Don't get lost
Released Feb 2023
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.
78% positive · 479 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
Don't Get Lost launched on February 1, 2023 and received a steady stream of updates through its first year. The developer followed a consistent pattern of releasing beta updates first, then promoting them to the main branch once stable. This cycle produced main-branch updates on March 4, 2023, March 28, 2023, April 29, 2023, and January 16, 2024 — the most recent official update on record. Each update delivered new features such as improved combat, new crafting recipes, railway improvements, and quality-of-life changes, alongside bug fixes.
The January 16, 2024 update (NEWS-1) explicitly noted it contained "the last set of beta updates" and encouraged players to "keep your eyes peeled for the next beta update" — a hint at ongoing development at the time. However, no further updates of any kind have been posted since January 16, 2024, and today's date is June 24, 2026. That is well over two years of silence from the developer. There are no unreleased DLC listings, no announced future content, and no developer statements about upcoming work. The game has no DLC at all, no season pass, and no roadmap content visible in the current news feed.
The developer's established update cadence was roughly every 1–5 months during 2023. By that measure, the silence since January 2024 — spanning more than 17 months beyond the last post — strongly indicates that active development has concluded. No content warnings apply, and the game appears to have shipped as a complete, if modestly scoped, indie colony sim.
Evidence
Most recent official update, promoting the last beta build to the main branch. Developer encouraged players to watch for 'the next beta update,' but no further communication has followed as of June 2026.
Beta update with railway and trader improvements, part of the regular beta-to-stable update cycle.
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Details
Developer
Publisher
miicck
Achievements
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Platform
Windows, Linux
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op · PvP
About this game
Don't get lost is a procedurally-generated, open-world, open-source, first-person colony sim. Play your own game, or join your friends as you build colonies to harvest natural resources from the infinite world.
Craft building materials, or let your townsfolk do it for you, and use an intuitive gridless building system to expand in 3D. Design a logistics system to distribute goods across town, or build a new town where the resources are. Add catapults and guards to defend your colonies as they come under increasingly-difficult tower-defence-style attacks. Manage the needs of your townsfolk, making sure they have enough to eat and don't become unhappy with their lot in life. Level up their skills so that they work faster, and manage their assigned jobs accordingly. Use the materials they make to research new technologies to make your settlements swankier and more efficient. Explore the infinite multi-biome world and interact with it's natural inhabitants (both the hostile and friendly kinds). Go fishing, build a house in the tree tops, farm goats in the mountains, ride on a railway of your own design all whilst playing with, or against, your friends and their townsfolk.
But,
Most importantly,
Don't get lost.
Craft building materials, or let your townsfolk do it for you, and use an intuitive gridless building system to expand in 3D. Design a logistics system to distribute goods across town, or build a new town where the resources are. Add catapults and guards to defend your colonies as they come under increasingly-difficult tower-defence-style attacks. Manage the needs of your townsfolk, making sure they have enough to eat and don't become unhappy with their lot in life. Level up their skills so that they work faster, and manage their assigned jobs accordingly. Use the materials they make to research new technologies to make your settlements swankier and more efficient. Explore the infinite multi-biome world and interact with it's natural inhabitants (both the hostile and friendly kinds). Go fishing, build a house in the tree tops, farm goats in the mountains, ride on a railway of your own design all whilst playing with, or against, your friends and their townsfolk.
But,
Most importantly,
Don't get lost.
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 24, 2026
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