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Attention, Survivalists!

Set your sights on a limited time Lunar New Year deal – 75% off The Survivalists!

Monkey training, building, crafting? You got it!

Set sail and explore the island – your newfound home will change with day/night cycles as you uncover its secrets! Hunt (or be hunted by!) both animals and mythical creatures as you gear up for an adventure unique to every player. A world full of secrets and danger awaits!

Now is a great time to snag the deal for yourself or as a gift for a friend, with The Survivalists now available for $6.25! What are you waiting for? Add it to your cart, check out, and get surviving!

All discounted items:

• The Survivalists: 75% off
  
• The Survivalists – Deluxe Edition: 75% off
  
• The Survivalists – Digital Artbook: 25% off
  
• The Survivalists – Monkey Business Pack: 40% off
  
• The Survivalists – Soundtrack: 50% off
  

This offer won’t last forever! Be sure to check out your cart before the 3rd of February!

Survivalists! 🐒

Set sail on your desert island adventure and explore, build, craft & even train monkeys, for less!

Get up to 75% off The Survivalists during the Steam Autumn sale!

See the list of discounts here

• The Survivalists - 75%
  
• The Survivalists - Deluxe Edition - 75%
  
• The Survivalists - Digital Artbook - 25%
  
• The Survivalists - Monkey Business Pack - 40%
  
• The Survivalists - Soundtrack - 50%
  

Ends December 1st at 6pm GMT

https://store.steampowered.com/app/897450/The_Survivalists/

[h3]Survivalists, have you ever considered managing a cult?[/h3]

To celebrate the Steam Early Access launch, we’re giving owners of The Survivalists a 10% discount on Honey, I Joined A Cult! Combine that with the 10% launch week discount and you’ve got a deal of true enlightenment!

You can also get the 10% discount if you own The Escapists, The Escapists: The Walking Dead, or The Escapists 2!

What is Honey, I Joined A Cult?
In Honey, I Joined a Cult you must build and expand your base, manage your cultists and resources, and increase your faith, funds and following.

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Key Features:

• Take full control of a funky cult: Recruit cultists to maintain the organisation’s smooth operation; keep them entertained and happy to grow its money and influence.
  
• Build ‘freaky deaky’ bases: Build the cult from the ground up and design the layout from ‘hypno-chambers’ and bathrooms to monoliths and bedrooms.
  
• Branch out into the community: Send minions out to spread the good word, or just get them to steal fancy items for your cult HQ.
  
• Stick it to ‘The Man’: Overcome threats from law enforcement, oppressive government bodies, and misinformed protesters.
  
• Get down with deities: Choose where your cult’s heading - fiery apocalypse or the second coming of the Squid Lord?
  

[h3]Pledge your faith 👇[/h3]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/841190/Honey_I_Joined_a_Cult/

Gather your monkeys and prepare for more adventure with the Expeditions Update, out now! 🐒

🗺️ Quests
💎 Trinkets
✔️ Save upgrade system
📖 Bestiary
& more!

New features:
40+ New Trinkets –

• It is now possible to level your player character via trinkets. There are 4 trinkets slots that can be earned that can be slotted with a variety of trinkets that can radically change gameplay.
  
• Trinkets such as burning damage, death bombs, infection, shields, tool damage and damage reduction and more!
  
• Trinkets have 4 unique tier slots so you can customise to your playstyle.
  
• Trinkets recipes are earned by performing objectives for the Taskmasters.
  
• A new trinket bench can be built to support this.
  

4 New TaskMasters –

• There are 4 new taskmasters on islands beyond the starting one.
  
• These offer themed tasks which when completed offer ever increasing rewards most tied into the trinket system.
  
• More than 50 new challenges each with a unique reward.
  
• Taskmaster types are… Beastmaster, Collector, Gourmand, Salesman.
  

5 New Pets –

• You can find an egg and if nurtured, gain a companion to keep you company.
  

Caves changes –

• These have had an overhaul, they are now ‘gated’, you will need something to get into them.
  
• There are now many new resources inside that are required to support trinkets.
  

Bestiary –

• There is now a bestiary in the journal that tracks animals and collectibles and also displays resources you might find on them.
  

Labyrinths –

• Now offer new rewards at the end. Have also been tweaked with regards to internal mobs.
  

Legendary Weapons –

• Can now be repaired on the repair bench and gained as rewards from taskmasters.
  

New Animals –

• 2 new animals, one of which is a ‘loot goblin’.
  

Landregen Refactor –

• Generation has been changed so that there are now more distinct islands, increasing in difficulty along with breadcrumbs to lead you in the right direction should you with.
  

Regenerate -

• Start a new game with the new features and take your inventory, mysterious chest, unlocked blueprints and 5 monkey friends along with you for a headstart. This is required for the new features.
  

