Collapse: A Political Simulator — 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 3.1.0 "QoL" | 2026-08-27 | This update includes changes aimed primarily at improving the transparency of the interface.TRANSPARENCY:The number of modifier sections has been increased to 12; the same modifier can appear in multiple sections at the same time.In the Laws section, a block has been added at the bottom of each law variant’s card to display the variant’s impact and its effects with complete, precise figures.“Science” and “Modifiers” buttons have been added to the quick-access sidebar.When you hover over a modifier, its icon enlarges.NEW FEATURES:The default event in Russia now has multiple response options and consequences in the form of temporary modifiers.8 |
| UPDATE 3.0 — the long-awaited RELAUNCH! | 2026-07-19 | UPDATE 3.0 — the long-awaited RELAUNCH!Now the game doesn't just feel fresh, it is practically brand new! Completely new mechanics for forming the government and passing laws, distributing portfolios, finances, and property types; a completely reworked "AI" for parties and ministries; an entirely new opportunity to influence the fates of Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltics, and even reverse the decisions of the Belovezh and Alma-Ata Accords!Details:1. Transparent display of effects for all buttons (clear tooltips).2. Separate windows for budget allocation and the privatization/nationalization/redistribution of property forms.3. 2 new game modes/ |
| Update 2.3.5 | 2025-05-15 | Update 2.3.5 includes: - Multiple bug fixes - Switching to the Unity version from 2020 to 2022 - Changed the flag of the PDR - RPC history redesigned - Minor text edits - Improvement of images Have a nice play! |
| New Patch | 2024-07-03 | The patch includes: 1. Russia now changes flag and regime based on the event of the shooting of the Supreme Soviet in 1993; 2. Ukraine's regime from the start has become transitional. This is preparation for the second big update; 3. Minor rebalancing of urbanisation; 4. Minor bug fixes; Enjoy the game! |
| Patch 2.3.0.2 | 2024-07-02 | The current update includes: 0. Added icons for neighbour regimes 1. Urbanisation now depends on both investment and upper class wealth 2. Fixed auto-falsification of elections without taking game into account 3. Fixed minor bugs Enjoy the game! |
| Patch 2.3.0.1 | 2024-07-01 | This patch includes: - Fixes bugs with rallies - Fixes bugs with modding of Dialogue Events - New feature for modding of Dialogue Events - Fixes bugs with Church Enjoy playing! |
| Update New Ways 2.3 | 2024-06-30 | Dear friends, it has happened! Once again we apologize for the delay. The first of two major updates this year has arrived. It includes the following changes: 1. Through the Constitutional Commission, it is now possible to control the minimum threshold for electing a president by the people. 2. Three options for the president’s veto power when passing laws have been introduced. Bots can use them too! 3. Through the Constitutional Commission, it is now possible to control the type of veto power the president has. 4. Partially added neighbor functionality. 5. The requirements for holding rallies and the effects of them have been changed: now th |
| The update has been delayed due to personal reasons | 2024-06-05 | Dear friends, I apologize very much and ask each and every one of you to forgive me for the delay in the update. My computer unfortunately went down, and because of that I temporarily couldn't and can't work on the update. But a huge part of it is ready though, don't worry! I will try to release the update as soon as I can. In the meantime, here's screenshots: |
| A big update is planned | 2024-03-22 | Friends! Don't worry, the game is not abandoned! We are working on a major free update. But due to the fact that one of its developers was conscripted for one year the work on the update has been delayed. That's why we decided to split the update into two parts. The first part of the update is planned for the end of May and will tentatively consist of: 1. Through the Constitutional Commission, it will be possible to control the minimum threshold for the election of the president by the people. 2. Three veto options will be introduced for the president when passing laws. 3. The type of veto power of the president will be controlled through the |
| Update 2.2.5 | 2023-07-24 | Updates include: MAJOR CHANGES: 1. The party budget from party dues will now differ depending on how many and what class supports the party. Plus the Classes section of the Encyclopedia has been updated. 2. Improved AI management of ministries so that they don't kill ministries - that will now be their original goal. 3. Changed conditions in all foreign policy events that require ministries. It is no longer required to own a specific ministry, it will now be sufficient to own as many ministries as will give you access to foreign policy actions. It will no longer be necessary to carefully timing to get a portfolio, being the most powerful part |
| Patch 2.2 | 2023-03-26 | The patch includes: 1. New sub-sections have been added to the Encyclopedia: Ministy's budget in the Budget section - helps you better understand how financial revenues are allocated to ministries. Alliance voting in Coalitions - helps you understand how to convince an ally to vote alongside you. Compromise in Illegal Actions - helps you understand how to get and use compromising evidence against other parties and what it is used for. 2. If our partymate becomes President - party unity will increase by +5.0 Be sure to read the new sub-sections in the Encyclopaedia and enjoy the game! |
