Dungeon Keeper-like game War for the Overworld got a surprise ten year anniversary update

War for the Overworld from Brightrock Games just recently hit the 10 year anniversary, and so to celebrate the developers released a brand new update to their classic Dungeon Keeper-like. Technically older than that with Early Access, but they're counting since the 1.0 release.

Nice to see developers go back to their older games to give them a fresh life don't you think? War for the Overworld has Native Linux support and is rated Steam Deck Playable!

This update brings with it a visual overhaul to a number of areas of the game, performance improvements and bug fixes along with a new free worker skin. They included a couple of comparison shots to show just some of the tweaks (click pics to enlarge them):

The full update notes:

Features

• The Wizened Worker, a new worker skin is available for free in non-campaign modes and features unique animations, VO and a high-detail mesh and texture.
• The once exclusive Yogscast, Golden and Silver workers are now able to be earned via achievements if you own any of the Cynical Imp charity bundles

Visuals

• Several rooms have received an art update, enabling shadow casting and revised lighting:
  • Foundry
  • Empire Foundry
  • Alchemy Lab
  • Empire Alchemy Lab
  • Crypt
• Several room props are now classified as important for shadow casting, and will now render on shadow settings important or higher:
  • Archive Workbenches
  • Beast Den Portal
  • Crypt Pyres
  • Alchemy Lab Cauldrons
  • Foundry Anvils
• The Following Units have received shader and material updates:
  • Skarg
• Increased the default brightness from 30 to 35
• Decreased the effects of cosmetic darkening game-wide slightly for readability improvements
• The Evil Hand now illuminates a greater radius
• Improved Worker Run animations

Performance

• Decreased the Medium shadow distance value
• Significantly decreased the rendering overhead of the following objects:
  • Natural Lava Tiles
  • Gold Piles (Vault & Dropped)
  • Founder’s Theme Walls, Floors, Ownership Indicators, Connectors
• Optimised rendering of the Sovereign theme slightly, especially when shadows are enabled
• Slightly reduced the performance cost of Shadows being enabled

Miscellaneous

• Added an option which allows the player to select non-recommended shadow settings, this is disabled by default. If you were previously using non-recommended shadow settings then your shadow settings will be disabled by default.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue in Level 2 of the Heart of Gold campaign where the artefacts would become invisible after loading a save
• Fixed Empire Theme lights being so intensely bright they’ll burn the eyes out of anyone who wanders in the dungeon

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