Renowned Explorers (now at Emperor's Challenge DLC, Patch: Community Reward) $

[getter77]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/296970/?snr=1_5_1100__1100 $19.99 Win/Mac/Linux
http://renownedexplorers.com/

Renowned Explorers: International Society is a strategy adventure game set in the 19th century.
Key Features

    Explore the far corners of the world in the age of discovery, outsmart your rivals, campaign for fame and become the most Renowned Explorer of the 19th century
    Live your own adventures; get to know your explorers with their own character traits, skills and quirks, manage their progression while hunting for the most prestigious treasures
    Prepare your treasure hunt; collect Insight, Research, Gold and Status on your expeditions to acquire supplies and support for the next adventure
    Attitude-based gameplay; choose the best course of action by engaging your opponents physically and mentally using charm, deception, intimidation or a show of force
    There is always something new to discover in the thrilling procedurally generated expeditions, where your reputation opens up new opportunities


Take command of a hand-picked group of diverse explorers and travel across the globe in search of legendary treasures while staying ahead of your rivals. Earn prestige in the International Society and become world's most Renowned Explorer!

Visit lost temples, forgotten cities and untamed wilderness to discover magnificent treasures. Find your way past wolves, smugglers and angry locals to become known as a fearless explorer. Every expedition has challenging encounters and your nemesis Rivaleux will take any chance to thwart your efforts.

Select your band of adventurers carefully! Each of the 20 explorers has their own expertise and character traits when dealing with conflicts. Choose among Fighters, Scouts, Speakers and Scientists and find out the best way to use their talents.

Acquire knowledge, get rich, or become famous by completing procedurally generated expeditions. Use these resources to get the skills, support and equipment you need for your next endeavor.

Approach the locals consciously when running into a conflict;
Fight them with Melee, Ranged and Area of Effect attacks,
win them over using Cheers, Charms and Compliments,
or scare them away by Insults, Taunts and Humiliation

Every encounter is a new challenge with many solutions and it's up to you to build a reputation. Are you a diplomat, a schemer or a fighter..?

Start your adventure now!

[getter77]

Update #1

Renowned Explorers has been out for just a week. We're glad and proud to say that there are many players enjoying the game. The community already welcomed a lot of people posting their adventures, helping each other and discussing balance. The subject of difficulty came up often. Many liked it, many found it too hard, and some of the more masochistic people found it too easy.

A perfect fit for Difficulty Options. We now offer Easy, Normal, Classic and Impossible to make sure that every player can adjust the experience to their liking. You select it at the start of every game, and it will be shown in your score screen. For the people that liked the game as it was: Classic has exactly the same balance as the game at launch.

To make sure that ambitious expedition leaders always have More to Explore, we also added in a bit of new content in the existing expeditions. You'll have to discover it to know what it is For the rest of our intentions, please consult the Game Roadmap pinned in the Community Hub. Patch notes can be discovered there as well.

Other than adding in difficulties and content, we fixed some issues that people were experiencing.

We wish you many more happy and appropriately hard adventures!
- Abbey Games

Change notes [September 10, 15:30]
Gameplay:
- Added some new events and encounters. You'll have to explore to find them
- Added Difficulty settings: Easy, Normal, Classic, Impossible. This is selected at start, unchangeable. The 'Plus' achievements from Adventure mode can only be awarded on Classic or higher.
- Added a cheat mode which enables a 'Win Encounter' mode.
Issues:
- Fixed exploit where people could continue after their 5th expedition
- Game is playable with mouse only
- Crash fix in Job UI
- Better handling of corruption in save games
- Achievement fixes
- Added -g_usecloudsave, a launch option to disable Steam's cloud saving API.
- Miscellaneous fixes for crashes and bugs and broken content.

Change notes [September 4, 14:45]
- Small fixes to missing/wrong texts
- Possibly fixed that game doesn't crash at startup when owning a corrupt save.
- Fixed a few small bugs.

Change notes [September 3, 16:00]

- Small balance change so that Gun Smuggler in the Caribbean has lower range.
- Fixed a few rare crashes regarding loading games, spending Insight, exiting expeditions and selecting leveling options.
- Add option for mail address in crash-reports, so that we can contact you directly regarding crashes made during Renowned Explorers. Should work for Windows and OSX instances.
- Can now determine correct windows version, so we can assist you better with crashes.
- Added diagnostic and information so that we can check driver versions, and assist with updating when necessary. We are also generating better error reports for driver crashes.
- Still looking into issues that user are having with integrated Intel graphics cards on Windows.
- Some users are running out of memory in video RAM or RAM, we are looking into unloading this data more efficiently.
- Can now properly report out of memory issues that are occurring for some users.

Change notes [September 2, 19:00]

Gameplay:
- Small balance tweaks

Other:
- Fixed a bug where you couldn't click on units during a battle.
- Solved several saving/loading bugs.
- Fixed ability animations freezing after a frame drop.
- Improved some animations and added missing speech bubbles.
- Corrected various spelling mistakes and added missing text.
- Fixed various small bugs.

[getter77]

Patch #4

While we aim to release a big content patch in the middle of October, there's a lot of things that we could do to improve your experience right now.

