Autonauts

Autonauts launched on October 17, 2019 and received a steady stream of free major content updates in its first year: The Industrial Revolution (February 6, 2020), and the Age of Enlightenment (May 21, 2020), along with several feature patches through early 2020. The developer's original roadmap from November 2019 promised free content through April 2020, and that commitment was fulfilled. In April 2022, the developers (a two-person team at Denki) posted an important update explaining that a previously promised free "Survival Mode" had grown far beyond its original scope over two years of development and would instead be released as a separate paid game — Autonauts vs PirateBots. They apologized to the community and promised a discount for existing Autonauts owners. Following that, through mid-to-late 2022, the developers returned their attention to the original Autonauts, shipping a series of quality-of-life updates in August 2022. On October 20, 2022, they released "Autonauts Fully Automated" — a substantial free update adding Settlement Mode, expanded bot scripting, an improved Bot Database, upgraded storage transporters, and more. The store description prominently highlights this update as the headline feature of the game today. Since the "Fully Automated" update on October 20, 2022, there have been no further developer communications specifically about Autonauts. The only post after that date (March 1, 2024) was a publisher-wide sale announcement from Curve Games covering multiple titles, with no Autonauts-specific content or development news. There are no unreleased DLC listings, no announced roadmaps, and no outstanding commitments. The developer made no promises of future content alongside the Fully Automated update. Given that the two-person team's energy had been largely directed toward the spin-off (Autonauts vs PirateBots), and the Fully Automated update was presented as a milestone wrap-up of the original game's feature development with no follow-up communications in over three years, the evidence points to the game being content-complete as of October 20, 2022.