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Thrive: Progress Update 12/27/2025

We hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season! Speaking of which, Thrive is currently still on sale. With our main programmer on vacation, there have been no large programming tasks completed, and no volunteer work has been actually added into the game’s code.

However, volunteers have still been working on new changes to be…

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-12-27 | Comment

Widelands 1.3 Released

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the stable release Widelands 1.3.
Windows installer Intel 64 bit · Intel 32 bit · ARM 64 bit
Mac packages (64 bit) MacOS ≥ 15 Intel · MacOS ≥ 15 ARM · MacOS ≥ 14 ARM
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Games Planet in RTS, Simulation, Strategy | 2025-12-21 | Comment

Thrive: Progress Update 12/20/2025

In case anyone missed it, this week we released Thrive 1.0! The Microbe Stage is now feature complete, and development has shifted to the Multicellular Stage. The release this time happened on Wednesday to catch the start of the (currently ongoing) Steam Winter Sale.

With all the activity around the launch, subsequent progress …

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-12-20 | Comment

Thrive: Devblog #50: Microbe Stage Complete!

Welcome all to this very special devblog celebrating the release of Thrive version 1.0! This release marks the completion of the Microbe Stage, the first stage of the 9 planned. The Microbe stage will continue to be supported with balancing and bug fix updates, and volunteers are welcome to continue to make contributions to it. But…

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-12-17 | Comment

Widelands 1.3 Release Candidate

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce that the Release Candidate for Widelands 1.3 is now available for download.
Windows installer Intel 64 bit · Intel 32 bit · ARM 64 bit
Mac packages (64 bit) MacOS ≥ 15 Intel · MacOS ≥ 15 ARM · MacO…

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Games Planet in RTS, Simulation, Strategy | 2025-12-14 | Comment

Thrive: Progress Update 12/13/2025

Today is our last Progress Update before the release of Thrive 1.0 on the 17th of December, and with it the functional completion of the Microbe Stage.

Of course, there will still be updates on the Microbe Stage, especially when it comes to fixing issues and balancing. But our main development efforts really will be focusing on the Mul…

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-12-13 | Comment

Thrive: Progress Update 12/06/2025

The biggest news this week is Thrive version 0.9.2! We’re hopeful that this version is a lot more stable on release than 0.9.1 was, but we still did not have a beta period, unlike our typical updates. Please report any issues you find!

First of all, it fixes the remaining know bugs from 0.9.1 that were not fixed in 0.9.1.1. Beyond …

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-12-06 | Comment

Thrive: Progress Update 11/29/2025

Last week we released 0.9.1! It was… somewhat less stable than we had hoped. In particular, the new cell division effect had a physics problem that caused frequent crashes. The first part of this week was dedicated to fixing this and a number of other bugs, with bugfix release 0.9.1.1 being released on Wednesday.

Nonetheless, there was…

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-11-29 | Comment

Thrive: Progress Update 11/22/2025

The big news for today is the release of Thrive 0.9.1! This is the first of our smaller updates leading up to the big 1.0. Highlights include a new array of patch events, a newly overhauled MP calculation system and a new intro cutscene when you choose a panspermia start. Notably, all the previous bugs with the new save/loading system …

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-11-22 | Comment

Thrive: Progress Update 11/15/2025

Quite a lot of noticeable progress this week! Several new patch events were added to mix up compound levels across many patches at a time. Auto-evo now recognises upgrades to toxin organelles, making Thrive significantly more toxic. Thermosynthesis now produces glucose to make it significantly less frustrating to use (This slipped into the…

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-11-15 | Comment

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