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The First Gods is a dark fantasy strategy/RPG set in an ancient, brutal world.
You play as a mysterious godlike being, guiding a fragile tribe through survival, belief, and conflict as it grows toward becoming a civilization.
You play as a mysterious godlike being, guiding a fragile tribe through survival, belief, and conflict as it grows toward becoming a civilization.
About this game
- Genre
- Adult RPG
- Developer
- Kaspeli Productions
- Release date
- February 2026
- Updated
- August 2026 (version 0.1.8)
- Status
- Ongoing
Updated on August 20th 2026, what's new in version 0.1.8?
Version 0.1.8 greatly expands relationships and camp life with new family and social connections, follower interactions, quests, events, powers, rituals, and two new Traditions. The update also introduces three difficulty levels, dedicated Settings and Save/Load screens, Autosave, additional prisoner and crafting options, new artwork and adult content, extensive balance adjustments, improved performance, and numerous bug fixes.
**Version 0.1.8 - Relationship Trouble**
**Spoiler**
**Highlights** ✨
* **Major relationship expansion:** added **Camp Follower Relationships**, including family and social relationships, with new events and interactions built around them.
* **New difficulty system:** added **God, Godling, and Mortal** difficulty levels, allowing the overall challenge and balance of a run to be adjusted.
* **Power and Aspect expansion:** added **Third Eye: Lingering Echoes**, **Third Eye: Foresight**, **Heartwood Flesh**, **Blood Link**, **Call the Worthy**, toggleable powers, and additional effects for certain Aspect levels.
* **Two new Traditions:** added **Shape of Order** and **Seat of the Sacred**, alongside new events and content tied to both axes.
* **Save, settings, and UI overhaul:** Settings and Save/Load now have dedicated interfaces, Autosave was added, the number of save slots was increased, and the Help section received a new visual identity.
* **New quests and events:** added several new major events, repeatable quests, Season Plan quests, Tomaso the friendly trader, new Concubine content, and more.
* **Balance, performance, and polish:** reworked population growth and military scaling, improved performance on weaker hardware, reduced redundant game files, fixed Linux image compatibility issues, and cleaned up several long-standing bugs.
**Full changelog**
**Relationships, Followers & Camp Life** 💞
* **[SYSTEM/RELATIONSHIPS]** Added **Camp Follower Relationships**.
* **[SYSTEM/RELATIONSHIPS]** Added **Family Relationships**.
* **[SYSTEM/RELATIONSHIPS]** Added **Social Relationships**.
* **[RECRUITMENT]** Tweaked how **Recruit** works.
* **[TRAIT]** Added the new trait **Eye for Talent**.
* **[SYSTEM/CAMP]** Added the **Second** camp position.
* **[SYSTEM/CAMP]** Stability now affects Camp Follower **Obedience**.
* **[SYSTEM/CAMP]** Obedience, and to a lesser extent Love/Trust, now affect **Enlighten** success chance.
* **[SYSTEM/NPC]** Added a framework for **Special Traits** for important NPCs.
* **[NPC]** Kael now starts with the **Right Hand** trait.
* **[NPC/BALANCE]** Tweaked some important NPC stats.
* **[NPC/BALANCE]** Capped Love and Obedience for important followers.
* **[BUGFIX/NPC]** Fixed **Subjugator** and **Dread-Bearing** traits not applying correctly to important NPCs.
* **[BUGFIX/NPC]** Fixed the **Nymphomaniac** NPC trait.
* **[EVENT/CAMP]** Added the **Warm Furs** Concubine event.
* **[EVENT]** Added a new option to **A Place in the Camp** when the requesting NPC is female.
**Powers, Aspects & Rituals** 🔮
* **[POWER]** Added the new power **Call the Worthy**.
* **[POWER]** Added **Third Eye: Lingering Echoes**.
* **[POWER]** Added **Third Eye: Foresight**.
* **[POWER]** Added **Heartwood Flesh**.
* **[POWER]** Added **Blood Link**.
* **[POWER/SYSTEM]** Added functionality for **toggleable powers**.
* **[ASPECTS]** Added extra effects to certain Aspect levels.
* **[RITUAL]** Added the **Bless Bonds** ritual.
* **[RITUAL]** Added the **Free Love** ritual.
