- New Free Update: Legacy of the Chieftains - 17 February 2026
NovaMundi is a game of exploration and tactical combat inspired by the history of the Muisca people, the indigenous civilization that inhabited the Andean highlands of South America at the time of the 16th-century European arrival. Lead a band of warriors to defend their homeland from invaders, guided by ancestral traditions and the wisdom of the spirits. Delve into mysterious caverns to earn their aid, and face a new challenge every time across generated landscapes of steep valleys and perilous jungle. We are back! I wanted to take this opportunity to remind you all that we are a very small team of developers from Colombia, every small bit of support matter a lot for us - whether you share the game, Wishlist it, or buy it and leave a positive review; your individual action is leaving a BIG mark on the future of the game and our studio. Without further ado, let's talk about the new vers…
- Critical bugfix [1.0.3] - 28 January 2025
This version bundles a critical fix that was happening randomly, where it was impossible to enter towns using E. My apologies if you experienced this issue, and I hope you can give the game another chance if that was the case!
- NovaMundi: Improved Combat [1.0.2] - 14 January 2025
I decided to continue development of NovaMundi to address some of the feedback we have received about the game after its release; updates won’t be constant but hopefully we’ll take it to a point where the player experience is smoother. Combat Player Experience A point of the game that is often noted as a weakness is the player experience while in combat; of course there are many things that build up to that, so better start working on them. One painful item on this regard was the irresponsiveness of unit selection; there have been layered things that led to this, and some of them had been fixed already in 1.0.1, however, this version includes a further small but important change to reduce the pixel perfect accuracy required to select units; there’s now some tolerance for that so you can now click somewhere near the unit, and that should do the trick. Another point that causes frustratio…
- Devlog: The last month of indie development and marketing for NovaMundi 1.0 - 9 November 2024
It's been almost a month but I finally managed to publish the story about the Full Release of NovaMundi on Steam, everything that happened the last month of development and marketing. Check it out at https://blog.slashie.net/2024/11/08/novamundi-full-release-on-steam/
- v1.0.1 - UX fixes! - 19 October 2024
This small version contains just a handful of mostly UX changes: - Fixes on Unit selection - Fix intro screen for different display ratios. - Space Spanish camps from towns - Enlarge town popup to show half next inhabitant - Improve display of waypoint for walk commands
- NovaMundi Full Release 1.0 now available! - 13 October 2024
NovaMundi, the Procedural Exploration and Tactical Combat game from Slashware Interactive, is now out of Early Access,. Deep in the heart of the XVI Century Andean highlands lies the vast nation of the Muisca. While traveling to trade with allied cities, your caravan has an unexpected encounter with outlandish invaders, marching towards your land with determination. It now falls in your hands to find a way for the Muisca to repel the Spanish invasion. Lead a party of explorers and warriors, with each playthrough generating new landscapes teeming with indigenous villages, huntable wildlife, and hostile bandits and soldiers that your expedition will encounter on their journey. Discover local villages to recruit more forces, barter with traders, or make an offering at a temple for combat blessings. The members of your party must be strategically managed if your group is to survive the peri…
- NovaMundi Stories 5 - The Sue - 12 October 2024
- There is honor in defeat, Colima… Now we know how well fortified that town is, and return for their food and women. - And what good will that do us Nabilo? We have almost no food reserves. We won’t last another moon. The small Panche warband had been recently defeated. They had come from far away to raid the Muisca, but not for glory as they usually did, but for food and women. And how they needed both… A Panche warrior could never marry someone from the same tribe, for all members are siblings, and they constantly needed children and women to bear them, because they were constantly at war; against the Muisca, different Carib peoples, and even other Panches. But in this particular warband’s tribe, there were not many women except for their mothers and sisters, and there was not much food left. They chose the lands of the Muisca to raid because news had gotten to them about a lot of in…
- NovaMundi Stories 4 - The Panche Menace - 4 October 2024
"…No, no, no. *YOU* shut up. You don’t deserve respect just because you’re the host. You stole 5 families that should be paying tribute to ME, not to mention the deers your hunters killed “accidentally”. I was letting them get fat, Eucaneme! They were not for you." Screamed Chunsica. "I agree with Chunsica, why should we ally with you? If anything we should ally *against* you. You never sent a messenger back thanking me for my generous gift. Clearly you don’t respect us." Replied Raga. "Ha! That’s rich! Of course you would agree with Chunsica! You two teamed up to raid two of my villages! I refuse to join forces with him or you, Raga." Refuted Saymoso Eucaneme’s bohio was supposed to be a place of dialogue, where the four chieftains could reach an agreement to protect each other against the Panche menace, and Eucaneme as a host should be calm and wise. And he really was trying, but oh h…
