SpaceSlog

Released: Apr 17, 2026
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Last updated: 14 Sep 2026, 01:08 GMT

Updates & announcements

20 posts

14 Sep 2026Developer post
Developmental Branch Patch v0.15.0.4
Hey everyone, I have pushed a new update to the developmental branch . Please restart your game client to update. Your current saves should work ok, however several updates do require a new game. Improvements The game, music and sfx will now pause when the game window loses focus
Hey everyone,

I have pushed a new update to the developmental branch. Please restart your game client to update. Your current saves should work ok, however several updates do require a new game.
Improvements
The game, music and sfx will now pause when the game window loses focus.
Add an option to allow the game to continue to run in the background if the window does lose focus.
Increased melee accuracy per skill.
Increased ranged accuracy of all weapons.
Various other improvements to combat.
Ensure entities cannot be selected if under fog of war.
Increased crop yields by roughly 20%.
Some minor menu and tooltip updates.
Updated French translation files. Thanks Danieel53
Ensure the time between incidents are a bit more predictable when on Harmony game mode.
Greatly decreased skill atrophy.
Increased all skill experience gains.
Increased the amount of experience gained for older characters when first generated.
Improved how the average age is calculated on pawn creation.
Optimised how skill experience is calculated.
Experience difficulty thresholds now adjust the amount of exp needed per skill level. E.g. a lower difficulty requires less exp per level for each skill.
Add Arthritis and Sarcopenia age related health conditions.
Pawns can now generate with an age related health condition.
Add cognition health vital which currently affects the ability to learn and keep skills.
Improve how age related illnesses are calculated.
Characters now have a chance to be naturally talented in a skill, granting them more exp.
Add natural talent selection for captain creation.
Fixes
Fixed: Some incorrect texts.
Fixed: Pawns could incorrectly move off the edge of the map and leave your crew.
Fixed: Various issues with forced combat when black alert is activated.
Fixed: Texture bleed on the selector sprite.
Fixed: Transfer vent did not occlude light when it should.
Fixed: Ambient light in space was casting shadows causing some visual issues.
Original post
01 Sep 2026Developer post
v 0.15.0.3
Hey everyone, Today I'm releasing another small update that focuses on bug fixes and various improvements. There have also been a couple of small additions; Grenades Be careful letting these loose on your ship! Damage overlay The damage overlay will show the damage status of your
Hey everyone,

Today I'm releasing another small update that focuses on bug fixes and various improvements. There have also been a couple of small additions;

Grenades
Be careful letting these loose on your ship!

Damage overlay
The damage overlay will show the damage status of your ship structure (walls and flooring) at a quick glance.
Improvements
Dramatically improved performance when you have lots of internal hull built.
Optimisations when loading a saved game.
Add grenades.
Some text updates.
Various balance adjustments.
Add ship damage overlay. This will quickly show which parts of your ships structure are damaged.
Show a reason on the right click pawn menu why they cannot path to something.
Updated how pawns move when collapsed/died outside the ship when the ship is moving.
Fixes
Fixed: The loading menu would not always show correctly when loading from within a game.
Fixed: A pawns hair could disappear on the crew bar.
Fixed: Temperature tooltip on the Ship menu would not update its value when hovered.
Fixed: Graphical issues with the stockpile highlight texture.
Fixed: Mental break emote would not follow the pawns position.
Fixed: Some tutorial issues.
Fixed: Some issues with menus auto pausing/unpausing.
Fixed: Combat widgets did not update when removing/equipping a weapon when the pawn is commanded.
Fixed: A crash that could happen when a pawn left the map.
Fixed: Regression with airlock door rotation.
Fixed: Menu regression when a selected blueprint has been constructed.
Original post
31 Aug 2026Developer post
SpaceSlog and Out of Orbit bundle
Hey SpaceSloggers, I would like to introduce you to Case Yellow Labs, who are creating Out of Orbit , another solo-dev project. We have teamed up to bring you a bundle featuring both SpaceSlog and Out of Orbit . Get 10% off the bundle, or 10% off the game you do not already own.
18 Aug 2026Developer post
v 0.15.0.2
Adjustments to the camera so its a little more responsive. Reduce human hours until fully rested from 8 to 7. Added initial Simplified Chinese translation thanks to 七光. Fixed: Some sound settings would not load correctly. Fixed: The camera could be way too quick on some systems.
Adjustments to the camera so its a little more responsive.
Reduce human hours until fully rested from 8 to 7.
Added initial Simplified Chinese translation thanks to 七光.
Fixed: Some sound settings would not load correctly.
Fixed: The camera could be way too quick on some systems.
Original post
17 Aug 2026Developer post
v 0.15.0.1 Hotfix
Updated French translation - thanks Daneel53 Fixed: A lesson would incorrectly show at the beginning of the game.
Updated French translation - thanks Daneel53
Fixed: A lesson would incorrectly show at the beginning of the game.
Original post
14 Aug 2026Developer post
Alpha 15 - Balance
Hey everyone, Today I'm releasing Alpha 15. I was going to release this as an update to Alpha 14 but bumped it due to the amount of balance and refactoring changes. Meaning, this update may play quite a bit different to previous builds. Don't forget you can still play any previou
Hey everyone,

