Empires of the Undergrowth News

Occupation 2 is available now in the Extra Levels section!

The first in our Sequel Season of extra levels - this little black ant mission follows many of the same lines as its predecessor, but with a more urgent twist! Many critters will not wait patiently to be unearthed and will take a proactive approach to challenging your colony.

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Extra levels take us very little time to develop, so we release them periodically as some nice bonus content for the community whilst we work on the bigger stuff!

We're currently working on large changes to freeplay, upgrading the art assets for the beach levels and creating the tier 5 levels.

We have several more planned for Sequel Season - stay tuned in the new year.

We're back with another vlog! This time Mike goes over upcoming changes to freeplay, how the Adventure + update went (and some changes coming to Adventure in the future) as well as talking briefly about a new unique seasonal level that will arrive in the not-too-distant future.

Towards the start of the video, our product marketing manager Dan talks about two other games that are published (but not developed) by Slug Disco, Ecosystem and Adapt. If you're not interested in those, skip to timecode 2:28 for the Empires of the Undergrowth meat.

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What could get you more into the spirit of the season than defending gifts against a horde of insects and arachnids using more insects and arachnids?

The Festive Spider is here for the holidays! Touch the gift box on the main menu to play.

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Help the Hungry Spider keep the gifts safe from the invaders. Be warned - like the Halloween level, this one is punishingly difficult and unforgiving - expect multiple playthroughs to perfect your strategy. This unique tower defense game mode is sure to keep you on your toes well into the new year.

We've made some updates to the free demo - if you've not taken the plunge yet then now's a great time to try out the demo, and if you like it, the game is 10% off for Steam's Autumn sale! This update adds the tutorial level that we recently added to the main game, as well as a limited form of the Battle Arena - a mode where you can easily pit the various critters found in the demo against each other to see what wins.

• Tutorial added to demo
  
• Battle Arena added to demo with creatures included in the demo
  
• Demo levels The Nest and Hold Out updated to use rotting log textures
  
• New menu added to demo
  
• Various smaller changes from the full game are now reflected in the demo
  
• Support in demo for recently-added languages
  

V0.302036 has been released, addressing a few issues that came up over the last couple of days as well as making some mainly visual changes to the Hungry Spider level.

Patch notes below:

Additions

• The Hungry Spider level now uses the new rotting log tile set
  
• Enjoy the Hungry Spider event for longer - now until Nov 10th!
  
• A few extra pillars for cover and lighting near spawn on Hungry Spider
  
• Queens now have a gentle spotlight on them
  

Fixes

• Fixed invisible cricket issues in Adventure
  
• Fixed a visual error in 1.2
  
• Tweaked rotting log materials
  
• Removed any possibility for unfinished landmarks to spawn in freeplay
  
• Notification given in the tutorial will always appear regardless of settings