations (and game configurations in general) got a big refactoring that I've wanted to make for a long time, this makes working with the game more pleasant.
Graphical Tweaks

All the icons (units/items) now have mostly the same color scheme as previously, but all icons now have gradients of colors and a few other effects to make them look more pleasing
Some of the icons got slightly tweaked and simplified since some of the icons (for example the assault rifle unit) had too much detail for the small size the icons are shown in.
Most of the Tooltips and Windows now use the dark -background version, I think this makes everything more eye-pleasing and a bit easier to read.
Big Headers for example with windows now use a more "stylized" font. Previously the default font that came with Unity was used, which was probably a bit easier to read, but also a bit boring in general.
All the Building Dialogs got changed into a more "dynamic" layout format, which makes it a little easier to update the texts etc., without worrying the layouts will break.
Update objectives list header
Added shadows and outlines to all fonts
Added shadows for the unit and item icon holders
Tweak fonts in the stats sidebar in the level HUD
The buttons in the main menu got re-arranged (I hope it's not too much of a shock!)
The "Dear Friends/Welcome Text" on the main menu got removed, this was originally added mostly for early playtests and demo versions to communicate with the players (as it's a bit of a pain to communicate on Steam if the game is not released), but now it's nicer to use these posts for communication.
Item Pool Changes
The goal of these changes was to make the item selections in the S-Market a bit more interesting. Now the S-market tries to prioritize showing items that the player has not yet selected.

Item Shops / S-Market try to prioritize showing items that are not yet acquired
Items are removed from the possible item pool if they are shown enough times in S-Market but never selected
Other Changes

Make sticky bombs larger so that they are more noticeable
Show the "Biomes Unlocked" counter on the Start Run dialog
That's it for this update, I hope the game looks a little better now in terms of UI and Icons. Thanks everyone for your support!
- jounitus
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02 Aug 2023Developer post
0.18.0 - Selectable Starting Unit / Unit Visibility Tweaks / Portal Bug Fix
Hello all! Selectable Starting Unit You can now choose a starter unit for the run (instead of the default assault rifle unit), this has been one of the requests during the early access. All units can be selected (including the rare ones), except those that can't move (for example
Hello all!
Selectable Starting Unit
You can now choose a starter unit for the run (instead of the default assault rifle unit), this has been one of the requests during the early access.
All units can be selected (including the rare ones), except those that can't move (for example the Sniper unit).
Unit Visibility Tweaks
One of the major points of feedback during the early access has been, that the gameplay can get a bit noisy with all the effects and it's hard to tell where your units are etc.
There have already been a few updates to address this previously, but here's another update focusing on the specific effects for the units.
Following units' effects got tweaked:

Flamethrower Unit
Meteoroid Storm Unit
Fire Arrow Unit
Fire Arrow Storm Unit
Bazooka Unit
Heavy Artillery Unit
Also following tweaks were made for better visibility:

Shortened how long the flying enemy body parts emit particles
Limited maximum concurrent number of various explosion effects
I hope this is a big help, but please continue to give feedback if things get too noisy and which units/effects you feel are the cause for it.
Other Updates

[community feedback] Dragon Enemy should be now easier to kill, for example with Sticky Bomb Unit
[community feedback] Hopefully fixed the bug, where the enemy wave wasn't correctly marked as finished and prevented the spawning of the portal
A Dialog for achievements is now shown on the main menu (only for the "skill" based achievements, not for example unit unlocks etc)
Units now should move more "smoothly" when there are only a few units on screen / should be less janky at the start of the run
Removed Bazooka and Flamethrower units from the demo version
Lowered Unit Transformer building chance from 30% to 20%
Remember to give feedback, thanks everyone for the support!
- jounitus
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18 Jul 2023Developer post
0.17.0 - Multiple Biomes per Loop / Removed the Manual Selection of Biomes
Hello! Now a single loop contains multiple biomes! This is how I envisioned things originally, but now it's actually in the game. I think having multiple biomes per loop adds a bit of mystery and variation to the runs, which has been one of the points of the feedback from the pla
Hello!
Now a single loop contains multiple biomes!
This is how I envisioned things originally, but now it's actually in the game.
I think having multiple biomes per loop adds a bit of mystery and variation to the runs, which has been one of the points of the feedback from the players during early access.
The biomes that appear during a loop are currently randomly selected from the unlocked biomes.
Now the first three biomes are automatically unlocked, instead of just one.
To unlock more biomes, a successful run must contain a biome that is listed before the biome you want to unlock in the biome unlocks list.
So if you are wondering why there are no more biomes listed on the "start run dialog": it's on purpose.
Currently the first biome is always the Snow biome, which I think is a nice way to start a run.
It might change how different biomes are unlocked and the way some of them are accessed, but currently things are as described.
Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where some units (for example Assault Rifle Unit) targeted incorrectly some enemies.
Other