Today I'm releasing Alpha 15. I was going to release this as an update to Alpha 14 but bumped it due to the amount of balance and refactoring changes. Meaning, this update may play quite a bit different to previous builds.
Don't forget you can still play any previous builds by going to properties > game versions.
As usual, it's extremely helpful reporting your issues either on the discussions here, our forums or our Discord. This helps me to help you in the best and quickest way possible and also ensures your suggestions, balance issues, bugs or anything else you have to say actually gets correctly addressed.
New Items
Add depleted uranium resource.
Add depleted uranium refining recipe.
Improvements
Add filthy ship thought.
Major refactoring done to buildings and blueprints.
Add new incident - Crew rescue.
Rename the powered Airlock door to Automatic Airlock door.
Update zone highlight.
Ensure other blueprints can be placed over cable and ducting.
Change fuel type to Deuterium.
Carbonaceous asteroids need to be mined to gain materials which can be refined inside a refinery to create liquid Deuterium fuel cells.
Ensure main setup menus on game start reset if going back to the main menu.
Add scattered items to scenario json files.
Balance
Increase time of day by almost 25%.
Adjusted days per month and year to account for the new length of days.
Increase the amount of heat removed by heat extractors.
Slightly adjust research and split out the Electric Cooker.
An injury does not always have to be tended before it will stop bleeding. Though someone can still bleed out before that happens.
Wounds can become old without needing to be tended.
Increase heal rate of all beds.
Wounds will also heal when not resting, just much slower.
Fixes
Fixed: Memory leak with zone textures.
Fixed: Issues with captain appearance selection.
Fixed: Various text issues.
Fixed: Widget hotkeys could fail to work.
Fixed: Recipe crafting amounts were not always counting correctly.
Fixed: Healing did not use the healing skill correctly.
Fixed: Custom pawns could still sometimes show up more than once.
Fixed: Would not always make it clear if a pawn was in a mental break or not.
Original post
01 Aug 2026Developer post
V0.14.0.3 update.
Changed materials received when deconstructing buildings; Player buildings will return the full amount * the health percentage. Non player buildings will return the full amount * mat_recovery_ratio * health percentage. Fixed: Rotation buttons were not being unlocked during the tu
Changed materials received when deconstructing buildings; Player buildings will return the full amount * the health percentage. Non player buildings will return the full amount * mat_recovery_ratio * health percentage.