Captain Perks - Many people noticed that Anna's Captain Perk, a bonus that you get for selecting her as captain, is stronger and more fun than other perks. We thought about nerfing it, but since a lot of people enjoy playing like that, we decided to keep it in. Instead we experimented with some replacement Captain Perks for other Captains that play equally nicely to Anna's and Kiwi's captain perks. So try out Yvonne, Charles and Dolores to find their new captain perks that will influence your strategy during the whole game.

Character Inspection during Menus - There were complaints about not being able to inspect perks, stats or items while shopping around, making a choice in a Story or doing something else. Frankly, we were clicking around too much ourselves as well. From this patch on, you can click your character's portraits while in a Entourage/Item Shop, Story or any other UI to make a better choice. You can't however swap items while doing something else.

Loads of balance - Adriaan, our lead designer whom you may know as AbbeyAdriaan in the Community Hub,has been keeping an eye on how people play by looking at your posts and our testers. Informed by you, he made many small changes to increase the number of viable strategies and tweak the challenge curve. Check the full patch notes to see what changed.

Achievements - A number of people discovered that a few achievements didn't trigger correctly. We can now say with certainty that you can 100% complete Renowned Explorers. Good luck, expedition leaders.

A Bunch of Fixes - Rutger, one of the gameplay programmers at the Abbey, has been fixing a bunch of small issues that were reported here on the forums or elsewhere. Again, view the full notes for this. Think of serialization problems, interfaces for small screens.

We hope all these improvements help you enjoy the game more and longer.

Venture forth!

Patch #4: UI Improvements, Captain perks, Achievements, Lots of Balance
Change notes [September 23, 14:30]

ADDITIONS:
- You can now inspect crew member perks and stats during stories, Shops and other menus by clicking their portraits.
- Yvonne has a new captain perk! Her Devious boost now gets better with each expedition completed.
- Charles has a new captain perk! His perk improves campaign tokens every time you buy a specialist, much like Anna's captain perk.
- Dolores has a new captain perk! She can make Collect tokens give great Status, which improves every time she succeeds on the Adventure Wheel.

BALANCE:
- Transylvania treasures give a lot more Insight.
- Buff gained from gloves in Sydney now add 40% damage instead of 25% damage.
- Hungarian Fort (**) has more battles and gives more tokens.
- There are a few less study tokens in the Caribbean
- Made getting Research Papers progressively more expensive.
- The starting bonus of the Science tree in the papers has changed to give +1 study on technique challenges
- "Field Rations" now requires "Opening Doors"
- Bonus from "Training Regimen" paper is now +2 Attack whenever a Fighter succeeds on the adventure wheel.
- Fighters' attack slightly boosted.
- Earl's captain perk now gives 4 Collect tokens per Paper.
- Amir's Compliment isn't awesomely strong anymore
- A certain non-existing creature in Shangri-La is now more approachable. (Adventure Wheel is actually passable).

FIXES:
- Fixed a few broken achievements. 100% completion rate is possible.
- Fixed quest/story state on expeditions sometimes not saving properly
- Added option in the Settings menu to disable cloud syncing of save games
- Improved some user interfaces on small screens
- Fixed Agatha's inspiring course not being buffed by Knowledge is Power
- Font rendering now uses less memory
- Fixed miscellaneous bugs and typos

[getter77]

Patch #5

Today's patch has been in beta for a couple of days, but now everyone can access it. It improves the Highlands and Egypt and adds/rebalances items.

The patch is a small (but significant) one, as we're mostly working on the free content update all of you will receive in about two weeks. In the meanwhile we applied some learned design lessons to improve some items and increase the event quality in the Highlands and in the Egypt expedition. We also fixed some bugs.

ADDITIONS:
- A new trinket in New Orleans: The Spyglass
- Some new endings and a new event in the Highlands and Egypt.

BALANCE:
- A lot of trinkets have their price down, usability improved, and usage simplified.
- Trowel and Broom boost fixed to melee range, and power decreased to -20 Speech Defense.
- The Highlands has it's treasures scattered over more events. Plays a bit more like Caribbean now.

FIXES:
- Some remaining issues with achievements.

[getter77]

Mali Mystery free DLC   

Since our release in September we have had a very positive response by a community full of Renowned Explorers. For us developers it's great to be in the forums when people are so appreciative of the game we've been working on so hard. And many of you are helpful in making the community a nice place. This response inspired us to expand upon the game with a new expedition, available now as a one-time free DLC, which is automatically downloaded.

Except for this large content boost, we'll be updating the game with smaller updates every two weeks for the rest of 2015. These will focus on balance, but might contain new secrets and adventures too

You'll meet new characters and discover fresh adventures and treasures in a set of new environments in Mali.

On top of this we've added Leaderboards. You'll find them in the main menu. They'll show a list of all your own campaigns, both successful and failed ones. But what is more interesting to aspiring World Famous Explorers is that you can now also compare your best scores with the best scores of your Steam friends. Time to start thinking about your optimal strategy with Ivan!

Now, it's time to start discovering all the new mysteries in Mali. We hope you'll enjoy it! If so, please consider writing a positive review and leaving a comment in the Community Hub. That always helps and shows us we should do this more often

Go find yourself some treasures, explorer!

- Added a new expedition: Mali Mystery.
- Playthroughs are now recorded in local leaderboards.
- Playthroughs can now be compared with Friends through online leaderboards.
- Fixed some small achievement issues.

