v1.6.2c (2025-03-19)

Minor Update v1.6.2 Today we launched a small iteration on the Micro Kingdom update.

NEW

You can buy extra Micro options with Technology in the Planet Shop. Steep cost in Horizon and Max Horizon Draft, so watch out!

All Micros are unlocked in Free Play. They are spread over the giants to keep the UI manageable.

Challenge Achievements and golden borders for biotica are now linked to playing in the Challenge or Titan playstyle profile, to create consistency.

BALANCE

Blast Furnace scales on the highest instead of all Metals for the first rule.

Pomegranate loses 1 micro slot.

Tag micros have increasing cost.

Brown Bear's power up to 25 from 15 food and gold.

Changed Goddess, General and Diplomat emblem to avoid loopholes.

Buffed Bone in Ice Age since legacy biodiversity is gone.

QUALITY OF LIFE

Disabled biotica now show 'Zzz'-particles on their planet visuals.

Draft UI now reopens after burning a draft and having draft points left.

You can now see when a micro has increasing costs.

Difficulty badge now shows in Esc menu.

More Milestones now show their current progress

FIXED

Updated and fixed translations.

Deep/Shallow biotica will now yield no output if they're not on the right spot after terraforming.

Fixed horizon draft not working properly.

Fixed the gameplay mode not showing in new game UI

Fixed Micro charges not being refunded on the giant specific micros

Fixed a save/load crash

Fixed tooltip zones on rewarded apex biotica during planet score screen

Fixed player profile picker popping up wrongly.

Fixed text size on ability instruction in some languages.

Fixed yield doubling from legacy biotica.

Fixed memory leak when going to the main menu and another planet.

Biotica that don't have a base biodiversity consumption can no longer become disabled due to negative biodiversity (f.e. 2 adjacent Iron). Apex biotica are prioritized when consumption is too high.
v1.6.1 (2025-03-12)

Patch Notes v1.6.1

FIXED

Fixes to confusing Micro mechanic feedback when the feature is not yet unlocked.

Some missing translations from version 1.6.0 changes were added.

Fixed Era 2 biome biodiversity bonus triggering at 6 biodiversity instead of 7, as described in previous notes.

Store page links were fixed.

Added some metadata for crash-reports.
v1.6.0 (2025-03-11)

PATCH NOTES v1.6.0

This version marks the first release on GOG! We're happy to finally be available on GOG, where many people discovered the first version of Reus. Enjoy the game!

ADDED

Added better guiding to the best gameplay settings for you as a player when starting a new planet.

Horizon Drafts are shown in the escape menu in a session

CHANGED

On True Titan difficulty, the Era rewards are on 3 stars instead of 2 stars.

Micro's completely reworked!

Emblems completely reworked!

Readded invention notifications and discovery animations.

Added in-game progress feedback for most Milestones (achievements) that deal with gathering X of something. Find them in the hover tooltip in the collection UI after you've played at least one session with the new update.

If you destroy a defending army, and after that the attacking army, the two cities will sign peace.

You can now revisit doomed planets for which you skipped all planet-dooming cinematics (using the 'Skip Seen Cutscenes' options).

BALANCE

You only get the extra Draft Charge in Horizon mode if you have 5 or more unique biomes that match the bar.

Requirement for Biome usage bonus down slightly to 6 for era 2 and 10 for era 3.

Terraform points in the shop get more expensive more quickly.

Draft Points are extra expensive in Titan Difficulty and up.

Anomaly no longer turns Reefs into Deep and vice versa (actually a nerf to Reef Shark)

Country Club now gives food on Undergrowth, and is on different leaders

Sound effects volume tweaks

ERAS

Hunter Age 3 star and 2 star slightly easier.

Made all 3 star requirements for Era 2 options harder, especially Prosperity.

Made Castle Age slightly harder.

Made the Skyscraper less strong.

Small World 3-star requirement to 600.

Tropical Paradise requirement to 275 population.

Space Race, Age o Horror, Solar Punk, and Calm Era 3 Prosperity Era 3 requirements up from 500 to 600.

Sacrifice Altar gold output down from 500% to 200%.

BIOTICA

Rainforest

Gumbo Limbo power up to 10 from 6. Second copy costs 3 <= 4.

Coffea Robusta now gain science for each bioticum with a base science yield.

Guarana: slightly cheaper

Jaguar: significantly cheaper to place twice

Cacao: fruit scaler up to 25% from 10% per unique fruit.

Ocean

Titan Fall: Boosted, gained new symbiosis.

Reef Shark; Biodiversity cost op by 1, second copy up by 2.

Oil (Offshore): Power down to 0.75 from 1.

Ice age

Geyser: second geyser a bit more expensive.

Cave Bear: gets +10% valuables for legacy geos instead of a flat 50 valuables. slightly more expensive, and slightly lower flat valuables.

Savanna

Sapphire: gains extra valuables % with more biomes

Lion: flat power up from 35 to 70.

Sorghum: cheaper to place copies.

Forest

Orange: Buffed flat food to 40 from 25.

Phosphorus: flat +25 food instead of +25% food.

Desert

Falcon: Rework gains gold for each critter on the planet, and gains the tag.

Cheeta: flat power up to 65 from 40.

Ruby: fixed Turquoise cohort, and lowered biodiversity a bit

Taiga

Siberian Tiger: slightly cheaper first placement. Power for predators on the planet down slightly.

FIXED

Added extra defensive logic to prevent profile corruption.

Added automatic profile recovery logic in case of said corruption.

Fixed some buttons glowing white on opening

Fixed Steppe Bison: no longer eats critters

Fixed missing and faulty translations

Fixed bug with legacy not working on many pieces with Sloth.

Fixed Primal Flint bonus being named Giant Sloth

Fixed a crash when you only played with 1 city

Fixed achievement issues

Fixed performance issues in puzzle calculations. Especially lategame.

Fixed a text inconsistency with Glacier

Fixed text size, alignment and overflow in some places.

Fixed softlock issue when trying to settle two nomads too close to eachother.
1.6.3 (2025-03-20)

Hotfix v1.6.3 Balance changes & Sleepy biotica hotfix

CHANGED Anomaly's ability to swap Shallow and Deep in the ocean is back!

BALANCE Getting more of the 3 star emblems is now significantly harder Prosperity cost cap up from 100 to 120 to reflect the new chances of getting more resources. Improved some Extinct biotica increased the cost scaling for Expansions and Upgrades in the micro shop

FIXED Woke up sleepy biotica Fixed Micros not working properly in Sandbox Fixed Poet spirit activating on Neolithic farm Fixed Blizzard's iceberg remnants turning into blueberries on load