Fixed: Rotation buttons were not being unlocked during the tutorial.
Fixed: Ui scale was not saving/loading correctly.
Fixed: Regression with pawns stacking on pawn selection menu.
Fixed: You could force research even if the bench was not powered.
Original post
19 Jul 2026Developer post
Alpha 14 - Research
Hey everyone, Today we have released Alpha 14 of SpaceSlog onto all platforms. You can read more about this update below. Research I've heard you, and we now have research in the game. This is just the first section of research and much more will be added over time. We have plans
Hey everyone,
Today we have released Alpha 14 of SpaceSlog onto all platforms. You can read more about this update below.
Research
I've heard you, and we now have research in the game. This is just the first section of research and much more will be added over time. We have plans for dissection and analysis stations too, in order to add more variations and new ways to research.
Captain Creation
You can now change the appearance of your captain when starting a new game.
Hotkeys
It seems like quite a small thing, but hotkeys have been another one of those QoL features a lot of people have asked for. So I have worked on adding more of these for this update too. Please let me know if there are more missing you would like to see.
New Items
Added research (Only those with Science skill can perform research).
Added research menu.
Added various types of research (More will continue to be added).
Manual airlock door.
Research station.
A new menu to choose the appearance of your captain.
Improvements
Ensure the captain always starts selected.
Update ship export text.
Add warnings to show dev mode and mods disable achievements.
Various performance improvements.
Add a lesson explaining the transponders battery backup.
Improvements to various buttons/menus.
Add lesson for when the thrusters first start.
Improve arrow UI icons.
Various improvements to the tutorial.
Improved some text for the captain creation to explain how they relate to the game more.
Update engine version.
Localise various missing texts.
Improve building menu icon display.
Improve performance of pawn history by limiting the amount of history text saved/shown.
Change center camera shortcut to key Z.
Add various shortcuts.
Balance
Nerfed rats slightly.
Adjust/balance starting items.
Balance spawned items on the starting map.
Slightly increase the size of the starting ship.
Updated difficulty settings.
Added experience modifier. (Ship builder = 1.6x, Timid = 1.1x, Normal = 1.0x, Brutal = 0.6x)
Increased harvest yield amount for ship builder difficulty to 55%
Added research speed modifier. (Ship builder = 2.0x, Timid = 1.5x, Normal = 1.0x, Brutal = 0.5x)
Increased faction relation offset for ship builder to +50. Meaning more chances of positive relations with all factions.
Various other balancing required for researching.
Mods
Moved all consideration scores over to json for better mod support.
Community Localisation
Updated French translation - Thanks Daneel53
Fixes
Fixed: Audio for refining did not loop.
Fixed: Some issues with texture mipmaps and colouring.
Fixed: Add missing mask texture to floor lamps.
Fixed: Removed incorrect shader from transfer ventilator.
Fixed: An incorrect notification was shown if a custom role could not be created.
Fixed: Hotkey issues with the tutorial.
Fixed: Some camera scrolling issues.
Fixed: A notification could incorrectly show a pawn has claimed a bed when they had not.
Fixed: Could sometimes return an incorrect capacity check if sleeping spots had been removed.
Fixed: Various issues with the quit menu.
Fixed: Eaten tasty meal thought was not correctly firing.
Fixed: Doors could lose position.
Fixed: Pawns could sometimes stop hauling items.
Fixed: Various crashes that could occur.
Fixed: Pawns would not always get skill experience.
Fixed: Cannot click through crew bar.
Fixed: Pawns would sometimes not build any singular hull.
Original post
15 Jul 2026Developer post
Developmental Branch
Hey everyone, Just a quick one to let you all know I shall be utilizing the different branches here on Steam to test the developmental builds of the game. If you want to help test and report issues and suggestions, then please join our Discord and select the correct role in the W
Hey everyone,

Just a quick one to let you all know I shall be utilizing the different branches here on Steam to test the developmental builds of the game.

If you want to help test and report issues and suggestions, then please join our Discord and select the correct role in the Welcome channel. This will give you access to the extra channels for discussions and bug reports for the developmental builds.
If you want to access the developmental branch here on Steam, then please follow these instructions;
Right click SpaceSlog in your library and click Properties.
Locate and click on Game Versions & Betas.
Select the developmental branch.
Research
I heard you, and I've now started working on research. This is just the first section of research and much more will be added over time.
Hotkeys

It seems like quite a small thing, but hotkeys has been another one of those QoL features a lot of people have asked for. So I have also worked on adding more of these for this update too.

Both of the above plus more is already on the developmental branch for you test. You can find the full changelog over on our discord. Which of course I will also post here upon its eventual stable release.
Reviews
As usual, please do not forget to review SpaceSlog, reviews really do help us and I read every single one (good and bad, for better or worse).

