- 60 FPS and more! - 19 June 2026
Rejoice, Wild Wheelers!We are celebrating the 28th anniversary of our beloved game in a special way. Years of work have been completed: the game now features a frame rate of 60 FPS.Experience the delivery of goods, raffa hunting, participation in ritual races, cirt collecting, and much more on a whole new level.Switching between the old and new FPS occurs in the Graphics settings. Moreover, we fixed a ton of bugs (many of them have been lurking in the depths of the code since the game's inception!) The full list of changes is at the end of the news. Our community continues to live and support the game - and we are always glad to welcome new players and creative individuals. We are happy to meet international Vangers. Right now you can join us here: Discord (Press the Red Beeb in "Подиш" after joining and after that you can find International Channel) Telegram VK Update's coders: stalker…
- Minor Technical Update - 3 March 2024
Now, when the game crashes, more information is provided for developers. Also, some technical bugs have been fixed.
- Enabling Cloud saves - 26 January 2024
Hi Vangers! Important announcement, please read till the end. Starting February 1st, we will enable Cloud saves. This will enable automatic save-files transfers between all you steam-connected devices However, if you are playing the game from different devices and have separate set of save files, Steam will ask you to choose between those sets (you CAN NOT save both save files sets automatically!). There are two possible solutions to resolve save file conflicts. 1. Copy current saves to a safe place. Go to Steam, go to the library, right-click on the game Vangers, select the "Manage" menu item, select "Browse local files" go to the data/savegame/ folder and copy all save files to some other folder. 2. Disable cloud synchronization. Go to Steam, go to settings, select cloud, and disable the first option "Enable Steam cloud". At the same time, if you used Cloud saves in other games, they…
- Update Notes for August 27 - 27 August 2023
Hotfix for MacOS version. Also, the minimum version now is macOS 11.
- 25th Anniversary of the Vangers Release - 21 June 2023
Dear Wild Wheelers! Vangers have turned 25 years old on June 19th. Hundreds of thousands monades passed through the Infernal Conveyor during these years. Not to say how much Cirt was collected - it's unthinkable! In an amazing way Creature Soup went beyond the UniVang Universe and all of us have been boiling inside it for a quarter of a century, mutating and evolving. On many people the game has made an irreversible impact, but the fans have made an impact on it as well: they researched and improved the game, and created lots of unique art pieces. And these processes are still going strong. The Soup is boiling! Well! Cheers to the devs who created this crazy splendor! ✨ Cheers to the gamers and the Community for the game’s longevity 💫 Take care of Your Self, Your Mechoses and Your eLeeches 🐛 Happy Anniversary to all of us! 🍾🍾🍾 This update prepared by DimON supported by virosu Art f…
- Vangers the open source classic from 1998 continues to be upgraded - 7 March 2023
Vangers is a thoroughly weird racing role-playing adventure originally released in 1998, and it's still being upgraded. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/vangers-the-open-source-classic-from-1998-continues-to-be-upgraded
- Spring BugFix - 3 March 2023
Hey Wheeler, the Spring has come! To make sure your adventures in the Chain of Worlds are free from any hindrances we’ve captured and destroyed a bunch of Bugs. See you on the bumpy roads of the Univang! List of changes: 💠 Video fixes for MacOS 💠 Fixes for memory issues 💠 Prevented infinite loop when handing out eLeech if Eleerection is the only cycle left 💠 Prevented "permanent" UI block after using Boot Sector 💠 Window aspect ratio now calculated dynamically 💠 Fixed game crash when trying to use Protractor under some circumstances 💠 Error messages are more informative in certain cases 💠 Fixed game crash when window height is less than 600 💠 Prevented unwanted mouse cursor position changes in certain cases 💠 Fixed texts alignment for game ending screens and items with associated text screens (tabutasks, passengers, poponkas) 💠 Multiple fixes for game chat in multiplayer: ini…
- Vangers dressed like a racing game, but it was really a descent into madness - 18 February 2023
From 2010 to 2014 Richard Cobbett wrote Crapshoot, a column about rolling the dice to bring random games back into the light. This week, an ancient slice of madness returns to the commercial world to wreak havoc once again, but this time, those who would oppose its chaotic rule are ready... .. Read more.
- Bad Mechous Jokes League - 1 April 2022
Previous time you saw a Fury of the Nymbos, this time it will be April Fools' Day dedicated to mechous jokes! Meet the collection of jokes on their names and descriptions. Can you spot them all? (due to the differences in naming of Rus\Eng versions some of the humour may be lost in translation) Responsible for jokes and 3D models - John Tomson Special thanks to tractortractor for the model converter This In-Game Event will be active till the end of this week. It will automatically back to normal at Monday. Here is the way to get back to a classic look if you can't wait until Monday. Open Game list in Library. Right Click on Vangers: Propetries -> BETAS. Enter Password: turbospiralnab Choose beta in the first field VOILA!
