- Steam App
- DRONE SMUGGLER (3857290)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 10 August 2026 - 13:57:27 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
**As always, all assets, sounds, code, and other constituent parts of DRONE SMUGGLER were created by a human being.**DRONE SMUGGLER's sci-fi spacefaring, high-score-chasing fun is getting a new look this summer. "The Widening" is an in-progress development initiative to bring DRONE SMUGGLER gameplay into a new 16:9 aspect ratio while refactoring or redesigning core elements to better support the kind of local variability, universal verisimilitude, and overall re-play value that suits the original vision. Right now only a few parallax particle effects have been added to the new game space, giving a peaceful feeling of drifting through interstellar space.Additional updates will be coming in the near future that bring gameplay mechanics up to parity with the current Steam release - the player ship, first and foremost, but also enemies, asteroids, dropping/picking up/deploying tech modules, ...