June 17 2026 — • 82.170626 release. • Updated Unity to Unity 6.3 (6000.3.17f1). • On iOS, iPadOS, and Android there's a new gesture-based system available when TTS is turned on — swipe up, down, left, and right to move the focus the same way that keyboard and controllers work, tap once to "click" and tap with two fingers to go back. This provides playable gesture support for those on mobile devices who use TTS, and if TTS is turned off then the gesture system isn't enabled. You do need to disable VoiceOver or equivalent, unfortunately, to use it as Unity doesn't pass these gestures on to the mobile OS, but it should make the game functional for those gamers with vision considerations and brings the game on-par with desktop platforms in terms of accessibility. • The above should not affect gamers on desktop platforms or affect keyboard and controller functionality, but I did have to decouple some things so there's a chance that bugs have slipped in. Get in touch if you encounter any problems.

April 03 2026 — • 81.030426 release. • Alcyone's first birthday! In honour of it, a free content update on all platforms has added a brand-new Encounter for players to experience. Enjoy "Heated Rivalry" — an unauthorised, underground sporting competition has been gaining popularity amongst the City, but not everyone is happy to see their hobby finding mainstream attention; when a major bout between House Sedillo and House Lovini receives violent threats, it's up to the rebirth to figure out who's responsible before it's too late. • "Heated Rivalry" adds two romance options, over twenty-thousand additional words of content (bringing the game's total wordcount to over a quarter of a million words!), five new music tracks, additional art, and three new Steam achievements. It's accessible from the Antisocial Crimes Bureau after completing the main storyline for Chapter Three (once the Chapter Menu becomes available). • Updated Unity to Unity 6.3 (6000.3.11f1). • This migrates the underlying graphical pipeline to the new Render Graph system, bringing performance improvements to all platforms. • The Story and Status Trays now no longer disable post-processing when they are visible and the underlying map is blurred (if both blur and post-processing are enabled). • Improved visual fidelity of the Story and Status Trays if blur is disabled. • Fixed a bug with the saves menu where the overwrite confirmation would still remain on screen if you tried to save in another slot instead. • Fixed the Encounter "Life Echoes" not resetting the Antisocial Crimes Bureau Hub once you've completed it. • A few fixes to some writing and art assets in the OG game. • Made the "delete everything" button from the console in the Options menu a bit more scary-looking. • Added a "reset map" button for returning players to access the anniversary content — load a save file, go to Options Menu > Console then click the Reset Map button (make sure you don't have the Antisocial Crimes Bureau Hub already open).

February 08 2026 — • 80.020826 release. • Updated Unity to Unity 6.2 (6000.2.15f2). • Fixed an edge case where the game could get stuck with the camera rotating around the Citadel in the middle of Interstitial Three (just after completing Chapter Four). • DRM-free macOS builds from itch.io are now properly code-signed and notarised so they should launch without issue.

• 79.041025 release. • Updated Unity to Unity 6.2 (6000.2.6f2). • Fixed TTS not reading that a save game was corrupted if a save game was corrupted.

• 78.070925 release. • Updated Unity to Unity 6.2 (6000.2.2f1) — this should fix the previous issue with the player crashing to desktop after the splash screen but if there are issues (specifically on Windows, or Windows on ARM) please get in touch. • Added an option under the Graphics settings to disable the in-game cursor in favour of the OS system cursor if preferred. • When TTS is enabled, the text being spoken will be automatically sent to the clipboard on desktop platforms. • Fixed a bug with the Status Tray's Maladies icons that were generating placeholder TTS strings by mistake. • Rebuilt the Save/Load menu to add an overwrite option over existing saves. • Saving a game now automatically closes the Save/Load menu.

• 77.250625 release. • Reverted Unity version back to the LTS 6 branch (6000.0.51f1) due to issues with the player failing to run on many Windows systems. Please report any crash-to-desktop issues at launch if you're still encountering them!

• 76.280525 release. • Updated Unity version to Unity 6.1 (6000.1.4f1). • Fixed a couple of icons with layer artefacts. • Fixed a progression bug in "Negotiation Framework" which would prevent the game from continuing near the start of the Encounter.