| Patch 2.15 | 2023-03-16 | Dear friends, we continue to improve the comprehensibility of the game for players. This patch includes: 1. Rebalance of urbanisation growth 2. When hovering over "?" button in region window its statistics will be displayed 3. Fixed bug in property type ratios graph. 4. Rebalance the growth of the population in the later stages of the game 5. Improved botparties' behaviour when they are in a bad position 6. The use of provocateurs in the capital strike now has different consequences Enjoy the game! Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) |
| Update 2.1 | 2023-03-13 | We have heard your suggestions and improved the understanding of the game, in particular: 1. Rebalance the starting stats. 2. Added an icon to reflect the poor state of nuclear weapons. 3. Added icons above conservative and communist parties in the party selection window to reflect that these parties are recommended for newcomers for the first try. 4. When hovering over the state budget and regional corruption indicator, details of their formulation are displayed. Have an enjoyable and entertaining game! |
| Patch 2.02 | 2023-01-06 | This patch includes: 1. Ability to change map sprite via modding 2. Increased electricity generation for NPP and Gulfstream 3. Problems with electricity from events are moved to a reminder icon in the map window 4. Changed the balance of population growth 5. Bug fixes Have a nice game! |
| Modification Contest | 2023-01-02 | Dear friends, we are holding a contest for the best mod for "Collapse: A Political Simulator" The competition will be held in 3 stages: 1. Submission of the application (30 days are given for this from 02.01.2023) 2. Voting (3 days are given for this) 3. Summing up the results Terms of participation: 1. The application must be submitted by at least 5 mods from 5 different people 2. If there are 5 mods, then 1 winner will get the key, if there are 6-10 mods, then two, if 10-15, then three, if 16-20, then four, if more than 20, then five. 3. Winners receive a key to any of the games / dlc from Kremlingames to their taste / at their request. Lin |
| The biggest update | 2022-12-31 | Dear players! We are pleased to present the biggest update to this game. The changelog is attached: А. Party coalition mechanics: - Coalition window - Ability to create coalitions - Ability to influence the party in coalition with the player - Interaction with the party in coalition with the player - Ability to go to the regional elections together, to vote together, to impeach together, to take over the Prime Minister's office together and more - Full redesign of the preparation and implementation of regional, general and presidential elections Б. Statistics: - Added section with the following indicators: Industry Index, GDP, GDP per capita, |
| We are not dead yet! A huge update is coming soon! | 2022-12-24 | Friends! All this time since the last update we have not been idle. We have been working hard on an update that should significantly improve the game. And we are going to release it before the New Year! A quick recap of the upcoming update: - Totally new and extensive party coalition mechanics; - Expanded stats window, added new stats and changed formulas for old ones; - Increased flexibility of the game, including a redesigned election system, law window and population "memory"; - Improved game interface; - Reworked all old modifiers and added unique features for each party; - Hundreds of new events and modifiers; - And finally, a full-fledg |
| Development diaries. Custom modifications and coalition system. | 2021-12-11 | Greetings, two new development diaries have come out in the meantime, concerning the topic of modifications and the new coalition system. Collapse A Political Simulator. Developer's Diary - 2. Remaining scripts. Modifications part 2. Collapse A Political Simulator. Developer's Diary - 3. Coalitions |
| Update news and developer diaries | 2021-11-24 | Hello friends! After a bit of a lull, and work on the latest DLC for Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall. Here it is by the way: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1794910/Ostalgie/ We returned to active work on the Collapse. Moreover, we decided to revive the abandoned tradition of publishing development diaries. We hope that in this way you will get a clearer idea of what we are working on at the moment. To date, two development diaries have already been published on our subreddit: Collapse A Political Simulator. Developer's diary - 1. Improving the interfaces. Collapse A Political Simulator. Developers Diary - 2. Modifications part 1. We will try to |
| Version 1.5.0 | 2021-07-25 | The update includes: The most importantly thing - a unique MYSTICAL SCENARIO! Uncover the secrets of Mister L and delve deeper into the deepest secrets of the Republic. Fear your darkest dreams and get ready for a ride on the secret subway. Choose between Flesh and Water. Or maybe you like resistance? Turn the world upside down! And: 1. Completely redesigned mechanics of population growth 2. Added a bar for the maximum possible budget of ministries. It depends on the efficiency and corruption in the ministry. 3. An icon now appears on the top right of the map if you are playing the "Last Hero" 4. Added the ability to use the Backspace button |
