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Thrive: Progress Update 08/30/2025

A sizeable amount of progress has been made the past week, with some refinements to the planet editor, greater polishing across multiple features, and some graphics improvements. Players should now be able to create more varied experiences on their planet, and should find mechanics to be a lot more consistent across the Microbe Stage and M…

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-08-30 | Comment

Thrive: Progress Update 08/23/2025

First week after the release of 0.8.3, and most of the standard post-release procedures, as well as tweaks, are occurring. Along with developer forum discussions, some decent work is occurring behind the scenes, which can be accessed on our dev build.

  • New build of the day
    • Made hydrogen sulfide decay speed up with the pre…

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-08-23 | Comment

Thrive: Devblog #48: Planet Achievements

Have you ever wanted to customize an alien planet? Do you yearn for the glory of making a microbial lifeform unlock an achievement? Does reading about balancing force you to the edge of your seat? If you answered yes to any of the above, then look no further: Thrive 0.8.3 is here!

As always the update is available for free with…

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-08-16 | Comment

Thrive: Progress Update 8/09/2025

Next week sees the release of a new version of Thrive, which will hopefully prove to be a rather enjoyable update to our community. As has been so with other releases, there is a 0.8.3 release candidate available for players to download and play. We would appreciate any and all feedback on several features – balancing has received some…

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-08-09 | Comment

Rigs of Rods 2025.08 Release Candidate 2 Released (Unsupported)

Today we are releasing Rigs of Rods 2025.08 Release Candidate 2. This release is a follow up to the previous release candidate.

This is pre-release software. It is not officially supported.
Use at your own risk.

Download Rigs of Rods 2025.08 RC2
Dire…

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-08-05 | Comment

Thrive: Progress Update 8/02/2025

A decent amount of progress has been made this week, with a good amount of progress on achievements and the implementation of the first settings related to planet customization. Though customization options for the planet generator are somewhat limited – partially due to it being a first implementation, and partially related to the simpler…

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-08-02 | Comment

Thrive: Progress Update 7/26/2025

This week’s devbuild is less dense than usual, but a solid amount of work has occurred behind the scenes. The framework towards achievements is being established, though we are waiting on some graphics work to decorate them. Some solid work has also been done on the basic planet customization options, though a sizable amount of playtesting…

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-07-26 | Comment

Thrive: Progress Update 07/19/2025

Progress continued this week with many small changes being completed for the game. These included many small bug fixes, and even fixes for the future stage prototypes which don’t often receive attention. The most interesting addition for many players this week will be the added multicellular species preview images, which have been missing …

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-07-19 | Comment

Thrive: Progress Update 07/12/2025

With the return of our full-time programmer, this week features the release of the first dev-build in about a month! Some balancing tweaks, changes to compound behavior related to sulfur, and further refinements can be seen. Balancing will not necessarily be final, and is subject to change upon further tweaks and community feedback.

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-07-12 | Comment

Thrive: Progress Update 7/05/2025

Less activity this week as our full-time developer continues to enjoy their vacation. Some further development of concepts on the forums, as well as some update to information in the Thriveopedia can be seen below.

Thrive is currently on sale on Steam. Grab it for a discount and tell your friends!

  • No official devbuild this we…

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Games Planet in Simulation | 2025-07-05 | Comment

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