[getter77]

Patch #8.1

-Fixed Charles' captain perk giving its bonuses for helper entourage.
-Fixed Power of Secrets research working for all token types at any time.
(Yes, basically there was a short window in which these 2 bonuses were insanely powerful )
-Fixed Bia's captain perk holding out (but not giving) its reward in non-boss battles.

ADDITIONS:
- Kwame has a new captain perk! He will attract helpers by being friendly.
- Bia has a new captain perk! She becomes stronger by fighting, and gains Campaign tokens by taking down bosses.
- Molly has a new captain perk! Aside from her cutthroat ability, Rogues will now net you more Collect tokens.
- Reworked and added events in Transylvania.
- Reworked Emerged Island events a bit.
- Improved speech feedback a little.

BALANCE:
- Kwame has 'try to Enrage' instead of 'try to Terrify', and is all round a bit more scout-y.
- Anna's boosts to gold and status have been reduced to +1 to +2 Gold/Status.

TREASURES:
- Rank of some treasures change to better match their power.
- Stegoceras Skull, Saxon Ring, Dragon Head, Brooche in Urnes Style, Celtic Cross, Saxon King's Mantle and Sun Stone give different tokens.
- King's Mantle, Stegocerus, Sun Stone, Saxon Ring, Dragonhead and Urnes Brooch is easier to trigger.
- Lotharskreuz and Charlemange hand are now somewhere else....
- Effects of all Transylvania treasures changed.
- Effects of most Emerged Island treasures changed.

FIXES:
- Bia's triple slash works as intended.
- Virginia in Mali is now a boss encounter.
- Dolores' mask is now acknowledged by the Mali masked villagers.
- Some items have new buff icons.

- Removed Halloween theme (but the content remains!)
- Revived units are now de-stunned
- Fixed Research Mastery Achievement
- Fixed freeze issue that happened with Quick Encounter Animations on
- Sped up attitude & mood animations with Quick Encounter Animations on
- Fixed shading around heads that removed fog in a square
- More space for tokens in arena review ui
- Miscellaneous fixes in texts and other content

- Added new content, but what, and where?...woOOoooOOOoo..

- Improved foundation of save system
- Improved robustness of cloud saving
- Profiles are now never overwritten without express user permission
- Every profile now has a maximum of 300 save slots, to conform with the Steam Cloud file limit
- Removed a number of redundant auto save files
- Fixed some issues with auto saves not being removed properly

- fixed some issues with Mali (Mask of Madness and boss)
- Small rebalance.
- Fixed the supreme tactician buff.

- Fixed teamkilling hyenas in Mali boss arena.
- Fixed paging for leaderboards.
- Fixed issues with leaderboards on slow connections.
- Fixed a buff icon.
- Fixed a crash bug when loading to right before the coronation.

[jim]

Getter, based on what I see as this game's content, do you think that the Curious Expedition merits a log on this site? Or do you figure they have enough publicity elsewhere?

[getter77]

Hard to say really, I know that their launch tremendously under-performed their hopeful expectations, as per their little post-mortem dealie on Reddit---but hopefully the Mali DLC and all these updates remaining in 2015 will turn the tide a bit.

They've yet to catch fire anywhere near something like, say, FTL, which they drew ample inspiration from.

[getter77]

Patch #10, the first half of a bold move or so indeed...   

A few months ago we promised to update Renowned Explorers every two weeks in 2015. Even in these last few weeks, we have 2 more big Patches planned for you! One for today, and one for later in December. These patches greatly increase the replayability of Renowned Explorers so that you can have many more fresh adventures next year. And while our patch program will not continue in 2016, we will be announcing exciting news for Renowned Explorers's future. It will be even better than bi-weekly patches so keep an eye out the coming weeks!

Completely new Tech Trees
While the previous tech trees offered lots of different strategies already, we believed they focused too much on specific character classes. This means that your Research strategy was largely determined by your crew choice. To increase the number of available strategies we created entirely new Research Trees. These new trees focus on very different aspects and allow you more control over your Supplies capacity. We've already found a lot of new strategies, and trust that you will find even more. Start up the game now to test it out. And let us know what you think!

Pedrinho's new Captain Perk
If you've been playing Renowned Explorers these past few weeks, you'll have noticed that we're gradually improving Captain Perks for several characters. This Patch it's Pedrinho's turn. His new Captain Perk 'FUNraiser' focuses on his qualities as a party host to gain funds during Campaign jobs across the world.

Supplies
The new Research trees grant you much more control over the amount of Supplies you bring on expeditions. Supplies are a powerful tool for increasing your expedition length. To keep the game fun we balanced a lot of the supply costs and gains for traveling and rewards. So don't be surprised if your expeditions from now on seem harder or different. Just make sure you prepare well with the new Research tree!

ADDITIONS:
- Completely new Research trees. All trees have been replaced with new ones that allow more different strategies.
- Supply gain and usage over the whole game changed.
- Pedrinho has a new Captain Perk! His parties in Paris, Mumbai, Zanzibar and Cape Town are OFF. THE. CHARTS. (Rivaleux is not invited)
- Asian jobs now also give a lesser token, trigering some upgrades and treasures.
- Crew members now gain an extra Trinket slot through leveling (instead of through Research). Level depends on class.

