October 4, 2026
Alpha 0.20 Patch Notes
The Prestige update. Decrypt and exploit anomalies for Prestige Points to spend at Platform Zero, build the Marketing Office, five new languages, a reworked notification system and train line UI, plus balance changes and fixes.
New Features
- Added the Prestige system. Decrypt and exploit anomalies to earn Prestige Points, then spend them at Platform Zero.
- Added four Prestige carriage overrides: Passenger Carriage, Research Carriage, First-Class Carriage, and Express Carriage.
- Added Platform Zero, including a record of discovered anomaly messages, a display of active overrides, and the ability to refund purchased Prestige nodes.
- Reworked anomalies. Anomalies now take time to decrypt, reveal their story when decryption finishes, and can then be exploited for Prestige Points.
- Added more anomalies throughout the map.
- Added the Marketing Office. Research and build it to improve the cooldown and profit multiplier of Ad Boards.
- Added new late-game upgrades and additional trains to purchase.
- Added French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), and Russian localization.
- Added a new main menu background.
- Added new building art for all buildings.
Gameplay Changes
- Points of Interest can now be changed for free after being placed.
- Reworked the Museum POI. When a train stops there, it grants Research Points that double for each unique station visited since its previous Museum stop.
- Reworked the Observatory. It now makes Universities research 25% faster at all times. Researchers also generate Research Points while waiting at stations and while traveling on trains.
- Research generated by Points of Interest now takes Research Carriage Prestige bonuses into account.
- Added new requirements and rebalanced prices for the later stages of the demo.
- The demo now ends when players reach Tier 3, though we still intend to add quite a bit to Tier 2 in the full release of the game.
UI Changes
- Reworked the notification system. Story and tutorial messages now appear in the top notification bar with distinct colors, clearer text, and support for multiple pages.
- TAMI now lives in the top notification bar between conversations and animates into and out of notification modals.
- Reworked the train line UI to show University progress, train capacity, train composition, and active Prestige carriages. Lines with many statistics now expand into two columns.
- Passenger arrival rates now switch between “one every X seconds” and “X per second” for easier reading.
- Added interaction and decryption indicators to anomalies, and split anomaly messages into multiple pages.
- Added new tutorialization for new mechanics.
- Added Prestige music and sfx.
- The University displays its Observatory research-speed bonus when active.
- Hovering over the Service Tier available announcement now dismisses it until the next Service Tier becomes available.
- Improved map-detail placement around the legend and other panels.
- Researcher containers now position themselves dynamically around nearby railway lines.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed several notification and map-detail positioning issues.
Other Changes
- Updated the project to Unity 6.6.