MicroProse News: Death By Scrolling Releases, Cleared Hot coming soon!

Nov 04, 2025

As we pass issue 50 onto 51, this week brings fresh updates, new launches, and a few behind-the-scenes insights. From Cleared Hot to Urban Strife, there’s plenty to explore.

Announcements

Cleared Hot

The Early Access release date for Cleared Hot has been announced, mark your calendars for November 20th.

Here’s when you can expect it to go live:

🚁 The Americas – When you wake up

🪖 Europe – Around lunchtime

👨‍✈️ Asia – After work

💥 Oceania – Later at night

Early Access Release Date Announcement ! Thu, October 30, 2025 Dearest Wishlisters, the time is finally here for me to share some news! Cleared Hot will be released into Steam Early Access... View on Steam

Cleared Hot 20 Nov, 2025 View on Steam

Death By Scrolling

Death By Scrolling launched this week, have you made it past the ferry man yet?

Death by Scrolling Q4 2025 View on Steam

Lucca x Knights of Frontier Valley

We were at Lucca Comics & Games this week, where Martin and Robert J. Kuntz answered questions about Knights of Frontier Valley. Thanks to Razer for supplying the booth chairs, we’re giving them away.

Enter the giveaway here.

Game Development Blogs

Boat Crew

Surprise! Co-op is coming to Boat Crew.

Going CO-OP | Beta Coming Soon Thu, October 30, 2025 Greetings Captain, It’s been some time since our last briefing. Command has authorized us to break radio silence and forward ... View on Steam

Sea Power

The Sea Power team will be hosting an AMA soon. You can submit questions ahead of time via the link below.

Sea Power AMA! Mon, November 03, 2025 Sea Power - 1st AMA Hello everyone! It's been nearly a year since our last survey, where we set out priorities and got to wor... View on Steam

Martin also joined Slitherine's podcast to talk about the game:

Game Updates

Carrier Command 2

The Server Telemetry update is now live, along with a few other improvements.

v1.5.13 - The Server Telemetry Update! Wed, October 29, 2025 Dear Players, Today we have released a minor update including telemetry logging output for server events. This has been reque... View on Steam

Darkenstein 3-D

Rowye continues to respond to feedback with multiple updates this week.

1.0.5 - Mostly map-specific fixes. Mon, October 27, 2025 Here goes a quick list of the changes in this patch: · Fixed checkpoint spawn bugs in final boss pre-fight. · Fixed final lev... View on Steam

Update 1.0.6 Tue, October 28, 2025 A few more quick map specific fixes: - Level 12: added fence to the right side to stop a possible exploit. - Level 12: fixed ... View on Steam

Update 1.0.7 - Achievements Wed, October 29, 2025 Hi everyone! I know broken achievements is very frustrating, so here you go. Here's a list of the changes for this update: Ac... View on Steam

Update 1.0.8 Thu, October 30, 2025 Hi everyone. Here goes another bunch of much needed fixes: · Enemies spawned by other enemies no longer are added to the kill... View on Steam

Update 1.0.9 Fri, October 31, 2025 Hi! Another late night update for me. Here are the changes. · Fixed disappearing treasure in level 3. · Fixed 1 piece of trea... View on Steam

Update 1.0.10 Mon, November 03, 2025 Hi! The tenth patch is coming around and here are the changes: - Level 9, added missing collider near generator. - Level 10, ... View on Steam

Death By Scrolling

The first update focuses on stability and quality improvements. We’re working with Valve to investigate frame rate issues on Steam Deck, thanks for your patience.

Build 139 Update Thu, October 30, 2025 Thank you to everyone who has been sharing feedback and reports since release. Build 139 focuses on improving platform stabil... View on Steam

EXFIL

To coincide with the free demo weekend, a new update has been released for EXFIL.

🎯 EXFIL Free Weekend – Live Now! (October 31 to November 2) Fri, October 31, 2025 Hey Operators, The EXFIL Free Weekend is officially live on Steam! Jump in now through the EXFIL Demo and experience the full... View on Steam

Open Wheel Manager 2

This update improves AI team promotion and driver awareness during contract negotiations.

HOTFIX #11 Mon, November 03, 2025 🛠 Fixes Fixed an issue where AI teams could sign a contract with your academy driver before their existing contract had expi... View on Steam

Strategos Demo

A new patch for the Strategos demo includes localisation, UX/UI updates, and more.

Thanks again for all the feedback.

Second Demo Patch Mon, October 27, 2025 Added Unit Type symbols to banners updated UI visuals for selection highlights and deployment zones updated visuals for UI po... View on Steam

Urban Strife

Just in time for Halloween, this update adds zombies, highway ambushes, pyromaniacs, booby traps, and more. Advanced modding support is also in development and will be coming soon.

Halloween Patch: Zombies & Bandit Ambushes, Localizations & Modding (soon) Mon, October 27, 2025 The October update is finally here, now available for everyone on the Public Branch. To mark the occasion, we’ve launched a s... View on Steam