[Community Feedback] Now the units can dash by pressing the Space -key (in addition to the default "Left Shift" key.
- jounitus
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08 Jul 2023Developer post
0.16.6 - New Achievements!
Hello! One of the requests during the early access has been to have more "skill-based" achievements, in addition to the achievements already in the game. I hope you all like these! New Achievements: Kill 1000 enemies on a single run Kill 2000 enemies on a single run Kill 5000 ene
Hello!
One of the requests during the early access has been to have more "skill-based" achievements, in addition to the achievements already in the game. I hope you all like these!
New Achievements:

Kill 1000 enemies on a single run
Kill 2000 enemies on a single run
Kill 5000 enemies in total
Kill 10000 enemies in total
Kill 20000 enemies in total
Have 10 God-Tier units during a single run (triggered when upgrading the units)
Finish loop 3 During a Run
Finish a Run without using a Crematorium (only works on runs started with the new versions)
Finish a Run without any casualties
Please give feedback if you think there are any issues with these.
See you in the next update!
- jounitus
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28 Jun 2023Developer post
0.16.4 - Fix for the Places/Lore/Juhani not working
Hello all! This patch should fix the issue where the places or the story wasn't working in some cases. Note: The places and the story sequences are all currently on the Snow -biome and they only appear on the first loop. You also need to visit the Juhani -place (the building with
26 Jun 2023Developer post
0.16.2 - Unlocks Bug Fix / Collect Radius Changes / Unit Visibilty Change
Changes in 0.16.2 Fixed a bug affecting unlocks in the unlocks dialog Updated the audio SDK to a newer version Refactored how the game is built (should have no effect for the player) Increased the Units' collect radius to compensate enemies now spawning XP and Unlock Points furth
Changes in 0.16.2

Fixed a bug affecting unlocks in the unlocks dialog
Updated the audio SDK to a newer version
Refactored how the game is built (should have no effect for the player)
[Community Feedback] Increased the Units' collect radius to compensate enemies now spawning XP and Unlock Points further
[Community Feedback] Show Units as green overlay behind the bigger enemies (Dragon / Air Ship / Boss) to help with the visibility of the units
- jounitus
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11 Jun 2023Developer post
0.16.0 - New Biomes / New Enemies / Difficulty Tweaks / Accessibilty Setting
Changed in 0.16.0 NEW BIOMES: "Hell" "Concrete" NEW ENEMIES: "Vulture" - Unlocks in Concrete Biome "Dragon" - Unlocks in the old Lava Biome NOTE: The "Roller" enemy was moved to unlock in the "Hell" biome, since it's more thematically fitting to it. Difficulty Changes A Large par
Changed in 0.16.0
NEW BIOMES:

"Hell"
"Concrete"
NEW ENEMIES:

"Vulture" - Unlocks in Concrete Biome
"Dragon" - Unlocks in the old Lava Biome
NOTE: The "Roller" enemy was moved to unlock in the "Hell" biome, since it's more thematically fitting to it.
Difficulty Changes
A Large part of the feedback during the early access has been, that the game feels very easy until the final boss fight, which then can feel extra difficult. So the balance has been a bit off.
There have been a lot of changes to the boss fight during the early access, and I hope the boss fight is currently a pretty pleasant experience, compared to what it has been previously.
But, starting with this update, the goal is to slightly increase the difficulty of the later levels, so that the challenge would ramp up more nicely.
The current goal is that the runs would be slightly more challenging, but manageable within a few tries.
However, tweaking the difficulty is always a big challenge, since there are a lot of different types of players and because there are multiple factors that affect the difficulty.
The new "Extra Coffins" accessibility setting was introduced on this update, in case the difficulty got tweaked accidentally to too hard and also just to make the make the game a bit more enjoyable to the players who have found the game previously too difficult by default.
The boss fight difficulty wasn't changed in this version.
Please give feedback, about how you feel about the difficulty on the later levels.
Accessibility Settings
"Extra Coffins" Accessibility Setting was added to the settings dialog, so that the runs can be made easier, if needed.
Hopefully everyone tries the game without using the extra coffins settings, but it's great if the extra coffins settings will make the experience better for anyone.
Leaderboards Cleared
The leaderboards were cleared again on this update.
Visibility/"Feel" Related Changes

