Command Deck news & patch notes

Update v0.5.5 is live now!

Features

• Two new unlockable Conglomerate player ship variants.
• Three new encounters, all involving faulty augments.
• Two new faulty augments and eight new cards (four base, plus upgrades).
• Render Scale is now an option in the settings allowing the 3d graphics resolution to be controlled independently from the UI. Values less than 1.0 will give a higher FPS but reduced quality, values above 1.0 will give higher quality visuals.

Other Updates

• Fixed cards showing the Prioritized status from a previous sector when you are choosing cards to prioritize for the next sector.
• Exhaustive attack now shows the blast count in the tooltip.

• Card tooltips now indicate the effects of the Superposition Modulator and Fundamental Overdrive augments
• Added cards from Magus' campaign to the random drop pool
• Price tweaks on the upgraded versions of a few cards that were priced the same as their base versions
• Card icons for Lock On, Ram Enemy, and Upgrade In Place

• Fixed an interaction between Motion Machine and Recycle where the UI could try to draw a card before its move to the draw pile is complete
• Search & Destroy now correctly registers as an attack for equipment and Superposition Modulator

Update v0.5.0 is available now!

Features

• Unlock Magus, the first in a new ship class that exhausts its cards instead of cycling its deck
• Magus includes 18 new cards (9 base, plus upgrades)
• Stable seeds for combat randomization, currently you'd only notice if you are manipulating the save system

Visual Updates

• Hull cuts and fractures have new atmosphere breach effects
• New engine flameout effects
• Updated physics impulses for exploding ships
• Updated ship damage shader with vertex deformation
• Increased shadow resolution on High and Medium settings
• New exhaust effect for cards

Bug Fixes

• Scrapping an augment now gives the correct 30 metal, previously it was only giving 10 metal
• Meta Refractive Lens now works on Super Chilled Laser

Commanders On Deck Bundle

It’s the crossover that was bound to happen. We’re excited to announce we've teamed up with Hyperspace Deck Command to bring you the Commanders on Deck Bundle! Hyperspace Deck Command has been on our radar for a while, and we’re thrilled to bring this bundle together. Check it out for a very cool, and very different, take on roguelike deckbuilding space combat. This is a “complete the set” bundle, so if you already own one game, you’ll still get the discount on the other game. Thank you for supporting us and the deckbuilder community. 🚀💙

Build v0.4.1 is now live.

• Fixed Motion Machine+ never activating

• Fixed custom ship names not appearing in game start and game end dialogs

• Changed base Motion Machine from 2 to 3 activations per turn

We have released a new content update with version v0.4! Here are the changes.

Features

• Two new unlockable starting decks.

• You can now name your ship and see your ship's name written on the hull.

• New effects for the Pulsar, Graviton Anomaly, and Quantum Flux Anomaly environments.

• New Shipyard and Game Over music.

• Three new cards and two new augments.

• Ship windows can flicker when damage is taken.

• Tweaks to give better views of ship death animations and effects.

Balance Changes

• Disruptor Missile cards now exhaust; can now also upgrade to Disruptor Missile 3.

• Motion Machine is limited to 2 draws per turn; added Motion Machine+ with unlimited draws.

• Removed temporary shield from Prepare to Take Fire card.

• Reworked Accumulator+ to gain 2 levels on retain; added Accumulator 3+.

• Gave Cold Storage+ 1 additional CryoFoam.

• Made Ram Enemy an attack.

Build v0.3.1 is now live.

• Damage rendering performance has been improved. Players should now see improved frame rates with ships that are heavily damaged or have high fire counts.

• Run summaries now show the run start time in local time rather than UTC.

• Fixed typo's in the Durlak Trader and Card Exchange encounters.

We're happy to announce that we have released a new content update with build v0.3.0. Here are the changes.

New Content

• Major improvements to ship death animations and effects.

• 3 new combat environments.

• 5 new encounters.

• 3 new augments.

• Added rare upgraded versions of most augments.

Misc Updates

• Added option to take metal instead of an augment in combat rewards.

• Tweaked wording on taking metal instead of a card in combat rewards.

• Charged Laser Strike card now shows a status.

• Goblin Drones now intercept missiles that would have missed.

Balance Changes

• Increased Continuator+ cap to 5 Heavy Blasts.

• Rebalanced augment pricing.

• Anchorite Inquisitor has more drones and now drops an augment like other elites.

• Small deck tweaks to Pirate Scavenger, Super Vulcan, Conglomerate Regulator, Invictus, Punitor, Peacemaker, and Anchroite Regulator, generally making these fights slightly more dangerous.

• Tweaks on some of the boss fights, generally making them slightly easier:

  • Reduced hull strength of Big Kicker in sector 2

  • Removed 1 Goblin Drone from Phalanx in sector 3

  • Removed evasion card from Hostile Takeover

  • Downgraded some Vulcan+ cards to regular Vulcans on the final boss

Build v0.2.3 is now live. This update fixes a performance related bug where long play sessions would cause big lag spikes happening when spending metal and when defeating enemy ships.

Build v0.2.2 is now live.

