Developer posts and news about this game.
Hey everyone! A new Dev Blog to share the latest evolution progress of Primordial Empire! The sun has been especially brutal this summer, and with that inspiration, it’s actually quite fitting that I’ve been working on the Salt Barrens biome. The Salt Barrens The Salt Barrens are
Hey everyone! Marc here! It’s been a while since the last dev log, and Primordial Empire has evolved a lot! I’ve been doing a lot of work on the strategic parts of the game, including a new strategic AI that will try to destroy your Collective and an Expedition feature that lets
Hi everyone! Summer is here, bringing sunshine and warmth to the primordial soup. Thanks to that, our microscopic world is teeming with life, and our growing Collective is gradually adding new microorganisms to the mix. Here’s a sneak peek at some of the new cells and plants I’ve
Hey everyone! Spring has returned and life in the primordial soup blooms once more. It’s been a while since the last community post and this will be a good time to show some development progress of Primordial Empire so far this year. I'm currently working on a world map comprised
Hey everyone! I just published the v0.4_demo update, and it is a big one. First of all, I want to thank everybody again for your continued support - it really is a blast working on Primordial Empire with this community. With this update, the Demo will be feature-complete. This do
You might remember in last week's Steam post I mentioned Primordial Empire was nominated in the SGDA Swiss Game Awards. Well, looks like we have another piece of good news! I'm thrilled to announce that Primordial Empire has received the Excellence Award in last Thursday's award
Hey everyone! We are ending 2025 with some amazing news: Primordial Empire is nominated for the SGDA Swiss Game Awards Most Anticipated Game 2025! The ceremony will be held online on Dec 18 at 19:00 CET , and you can watch it at home on the Livestream ! That’s going to be a great
Hey everyone! A new demo update just dropped, with new enemies, new units and buildings, and new harvestable resources! That’s why instead of the usual monthly blog, today we are jumping straight into all the cool new stuff coming to Primordial Empire in this patch. A Risky Harve
Hey everyone! Two big things just happened last month – first, the Wildlife Update, then Tokyo Game Show right after! Let us have a catch-up in this monthly blog post! Wildlife Update This September update introduced a substantial amount of new content to Primordial Empire, addin
Hey everyone! I'm thrilled to announce that Primordial Empire will be in Tokyo Game Show 2025! From September 25-28 , the Primordial Empire demo will be on display with the new Wildlife Update at the Slug Disco booth , Hall 11-E32 in the indie games area of Makuhari Messe . I'll
Hi everyone! The Wildlife Update is here! Introducing neutral wildlife to Primordial Empire, this update features 9 new species of microbes and plants, and a brand new mechanic that allows more meaningful interactions than simply fighting them. Here are the update highlights: Wil
Hello everyone! Slug Disco will be returning to Tokyo Game Show from September 25th to the 28th! The Ember Guardian will be available to play in the Select Indie 80 section of the venue, and we will have 6 more games to play over in the indie area of the show. The games on show w
Hey everyone! Time really does fly by when you’re trying to build an empire in the deep sea – we’re already in September! I’ve been working on an upcoming update aiming to introduce wildlife to Primordial Empire, and some of you might have seen some snippets in last month’s round
Hey everyone! Welcome back to our monthly blog post! Last month’s combat update introduced two new scenarios to Primordial Empire, one of which a procedurally generated secret level that plays differently every time. It’s been great seeing everyone enjoying the new challenges so
Greetings everyone! This month has seen some big changes to Primordial Empire’s demo, with our first bit of combat content finally arriving, and more updates followed to refine this microscopic warfare. Let us quickly go through what happened in June! Combat Update Thanks to all
Peaceful base-building is over! Primordial Empire just got a Combat Update, featuring a new combat scenario with new enemies and challenges. Muster your army of lancet cells and prepare your defence. Protect your colony of microbes from the relentless attacks of hostile organisms
Hello everyone! Welcome back to Primordial Empire's monthly wrap-up, and this month we have some exciting news. The demo launch gave everyone a taste of microscopic colony building, and we are very pleased to see so many colonies flourish in peace - but no peace lasts forever. It
We're very excited to announce that Marc, our solo developer of Primordial Empire, is joining Writing Bull on Twitch this Sunday May 18 at CEST 21:30/UTC 19:30 for a developer interview! Marc will be sharing some of the ins and outs of developing Primordial Empire on this stream,
Greetings everyone! Welcome to our first ever community monthly update. This will be a monthly summary of what Primordial Empire is up to every month, from events we participated in to sneak peeks of future content, so everyone can keep up with our latest news. Now without furthe
Thank you every for a cracking demo launch and Earth Appreciation Festival! We are fast approaching 5,000 wishlists which is a great milestone in such a short amount of time (if you haven't wishlisted already please do!) With the demo launch has come a great amount of feedback an