- 🐱Scratch The Cat is Dropping the Beat - New Game from FlatPonies - 22 May 2025
Hej Reboteers, This is a special announcement as we just announced our third game! The announcement trailer had its world premiere as part of the Six One Indie Showcase, alongside a behind-the-”screens” look at life inside FlatPonies barn. Wanna see Scratch’s moves? Now you can set your claws into the trailer: Scratch The Cat is available to wishlist now, so if you like what you see, you can do it below 👇 https://store.steampowered.com/app/858200/Scratch_The_Cat/ You can also wishlist the game on the PlayStation Store & the Xbox Store. Thanks for listening — and remember: Stay groovy. Stay scratchy. With excitement and puuurfect hair, FlatPonies
- 1.0.3.1 Patch - Fix for grass visual glitch - 7 January 2025
Hej folks, We've attempted to track down the issue with what was posted in the forums related to a weird grass visual glitch. The issue has been hard to reproduce for us. Our best guess is that this is happening on dedicated AMD GPUs as our development machines all have Nvidia GPUs and we can't see the issue happening at all. We've disabled some grass optimisation features that were put in post-launch to see if it alleviates the issue. If you have an AMD GPU and you still encounter issue from this forum post, please let us know in there. Forum post: https://steamcommunity.com/app/993030/discussions/0/4625852883021177282/#c599640609289962872 With love from FlatPonies
- Update 3 - Steam Achievements, Cloud Saves & Performance Improvements - 30 October 2024
Hej Reboteers, Update 3 is ready and it's a doozy! Thank you all for your patience in getting you this update! Update 3 patch notes: New Features Added 23 achievements for you completionists (also fully localised to supported languages) Enabled Steam Cloud Saves so you should be able to pick up where you left off on your Steam Decks Improvements Major performance improvements on asteroids when it's starting to fill up with lots of entities Bug Fixes Fix objective indicator (exclamation mark !) showing up above the Spaceport when there aren't any new jobs available Stone deposits were missing from the museum once scanned - they've now been added to the mineral display Fixed a rare infinite loading screen bug that caused a certain landmark to be duplicated infinitely on the asteroid Fixed a mistranslation in Japanese for an objective to Deliver X Merryberry Seeds To Mailbox A small note r…
- Update 2 - Less crashes 🤞, small improvements - 15 October 2024
Hej Reboteers, We are pushing a smaller update out with this patch where the primary goal is to reduce the amount of infinite loading screen bugs (see first point in Bug Fixes section). Update 2 patch notes: Improvements Workers follow the Extractor immediately if the Extractor looks for a deposit/plant to extract. Improved Extractors changing direction properly if configuration of autofind deposit/plant is changed while it's moving to the original destination. Bug Fixes Improved the save/load system to handle certain Rebot or level generation crashes more gracefully resulting in being able to load into asteroids more consistently. Basically less infinite stuck on loading screen bugs. We also added better logging so if something does crash, we are better able to identify what went wrong and fix it. Jump button (South button) does not progress phonecall conversations any longer. Fixed co…
- Update 1 - Player requested quality of life features and bug fixes - 11 October 2024
Hej Reboteers, Launch day has been amazing - thank you all for playing, leaving reviews and commenting in the Steam forums. We are excited to bring you the first patch with some quality of life improvements and bug fixes. But before getting into the nitty gritty fixes, we wanted to highlight the winner of a creator contest that happened on the week leading up to launch - Orbital Potato. Their reward was to name an alien in the game. Everyone meet Alien McAlienface: Update 1 patch notes: Improvements Added an indicator for amount of jobs currently tracked in the Codex's Job tab. When pointing the scanner at an entity that was already scanned, instead of displaying "entity found" it now displays the name of the entity. It is now possible to click on any section of the config UI for supervisors when changing recipes (e.g. combiner, constructor). Similar fixes have also been made the the sa…
- Rebots is getting ready to be Steam Deck verified! - 8 October 2024
Hej Reboteers, We're really excited to announce that we are working on Steam Deck support! The game runs pretty nicely and we are working towards ensuring it's a great experience. Playing Rebots on the Steam Deck is a perfect match - it's a relaxing game that you can just put down and pick up anytime without the pressure of losing or running out of time. Look at our Producer hanging out in the office playing (with a pink plush pony): We're waiting for official compatibility verification from Valve, but we hope we'll get that ✅ Thanks for tuning in. Cheers, Regö and the FlatPonies team