- Marcus (Produno)
Original post
02 Jun 2026Developer post
Alpha 13 update and discount
Hey everyone, Today marks the first major update for SpaceSlog since it's Steam early access release, in which I have tried to focus on QoL, balance and reported issues. You can see the full changelog below. I hope you have all been enjoying yourselves out there in the Slog! And
Hey everyone,
Today marks the first major update for SpaceSlog since it's Steam early access release, in which I have tried to focus on QoL, balance and reported issues. You can see the full changelog below.
I hope you have all been enjoying yourselves out there in the Slog! And for those that have not, I hope this update makes it a little easier for you.
As usual please continue to report any issues or suggestions you may have. I will continue to try and release an update every 3(ish) months depending on the amount and complexity of the content being worked on.
We are also part of best indie games summer showcase for the next week, where we are currently running a 10% discount.
New items
Added an animal sleeping spot.
Added a refinery.
Turn Uranium into Fuel Cells.
Added an electric cooker.
Cook various packaged meals.
Turn raw meat into cooked meat.
Added tasty packaged meals.
Add Uranium asteroids. These will start to show after travelling a certain distance.
Improvements
Improved orders UI.
Added 'forever' and 'until you have' options.
Added the ability to set priorities.
Change the amount directly on the orders ticket.
Changed the ore colours for ice asteroids.
Pressing ESC on the start menus will now take you to the previous menu rather than close them all.
The game will now detect if you are using a controller or mouse and keyboard and react accordingly.
Added a hint alert that will show if your ships temperature is too high.
Added a hint alert for when your ship has no oxygen.
Notifications for points of interest when travelling will now make a sound to alert the player.
Doubled the time all notifications will show within the menu.
Add ate raw food negative thought.
Add ate tasty meal thought.
Make the rats a little larger visually so they are easier to spot.
Ship mass is now affected by resources again.
Updates to various texts.
Update/improve trade price display text.
Localised more text.
Add support for multiple recipe outputs.
Alloys are now used for various equipment.
Updated textures of alloys.
Update all dyes where used as a secondary material.
Add a crew bar at the bottom of the screen to show all crew.
Add a toggle in the options menu to show/hide the crew bar.
Noted in the pawn randomise popup that you cannot randomise your captain.
Switched around adulthood options when creating a captain so loner is no longer the default.
Expose more data to JSON.
Implement pawn carry capacity.
Various optimisations/improvements to pawn behaviours.
They will be less likely to get stuck on walls or box themselves in.
They will now gather as many materials as they can carry and supply multiple prefabs.
They will also do the same when hauling and sowing.
If your pawn is commanded, you can now override certain situations, like not being able to go where they cannot breath.
Adjust the sound of the speed buttons to be less obnoxious.
Transfer ventilators can now work externally (venting to space).
Improvements to atmosphere (gas and temperature) equalisations between rooms and to space.
Gasses will now correctly leak through closed internal doors depending on the materials they are made out of.
Add any new custom pawns.
Fires no longer cast shadows (optimisation).
Adjust/improve how lighting works.
Update various menus to display other language text better.
Removed error spam when using an unfinished language.
Show more information about each item on the items information menu.
Split nutrition into hydration and nutrition to make it clearer what the item replenishes. (Shown on the info menu)
Added options to change the temperature display to Celsius, Fahrenheit or Kelvins.
Improve camera centering onto planets from the planet menu.
Balance
Increased the amount of starting med kits when choosing Resourcefulness option.
Added some starting med kits when choosing Wastefulness option.
Slaughtering now increases animal skill.
Brewing speed is now affected by cooking skill.
Slightly reduced hours to sleep for humans.
Added a minimum amount to bribes so it can never be 0.
Failed bribe attempts will reduce your relations with that faction. (Note: Diplomacy will be revamped in a future update)
Bruises no longer cause bleeding.
Rats now also drop leather.
Increased the amount of leather that drops overall.
Increased leather requirements for some buildings.
Rebalanced mass for various resources.
Adjusted mass of various other items.
Adjust weapon cooldown calculations to account for the extra mass.
Various equipment updates.
All pawns will now suffocate much more quickly.
Split up passing star incidents so you are less likely to pass extremely hot stars near the start of the game.
Reduce Debris Titanium drop by 1.
Mods
The workshop uploader will now check a mod folder with the same name as the mod named in mod_info, if it doesn't find it, it will find any folder containing the correct mod_id.
Update module descriptions to use BBCode.
Mods version code has been updated to show orange if within the same alpha - for caution.
Community Localisation
Add Brazilian Portuguese language - Thanks Lucas559-noob
Updated French translation - Thanks Daneel53
Fixes
Fixed: Saving then reloading would reset some incident timers.
Fixed: Saved games were not showing local times. (Note: This fix will take effect after resaving)
Fixed: Issue with pawn age when reloading a saved game.
Fixed: Planets and stars could change positions after loading a game.
Fixed: Some sounds could incorrectly carry on playing when loading into a new game.
Fixed: Pawns would not always stay aggrod after loading a game.
Fixed: A rare race condition could cause the game to crash when loading a save.
Fixed: Materials would not preserve colour when loading a game.
Fixed: Pressing ESC at the crew selection menu would cause crew to stack up/not reset.
Fixed: Could not force a pawn to sleep in a bed if they already own that room.
Fixed: Various issues when assigning your crew to rooms.
Fixed: Various issues with temperature logic.
Fixed: Text input on the trade menu did not work.
Fixed: You could not trade if your only crew member had 0 skill in social.
Fixed: The trade menu would show even if you have no crew with the required skill.
Fixed: You could still bribe even if you had no crew with the required skill.
Fixed: An error could show when demolishing something that doesn't contain component classes.
Fixed: Incorrect species information.
Fixed: You could force your crew to eat/drink consumables that are not part of their diet.
Fixed: Pawn inventory weight would keep drastically rising.
Fixed: Encumbrance on the pawn equipment menu would not update correctly.
Fixed: Incorrect colour for orange dye.
Fixed: Pawns could construct buildings even if they do not have the correct skill requirements.
Fixed: Pawns could sometimes finish off a creature without it being collapsed.
Fixed: A characters hair would not update on the character panel when selected and removing their helmet.
Fixed: Issues with rotating prefabs of a certain size.
Fixed: Transfer vents could transfer into walls.
Fixed: Error when loading a language with no tips translated.
Fixed: Gas display was incorrect on the ship systems menu.
Fixed: Showing two forced options for drink and eat for items that satisfy both.
Fixed: Text would not start at the bottom of the screen on the credits menu.
Fixed: Regression with power circuits where disconnected items would not always turn off correctly.
Fixed: Would not correctly show the no power indicator if the building was not connected to the grid.
Fixed: Some sounds would incorrectly play when the game is paused.
Fixed: A pawn on rare occasions could teleport to a bed.
Fixed: Facing issues when sitting at chairs.
Fixed: Equipment menu would not update carried item amount when open.
Fixed: Spawned custom pawns would not persist through saves.
Fixed: Custom pawns could sometimes get random facial hair.
Fixed: Not all Pawn GUI visuals would update when a pawns equipment had changed.
Fixed: Various issues with resolution when starting the game.
Fixed: Commanded button state would not always update if the pawn was selected and the command option had changed externally.
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27 Apr 2026Developer post
Early Access week retrospective and other information.
Retrospective Hey everyone! Its been a little over a week since we launched into early access here, so I want to share a few numbers and some information regarding our next update. We sold roughly 800 copies with a refund rate of around 11%. Whilst we have sold much less than I h
Retrospective
Hey everyone!
Its been a little over a week since we launched into early access here, so I want to share a few numbers and some information regarding our next update.

