The Great Gaias — 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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| Update 10/17/2025 | 2025-10-17 | Content AdditionsAdded Achievements for DLC contentAdded Masochist difficulty |
| The Lord of Sorcery DLC is LIVE! | 2025-08-22 | Today marks the release of The Great Gaias: Lord of Sorcery, a full story-driven DLC expansion. Step into the role of Virgil Mythos as he embraces vengeance, forbidden magic, and the teachings of the legendary Zacharael. Witness his transformation into the Lord of Sorcery, and then return to your main party to tackle the brutal Impossible Arena Challenge.Update 8/22/2025 – The Great GaiasWe’re excited to share a major update alongside the release of our expansion, The Lord of Sorcery! This patch includes a long list of bug fixes, quality-of-life improvements, and balance changes that have been building up behind the scenes.Bug FixesCorrected |
| Update 6/01/2025 | 2025-06-01 | Bug Fixes Fixed a minor pathing issue in Osiris where NPCs could walk onto one tile of the tailor shop wall. QoL Improvements Emanation now displays the proper icon. States that raise or lower your Attributes now list the % in the battle status screen. Game Balance Changes Blessing of Tantalasia now protects against Ensnare. |
| Update 3/03/2025 | 2025-03-04 | A huge shoutout to Euphoniac for the extensive bug report in our discussion forum! Thanks to your detailed feedback, I was able to track down and squash some tricky, hard-to-find issues, making The Great Gaias even more polished. Your support means a lot, thank you! Bug Fixes Can no longer skip the Orgard camp trigger by walking south. Can no longer skip the 2nd dialog trigger in the Celestial Realm. Can no longer skip Lost Cove trigger by navigating mountains. You can no longer leave the Necromancers area without collecting the Necromancers Gem. Removed old pre-release text event in Alme. The Orgard Teleporter inside the Sorbithian Lexicron |
| Update 2/27/2025 | 2025-02-27 | Bug Fixes Fixed an instance where the players could kill Grindelwald faster than his forms could change. Fixed a potential issue with high refresh monitors and how exp fills the victory screen gauge. Corrected a window placement in the item screen that could cover up the 4th party members portrait. Adjusted word wrap placement of description text in crafting window. |
| Update 7/08/2023 | 2023-07-08 | Bug Fixes Fixed some typos QoL Improvements You can now fine tune volume control by 1% increments Optimized memory usage |
| Codex Eternal: Campaign Setting Kickstarter Goes Live! | 2023-05-03 | For the past two decades, my friend Brian Swahn and I have been creating games that capture the sense of adventure and imagination we experienced while playing Dungeons and Dragons as kids. We founded our company to stay connected and continue working together, even as our lives took us in different directions we were able to create The Great Gaias and Gjallarhorn. Now, we're excited to embark on a new venture and bring our games back to their roots of tabletop gaming, where we believe they can truly shine and bring people together in new and exciting ways. Our passion for creating games that capture the imagination and sense of adventure tha |
| Update 5/1/2023 | 2023-05-02 | Bug Fixes GP costs now display properly when purchasing Arena Rewards QoL Improvements Viewing Equipment in the Inventory Screen now displays flavor text about the gear piece |
| Update 4/01/2023 | 2023-04-01 | Bug Fixes Optimized a lot of various JavaScript code for further stability Content Additions Add compatibility for Steam Deck! |
| Chance for Subscribers to win a Canvas Map! | 2023-03-22 | We are holding a contest for our newsletter subscribers for a chance to win our new canvas map of the World of Tenamyr! This 2nd Edition Map will feature new areas following our work on The Great Gaias and Gjallarhorn including places of interest within the Osirian Empire and the Old World. The map itself is printed onto high quality canvas and is 18” x 24”. Anyone wishing to enter the contest, which will be a random number generator, need only subscribe to our newsletter following this link here or clicking the image above. It is no surprise that we are doing our best to create a ruckus preemptively before our Kickstarter for The Codex Etern |
| Kickstarter Pre-Announcement! | 2023-03-16 | We are proud to announce the coming arrival of our Kickstarter for the Codex Eternal: Campaign Setting, the homebrew tabletop experience that gave life to The Great Gaias and Gjallarhorn. Be sure to subscribe to learn of new updates and news regarding our progress! What to Expect: From the time of our adolescence there was nothing quite like visiting the local hobby store to check out new miniatures, supplemental compendiums and boxed sets of glorious campaign settings filled with a treasure trove of characters, maps and dice sets. We are returning to our youth with this project and hope to deliver a nostalgic product that reminds you of noth |
