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• Announcements·4 Sept 2026Official

  Newtonia on Steam Deck and Steam Machine

  Newtonia on Steam Deck and Steam Machine Newtonia has now been played through, hands-on, on both a Steam Deck and a Steam Machine, and it is fully supported on both. It ships as a native Linux build for SteamOS (no compatibility layer), it was built controller-first, and every screen in the game (menus, options, pause, the online lobby) works from the pad, from the Deck's touchscreen, or both. Here is exactly what that covers. Input: everything on the controller Nothing in Newtonia needs a keyboard or a mouse. On Deck and Steam Machine the whole game is driven from the pad: Every menu: the main menu, options and its camera and audio sub-screens, the stats screen, the quit confirmation, the pause menu, the online lobby and the PLAYERS roster all navigate with the d-pad or left stick, A confirms, B backs out one level. In flight: the left stick (or d-pad) steers and thrusts with full analog control: push forward to thrust, pull back to reverse. A or the right trigger fires, B or the left trigger fires your secondary, X cycles primary weapons, Y cycles secondaries, LB boosts, RB teleports, and clicking the left stick switches between the fixed and rotating camera. Start pauses. Clicking the right stick shows the controls card in-game, so the mapping is always one click away. Hot-plug: connect or pair a controller at any time, including mid-game. An unassigned pad joins as the next player with a press of A, or claims a specific seat from the PLAYERS screen. Text entry: Steam's floating keyboard The one place the game ever asks you to type is the online lobby's five-character room code. On Steam Deck, the moment you reach that field the Steam floating keyboard pops up on its own, docked clear of the code so you can see what you have typed, and it dismisses itself when you are done. Underneath it there is also a d-pad-driven character picker, so the code can be entered from any controller on any device, and X pastes a code from the clipboard. There are no hidden text fiel...
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• Patch Notes·2 Sept 2026Official

  v1.56.0 - Camera Zoom

  Add configurable and dynamic camera zoom.
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• Patch Notes·31 Aug 2026Official

  v1.55.0 Block/ban online players

  Implemented proper player blocking based on identity. Also closed LAN server when anonymous players is disabled.
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• Patch Notes·25 Aug 2026Official

  v1.54.0 - Late Game Content

  Newtonia v1.54.0 New late-game content The mid-teens onward are now a full escalation ladder, each new threat with its own intro screen: Interceptors (level 16): fast vanguard ships in the station's waves, with a tighter fire window. Tough Elites (level 17): asteroids pairing TOUGH with a second special - armoured, teleporting, and quantum variants. Bombers (level 18): slow barges that stand off and lob proximity-fused mortar shells that burst into flak rings. The Hunter (level 19): the seeker's elite - bigger, takes 3 shots, and steers at where you're going, not where you are. The Armoured Station (level 20): a rotating shield arc that deflects everything; the gap is the weak window. Destroying it pays a 2500-point bounty. Rammers (level 21): gunless hammerheads that never break off the charge - but a committed straight-line escape always outruns them. Enemy gunners now lead their shots, ramping up to full intercept aim as levels climb. New weapon: the Turret A deployable sentry drone that seeks, leads, and fires on its own for 60 seconds or 30 shots, survives your death, and comes back with your save on CONTINUE. Boost Boost now has a 2-second cooldown, and a first-use hint shows the key (E) or button (left bumper) so nobody misses it. Menus & stats New AUDIO options screen: master and music volume, applied live. New STATS screen: lifetime numbers - high score, highest level, games and time played, kills, deaths, accuracy, special types destroyed, and more. Leaderboard At game over the board now tells you when your score would place this season and offers to upload it, and it says plainly when RECORD REPLAYS being off is the reason scores can't enter. Online play Joining a room that refuses you now shows the real reason instead of a generic "could not connect"; picking up secondaries online feels instant; rejoin-after-disconnect got more robust; and all the new late-game content syncs correctly in co-op. Fixes Guns going silent in busy late-game levels (audio chan...
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• Patch Notes·15 Aug 2026Official

  v1.53.0 - 4 Player Support

  Newtonia now supports 4 player mode, with both offline and online modes. Team up with your friends to get the best high score!
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