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Command dinosaurs. Master tactical combat. Shape your fate. Scourge of the Reptiles is a party-based tactical RPG set in a prehistoric low-fantasy world, where a devastating meteor grants magical powers to humans, elves… and dinosaurs. The result? War. Chaos. And something far worse.

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May 2026 Dev Progress Report

14 May

Seeking answers on how to protect your tribe from the Witch - in a tomb of a long lost holy people.

Hi everyone, this is Ky here, your devoted ozzie Dev smashing together an amazing dinosaur game in just a few years!

First up, Scourge is right now in the ANZ Indie Fest event.

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/anzindiefest26

Fraser from Microprose and myself recorded a hilarious talk-show play-through for the event and you can watch it stream on the Scourge page or linked into the ANZ Indie Fest event. It's worth watching just to see my mad skills at my own game :) Slaughtered the tutorial fight "Raptors" in 5 rounds flat. I look forward to recording with Fraser again, he is top fun.

The main news of the month since the Microprose publisher announcement - which came with a brand new trailer and page refresh - is that I just finished my second run through the first half of the campaign. These are QA runs, finding and stamping out bugs - tweaking narratives and zone triggers - altering the UI for Quality of Life. In the first run I took 600+ notes! In the second, just 150. Now thats what I call progress! In fact its good enough now that I am moving on to the second half of the campaign.

In my second run, I decided to play it differently in order to test other things. For example I played the main character "Neutral" instead of "Good". That involves selecting dialogue options at key points in the NPC chats and skill-roll events that portray your personality as Greedy, Cowardly, or Paranoid! I call this the Path of Egotism. There are 9 endings in the game based on 3 paths with 3 personality traits each. The Paranoid option is particularly dark - you travel down a road of creeping madness.

I also used different Companions this run. I dropped Mandla the Prowler and took Kamaria the Hunter, addressing some concerns that "Archers are too weak". But I found with the right skill purchases the Hunter makes a fine sniper AND scout (detecting/disarming Traps, Clues, Secrets, Tracking, Climbing/Swimming/Squeezing in solo mode). With a focus on Vitals shots, shooting wounded foes, and Agility trait, the Bow compares well with melee weapons (remembering that the unit is quite safe at distance, so you can double magic buff your warrior instead). For extreme Archer fun, try the Double Time spell, giving 2 Action points to the Archer so they fire a shot every round!

Later on I swapped out Bayo the Healing Priest for Shanti the Hunt Priest, and tried out her animal spells - there are lots of animal enemies to Charm/Pacify so thats a cool option. I also swapped out Neela for Maaza the Sorceror, and in both cases kept them focused on Necromancy and Buffs, then properly tested Illusions. Turns out Illusions are quite a cool way to play too - distracting enemies away for crowd control and to flank them.

In the Forest, I met the elves, and hired Taye, making him a Druid/Sniper mix. He is absolutely wicked with the Bow, and was soon Knocking out massive beasts with shots to the vitals using Druid spells that improve his Aim bonus. I was amazed to see the druid power of summoning animal be so useful - I started out with a Boar, slamming foes off their feet often, and ended up with a huge Snake which you can take indoors.

For my main character I dropped Warrior and went with a Mounted mage - with a focus on AOE spells. She was also a lot of fun to play, with so many spells I didn't use on first run, like Slowing Mud, Circle of Tallow, Fire, Wind, all with interesting effects, that work well indoors so the enemy can't exit or go around the AOE!

Deep into the game I switched Shanti from Hunt God to Earth God, and tested out even more spells in action. Raise Rock is a favourite. And Divine Boon (Strength) is just killer for a front line Priest!

By trying out the other Companions I was able to test all the Companion Quests and special dialogue nodes for them. But more importantly I validated they are all useful in combat and in exploration. Taye made a fine Scout, with his Boar Ally improving his senses and his natural elven senses, so I picked up some Abilities to improve his Lockpicking and Traps and made him into the Prowler too. Thus proving that either a Hunter or an Elf Druid can be your Prowler.

Well that's it for this month - not too long to go now!

Scourge of the Reptiles

love the premise, AI art is a hard pass from me though

good luck

Mina Murray's Typewriter

18 May @ 1:41am

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April 2026 Dev Progress Report

2 Apr

I'm gonna cut to the chase right here with some important and very exciting BREAKING NEWS.

Scourge of the Reptiles is now with the Publisher, Microprose!

Let's take a trip down memory lane for a second. Imagine a young gamer (that's me, the dev, but little) on his Commodore 64 and later Amiga, sailing the pixel art seas in Sid Meier's Pirates! (1987), crashing his weapon-laden chopper in Gunship (1986), and leaping huge gaps in Stunt Car Racer (1989). All of these amazing titles came out of the talented and very well known American Microprose label, and developed internally.

