Progress Update 12/27/2025
We hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season! Speaking of which, Thrive is currently still on sale. With our main programmer on vacation, there have been no large programming tasks completed, and no volunteer work has been actually added into the game's code.
However, volunteers have still been working on new changes to be added to the game later on, as can be seen on our Github. This week that included both technical improvements and gameplay changes. On the techni…
Read More →Progress Update 12/20/2025
In case anyone missed it, this week we released Thrive 1.0! The Microbe Stage is now feature complete, and development has shifted to the Multicellular Stage. The release this time happened on Wednesday to catch the start of the (currently ongoing) Steam Winter Sale.
With all the activity around the launch, subsequent progress is modest this week. Several bugs were fixed, in localisation, UI and an issue with mucocysts in the multicellular stage. Our lead programmer will als…
Read More →Devblog #50: Microbe Stage Complete!
Welcome all to this very special devblog celebrating the release of Thrive version 1.0! This release marks the completion of the Microbe Stage, the first stage of the 9 planned. The Microbe stage will continue to be supported with balancing and bug fix updates, and volunteers are welcome to continue to make contributions to it. But our main development efforts will now focus on our second stage, Multicellular.
In the time since version 0.9.0, we've mainly been focused on…
Read More →Progress Update 12/13/2025
Today is our last Progress Update before the release of Thrive 1.0 on the 17th of December, and with it the functional completion of the Microbe Stage.
Of course, there will still be updates on the Microbe Stage, especially when it comes to fixing issues and balancing. But our main development efforts really will be focusing on the Multicellular Stage. A major milestone that I think not everyone believed we would actually reach. But it is here regardless.
Development this week w…
Read More →Progress Update 12/06/2025
The biggest news this week is Thrive version 0.9.2! We're hopeful that this version is a lot more stable on release than 0.9.1 was, but we still did not have a beta period, unlike our typical updates. Please report any issues you find!
First of all, it fixes the remaining know bugs from 0.9.1 that were not fixed in 0.9.1.1. Beyond this we have improvements and additions to auto-evo. The calculations now take cilia, binding agents and signalling agents into account, and some perf…
Read More →Progress Update 11/29/2025
Last week we released 0.9.1! It was… somewhat less stable than we had hoped. In particular, the new cell division effect had a physics problem that caused frequent crashes. The first part of this week was dedicated to fixing this and a number of other bugs, with bugfix release 0.9.1.1 being released on Wednesday.
Nonetheless, there was still time left for development on future releases. Firstly, a few more bugs were fixed, including a few more cases where the auto-evo prediction sho…
Read More →Progress Update 11/22/2025
The big news for today is the release of Thrive 0.9.1! This is the first of our smaller updates leading up to the big 1.0. Highlights include a new array of patch events, a newly overhauled MP calculation system and a new intro cutscene when you choose a panspermia start. Notably, all the previous bugs with the new save/loading system should be fixed. There are also plenty of auto-evo and balance changes. With the shorter release schedule on these updates, there has been less intens…
Read More →Progress Update 11/15/2025
Quite a lot of noticeable progress this week! Several new patch events were added to mix up compound levels across many patches at a time. Auto-evo now recognises upgrades to toxin organelles, making Thrive significantly more toxic. Thermosynthesis now produces glucose to make it significantly less frustrating to use (This slipped into the patch notes a bit too early before).
In the audiovisual department, we got a new sound effect for when you're trying to form or expand a colony (…
Read More →Progress Update 11/08/2025
Just last week we released Thrive version 0.9 including our new terrain system, and a significant amount of work this week went into post-patch support. Patch version 0.9.0.1 was published this Tuesday, fixing several bugs in the new saving system and a few exploits that allowed infinite MP in the editor. But work is also already underway for version 0.9.1 and 1.0. draws ever closer!
As for what work was done for 0.9.1: A GUI pop-up screen was added that will show up when y…
Read More →Devblog #49: Microbe Terrain
Welcome all to Thrive 0.9.0! Characterized by improvements to visuals, the environment, and gameplay polish, Thrive has begun its rapid race towards the completion of the Microbe Stage with some significant headway. Read more about these changes in the text below, including details about terrain, current visual overhauls, metabolism changes, save-system polishing, and more!
As always the update is available for free with our launcher, or you can support development by purcha…
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