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DarwiniaGame

Blends real-time strategy, action, and puzzles with a unique gesture-based control system. Save the Darwinians, battle viruses, and restore order in a retro-inspired digital world.
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developerIntroversion Software
publisherIntroversion Software
composerTimothy Lamb
Mathieu Stempell
release date
NAJune 12th, 2006
EUMarch 4th, 2005

Single PlayerReal-Time StrategyIndieTacticalRPGPuzzleSci-FiColorful
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addedby blustrkr
on January 21st, 2022 last updatedby blustrkr
on June 12th, 2025

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Darwinia 2.3.3-45 hotfix
This update contains a major bugfix for the 2.3.3 release. Major changes: Fixed broken music playback. Known issues: macOS: On MacBook Pro 14"/16" with 120Hz displays (or in fact any Mac with > 60Hz displays) there is stuttering in full screen mode. This is caused by the "Direct-to-Display" feature in Metal, which cannot be opted out of. We have implemented a partial workaround to this problem, but there is still occasional render stuttering. Players can work around this by running the game in W... Darwinia 2.3.3-40 hotfix
This update contains significant fixes and enhancements since the 2.3.3 release. Major changes: Fixed crashes on macOS versions older than 14.0. Fixed a crash when closing certain level editor and options windows. Fixed some prediction bugs causing incorrect rendering of lasers and other weapons. Fixed calculation of spirits-per-minute on the Receiver map, and reduced spirits-per-minute goal to 50. Fixed a possible crash when generating the language table. Enable missing SDL feature required for... Darwinia 2.3.3 release
This update contains significant fixes and enhancements since the 2.3.2 release. Major changes: The Vulkan renderer now requires a minimum of Vulkan 1.1. If your driver does not support Vulkan 1.1, it will try to use other renderers available on your platform. Fixed a crash on NVIDIA GPUs when running on recent graphics driver versions. NVIDIA's driver is one of the few to actually implement VK_SWAPCHAIN_CREATE_DEFERRED_MEMORY_ALLOCATION_BIT_EXT, and it interferes with older Vulkan layers (Steam... Darwinia from Introversion Software gets a big compatibility upgrade
Darwinia, a classic from Introversion Software (original devs of Prison Architect) released originally in 2005 just got upgraded to keep it running nice on modern platforms. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/darwinia-from-introversion-software-gets-a-big-compatibility-upgrade Darwinia 2.3.2 release
This update contains fixes and enhancements since the 2.3.1 release. Major changes: Added a native OpenGL ES rendering backend. Fixed a crash triggered by entering/leaving levels several times. Fixed a bug where radar dishes would forget how to rotate if the renderer was restarted (e.g. if the Screen settings were changed while in a level). Fixed a bug where cutscenes did not correctly preserve the world state, and could cause some buildings to change team ownership. (e.g. on Temple, the Spam cu...
 
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