Open Robot — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Open Robot is now live! | 2026-04-27 | Hello everyone, I am excited to announce that Open Robot is now live on Steam! I hope you enjoy the game!Thank you so much for your support! |
| Announcing Open Robot 1.0.0 release date | 2026-03-06 | Hello everyone, I am excited to announce the release date for Open Robot, a big milestone for a solo developer! It is also the first game for the studio. I hope to get more feedback from you all and keep improving upon. I hope you enjoy the game!Open Robot launches on Apr 27, 2026!Thank you so much!Helping furtherIf you’re interested in Open Robot, please consider adding it to your Steam Wishlist and follow the game.Your support is incredibly important for Open Robot!If you decided to join, thanks so much for helping out! |
| Open Robot 0.8.0 | 2026-01-13 | Hello everyone, Open Robot demo has received a new update 0.8.0. Open Robot 0.8.0 changelog:Engine- Engine upgraded to version 5.6 to gain performance improvements and bugfixes. Lights- Improves the interior lighting, fixing overall quality light inside buildings and avoiding noticeably bad lighting transitions moving from outdoors to indoors and vice versa.Send your feedbackI would love if you could send feedback by either filling up a Google Form survey and/or joining Open Robot Discord Server (Links in the game)Open Robot Discord Server link: https://discord.gg/f3bjkQCXtyThe planIn this release I focused on upgrading the engine to improve |
| Open Robot 0.7.7 | 2025-12-20 | Hello everyone, Open Robot demo has received a new update 0.7.7. Open Robot 0.7.7 changelog: Quest- Demo quest re-arranged. Story mode jumps straight away to combat, starting on the lab fight quest Interaction Reticle- Fixes the unarmed reticle used for object interaction that was a bit off centreSend your feedbackI would love if you could send feedback by either filling up a Google Form survey and/or joining Open Robot Discord Server (Links in the game)Open Robot Discord Server link: https://discord.gg/f3bjkQCXtyThe planIn this release I focused on allowing players experiencing intense combat right away in the first moments of the demo gamep |
| Open Robot 0.7.6 | 2025-12-19 | Hello everyone, Open Robot demo has received a new update 0.7.6. Open Robot 0.7.6 changelog: Player Spawning- Adds ability to spawn the player nearby the ongoing quest area, rather than always spawning at the house. Avoiding the need to travel all the way to the quest area if player gets killed. Player Damage - Improves damage taken effect by showing a flashy blood-screen effect that fades away to current player damage level. Immediately signalling the player the damage taken. Optimizations- Reduces game build size.Send your feedbackI would love if you could send feedback by either filling up a Google Form survey and/or joining Open Robot Dis |
| Open Robot 0.7.5 | 2025-12-16 | Hello everyone, Open Robot demo has received a new update 0.7.5. Open Robot 0.7.5 changelog: Sound - Adds new sound effects systemSend your feedbackI would love if you could send feedback by either filling up a Google Form survey and/or joining Open Robot Discord Server (Links in the game)Open Robot Discord Server link: https://discord.gg/f3bjkQCXtyThe planIn this release I focused on simplifying the sound effects system, in an attempt at avoiding engine related sound data races and crashes. I will try to release fixes as soon as they get fixed.Helping furtherIf you’re interested in Open Robot, please consider adding it to your Steam Wishlist |
| Open Robot 0.7.4 | 2025-12-12 | Hello everyone, Open Robot demo has received a new update 0.7.4. Open Robot 0.7.4 changelog: Health System- Adds a red vignette visual indicator of the amount of health the player has.- Adds a health bar to the HUD.- Adds damage while swimming. Weapons - Adds weapon impacts to many more surfaces in the game.World- Fixes pier benches not having proper collision settings.Menus / Options- Clarifies in the game keyboard option menu setting that the key to enter a vehicle is the same as the one for exiting a vehicle. Sound related crash (Still happening)- The sound system related crash is still happening in this latest version, and it is still to |
| Open Robot 0.7.3 | 2025-12-08 | Hello everyone, Open Robot demo has received a new update 0.7.3. Thanks for the reported issues! I have fixed an issue where the game crashes while initializing the vehicle engine sound system.Send your feedbackI would love if you could send feedback by either filling up a Google Form survey and/or joining Open Robot Discord Server (Links in the game)Open Robot Discord Server link: https://discord.gg/f3bjkQCXtyThe planIn this release I focused on fixing detected issues after the demo release. I will try to release fixes as soon as they get fixed.Helping furtherIf you’re interested in Open Robot, please consider adding it to your Steam Wishlis |