| Major TGG Update and HE News! | 2023-03-15 | The Beta Branch has finally been thoroughly tested and we are taking it now to the main build branch! We will be attending PAX East 2023 going on from March 23rd to the 26th so if you are heading there, please drop by our booth and say hello! While showing off The Great Gaias and Gjallarhorn at PAX we will also be holding a raffle for our new cloth map! Besides finishing up this huge update to The Great Gaias we’ve also completely revamped our website www.horizonsend.com so be sure to check it out and please subscribe to our mailing list because we have some big announcements coming soon! Changelog: Bug Fixes Losing internet connection will n |
| Engine Update | 2023-01-22 | We’ve just created a Beta Build branch for The Great Gaias. It has updated engine features which should prevent the horrible desktop crash when internet loss happens. While we believe this update shouldn't have any negative side effects to the game, we are not 100% positive that there could be some unforeseen issue that crops up from it. Because of this we decided to make it a beta branch before introducing it into the main build branch of the game. If you right-click on The Great Gaias and go to "properties" you can select "Betas" and find this build on the list. Not only should this fix the internet loss crash, but it should also allow Stea |
| Gjallarhorn Released! | 2023-01-11 | When we started working on Gjallarhorn over four years ago, we had a vision to make something new, something that beloved fans of both WRPGs and JRPGs could immerse themselves in. We are proud to announce the release of our second title, Gjallarhorn. Gjallarhorn merges the open world, choice and consequence design philosophy of the west and combines it with the story, character and style of the east. We have come to call this new archetype a Western Fusion RPG, a unique blend of the aforementioned, wrapped up tightly with a job class system and fueled by the d20 ruleset. We hope that this new chapter of our world finds you well, adventurer! H |
| The Great Gaias Soundtrack | 2022-12-08 | We are happy to announce that The Great Gaias OST is now available for download in the Steam Store! The original soundtrack to The Great Gaias features over two hours of symphonic music with a total of (52) songs. The soundtrack was originally created with an idea of and using music as the tonal based narrative driving the compelling story that we crafted. Inspiration was drawn from the old school RPG years of the SNES. The soundtrack was composed by Aaron Krogh and Bryan Davis. Pick it up now at: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2198450/The_Great_Gaias_Soundtrack/ |
| Gjallarhorn Release Date Announcement | 2022-10-04 | After two long delays we are finally ready to announce our official release date for Gjallarhorn, January 10th, 2023. We were really hoping to get the game out in November of this year but due to personal obligation Gjallarhorn had to take a backseat for some time. We are still thinking about releasing an early access version sometime during November, if so, I’ll make another announcement letting everyone know. The Great Gaias is also on sale this week at 50% off in celebration of our Gjallarhorn release announcement! |
| Phase 3 Closed Beta | 2022-08-26 | Phase 3 of the Gjallarhorn closed beta is now live. At this point we don’t expect many issues pertaining to game systems, so the focus of phase 3 and beyond will be story thread continuity and game balance. Because Gjallarhorn has a choice and consequence-based story design we want to make sure every story thread is tied up nicely. This will be the last chance to join the closed beta so if you are interested, please join our discord and private message me (Pots Talos). Phase 4 will only be made available to people who are currently testers and those who join up for phase 3. |
| Gjallarhorn Closed Beta Phase 2 | 2022-03-29 | We had originally hoped to have Gjallarhorn early access out by the end of 2021, but there were still some issues we had to iron out. So, instead we have been holding a closed Beta to help address some of the bigger bugs before we look to early access. Phase 1 of our closed Beta is coming to an end, and we will be entering Phase 2 of our closed Beta shortly. If anyone is interested in entering our closed Beta, please join us on our Discord. Phase 2 is for the first two chapters of the game. But it's the first two chapters for each of the four starting areas. Which should be a decent amount of gameplay if you decide to play each starting area. |
| Gjallarhorn Phase 1 Closed Beta | 2022-02-19 | Gjallarhorn Beta Phase one of our Gjallarhorn closed beta is underway! From balancing to bug fixes there has been a lot of feedback from our testers. We are patching the game weekly and are working hard to make sure Gjallarhorn will have the smoothest launch possible once it is ready for release. If you haven't already wish listed Gjallarhorn be sure to do so and if you are interested in joining a future phase of our closed beta than please join our Discord where we will be making announcements on beta recruitment once phase 1 is done. In the meantime, while you wait for Gjallarhorn why don't you refresh your memory of the lore by playing The |
| Dark Farlen Glitch Fix | 2021-12-28 | Fixed a possible story sequence break in Dark Farlen. |
| Minor issues | 2021-11-23 | Fixed a bug where the Mirror Shield wasn't reflecting certain elements. Fixed some character events that would still be on a map when they shouldn't be. Added a normal seamstress to the player built Merchant City. Corrected many grammatical errors. |