Make the lightning visual effect last a shorter time
Make the floating damage numbers slightly bigger
Make smaller enemies spawn more green xp blocks when they die
Make enemies' blue damage area borders visible like they were before the early access release
Make enemy hit flashes more prominent again
Make Bullet Projectiles slightly bigger
Make big enemies spawn slightly more XP blocks to the ground and to the wider area
Made the XP fly a little bit slower to the UI, to make it feel nicer
Swap the colors of the enemy "damage areas" on the ground, to make them more noticeable
Fix so that the chest and bombs are shown above the "damage areas" instead of behind them
Simplified the spark effect when projectiles hit the enemy
Made the particles darker that emit from the body parts of the enemies, so they are less distracting
Made the Flying XP points slightly larger and a bit less glowy
Increased the size of the homing missile projectile
Made the small round "basic enemy" slightly bigger.
Other Changes

There is now more enemy waves at the end of the loop.
Enemy spawning got changed so that now each wave can only contain "small" or "big" enemies, but not both, hopefully this will make the smaller enemies stand up more from the crowd.
The camera movement can feel a bit "janky" when there are only a few units on the screen during the start of a new run. There is now a fix to that the camera makes less sudden movements, but now it can maybe feel a bit "laggy" with only a few units on screen.
Remove the beeping sound and don't filter the music when there is only one empty coffin left
Fixed an issue where in some cases the Rod unit was not making enough damage.
See you again in the next update! Please remember to give feedback!
- jounitus
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02 May 2023Developer post
0.15.0 - New Biomes / New Enemies / New Units / Leaderboards Cleared
Changed in 0.15.0 NEW BIOMES: RINGS BIOME : A distant planet with overgrown vegetation with mysterious giant well rings. CAVES BIOME : A giant cave system under the town where the action takes place in the original biome. Major "plot point" of the game that includes the "incubato
Changed in 0.15.0
NEW BIOMES:

RINGS BIOME: A distant planet with overgrown vegetation with mysterious giant well rings.
CAVES BIOME: A giant cave system under the town where the action takes place in the original biome. Major "plot point" of the game that includes the "incubators".
NEW ENEMIES:

"DRILLER ENEMY" (unlocks in CAVES BIOME)
"AIRSHIP ENEMY" (unlocks in RINGS BIOME)
NEW UNITS:

LIGHTNING BALL UNIT
TESLA COIL UNIT
AIR STRIKE UNIT - A unit version of the Air Strike Item that is already in the game. Now shows the actual aircraft too.
CLEARED LEADERBOARDS:
The leaderboards are still a bit "experimental", so let's see what will happen with them in the long run.
Hopefully clearing the leaderboards for this update will make it more fun to try to get the new high scores for those who enjoy it!
OTHER CHANGES:

Other Biomes got slight tweaks on the appearance
Terrain objects like mountains now have a small color change depending on the height, hopefully this helps with the visibility and adds a little bit of variation to the general appearance.
The "Air Strike" item now shows the actual aircraft that drops the bombs (used together with the new Air Strike unit)
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Hope you all like this more content focused update! There were no big changes to the game systems in this update, except some internal refactorings which make working on the code/game a bit nicer.
As always please give feedback.
See you in the next update!
- jounitus
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29 Mar 2023Developer post
0.14.0 - Biomes! / Visibility Tweaks / Difficulty Changes
Changed in 0.14.0 NEW FEATURE: Biomes Biomes are something new introduced in this update. The town in the two new biomes is the same as in the original one, but due to the mysterious events in the alternate history timelines they are in, the town in these other biomes is more tra
Changed in 0.14.0
NEW FEATURE: Biomes
Biomes are something new introduced in this update.
The town in the two new biomes is the same as in the original one, but due to the mysterious events in the alternate history timelines they are in, the town in these other biomes is more transformed.

