Game update

First Light Rebuilt

Vonkelveld · published 9 Jul 2026, 11:34 UTC

All news Players around this date Read on Steam

This update rebuilds the First Light tutorial so new players can finish it on purpose, at a readable pace, without accidental victories or rewards firing early.

The tutorial now starts from a prepared world. First Light uses scenario-authored starting people and a settlement, so the first city is present when the lesson needs it.
Guidance is harder to miss or break. The opening panel stays until dismissed, right-click outside the panel closes it, guided clicks are gated, resume returns to the current lesson, and small actions advance at the slowest speed from pause.
Rewards and victory now wait for real play. Tutorial-bound runs no longer unlock Steam achievements, and the scenario goal cannot be completed passively halfway through the lesson.

Other announcements

All news

Game update2 Sep 2026The RaisingIn “The Founding” you arrived early enough to watch the first towns take hold. This update is about what those towns do next — they decide to build something, and the whole street turns out for it. A town raises its own works, and the street turns out to them. A well or a granary used to accumulate quietly until, one year, it simply existed. Now every work has a raising. When that day comes the…Game update31 Aug 2026The FoundingThis update ships early, and honestly: a save made while zoomed all the way in could fail to load in v0.44 — silently, so it looked like the Continue button did nothing. That is fixed, and it could not wait for the rest of the week's work. A save made up close loads again. If you saved while walking among your people and Continue seemed to ignore you, it was not your save — it was us. Loading n…Game update29 Aug 2026The World LivesThe longest gap between updates ends with the biggest change this world has had: it founds, it burns, and it endures the way it was always meant to. Towns return, for the whole saga. The world used to stop making places after its first century and a half — on The Long Winter the map emptied toward three lonely settlements and stayed there. New towns now rise across the entire age: about ten sta…