Empires of the Undergrowth — patch notes and updates
Stored observation / content update:
Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| Optional Beta Update - Lots of Fixes | 2026-04-24 | The latest round of fixes and changes bring us ever closer to getting this update out for everyone. This update includes some minor changes to save games - please let us know in the discussions or on the Discord if this causes any issues. Note that the beta is currently only available on Windows. The beta is available to all Windows users - If you would like to join the beta, the code is beachbrawlbeta. If you don’t know how to join a beta and would like to, follow the instructions below:Find Empires of the Undergrowth in your Steam library, Right-click on it and choose "Properties"Choose the "Game Versions & Betas" tabIn the box titled "Priv |
| Save 70% on Empires of the Undergrowth | 2026-04-12 | Empires of the Undergrowth is now 70% off as part of the Hooded Horse April Sale. Command an ant colony and wage strategic battles in the insect kingdom. This ant-based RTS challenges you to build, defend, and expand your colony, using unique pheromone-based strategies and powerful warrior ants to overcome formidable foes. Hooded Horse April Sale |
| Optional Beta Update - Team Colour Toggle, Fixes & Changes | 2026-04-03 | Time for another update to the currently-running optional beta! We've been following your feedback both here on Steam and on our Discord - which has been super active recently with the new content. Come and join us! For any Windows users who haven't joined this beta yet and would like to, the instructions on how to do so are near the top of the previous post. The beta is not available on Mac.ChangesTeam colours for colony creatures can now be toggled on or off from the menuFind it in Menu > Settings > OtherWhen not playing as leafcutters in Chowder, leafcutter plants will disappear on level loadWhen playing Chowder as leafcutters, enemy corps |
| March 2026 Newsletter - Beach Brawl Beta, New Roadmap | 2026-03-29 | We have (finally!) released our optional beta for the Beach Brawl update for everyone. Thank you so much to everyone who has been testing this out! We’ve been gathering mountains of feedback and working through the list of issues that have cropped up. Ants swarming a shore crab in this shot from AntBZK on our DiscordThe beta will be around for a little while yet, so now seems a good time to pause for just a moment to look over our plans for the rest of 2026 and update our roadmap - which we do every six months or so. We’ll then talk about the implications that the Beach Brawl update has for DLC plans.Beach BrawlIt’s been great to see such an |
| Changes & Fixes for the Beach Brawl Beta | 2026-03-28 | Thank you for all the excellent feedback over the last few days for the Beach Brawl beta! Our Discord has been a hive of activity over the last few days, and I've been working late into the night to log all the reports and reply to all you lovely people. For any Windows users who haven't joined this beta yet and would like to, the instructions on how to do so are near the top of the previous post.Here's the first round of changes & fixes for it. Thank you as well to everyone who immediately noticed our, ahem, tiny little mistake in the Battle Arena. Thank you to Nurgles rot on the Discord for the screenshot used on the cover of this post!Chan |
| Optional Beta - The Beach Brawl Update, New Creatures, Maps & UI | 2026-03-22 | It's been a long time coming, but it's time to test out the Beach Brawl update! The beta is available on Windows (not Mac at this time), and we'd love to hear your feedback on the changes made. The largest and most obvious change is to the game's user interface, which has been completely reworked in almost all aspects to update it, make it more logically functional and make it friendlier for gamepad / controller play. Speaking of which - playing the game with controllers is now better than it ever has been, with new UI elements designed with them in mind. A new radial menu will be in play when using a gamepad. If you're playing on a Steam Dec |
| Save 70% on Empires of the Undergrowth | 2026-03-19 | Empires of the Undergrowth is now 70% off as part of the Hooded Horse Spring Sale. Command an ant colony and wage strategic battles in the insect kingdom. This ant-based RTS challenges you to build, defend, and expand your colony, using unique pheromone-based strategies and powerful warrior ants to overcome formidable foes. Hooded Horse Spring Sale |
| Save 70% on Empires of the Undergrowth | 2026-02-28 | Empires of the Undergrowth is now 70% off as part of the Hooded Horse Publisher Sale. Command an ant colony and wage strategic battles in the insect kingdom. This ant-based RTS challenges you to build, defend, and expand your colony, using unique pheromone-based strategies and powerful warrior ants to overcome formidable foes. Hooded Horse Publisher Sale |
| Vlog 18 - Upcoming Beta News, New Creatures & Maps | 2026-02-24 | Time for some info about the next maps and monsters to come to Empires of the Undergrowth! Community manager Mike goes over the changes to the user interface, controller support, and the additions of two new maps and two new critters that will be available to preview in an optional beta for the game, very soon. |