- Rebots is OUT NOW for all to enjoy - 7 October 2024
Hej Reboteers, We just had an AMAZING Rebots weekend of the full game available on the demo - we could see lots of you playing and we appreciate each and every one of you! The demo has been taken offline and the game is OUT NOW! https://store.steampowered.com/app/993030/Rebots/ Looking forward to all of you playing the game! With love from FlatPonies
- We are doing something a bit CRAZY! 🐎 - 4 October 2024
Heja Reboteers, Rebots launch day is very close and we've decided to share the game with you all: You can play the FULL game of Rebots starting now for the next 72 hours - until Monday, 7th October, 1PM CEST. How do you get access? 1. Go to the Rebots Demo page 2. Download and play As the famous Sector Director Steve would say: "Would you like to partake in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?" We can't wait to hear what you all think of Rebots. With LOVE from all of us @FlatPonies
- Rebots is launching into space on October 7!!! - 19 September 2024
Hej Reboteers, We're really excited to announce that Rebots will be launching on Steam in about 3 weeks on October 7th! Rebots will be localized into Spanish, Japanese, German, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplified Chinese on launch. We can't wait for all of you to play Rebots. Cheers, Regö and the FlatPonies team
- Rebots is in the Wholesome Games Steam Celebration between Aug 15-21 🐎 - 15 August 2024
Hej Reboteers, We are very excited to announce that Rebots has been selected to participate in the Wholesome Games Steam Celebration starting right now from the 15th August until the 21st! Here’s the event page: Wholesome Games Celebration Now onto that devlog - as we are preparing for launch, we thought it’d be a great idea to share a series of posts presenting different aspects of Rebots - so let’s jump into it Game Pillars & Project Goals. Every project no matter how small or large needs pillars & goals to successfully align the team on the vision for the game. In this short post, I’ll be presenting the core pillars of Rebots and what experience we want players to have while playing the game. The 3 pillars of Rebots are Player Agency, Alien Community & Galactic Economy Player Agency means having access to a diverse cast of Rebots which come from the passion of creating AI characters…
- Rebots: New trailer, new DEMO, and a publisher! - 28 March 2024
Hej Reboteers, We’ve got a major announcement for today - we have partnered up with the lovely folks from Astra Logical to publish the game! Joining our forces will help us make Rebots the best it can be, and we couldn't be happier 🤗 And to celebrate this announcement, we've got a new trailer to boot - and A NEW DEMO 🥳 Trailer: If you like what you see (how could you not????), please consider giving us a wishlist - this tiny action really helps out indie games! With love, Regö and the FlatPonies team
- Rebots Demo Update for 2022 December - 9 December 2022
Hej Reboteers, We've just pushed an update to the demo for Rebots and we are looking for feedback! Major Updates to the Demo from 2022 February: • Reworked core gameplay loop with new Rebots, climate vectors, gases, critters & energy • Rebot loops are now saved when leaving and returning to asteroids • Reworked galaxy generation & unlocking of varied constellations through concessions • New Barren, Habitable & Special starting states for asteroids in three different tiers • New Spaceport with various points of interests and NPCs • Corporate Ladder progression of jobs and unlocking of gameplay content • HAND (for manual operations) and Visor (for seeing the unseen world) functionality and visuals • Favour job type (aliens follow you along the journey until you complete their requirements) • Reworked Storage Hauler to be configurable & upgradable • Reworked Intro Tutorial & added Help Ima…
- Minor Demo Update (Steam Next Fest 2022 Hotfix #3) - 16 March 2022
Heya Reboteers, We have a final update to fix some critical bugs for the Rebots Demo. After this, we'll keep the Demo online, but won't be making updates to it. If you'd like to follow the continued development of Rebots, we've made a small video summarizing what we'll be working on in March: You can also join our Discord to join upcoming playtests! Patch notes Improvements & Fixes Fixed a variety of bugs where saving would not work as intended after continuing from a previous state causing e.g. no aliens to be in the spaceport, duplicate aliens, repeating jobs or not being able to talk to aliens at all. Let us know if you still come across bugs related to this via the bug report button, we are continuously improving our saving system based on these reports. Note: You might need to start a new game in order for saving to work properly. Fixed a variety of bugs related to the bug reportin…
