Hello everyone,
First of all, I want to deeply thank the community for your feedback and for quickly reporting a critical issue regarding saves resetting when playing the game offline.
What was fixed: We identified a bug where launching the game without an active internet connection caused a communication failure with Steam Cloud. Instead of loading your local save, the system mistakenly overwrote it with blank data from the failed cloud sync.
I have just deployed a hotfix with a strict failsafe. From now on, if the game detects an offline status or an unstable cloud connection, it will completely bypass Steam and safely load your local hard drive save. Playing offline is now 100% safe.
Regarding lost progress: I need to be completely transparent with you: because the bug physically overwrote the local save files on your hard drive, the previous data is permanently gone. Unfortunately, it is technically impossible to restore the lost progress.
As a developer (and a player), I know exactly how frustrating it is to lose progress in an incremental game, and it hurts me to deliver this news. I sincerely apologize to everyone affected by this bug. Your support means everything to me, and my priority right now is ensuring the game's foundation is rock-solid so this never happens again.
Thank you for your patience, understanding, and for helping me make the game better for everyone.