Many of you would remember that this was just preamble compared to the epic release that was Civilization (1991), which could be one of the greatest turn-based games of our time. But there was a Microprose/Mythos game that is at the very core of Scourge of the Reptiles, and that is the almighty tactical unit grandfather, X-Com: UFO Defence (1994). Without Julian Gallop's masterpiece, I'm not sure Scourge would even exist. You could say "but what about Shining Force (1992)?" and I would just respond "Laser Squad (1988)" by the same developer as X-Com.

Here are some of the original game designs we know and love from that game. Action Points. Facing. Line of Sight. Full Inventory for every unit. Items you can drop and pickup. Morale. Fatigue. Opportunity Fire. Aimed shots. Equip-able armour and weapons with ammo. If most of that sounds familiar, you may have played a game that was heavily influenced by X-com.

Modern Microprose is striding forward with successful mil-sim titles like Ground Branch, HighFleet, and Sea Power, and some hugely promising RPG and tactical games coming soon too. I'm more than a little giddy and thrilled to be invited to join the roster! The Publisher-Developer fit could not be any more perfect, with both being focused on retro games and the Strategy genre.

It's only been two weeks since my last dev-log and I had at that time added some great new features like the Tooltips and Combat Tips. But I can proudly say that Scourge now has a second Pathfinding system, which works out of combat. Click anywhere on the ground and your PC will go around any wall or obstacle in a very smooth and responsive way, even if mounted. This was a much requested feedback feature which I am glad to have finally solved! Interestingly this is a modern game feature (but a darn useful one for Quality of Life) - if you want to remember pathfinding as it was, play "Baldurs Gate" (1998) and prepare to be amused!

Bug-testing continues apace for the demo and the full game-which I remind you is content complete and bursting at the seams with adventure and blood-drenched violence. It's just a case of making it polished! Not too long now. Patience...

Oh and watch the new trailer! Its soooo cool!

Scourge of the Reptiles

March 2026 Dev Progress Report

16 Mar

Well hello there! I'll be acting as your Tour Guide today in the beautiful but always supremely deadly world of Scourge of the Reptiles.

Early in the demo, you can do some side quests, including this one where you can get "leverage" for the local shop owner Juba. To get one tasty rumour from the Lookout Zenebe, you can bring him a nice Fur Jacket. Or with the Intimidation skill, threaten him instead (the popular dialogue option!)

Over the last month, local players have been testing the Demo and giving me loads of feedback that I am furiously implementing as fast as it comes in. At the same time, Act 1 levels (1-10) are being re-tested, and polished to a playable standard. It won't be long I think before 50% of the game is fully playable - thats about 15-20 hours worth.

Some feedback led to some deep changes to help new players encompass all the systems and UI, which I was told needed a lot more hand-holding and first time help. So the Quests in the Demo were simplified, enhanced to provide familiarity with important systems, and made more obvious on the main screen. Combat Tips were added that instruct early players how to use the many options to win a fight - and Tooltips came in to replace my "retro but not really appreciated" right-click help system. Overall the experience should now be infinitely more simple to onboard yourself on a first time play.

You will be happy to know that I upgraded Scourge to Unity 6. Not interested? Ok how about reducing its RAM footprint to 2.5 GB? Still not that excited? I added a LOST CAT to the Demo!!! Now we're havin' fun!!

See ya next month.

Scourge of the Reptiles

herpetophobia mode

Hello, I have herpetophobia (phobia of reptiles). Will the game have a herpetophobia safe mode? Games like Grounded and Hogwarts Legacy have arachnophobia safe modes, for people that cannot play games with spiders. It would be nice to have the same thing for reptiles. I know that not many people have herpetophobia, so maybe it is low on the priority list, but please consider adding the option. Thank you in advance!...

Kruyurk

15 Jan @ 3:12pm

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How is the loot or crafting system?

Is there crafting and collecting resources? Are there treasure chests or some sort of container we can loot for big rewards. Basically what I'm trying to find out if there's things to chase for long term and rng related loot/drops.

Well Butter my Biscuit

15 Jan @ 3:16pm

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Online/LAN Co-op

Hello, my gf has autism and really loves dinossaurs, and I really wanted to play with her this game will it be possible to play Co-op? both LAN and Steam Invite would be pretty cool

Z 45

15 Jan @ 3:09pm

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Any plans for steam achievements and trading cards?

Hi =) Was wondering if there are any plans for Steam Achievements for this game?

TemplarKnight

15 Jan @ 3:13pm

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