Community31 Jul 2026July Dev Blog: Strategic World MapHey everyone! Marc here! It’s been a while since the last dev log, and Primordial Empire has evolved a lot! I’ve been doing a lot of work on the strategic parts of the game, including a new strategic AI that will try to destroy your Collective and an Expedition feature that lets you expand across all the biomes of the world map. Let’s have a look! Strategic AI Enemy colonies (“nests”) would spr…
Hey everyone! Spring has returned and life in the primordial soup blooms once more. It’s been a while since the last community post and this will be a good time to show some development progress of Primordial Empire so far this year. I'm currently working on a world map comprised of interconnected areas called biome islands . Each island will have different conditions and resource distributions…
Hey everyone! I just published the v0.4_demo update, and it is a big one. First of all, I want to thank everybody again for your continued support - it really is a blast working on Primordial Empire with this community. With this update, the Demo will be feature-complete. This doesn't mean that there will be no new features - they will be released as Early Access is slated to arrive in Q4 2026.…
You might remember in last week's Steam post I mentioned Primordial Empire was nominated in the SGDA Swiss Game Awards. Well, looks like we have another piece of good news! I'm thrilled to announce that Primordial Empire has received the Excellence Award in last Thursday's award ceremony! It's an honor for my microscopic colony builder to be recognised by the Swiss game industry, and I couldn't…
Hey everyone! We are ending 2025 with some amazing news: Primordial Empire is nominated for the SGDA Swiss Game Awards Most Anticipated Game 2025! The ceremony will be held online on Dec 18 at 19:00 CET , and you can watch it at home on the Livestream ! That’s going to be a great way to conclude 2025 for Primordial Empire, and I’d like to take this chance to do a quick recap of the year. Since…
Hey everyone! A new demo update just dropped, with new enemies, new units and buildings, and new harvestable resources! That’s why instead of the usual monthly blog, today we are jumping straight into all the cool new stuff coming to Primordial Empire in this patch. A Risky Harvest☣️ You can now find contaminated remains scattered across the map. This is a new type of resource that can be harve…
Hey everyone! Two big things just happened last month – first, the Wildlife Update, then Tokyo Game Show right after! Let us have a catch-up in this monthly blog post! Wildlife Update This September update introduced a substantial amount of new content to Primordial Empire, adding a brand-new mechanic and several new creatures, each with their own habits and abilities. Now you can explore all t…
Hey everyone! I'm thrilled to announce that Primordial Empire will be in Tokyo Game Show 2025! From September 25-28 , the Primordial Empire demo will be on display with the new Wildlife Update at the Slug Disco booth , Hall 11-E32 in the indie games area of Makuhari Messe . I'll be there too so if you are also attending the event, come and say hi! 🙂
Hi everyone! The Wildlife Update is here! Introducing neutral wildlife to Primordial Empire, this update features 9 new species of microbes and plants, and a brand new mechanic that allows more meaningful interactions than simply fighting them. Here are the update highlights: Wildlife You can now find neutral wildlife scattered across the maps, sometimes forming a basic food chain or delicate e…
Hey everyone! Time really does fly by when you’re trying to build an empire in the deep sea – we’re already in September! I’ve been working on an upcoming update aiming to introduce wildlife to Primordial Empire, and some of you might have seen some snippets in last month’s round-up. This monthly post will ressemble more of a dev log -- we'll go through some of the work-in-progress with a bit m…
Hey everyone! Welcome back to our monthly blog post! Last month’s combat update introduced two new scenarios to Primordial Empire, one of which a procedurally generated secret level that plays differently every time. It’s been great seeing everyone enjoying the new challenges so much, and I cannot thank you all enough for playing the demo and showing so much enthusiastic support for my game. No…
Greetings everyone! This month has seen some big changes to Primordial Empire’s demo, with our first bit of combat content finally arriving, and more updates followed to refine this microscopic warfare. Let us quickly go through what happened in June! Combat Update Thanks to all of your support, the combat update has been met with enthusiastic response from the community! The new combat scenari…
Peaceful base-building is over! Primordial Empire just got a Combat Update, featuring a new combat scenario with new enemies and challenges. Muster your army of lancet cells and prepare your defence. Protect your colony of microbes from the relentless attacks of hostile organisms! Update Highlights: Introducing the Hydra, a static turret with powerful projectiles. This defensive plant is slumbe…
Hello everyone! Welcome back to Primordial Empire's monthly wrap-up, and this month we have some exciting news. The demo launch gave everyone a taste of microscopic colony building, and we are very pleased to see so many colonies flourish in peace - but no peace lasts forever. It is time to raise the stakes, and our next update will introduce combat to the game. Combat Update Incoming Peaceful…
We're very excited to announce that Marc, our solo developer of Primordial Empire, is joining Writing Bull on Twitch this Sunday May 18 at CEST 21:30/UTC 19:30 for a developer interview! Marc will be sharing some of the ins and outs of developing Primordial Empire on this stream, and also a sneak peek of what's coming next to the demo! (Do beware that the stream will be in German. We understand…
Greetings everyone! Welcome to our first ever community monthly update. This will be a monthly summary of what Primordial Empire is up to every month, from events we participated in to sneak peeks of future content, so everyone can keep up with our latest news. Now without further ado, let’s hop right into the actual meat of this post, because there are a lot of great things to cover this month…
Thank you every for a cracking demo launch and Earth Appreciation Festival! We are fast approaching 5,000 wishlists which is a great milestone in such a short amount of time (if you haven't wishlisted already please do!) With the demo launch has come a great amount of feedback and we've made some changes to the demo which we have outlined below :) As always, please keep the feedback coming in a…
Greetings! I’m a Marc, the solo-developer of Primordial Empire, and welcome to this microscopic world of survival and evolution. Primordial Empire is a side-on colony sim where players nurture and build an empire of microbes, plants and animals with a self-sustaining ecosystem. I’m thrilled to announced that the demo version of my game is now online, with a demo launch trailer and new Discord s…
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