BALANCE:
- Rollgames give 2 XP (instead of 1). XP required for Leveling increased.
- Fixed the most annoying thing ever in the game: Equipment shops now level through Gold! No more thinking: "darn, I still needed the Status I just blew on a helper."
- Agatha's Inspiring Course now comes one level later.
- Ivan base spirit raised to 45.
- Emilia base speech defense lowered to 20, base armor to 5, and speech to 22.
- Maria's base speech raised to 30.
- Mali villagers believe in the good heart of people a little longer (switch attitude later)
- Pedrinho's Party-Time cooldown increased to 4, cooldown Disarm increased to 5, power of partytime decreased to 50% and power of disarm decreased to 75%.
- Pedrinho gets the Survivalist - Navigation perk instead of Survivalist - Hunting on lvl 2.
- Emilia's academic bonus reduced to +1 Study
- Because of all the changes, Renown gain from resources has been reduced: Gold: 0.075, Status: 0.08, Research: 0.12
- Enemies on the Emerged Island are stronger
- Demons in Shangri-La are a bit weaker.
- Rose gives the Beguiler - Beautiful Smile perk instead of Beguiler - Storytelling
- Druid's sheep are now Highland Sheep

FIXES:
- fixed Roche's Anchor treasure
- fixed more achievement issues
- Fixed Dolores and Kwame's animations
- Rivaleux no longer shows any mercy! (fixed AI bug where Rivaleux wouldn't act)

THANKSGIVING:
- All non-enraging speech actions temporarily have a thanksgiving icon that triggers randomly instead of the original one. Spread the gratefulness!

BALANCE/CHANGES:
- Science now yields less renown
- The level 2 entourage of Constantinople is now level 3 and vice versa
- Cernunnos Skull gives slightly lower gains
- Executioner's Axe gives collect tokens instead of battle tokens
- Crown of thorns gives 2 supplies on top of current effect, but only triggers 3 times and loses resolve boost
- Defensive items have a bigger disparity between their first and secondary buffs
- Philospher Stone now gives +2 Campaign when a lvl 2 Archaeologist succeeds on the adventure wheel
- Seth Maribre's Scepter now triggers on lvl 3 Tactician and Diplomat
- Helpers get more expensive more quickly
- Rio entourage is more expensive
- Constantinople Entourage more expensive
- Earl gained a little more speech defense, and his captain perk is boosted
- Hungarian Fort is a bit more balanced out with treasures
- The Group Insult debuff is now defensive

- Removed Thanksgiving
- Added in more than 30 new speech icons to convey more character during speech abilities.
- Fixed a crash occurring when getting too many of the same type of Entourage helper.

[getter77]

Patch #11! 

After months of updates we present you with the last update of our patch program in 2015. For those that want to keep discovering new things in the new year, there is a big announcement soon!

But first, the contents of Patch #11. We focused on two frequent requests you had for the game.

Freeplay after 5th Expedition
Renowned Explorers is about gaining as much Renown as possible before the Exploration Year is over. To this end you have come up with many creative, smart and powerful strategies. Since you are judged for your score after 5 expeditions (which is important for the game design) you sometimes don't get to enjoy your full power when your strategy's end game kicked in. With this Patch we introduced the option to continue playing after your 5th expedition. This allows you to buy that one extra item, or finish the research tree, reach max level or test out your crew in Shangri-La without losing the game. It's important to note that you won't get another chance at beating Rivaleux' score: you are judged after 5 expeditions and any new expeditions are purely for your own fun, as the challenge of time pressure is gone. But still, you get to explore the entire world with your crew!

Encounter movement
Renowned Explorers is a Turn-based Strategy game. This makes it about making interesting choices, rather than hand eye coordination. Sometimes you (and we as well) had the problem of misclicking a tile during movement. In a dangerous situation this could end your entire adventure. To relieve this we introduced the Undo Move button which allows you to redo your very last movement (not action!). Together with the ability to spend movement in multiple clicks, this will definitely ease your encounter play.

ADDITIONS:
- You can now continue your expedition after it's over. One... more... expedition..
- Restart Expedition button added to allow faster restart on your first expedition
- Undo movement button added
- You can now do movement in steps
- Added extra tools for save game management for those of you with 100+ savegames

BALANCE:
- Insight from Roche's Treasure and Water of Life reduced to 1.
- Trinkets are cheaper and weaker. Removed a lot of the weird side effects.
- Trowel and Broom aura reduced to -10 Speech Defense.
- Tactician notes reduced to 15% Attack boost.
- Selling price of items is now 75%
- Movement in Shangri-La a bit cheaper
- Offensive items are stronger, decent and good offensive items are 33% cheaper
- Defenses of some later level characters increased.
- Lecture Expert no longer doubles Discovery, Secret and TreasureHunt tokens
- Kwame's double helper boost now fires at lvl. 5 Quick Thinker instead of lvl. 3.
- Ramped up late game helper cost a bit

TREASURES:
- Globus Cruciger gives 3 Campaign and 3 Collect per lvl of Diplomat, and 2 Insight
- Roche's Anchor gives 5 Collect per lvl of Stalwart, but 2 insight and 200 renown
- Roche's coat gives 5 Study per lvl of Naturalist, but 2 insight
- Roche's chest gives 1 insight
- Ritual book gives 1 insight
- Charlemagne's Hand no longer gives +5 Status from Campaign

FIXES:
- Fixed the issue where you would quit/crash out of the overworld and be unable to get a new city.
- Fixed Expedition Reports not working correctly.
- Fixed cultural awareness triggering on wrong jobs.

