19.04.2026 - Post-Demo Patch Notes — Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift Steam update #93262

Hey everyone, First off -- thank you. Genuinely. The demo has only been out a few days and the feedback has already been incredibly helpful. Every bug report, every "this confused me," every "I abandoned my run because of X" -- all of it goes straight into fixes. I'm a solo developer, which means I'm writing the code, doing most of the art, balancing the systems, writing the narrative with a small team, and also trying to QA a game with 11 endings, 5 drift paths, branching research trees, and population dynamics that play out differently across 250-400 years. I miss things. I have an automated QA bot that runs overnight playthroughs across five different play-styles, but it doesn't catch everything a human notices in five minutes of actually reading the tooltips. So I'm grateful for every pair of eyes on this. Here's what's changed since demo launch: Critical Fix: Research Effects Were L...