Reus — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Reus 12 years old! | 2025-05-16 | Today marks the 12th Birthday of Reus! It sure has been a long journey, made extra special by the release of Reus 2! We'd like to share some thoughts on Reus here! Reus has over a million players! They hail from all over the world and have played on different platforms. Sadly, the most requested platform—mobile—has never been reached. Reus was simply too heavy for mobile at the time, and now the tech is deprecated. We're aiming to have Reus 2 playable on more platforms, though. Keep an eye out for that! Reus 2 was tough to make, but we're super proud of the result! It's hard to nail the right formula for a sequel (ask Civilization...), but it |
| Reus 2 Major Update and Ice Age DLC | 2025-01-16 | Besides the best deal on Reus yet, we're also launching a massive update and DLC to Reus 2! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1875060/Reus_2/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3333960/Reus_2__Ice_Age/ Create a planet with mammoths, where the General fights with your giants and a nuclear war destroys your planet! Curious how it plays? Watch Ripsnort break it down for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x99kqOgD2a4&t=1362s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0XqCuVr4iI Greetings from the Abbey |
| Reus vs. Reus 2: Biomes | 2024-05-24 | Last week, we showed the most important gameplay differences between Reus and Reus 2. This week, we would like to highlight the differences in content and nature, as Reus 2 will be releasing next week on May 28th! Reus owners will have a 10% extra discount on Reus 2 by completing the bundle! Don't miss out on it! These are the biomes you can find in Reus and Reus 2: Reus Reus 2 Forest Forest Ocean Ocean Desert Desert Swamp Rainforest Mountain Mountain...? ---- Taiga ----- Savanna We’ll highlight a few key differences. Biome Mechanics The biggest difference between Reus and Reus 2 biomes is what place they take in the game. In Reus, the Forest |
| Reus 2 vs Reus | 2024-05-08 | Hello giants, You might have looked at Reus 2 and thought: "What is the difference with the original Reus?" With Reus 2 releasing within weeks, it's a good moment to compare it with the original and highlight the many improvements we made! Also, it's 11 years ago that Reus released and participated in the Berlin A MAZE festival. We're celebrating with a 60% discount and participation in the A MAZE Steam fest. In short: Reus 2 Reus Game moves with your actions timer and real-time pressure Simple grid on the planet Single-line gameplay Biome and Tag symbiosis named Symbiosis Biome Drafts Confusing leveling scheme Peaceful Experience very annoyi |
| First Reus 2 Demo playable on Strategy Fest! | 2023-08-28 | Hello Titans! As you might have heared, we're currently working hard on a sequel to our beloved giant franchise! This week, during the Steam Strategy Fest, you will have the chance to check it yourself with our first demo! We have many ambitions, improvements and new things to show off, but most of all we're interested in hearing about your feedback! So grab your giants, and play the limited Reus 2 demo, available today! - The monks of the Abbey |
| Reus 10th Birthday! | 2023-05-16 | Fellow giants! Today it has been 10 years since Reus released on Steam! A mere speck of time for ageless titans like yourself, but still worthy of celebration. If you haven't seen it yet; the celebration starts off strong with Reus 2 being announced last week! The monks of the Abbey and the gentle folks at Firesquid are teaming up for this one. Together, we hope to bring Reus to the modern gaming era, but without losing its charm. That gives us the perfect opportunity to look back at Reus. What are we proud of, and do we want to take with us to the next game? And where do we see room for improvement? Top: The Giants These handsome elemental t |
| Reus 2 announced! | 2023-05-12 | After 10 years, we're finally ready to announce Reus 2! This sequel is a decade in the making: Reus was always on our mind, and we never stopped looking for exciting ideas for the game. Now we've partnered up with publisher Firesquid, and together we've proudly announced Reus 2 in the TactiCon showcase! Since the first Reus in 2013, many things have evolved! Giant Roster: This time around, you will be able to select your giants from a roster. Every giant will bring its own niche to the planet. Experiment with Natural Resources: We expanded further on the symbioses and natural resources! There are much more of them, and you unlock them in an e |
| Tales from the Abbey: Reus | 2022-05-11 | Hear hear, tales from a decade ago! When the monks could merely grow hair on their face, and the internet was still younger place... Our tale begins in Utrecht, where a small group of 4 monks decided to make games in the basement of the university. As was tradition in game development at that time, no sun was allowed to disturb the monks in their creative process. Other students were allowed to take a peek, though! Abbey is in the right corner, with "concept art" on the wall. Their dream? Make a god game where humans develop based on the nature you create! To do that, they used their student loan to start up the Abbey. Would this gamble pay o |
| Abbey Games' Year in Review | 2020-12-16 | Hello ancient titans! The year is coming to an end, and thus comes the ritual of reflecting on the past. As many of you have been following us loyally, we would like to share our thoughts with you! But first; some Godhood news! Godhood Update 1.2 Coming Soon! We’ve been working on a new update for Godhood, scheduled somewhere early 2021! We’re not going to give away much here, but it will include some new community ideas to add your religion! One important feature that has often been requested is the “Excommunicate” action. Soon it will be much easier to remove an unwanted Disciple from your roster. Of course, sending a faithful Disciple away |
