Outbound Steam news

• Latest observed players242 · 25 September 2026 - 19:23:08 UTC
• SteamPulse tracked peak1,771
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• Review score77% positive
• Total reviews1,150
• Release dateMay 2026
• DeveloperSquare Glade Games
• PublisherSquare Glade Games

Genres: Adventure, Casual, Indie, Simulation

Company pages: Developer: Square Glade GamesPublisher: Square Glade Games

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Outbound Steam news

Outbound news collects recent Steam feed items, update posts, and announcements that SteamPulse can associate with this app.

Latest Steam announcements

• The Wildlife Update - OUT NOW! - 22 September 2026

  The Wildlife Update brings a brand-new way to document your off-grid journey. You can now discover an expanded fauna ecosystem featuring 34 unique animal species roaming across the Outbound's four distinct biomes. Photography System Visit the new Wildlife Outpost in the first biome to download the blueprint for a craftable camera. Fine-tune your shots with professional settings, including Exposure/Brightness, Depth of Field focus points, Saturation, Contrast, and Zoom. Every photo is saved directly to your Steam library and to your hard drive. Journal Update The camera automatically detects animals in view. Framing a species and taking a crisp shot logs the animal as 'collected' in a brand-new tab in your personal journal. Binoculars The static binoculars found across the world can now be used to view long-distance when you don’t have your camera to zoom in just yet. Additional content…

• The Wildlife Update - Coming Soon! - 9 September 2026

  Here is a little teaser trailer for what is coming soon to Outbound! Be ready for: A lively world, full of wild animals, birds, and insects! A camera with lots of customization options: Saturation, brightness, contrast, and depth of field. Taking photos and saving them on your computer and in your Steam library. Journal entries for all wildlife. and more! Please note that we are constantly improving Outbound, and there's much more to come. We will continue releasing smaller patches with bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements between major content updates. Our next big content update after the Wildlife Update will make the world even more lively, adding other adventurers, campers, and other townsfolks to Outbound, all with their own routines and tasks! Stay tuned! We hope you're enjoying the additions and improvements we've been bringing to Outbound. Thank you for playing and for bei…

• See you at Gamescom! 👋 - 18 August 2026

  See you at Gamescom!👋 Are you heading to gamescom? We're honoured to be a part of Unity Games' booth this year, among four other incredible titles! If you happen to be at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, please swing by and say hi to our team! The booth is located inside the Indie Arena Booth in Hall 10.2. The Wildlife Update Also, we’re happy to reveal that the whole team is hard at work on the Wildlife Update (next to the regular maintenance fixes and patches that you see from time to time)! With the Wildlife Update we'll be adding lots of wildlife to the world, along with a couple of new features! We’re currently wrapping up development and plan to release the update pretty soon. Stay tuned!

• Patch 1.1.8 - 11 August 2026

  Patch 1.1.8 just went online! Multiplayer: Fixed empty Download Terminals. Sometimes the last Signal Tower in a biome did not contain any downloads, which resulted in an empty UI. Multiplayer: Some minor stability fixes. Controllers: Improved Dog Companion Radial controls (smoother selection). Controllers: Added a missing dead zone for a stick.

• Hot Fix 1.1.7 - 971 - 10 August 2026

  Hot Fix 1.1.7 - 971 just went online! This hot fix fixes the issue with the frame rate drop when using a mouse with high polling rate that started just before the weekend. This issue seemed caused by a system update that our game couldn't handle as expected. We were luckily able to patch this on our end. We apologize for any inconveniences caused. We are working on a fix for Epic Games Store and PC Game Pass right now.

