Rise to Ruins, a village builder that mixes in some god sim fun just went through a bit of an evolution with the latest patch, which really is absolutely massive. In terms of file-size the patch was relatively small, but good things come in small packages!

The "World Update" released a few days ago adds in many new game mechanics and tweaks some older mechanics in big ways. For starters, it has introduced a god perk system. Every 5 days that you spend in a region, you will be given a reward chest with a random perk. You open them by obtaining "god experience" which you earn through normal play. These perks are persistent unlocks across your profile too!

There's also goals to work towards, unlocking a goal will reward you with god experience and completing the goal will unlock a perk as well. In addition, you can now actually finish the game by surviving one year in every single region.

If that's not enough for you, there's a new migration system which allows you to send people from one village to another. You now only get free villagers and resources on your first region, making expansion more interesting and dependant on how well you do in your starting point.

Also included are tons of AI improvements, a save rollback system for corrupted save games, a borderless fullscreen mode, the mouse is now a hardware cursor, loads of balance changes and bug fixes.

Find it on itch.io and Steam. It's 50% off on both and it's ridiculously worth it. One of my favourite indie games, one I happily follow and play regularly. Note: It's currently in Early Access.