| Godhood 30% Off! | 2020-02-28 | Hello Giants! We're releasing a big update for our Early Access title Godhood! To celebrate this joyous occasion, Godhood is now on sale with a 30% discount! Check out the store page for more info on the update! - Greetings from the Monks |
| Godhood is coming to Early Access on July 10th! | 2019-06-04 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9244308/ebbdb555444662f66e67f6625a4a6cb88bbabaae.png That's right, young gods, we finally have a release date for our new game! Two moons from now Godhood will be available for everyone to play! On July 10th we will launch our strategy god game into Early Access here on Steam. This will be the first opportunity to play our new strategy god game. We're incredibly excited to move to this next stage of development. From July 10th onward, we'll be using community feedback to improve Godhood in our continuing monthly updates. Exciting times for sure! To prepare for release with us, |
| Free copy of Reus for Kickstarter backers of Godhood! And a Godhood Stream later today! | 2019-02-20 | Thanks to the community's effort on social media, Kickstarter backers of our upcoming god game Godhood have unlocked a free copy of Reus! Next to that, there's a stream of Godhood later today. Read all about it in this kickstarter update: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/abbeygames/godhood/posts/2422233 https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4459068/501a56d123cf1f5ef2c40a80d53da93a17575ba7.png |
| Godhood is now on Kickstarter! | 2019-01-30 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4459068/18f7f352f3e29693b834461263736dae02a21aed.png We hope you enjoyed playing Reus as much as we enjoyed making it. We've learned a lot of lessons along the way and believe Godhood couldn't have happened without your support and enthusiasm. As you may know, our upcoming game Godhood lets you create your own religion. But we also want to give you the chance to help create Godhood! You can do so by backing the Kickstarter campaign for the game, that just went live. If Kickstarter is not for you, but you do want to help us out: there are other ways! We talk about it in this po |
| Reus - Original Soundtrack now available! And a Daily Deal! | 2018-05-17 | To celebrate the 5th birthday of the game, we finally got round to make the soundtrack available... properly! The game's composer Joni (that's me, actually) took some time off to remaster a grand total of 25 tracks, 13 of which were previously unreleased, and bundled them together on an album that's available right now, right here on Steam! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4459068/90f84225ec20f07aa8f73dec9c2162b7d1e46c44.png Next to that, to make a real birthday party out of it, Reus is now part of a daily deal with a historically deep discount of 85%. We hope you enjoy this celebration as much as we enjoy yo |
| Patch 1.6: Reus' Fifth Anniversary | 2018-05-15 | It’s five years ago since Reus came out! That calls for a little celebration and that’s why we are finally releasing the soundtrack to the game this Thursday (through Steam as well!) and a little Twitch Stream of Reus on Thursday as well. And we have a new patch for you right now that most notably features: An “Unlock All” option in the Free Mode of the game. This gives you the option to be able to create all possible resources, without having to hunt for achievements. So you can go crazy deep and take your time, even in your first play-through. A lot of small bug-fixes and rebalancing to improve the overall quality of gameplay. See the patch |
| Patch 1.5: Platforms and performance update | 2017-05-21 | It’s Reus’ birthday! To celebrate, we’re giving Reus some love with an update. What’s new? Mac and Linux versions for Reus! We’ve eliminated crashes and improved performance. Reus should now run great on Mac and Linux. Overall better performance and small quality of life improvements, like much requested improvements to the UI text. Official Chinese Translations! If you encounter problems, please let us know. We've moved the old 1.4 version to the branch for your convenience. We hope you have fun with Patch 1.5! |
| Patch 1.5: Platforms and performance update | 2017-05-21 | It’s Reus’ birthday! To celebrate, we’re giving Reus some love with an update. What’s new? Mac and Linux versions for Reus! We’ve eliminated crashes and improved performance. Reus should now run great on Mac and Linux. Overall better performance and small quality of life improvements, like much requested improvements to the UI text. Official Chinese Translations! If you encounter problems, please let us know. We've moved the old 1.4 version to the branch for your convenience. We hope you have fun with Patch 1.5! |
| Patch 1.4: Content update | 2015-08-30 | In celebration of the upcoming release of our new game Renowned Explorers: International Society on September 2nd, we updated Reus! NEW SOURCES: - The Dolphin is now available in your seas! - Natural Gas can now be mined! - The Chinese crane can now roam your swamps! - The Azure lakes are now available in your forests! - The Oak Tree can now grow in your forests! For the Russian players: we have also added the Russian community translation to the game. Happy world building! |
| Patch 1.4: Content update | 2015-08-30 | In celebration of the upcoming release of our new game Renowned Explorers: International Society on September 2nd, we updated Reus! NEW SOURCES: - The Dolphin is now available in your seas! - Natural Gas can now be mined! - The Chinese crane can now roam your swamps! - The Azure lakes are now available in your forests! - The Oak Tree can now grow in your forests! For the Russian players: we have also added the Russian community translation to the game. Happy world building! |