July 14, 2026

Alpha 0.17 Patch Notes

The Steam demo build. New Points of Interest, added languages, a big balance pass on the early game and research economy, plus a stack of bug fixes.

New Features

Added new UI interaction when purchasing an upgrade to make it feel more reactive
Added Points of Interest
- Tier 1
  - Stadium
  - Hospital
  - Theater
  - Concert Hall
- Tier 2
  - Airport
  - Museum
  - Observatory
  - Botanical Garden
Added SFX for the following:
- Fireworks during tier upgrade sequence
- Researcher generating point
Made the building shortcut button pulse if its corresponding building has upgrades that the player can afford
Added a visual representation for the researcher timer when hovering a station that can spawn researchers
Added Simplified Chinese and Japanese as language options in game
Added some new tip messages:
- Advertisement board explanation
- Point of interest explanation
- One that introduces the anomaly on first hover
Added a slight magnetism to UI elements when using a gamepad
Moved end demo screen to after the anomaly, it was coming up too early before
Updated the price on purchasable buildings to fade out if you can't afford it
Can no longer decode anomaly multiple times on the same save

The main goal of these changes was the following:

Pick up the pace of the early game
Improve research point economy
Improve passenger spawn rate vs how much trains are carrying, especially in the late game

University description text was not carrying over after being purchased
Fixed bug where floating text was showing up over the top of the end demo screen
Fixed anomalies causing flashes of light on some GPUs
Purchasable buildings will no longer move if you click them a lot while not being able to afford them
Fixed bug where trains would get stuck at the university stations
Fixed bug where tooltips in the main menu settings were not being localized
Fixed bug where trains would sometimes not reposition themselves when needed