[getter77]

Patch #12

- Added some new adventures on the Highlands, as well as a new treasure.
- When you revive a crew member, the reviver gains bonus defenses for 2 turn.
- You can no longer equip trinkets brought from the overworld when on expedition
- Emotion Resistances are more clearly displayed during encounters.
- Most Shangri-La treasures got extra Renown bonuses.
- Gold, Status and Research tooltip now show extra info about Renown gain.

BALANCE:
- Cooldown of Strike of Fear raised to 6.
- 3rd and 4th tree of research significantly more expensive. This will allow you to actually OVER commit into science.
- Lowered the Renown Gain from the research masteries to 50% to reduce dependency on them.
- Gold and Status now have the same Renown modifier: 8%. Research still has 12%
- Boosted the healing power of all speech abilities: "Try to.." from 20% > 30% (Impress stays at 25%) and normal from 25% > 35%.
- Tranquility base power down to 40%.
- Rivaleux has a ranged Physical attack
- Scientist senses give +1 Study on a node of choice instead of +2.
- Writing History gives +1 Campaign token instead of +2.
- Apparatus Artists triggers on lvl 3 instead of lvl 2.
- Changed psychology a bit.
- The entourage for attitude (Pinkerton, Vaduva, etc.) is now pooled with same attitude: you will always have something useful per attitude instead of per resource type.
- Moved Monymusk Relinquary to the Scottish Castle and McRea.
- Cassandra in Egypt has lower defenses, mixed up resistances, Rivalini's have lower spirit
- Demon battles in Shangri changed, both the characters and the way they respond to your attitude.
- Red, green and blue demons all have different stats.
- The Red Demon can now pin you down.
- Shangri-La better advertises possible Supply stashes.
- Changes to a few Shangri-La stories to have slightly more control over Resolve loss.
- Shambhala key bonusses for Rivaleux lowered:
- Strength: Armor 25->20, Attack 10->6
- Heart: Terrified Nullify -> Resist, Speech 10->6
- Mind -> Impressed Nullify -> Resist, Speech Defense 25->15

- CAPTAINS:
- Anna's captain perk nerfed, AGAIN. If she's still that much out of line, I declare her a cockroach and unnerfable. Bonus for gold and status reduced to 1-2 from 1-3.
- Charles's captain perk bonus for gold and status reduced to 1-3 from 2-4 and curio reduced to 0-1 from 1-2.
- Lowered Hildegard's science gain from 2-6 to 2-4.
- Philippe now gains +4 Study token per medkit left at the end of an expedition.

FIXED:
- Renown multiplier bonuses for Gold didn't work. Now they do.
- Slight changes to the way stories are placed in expeditions.
- 'Practical supplies' icon during expeditions changes to 'supplies' as they were only used to advertize supplies.
- Zombie encounter no longer freezes when the Zombie frightens a Cultist
- Fixed an exploit where Undo move could be used to use abilities from farther away.
- Fixed an exploit where moving in steps avoided the slow of difficult terrain.
- Items don't count as treasures any longer.
- One.. More... Expedition is no longer still enabled after starting a new game
- Revisitable nodes are now actually revisitable!
- Fixed an exploit where you could get treasures multiple times by click spamming
- Item Shop, Passport and Entourage Shop work a little better on smaller aspect ratios
- Final node in Shangri-La now shows an objective cross.
- Abilities that couldn't be used from next to opponents (like Piercing Shot) can now be used while standing next to Friendly defeated opponents on the edge of the arena.
- Some typos.
- Fixed that entering an encounter with Tactician's Notes crashed the game.

[getter77]

More to Explore Expansion DLC $7.49   

This expansion pack for Renowned Explorers has one goal: giving you More To Explore! The main features are:

    Two complete new expeditions: the Andean Adventure & The Lost Island.
    The Campfire mechanic: crew relationships, back stories and game-changing upgrades.
    Treasure Bonus Choices, turning treasures into surprises that boost your strategy.

More Places To Explore
First of all, you will find two complete new expeditions on your World Map.

The Andean Adventure: A 3-star expedition into ancient Incan mountain territory. Find extremely valuable treasure by helping the different cities rise against the oppressive Emperor. Pay for the Llama Express to jump between areas of the map quickly.


The Lost Island: in this new end-game expedition the secrets of the Anti-Explorers will finally be revealed.. if your crew is capable enough to make it through. Go above and beyond, and you might just find the prehistoric and dangerous secrets hidden in the mysterious pink mist that covers this island.

With unique new mechanics and randomized content as before you'll go on countless adventures before uncovering every new secret and story.
More Stories To Explore
Wrestling star Dolores, Victor the veteran... you may think you know the 20 characters that REIS has to offer but there's more to their story. With the new Campfire feature you'll learn more about your favorite characters.

By playing Crew Story cards you weave new story lines through your adventure, exploring your crew's past, and allowing you to build relationships between characters. Let Anna teach her terribly intelligent lessons, help Ivan stand up for his moral code and decide who falls in love with Maria. No crew will be the same!

More Strategies To Explore
Renowned Explorers is about strategy, and More To Explore gives you brand new ways to build it.

    Gathered around the campfire, your crew draws on their past and ambitions as they tell Campfire Stories of your choice. These stories play like cards from a deck, where each story has the ability to transform both your strategy and your crew. Compose different crews to create new decks and unlock new stories after every adventure.
    Treasures already granted you nice bonuses, but in this expansion they become a real treat. Each discovery lets you choose from semi-random powerful bonuses, adding to your plan. And if you can't decide, chairman Pinkerton is there to help!

