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Attention Spartans! Fireshine PvE Survival Craft Festival! We’re taking part in the Fireshine Survival Craft Festival. No time like the present to defy the gods solo or with up to 3 friends this week with 35% off (and 10% off the supporter pack!) for the whole event running up ti
Spartans! Assuming we're all Greek myth fans here, I hope you guys have had the fun month that I did! Excited to get to share more news with you all on more content headed your way with Hounds of Zeus. Firstly though, I want to highlight that we will be going on sale at the end o
Survey Giveaway Your chance for a Steam Key! Before diving in, I want to announce a survey, open to current players, long-time wishlisters, or people just now discovering our game! We want to hear not only what excites you most about Dawn of Defiance, but also what you love about
Hello Spartans! Since we will not be releasing a content update in June, I am here instead with some community news! Watch the video below with me (Monday!) for a run down of some development progress in May and a look at some possible game features we're investigating! We contin
Spartans, Last Thursday, we released a minor update with improvements to the Ancient Desert, the new cyclops enemy, the Wandering Spartans, and more. Make sure to check out that release here . The following day, we posted a hotfix for the Epic log-in loop many users experienced.
Hello again, Spartans! Recently we announced that we were investigating an issue with Epic Onlines Services causing a log-in loop in the main menu. We hope this fix will address the issue and allow you to connect to your multiplayer worlds. Please let us know if the problem persi
Update as of 4/10/26 @ 7:50PM CT: We recently pushed a hotfix which we hope addresses this issue and allows you to connect once more to multiplayer servers. Please update your game and inform us if the problem persists. Thank you to everyone for joining us this week for our lates
Notice from 4/10/26: We are actively investigating an issue with Epic Online Services causing a login loop in the main menu. This is currently impacting players from being able to play multiplayer. If you are affected by this, you are still able to play single player by clicking
Set Demeter's Kythera to FULL SUN! The Spartium are in bloom on Aegea! Gather your closest friends this Spring break for a co-op journey on the Crossroads, or escape the terrible pollen by yourself on mythical isles where flowers can no longer hurt you. You'll see have to deal wi
Dearest Defiers! It is that time for our monthly news! As we head into March, we are still progressing well on the Unreal Engine 5.7 update we informed you of last month. You can still expect that in under two months now. If you wish to know more about our reasons for working on
As the first month of 2026 wraps up, we wanted to check-in with the community to give you all a heads-up on our next minor update! Watch this video to hear Game Director Tony reflect on Desert Reign and share some important news on our development plans: The TL;DR: Our next updat
Happy New Years to all Defiers! We hope you have had a wonderful holiday season so far! We wanted to send you warm wishes and reflect on a challenging, yet rewarding and inspiring year in Early Access! Around this time last year, we were wrapping up a period of optimizations and
We're here today to share another hotfix, as well as a PSA on third-party mod tools. We cannot support the stability of third-party tools. We have no way of knowing how they will affect your game or what additional bugs they may contribute to your experience. This can also hinder
We have additional bugfixes for you following our Desert Reign update last Friday! If you have experienced any of the following, please update and let us know if you continue to have problems. Fixed an issue where some players could not properly create a new character, resulting
Thank you to everyone who has joined us for Desert Reign today! We hope you are enjoying the new content. We are pushing this hotfix to address bugs players have experienced this evening. Fixes include: Clients encountering bugs entering and exiting raids Aphrodite's Stillblade c
Our second major update Desert Reign is now live! Today, either start a new journey or continue your current odyssey into the Ancient Desert! Nyx guides you to the Temple of Poseidon, but to uncover more answers to the missing Olympians, you’ll need to first survive the desert he
The countdown begins! Dawn of Defiance "Desert Reign" is coming to you December 12th, this Friday! To seek answers to the missing Olympians, you must journey into the Ancient Desert, overcome the devastating heat, and complete the labors of Artemis, Aphrodite, and Demeter to unlo
We hope all our players who celebrate Thanksgiving had a wonderful weekend! And everyone else, we hope your weekend was at least pretty good ;) We'll use the season (and any season, honestly) to say thank you to everyone following and supporting our journey in Early Access! Now D
Happy Halloween, Spartans! May Nyx offer you a wonderfully dark and spooky evening! But before you run off to your costume parties and trick or treating, we wanted to bring you a quick production update! We’re in the thick of Q4, our estimated window for Dawn of Defiance “Desert
You could buy coordinating togas for Halloween, or you and your friends could get Dawn of Defiance on sale today and become real Greek heroes. Or you could do both. Both is good. The Steam Autumn sale has begun, and that means we're now 30% off until Oct 6th! If you've been on th