Thea: The Awakening news & patch notes

We’ve been working hard to bring Thea’s immersive world to even more players, and we’re excited to announce that Thea: The Awakening now supports Chinese, Japanese, and Korean! Enjoy the deep lore and strategy of Thea in your native language, and dive into the game.

And if you love the world of Thea, don’t miss Project Thea, available now in Early Access and freshly updated with our first major content update. Explore the next chapter of our universe with new features, challenges, and dark, Slavic-inspired storytelling.

And so it begins...

The world has ended - again. But you, Alloy? You are the one rebuilding it.

We are excited to announce that Project Thea is now available in Early Access. Step into a dark, Slavic-inspired post-apocalypse where fate, folklore, and forgotten magichines collide. As the Alloy, you will rebuild the last surviving colony, explore the Wasteland, gather resources, and face enemies using deep, tactical card-based combat.

What awaits you in Early Access right now

The current build features hours of gameplay and a complete playable loop. You can:

• Explore a retro-futuristic world scarred by the Fall

• Craft tools, cook meals, and manage your supplies

• Rebuild your city and unlock new buildings and research

• Meet companions with their own stories and skills

• Make choices that steer branching narratives

• Fight foes using tactical decks, skills, and quick decision-making

There is already plenty to do, experiment with, and survive through.

What is still coming

While the game is fully playable and filled with content, some features are still in development or planned for expansion. Early Access is the beginning of the journey, not the end.

Join us in shaping Project Thea

This world is harsh, strange, and often cruel - but it is also yours to remake. We invite you to dive in, explore, experiment, and tell us what works and what needs improvement. Early Access is a collaboration, and we look forward to building this game together with you.

Thank you for joining us at the start of this journey.

See you in the Wasteland.

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Our friend at Vagrus have some real treats in store, and we'd like to offer our full support, because we think you will love it too!

Vagrus: The Riven Realms is an award-winning, turn-based, open-world dark fantasy strategy-RPG set in a deeply immersive world shaped by over two decades of tabletop roleplaying. Developed by Lost Pilgrims, a team who built their own setting – the Riven Realms – through countless DnD-style campaigns, the game features over 2.5 million words of story-driven, lore-heavy, richly-branching narrative that captures the spirit of classic tabletop adventures. In the game, the player takes the role of a vagrus - a sort of a caravan leader who makes a living in a strange and dangerous dark fantasy world by leading a traveling company on all kinds of ventures.

Lost Pilgrims have just posted a huge announcement on their Steam development blog about releasing their second expansion of Vagrus – At the Heart of Ruin along with a Ruinous Supporter Pack – on Steam and various console platforms. This expansion offers a tight but multi-layered and dense region fraught with conflict and rich with opportunities. Vagri who decide to brave the forsaken paths of this broken realm will be challenged not only by new foes and villains, but also by the very nature one must traverse the mountainous terrain.

New Content and Features

• A fresh, dangerous region unfettered from Imperial dominance and brimming with peril

• A dark narrative adventure with several overarching stories as well as shorter adventures

• Deep quests with multiple outcomes and a plethora of personalities

• Many new opportunities and challenges for traders, mercenaries, and explorers

• A host of new enemies, be they crazed scavengers or creatures cursed beyond recognition

• A large cast of NPCs, some new and some old, who can be a part of your story

• New minor factions the likes of which few vagri have ever had the chance to befriend or fight against

• New obstacles, rewards, lore, and more of our signature visual art

Camping Redesign

• End Turn is now separate from Camping, allowing you to end the turn without performing any other actions.

• Camping actions now require assigning party members to specific tasks — rest, cook, scavenge, repair, and more.

• Scavenging added: you can now assign units to gather materials anywhere on a cleared hex. (Resources appear after clearing a POI — i.e. after all its floors are complete.)

• Crafting Card Booster Packs added: craft a booster pack and choose 1 of 3 cards to add to your deck.

• Healing updated: each End Turn now heals d3 Wounds (if you have Supplies). Camping can improve healing for the most wounded unit, with no risk of regression as before.

• Equipment Screen redesigned for faster, cleaner access.

