Secret Government - Next Steps

Greetings Brethren,

As you are probably aware, Secret Government left Early Access on April 15th. Many of you supported our studio by purchasing the game and offering constructive criticism, for which we are grateful.

However, the game’s journey is only just beginning.

Secret Government is an extremely ambitious project. If you’ve played the game even for 30mins, you know that every action can have thousands of ramifications — the complexity of the mechanics is massive.

When a game has this level of complexity, it’s practically impossible to look through all possible cases and iron out all of the details through internal testing. Even with hundreds of thousands of game hours, we still wouldn’t be able to straighten out every kink and catch every bug. We tried to overcome this hurdle through the Early Access program, and it helped greatly. Thanks to your feedback, we made a huge amount of fixes and tweaks. But despite our very best efforts, despite the extensive testing, there were things we missed - things we could never catch, due to the sheer scope of the game.

And that’s at the core of the game’s main criticism.

Our goal here is to be as transparent as possible, and explain to you what we intend to do to solve these issues.

Going forward, we’ll be addressing all of the new bug reports that are coming in. If you encounter an issue, please follow the instructions in this post.

Right now we are gathering all feedback and issues you have met, and preparing a patch that we’re planning to release in a few days. We hope that with this update, your satisfaction with the game will increase. Once the issues with game stability have been addressed, and it will be easier to understand and enjoy, we’ll continue to expand it, making the tutorial more comprehensive, adding new campaigns, and drilling even deeper into the mechanics to give you unparalleled control of your brotherhood and every aspect of the world in which it operates. This has always been our goal.

Secret Government is a passion project for us, and we want to share with you the game that we’ve been developing for the past four years.

We hope you’ll be willing to continue supporting Secret Government as we keep working tirelessly to bring you a game that you’ll enjoy for many years to come.