New Biome: "Desert"
New Biome: "Lava"
Added Biome selection to the "Start Run" dialog
Made the "Start Run" dialog slightly darker
Make some buildings and props look like they are partly swallowed by snow/sand to better integrate them visually into the levels
CHANGES TO SNOW BIOME
The classic/default snow biome got a small facelift along with new biomes being added.

New trees!
Tweaked the snow on the level
Other small visual tweaks
UNLOCK CHANGES
The small "unlock points" box in the level HUD doesn't have the progress bar anymore and it doesn't show popups about new unlocks anymore. While this was helpful information, the downside was that it made players quit the runs mid-way. You can still exit the run and unlock mid-way if you want, but the game doesn't advertise it.

Fixed an issue where the unlocked icons would stay grayscale after unlocking
Fixed the issue with the "New Unlock Points" dialog, where the sounds would still be audible even if the dialog was closed mid-way through the points animation.
Tweaked the "New Unlock Points" dialog appearance
Group unlocks so that there is only one unlock type on each page in the Unlocks dialog
DIFFICULTY CHANGES

Enemy Health Multiplier can now increase multiple steps at once, if the multiplier has increased consequently on previous levels
After the first loop, start spawning waves faster in the Invasion level type
After the first loop, start having elite enemy waves also on Normal difficulty
ENEMY TWEAKS
Back in the day when the new enemies were added, there was no good unlock system yet in the game, so all four big enemies were made so that you can see them in the first playthrough, which was not optimal.
Enemies are now unlocked gradually, to hopefully have the feeling of discovering something new gradually.

"SwordEnemy" now unlocks on Desert Biome and "Roller Enemy" unlocks on Lava Biome
VISIBILITY TWEAKS

The units don't show anymore the wobbly outline on the ground, but you still see the red/pink "danger area" when the units are on top of a dangerous area.
Enemies now always show an outline, for better visibility
Made the enemies damage area slightly darker blue, so that it's better visible on new biomes
Make Turrets cast shadows on the ground
OTHER CHANGES

Only show topics and places on the first loop of the snow biome, not on other biomes
Minimap now renders the ground as a simple constant color, instead of rendering the actual ground
Fixed the issue of unit-bar not making the unit icons smaller if the list gets too big. There is now a minimum size for the icons (very small), so the bar will get bigger, but only if you have a huge amount of units. This was already fixed once before, but got broken again at some point.
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That's it for this release. I'm really happy about the biomes being added to the game, as it was one of the biggest "missing pieces". I hope you all like the biomes too!
This version didn't have the leaderboard scores cleared, but the leaderboard reset might happen on the next release.
As always remember to give feedback!
See you in the next update!
- jounitus
Original post

Updates & announcements

Retrospective on the Game

Things added and changed during Early Access

Thoughts about feedback etc

Leaving Early Access

Removal of Juhani

"Places" Tweaks

Achievements for Completing Runs with Starting Units

Movement Tweak

Other Fixes

New Items

Enemy Tweaks

Default Coffin Count Increased

Extra Coffins

Crematorium Updates

Ale-Pub Updates

Leaderboards Cleared

Thoughts about 1.0 version

Other Changes

Graphical Tweaks

Item Pool Changes

Other Changes

Selectable Starting Unit

Unit Visibility Tweaks

Other Updates

Now a single loop contains multiple biomes!

Bug Fixes

Other

New Achievements:

Changes in 0.16.2

Changed in 0.16.0

NEW BIOMES:

NEW ENEMIES:

Difficulty Changes

Accessibility Settings

Leaderboards Cleared

Visibility/"Feel" Related Changes

Other Changes

Changed in 0.15.0

NEW BIOMES:

NEW ENEMIES:

NEW UNITS:

CLEARED LEADERBOARDS:

OTHER CHANGES:

Changed in 0.14.0

NEW FEATURE: Biomes

CHANGES TO SNOW BIOME

UNLOCK CHANGES

DIFFICULTY CHANGES

ENEMY TWEAKS

VISIBILITY TWEAKS

OTHER CHANGES