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Several top indie strategy games are going cheap in new holiday sale

There are so many great strategy games on PC nowadays that it can be difficult to keep up. Fortunately, indie publisher Hooded Horse, which has had an impressive year for several of its top strategy, city-building, simulation, and management games, is offering a holiday sale across Steam, GOG, and the Epic Games Store to let you catch up on some great options for cheap. If you've completed Command and Conquer, combed through Civilization 6, smashed StarCraft 2, trounced Total War Warhammer 3, annihilated Age of Empires 4, and extracted from XCOM 2, these might be the ideal options to see you into 2024.

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Hooded Horse Winter Sale

Happy Holidays! From now until January 4th, you can save 50% on Necesse, and get great deals on all other games published by Hooded Horse during the Steam Winter Sale. Come check the game out!

In 2023, we released 5 updates, ranging from new weapon types, mana system, biomes, bosses, survival mode, character transfers, and more. With each of these updates, there were plenty of tweaks and fixes that were deployed throughout the year. We've also teased a currently work-in-progress graphics overhaul:

You can revisit each update notes here:

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50% Off Midweek Deal

Featured as the Steam Midweek Deal, from now until December 21 you can save 50% on Necesse. Come check the game out!

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1169040/Necesse/

New Multiplayer Trailer: Play Together Across Worlds

Necesse has released a major Multiplayer Update for v0.23, and revealed a new trailer:

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This update introduces a new biome, gear, a boss, and a bunch of tweaks around it. Create adventuring parties with friends as you grow your settlement, craft magical equipment, and lead expeditions against pirate kings, dragons, and fallen wizards alike. Take your character to your friends' worlds or keep playing on your character after having played in someone else's world.

The full update notes can be read here.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1169040/Necesse/

Happy holidays and a happy new year!
- Fair

v0.23.0 hotfixes

Since the update, I have been pushing some hotfixes for issues people have run into and updated translations. Thank you for all the reports! :D

We will likely do a separate patch focused on some balance changes in the next week.

Here's what has changed:

Hotfix on December 12th:
Updated Polish translation (thanks #Yalthar)
Updated Simplified Chinese translation (thanks #azhuge233)
Fixed crash caused by having specific characters in world names
Fixed dungeon stairs generating another set of stairs on old worlds
Fixed rare crash when trying to change level
Fixed crash when adventure party settlers are low on health and have no items to use
Fixed crash when playing with through the tutorial with a controller
Fixed crash caused by looking at the tooltip of some settler items

Hotfix on December 14th:
Updated Russian translation (thanks #Crey)
Updated Korean translation (thanks #Dogomako)
Fixed dedicated server crash when using weapons that consume health
Fixed Gateway Tablet showing wrong tooltip
Fixed buffs persisting through character switching