Surviving the Aftermath — 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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| Unity engine update! | 2025-10-13 | Hello everyone, Due to a Unity engine security issue, we’re releasing a Hotfix update for the game. You can read more about the security issue here: https://unity.com/security/sept-2025-01 |
| Play a futuristic Mech Wargame "MECHABELLUM" now! | 2024-09-26 | Hello Survivors! We have something new to share with fans of sci-fi! Paradox Interactive just released a new, futuristic mech wargame! Check out this trailer! Mechabellum is a tactical wargame where you gain victory by adapting your strategy and outthinking your opponents. You command varied, mechanized armies in battle against AI or other humans, customize your units and place them strategically on the battlefield to watch them destroy your enemies. https://store.steampowered.com/app/669330/Mechabellum/ We hope you’ll give it a shot and meet us on the battlefield! |
| Surviving the Aftermath - Dev Diary #25 - Rebirth DLC | 2023-03-16 | Greetings survivors! Our third DLC is now available! “Rebirth” offers a new way to literally transform your colony into a post-apocalyptic paradise! Clear the waters and purify the soil with new terraforming discoveries to bring back the once green fields and lush forests. The journey is not without its perils though, as a new threat is on the rise. A mysterious fungal disease called the blight has infected both animals and plants, creating new challenges for the player. But their wild mutations also hold the key to victory! IMAGE: Surviving the Aftermath: Rebirth The DLC includes a modular Blight Lab, which allows players to advance in the n |
| Surviving the Aftermath - Announcing Rebirth DLC | 2023-03-07 | For the longest time, you strove to survive the aftermath on planet Earth. Now, thanks to your knowledge, skills, and leadership, you can finally look forward to a new chapter for humankind. “Rebirth” is your mantra, your goal, the dream that will make you overcome old and new challenges, for your survivors and all humanity... Greetings, survivors! We’re almost ready to release something we’ve wanted to share with you for quite some time - our third DLC, Rebirth! It features an all-new way to literally transform your colony via terraforming the very soil it’s built on as well as a new, ever-present threat. Surviving the Aftermath: Rebirth lau |
| Surviving the Aftermath - Shattered Hope DLC - Patch Notes | 2022-11-22 | Greeting survivors! We have just released our patch for the “Shattered Hope” DLC—including some bigger changes as well. Here we will go through them with some brief explanations as to why they have been made. As usual, the full patch notes can be found at the end of this post. DIFFICULTY REWORKED We have gone and reduced the DLC’s overall difficulty in many different ways. If you look at the Hope bar for example, you can see that it looks a bit different than before. The “safe zone” where no negative effects can happen is larger and the Hope levels have been adjusted accordingly. This means there are now bigger and clearer changes between the |
| Surviving the Aftermath - Dev Diary #24 - Shattered Hope DLC | 2022-11-03 | Greetings survivors! Our latest DLC “Shattered Hope” has just been released and we are excited to shed light on its features. Brand new challenges await as fading hope risks the entire colony’s survival. Other improvements include a new moon rock disaster, an ability to boost production with overtime and being able to hold special feasts! A new questline adds interesting buildings and resources to the mix, giving Surviving the Aftermath even more variety than before. IMAGE: Surviving the Aftermath: Shattered Hope Let’s first talk about the Moon and the features tied to it. As previously established, the Earth’s Moon shattered at the start of |
| Haunted Wasteland | 2022-10-25 | Hello survivors! It's the spookiest time of year, and we are excited to bring you a free in-game event on Steam and Epic that includes Halloween themed decorations and buildings. This also includes a free patch of some gameplay fixes, such as improvement to the day and night meter to display when night starts and ends, as well as some graphics and balance adjustments like increased fiber production in the fields. What better way to prepare for the moon shattering DLC Shattered Hope that comes out the week after? The event visuals will include: Halloween themed hats and masks for colonists. Two new decoration "buildings": A Scarecrow A Cauldro |
| Surviving the Aftermath - Announcing Shattered Hope DLC | 2022-10-18 | Hello survivors! We are pleased to announce the new DLC for Surviving the Aftermath. Shattered Hope introduces the Shattered Moon calamity, giving players the ability to boost resource production and the task of maintaining survivor’s hope. Surviving the Aftermath: Shattered Hope launches on November 3rd for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC at a suggested retail price of 9.99 USD / 7.99 GBP / 9.99 EUR. During the apocalypse, the Moon was destroyed and now the consequences of that are showering down from the sky in an unforeseen disaster. By gathering resources from Moon Rock deposits and coming together as a people, the survivors must find hop |
| Change notes - “New Alliances PC patch” | 2022-08-26 | Base game General Added 11 new achievements: Base game: Doomsday is canceled - Complete the Doomsday Bunker Project. Choo-choo! - Escape the harsh winter by fixing the train in Cold Rush. Finnished - Survive in the Endless Winter scenario for 100 days. Tailored to fit - Survive until day 100 in a custom game. Customized calamities - Secret! New Alliances DLC: Undercover - Complete all four covert mission types. Best friends forever - Ally with a society. Binary world view - Secret! Diplomatic quarter - Have four embassies built at the same time. Dynamic Duo - Secret! Federation forever - Form the federation. Improved build menu performance dr |
| Surviving the Aftermath - Dev Diary - New Alliances DLC | 2022-06-16 | Dev Diary #23 - New Alliances DLC Greetings survivors! “New Alliances” is here and we can finally share more details about what it means for Surviving the Aftermath. We’ve already teased its contents a bit, so let’s dig deeper into what makes it special. Society requests, alliances and federation add a fresh dimension to societies, while roaming bandits, covert missions and a new powerful Rival faction challenge you in new ways. IMAGE: Keyart New Alliances adds a new, more dynamic layer to the world map and how you interact with societies. Instead of just having nice trade partners, you can now befriend and eventually ally with them with the |
