Governance Steam news

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• Review score67% positive
• Total reviews33
• Release dateMay 5, 2026
• DeveloperGovernance Studios
• PublisherGovernance Studios

Genres: Simulation, Early Access

Company pages: Developer: Governance StudiosPublisher: Governance Studios

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Governance Steam news

Governance news collects recent Steam feed items, update posts, and announcements that SteamPulse can associate with this app.

Latest Steam announcements

• 0.7.2 - 22 September 2026

  Adds option to disable avatars Improved 2D performance and LOD optimisations Further performance optimisations with avatar generation, map storage and garbage collection

• Wave 2's first update (0.7.1) - 21 September 2026

  Following up from our Wave 2 launch, here's a few extra features released today: Skills: Societal Knowledge has been renamed Empathy, as part of a greater rework Skills: Added a new Management skill You can now shares saves on the Steam Workshop! Shared Election Nights get an animated Workshop preview of the final map, vote share and seats, even when shared mid-count Ministries: Departments can drive, hold steady or freeze recruitment, with the cost and quality trade-off shown before you commit Civic Projects: introducing project manager NPCs whose skills set the efficiency, the budget, team morale and build quality Reworked the Cabinet tab, the Projects tab and the Ministries window Scenario Editor: added an a Organisations step for firms, owners and sites Editor: Economics and Statistics baseline data can be imported from the Modern Britain scenario Read the full Wave 2 launch update…

• Wave 2 is here! - 19 September 2026

  Prepare for Government - Wave 2 is here!The culmination of months of playtesting, beta testers, and work is finally here! Wave 2 transforms Governance into an even deeper political simulation game, adding hundreds of new features and improvements to the game. Here's some of our favourites!The HighlightsAnd here's a few more up close!All-new avatar system!Governance now has hand-drawn avatar artwork! Every character in game now has a hand-drawn avatar, with a unique face and a unique name. With over 70 million combinations, there's an avatar for quite literally everyone in the UK! We're planning on adding more and more avatar assets over time - and, of course, you can always make your own and put it on the Workshop*!We've also added hundreds of additional cultures to aid with realism and developing your own custom scenarios!Polities, Devolved Governments and YouThe game now simulates 'po…

• 0.5.9a - 31 May 2026

  Bugfixes to leadership issues Improved tuning for smaller parties Belief popularity indices added to the game

• 0.5.9 - 21 May 2026

  Patches to leadership elections running 0 candidates Tuning to the 2026 scenario preventing centreleft supermajorities on 20% of the vote - though FPTP is going to show some quirks in a multi-party system... Added new unifiedevent wiring for leadership challenges

• 0.5.8 - 19 May 2026

  Fixed bugs with local campaigning Tuning fixes to 2024 UK scenario Fixes to Projection view issues

• 0.5.7 is here! - 16 May 2026

  Finally, we're here! Sorry that it's taken a little bit later than planned, but we wanted to get some of these new features right. By far the most request feature.... we've added a new tutorial system! All-new policy based budget system that offers new gameplay for the Chancellor and PM Broad economic system overhaul with deeper simulation of tax, economic growth, new economic indicators, and support for price controls. Added local campaigning mechanic - campaign in a specific constituency to boost your party's support there You can now change the party names and some scenario settings when you start a new game Laying the groundwork for civic projects - we've added internal support for civic project (ex. high speed rail, new hospitals) but 0.5.8+ will contain the full featureset. Elected House of Lords now shows a new popup Support for ward-level campaigning events Additional support fo…

• 0.5.6 hotfix - 13 May 2026

  * Fixes rendering issue with character wizard Bigger update out this eve or tomorrow - stay tuned!

• v0.5.6 - 10 May 2026

  Added support for turn-based gameplay, giving players the option for a slower play style Parties can no longer have the same colours Added home button to find your constituency on the map Improvements to Character Wizard Added randomise buttons for character creation Fixes to camera controls and map interactions Improved layout for personal election results

• 0.5.5 - 8 May 2026

  Today's updates: Added a celebration for Bills that receive Royal Assent and become law! Amendments to Bills get voted on by the Player Added internal tracking for vote attendance Updated Member Recruitment system to be more visual Z-fighting fixes for tooltip and popup windows Wiki window fixes Overwatch mode now available everywhere Fixes to simulation variables

• 0.5.4a - 7 May 2026

  Another day, another selection of new features and fixes! Added the inbox system for low-priority events New political backgrounds for your characters! Added an "Overwatch Mode" post Game Over for players who have lost to see the world go by and continue Added a deeper party membership system with distinction for national members and simulated politicians Added the option to enable/disable pre-game simulation Updated Recruitment popups Added events to handle membership fee changes Changed the labeling of simulated persons in a party to Politicians. Changes to demographic labels and groupings An in-game day is now 2 seconds, not 1 And the bugfixes: Fixed bugs related to Eco Party and Liberal Centrist party support Fixed trackpad scrolling for Map view Fixed overflow bug in Vote modal Fixed occasional bug where party membership would not update correctly after joining a party Fixes to the…

• v0.5.3 - 6 May 2026

  Fixed issues with saving and loading campaigns Fixed think tank policy event issues Rejigged Independent MP logic Fixed Wiki window text issues Slowed down in-game days slightly to give players more time to react to events Fixed overflow issues Fixed by-election bugs Fixed double-charge for political capital Fixed z-index fighting for some events More updates to come later this evening!

• Patch v0.5.2a - 5 May 2026

  File/folder loading optimised Asset compilation bug fixed Fixed a bug where players couldn't vote on bills post-election Editor Flow service fixed Added updated Careers index

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