2026-08-17 15:46 UTC · Community Announcements · Darenn
Today's a special day: Dawnfolk is out on Android and iOS!Just search for Dawnfolk on the App Store or Google Play and you'll find it. This is something a lot of players have been asking for, so I'm really hoping you'll have a great time with it! As for you guys on Steam, I'm pretty sure most of you already own the game, but feel free to share it with your friends who play on mobile! You can of course buy it to support me, or if you just want another excuse to play Dawnfolk again and beat it on your phone. A huge thanks to Short Circuit Studio, who ported the game and are currently handling ev
2026-07-16 13:32 UTC · Community Announcements · Darenn
The "Famine" contest is now over. Thank you to everyone who participated, and congratulations to our Top 10 players! The winner is Borealis, with an incredible score of 174 points! To give you some perspective, 2nd place has 118 points, and 3rd place 81 points. Borealis really optimized everything. Congratulations Borealis, you'll be immortalized in the #hall-of-fame and the game credits (in the next update), you have a shiny role on discord with access to a secret channel and you'll have a tile of your own design integrated into the game! Borealis strategy to win: Pause the real-time timer.
2026-07-14 11:18 UTC · Community Announcements · Darenn
Removed the contest level Fixed bugs reported by players on Discord and Steam forums
2026-07-10 08:49 UTC · Community Announcements · Darenn
You still have 3 days left to enter the contest! Right now, Borealis is in 1st place with an incredible 139 Food produced! TolkaKiska is close behind in 2nd with 118, and treybc is currently 3rd with 81. To make it into the Top 10, you'll need to produce more than 31 Food. Here's the original contest post if you'd like to learn more about it and how to participate.Good luck! I'm excited to see if anyone can dethrone Borealis! Take care,Darenn
2026-07-03 13:43 UTC · Community Announcements · Darenn
Hey everyone,I think this is a good time to remind you that Dawnfolk is yours forever, even if you bought it on Steam.I believe our games should remain ours and playable forever, even in digital form.Dawnfolk is DRM-free. You can copy the entire game folder anywhere you'd like and it'll still run. Steam isn't required to launch the game.To do so, simply right click on the game in your steam library, go into properties, then Installed Files and finally click on the Browse button. This will open the game's installation folder "lueur", which contains the game files as well as the executables for
2026-06-11 17:04 UTC · Community Announcements · Darenn
Hey everyone! It’s time for a new community contest. This one is called Famine. I also have some juicy news, I'll keep that for the end of this post.The last contest winner Thunderbird designed a new tile for the game, the "Crypt", and you'll find it in this new contest!Until now, all the contest were about completing an objective in as few days as possible, not this time!The objective is simple, have the biggest production of food possible by day 100.Everyone who participates will be immortalized on the public leaderboard and win 100 blue lights in game!But only the best player will enter the
2026-06-11 16:20 UTC · Community Announcements · Darenn
Check out the latest steam post for more info.
2026-05-27 07:01 UTC · Community Announcements · Darenn Keller
Hey everyone,I’m happy to finally announce that Dawnfolk is coming to mobile on both iOS and Android! (check out this early version)I know most of you here are PC players, but I received a lot of requests for a mobile version over the past year (both on the Steam forums/reviews and on social media) so I hope some of you are excited for this.I’m collaborating with Short Circuit Studio on this project. They are handling the porting and mobile publishing, as they have far more experience with mobile releases than I do.On Steam you can wishlist games, while on mobile you can “pre-register,” which
2026-04-02 06:50 UTC · Community Announcements · Darenn Keller
Re-balancing of blue light costs to avoid players being stuck after unlocking too much bonus content.
2026-03-31 06:23 UTC · Community Announcements · Darenn Keller
Hey everyone! The "Snack The Cats" contest is now over. Thank you to everyone who participated, and congratulations to our Top 10 players! The competition was tough. As usual, TolkaKiska took the first place very quickly on the first day and managed to keep it for a while. Mila Klem followed by being 15 days faster, but treybc broke the record a few days later with a sub 40 days. In the end, Thunderbird managed to win with a 31 days record that nobody was able to beat over the past week!Thunderbird's strategy to win:They quickly realized that exploration already provides most of the resources
2026-03-18 10:03 UTC · Community Announcements · Darenn Keller
Hey everyone! It’s time for a new community contest. This one is called Snack The Cats.The last contest winner TolkaKiska designed a new tile for the game, the "Cat Village", which inspired that new challenge.Find all the cat villages and feed the cats!Everyone who participates will be immortalized on the public leaderboard and win 100 blue lights in game!But only the best player will enter the Circle of the Champions of Light: ✨ Design your own unique tile in Dawnfolk (will appear in-game!)✨ Immortalized in Dawnfolk's Hall Of Fame and in the game credits.✨ A fancy Discord role at the top of t
2026-03-18 10:02 UTC · Community Announcements · Darenn Keller
Added the new "Snack The Cat" contest! (and fixed a few minor issues)
2026-03-04 11:56 UTC · Community Announcements · Darenn Keller
The contest is over! Thank you to everyone who participated, and congratulations to our Top 10 players! It was a very close competition, with three players tied for second place.But the winner is, once again, @TolkaKiska. A true master of the game who has now won two contests in a row! As you can see from the map, he really used everything he knows about the game and showed serious dedication by re-rolling many times to secure the perfect seed. Congratulations, you're now immortalized in the hall of fame, the game credits, have a shiny role on discord with access to a secret channel and you'll
2026-02-21 11:56 UTC · Community Announcements · Darenn Keller
If mouse mode is enabled, pressing a gamepad button automatically disable it so you can play with the gamepad. Fixed audio issues when playing with mouse. Fixed some mini-games giving +2 points by mistake if you have the blacksmith upgrade. Fixed a bug that allowed to cheat during the contest. :D
2026-02-20 14:56 UTC · Community Announcements · Darenn Keller
Hey everyone! It’s time for a new community contest to celebrate the anniversary of Dawnfolk! This one is called Under Pressure. You’ll have to build a castle on a chaotically generated map. And when I say chaotic… I mean everything wants you dead.Your goal? Build the castle in as few days as possible! Everyone who participates will be immortalized on the public leaderboard, and the top 10 can show off a ton. But only the best player will enter the Circle of the Champions of Light: ✨ Design your own unique tile in Dawnfolk (will appear in-game!)✨ Immortalized in Dawnfolk's Hall Of Fame and in
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