* **[PRISONER/POWER]** Added the ability to use **Third Eye: Lingering Echoes** on foreign prisoners.
**Traditions**
* **[TRADITION]** Added the new Tradition **Shape of Order**.
* **[TRADITION]** Added the new Tradition **Seat of the Sacred**.
* **[EVENT/TRADITION]** Added extra major events tied to the **Seat of the Sacred** and **Shape of Order** axes.
* **[BUGFIX/TRADITION]** Fixed gendered camp positions stopping their drift when reaching the **Shared Voice** Tradition level.
**Difficulty, Saves & Settings** 💾
* **[SYSTEM/DIFFICULTY]** Added **God, Godling, and Mortal** difficulty levels.
* **[DIFFICULTY/BALANCE]** Removed the defensive raid Mercy cap from **Godling** difficulty and moved it to **God** difficulty.
* **[UI/SETTINGS]** Settings now has a dedicated menu instead of using the default SugarCube interface.
* **[SAVE SYSTEM]** Increased the number of save slots.
* **[SAVE SYSTEM]** Added **Autosave**.
* **[UI/SAVE SYSTEM]** Save/Load now has a dedicated screen instead of using the default SugarCube interface.
* **[UI]** Gave the Help section a new visual identity.
**Prisoners**
* **[PRISONERS]** Added the ability to **release prisoners**.
* **[BUGFIX/PRISONERS]** Prisoner escape attempts now place their normal event at the front of the queue, so the escape result is shown promptly.
**Quests, Events & Encounters** ⚔️
* **[EVENT]** Added the **Blunder** major event.
* **[EVENT]** Added the **Breaking Point** major event.
* **[EVENT]** Added **A Quiet Death** major event.
* **[EVENT]** Added **A New Pairing** major event.
* **[QUEST]** Added the **What We Leave Behind** quest. *(Try gathering resources after a couple of seasons have passed...)*
* **[QUEST]** Added a quest tied to the **Hunt Game** Season Plan.
* **[QUEST]** Added a quest tied to **Scout the Wilds**. *(Requires being on a mountain tile.)*
* **[QUEST]** Added the repeatable **Broken Chains** quest.
* **[TRADER]** Added **Tomaso**, the friendly trader.
* **[EVENT/SYSTEM]** Increased the likelihood of random events and quests firing.
* **[BUGFIX/QUEST]** **Moving Mountain** should no longer be resurrected or re-marked by map repair logic after its final completion.
**Crafting, Items & Economy**
* **[CRAFTING]** Most terrain-locked goods can now be crafted in any terrain, but receive a discount when crafted in their appropriate terrain.
* **[ITEM]** Added a new **unique weapon**.
* **[ECONOMY/BALANCE]** Resource stockpile contribution to Military Strength now scales relative to tribe population.
* **[BALANCE]** Nerfed population growth.
**Federation, Map & World Interaction**
* **[FEDERATION]** **Great Binding** now allows the victory federation to expand to the required tribe count instead of being hard-capped at 3 members.
* **[MAP/SYSTEM]** Improved the connection between actual camp visibility on the map and which interactions are available.
* **[MAP/FEDERATION]** Federation members are included as an exception to normal camp visibility requirements.
**Sex Framework & Adult Content** 🔥
* **[SEX FRAMEWORK]** Added new flavour lines based on body types, body features, and other character details.
* **[ART]** Added **6 new DAZ variants** for the **Tribute** action.
* **[ART]** Replaced the Wildling artwork and added several new variants.
**Art & Character Content**
* **[NPC]** Tweaked Halona's stats.
* **[NPC/TRAIT]** Added a special trait to Halona, obtainable after completing **Heart to Heart** with her staying.
**UI, Reports, Performance & Optimization** 🛠️
* **[UI]** Streamlined the **Report Screen**. Again.
* **[PERFORMANCE]** Made performance improvements that should be especially noticeable on weaker hardware.
* **[OPTIMIZATION]** Reduced overall file size by removing old UI backgrounds, redundant Federation images, and other unnecessary files.
* **[BUGFIX/UI]** Fixed an annoying cursor bug where the game would revert to the native cursor on borders and certain buttons.
* **[BUGFIX/COMPATIBILITY]** Fixed most case-sensitive naming inconsistencies, which should resolve missing image issues for Linux users.

