War for the Overworld — 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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| Patch 2.1.4: Two New Hands, Graphics Updates & Masters of Albion Bundle | 2026-04-22 | Darkest greetings, directors/cleaners/underlords! Quite an eccentric resume, there.We’re still up to our elbows in Kaiju guts, and the next War for the Overworld game remains in early pre-production, but when we realised it’s been a bit since we’ve had an update for you, we knew we couldn’t let a year go by without a little content update from us.We also realised that Masters of Albion, the upcoming god game from our Peter Molyneux-led pals at 22cans, was just about to release. We thought, “wow, what a coincidence! Maybe we can do something about both of these things at the same time.” More on that below!Hands! Pickaxes! Bundles! Games! Veget |
| Brightrock’s Next Game — Kaiju Cleanup — Studio Update & War for the Overworld | 2025-09-28 | Darkest greetings Underlords, Entranced in their darkest worships your cultists study visions of a distant and unusual realm; one overrun with gargantuan monsters, brought low by overwhelming firepower and swiftly picked apart as if descended upon by so many carrion feeders. Delicious.We’re pleased to announce that Brightrock’s next game, in partnership with Mythwright, is finally revealed as the job simulation videogame Kaiju Cleanup, coming to Steam and other platforms at some point as yet undetermined. But what exactly is Kaiju Cleanup? And in what ways will its sinister binary magiks hack your brain into seeking gainful employment in the |
| Hotfix Patch 2.1.3f1 - Release Notes | 2025-05-09 | Fixed an issue where the High-Cost options toggle did not appropriately enable the high-cost options on shadow type and distance Rearranged the options menu |
| War for the Overworld x Dungeon Keeper Bundle | 2025-05-07 | 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 Overworld now joins Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2 to form a triumvirate of dungeon building experiences fiendishly forged to sate your dark desires. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/53030/Dungeon_Keeper_x_War_for_the_Overworld/ This bundle is a "complete yo |
| Ten Year Anniversary Update, New & Exclusive Skins. What's Next? | 2025-04-02 | 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 other. Indeed there is no WFTO MMO, which would be a singularly foolhardy idea as a follow up to a popular cult dungeon management game – almost as ill-fated as a perhaps overly-greedy mobile entry into such a franchise. But you needn’t be told that, d |
| [April Fools] The Next Logical Step - World of War for the Overworld Online! | 2025-04-01 | 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 repeating message of “+1”, repeated again and again by different voices, overlapping in cacophonic disorder – perhaps in some sinister, evil ritual that causes a monkey paw to curl somewhere. Well, your demands have been heeded Underlords; after a brief foray |
| Patch 2.1.2, Imp Plushies & New Worker Skin | 2024-09-19 | 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 bring your loyal imps to life in a dastardly soft new form. Bear witness and tremble Underlord! You can place your orders now for this devilish, yet delightfully squishy, Imp plush over at Makeship, make haste Underlord as it is made to order and shall |
| Patch 2.1.1 "From Beyond" Release Notes - Galacticare Release & Worker Skin | 2024-05-23 | 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 beyond an aethereal rift and salvaged their unusual armour as their own. This fantastic new skin can by deployed into the dungeon by owners of Galacticare which released today! In return, owners of War for the Overworld will be able to bring the essence of |
| New Worker Skin Details, Galacticare Release Date & WFTO Community News | 2024-05-07 | 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 than a Skarg, have breached the defenses of the dungeon. Fortunately they proved to be unbelievably inept fighters, waving their arms as if to greet our defenders with cheer. When the dust settled, the ones which weren’t rendered to scrap metal retreated |
| Geforce Now Support, Regional Pricing Updates & Unity... | 2023-09-14 | 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 request, War for the Overworld is finally available on Geforce Now! Geforce now is a cloud gaming platform that allows players to connect to their accounts with various PC storefronts (including Steam) and stream games that they own straight from Nvidia's s |
| Celebrating Simfest 2023 | 2023-07-21 | 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! Speaking of simulation games don't forget to check out our latest game, Galacticare which will be releasing soon! https://store.steampowered.com/app/494730/Galacticare/ Until next time Underlord, Brightrock Games Join our community on Discord Follow us on S |
| Hotfix: Newsletter Signup & Postal Worker Skin Unlock | 2023-07-13 | 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, - Brightrock Games |
| Invaders From Beyond | 2023-06-20 | 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 tears in the fabric of space. Fortunately, our creatures reacted appropriately to the intrusion of these machines, and have bashed every such intruder to death with hammers. An early look at the new skin. Coming this year for owners of Galacticare! Your wor |
| From the Underworld to the Stars | 2023-05-10 | 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 & follow Galacticare on Steam, join us on Discord, follow us on Twitter, and sign up to our newsletter. We hope you will join us on our journey to the stars, and although WFTO is very much in maintenance mode with the release of the final update (Patch |
| We're The Fools | 2023-04-01 | 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 institution - something many of you look forward to as much as we do. Each year we thought of ways to push the boat, to raise the bar on the years before or at least keep it high. It became a challenge for us to push ideas out there that made you, our players w |
| War for the Overworld & Galacticare Developer Q&A | 2023-03-13 | 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! https://store.steampowered.com/app/494730/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 to your Steam library. Q&A with Brightrock Games & CULT Games Date & Time - 16-Mar-2023 21:00 GMT (Click for your timezone) Venue - Brightrock Games Discord - #stage Join us on Discord and ask your q |
| Introducing Galacticare! | Announcement Trailer | 2023-03-09 | 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 we’ll get to as many of them as we can! - Brightrock Games |
| Wicked Ones RPG HQ Print Run Kickstarter w/ WFTO Book! | 2022-08-23 | 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 acts of the dark heart expand their dungeon, plunder riches from the goodly folks of the above-lands and squash hapless heroes that wander into your domain. Why does that sound ever so familiar? https://wftogame.com/wp-content/uploads/WO-DungeonLayout-10 |
| Hotfix Patch 2.1.0f4 Release Notes | 2022-04-14 | 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 |
| Patch 2.1 "Deeper Darker Dungeons" Release Notes | 2022-04-12 | 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. I’m Lee, one of the designers and the community manager at Brightrock. I’m better known in the community as Noontide. I’d like to take a moment to talk about the patch and why it’s a bit larger than our intended scope for maintenance. A large part of th |