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Devblog #51: Onward to Multicellular It's finally time for the first major update of the Multicellular Stage development process! We have a new cell specialisation feature allowing you to really take advantage of the multiple cell types ...

Thrive 1.0.1 is out now! It's the first release on our Multicellular journey. www.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/devblog-51-o...

Progress Update 2/28/2026 As said last week, we delayed 1.0.1 to try to fit in a few more things, in which we succeeded. So today we are in feature freeze, and we have a release candidate build for all those interested to test...

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Progress Update 2/14/2026 This week, the game code caught up to the Multicellular Stage officially not being a prototype anymore. Trying to enter it no longer warns you about it being a prototype, and instead you get that warn...

Thrive Progress Update 2/14/2026
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Progress Update 2/07/2026 This was a busy week behind the scenes, but once again not as many patch notes on the list. A lot of work went into performance improvements for the compound cloud system, which had become slower afte...

Thrive Progress Update 2/07/2026
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Progress Update 1/31/2026 A somewhat quieter week this time, as more technical work is taking place. The game was updated to Godot 4.6, as fortunately this version this did not cause unacceptable problems (4.5.1 was skipped). ...

Thrive Progress Update 1/31/2026
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Progress Update 1/24/2026 Quite a few changes went into the game this week, as can be seen from the substantial list of patch notes. Some of those are still holdovers from the holiday, but the extra good news is that this list...

Thrive Progress Update 1/24/2026
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Thrive Loading Screen Artwork contest Hello everyone. As you may have heard by now I am working on a project to add some new loading screen images to Thrive. While I don’t expect these to be the only loading screen images added during d...

Thrive has a new art competition! View our community post for details:
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Progress Update 1/17/2026 Welcome everyone, to an uncommonly varied Progress Update. We've got everything from Multicellular fixes and design discussion to a community art contest and a very exciting video project from our com...

Thrive Progress Update 1/17/2026
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Progress Update 1/10/2026 Welcome everyone to the first non-holiday Progress Update of the year! Our lead Programmer returned from vacation during the week, which means development will be heating up again. Having said that, a...

Thrive Progress Update 1/10/26
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Progress Update 1/03/2026 Welcome everyone to the first Progress Update of 2026! Speaking of which, Thrive is currently still on the Steam winter sale . Our lead programmer has not yet returned from vacation, so just like last...

Thrive Progress Update 1/3/2026
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Progress Update 12/27/2025 We hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season! Speaking of which, Thrive is currently still on sale . With our main programmer on vacation, there have been no large programming tasks completed...

Thrive Progress Update 12/27/25
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Progress Update 12/20/2025 In case anyone missed it, this week we released Thrive 1.0 ! The Microbe Stage is now feature complete, and development has shifted to the Multicellular Stage. The release this time happened on Wednes...

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Devblog #50: Microbe Stage Complete! Welcome all to this very special devblog celebrating the release of Thrive version 1.0! This release marks the completion of the Microbe Stage, the first stage of the 9 planned. The Microbe stage will...

The Microbe Stage is now complete! www.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/devblog-50-m...

Thrivestream for 1.0.0 Release YouTube video by Revolutionary Games

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Progress Update 12/13/2025 Today is our last Progress Update before the release of Thrive 1.0 on the 17th of December, and with it the functional completion of the Microbe Stage. Of course, there will still be updates on the Mi...

Thrive Progress Update 12/13/25
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Spore's History and Legacy with Spore Developer Chaim Gingold YouTube video by Revolutionary Games

We did an interview with Spore developer Chaim Gingold #spore #GameDev
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Progress Update 12/06/2025 The biggest news this week is Thrive version 0.9.2 ! We're hopeful that this version is a lot more stable on release than 0.9.1 was, but we still did not have a beta period, unlike our typical updates...

New Thrive release this week, 0.9.2 is out now! Read the details here: www.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/progress-upd...

Progress Update 11/29/2025 Last week we released 0.9.1! It was… somewhat less stable than we had hoped. In particular, the new cell division effect had a physics problem that caused frequent crashes. The first part of this week...

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Progress Update 11/22/2025 The big news for today is the release of Thrive 9.1! This is the first of our smaller updates leading up to the big 1.0. Highlights include a new array of patch events, a newly overhauled MP calculati...

Thrive Progress Update 11/22/25
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Progress Update 11/15/2025 Over on the Development Forums there were discussions on the Macroscopic Editor Concept, Land biomes for later stages and the identifications of a few future situations in Thrive that still need sound...

Thrive Progress Update 11/15/2025
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Progress Update 11/08/2025 Just last week we released Thrive version 0.9 including our new terrain system, and a significant amount of work this week went into post-patch support. Patch version 0.9.0.1 was published this Tuesda...

Thrive Progress Update 11/8/2025
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Devblog #49: Microbe Terrain Welcome all to Thrive 0.9.0! Characterized by improvements to visuals, the environment, and gameplay polish, Thrive has begun its rapid race towards the completion of the Microbe Stage with some signi...

Thrive 0.9.0 is out now! Jump in or read all the details here: www.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/devblog-49-m...

Thrivestream for 0.9.0 Release YouTube video by Revolutionary Games

There'll be a new Thrivestream on the 0.9.0 release day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeDf...

Progress Update 10/25/2025 Ladies and gentlemen, a release candidate is available for your enjoyment today - well, atleast if you don't mind not being to save while in the editor! Link to the build thread: https://community.re...

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Progress Update 10/18/2025 Visible progress has been quite slow this week as our lead programmer is continuing to focus on reworking the saving system, which is something we need to do before moving onto further stages as it is...

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Progress Update 10/11/2025 Further work on background systems, such as fixing saving, is paired with progress on numerous exciting features this week. Most notably, progress on terrain, some graphics effects, and work on auto-e...

Thrive Progress Update 10/11/2025
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Progress Update 9/27/2025 Progress this week is once again less on the visible side, but nonetheless critical for future development! Thrive was converted to Godot 4.5, in a process that took slightly more time than expected. ...

There's a new Thrive Launcher version this week along with other progress www.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/progress-upd...

Progress Update 9/20/2025 Some important progress has been made, though this week's dev build isn't as feature-rich as prior weeks. Perhaps most immediately noticeable to gameplay - species you target for endosymbiosis are now...

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Progress Update 9/13/2025 A solid week for the development team has passed! First, some progress on performance improvements, including a tweak to the cache system which should hopefully minimize the stuttering issues which wo...

Thrive Progress Update 9/13/25
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Progress Update 09/06/2025 Our MP calculation system is now much more polished! This will particularly show when it comes to our tolerance sliders. Some sizable volunteer contributions can also be seen on our GitHub, with numer...

Thrive Progress Update 09/06/2025
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