With this expansion you can be more certain than ever: no new adventure will be the same.

There's always More To Explore!

Patch #16 [May 31st, 19:00] (Build #363)
NEW:
- Fancy new loading screen!
- Added random button to crew selection screen
- Added a new performance option to the settings menu
- Added version number to win screen

FIXES:
- Fixed Philippe's upgraded Amnesia Shot being able to target 3 instead of 2 opponents
- Fixed camera being able to go out of bounds on very low frame rates
- Fixed Turf House event
- Improved feedback on maxed level crewmembers tooltip
- Fixed some perks not fitting in the item shop UI
- Fixed Event scrollbar placement
- Fixed Mood UI text placement in specific cases

BALANCE:
- Finishing Anthropology gives 25 Renown per victory.

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Patch #15 [May 18th, 10:00] (Build #341)
ADDED:
- Perks now have nice recognizable icons in front of them

FIXES:
- Fixed hotkey in main menu being inproperly active.
- Fixed small issue with passport UI opening on top of shop UI on narrow aspect ratios.
- Disarming Smile by Pedrinho was secretly an Attack ability.
- Zombie NO_I18N
- Monastery in Shangri-La now gives speech as advertised
- You can reconsider your options when distracting Roche's crew in the Emerged Island
- Reconsidering while mining the Quartz Mine won't remove the option to examinate the Skeleton (you know what I mean right? Go get that Gargoyle code!)
- Chuckles' sister is now blue.
- Fish in the tree gives supplies on the right moment
- Fixed phillipe's enraged resistance. AGAIN.
- Fixed Celtic Cross. AGAIN.

BALANCE:
- The journalist bonus will only apply on the 5th expedition, not on insight spent
- Ivans upgrade gives +2 Supplies instead of +1.
- NEW: Flavia awaits you as a new Entourage member in Rio!
- Rio now has 4 levels of Entourage
- Finishing Observation now gives +50% renown from a resource
- Writing History now gives +1 Campaign on entering an Encounter node, and +3 campaign on entering an Epic node.
- The off-resource Entourage members in Istanbul (Rami, Zafira, Amon etc.) now are selected by token type
- The off-resource Entourage members in Istanbul (Rami, Zafira, Amon etc.) are significantly weaker
- Moondisk worth 375 now.
- Removed the newbie trap on the Shrunken Head

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Patch #14.3 [April 20th, 15:30] (Build #323)
- Fixed an exploit where upgrading supply capacity during an expedition refilled all your supplies. (yes, it's possible to spend research during expeditions )

Patch #14.2 [April 15th, 11:10] (Build #320)
- Fixed a start-up crash related to unsuccessful Steam sign in.

Patch #14.1 [April 14th, 21:00]
- fixed an issue with an oasis event in Egypt.

Patch #14 [April 14th, 16:30]
NEW:
- Ivan has a new captain perk! -1 Resolve. Gains +1 Supply Capacity after the 2nd and 3rd expedition.
- Added 2 small events.

BALANCE (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧:
- Insight jobs in Europe and Africa now give one extra token. (Timbuktu > Study, Zanzibar > Collect, Cape Town > Campaign)
- Research for end of 3rd tree and up is a little cheaper
- Laboratory changed -> German Laboratory: +2 Study when spending insight in Berlin
- Science Assistance now give 2 insight
- Renown from Status is now 6%. Renown from Science is now 14%.
- Hungarian Fort is a bit more generous towards Devious crews, especially the Beast.
- Egypt is a bit more rewarding now.

FIXED:
- All calls to online services now have a proper time-out
- Clarified message when saving and quitting in encounter
- Buffs are now sorted behind UIs
- Undo button is now correctly positioned in narrow aspect ratios
- Item Shop UI is now correctly positioned in narrow aspect ratios
- Fixed minor memory issue related to loading save games
- Fixed a lot of typos and missing strings (including my arch-nemesis "behaviour")
- Abominable mountain (it doesn't exist, why am I typing this?) now is revisitable.
- Fixed Armor debuffs being shown as percentage debuffs
- The smuggler boat now also gives the Secret/Treasure Hunt tokens when you found the hidden options
- Fixed an issue where stacked poison costs you multiple resolve
- More clear range tooltip for AoE attacks centered around the caster
- Some more memory optimisations
- Fixed an issue with 4k screens on Windows
- Game now properly selects correct GPU with NVIDIA Optimus setups

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Patch #13.7 [April 4th, 17:30]
- Fixed issue where Star of Africa could be gained repeatedly.
- Fixed crash caused by clicking an item in crew selection, triggered by clicking an item later.
- Small text fixes.

Patch #13.6 [April 1st, 23:10]
- Added logging to debug a hard-to-find crash when selecting an item in the shop or passport UI.

