Time Bandit – Part 1: Appendages of the Machine

Time Bandit Part 1 just received a major update with new features. A summary of the biggest changes follows, with more details below. To celebrate the big update, as well as everyone's favorite time-related holiday, the end of Daylight Savings Time, Time Bandit Part 1 will be on sale for 20% off! Buy furniture for your home from the shop Steam achievements Steam Cloud functionality and save backups Added the moon and accurate moon phases Added seasons for the forest Added a few new radio conversations Button prompts to advance dialogue will now be updated to your remapped controls Buy furniture for your home https://i.imgur.com/1Vz10AY.jpg Joseph now sells furniture for your home at the gas station. It's not much, but it's better than nothing! Steam achievements https://i.imgur.com/Hsk1pKY.png There are now 11 Steam achievements to collect, from getting radicalized to collecting all the secret time crystals and stealing the maximum possible time crystals in Part 1. If you've already been playing Time Bandit, you will have to start a new game to collect many of the achievements. Steam Cloud functionality and save backups Now you can save your game to the Cloud. If you've already finished Part 1, I recommend loading up the game just to send a backup to the cloud, in case you switch hardware before Part 2 comes out. I've heard reports for other games of Steam Cloud overwriting saves when switching between devices (e.g., between a PC and a Steam Deck), so I also set up local save backups. Hopefully you won't have to use them, but in case anything goes wrong, see the FAQ for how to restore your save from a backup. Added the moon and accurate moon phases https://i.imgur.com/X0FBi8g.png Now there are real-time moon phases that are (approximately) accurate to the day. While setting these up, I also noticed and fixed an issue with transitioning out of sunrises, which most people probably never ran into since I doubt many are playing the game at sunrise. Added seasons for the...

After many years of work, Time Bandit — Part 1: Appendages of the Machine is finally available today. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1481910/Time_Bandit/ Time Bandit is a real-time adventure game where everything at your new resource management job seems to take longer than it should. Uncover a dark conspiracy behind the company you work for and fight back by sneaking around your workplace and stealing back your time. https://media.giphy.com/media/fccAlM0VhYlEY4NJu6/giphy.gif To celebrate the release, Time Bandit is receiving a 10% launch discount and will be featured in the Steam Stealth Fest and Indie Live Expo. Feel free to join us in Time Bandit’s Discord community to talk about the game. I appreciate your support during the game's launch!

Hi! With Time Bandit now released, I wanted to let you know that I will be available for receiving bug reports in the days after launch. The best place to report bugs is in the #bugs channel on Time Bandit’s Discord server because I can respond to you most quickly on there, but feel free to use the bug report thread on the Steam forums as well. The game was thoroughly tested before launch, but as an adventure game with many complex interlocking systems, there are bound to be things I’ve missed. For the most part, these should be small bugs, and I don’t anticipate many players encountering significant issues, but if you do, I will try my best to fix them as soon as possible. I am working on Time Bandit entirely on my own, so please be patient, but I will give priority to fixing anything that causes softlocks or hinders progress (while keeping in mind that Time Bandit includes certain deliberate design choices where progress may intentionally be slowed). In the meantime, if the game punishes you unfairly for quitting without saving due to a softlock, there’s a tip in the FAQ on the Steam forums for how to skip the punishment. Thank you for your support and your help in finding bugs! -Joel