We sold roughly 800 copies with a refund rate of around 11%. Whilst we have sold much less than I had hoped, I'm confident with more updates, more people will decide to jump in and play.

Our refund rate is around average for an early access title and actually much lower than average for this particular genre. This tells me those that have purchased the game are relatively happy with it, or understanding of its current release state. source
I've seen the reviews stating there is nothing in the game, or this seems more of a tech demo. I do feel that's a bit of an unfair representation and may be due to a lack of onboarding, which I will continue to work on and improve in order to show what content we do have.
Of course, we did only release into early access here Friday, meaning there will be much less content than other similar titles in the same genre. So please do keep this in mind when deciding to buy this game or not.
Our next update
I have already released a couple of smaller updates and I'm now working on the next larger update. I will try and prioritise the things asked for the most, which currently includes cooking, fuel production and crafting.
Lots of people have also been posting various bugs and issues which I am also working on fixing. This is the first time a large amount of people have played the game, so naturally there will be lots of extra issues that I or the other testers have not found leading up to this point. So please be patient whilst I try and get through them all. I am only one person and there is only so much I can do at a time.
I will be opening the experimental branch here within the next couple of days for people to play on and test if they wish to do so. Though keep in mind, there may be bugs and issues which could ruin saves etc. You can find more info about this over on our Discord.
Community Updates
Amazingly we already have a few mods in the Steam workshop!
User Kolcio138 has created a Healwort mod:
Grow and harvest the Healwort plant which can be used to heal your crew's injuries

View game page
User TinyPanda has created the Training Dummy mod. And what's even more amazing is this uses injected GDScript code, injected using his own SpaceSlog mod loader app he has already created
Place down a training dummy your crew members can use during entertainment time to practice combat skills
View game page
Over on our Discord we already have users with several in game year playthroughs. Here's a screenshot of user BloodStarOfficials ship!