Patch #13.5 [April 1st, 15:50]
- Fixed some broken strings
- Fixed rare crash when quickly entering encounter right after receiving a treasure
- Added warning for Intel graphics cards with outdated drivers

Patch #13.4 [March 31th, 13:00]
- News & Community now take timezones into account
- Fixed Awarded perk from Admiral Reis so that it gives Military History
- Fixed crash when buying entourage very fast and then switching to another city
- Fixed crash in main menu when restarting too quickly
- Updated game logo in some menus

Patch #13.3 [March 31th, 11:30]
- Fixed rare crash in rendering

Patch #13.2 [March 30th, 10:30]
- Performance fix in Transylvania expedition
- Added back version number to main menu
- Lowered memory threshold for which compatibility warning is triggered
- Fixed audio stuttering on some PCs

Patch #13.1 [March 29th, 19:00]
Mac and Linux versions of Patch #13, along with:
- Fix for crash in Transylvania
- News & Community now have expiration date
- Disabled metrics system
- Assorted text fixes.
- Fixed startup crashes on some hardware configurations
- Added extra log information about video drivers to investigate rare problems

Patch #13 [March 26th, 14:00]
NEW:
- A new main menu with:
- New layout to make everything feel less crowded.
- A news feed to show news relevant to players.
- A reference to any Community Events, often the Weekly Challenge on these forums.
- Added incompatibility warnings for users with potentially incompatible hardware or drivers.

BALANCE:
- Yvonne has Charms instead of Sense of Humor
- Bia gains Defense instead of Formations
- Admiral Reis gives Military History instead of Formations
- Lute gives Storytelling instead of Astonishing
- Kwame no longer gets double helpers on high levels diplomat or quick thinker

FIXES:
- Pagans believe in the occult.
- The "truth in the occult" option gives tokens now.
- Oengus Crown treasure is BACK
- Fixed a bug in which Quick Thinkers had to be either really cool or really lame to run through the Meadow's Castle.
- Fixed the text of mood buffs.
- Fixed using the machine from machine vs. magic in the talking tree event.
- Fixed a place where the Monymusk treasure shouldn't be available but was.

OPTIMIZATION:
- Long audio files like music and ambient are now streaming to reduce memory load.
- More unloading of files that are not expected to be used soon.
- Miscellaneous memory optimizations.

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Patch #17 

The More To Explore release is just two weeks ago but it's already time for new content. Patch #17 adds the content that was unlocked in the 48-hour Community Content Challenge in which a whopping 190 explorers joined forces to unlock all tiers of content. So, what's new?

New Cities (Tier 3)
The sheriff of San Francisco and the king of Muscat are very impressed with the spirit of the Renowned Explorers. To attract more renown to their own cities, they've opened up new facilities for explorers! San Francisco will open up a modest new Entourage shop, while Muscat will offer exotic trinkets in its humble bazaar. Naturally, Sydney and New Orleans will respond accordingly to this new competition on the market...

New Andean Quest (Tier 2)

Expansion owners may discover a new treasure in the Andean Adventure, but not before overcoming one of the hardest challenges among level 3 expeditions. Go explore, before this dark force consumes the Andes.

New Stories (Tier 1)
Wherever you go after this patch, you might meet some of the Entourage specialists during their travels. A few events scattered everywhere.

Quality of Life
While working on new content, we've also worked to improve several features in the game. Most notably you can now swap items in the item shop by dragging a new item onto an equipped one... like in any RPG You can also dampen the pulsing Resolve and Research icons through the options and read more crewmember details in the Advanced Selection screen.


Patch #17.1 [June 14th, 19:20] (Build #373)
- Fixes a rare crash to do with scouting icons.

Patch #17 [June 14th, 17:40] (Build #370)
NEW:
- You can now unlock Muscat, hosting a trinket bazaar in the Middle east.
- You can now unlock San Francisco, offering new entourage members
- A dark new force is terrorizing the Andes. (MTE)
- New events scattered all over the game, allowing you to meet more Specialists on their own journeys.
- Added option to dampen low Resolve and available Research warning pulse
- You can now (finally) swap your items by dragging \o/
- Added Crewmember Details box to Advanced Crew Selection screen.
- Added DLC and version indicators to leaderboard entries.
- Visual tweaks to scouting flags (the icons displaying information about unvisited nodes)

FIXES:
- Fixed bug where "sharpshooters alerted" message would pop up after every Friendly won encounter after Lost Island in Marathon mode
- Slightly dampened default low Resolve warning pulse
- Fixed Raptor Queen event
- Should no longer be possible to get stuck with unplayable cards in hand
- Fixed bonus descriptions in leaderboards
- Fixed Encounter token Renown gain for Captain perk for Maria and Victor
- Fixed Victor's captain perk only awarding 25% extra gold from Encounter
- Fixed a ton of missing/wrong text and pictures

BALANCE:
- Toned down Inca Dagger and Emperor Garb
- Pedrinho will hate coffee haters
- Decreased Renown gain from Encounter tokens from Maria's and Victor's Captain Perk to 5.
- The machine in Lost Island doesn't allow for Resolve suicide anymore
- Shangri-La treasures are worth a lot more

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Patch #18 

Following renewed interest in the game, we're continuing work on Renowned Explorers through at least August. For now, that means a fresh patch #18, with juicy content and a ton of balance and fixes!

Shangri-La
With the More To Explore expedition we released the Lost Island, a 5-star alternative to Shangri-La. It has proven very popular and many players like it better than the Tibetan expedition both in terms of fun and game value. To help Shangri-La back up to its legendary status, we created new content and did some balance changes and fixes in both expeditions. Visit Shangri-La for a new treasure and some new events!