• Patch 1.1.7 build 12479 - 9 August 2026

  Patch 1.1.7 build 12479 just went online! We've received multiple reports from players experiencing severe lag when moving their mouse cursor over the past couple of days. We're not sure what's causing the problem, but we'd like to try rolling back a recent change we made to the input system. We hope this will fix the issue. If this doesn't fix the issue, please reinstall Outbound and let us know if the problem persists after downloading and installing this patch. Any additional information that could help us identify the cause of this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

• Patch 1.1.7 - 4 August 2026

  Patch 1.1.7 is now live! Bug Fixes Fixed an issue where the progression of players who joined friends' games was not saved properly in some cases. Usability Added a direction indicator to the dog companion radial menu when using a controller. We were able to track down and fix a very important bug with this patch. Many of you reported losing your progression while playing with friends. Thanks to your help, as well as the save files and logs you provided, we were finally able to identify and fix this frustrating issue. We thought we had fixed it in the previous patch, but it turned out there were multiple underlying issues causing the problem, which is why it kept happening. Thanks again for your help and thank you for your patience! If you're enjoying the game, please consider leaving a review on Steam. Thanks!

• Patch 1.1.6 - 24 July 2026

  Patch 1.1.6 is now live! Bugfixes Fixed that while playing with controller you could give the Dog companion commands that were not unlocked yet. Fixed that while playing with controller you could check the Dog companion storage while not being in range of the dog. Fixed a regression introduced in patch 1.1.5 which caused environment states, like the broken bridges, to not properly sync at the start when a player joins another session.

• Patch 1.1.5 - 23 July 2026

  Patch 1.1.5 is now live! Bugfixes Fixed an issue where a re-joining player could lose either their customization, inventory items, tools, or upgrades, or a combination of those, when they had a problem connecting to the server. Fixed syncing of picking up a carrot on a plate in multiplayer. Fixed that a red flower plant would show as a cactus plant when the save game was loaded. Fixed that players could shortly show an animation of running while interacting with something (if the player would run towards the interaction and immediately interact). Improvements Both carrots on plates and cups of coffee under coffee machines now respawn after a while.

• Patch 1.1.4 - 2 July 2026

  Patch 1.1.4 is now live! Bugfixes Fainting while fishing does not lead to a buggy state anymore. Fixed a couple of fishing spots where you could fish on land. Sound of airplanes is properly paused in pause menu (single player).

• The Fishing Update! - 23 June 2026

  We cooked up some fantastic additions for Outbound that we're happy to share with you today! Patch 1.1 is now live! This is a larger content update that introduces Fishing as the main feature, along with new buildable items such as fish tanks, stairs, and doors to expand your base-building options. Fishing Added Fishing! Added 3 Fishing Rods to obtain and craft, each required to fish in different areas. Fishing Rods can be obtained from newly added Download terminals. Added a new fisherman's hut to explore in the first biome. Added a new fisherman's hut to explore in the second biome. Added a new fisherman's cabin to explore in the forth biome. All lakes and rivers, as well as the sea now contain fish that can be caught. Added 32 collectible fish across all four biomes. Added 4 pieces of Junk that are sometimes caught instead of a fish, that provide additional Litter or Bottle Caps. Add…

• Patch 1.0.16 - 15 June 2026

  Patch 1.0.16 just went online! Bugfixes Fixed de-syncinc of multiplayer sessions that has been introduced with 1.0.15 (sorry!). (There is still one known bug with buildable ladders not syncing properly, we will fix this as soon as possible!) Fixed bobble heads sometimes looking buggy. Improved targeting of interactions and customizables within the vehicle. Fixed interaction collider of Sewing Table. Fixed unreachable Clay deposits in Canyons.

• Patch 1.0.15 - 9 June 2026

  Patch 1.0.15 just went online! Bugfixes Multiplayer: Fixed syncing the pouch upgrades of the dog companion. Multiplayer: Fixed on syncing areas the vehicle drives in, which could in rare cases lead to showing the end of demo screen. Fixed the energy forecast of putting a Silverbark Lumber in the Power Unit, which provides twice the energy. Add colliders around the oases in the Canyons biome. Prevented respawning the large blocking logs at the Coast, and allow the trunk one to be harvested. Fixed the water color of the river at the top of the Mountain in the 4th biome (this was unintentionally pink). Fixed that when changing body type while facial feature 8 was selected the second body type would loose their eyebrows. Various minor translation fixes. Regarding the update size of this patch. Some of you may have noticed that, despite containing relatively few changes, this patch requires…

• Patch 1.0.14 - 2 June 2026

  Patch 1.0.14 just went online! Bugfixes Fixed a number of issues with the elevators in multiplayer. Fix in multiplayer where in some rare cases a character would be displayed twice in the vehicle. Fixed that the dog cannot reach areas where it would go underwater. Fixed that it is now allowed to build ladders on the side of the School Bus.