- Vangers: Now in HD! - 22 February 2022
Today on 22.02.22 an update which was anticipated by many Wheelers shall be released: the game now supports 1280х720 resolution! How to activate: Options -> Graphics -> Screen: one click and you’re good to go! These days game's code is published as Open Source and the development is driven by enthusiasts from the game’s Community. A few years ago Nikita “lpenguin” Pryanichnikov created an HD patch, which was refined by joint efforts with the author and so now we can add the resulting upgrade to the official version of the game. Hurrraaaaay! List of changes: 1) after HD activation you can see world's surface in full screen. Special expanded borders were added for Menu and escaves; 2) Now you can see original arts while traveling through Passages; 3) Stability of Multiplayer mode was significantly improved. Yes, we do play Vangers online! 4) A lot of bugs was fixed too; 5) Credits in the…
- April Fools' Day: Fury of the Nymbos - 31 March 2021
This is a pretty big change in the game which grew from a joke. And April Fools' Day is the perfect day to release it! Discover by yourself how the game changed ;) Those are responsible for this Madness: DimON - idea John Tompson - 3D models xiada - palettes This In-Game Event will be active till the end of this week. It will automatically back to normal at Monday. Here is the way to get back to a classic look if you can't wait until Monday. Open Game list in Library. Right Click on Vangers: "Manage" -> Propetries-> BETAS. Enter Password: turbospiralnaa Choose Alpha 60 fps and hd in the first field VOILA!
- 60FPS and HD version together in alpha - 14 March 2021
This new alpha version combines our two long development projects. Tons of bugs still persist but something definitely works and produces a greater new experience.
- Support Vangers in Steam Awards - 27 November 2020
This year, with the support of Community and thanks to attention from bloggers, Vangers have enjoyed a colossal burst of activity and are thriving. Nomination "Labor of Love" can be assigned to games which were released before 2020. Its description says: "continue to nurture and support their creation. This game, to this day, is still getting new content after all these years" - that's so us! There’s just a few days left to nominate this legendary game - your support will be greatly appreciated. It's easy to do: just click on the nomination on the top of this event (you need to be logged into Steam) Or, as a backup option: on the Store Page find the Awards banner, click “Nominate” and choose the only option - "Labor of Love" (If you opened this page through the LIBRARY - you may see instead of normal name #SteamAwards_Category_Title_52 - in that case try to open that Steam page) Here ar…
- Halloween comes to the Chain of the Worlds - 26 October 2020
Wanna get a new perspective on the old familiar Chain of the Worlds, wheelers? You’ve got exactly a week to do so. It all began just a bit over 10 days ago with a simple phrase: “How about we replace all the raffa with pumpkins for Halloween?” but it sure didn’t end there! Each mechos now has a brand-new Halloween-themed model Same goes for most of the weapons Color palettes of menus and worlds have been swapped for extra spookiness All the music tracks have been replaced with their covers or with new tracks from the community Spiders have taken over the ecosystem, supplanting the beebs You can now greet fellow vangers with a honk! Press H to do so Some other things have been changed – prepare yourselves for surprises! Game balance has not been affected by these changes, and you can keep playing with your preexisting savefiles. This modification has been made by a small team from Russia…
- IMPORTANT NOTICE: Upcoming update - 8 August 2020
Hey all, long time no see! A new Revamped Controls Menu is the first of many important updates that are coming to the game in the near future. - Controls are now grouped by function into neat sub-menus; - Some of the controls have been renamed for clarity; - You can now define a key to take an in-game screenshot (the screenshots will be saved in ../steamapps/common/Vangers/data folder in your Steam directory); - Auto-Acceleration toggle is now available in the Controls Menu as well as in "Pause" menu; - ...and other various small fixes and optimizations. Also, a new default control scheme has been developed by the veteran members of our community. It is meant to organize the default controls into a more coherent layout that works on most keyboards and has some resemblance to existing modern RPG game layouts. Hopefully, this will be helpful to newer players, who tend to find the controls…
- Remembering Vangers And The Virtue Of Nonsense - 23 January 2015
Be a good vanger and take the nymbos to Incubator, would you? Grab a jar of phlegma while you re there – the Podish bunch are due a good smearing. Maybe snap up a tabutask or two if you think your mechos can take it. What s that you got? An Oxidise Monk? Pfft. Still, if it s Plump-Up, you might try and run an Eleerection – though take care of that eLeech, vanger. They might just be reincarnated pod-eaters who plumped-out to death, but they still deserve better than to cark it in the back of some rattletrap raffa driven by some know-nothing rambler who crumples into the first stinker he sees. And if you don t win Eleerection you aren t ever going to reach Glorx, much less anywhere else in the Chain. If you understood that, then you probably already have some idea why Vangers – re-released on Steam and GOG last year – is one of the oddest, most original and overloo…
- Now Available on Steam - Vangers, 30% off! - 24 April 2014
Vangers is Now Available on Steam and is 30% off!* Mind-altering sandbox game that can be described as a racing role-playing adventure game with a complicated storyline. You’ll find a unique atmosphere, complete freedom and lots of gameplay hours to figure out what’s the game is all about. *Offer ends May 1 at 10AM Pacific Time