• Windows builds are now 64-bit. Hopefully this stops crashes related to video card drivers being unable to allocate memory,

• Refactor card now has a System type,

• Blind Execution card is now a Glitch, and has a label,

• Card label text now has a black outline,

• Stuck cards have updated tooltips,

• Cards generated by the Quantum Flux Drone now have a label,

• The sector clear music now keeps playing if you visit a shop after defeating a command ship,

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed soft lock caused by race condition with goblin drones intercepting missiles,

• Augments button can no longer be clicked an unlimited number of times when using ultra-wide resolutions in combat,

• Sector 4 Conglomerate command ships no longer give 0 metal salvage,

• Minor end game text typo fix

v0.2.1 is now live.

• Runs that end in defeat will now show the remaining health of the enemy ship in the run summary (new runs only)

• Fixed typo on Defensive Cannon Augment

• Fixed spelling error and missing space on Inflammation Enhancer Augment

Balance tweaks:

• Removed the Advanced Tactical Cruiser from Pirate Sector 4 because it over-uses the Anchorite Executioner's "Blind Execution" mechanic

• Anchorite Arbalest and Warden fights will now show up only once per sector (Previously it was possible to face up to 4(!) Arbalest fights in Sector 5)

• Sector 5 Anchorite Punitor and Invictus are now a little stronger

We're very happy to announce that we have released Early Access build v0.2.0. Here are the changes.

New Content

• The Durlak faction has been added to Sector 2 & 3 - demo players will recognise their old friends, though the content has been significantly reworked and improved from the demo

• Pirates can now occur in Sector 1

• 10 new enemies to fight

• 6 new common augments

• One new major augment

• 4 new cards

• One new sky and colour palette - will combine with existing systems to provide many new backgrounds in combat

Misc Updates

• An alert sound now plays on the map when encountering enemy ships in nebulas

• Renamed Reactor Turret to Reactor Cannon

• Added the shield count to the tooltip on Data Driven Shields

Bug fixes

• Regression fix: card windows correctly show colour of enemy cards again

• Fix card tooltips where counts would still be part of the tooltip outside of combat

• Re-enable reflection probes in combat scenes, improving lighting on ships

Balance Updates

• Reduced Phased Defense+ drop rate

• Prepare to Take Fire+ is now 2 temporary and 1 stable shield

• Replaced Defensive Turret equipment cards with Defensive Cannon augment

• Increased Vulcan Scout's hull strength

• Toned down Anchorite Warden fights

• Tweaked Anchorite Executioner stats for sector 2 and sector 3

We've updated the build with another set of reliability fixes:

• Prevent bugs related to double-clicks on map nodes,

• Fix rare soft-lock in Beekeeper fight,

• Drones now wait to finish any pending attacks before dying,

• Improved logging, which will hopefully make our lives easier in the future,

• Added a number of speculative fixes to prevent zombie Peregrine bugs where the player gets negative health and cannot die

• Autosaves now use binary serialization instead of json; hopefully helps with auto-save lag later in game
• Use "Choose" instead of "Take" on dialog options
• Fixed card animation behaviour when quitting upgrade dialog early
• Tarnished Virtue is marked as high danger
• Map tooltips now note Nebula vs Deep Nebula
• Fixed layout bug causing popping on card rewards in elite fights
• Number keys play cards from left to right, still don't have full keyboard input support though
• Cards shouldn't overlap buttons in card windows now
• Card windows show card counts
• Most UI buttons should no longer be prone to double click bugs
• various card tooltip tweaks

• Fixed run history on Mac
• Fixed an issue with station commander dialog text being cut short
• Fixed an issue with the build number text displaying incorrectly on the title screen

Command Deck is now available in Early Access!

We’d like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who has supported us! We are very proud of the work we’ve done, and we couldn’t have done it without all the suggestions and amazing feedback we’ve gotten.

If you need game support, we are here! Please let us know if you run into any issues. You can also join our Discord to share feedback, bugs, or just chat about the game.

We still have a lot of work to do and look forward to making this game even more awesome as we work towards our 1.0 launch.

We would greatly appreciate it if you could share the game with your favourite streamers and YouTubers to help spread the word! We hope you enjoy the game! 🚀

We’re very excited to announce that Command Deck will enter Early Access on September 24, 2025!

Development of Command Deck has been a long journey and we’re thrilled to reach this milestone. The enthusiasm and feedback from everyone who’s played the demo has been fantastic, and we’re really looking forward to having the community engage with the full game in Early Access.

We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has played our demo and offered us feedback.

We hope you'll enjoy the new content this release has to offer.  Pick up Command Deck on September 24th to join us  as we work through a long list of features, polish, and content still to come.

Steam Next Fest is here, and Command Deck is participating! Our demo is live, and now would be a great time for you to check it out!

Want to help us out? Here are a few things you can do:

• Play (or replay!) the demo

• Leave a review on the Steam page

• Share Command Deck with your friends

A big thank you to everyone that has been playtesting, making suggestions, reporting bugs, and helping us improve the demo!

We really appreciate your support!