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| Community | War for the Overworld x Dungeon Keeper Bundle Darkest greetings Underlords, Today we bring you some terrific news courtesy of the devilishly brilliant efforts of Mythwright, War for the Overworld's new publisher, the pact with whom you can read more about in our 10 Year Anniversary Update post! Read on Underlord! War for the Overworld x Dungeon Keeper Bundle What is it that they say? Ah yes "Evil things always come in threes". War for the… | — | |
| Major update | Ten Year Anniversary Update, New & Exclusive Skins. What's Next? Darkest greetings Underlords, Yesterday, your cultists brought word of an astounding new development in the War for the Overworld multiverse which, as many of you no doubt surmised, was a most ingenious and clever ruse in honour of a special day in which we get to make stupid jokes. Read all about it here! Unfortunately the chatlog is not a work of parody, people actually talk like this to each… | 17943269 | |
| Community | [April Fools] The Next Logical Step - World of War for the Overworld Online! Darkest Greetings Underlords, Emerging from our dormancy, we blink, raising our arthritic hands to block out the invading light carried by the gnarled imp that appears at our door. “Master”, it gurgles from its awful, malformed gullet, “the Underlords, they summons us!” The goblin-thing holds out a scabby hand. Clutched within a rotting roll of parchment , marked with an incomprehensible repeat… | — | |
| In-game event | Patch 2.1.2, Imp Plushies & New Worker Skin Darkest Greetings Underlord, Today we bring tidings of a new minor patch, a new pact through which you can take home a little devil and new allies whose efforts to bring despair upon the goodly folks of the surface may excite you. Read on Underlord! Highlights Brightrock Games x Makeship We’re pleased to announce that a dark pact has been sealed with the fastidious creators over at Makeship to… | — | |
| In-game event | Patch 2.1.1 "From Beyond" Release Notes - Galacticare Release & Worker Skin Darkest Greetings Underlord, Today we release both a new creation, Galacticare and a small but mighty patch for War for the Overworld. Read on Underlord! Patch v2.1.1 "From Beyond" Patch Highlights Medi Worker Skin To celebrate the release of our new game, Galacticare, we have added a new worker skin to the game, the Medi Worker Skin! Your faithful blood imp workers have slain invaders from bey… | — | |
| Community | New Worker Skin Details, Galacticare Release Date & WFTO Community News Darkest Greetings Underlord, Beyond the walls of the dungeon the aether continues to churn and new discoveries are stumbled upon by your most loyal cultists. Read on to discover the latest developments from across the Aether. New Worker Skin & Galacticare Release Date Recently, incursions from a previously undiscovered realm have been occurring all over Kairos — metal clad invaders, no larger t… | — | |
| Community | Geforce Now Support, Regional Pricing Updates & Unity... Darkest Greetings Underlord, We have a couple of short, almost businessy, announcements for you today, first a long requested service becoming available at last and second some updates regarding War for the Overworld’s regional pricing which may see the price of the game increase to parity with Steam’s recommendations in some regions. Geforce Now Availability As of this week and by popular requ… | — | |
| Esports | Celebrating Simfest 2023 Darkest Greetings Underlord, Cast through the aether news of a grand festival has reached the ears of our eager cultists. Simfest 2023 is on and our friends at Auroch Digital have extended us an invitation. Naturally we would be remiss not to involve ourselves and spread the evil word of the dozens of fine sim games which you can find one Steam! Click to discover more games in the Simfest! Spea… | — | |
| Game update | Hotfix: Newsletter Signup & Postal Worker Skin Unlock Darkest Greetings Underlord, This is a minor fix to ensure that users can still unlock the Postal Worker Skin by signing up to the Brightrock Games newsletter. Bug Fixes · Fixed an issue which prevented users from signing up to the Brightrock Games newsletter · Fixed an issue which caused the postal worker skin to not be unlocked when signing up to the newsletter Until next time Underlords, - B… | 11681398 | |
| Community | Invaders From Beyond Darkest Greetings Underlord, Far above the warmth of your dungeon, something stirs in its antipode; cold, unfeeling beings, drifting in the void, “tending”, and “tinkering”, and mopping up strange vomit, and driven overall by the benign intent to “make things better”. Sickening, really. A New Worker Skin is Coming? These feckless automatons have managed to reach our realm of Kairos through tear… | — | |
| Community | From the Underworld to the Stars Darkest Greetings Underlords, After a long period of silence, we’d like to provide an update as to what we’ve been doing the past few years. This post is being crossposted from the new Galacticare development blog, where we also just posted a first look at our alien species, but future posts won’t appear on WFTO pages. If you’d like to receive further updates from us, please be sure to wishlist… | — | |
| Community | We're The Fools Darkest Greetings Underlord, Is it strange to apologize for the lack of an unobligated yet fun yearly gaff? We’re honestly not sure. We’ve certainly never seen it happen but we can’t remain silent today. What we do know is that on this day, every year, without fail, we have pushed out jokes both big and small. We’ve had a lot of laughs with you and, over time, it became something of an institut… | — | |
| News | War for the Overworld & Galacticare Developer Q&A Darkest Greetings Underlord, This Thursday the 16th of March we will be hosting a Q&A Session on our Discord server where we'll be answering your questions regarding our upcoming new title: Galacticare! We'll also be taking any other questions on War for the Overworld and we'll be joined by our partners at CULT Games to answer questions regarding our partnership with them to bring Galacticare t… | — | |