- NovaMundi Stories 3 - Tomagata the unready - 27 September 2024
Tomagata had sacrificed his childhood and teen years to the divine realms. To study the mysteries of the land, the spirits, the gods, and the language of the long-gone ancestors, he didn’t play, he didn't drink and, while it was not prohibited, he was yet to know the embrace of a woman. All these sacrifices were not asked from him by the spirits, the gods of even doctrine. He sacrificed all of that willingly so he was able to study at the Cuca near his town; a sacred precinct where priests received their sacred knowledge from elder holy men. But years had taken their toll. He felt lonely, sad, and longed for the things he missed because of his stay at the Cuca. However, soon he would be a chyquy, a priest in his own right. Tomagata only had to attend his teacher with the burial rites of their chief’s daughter, who was sadly put to death by a mysterious disease. It was easy, he just need…
- NovaMundi Stories 2 - A Master Potter - 22 September 2024
Uta Bobesicca (clan Blackberry) was made of cousins, siblings, parents, and elders. It was a small clan, and all of its members, save for the little ones, were self-sufficient. Bobesicca was blessed with talent and abundance. Such was this uta’s abundance that its young members had forgotten how important community links are. Umbala was a potter from the clan Bobesicca. His skills were renowned and the pots he made were coveted from the lands of the Tayrona to the lands north of the Andes. Such was his skill that his pride took the best of him. He was sure that every pot he made, he could trade. And so, he seldom saved pots or food for days of scarcity. One beautiful morning the news was made known: A biohote; a great celebration, was planned to happen soon! His goods would be in high demand, so much so that his status would grow and he could become a powerful man! And so, with this ide…
- NovaMundi Stories 1 - Curima's Wisdom - 17 September 2024
Sué, god of the sun smiled, making Curima wrinkles create beautiful shadows. She was old. Even old people considered Curima an elder. “The ancient one”, she was called behind her back. And only behind her back, for she was the mother of the old Chief. No one else was awake. As she grew older, the need for sleep scattered like her great-grandchildren after doing some mischief. Because of this, she alone prepared the fire, and some food like quisbún; a sweet corn cake made with cheese, butter, and milk. It was her clan’s favorite food, and she loved to cook it. The smell awoke the little ones, who with a ruckus started helping the old woman. Her grandchildren followed their kids, and after a while, her only son, the old chief, arrived. He had slipped away while she started to cook to meditate, and of course, to slack off and not help. He would get a burnt quisbún, and a kiss on his forehe…
- NovaMundi 1.0 Full Release coming soon, October 12th! - 7 September 2024
NovaMundi is an exploration game with tactical combat in which you lead a group of indigenous warriors to traverse the vast and dangerous territories of the Andean mountains seeking to unite the Muisca populations and prepare them to stand against the upcoming invasion efforts from European powers in the XVI century. NovaMundi now has a Full Release date: October 12th, 2024! We are working hard to make it through the finish line with something worthy. We appreciate all the help you can provide letting your friends and content creators about the game; share about it in your gaming communities! We picked the October 12th date because of its importance for indigenous communities in America, which we believe greatly aligns with the message of NovaMundi. As we work towards it, there's a new Early Access version available and it comes with many important improvements! The visuals when you sta…
- NovaMundi – Battlegrounds [0.43] - 19 July 2024
It’s been over seven months since the last version of NovaMundi, I did a preview post back on May 31 of what was coming, but the new version is finally out! I will try to summarize what we are shipping here: Combat Areas At long last, there are now several maps where combat takes place, based on whether you are close to a town, or the biome where the engagement took place (plains, forests, wetlands or even mountain “páramos”); additionally the maps are much bigger now, so instead of a simple faceoff you’ll have to maneuver your units around to meet your enemies. Overworld Movement Time compression has been removed, instead you will be able to “sprint” in the overworld, to move quicker at the expense of stamina. This will allow you to maneuver and evade chasing expeditions or animal packs. These chasing expeditions are now affected by terrain, as well as the visibility of your expedition…
- NovaMundi - Icons of Status [0.42.3] - 10 December 2023