• Group View now displays which cards belong to which NPCs — so you’ll know what you lose if someone doesn’t make it home.

• Many new crafting items added, along with material rarity tiers.

• Meals now have their own screen, clearly showing bonuses and effects.

⚠️ Note: Because the Research/Tech Tree is not yet implemented, all item rarities are currently available from the start — this will change once the system is in place.

City Upgrades

• 3MD Printforge is now part of the Core Development Room.

• Tower of Commerce offers rotating trade items that change with each season and expand with higher tech levels.

• Research Lab added (non-functional for now).

• Council System streamlined: the PC Main and their Alloy Twin now preside at the head of the Council, with three Advisors drawn from the population.

• Council Skills are calculated like group skills for event checks.

• Each Councillor’s Domain determines their bonus type.

Map & Exploration

• Enemy list accessible at the bottom-left of the UI.

• Remote Access to the Project unlocks after your first visit.

• Scavengeable resources appear on cleared POIs.

• Hide Markers button now works — perfect for those cinematic screenshots.

Battle

• Run Away / Pause Menu option implemented — live to fight another day.

• Enemy cards are briefly displayed during combat; hovering over them extends viewing time.

• The Main/Expert Hand and Side Hand are now visually distinct — the side hand (MAX 3 cards, drawn each turn) includes Minions.

Skill Challenges

• Option to pay Supplies to increase success chance removed.

• Option to pay Supplies for a re-roll added.

Morale

• New events trigger when party members grow deeply unhappy — some may decide to leave.

• Added info pop-ups when morale changes due to personality traits (Believer, Progressive, Idealist, Pragmatic).

• Additional morale systems still WIP.

Other Updates

• You can now dismiss party members while out in the Wastelands.

• HUD warnings improved for clarity and readability.

Keep your scanners ready, survivors! A brand-new Project Thea trailer drops during Steam Next Fest on 13th October, where we’ll finally reveal the Early Access release date!

Yes, the time has come, the Project Thea Demo version will be out, live on august 20th!

What to expect from the demo?

You’ll get 25 turns of awesome exploration across the post-apocalyptic Wastelands of Thea. Head out with your party to scout locations, gather vital resources, and hunt down roaming enemies — all in the struggle to help your fledgling settlement survive that terrifying first night.

Don’t forget to gear up! Manage the party inventory, craft equipment, and cook food to keep your crew strong and ready for whatever lurks out there. Each map hides stories of survivors — some you might ally with, others you might just… remove.

Most importantly, bring back those precious Energy Shards. They’re the key to powering up the Project, your home base, letting you build, improve, and secure the future of sentient-kind. Survival is just the start — what you do next is what really matters.

This is just a taste of what’s to come in the full game. If you enjoy your time in the Wastelands, don’t forget to wishlist Project Thea and be ready when the full release arrives.

Thea 2: The Shattering is getting another DLC!

For those of you considering venturing deeper into the Thea verse, we have some good news for the sequel:

• a new human class based on the Destiny stat, as you've told us the stat seems unloved and there's never enough new human options, right?
• a new and cool class for dwarven women - time for the men to let the world see why they keep their awesome women secret :wink:
• several new quest lines and events
• rats have a new quest too, because there never are enough rat-centered stories in Thea...
• some new pets, perhaps even a new race
• tweaks and fixes in existing events

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Nintento Switch crossplay

Hi everyone. Today marks a newest chapter in the expansion of Thea universe. Thea: The Awakening becomes available on Nintendo Switch and you will be able to play on February 1st.

Hey everyone, Happy Halloween, hope you're having some spooky adventures in Thea! For those of you who do not know yet, Thea 2: The Shattering is coming out on Steam Early Access on November 30th!

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As we prep for the final stages of campaign and also get ready for our EGX Birmingham appearance, we're going to share lots of Thea 2 news over the next six weeks. This will include talking in more detail about the mechanics of our new card game as well as many other exciting features we're currently developing. So stay tuned!

As we prep for the final stages of campaign and also get ready for our EGX Birmingham appearance, we're going to share lots of Thea 2 news over the next six weeks. This will include talking in more detail about the mechanics of our new card game as well as many other exciting features we're currently developing. So stay tuned!