We will continue to feature ship designs and mods so please come post yours over on our discord or forums.
That is it for today. Don't forget that if you want to help us you can;
Post a review
Write a guide for those that may be struggling
Or even ask your favourite steamer to play the game
And remember, you may only be one person, as am I, but together is when great things are made. That is why every little helps.
Thanks
Marcus (Produno)
Original post
22 Apr 2026Developer post
Update notes
v 0.12.0.5 Steam workshop updates
20 Apr 2026Developer post
Update notes for 20th April
Changes Reduce error spam in logs. Make rats slightly weaker.
Changes

Reduce error spam in logs.
Make rats slightly weaker.
Original post
19 Apr 2026Developer post
Hotfix
A big welcome to all the new Spacesloggers ! Several hundred of you have decided to join the slog and feedback has been pretty good so far. I also want to thank everyone that has purchased the game for putting their faith in me, which I know is not always easy with an early acces
A big welcome to all the new Spacesloggers!

Several hundred of you have decided to join the slog and feedback has been pretty good so far. I also want to thank everyone that has purchased the game for putting their faith in me, which I know is not always easy with an early access title. Especially one which has not really received much media coverage, or much attention at all.

With that, today I am releasing the first round of fixes, which will be the first update of many!

A quick note on the Steam Workshop, some of you may have noticed workshop mods were not working correctly. This hotfix should fix those issues, meaning you can now fully subscribe to and upload mods to the workshop.
Changes
Removed resources changing ship mass for now as it requires a more in depth fix.
Add the first batch of custom pawns.
Update diamond asteroid colour.
Fixes
Fixed: Module data not saving/loading.
Fixed: Some incorrect flammability data was set.
Fixed: Could self tend with incorrect items.
Fixed: Incorrect creatures could sometimes spawn from asteroids.
Fixed: Unable to force haul dead pawns.
Fixed: Some text issues.
Fixed: The game could open on the incorrect display.
Fixed: Items did not change ship mass.
Fixed: Aeroponics did not detect herb seeds.
Reviews
We have just managed to reach the magical 10 reviews, but we need as many as we can to help exposure. If you've not reviewed the game yet, please consider doing so.
Community
Orbital Potato and Noobert have both created videos on SpaceSlog, feel free to go and watch them below!
Watch on YouTube
Watch on YouTube
Original post
17 Apr 2026Developer post
Early Access Launch
Hello Spacesloggers! SpaceSlog is now available on Steam Early Access! Launch price: $24.99 (10% launch discount) Regional pricing: provided by Steam Early Access Launch Video Early Access changes Bugs and Issues Please report any bugs and issues over on (Steam / Discord / Forums
Hello Spacesloggers!

SpaceSlog is now available on Steam Early Access!

Launch price: $24.99 (10% launch discount)
Regional pricing: provided by Steam
Early Access Launch Video
Watch on YouTube
Early Access changes
https://produnogames.com/blog/2026/04/09/steam-launch-and-new-update/
Bugs and Issues
Please report any bugs and issues over on (Steam / Discord / Forums)
Describe the issue as best as you can and post any relevant information
Please don't report mod related issues
Leave a Steam review or suggestion
Your feedback matters and I read every single post
Reviews are very important for game exposure. Let people know if you are enjoying the game
Mod support
Steam workshop support is already in the game
Learn more about modding SpaceSlog here
Translations
SpaceSlog has been translated by the community, if you want to help please see here
Good luck out in the slog!

Thanks,
Marcus
Original post
10 Apr 2026Developer post
Early Access Trailer and Release Date
Hey everyone! I am excited to announce that SpaceSlog is coming to Steam Early Access next week! Launch date: 17th April Launch discount: 10% Early access announcement trailer: I hope you all enjoy the trailer! Thanks, Marcus
09 Mar 2026Developer post
Tutorial update
Unfortunately our Steam Next Fest demo was supposed to be up for another week or so after the event, but I ended up having to remove it due to too many negative reviews. The majority of these reviews were from people that said they had no idea how to play, or various other reason
Unfortunately our Steam Next Fest demo was supposed to be up for another week or so after the event, but I ended up having to remove it due to too many negative reviews. The majority of these reviews were from people that said they had no idea how to play, or various other reasons related to that.
So it was pretty obvious we needed a more robust and guided tutorial, which is what I have been working on.