| Patch 1.4.5.1 | 2021-06-27 | Patch? Patch! - The "Gulf Stream" is more profitable now. Now the surplus gas from it is not only sold, but also supplied to power plants! And if the construction of a nuclear power plant gives, in total, 20,000 electricity, then the "Gulf Stream" gives, in total, 5,000 electricity now. - Now you can hold rallies in the regions not often than once a day. No more spamming on pause, my dears! - Bugs were fixed (hooray!) Forward and with the song! |
| Update 1.4.5 | 2021-06-25 | Kind evening, gentlemen, comrades! This update includes: 1. New events for interaction with the outside world (more than 10). The world is getting wider! 2. New achievement "The Fourth Power". Forward to Iraq! 3. New modifiers to reflect the changes. 4. Rebalance of the "Update" button in the ministries: Increased Health growth from +0.1 to +0.4, and the price from -5 to -15 Rebalance of the "Raise" button in ministries: Increased Health growth from +0.6 to +0.8, and the price from -5 to -10 Now it will be much easier for you to take and ban all parties! Besides yours, of course. 5. Added the following graphs in the Statistics window (update |
| Version 1.4.0 | 2021-06-09 | Version 1.4.0 presents you: 1. Now you can successfully become unemployed! - The parameter "Working population" is replaced by "Unemployed population", reflecting the unemployment in the country. - Added a flexible scale for changing the percentage of the unemployed population. - Added Unemployment modifiers. - In this regard, the balance of transitions of the population from class to class has been changed. - Added a new thematic achievement - "Republic of Labour". 2. Added 3 new actions in ministries: - Ability to put pressure on large private business in the Business Committee. - Abilities to better manage the Ministry of Agriculture. Sque |
| Update 1.3.5 | 2021-05-31 | The update includes the Game Encyclopedia! Hooray! Enjoy reading! Also, the update includes: - Added integration into the WTO - Rebalancing the impact on the economy from the IMF rating, investment and exchange rate - Parties has learned to better handle electricity issue - When you hover over a faction of national minorities, their statistics are also shown - Now the auto-filling of ministries from the party's treasury is turned off as standard from the start - Fixed bugs Have a good game. |
| Update 1.3.0 | 2021-04-04 | This update includes: - More crises for the god of crises! Now it will be worse than yesterday! And new events will help in this. - Now it is clearer which vector of development has been chosen in the region, hurray! - Reworked the influence of vectors and national projects of regions for a better balance. Use national projects more often, now they are even more useful! - Now you don’t need to count how much percent of the budget the ministry will have during distribution - we wrote it! - No more clicking on the factions, just hover over the name - and a brief information on it will be displayed. - Reworked the impact on the ministries from b |
| 1.2.1-1.2.2 | 2021-03-20 | Two minor patches released these evenings: - Bugs were fixed - Minor re-balance - Rebalance of laws adoption Have a nice play! |
| Update 1.2.0 | 2021-03-18 | Update 1.2.0: - Now it became clearer when auto-filling of the ministerial budget from the party treasury is enabled, because it is directly written: Enabled or Disabled - What kind of workers are they who make the minister's working capacity either +500 or -1000? Superhuman or Lowhuman? Now this will not happen. Limited between -25.0 and +125.0. - Now you know exactly when the research is completed and when everything is bad in your party - new icons have been introduced in the map window - Sanctions from Russia or sanctions from the West? Now they drop more often and are much more dangerous. Be careful! - Tired of corruption in the regions? |
| Update 1.1.0 | 2021-03-01 | After reading all of your ideas and suggestions, we were so filled with philosophical knowledge of our existence that, unknowingly, we shifted the layers of the fabric of our planar's time: - Presidential election reports are prettier (separate tab in the Statistics window) - Small businesses and cooperatives no longer seek to gobble up the entire economy by 1993, but will wait patiently, like docile dogs. - Electricity has been fixed (hopefully), the lights are no longer out. - Thanks to Ouija boards, your spiritual boundaries have been expanded: extra buttons (three) for the Foreign Ministry and (five) for the Prime Minister. - Now you don' |
| Patch v1.0.1 | 2021-02-24 | What's done: - Less bugs, more bugs! - Now you don't need to pump your hands to click on the right-hand menu box on the map. All you have to do is press Esc. - Lack of electrical power will no longer plague you in your dreams. Certain integration schemes and sciences will help you build it up automatically. - Why did a voluntary contribution to the ministry budget give you corruption? We don't know (we know). But now there is no more of that! - It's easy to win people's minds with populism, of course, but not so easy now... - Now you no longer have to manually count the votes. They have already been counted for you! - You wake up, there's a r |