Elites –

• Elite variations of existing animals, needed for some of the tasks.
  

Player initiated raids –

• With the right item you can now summon elite variants to fight, earning rewards to hand in to the Taskmasters.
  

Expandable Inventory –

• Fulfilling objectives for the Taskmasters will reward you with items that can increase your inventory size.
  

New Items –

• There are many new items to me found to support the new features.
  

Mob Variants –

• New harder Orclings can be now found, especially on Skull Island.
  

New collectibles –

• Over 10 new collectibles to find and new items to craft to find them.
  

New items & resources –

• New items, recipes and resources have been added to support new features.
  

New Currency –

• Mysterious tokens can sometimes be offered as a reward from the task masters.
  

New Token Shop –

• Unlock via tasks the right to purchase powerful trinket recipes from the new Token Shop.
  

Bug fixes and improvements:

• Fixed an issue with crops where some had missing or incorrect shadows.
  
• Fixed an issue where some animation frames were missing on north facing attacks.
  
• Fixed an issue where the player silhouette was not appearing behind mountains.
  
• Fixed an issue where players were able to add multiple weapons to the repair bench causing those items to disappear.
  
• Fixed an issue where some items were not visible when placed on a wall.
  
• Fixed an issue where on a rare occasion Monkeys would disappear when returning from an online session.
  
• Fixed an issue where reward chests were sometimes indestructible.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Steam controller profile where the A button was incorrectly being set as the B button.
  
• More save corruption fixes.
  
• General bug fixes and improvements.
  

Enjoy!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/897450/The_Survivalists/

Survivalists 🐒

A new update has landed on your island with some very exciting updates

Expeditions Experimental Changes:
Player

• Player death locations now have a gravestone on the map.
  

NPCs

• The Beastmaster now sells the lures needed to summon the elite animals.
  
• Every taskmaster now has their own shop! They will sell useful items related to their general theme.
  
• Taskmasters have been polished and their task-chains have been re-ordered and refined.
  
• Legendary weapons are now made available after completing the final task for each taskmaster.
  
• Token shop rewards are now delivered in clusters, giving you more choice when you visit the mysterious stranger and requiring you to travel back less frequently.
  

World

• Vaults now contain puzzles. Your world will need to be regenerated for this to take effect.
  
• Gold Ingot drop rate has been decreased, as it was too easy to acquire.
  
• Tier 1 Crystal stalagmites can now be destroyed with a flimsy pickaxe.
  

Items and Recipes

• Pelts now consistently drop from wolves, big cats and boars. These are a new important resource, which fetch a solid price from
  
• Backpack recipes have been rebalanced to require more pelts.
  
• Pelts are now used to make spears, swords & clubs.
  
• Pelts are also used in the crafting of sails, which will make them slightly easier to craft.
  
• All items are bought and sold individually now, rather than in pre-defined stack sizes.
  
• Elixir and clean water now require a glass bottle of dirty water, instead of separate water / glass bottle items.
  
• Makeshift bowls no longer have durability and now stack instead. Existing makeshift bowls are no longer used in any crafting recipes.
  
• New Item: Gold Sword Handle. This is a component used in the crafting of gold swords and have a steep resource cost.
  
• Balancing pass has been done on all trinkets. Each one should have a distinct use and feel powerful.
  
• Cooking pot tree has been moved to the campfire. The cooking pot now displays the recipes added in the farming update.
  
• Pastry is significantly easier to make as it no longer requires water
  

Weapons and Tools

• Metal & gold requirements for weapons have been significantly increased.
  
• Swords will now return the sword handle item when they break. Gold swords will return the new gold sword handle item.
  
• Swords now have significantly more durability.
  
• Durability of all tools and weapons have been increased.
  
• Sharpened versions of tools & weapons now have more durability than their base versions.
  

Structures

• Teleporters are now significantly easier to make, they now only need glowing rock instead of gems.
  
• Campfires, cooking pots & forges only need to be lit once. The cost of lighting them has been increased. The campfire now needs 3 timber, opposed to 1. While the forge will require 10 charcoal to light it.
  
• Charcoal can now be made on a campfire.
  
• Structures now return their full cost when destroyed, allowing for easy rebuilding.
  
• Both rafts are now slightly faster.
  
• The raft no longer slows down when damaged.
  
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Enemies and Animals

• Orcling caches now drop from the big boss orcs, these contain a key item for crafting the top-tier trinkets.
  
• Live fish can now be dropped onto the ground.
  
• Elite stag can no longer be stunlocked.
  
• Elite enemies now have a new health bar and correctly apply debuffs!
  
• Attack patterns of boars, stags, wolves & turtles have been improved.
  

Get exploring!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/897450/The_Survivalists/