| Achievement checklist update | 2021-04-05 | Made a fix for players who play offline and want to get achievements. Now whenever you enter and exit the party change location (The Great Gaias) it will check to see if the player should have gotten any achievement and unlock it. |
| The Great Gaias Major Update - Chapter rework and Difficulty System - Big Sale | 2020-04-13 | Horizon's End is offering The Great Gaias for the lowest price ever in hopes to promote social distancing! The sale begins at 10AM PST on April 13th and will last all week! What better way to spend your time alone than with a (100+) hour old school JRPG? Not only have we lowered our price, but we have also crafted some new features including difficulty levels and a reworking of Chapter I. We have spent the last few weeks on The Great Gaias to address a few issues that have been on our plate for a while, many of which were based on the feedback we've received from the community. We have taken the constructive criticism from our fan base into a |
| Kickstarter for our next title! | 2019-01-29 | Horizon's End would like to announce the Kickstarter campaign for our upcoming game, Codex Eternal: Gjallarhorn. Merging the Dungeons & Dragons experience into a modern JRPG genre, we hope to create a truly westernized fusion with Gjallarhorn. Crafted by the writers that brought you The Great Gaias, the continuing narrative will dive back into the lands of The Codex Eternal, expanding the lore and cultures of this decade long original campaign setting. A day and night cycle will fuel a new and improved crafting system in this choice and consequence adventure. Gjallarhorn will incorporate new features such as a taming mechanic, (16) job classe |
| Horizon's End is proud to announce our next project! | 2018-10-25 | Codex Eternal: Gjallarhorn Horizon’s End is proud to announce the next installment in the ever expanding world that birthed The Great Gaias, Codex Eternal. The next chapter of this epic is called Gjallarhorn, and it aims to create a completely subjective experience for the player, allowing for the choice of joining one of multiple factions, or fighting for yourself in this slave-to-champion turn based role-playing game. Originally created as a Dungeons and Dragons Campaign Setting, this epic tale will continue the dark, yet engrossing stories within The Great Gaias. Gjallarhorn will expand on job class mechanics and a sandbox style crafting s |
| The Great Gaias End of Summer Sale! | 2018-08-29 | Our end of summer sale is on! For one week only, purchase The Great Gaias at a 34% discount! Available on Steam today! If you have yet to experience the immersive and addictive world of The Great Gaias, now is the perfect opportunity to see what all the hype is about. With a perfect recommended score on steam by those who have played the game, you will not be disappointed. But don't take our word for it, check out the reviews on steam and see what people are saying about The Great Gaias. If you haven't played by now, you are missing out! |
| Conventions next weekend! | 2018-08-05 | Hello all! We hope you are enjoying The Great Gaias, we sure appreciate your support. We are excited to announce that if you are local in the New York area we will be showcasing The Great Gaias at (2) conventions on 8-11 and 8-12! We will be attending PlayNYC in Manhattan, and the Long Island Retro Gaming Expo 2018! We hope to see you there! |
| Great Gaias Wiki | 2018-07-26 | The world of The Great Gaias is vast, spanning over a ten-thousand year timeline with hundreds of important characters and interesting places to explore. With so much to keep track of, it is in the best interest of the community to have a hub of information that can be available to everyone, but we need your help! We are pleased to announce that our friends at Gamepedia (Curse.com) have helped us by starting the official wiki for the Great Gaias! The wiki will be open, and available to the public to add content and edit. Please feel free to populate it with data to share with the world! This is a call to arms, Warriors of Old. It is time to w |
| (2) weeks left for the Eternal Sentinel Contest! | 2018-07-19 | Wow. Time really flies being one of the prophesized Warriors of Old, but in the realm of Dark Gods and fantasy... all good things must come to an end. In the wake of battle it seems that only (2) people have been able to defeat our Ultimate Boss..... With that in mind, I am upping the ante. The next (3) people to receive the Eternal Sentinel achievement, post a Steam review, and share your achievement will receive a copy of the signed vinyl map. We will announce the champions on August 6th, 2018. Until then... Godspeed, Children of Light! |
| Missing Celestium Shards? No problem! | 2018-07-14 | Hey everyone. I love collecting things, don't you? ^.^ As you might be aware there are items called Celestium Shards that exist in The Great Gaias that boast some of the most impressive rewards for collecting... there are (110) of them to be exact, and no one has found them all. :) Now that a guide is being written we would like to add the list out to the public, but... the only way we have enough strength is to be powered by.... STEAM REVIEWS! (Key or Steam copies - we don't care :) ) The moment we hit (50) total reviews on The Great Gaias, we will release the list on the guides section of our page! Help us share this great story with the wo |