This updates includes the start of that, guiding people through stockpiles, basic resource gathering and building. I will continue to expand and improve upon this as we go through Early Access. I have also re-released the demo and I will monitor its feedback.
I also added a new menu which includes all the current lessons in the game which you can read whenever you like. Keep in mind this is not yet a comprehensive list as things are still subject to change.
You can see the full changelog below.

Changes
Moved leather to the front of material selection for some furniture.
Started adding an interactive tutorial.
Skipping the tutorial is disabled when playing the demo.
Ensure build menu does not open empty.
Streamlined some lessons.
Added a new Operations Handbook menu that shows all the current lessons in the game for quick reference.
Some GUI improvements.
Show a hint alert whenever black alert is activated.
Ensure all buildable items start either open or switched on.
Change cable highlight colour.
Fixes
Fixed: Controller left and right triggers were not working when not using Steam input.
Fixed: Hull was not being placed correctly, causing save/load issues.
Fixed: Only one oxygen tank was being filled.
Original post
26 Feb 2026Developer post
Thanks for playing the SpaceSlog demo.
A big thanks to everyone that has played the demo so far and given feedback. There has been some good and some bad and I am going to be working on any improvements required. It has become fairly apparent that we need an interactive tutorial, so that will be my first port of call.
A big thanks to everyone that has played the demo so far and given feedback. There has been some good and some bad and I am going to be working on any improvements required.

It has become fairly apparent that we need an interactive tutorial, so that will be my first port of call. For now I have created a short video giving a quick overview of the game and how to create a basic ship and get moving.
Watch on YouTube
I have also pushed a couple more updates since our last news post.
v 0.11.0.4
Updated French language
Fixed: Various issues with alert hints.
v 0.11.0.5
Your crew will more likely try to move things out of the way before building on top of them.
Some small UI updates.
Added the ability to shrink zones from a selected zones menu.
Fixed: 'Has no privacy' thought not getting removed correctly.
Original post
19 Feb 2026Developer post
Demo updates
Hey everyone, We have pushed a couple of updates for the demo over the past few days which should make the game a bit easier for you, of which you can see the changes below. Please continue to post your suggestions and feedback over on our channels and I will continue to make imp
Hey everyone,

We have pushed a couple of updates for the demo over the past few days which should make the game a bit easier for you, of which you can see the changes below.

Please continue to post your suggestions and feedback over on our channels and I will continue to make improvements.

v 0.11.0.2
Constructing your ship structure should now be cheaper and quicker with the changes below:
Reduced Ship Structure cost from 4 to 2 materials.
Increased Deck Plating cost from 1 to 2 materials.
Decreased Ship Structure build time from 240 to 120.
Increased Deck Plating build time from 60 to 120.
Add an alert hint if all of your crew are idle, or commanded and given no orders.
Adjusted indoors to space temperature equalisation equations.
Add hysteresis to battery charging/discharging.
Changed shares room thought to no privacy and fixed various issues with this.
Add force haul materials to prefab option.
Updated trade menu to be clearer and easier to understand.
Several improvements to pawn behaviour.
Several other balance updates and fixes.
Fixed: Crash on mayday incident.
Fixed: Various issues with the room menus.
v 0.11.0.3
Add new custom pawns.
Improved the infestation incident.
Reduce all pawn oxygen intake by 10%
Reduced blood loss from bruises as they were a bit too brutal.
Added an alert hint for when a crew member needs urgent medical care.
Fixed: Infestation could spawn in the incorrect places.
Fixed: Showing non player crew in the crew menu.
Fixed: Showing incorrect flora in the Aeroponics menu.
Fixed: Spacesuits could take more gas from a room than required.
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12 Feb 2026Developer post
Demo, Steam Next Fest and another update!
Welcome back SpaceSloggers! SpaceSlog will be taking part in Februarys Steam Next Fest, where you can go play the demo right now! The demo gives a generous 12 in game days for you to play, for as many times as you like and will be up for roughly 3 weeks, or one week after the end
Welcome back SpaceSloggers!

SpaceSlog will be taking part in Februarys Steam Next Fest, where you can go play the demo right now!

The demo gives a generous 12 in game days for you to play, for as many times as you like and will be up for roughly 3 weeks, or one week after the end of SNF.
As usual, I will continue to update and improve the demo over the course of this time, so be sure to leave suggestions, feedback and report any issues you may find. Whilst regularly checking back to try the updated demo.

