Developer posts and news about this game.
Hello all! This update adds save games, reusable rule profiles, more control over combat and new ways to change the world through God Mode. Save a world and return later You can now save a running world and continue it later from the Scenario Editor. Open the new Saves tab, choos
We have moved Observe's community translation project from Crowdin to a self-hosted Weblate server. This lets us support every language our players ask us to add. German, Polish, Turkish and Ukrainian translations are already underway. French, Korean and Russian are now open for
Hello all! Observe has grown considerably over the past few months and we now have a big international audience! I would like to make Observe easier to play for people who do not speak English as their first language, so I am opening a community translation project. The first tra
Hello all! This update makes the map more useful by letting you choose both what it shows and how that information is presented. Build your own map view The new Map Composer combines three separate choices: a base map, optional overlays and country labels. You can begin with the
Hello all! Observe 0.7.5 is now available. This update adds better tools for recording the world, reusable ideology packs and much clearer feedback for AI Studio scripts. Choose what appears on screen Press H during a game to open the new Timeline View panel. You can now decide e
Hello all! This update gives the world map a new visual style and adds another set of improvements to the Map Editor. A new look for the world The political map now uses one sharp pixel grid instead of thousands of separate region images. Country colours remain familiar but borde
Hello all! This is a smaller update focused on making the new Map Editor easier to use and much safer for large projects. More ways to draw The Map Editor now includes straight boundaries with a live preview and a one-pixel pen for detailed work. You can fill land, outline a land
Hello all! Observe 0.7.2 is now available. The main feature is something I have been asked about for a very long time: a complete custom Map Editor inside the game. You can now draw a world from an empty canvas, divide it into regions, turn it into a scenario and watch countries
Hello all! I have released a small update focused almost entirely on performance. Performance improvements A few calculations that looked harmless were doing far more work than intended once countries became extremely large. Normal scenarios often hid these problems but stress-te
Hello all! 0.7.1 is built mostly from the things people asked for after playing 0.7.0. It adds interface scaling, more control over ideologies, better subject information, stricter naval AI rules, a new Bloc map mode and several fixes for the simulation underneath them. Thank you
The 0.7.0 update had a progressive lag issue. Now fixed, game might even run better than ever. As always thanks for all the support and sorry for the lag!
Hello all! This update started with cultures. I wanted a country to contain actual peoples rather than one population number and I wanted those people to matter when borders moved. That sounded like one system. It turned into terrain, food, farms, subjects, a rebuilt God Mode, a
Hello again, Sorry to spam these updates but someone on Discord found a bug regarding the ideologies caused by yesterday's behaviour update. Basically, the AI didn't pick any ideologies before a war was declared. Now that's fixed. And I also made a few balance changes: -AI now wi
Hello all! This update starts with an apology. If you entered a script into the Arena, changed it and tried to send the better version, the arena kept showing your old one. There was no way to replace it. That has been true for about two months and I only caught it recently, whic
-AI Studio Frontline bug fixed. -AI Studio Reset bug fixed. -Someone in comments asked for a Forever War concept, it can be found in the rulesets now. -Ideology bonuses now range from -100 to 100. -New achievements and an easter egg hunt added. -Wars now have ambient audio. -Pre-
Hello all! Flags have been asked for since about the week the game came out and every time I looked at it I put it off. Because "just add flags" is never just adding flags. The scenario data had to change but today I finally got around to it. A poll on Discord finally decided the
Hi, I fixed some of the bugs that were brough to my attention. Scenario Editor population fields were wrongfully limited to 100M. Fixed. Disabling nukes didn't do anything in many cases. Now they should be disabled. Some UI interactions caused the WASD keys to not work. Now fixed
Hello all! This has been one of the most requested features since release and I have been working on variations of it for over a year. Some of you might remember our earlier attempts, like the text-on-map showing army numbers without visible troops, which didn't read all that wel
We have gotten a lot of new players over the past few days. Welcome, all of you. Let's get into it. Scenario Editor Rulesets Until now every scenario played by the same rules. From this update, you choose them. Open Settings in the Scenario Editor and pick a preset: Classic for t
Hello again, Two bug fixes and 8 new achievements for today! Scenario Editor: publishing a scenario didn't upload the screenshot with it. Now it does. AI Studio: publishing a script was uploading a placeholder image instead of your code. It now grabs an actual screenshot. No more