• Updated Unity version to 6000.0.47f1. • Fixed an issue where moving the keyboard/controller "picker" over a Choice requirement would not visibly show the mouseover tooltip associated with those requirements. • Fixed an issue in Insubstantial Actuality that could prevent progress through an edge case of specific past choices.

• Fixed an issue where the last-seen conversation associated with a Hub was not being saved; this could create an edge case where a player could be mid-Encounter, swap Hubs, save and reload, and then be unable to progress the game further. • Fixed an issue where in some cases bubbles that had an animation applied to them could get stuck in the wrong position. • Fixed some audio bugs in a couple of places. • Changed the order of Hub unlocks to avoid cases where players access new storylines before completing their current one. • Slight writing tweaks in a couple of spots. • Added some robustness to the evaluation of the tutorial Hubs to avoid unintended behaviour in Chapter One.

• Fixed an issue in the Encounter "Substantive Considerations — Citadel Hope" where progression could be blocked depending on choices made during your internship. • Fixed a Chapter Menu controller keybind, particularly for the Steam Deck.

• Updated Unity version to 6000.0.45f1. • Added an initial "Profile" tab to the inventory which showcases your choices in character creation once players have completed that step — thanks to Marin for the suggestion. • Added a TTS speech rate slider to the audio settings — default is 100%, this can be slowed to 50% or increased to 150%. • Fixed save games not being read out via the TTS system. • Improvements to the TTS behaviour, line breaks should properly cause it to pause instead of barrelling through to the next line. • TTS for equipped items in the inventory will now read out the item's name and stats. • TTS in the Status Tray now tells you whether or not you have an item equipped, and which item if so. • Removed an erroneous test sound left in the inventory screen if you try to unequip an item when you have nothing equipped. • Fixed a couple of reported typos and misbehaving glossary entries. • Fixed an issue where resting at the Citadel in Chapter Five could prevent further progression. • Changed the text size labels in Options to read "Normal, Large, Extra Large" instead of obsolete numerical values. • As a backend development tool I've now got an option to import external saves from other players (for many reasons the Steam versions are going to be easiest to do this with) to help debug progression issues.

• 71.050425 release. • (Properly) fixed the TTS issue that broke progression near the start of Chapter Five. • Fixed an issue in Chapter Six that prevented players from progressing. • Fixed a mistaken double-glossary entry.

• 70.040425 release. • Fixed a couple of storylines not properly being internally associated with their respective Hubs (didn't affect progression but might have made it impossible to get back to them if you started a different storyline at the same time). • Fixed an issue where players with TTS enabled would be unable to progress past the start of Chapter Five. • Fixed a Cinemachine glitch in the last update that caused the camera to misbehave.

• 69.010425 release. (nice) • Alcyone: The Last City is out! Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for supporting the game. Please leave a review if you enjoyed it! • Fixed a few incorrect glossary entries and typos that were spotted by you lovely folks. • Fixed a bug that would prevent progression in the "Tenuous Materiality" Encounter.

• 68.310325 release. • Alcyone: The Last City is out! • Updated Unity version to 6000.0.44f1. • Fixed a build tool error that could cause the game on some platforms to immediately crash to desktop. • Fixed a floating-point issue on iOS and Android that would cause the Misfortune icons in the Status Tray to migrate beyond their intended positions as the stats built up. • Added some further narrative and visual clarifications to Hubs when new storylines are available. • Added TTS support for the Hubs List when new storylines are available. • Updated images in the ESC Menu - Help screen to match the current appearance of the game. • Fixed erroneous input device settings being available in the Options menu on mobile. • Further balanced probability challenges, particularly late-game. • "The Patron" content that was previously gated behind an unlock code has now been folded into the main storyline as a part of the base game and made potentially accessible during a playthrough depending on your in-game choices. • The Patron Hub has been reworked to support its addition to the main story. • Some content from the Patron Commissions has been reworked to support their additions to the main story. • Removed the Supporter Code from the credits in relation to the above.