Lord of Rigel News

Ticket #1890 Fix for rare case of UI not fading in
Ticket #1891 Fullscreen and Fullscreen windowed options swapped
Ticket #1892 Terraforming building description adjustment
Ticket #1894 Smarter AI construction of terraformers
Ticket #1895 QOL- Camera Pan, Rotate, and Zoom settings
Ticket #1896 QOL- WSAD tied to camera pan setting
Ticket #1897 Advanced government reflected in Info Screen
Ticket #1898 Fix for mechanoid species computer tech tree filter
Ticket #1893 Fix for rare case of fleet cancellation teleport


If you are having control issues or settings issues:
1) Turn off Steam cloud save sync
2) Clear out your Local folder for Lord of Rigel which can be found at:

C:\Users\ YOUR USER NAME \AppData\Local\LordofRigel

If you have had Steam installs on different drives be sure to clear out local app data on each drive for LoR.

Release Build 2024.12 Hotfix #3

Ticket #1889 QOL- Elder species NAP and Alliance tooltip mentions you're siding with one elder
Ticket #1888 Xantus battleship HDR texture fix
Ticket #1887 Spy leader bonus display fix
Ticket #1886 Balance- Tolerant and Subterranean bonuses add instead of multiply
Ticket #1885 QOL- Advanced Game Option to Set Research Pace
Ticket #1133 Species color scheme pass


If you are having control issues or settings issues, clear out your Local folder for Lord of Rigel which can be found at:

C:\Users\ YOUR USER NAME \AppData\Local\LordofRigel

If you have had Steam installs on different drives be sure to clear out local app data on each drive for LoR.

Greetings Lords of Rigel! We are one week from 1.0 and this update has included several reported critical issues, two new technologies, and further adjustments to the AI based on feedback. Steam game avatars have been added for the 10 playable species. If you have the LoR demo you can use avatars for the four demo species.


For everyone who has purchased Lord of Rigel you'll have some bonus materials in the game folder including the HD soundtrack and the artbook. The standard definition soundtrack will be available through Steam as a soundtrack for free download, Steam trading cards will also be available.




Additionally, a community guide has been launched which will be updated over the coming weeks with more hints, but provides an in depth reference to technologies and underlying game systems.
Lord of Rigel Official Guide




It's been a long road of development for Lord of Rigel. The game has 10 species, and two elder species with full fleets. There's plenty of leaders and unique space monsters to discover. That being said updates will be more in the form of "Free LC" with some additional technologies, leaders, events, and monsters.


If you are returning to Lord of Rigel, or have played the demo before launching please make sure that all local app data for Lord of Rigel has been deleted. LoR uses Unreal Engine and the .ini files are kept in local data. We've added numerous controls and features over Early Access and not deleting the ,ini can cause control input and other settings issues.

C:\Users\ YOURUSER \AppData\Local\LordofRigel\

Ticket #648 Less restrictive tutorial optional goals
Ticket #1877 Fix for rare case of system view transition defaulting to homeworld
Ticket #1878 QOL- Nebula movement penalty reduction tech
Ticket #1879 Technology description pass
Ticket #1880 Tutorial optional goals no longer clear with new modules
Ticket #1881 Improved AI retreat estimates from tactical and autoresolve
Ticket #1882 Improved point defense calculator in autoresolve
Ticket #1883 Elder Species diplomatic escalation adjustments
Ticket #1884 Research station upgrade tech


If you are having control issues or settings issues, clear out your Local folder for Lord of Rigel which can be found at:

C:\Users\ YOUR USER NAME \AppData\Local

As we're approaching the 26th and Lord of Rigel's exit from Early Access, Release Build 12 will serve as our end of EA with some additional hotfixes and tweaks. You may also see some balance and quality of life adjustments in these updates. Some of these improvements are from issues reported from the community such as mouse button 3 being bindable due to some mouse hardware not working well with the default tactical controls. Others are from doing a final balance pass on the economy galaxy generation and technologies. Part of this is from preparing a community guide on steam that provides hints and tips for new players and more in depth information on game systems.

You may have also noticed updated storefront art with Steam's allowing for higher resolution images.


Image 1. New storefront art without the logo


A few more updates have been done since the current patch including benefiting from allied warp enhancers. We'll work on more critical issues reported by fans. Overall though 1,0 will be marked by the release of the art book and soundtrack.


Both for those returning to Lord of Rigel or keeping up with development, settings and keybindings have been altered with this patch to include a new binding.

If you encounter issues with your Settings or Keybinding, please try the following steps:
Go to the Settings Menu press reset and close the menu.

If this does not work, close the game reopen it and follow the same step in the main menu.
If that does not resolve the issue, close the game and delete the PersistentSettings and InputMappings save files found in

C:\Users\ YOURUSER \AppData\Local\LordofRigel\Saved\SaveGames

You may also need to delete input.ini found in:

C:\Users\ YOURUSER \AppData\Local\LordofRigel\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\