Extortion
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21 announcements · from Extortion’s Steam news feed
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| Published | Kind | Announcement | Build |
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| Major update | 5th anniversary, Quality of Life update, and all-time low price! Good afternoon! On October 30th, 2025, Extortion will be 5 years old! What an experience it has been since. This game was supposed to be a small experiment to discover how Steam worked, learn everything from behind the scenes, sell to a few dozen people, and yet, you've been more than 1300 to buy the game and 22400 people to claim the demo over time. So I want to say: Thank you! This game, alon… | 20356726 | |
| Major update | New Quality of Life update Hello! Extortion will be 4 years old next week ! I've been working on some quality of life fixes today to change my mind from working on Manufactur'inc demo, my factory management game. Lots of things we talked about in the Steam Forum, on Discord and in early october IRL convention (my first one!). Changes: · #1822 - Handle ~ and $PWD when navigating in folders / opening files · Fix save delet… | — | |
| Major update | Simplified Chinese Localization + New Translation system Hello there! One month ago, on Github , one of you submitted a draft to translation extortion to Simplified Chinese. I am extremely happy people take this time to translate the game into their language, so I took time to (try to) review everything and improve the translation system to have a qualitative version. This update carries a stable version of this simplified Chinese version as well as… | 12922662 | |
| Steam news | [Beta] Simplified Chinese and new translation system Hello there! One month ago, on Github , one of you submitted a draft to translation extortion to Simplified Chinese. I am extremely happy people take this time to translate the game into their language, so I took time to (try to) review everything and improve the translation system to have a qualitative version. I already applied this version to the Store page and achievements, but I am now her… | — | |
| Major update | Quality of life update Hello there ! Here we are for a new update for Extortion ! Changelogs: · Game now have multiple save slots · Added new folder names (for new saves only) · Added new files (for new saves only) · New jokes · Removed Galactae file because the game is no longer developed · Added a file about Manufactur'inc · Updated social networks links: · Removed reddit · Added mastodon · Added Patreon · Updated… | 12338113 | |
| Esports | Announcing Manufactur'inc Hello everyone ! Almost 3 years after Extortion release and a year and a half after Alchemistry release, I'm happy to announce that I will release a new Steam Game ! Manufactur'inc is a company and industry abstract management game. That means that you will have to grow, blueprint, optimize, and control your company to reach your objectives and compete with other players. But achieving financia… | — | |
| Game update | Quality of life update Hello ! Here's a small update containing few things including a feature someone asked on Discord earlier this week. Changelogs: - Update translations (French / English), multiple typos, spelling and grammar mistakes fixed. Thanks to @Bethoth on Github - #1475 - Fix a bug preventing from scrolling into credits - #1556 - Scale game text based on a user setting Housekeeping: - Moving repositories… | 10526452 | |
| In-game event | Price update following Steam Recommandation Hello ! As you can see on Steam right now, recommanded prices have been updated by Valve for developers. Immediatly with theses recommanded prices, I adjusted price of both Dysnomia games to keep the same euro price. What does that mean ? Most prices will fluctuate between -15% and +20%: - US Dollar prices lowered by 17% to 4.99$ (-1$) - British pound prices lowered by 11% to 4.29£ (-0.5£) - Ca… | — | |
| In-game event | Small improvements & bugfixes Hi ! Here's a small update after some bug reports this week. Added: - Social network links in main menu - Translation contributors in credits Improvements: - Increase latest bank server firewall time from 10 to 12 seconds, "The Flash" achievement should be easier to be unlocked Fixes: - #1440 - Fix passwordBruteForce when target server doesn't exists - #1439 - "The flash" seems not to be able t… | 8610673 | |
| In-game event | Swedish Localization Hello ! It's been a while I have Swedish localization on my computer but I had to finish them. I worked on it today, and here we are with an update :) This update also embed some developer dependencies update. Changelogs Added: - Swedish Localization - Button in settings to open Localization Github page Improvements: - English Localization - Updated some developer dependencies Have fun ;) | — | |
| Esports | Alchemistry is taking part of Steam Next Fest Few hours ago began Steam Next Fest, a Steam event showing upcoming games demos. I take part to this event with Alchemistry, if you are interested by my game, take a look at add it to your wishlist, follow community hub, and so one. I will also do two livestream on Tuesday 22th all day long (CEST time) and on Saturday 26th day on Steam and Twitch (< don't hesitate to take a look and talk a bit… | — | |
| Game update | 1st birthday update ! Hello ! Yesterday was the 1st birthday of Extortion Release. I worked a bit during the last weeks to make a small update and improve game architecture to make next updates easier. There will be still updates, you can follow next update(s) roadmap at: Have fun ! ---- Full changelog: Improvements: - #1104, #1106 - Improved French texts (better wording, fix typos) - #1106 - Improved English texts… | 7632949 | |
| Esports | 1 year later - Dev Q&A / Update Steam Join me on twitch to talk about Extortion developement, next steps and story ! | — | |
| Esports | Alchemistry Hi ! I'm glad to announce my future game, called Alchemistry ! It's a puzzle and less niche game than Extortion and I hope you'll like it. Check it out at: Don't worry, Extortion is not dead, I'm planning an update in the next months, probably around the first anniversary. Have fun ! Elanis | — | |
| Game update | Jan 31st - Minor Update Fixes: - Commands are not always stored in history Improvements: - Save icon when the game is saving Have fun ! | — | |
| Game update | Nov 27th - Minor Update Fixes: - "Day XX" achievements were broken and automatically unlocked Improvements: - Added an explanation about "bruteforce" - Improved the "Repeat the previous instructions" step - Added new UI sounds Have fun ! | — | |
| Game update | Nov 6th - Minor Update Fixes: - We should save all servers instead of only local one - "type help to" should be in color - New game after old game is completely broken - cat is sometimes broken Improvements: - Add random files in servers - New end screen Have fun ! | — | |
| Game update | Nov. 3rd - Minor update Fixes: - Grey screen when using "cat" on a file after a save restoration - Improve save store/restore stability - Save shouldn't be able to be restored after endgame Improvements: - Added animation when narrator is speaking ------------ Known bugs: - Some non-local server data is not stored between save store/restore - Starting a newgame after playing a previous one is buggy (need to restart th… | — |
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