2025-07-20 13:52 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
If you enjoyed Production Line: Car Factory simulation, you may well be interested in our upcoming game: RIDICULOUS SPACE BATTLES.15 years ago, Positech Games released 'Gratuitous Space Battles', the first ever auto-battler game. Now 15 years later comes a spiritual successor, designed for modern PCs and modern GPUs. Behold the absolutely over the top craziness of the most ridiculous space battles imaginable.Coming to steam soon. Wishlist it now!
2020-10-07 18:30 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32939922/24aa6f4096dcee953b60b9b30cf46c9a60746b7e.png Yes its true! after all these years, Democracy has finally returned to steam! Democracy 4 is now in Early Access, and your people are eagerly awaiting (or dreading!) your leadership! So far the game supports English-language only on PC (but more languages are coming soon), and we have the following coutrnies in need of governing: The USA! The UK! France! Germany! Canada! Democracy 4 already has steam achievements and steam workshop support, and a full modding guide is
2020-09-29 09:53 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32939922/24aa6f4096dcee953b60b9b30cf46c9a60746b7e.png Exciting times! Not only does today mark the first Presidential election debate in the US, its just a week away from the launch into early access of our political strategy game Democracy 4. If you want to try your hand at implementing Universal Basic Income, or maybe you want to ban teaching evolution in schools, perhaps build a border wall, or legalize heroin, or go crazy with the money printer with some helicopter money or quantitative easing... these are all option
2020-09-03 11:29 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32939922/24aa6f4096dcee953b60b9b30cf46c9a60746b7e.png Great news fellow citizens! The latest installment in the geeky-but-popular political strategy game 'Democracy' series is coming to steam very soon, in a US election year no less. Just imagine how calm and peaceful our forums will be :D Its been 7, yes SEVEN years since the release of Democracy 3, and global politics has changed a lot. Democracy 4 takes the series into the modern age with new features like coalition governments, media reports, Quantitative Easing & He
2019-10-23 21:00 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
At last! our DLC containing varieties of car models is now on sale. The design variety pack contains a new car design for each of the existing cat categories in the base game (Sedan, Compact, SUV, Sports, Offroad, Pickup and Small Van). You can now select the car variant for each design once you have unlocked them using the design studio. These are cosmetic changes only, they do not affect what vehicle a customer will buy, but you may want to use them to make it easier to visually distinguish between the different car ranges within a style (such as expensive SUV versus budget SUV). Hope ya lik
2019-10-20 11:02 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
Full changelist for this update: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Fixed rare case where some cars would have missing components at specific zoom levels (only painted components drawn) also affected cars drawn in conveyor-placement mode. 2) Fixed bug where you could get the demolish tool 'stuck' because it didnt cancel when right clicking. 3) Fixed bug where backspace key removed 2 characters instead of 1. 4) Added new 'import flow analysis' feature to slots. New arrows on the import tab for the slot window lets you toggle a feature to show the import
2019-10-15 15:06 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32939922/ee93ec8950cf0c1bae3a9fdb67c5606b6b250e1c.png Hi there! We are releasing our second expansion to Production Line: Car Factory simulation on the 23rd October! This expansion is a cosmetic-only change to double (yes DOUBLE) the variety of car design styles in the game! You can now pick from 2 different looks for every car design in the base game (Sedan,SUV,Sports,Compact,Offroad,Pickup & Small van). Mini trailer showing the new designs: https://youtu.be/LkRcorWhNcc Here is the store page so you can add the DLC to your wis
2019-10-03 14:16 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Fixed bug where graphics on RHS of screen corrupted when viewing maintenance overlay on a screen wider than 4096 pixels. 2) Search bars on R&D and task picker now create a drop down of items to click on as well as zooming to the first item. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28683684/ac1bea11bc82bdc86bf30fe6ad2c2806de3e0e9d.png 3) There is a new button on the showroom screen that allows you to toggle between the normal and (new) summary view. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28683684/ecaa578d10418a7137c14bd4a2e2431fb6786094.jpg 4) Fixed wrong displ
2019-08-16 16:04 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Hi all! Here is a relatively big update to the game with lots of cool stuff... https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Fixed timing bug that affected the speed that some slots operated in certain combinations of upgrade. 2) You can now scroll on the marketing screen using the mouse wheel. 3) Fixed crash bug on certain fixed hour boundaries if a debugger was detected. 4) Fixed crash bug when p
2019-07-17 12:46 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Hi all! Here is the latest update to the game! Full changelist: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Fixed bad formatting of car sales values over $2billion. 2) Added new researchable upgrade for the visual inspection slot which makes the checks take much longer but very high chance to spot defects. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/ec075ada8d5d0fd
2019-06-25 11:00 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Lots of UI improvements in this one. Here is the complete list https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Fixed crash bug when deleting a smart junction with an open config window for that junction, then adjusting its settings. 2) Fixed misleading yellow warning for sunroof on some designs where panoramic sunroof was unlocked and common but not valid on that body style. 3) Fixed missing import c
2019-06-05 13:28 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Hi everyone! A bunch of cool new improvements covering all areas of the game, here is the complete list: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Fixed crash bug when using B hotkey twice with task picker closed. 2) Improved component tab on efficiency screen shows more stats, in more sortable columns, with only one column now. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans
2019-05-18 15:57 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png OK...wow...so much change... https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Some manufacturing slot research now requires the base fit slots to be researched and unlocked first now. 2) The 'copy from slot' feature on supply stockpiles now takes into account that batteries are needed for fit fuel tanks if electric or hybrid cars are researched. 3) The post-research screen now takes powertrain into ac
2019-04-29 10:04 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Hi. This patch is a relatively small one, but there are some good changes ( i think ) in the balance tweaks that improve the late game and also make smart junctions a more viable option earlier on. We also have 3 (rare) crash fixes. Also i fiddled with the car price slider, which should be a lot more usable now. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1) Fixed rare crash involving placing a blue
2019-04-17 09:00 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/8135e274c71152fc0233c887b431ce01a8c37d48.png Right...we have not had a list of changes this big for a while. Some good ones in here, I'm excited about changes to the price slider. I know its not perfect, but I think its way better. Plus the rapid shipping thing is cool. And yet more performance improvements (I'm determined to have it running silky smooth for you people with insane-size factories). https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28683684/b1142b9dee03c335cc783faaa2d9b0b868bdb9bf.jpg 1)
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