The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.

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Counted once we have watched for 90 days (since 21 Oct 2026)
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.
Source: Steam client network (PICS), App info, public branch. Full methodology
Latest public build
Build 26286262
Update posts
15 postsPosts announcing an update, tagged or not
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.
Source: Steam Web API, ISteamNews/GetNewsForApp. Full methodology
Typical gap between builds
4 daysMiddle gap across the last 4 builds we saw
| Build | Went live | Patch notes |
|---|---|---|
| 26286262 | 5.850 Coiled Efficiency | |
| 26189084 | None posted | |
| 26148266 | None posted | |
| 26013983 | None posted |
From Steam’s client network, last checked . 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
| Posted | Update |
|---|---|
| 17 Oct 2026 | 5.846 Coilbeams And Civilian Industries Update |
| 14 Oct 2026 | 5.843 Hacking And Topology Update |
| 26 Jun 2026 | 5.824 Teardown Hygiene Patch notes |
| 22 Jun 2026 | 5.821 Engineering 501 Update |
| 20 Jun 2026 | 5.820 Multiplayer Intel Update |
| 18 Jun 2026 |
| 5.819 Adaptive Frame Pacing Update |
| 16 Jun 2026 | 5.818 Distant Signals Update |
| 14 Jun 2026 | 5.817 Docking Logic Update |
| 13 Jun 2026 | 5.816 Sync And Time Update |
| 8 Jun 2026 | 5.815 Forge Of Empires Hotfix 2 Patch notes |
| 8 Jun 2026 | 5.814 Forge Of Empires Hotfix Patch notes |
| 6 Jun 2026 | 5.813 Forge Of Empires Updates Update |
| 25 May 2026 | 5.809 DZ Performance Update |
| 31 Jan 2026 | 5.727 Tiberium Fix Patch notes |
| 19 Jul 2025 | 5.709 More Updates To Forge of Empires Update |
| 21 Dec 2024 | Sidekicks Mod Updates Update |
| 2 Nov 2024 | 5.612 More Sidekicks Mod Updates Update |
| 19 Oct 2024 | 5.611 Sidekicks Mod Updates Update |
| 15 Sept 2024 | Minor Mod updates Patch notes |
| 22 Jun 2024 | 5.604 Lunar Invasions Patch notes |
| 25 May 2024 | 5.601 More Sidekick Patch notes |
| 20 May 2024 | 5.600 Hotfix Patch notes |
| 27 Apr 2024 | 5.598 Sidekicks And Elderlings Patch notes |
| 20 Apr 2024 | 5.597 Sidekick Bits Patch notes |
| 13 Apr 2024 | 5.596 Deflicker Patch notes |
| 6 Apr 2024 | 5.595 Deprotect Patch notes |
| 23 Mar 2024 | 5.593 Devourest Patch notes |
| 16 Mar 2024 | 5.591 Exception Tidying Patch notes |
| 9 Mar 2024 | 5.590 Informative Quickstarts Patch notes |
| 24 Feb 2024 | 5.588 Zenith Consistency Patch notes |
| 20 Feb 2024 | 5.587 Deguardianing Patch notes |
| 18 Feb 2024 | 5.586 More Polish Patch notes |
| 10 Feb 2024 | 5.585 Sidekick Updates Patch notes |
| 3 Feb 2024 | 5.583 MP Hardening Patch notes |
| 31 Dec 2023 | Minor patch to address an issue with M3 macs. Patch notes |
| 21 Dec 2023 | 5.581 Mod Updates Patch notes |
| 7 Dec 2023 | Hotfix 3 Patch notes |
| 6 Dec 2023 | Hotfix 2 Patch notes |
| 5 Dec 2023 | Hotfix Patch notes |
| 12 Nov 2023 | Hotfix 2 Patch notes |
| 11 Nov 2023 | Hotfix Patch notes |
| 3 Oct 2023 | 5.569 Standards and Practices Patch notes |
| 30 Sept 2023 | 5.568 AMU Recovery Patch notes |
| 23 Sept 2023 | 5.567 Scourge Civil War Patch notes |
| 10 Sept 2023 | 5.566 You Saw Nothing Patch notes |
| 1 Sept 2023 | 5.564 MMAP No! Patch notes |
| 26 Aug 2023 | 5.563 Tweaks Patch notes |
| 21 Aug 2023 | 5.562 Woah There Buddy Patch notes |
| 1 Aug 2023 | 5.560 Let The Ambushes Resume (Until Morale Improves?) Patch notes |
| 27 Jul 2023 | 5.559 Deringing Patch notes |
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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