Version 0.42.3 has been in the works for a long time now, however it’s still a minor version because it's focused in a small but long requested UI improvement, as well as balancing the start game experience. There’s some ongoing work to add animations for the missing weapons, which you will see probably in the next version. The biggest UI change is the status effects affecting the expedition members are now displayed as icons with tooltip instead of the text, so it should be much more readable now. Special and Magical modifiers applied to weapons of enemies are now tied to the “danger level” of the game, i.e. they will become stronger as days go by. Spanish trailblazers are also now equipped with European armor. Some improvements to the start game experience: Your first explorer will now start with a cursed charm that will resurrect him once. We added this to prevent early game situatio…
- v0.42.2 with small fixes - 13 October 2023
- Anxious Perk has been added - Throw in a couple of raiders at the player at the beginning for fun - When combat starts, pause after a little bit so that units don't look like statues - Special and Magical modifiers should now be correctly assigned to armor - Spanish grammar fixes - Prevent applying effects to dead units. - Prevent triggering effect while the combat is paused. - Balance changes especially vs. Spanish Units
- NovaMundi – Clash on the Highlands [0.42.1] - 4 October 2023
NovaMundi is a procedural exploration game with tactical combat in which you lead a group of indigenous warriors and explorers to traverse the vast and dangerous territories of the Andean mountains seeking to unite the Muisca populations and prepare them to stand against the upcoming invasion efforts from European powers in the XVI century. NovaMundi is available now on Steam Early Access! GET IT NOW (or wishlist it) if you like what you see! Version 0.42 focuses in COMBAT, it’s the result of about two months of work of the team and, while there still some improvements to be done in the balancing, UI and visuals, it already changes a lot of how you much approach the game. Here are some of the most important changes brought by this version: Combat As promised in the previous update, you will now be able to change the weapons, armor and accessory equipped on your units; we implemented nor…
- The Combat System Open Beta is on! (v0.40.0) - 6 September 2023
IT IS TIME! Time for what you say? TIME TO BETA TEST! The combat system is now feature-complete! At least mathematically speaking… We’re still missing some models, UI elements, and sound effects. Some adjacent systems are also missing, but hey! You can whack things now in a much more fun way! Of course, this means the update is not ready for an official release, you deserve a polished and great product! But we can’t do this alone. While we’ve tested this update’s features a lot, we would appreciate your help to cover all situations; since the player’s skill influences whether a battle is hard or not, an experienced player will have a much easier time playing than a newbie, and we can’t balance the whole game as if all players are experts... that’s where you come in! Right now, you can access the open beta by going into your Steam games library, right-clicking on NovaMundi, and following…
- Combat system improvements info, Beta is coming soon! - 29 August 2023
Hello everyone! My name is Stoltverd, and I’m one of the developers here at Slashware. Today, I’ll be taking Slashie’s place to tell you about an upcoming update on Novamundi’s combat. And let me tell you… It’s big. We’ll finally allow characters to change/equip weapons: no more will characters be limited in their weapon selection to what they were carrying at the moment of their recruitment. Archers will use spears and clubs if you need them to do so! That doesn’t mean they should… but they can. No more will you be screwed if your frontline is destroyed. And talking about ranged weapon users, all of them will now carry a knife to defend themselves when enemies get too close. In regard to weapons, new types will be included. All are unique in how they work and look and the damage they inflict. Some inflict piercing damage, others slashing or blunt; and all of them interact in different…
- v0.41.1 - Small hotfix - 25 July 2023
This patch fixes an issue with ambushes and adds a popup to preview the guards of the encampments.
- NovaMundi – Towns of the Muisca [0.41] - 20 July 2023
NovaMundi is a procedural exploration game with tactical combat in which you lead a group of indigenous warriors and explorers to traverse the vast and dangerous territories of the Andean mountains seeking to unite the Muisca populations and prepare them to stand against the upcoming invasion efforts from European powers in the XVI century. NovaMundi is available now on Steam Early Access! GET IT NOW (or wishlist it) if you like what you see! Version 0.41 focuses on improving the exploration experience in many ways, read below for full info. The biggest change for this version is that Muisca towns have been greatly expanded, filled with life, and given each one a unique identity. You will find different craftsmen working on them, merchants populating the markets, and guards defending the fenced areas. This was a long time coming and I’m happy we were finally able to include it. Doing th…