Captain Hatice
Hatice has a new captain perk! Many people don't know that the silent Hatice is a brilliant investor. It explains, feeds and expresser her greed. In Patch #18 we've made this into a new captain perk for her: Investor: +10 Collect at the start of each expedition. Gain 2 insight if you end an expedition with 50 Collect or more. Can you achieve a proper Return of Investment?

No-one escapes destiny
Over time Renowned Explorers has developed a dedicated community of Weekly Challengers. We never expected this competitive part of the game to become a community focus, but now that it is, we felt the need to work on some randomness issues to disincentivize constant reloading. Roll-games and encounter arenas are now pre-determined at island generation, so that when you fail a challenge, you won't be able to succeed in it by reloading the game. There are also some miscellaneous fixes for exploits.

More adventuring
On top of the above, Adriaan worked on a lot of balance to make the game more fun, based on community feedback. There are changes in cards, entourage, treasures, events and encounters.

Have fun on your adventures!

NEW:
- Hatice has a new captain perk! Investor: +10 Collect at the start of each expedition. Gain 2 insight if you end an expedition with 50 Collect or more.
- Added a new treasure in Shangri-La!
- Added a few events in Shangri-La!

BALANCE (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧:
ENTOURAGE:
- Auctioneer and Impressionist Entourage removed from Stockholm due to misfitting
- All Stockholm entourage now give +1 token at level 4 instead of +1/+2 on level 2/5 (MTE)
- All Rio entourage now gives +2 tokens at level 6 instead of +1/+3 on level 3/6 (MTE)
CARDS:
- Lowered Earl's bonus from Weird Patents to 3% (MTE)
- Agatha's German Import will now only penalize 5 Study, 25 Speech Defense, and give 3 Campaign instead of 1 (MTE)
- It's not longer possible to bring the same Campfire Story twice. Any doubles will be left out of your deck at game start.
TREASURES:
- Garb and starter treasures that give X tokens at the end of an expedition are a bit toned down (MTE)
- Shambhala Keys give 250 Renown instead of 150
- All final treasures from Shangri-La now have pool bonuses (MTE)
MISC:
- Removed the skip encounter events in Shangri-La
- TRex and Darwin are significantly tougher
- Roll-games and encounter arena seeds are now pre-determined, which means loading to an earlier point no longer gives you a different chance. There's an exception for 'Retry Encounter' in Discovery mode, which still refreshes the seed.

FIXED:
- Can't get a rank A treasure in Turf house any more
- missing images, spelling errors
- Phillipe's card now works correctly
- Perk UI scroll resets to top when switching crewmembers.
- Exploit where opening inventory during events, saved the game state (but not the event progress).
- Issue where items could be lost by dragging and dropping an item from an incompatible slot on it.
- Issue where profile switching could recover a pre-win save from a finished adventure mode run.
- Issue where double clicking crewmember for targeted Campfire Stories triggered the story twice.

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Patch #19      

Dear Explorers, today we look back upon a year rich of history and progress for Renowned Explorers. All of it is certainly worth celebrating and we will do so in many ways! Please do read on.

Patch #19: Emerged Island content
First of all, we just released Patch #19, the last of a series of patches meant to improve and stabilize the game. This one contains quite a bit of fresh content to make the Emerged Island that much more exciting.

Discounts
Secondly Renowned Explorers is running a 60% discount until 72 hours from now. This is the deepest discount ever and a good time to convince your friend to start their own adventures. The More To Explore DLC is on discount as well for those of you still looking to expand their explorations.

Livestream Celebration
For the party itself, we hosted a live stream here on our Twitch channel. Unfortunately it's over now, but you can watch it back right there. The program consistsed of a look back on the past year, the release of Patch #19, playing a 1-year old launch build, a 2-year old dev build, contests, interviews and a glimpse in Renowned Explorers' future. Read more here.

*** UPDATE ***
At the end of the anniversary celebration stream we announced some exciting news: we will keep working on Renowned Explorers. Instead of focusing on regular patches and weekly challenges, we will focus our efforts on creating a new expansion pack. This one will be different from More To Explore. If you want to know how, check out the livestream archive towards the end


Hotfix #19.1
NEW:
- Lobbyists and Journalists price increased by 20%.
- Ulfberht Sword removed from tactician check in Saxon Island.
- Starter island doesn't hide what treasure you'll get anymore in the boss event.
- some small text fixes

Patch #19
NEW:
- Plenty of new stuff to discover in the Emerged Island! A handful new events, 3 new treasures and a new and vicious opponent in a new area!
- A new treasure is to be found in Shangri-La!
- The Insight spending screen shows a tooltip for expected token value.
- There is an option to increase the speed of Insight spending.
- The Treasure Collection UI in the Main Menu now shows information about the bonus that can be obtained from it. Hover the bonus pool icons for any previously discovered treasure.
- The Treasure collection UI in the Main Menu now also shows all unlocked Campfire Stories and your progress in unlocking them. (MTE)
- An option to Insight

BALANCE:
- There is more gold available in Shangri-La.
- Helpers have been reset to their values from patch 19.
- Students now give 1-2 research, but cost 100 status to recruit. (first value)
- The pre-determination feature of Patch #18 has been removed from Discovery Mode. This means reloading now gives fresh roll game chances and encounter layouts.

FIXES:
- Chairman Pinkerton's advice crashed when evaluating some Ruby Lotus bonuses.
- Chairman Pinkerton can now advise on all different bonus types, where he ignored some previously.