The Needle

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The Needle is a SciFi RPG roguelike game like nothing you've ever seen. In the tradition of FTL, Crying Suns, and others, it's a deep and immersive space combat sim, with the presentation of a movie....... That you can talk to. Fight your way to the alien homeworld, by speaking aloud.

Developer: Save Point LLC
Released: Coming Feb 2027
Price: Paid
Platforms

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Public builds

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Counted once we have watched for 90 days (since 21 Oct 2026)

Last 90 days · as of 03:59 UTC

How this is measured

Distinct builds deployed to a game's public (default) Steam branch, as Steam's client network describes them.

Checked within minutes of each Steam change. Observed since 21 Oct 2026.

We see a game's builds only from the day we started watching it. Before that we know just the build it was on, so counts over a window are shown only for games watched for the whole window.
A build is not necessarily a content update: developers also ship fixes, and some builds change only files players never see.

Source: Steam client network (PICS), App info, public branch. Full methodology

Latest public build

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Update posts

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Posts announcing an update, tagged or not

Last 365 days

How this is measured

Posts in a game's official Steam news feed that announce an update: tagged as patch notes by the developer, or plainly about a patch or a released update.

An announcement is not a build. Developers can ship updates without a post, or post about several updates at once.
Untagged posts are recognised from their words, so a few updates are missed and a few other posts may be counted. Tagged posts are marked Patch notes on the Updates tab; recognised ones are marked Update.
Older posts are being read back through each game's history, most played games first, so months before October 2026 fill in over the coming days.

Source: Steam Web API, ISteamNews/GetNewsForApp. Full methodology

Typical gap between builds

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Public Builds

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From Steam’s client network, last checked 03:59 UTC. Builds before 21 Oct 2026, when we started watching, aren't listed. Patch notes are the developer’s update post from an hour before to a day after the build. Not every build gets one. How we count

Earlier Updates

No update posts from before 21 Oct 2026 found yet.

Steam keeps no record of past build numbers, so before 21 Oct 2026 a game’s update history comes from its own Steam news: posts tagged as patch notes, and untagged posts that plainly announce a patch or a released update. Older posts are still being read in, most played games first. How we count

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