• Patch 1.0.13 - 29 May 2026

  Patch 1.0.13 just went online! Bugfixes Fixed ladders sometimes accidentally forcing you to step on when setting / unsetting camp. Fixed a rare issue that occasionally grass was not visible around the vehicle while driving.

• Patch 1.0.12 - Ladders and more Home Customization - 28 May 2026

  First of all, a huuuuuge thank you to over 100,000 Outbounders on Steam! This is a huge milestone for us, and we’re incredibly grateful to see so many of you enjoying the game. Your support and feedback means the world to us. ❤️ Patch 1.0.12 just went online! Ladders and more Home Customization As with every patch, next to the bigger additions we did to the game, we also fixed a couple of bugs and improved general stability and balancing. Features Massively improved ladders. It is now also possible to click to snap onto a ladder. Ladders can also be used from above. Setting to turn off / on look direction to change movement direction on ladders. Ladder animations in multiplayer. More customization options for all wooden items. Bug fixes Fixed that Bean Bag chair was not in the game. If you acquired the "Chill Chairs" pack from a signal tower, you now own it as a blueprint. Materials bei…

• Paralives x Outbound Bundle - 25 May 2026

  Paralives just released today, and with it comes the Paralives x Outbound Bundle, now available with 10% off both games! If you already own one of the games, you can complete the bundle and get 10% off the other game as well. On top of that, your Paras can play Outbound, and you’ll receive a decorative Outbound camper van for your Paralives homes! Hope you'll enjoy both Outbound and Paralives! :)

• Patch 1.0.11 - 22 May 2026

  Patch 1.0.11 just went online! This is just a quick one, but we wanted to get it to you before the weekend still :) Bugfixes Multiplayer: Fixed that sometimes with the Pathmaker vehicle, physics issues occurred during base building.

• Patch 1.0.10 - Download Vouchers & Bottle Cap Wallet - 22 May 2026

  Download Vouchers & Bottle Cap Wallet PatchPatch 1.0.10 just went online!FeaturesAdded Download Voucher & Bottle Cap 'Wallet' (See below).Download Vouchers and Bottle Caps do not weight anything anymore.Download Vouchers and Bottle Caps are not deposited anymore. BugfixesOverall improvement of vehicle syncing in multiplayer, among others against a specific case of sometimes vehicles slowly floating in the air over a long time.Fixed an issue with building crop plots and other larger items on top of the metal small side tables.Fixed an issue where the dog's position did not follow the elevator position properly.Fixed a number of translations. Download Voucher & Bottle Cap 'Wallet'We've heard a lot of feedback about the download vouchers and bottle caps having weight and not automatically being locked in your backpack. So we decided to make a 'wallet' for such special items with two separa…

• Patch 1.0.9 - 21 May 2026

  Patch 1.0.9 just went online! Bugfixes (Likely) fixed that sometimes there were no downloads in a download terminal, which was essentially soft-locking. If an issue with downloads happens, you can now send your save and log files to us with a single button click, which helps us investigating. Fixed that vehicle lights sometimes were turned on automatically at the wrong time of day. Fixed Ring-a-Ding-Ding! achievement (collect 100 bottle caps) in multiplayer. Fixed Cap 'n Snaps map legend properly showing them. Fixed that the paintings Red Ridge Airstrip and Golden Shores looked identical. Fixed an issue with crop plots in multiplayer, sometimes preventing them from being harvested. Translated some unlocalized texts. Smaller multiplayer stability fixes. Balancing Doubled the amount of clay received from clay deposits. We hope that you will like the balancing changes and improvements we a…

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