Secret Government News

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.

Greetings Brethren!

We have just published a small update for Secret Government that fixes Russian texts that have occasionally managed to leak into other languages.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our fans, who helped us during Early Access by reporting all the issues and problems they have came across, which helped us immensely with fixing said issues. Please keep reporting any bugs or issues you come across via the in-game reporting function (accessible via CTRL+F11) as we want to provide all of our players with the best possible experience.

[h2]Localization[/h2]

• Few texts in Russian that were shown in other translations were fixed
  

Greetings Brethren! The time has finally come - stars have finally aligned as was foretold and our brotherhood is ready to step out of the shadows! Secret Government is leaving Early Access today with a new update. To celebrate this occasion, Secret Government will be available with 10% discount during the first week of the launch! So waste no more time and go ahead and grab the game right now - world is waiting for your guidance!

We'll also be streaming some Secret Government gameplay. Join us and watch our Brotherhood take over the world. Additionally, we'll also be having a giveaway where viewers can win Steam game keys from 1C Publishing's portfolio.

To join the giveaway, fill in your details in the form below:
Giveaway Form - Win Steam game keys

Note that the form will only be active during the livestream, so don't miss this chance to win some cool strategy games from 1C Publishing!

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has helped us with their feedback during the Early Access period! Your reports have been more than useful in shaping and fixing our game!



https://store.steampowered.com/app/946990/Secret_Government/



[h2]Major changes[/h2]

• The economic system has been completely redesigned: industries, trade, consumption
  
• Reworked the system of estates: the presence of all estates in the region has become optional
  
• Reworked the system of ideologies: now ideologies affect the economy and politics
  
• Reworked the system of laws: including the interface for changing them
  
• Lots of animated illustrations added
  
• Multiple interface changes
  
• Multiple changes in AI countries and Dark Brotherhood
  
• Improved rendering of the map and borders, in particular, added 3D objects to the map
  

[h2]Changes in mechanics[/h2]

• The mechanics of infiltration have been changed
  
• Recruitment mechanic reworked
  
• Reworked the system of the Government
  
• Introducing a system of global and local resources
  
• Changing and expanding the system of agents’ traits
  
• The mechanism of automated errands has been introduced
  
• Trading algorithms changed
  
• Changed construction algorithms and industries again
  
• Changed the system of needs for estates
  
• Changed the system of dependence of the viability of the region on the estates
  
• Migration system changed
  
• Changed the social mobility system
  
• Mobilization system changed
  
• Public order system changed
  
• Introduced a system of regional statuses
  
• Added tribal classes: Chiefs, Shamans, Warriors, Gatherers, Hunters
  
• Changed the system of ideologies
  
• Introduced the influence of ideologies on the composition of the estates
  
• Changed the system of forms of government
  
• Introduced the influence of ideologies on the forms of government
  
• Changed value system
  
• Political forces introduced
  
• Changed the system of internal politics and power struggles
  
• Changed the support system for political forces
  
• Transition of power through anarchy introduced
  
• AI of political forces changed
  
• Reworked the system of laws
  
• Algorithm of warfare has been changed
  
• Changed the mechanics of the development of institutions
  
• Reworked the influence of the level of development of institutions on the parameters of the country
  
• Changed the mechanics of assassination attempts
  
• Changed the mechanics of riots, protests, uprisings
  
• Added new free play modes
  
• Achievements introduced
  

[h2]Interface changes[/h2]

• Added Government window
  
• Changed the display of parameters of brothers
  
• Reworked economy window
  
• Reworked the laws window
  
• The possibility of issuing orders from the window of laws or economics has been introduced
  
• Introduced a system of cascading disclosure of tooltips
  
• Country situation advice system introduced
  
• Added display of country institutional statuses
  
• Added and revised many tooltips
  
• Added sounds of the environment and interface
  
• New errands window
  

[h2]Artwork[/h2]

• Numerous new artworks in the Economy window for estates, industries.
  
• New icons.
  

Brethren!

Tomorrow at 19:00 CET, Secret Government will officially be coming out of Early Access.

As already mentioned in a previous announcement, we’ll also be having a special livestream with a giveaway, where viewers will be randomly selected to win a collection of game keys from 1C Publishing’s portfolio.

The Livestream will also kick off at 19:00 CET. Details on how to participate in the giveaway will be shared in the livestream itself, so make sure you show up on time!

[h2]Important News about Linux Version[/h2]

Despite our best efforts, the Linux version is still not on a level where we consider it ready for final release.

If you’re on the Linux version and wish to continue playing post-launch, a new branch called "Early access" will become available for you. You will need to change the branch in your Steam account (see screenshots below). This will allow you to continue on the same Early Access build that you are using right now.





Once the full game build is ready, you will be able to switch back to the default branch and play the game.

The full Linux Build is expected to be ready for publishing at the end of April.

We thank you for your patience and understanding.

Brethren, the hour is at hand! Secret Government will be coming out of Early Access this Thursday, April 15th.

Join us in a special livestream where you can watch us play the game, and win game keys from 1C Publishing in our live giveaway (open exclusively to livestream viewers).

Watch our social media and Steam page for more details about the official game launch time and livestream.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/946990/Secret_Government/