- Steam Next Fest 2022 Hotfix #2 - Livestream Soon! - 24 February 2022
Heya Reboteers, We are still flabbergasted about our stream from earlier in the week - thank you all for joining, watching and interacting. Some numbers: 10,641 - Max concurrent viewers 214,767 - Total unique viewers 6,562 - Total hours watched THANK YOU
- Steam Next Fest 2022 Hotfix #1 - 22 February 2022
Heya Reboteers, Thanks for watching our stream this morning - we had 10k viewers at the peak of the stream! We are so happy so many of you are interested in Rebots! We've made a small update ready for today to address some player feedback and then we are planning a bigger update to arrive on Thursday with our second scheduled stream (set a reminder and join us for more streaming & ask us anything). https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/993030/view/3101294993645454231 Patch notes Improvements & Fixes Decreased the price of hiring the Combiner to 10 000 glibs after the tutorial so it is immediately affordable. Fixed a bug where clients would "photobomb" each other when they their jobs get added to the codex. Updated survey & Discord invite links on the Exit Game pop up on the main menu. Updated a variety of icons and sounds in the UI. Updated outdated conversation that would refer to su…
- Rebots Demo Update for 2022 February Steam Next Fest - 21 February 2022
Heya Reboteers, We are back with a huge update for Rebots - just in time for the 2022 February Steam Next Fest! In the past year, we have improved virtually all parts of Rebots and we are very excited to share the latest version of Rebots with all of you - and to hear your feedback. The demo is live here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/993030/Rebots/ Major Features in the Demo: Enjoy a wide variety of missions & quests to complete for different alien factions. Change the climate on the asteroids, combine resources to craft new ones, grow plants, build buildings and many more. Return to already settled aliens to improve their well-being. Use a diverse cast of Rebots to build simple & more advanced production loops to automate your operation. Meet a large cast of wacky & funny characters to interact with - from the eccentric Trevor faction to your local business expert, Sector Directo…
- 🎠REBOTS GAMING TIME AGAIN + ASK US ANYTHING! - 21 February 2022
Where do Woolyfants come from? Who is the inspiration for Sector Director Steve? What is beyond the asteroids belt and what secrets are Trevor keeping from you? You can ask us all of these questions and much more when we have a lovely show&tell session for 2 hours.
- 🎠REBOTS GAMING TIME - 21 February 2022
How do you play Rebots? How do you greet a Woolyfant? Should you trust Trevor? Join the stream with our producer Regö, who's gonna play Rebots for an hour and give hints&tips on how to play the game and progress in your career at the Rebots Corp. Regö is joined by other FlatPonies, so expect a cozy hangout with loads of love&laughter.
- Rebots Demo live at Steam Next Fest next week + Demo Prerelease Today! - 18 February 2022
Heya Reboteers, It's with great pleasure that we announce that we will participate in the 2022 February Steam Next Fest running between the 21st and 28th February with an updated demo for Rebots! We have lots of exciting content we can't wait for you to play that we've been working on the past year. We have also updated the demo with a prerelease version so you can go and check it out early! We'll update the demo throughout the festival with more improvements and bug fixes so keep an eye out for those. Finally, we'll be livestreaming a lot on Steam & Twitch as well as organizing an AMA during the week - we'll announce exact times during the weekend. We are looking forward to sharing a lot about the game as well your feedback! With love, @FlatPonies
- Rebots - June Update - 2 July 2021
The June update is all about plants. We added new plants and improved current ones to expand the interaction players can have with plants in Rebots. Note: the update is available on the rebotsplaytime beta branch or by requesting access for the New Steam Playtest from our store page. New Features Interacting with & Growing Plants In order to change the environment, players need to harvest resources from various plants - this interaction has been at the core of Rebots for a long time. We wanted to expand this interaction, leveraging the new supervisors introduced in the April Update - the Sorter, the Dispatcher & the Combiner. Added plant health states - most plants can now get sick if certain conditions are met. When sick, plants produce rotten fruit/resources. Players can create fertilizer with the combiner to heal trees and return them to a healthy state. Added plant growth cycles - a…