| Esports | Introducing Galacticare! | Announcement Trailer Hello everyone! Today we’re thrilled to finally unveil our next game: Galacticare, a hospital management game set in a weird and wacky sci-fi universe, releasing later in 2023. Check out the reveal trailer below. Be sure to wishlist and follow Galacticare on Steam for more updates! We’ll be hosting a Q&A about Galacticare next Thursday on our Discord server . Be sure to post your question and w… | — | |
| Esports | Wicked Ones RPG HQ Print Run Kickstarter w/ WFTO Book! Darkest Greetings Underlords, If you were to cast your dark minds back to the year of 2019 you might remember brighter days or indeed darker ones. You might also remember the start of our partnership with Bandit Camp the devilishly delightful designers for Wicked Ones , a deeply realised free TTRP where you and your friends assume the role of evil dungeon dwelling denizens who through depraved… | — | |
| Game update | Hotfix Patch 2.1.0f4 Release Notes Hotfix Patch 2.1.0f4 - Release Notes · Fixed a random crash issue · CopyMightyScript and ImportMightyScript debug commands now function again, are no longer case sensitive and do not require debug mode to be unlocked · Fixed an issue where Shadow Distance would always reset to Medium · Increased default gamma from 20 to 30 | 8558211 | |
| Major update | Patch 2.1 "Deeper Darker Dungeons" Release Notes Darkest Greetings Underlord, As promised a mere 11 days ago we have returned to this realm, dragging a surprise War for the Overworld patch kicking and screaming from the depths. This patch is a special one as it celebrates, somewhat belatedly, the 7th Anniversary of WFTO’s release and contains a few new features we, and you, might never have expected to see in WFTO. But first an introduction.… | 8538279 | |
| Community | (April Fools) Introducing our next game Cult of Duty! & WFTO v4.1 Rarest Greetings Underlords, Once again, we pop out from the dingy depths of our caverns and gaze upwards towards the untarnished and needlessly fungible Overworld! The surfacers’ schemes bring them ever closer to ruin, and we must merely wait until their weaknesses crumble their world down to bare stone. The Great Plan has long been in motion, and its tendrils now find purchase in the broader… | — | |
| Community | Supporting Child's Play: War for the Overworld Campaign Guide for Wicked Ones Darkest Greetings Underlords, It has been some time hasn’t it? Rest assured that the dark work on our next project continues undeterred and unabated and that soon enough all shall be revealed to you. In the meantime we once more reach out to you across the aether to share news of interest. Specifically with regards to the culmination of our partnership with the most devious folks of Bandit Camp… | — | |
| Game update | Patch 2.0.8 Release Notes Patch Highlights Edit 22/09/2021: We've become aware that a small number of users now have a different crash on startup in v2.0.8 please read this thread on how you can help and how to workaround the crash for now. Engine Update & Major Crash Fix Last year we began receiving reports that the game was instantly crashing upon launch on certain PCs. Upon investigation we found that this issue affe… | 7357289 | |
| Sale | Up to 80% off War for the Overworld & Free Worker Skin! Darkest greetings Underlord, Every year the Oni Ashigaru worker returns from his year-long wanderings. Waging honourable warfare, saving the denizens of the Underworld from roving imperial bandits. From where he has returned we don't rightly know but each year he comes bearing gifts in the form of discounts. Get the free Oni Ashigaru Worker Login any time before the end of April and you will im… | — | |
| Community | Grab the Power Hand of Evil™ Most Overdue Greetings Underlord, It has been some time since we shared news from within the fortified walls of the Brightrock foundry but for good reason! Our Augres have been hard at work crafting the true form of Project: Aftercare and it is the thing you’d least expect… That’s right Brightrock has long since left the software space and we’re now entering the hardware race. So with an exulta… | — | |
| Sale | Lunar New Year Sale - Grab your Dragon Worker! Most Auspicious Greetings Underlord, The Lunar New Year is upon us once more and in celebration, the ever lucky Dragon Worker has returned to bring you his blessings. We’re also pleased to announce that the game is on sale with up to 80% off all War for the Overworld products until the end of the Steam Lunar Sale! Check out the store page! To Unlock the Dragon Worker, Simply log-in to the game… | — | |
| Community | Wicked Ones Release & End of 2020 Community spotlight Darkest greetings Underlords, Through the darkest of tunnels we can see a light flickering at the end, not a mere torchlight but one of blazing radiance. With the last hours of the cursed year 2020 quickly fading we hope that our message reaches across the aether and finds you safe and well. As we close out the year we have a few small announcements, firstly that of our final Community Spotligh… | — | |
| Community | Studio Update & Q3 Community Spotlight Darkest greetings Underlords, As the world above battles with the seemingly cursed year that is 2020. The crash of steel on reverberates through the long-dormant halls of the Underworld. Hushed whispers on cultists lips carry words of great works undertaken by skilled artificers; and that something greater still is being forged in the furnaces of the deep. It is time once more Underlord to delv… | — | |
| Community | WFTO'S 5th Birthday! Feat. Sale, Spotlight & Worker Skin Darkest Greetings Underlords, We hope you enjoyed our April Fool’s yesterday! It’s always a pleasure to work on something totally out there for a few days. Today we’re coming to you with different news entirely and a whole lot more genuine! As some of you may know, War for the Overworld launched from early access on April 2nd, 2015. That means that today is officially War for the Overworld’s fi… | — | |
| Community | Coming Soon: Street Fight for the Overworld (April Fools!) Auspicious Greetings Underlord, The long wait is finally over! The time has come and your patience is to be justly rewarded. Indeed we are ready to pull back the curtain and reveal the totally true identity of Project: Aftercare! But first we must address the elemental in the treasure room. It’s been made clear to us that those among our learned comrades of the PC Gaming Elite, as most of our f… | — |
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