| Dev Diary Teaser - New Alliances | 2022-06-02 | Greetings survivors old and new! We’re very excited to reveal what we’ve been doing amidst all the updates up to this point. It’s the first part of our Season Pass and will be released very soon. Here are some of its key features which gives the game’s sandbox a whole new dimension with more replayability and new challenges! Surviving the Aftermath: ”New Alliances” adds an in-depth layer to world map societies and a new, powerful rival faction as your adversary. Help your neighbours deal with new threats and gain unique rewards while uniting the wasteland under a single banner! Or use your specialists to conduct covert missions inside other s |
| Dev Diary - Free Update #3 | 2022-03-22 | Greetings once again, survivors! With the Lunar New Year celebrations passed, we’re back with a new and quite a hefty update. It includes the already teased new game mode “Scenarios” with two winter-themed experiences along with a ton of other improvements to logistics, statistics and so on. But wait, there’s more! In addition to this new twist on the familiar gameplay, we’re also bringing you Custom Game mode. It allows players to really tweak the experience how they want with dozens of new settings from a very laid-back experience to a pure horror show. Scenarios allow you to dive into Surviving the Aftermath’s sandbox with new themes and t |
| New Free Update Teaser | 2022-03-16 | Hello, survivors! The team here has been hard at work since our last free update in January, and we now want to share with you what’s coming next. We are working on our third free update that will add new ways to play our game and bring you some of the most requested features and improvements. We’ll share all the details once the update is closer to release (very soon) but here’s what you can expect: Eternal Winter Scenario: survive a permanent winter. Cold Rush Scenario: your colony starts in the middle of the map, in harsh winter conditions. You have to explore old abandoned structures, gather resources and find a way to escape before runni |
| Dev Diary - Free Update #2 | 2022-01-25 | Happy Year of the Tiger, survivors! We’re continuing our free 2022 updates with a celebration of the Lunar New Year. This includes new cosmetic buildings along with a new system, which allows you to change how your colony looks like in a flash! It’s not all tigers and fireworks, though, as we’re including quality-of-life improvements to colony combat, how people choose where they live and more. Buildings with and without Lunar New Year pack enabled The Lunar New Year content pack includes a banner stand to display your colony flag (also available as a non-themed version), a tiger flag symbol, a red Double Lantern, a mighty Scrap Tiger statue |
| Changelog - “Free Update 2” - 25th of January 2022 | 2022-01-25 | Greetings, Survivors! It’s time for the next free update, which brings quite a few new things to the game. It’s the Year of the Tiger, and to celebrate it we’re giving you several cosmetic buildings, lights and even hats! We’ve improved the lives of your colony in a few intense ways, like colonists running away from a fight and guards being more effective. We’ve also included some quality of life updates for you as a player, like the return of the feedback button and that colonists will now try to move closer to where they are assigned to work which will lead to shorter commutes and improvements to the AI. General Added Lunar New Year content |
| Dev Diary - Free Update #1 | 2022-01-04 | Happy wintery greetings, survivors We’re back at work in snowy Finland and ramping up development for a fresh new year! The first of the free updates in 2022 includes a dedicated repair and demolish button to make those tasks faster without a need to select each building individually. Victories in gate combat are now rewarded with loot left behind by the defeated bandits. Something that has been requested a lot is restoring rare metal production to the colony via a new late-game tech. It allows you to upgrade the Metal Auto-Extractor into a Magnetic Separator with production options for regular or rare metal production. We’ve also updated ove |
| Free Update 1 - Changelog | 2022-01-04 | Changelog - “Free Update 1” - 4th of January 022 Version number Steam / Epic / Paradox Plaza: 1.21.3.1473 General Added Demolish and Repair modes to the game. These modes allow you to set buildings to be Demolished or Repaired faster. With a keyboard and mouse these can be accessed by selecting the button from the bottom left corner and then selecting each building you wish to either Demolish or Repair. With a controller these can be accessed by pressing the button that controls the camera and then pressing the respective buttons visible on the screen. The modes are exited the same way as you would cancel placing a building. Gate Combat now g |
| Holiday Greetings | 2021-12-23 | Before our team heads to a holiday break we wanted to thank you, our fantastic community, for all the support you have given us during the past year! We also take the chance and recap some of the highlights from the year 2021 and in the end also take a peek into the future of what is coming in 2022. Recap In 2021 we had eight major updates and many smaller ones in between. The update pace was a little less frequent as before, but it helped to produce more meaningful content to each update Reworked colony map generation to cluster deposits more together and distribute different soil types in a more balanced way around the colony. This helps to |
| Surviving the Aftermath is out of Early Access! | 2021-11-16 | And there it happened, Surviving the Aftermath is officially out of Early Access and has now entered 1.0 status. It's out now on PC, Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch. To everyone who has played the game and shared your valuable feedback with us up until this point: thank you so very much. We're proud of what we've accomplished together with you with Surviving the Aftermath, and we look forward to seeing you take your first steps in the finished product. Now, below you can watch the Release Trailer. Enjoy! |
| Changelog - Update 1.0 | 2021-11-16 | Game version 1.21.2.1256 General Added a new Main quest storyline. The quest will trigger at a certain point in the game. As this is a new main quest, it will not block other side quests from appearing as before. The main quest will guide you through a story of survival. If you complete the main quest, you will be able to either quit the game or keep playing with only Winter being a catastrophe that will occur in your colony. Gate Combat has been reintroduced to the game. While the combat at the gate still works similarly to how it was before, we have improved the UI to make it more clear. The end result of the gate combat now depends a lot m |