Here are all the previous updates since the last demo was released.
30/08/2025
14/09/2025
10/12/2025
29/12/2025
With that we have also released another new update, which you can read more about below.
New menus for planets and stars.
This not only makes it easier to select and see information about these objects as you pass, or drop by them, but it also paves the way for the eventual planetary landings that will be added to the game soon.
You may also notice some of the new UI improvements here too.
Improvements to rooms.
Rooms have been updated with various new features. They now track their size, cleanliness and types. The type can be changed in the currently selected room menu (by holding Alt and left clicking in the room area). Choosing Crew Quarters for example, will allow you to assign your crew to this room if there are enough beds available here.
Ship overlays.
New overlays have been added to give you a quick overview of your ships status. These include Temperature, Oxygen levels, Carbon Dioxide levels and how airtight your hull walls are.
Gameplay improvements
There have also been lots of gameplay improvements, particularly when it comes to player onboarding. I have tried to improve the ship construction experience too and the game will now show dynamic lessons whenever it thinks you may be struggling. Think of these lessons as the Operations Handbook helping you get familiar with life in the Slog.

The power systems have also been completely reworked. These previously used the same systems as the air and atmosphere, but it became apparent that whilst that works well for air, it doesn't work so well for power, which requires various regulation. This has led to lots of improvements, including a large performance boost, but has also allowed us to add a battery backup system. Every ship transponder is now fitted with a battery backup as standard. This helps in situations where you run out of power and get stranded in the middle of space.
Full v0.11.0.1 changelog
Rooms can now be assigned different room types.
Crew can be assigned to a room designated as a Crew Quarters, if there are enough beds inside.
Crew will attempt to automatically find a bed and assign themselves to that room if possible.
Added new thoughts:
Shares room
Lost captain
Added cleanliness to rooms and ships. You will now have a reason to keep your ship clean.
Added spaciousness to rooms.
Added the ability to arrest collapsed pawns if you have a Brigg room type assigned.
You can now select rooms by pressing Alt + left click when hovering over the room area.
Added some variation to the background nebula when travelling.
Add new menus for planets and stars.
Updated and improved various other menus in the game.
Various text updates and improvements.
Add some extra options to the dev menu.
Various optimisations, especially to large fires.
Blue giants will spawn rare asteroids.
Some improvements to how lessons are shown and work.
Various improvements to construction:
Made some construction less restrictive. ie, internal doors can be placed on externally, but will show a lesson the first time the player tries to do this.
Added dynamic lessons that will only show once the player has shown they are struggling.
Changed names of Hull to Ship Structure and Flooring to Deck Plating.
Deck Plating health is now the same as Ship Structure health.
Moved everything other than items that are used to create the ship structure out of the structure menu. This means internal doors, carpets etc have been moved.
Improved error messages that are shown when trying to place a building incorrectly.
Changed blast door names to airlock door.
Notification messages will now flash when being shown.
Reduced time to grow plants.
Reduce price of medikits.
Add new ship overlays:
Oxygen levels.
Carbon Dioxide levels.
Temperature levels.
Ship structure airtightness.
Add new alerts:
Ship attacked.
Fire started.
Pawns no longer get cosy bed thoughts if sleeping in a sleeping spot.
Reworked the power systems:
This has increased performance by around 20%.
Things will only be powered if the power surplus reaches the full power it requires.
Various other improvements.
The Transponder now also acts like a battery backup which can supply itself power plus an additional 60watts. This helps in situations where the player gets stranded with no fuel. The battery will last for around 10 days before needing to be re-charged again.
The cursor will now scale with the UI when running at 4k resolution.
Some pawn behaviour improvements.
Fixed: Various memory leaks.
Fixed: Structure stats were being added to a facility/ship before the structure had actually been fully constructed.
Fixed: Could not build a door next to a transfer vent.
Fixed: Crash when destroying plants.
Fixed: Crash when loading a game with active fires.
Fixed: Don't cycle through dead pawns with hotkey.
Fixed: Hull health was not updating on the ship systems panel.
Fixed: Trying to force shoot a collapsed pawn could cause issues.
Fixed: Dead pawns shouldn't gain thoughts.
Fixed: Skeletonised pawns would regrow flesh after a loaded game.
Fixed: Roles would not always be removed correctly on pawn removal.
Fixed: Dead pawns could be drag selected.
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