| Open Robot 0.7.2 | 2025-12-05 | Hello everyone, Open Robot demo has received a new update 0.7.2. Thanks for the reported issues! I have fixed some issues after the public demo release. Check out the list of changes: Open Robot 0.7.2 changelog: Two game modes- Improves the game mode selector so players can see both Story Mode and Survivor Mode side by side. As some players missed the fact that there are two game modes. Just select which experience you would like to play. Also, notice you can press the CHANGE button to continue a current game or start a new one. Quests- Fixes a quest that blocks the game progress, if the player does not press the requested button/action or pr |
| Open Robot demo release! | 2025-12-03 | Hello everyone, I am excited to announce that the Open Robot free demo has been released and is playable now on Steam!Thanks so much to those who joined the different testing campaigns and/or sent feedback. Send your feedbackEspecially with the demo released I still would love it if you could send feedback by either filling up a Google Form survey and/or joining Open Robot Discord Server (Links in the game). Also the demo allows for players to write reviews, like for any other Steam game. So please, help Open Robot by writing a Steam review. Thanks a lot!Open Robot Discord Server link: https://discord.gg/f3bjkQCXtyThe planLately I focused on |
| Open Robot 0.7.1 | 2025-12-02 | Hello everyone, Open Robot 0.7.1 has been released and remains playable through the Steam Playtest! Thanks for all your feedback! Thanks so much to those who joined the ongoing Steam Playtest campaign. As the public demo release approaches, I think it makes sense to close the Steam Playtest. As the publicly available demo version will receive latest development changes. So, soon after releasing the demo, the Steam Playtest will be closed and access will be removed. Thanks so much again! Open Robot 0.7.1 changelog: Performance - Optimizations on general foliage density and culling distances for better performance and general framerate improvem |
| Open Robot 0.6.11 | 2025-11-27 | Hello everyone,Open Robot 0.6.11 has been released and remains playable through the Steam Playtest! Thanks for all your feedback! Open Robot 0.6.11 changelog:These are the changes from 0.6.10 to 0.6.11World dressing / Visuals- Adds furniture to all buildings.- Furniture now has the ability to spawn clutter on top.- Adds/replaces textures to buildings and landscape for better visual variation.- New grass material for better grass blending with the terrain.- Improves landscape texture tilling, avoiding landscape textures looking repetitive. Adds color variation patches to the landscape adding an extra layer of variation for better looking terra |
| Open Robot Playtest is now playable again | 2025-10-15 | Hello everyone,I wanted to let you all know that Open Robot playtest is now playable again! Thanks for all your feedback!Request AccessThanks for all the requests I received. For now requesting access is deactivated. So you won't see the "Join the Open Robot Playtest". But if you managed to get access you can play again the new and improved version. Open Robot 0.6.10 changelog:These are the changes from 0.6.9 to 0.6.10 Story Mode- New big wacky battle at the end of the demo story mode. - Small dialogue script tweaks, polishing character tone and style.- Rogue Robots quest to 5 robots for now, as it is a bit repetitive and boring. The idea of |
| Open Robot Playtest first iteration closed | 2025-09-23 | Hello everyone, After having opened Open Robot playtest for the first time, Open Robot received 150+ playtest requests in two weeks! Not crazy, but they mean a lot.Thank you all very much for the interest!As planned, we are pausing the playtest to analyse and implement based on feedback received. Request Access is invisible for now The request access button is now hidden as planned so that we can analyse and implement feedback. But don't worry, stay tuned for the next iteration. Check out the Open Robot store page!!If you still would like to send feedback, you can join Open Robot Discord Server link: https://discord.gg/f3bjkQCXtyWhat does it |
| Open Robot Playtest is now open | 2025-09-10 | Hello everyone,I wanted to let you all know that Open Robot playtest is now open!Request AccessIf you like to help during the development of Open Robot, please, request access! Go to the Open Robot store page and "Request Access" from there: After testing with closed groups of testers I would like more people to play Open Robot!I already received some requests! Thanks a lot! I will try to open to as many people as I can! For now the Playtest is limited, meaning that you will join a pool of players (not a queue) and I need to grant access on my side. So anytime soon we might grant you access!Send your feedbackI would love if you could send fee |
| Introducing Open Robot: Genesis | 2025-09-01 | Hello everyone,I wanted to share a quick update on the development of Open Robot: Genesis. It’s been quite a journey building this game, and I'm getting closer to sharing it with more people.Open Robot: Genesis is a third-person adventure where you play as Theo, fighting to protect his daughter and team in a world facing technological collapse. The game combines action combat with a story-driven quest system set within an open world.I’m currently working towards getting the game into the hands of some players for initial feedback. I'm planning to launch a small Playtest Event in the coming days. It will be a limited opportunity, perhaps more |