| New Year's Feast! January 2026 Newsletter | 2026-01-28 | It’s time for the first newsletter of 2026. We’d like to offer a warm welcome to everyone who’s joined us recently in the Steam and Hooded Horse sales over the holiday period, and introduce you to how we do our newsletters and vlogs! These newsletters come out roughly bi-monthly, with a vlog in the intervening months. The idea here is to cover everyone’s personal preference for how they get their EotU news delivered - everything that is covered in one will be covered in the other, with some overlap for new things. Me when I realised I've still been writing 5 at the end of my dates a month into 2026 The team is now at the end of a long process |
| Save 70% on Empires of the Undergrowth | 2026-01-08 | Empires of the Undergrowth is now 70% off as part of the Hooded Horse January Publisher Sale. Command an ant colony and wage strategic battles in the insect kingdom. This ant-based RTS challenges you to build, defend, and expand your colony, using unique pheromone-based strategies and powerful warrior ants to overcome formidable foes. Hooded Horse January Publisher Sale |
| Save 70% on Empires of the Undergrowth | 2025-12-19 | Empires of the Undergrowth is now 70% off as part of the Hooded Horse Winter Publisher Sale. Command an ant colony and wage strategic battles in the insect kingdom. This ant-based RTS challenges you to build, defend, and expand your colony, using unique pheromone-based strategies and powerful warrior ants to overcome formidable foes. Hooded Horse Winter Publisher Sale |
| Vlog 17 - New UI Video, FAQ deep discussion, and the Festive Spider! | 2025-12-02 | As we head towards a new DLC, community manager Mike shows some of the UI changes coming to the game and talks about why certain things aren't in Empires of the Undergrowth. Also of note (and highlighted in the vlog), on the day of posting (December 2nd) the Festive Spider level has appeared and will be here throughout the Christmas season! Find it by clicking on the gift that has appeared on the main menu for a special tower defense level starring the hungry spider. He's still famished. Thanks for joining us in 2025 - we'll see you in the next newsletter and vlog in 2026! |
| Save 50% on Empires of the Undergrowth | 2025-11-30 | Empires of the Undergrowth is now 50% off as part of the Hooded Horse November Publisher Sale. Command an ant colony and wage strategic battles in the insect kingdom. This ant-based RTS challenges you to build, defend, and expand your colony, using unique pheromone-based strategies and powerful warrior ants to overcome formidable foes. Hooded Horse November Publisher Sale |
| Nominate Empires of the Undergrowth for the Steam Awards | 2025-11-24 | Hello everyone, The 2025 Steam Awards have begun! Nominations are open, and we’re hoping you’ll support Empires of the Undergrowth by nominating it in the Labor of Love category. If you’ve been keeping up with our development updates, you know that we’ve released four updates in the last year, including two major updates and two smaller updates. At the very end of last year, we brought out the Remix update - an entirely new way to play Empires of the Undergrowth by mixing and matching almost any colony creature in the game, in almost any level in the game. The possibilities are practically endless, and the community had a lot of fun doing thi |
| October 2025 Newsletter | 2025-10-27 | As our autumn quickly deepens and the leaves brown, it's time for a summary of what the Empires of the Undergrowth team have been working on recently. As is always the case, the newsletters work in tandem with the roughly bi-monthly vlogs. Given the point in the development cycle of the DLC we're currently working on, this will be a shorter newsletter than usual addressing a few key things. As much as I'd like to spill the details on everything, I'm not allowed to just yet!Exploding ants from Balithecat2024We've thoroughly covered the current roadmap in the previous newsletter and vlog, but I'll bring that up briefly now just in case anyone h |
| Save 50% on Empires of the Undergrowth | 2025-10-11 | Empires of the Undergrowth is now 50% off as part of the Hooded Horse October Publisher Sale. Command an ant colony and wage strategic battles in the insect kingdom. This ant-based RTS challenges you to build, defend, and expand your colony, using unique pheromone-based strategies and powerful warrior ants to overcome formidable foes. Hooded Horse October Publisher Sale |
| Save 50% on Empires of the Undergrowth | 2025-10-02 | Empires of the Undergrowth is now 50% off as part of the Hooded Horse Autumn Publisher Sale! Command an ant colony and wage strategic battles in the insect kingdom. This ant-based RTS challenges you to build, defend, and expand your colony, using unique pheromone-based strategies and powerful warrior ants to overcome formidable foes. Hooded Horse Autumn Publisher Sale |
| Empires of the Undergrowth VLOG 16 - Roadmap Review, Uber Creatures, [REDACTED] | 2025-09-15 | A review of the recently-updated roadmap from Empires of the Undergrowth from community manager Mike. Also includes a little light macrophotography for those who enjoy such things! If you'd like to see the roadmap graphic yourself, just click right here. |
| Save 50% on Empires of the Undergrowth | 2025-08-26 | Empires of the Undergrowth is now 50% off as part of the Hooded Horse August Sale! Command an ant colony and wage strategic battles in the insect kingdom. This ant-based RTS challenges you to build, defend, and expand your colony, using unique pheromone-based strategies and powerful warrior ants to overcome formidable foes. HOODED HORSE AUGUST SALE |