Lost Vessel

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• Announcements·4 Sept 2026Official

  v1.8.0: The Cantina - a whole arcade game just appeared in the void

  {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46096882/f0bfebe323dc12c99b0e72204787f267ac7ab5e6.jpg I was going to build a pub. Instead, one got found. The Cantina There is a new tab under Signals from Survivor 8: the Cantina. A stray signal, a pub much older than it has any right to be, crystal growing through the hull, bottles still full, nobody home. And in the corner stands an arcade cabinet that has no business still running. It does anyway. I.D.L.E. DEFENSE The cabinet plays I.D.L.E. DEFENSE, and I want to be clear about the size of this thing: it is a full idle tower defense game living inside Lost Vessel. Seven regions that mirror the descent you already know, Crash Site Perimeter down to the Hollow. Turret tiers with evolutions at the top, a skill tree, and a mine that keeps digging while the turrets hold the line. I.D.L.E. runs the tutorial, and he has opinions about your performance. Standalone progression, saved to your account, on any device. The Offering The machine does not take coins. One offering, a big pile of metal scrap or research accelerators of any tier, lights it for an hour, and the hour counts whether you play or let it idle inside the window. If it burns out mid-session, the machine goes dark right where you stand and takes another. Seven new achievements went up for it, titles included. Also in 1.8.0 Three new background music tracks. Full phone support for the cantina; the cabinet plays in landscape. Global chat now celebrates full seven-rift clears and completed Rift Feat sets. A stack of fixes, including the Galaxy chat ghost that congratulated people for forging Legendaries they had owned for weeks. Full notes are on the transmission board in the game. The machine is waiting. Bring scrap.
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• Announcements·30 Aug 2026Official

  Anomaly Runs - Full Release

  {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46096882/eccca5e1091cc992712cb24ab284155a7db7a3dd.jpg The planet tore open in seven places. Time to go down. Anomaly Runs is out of beta and fully live - the biggest single update Lost Vessel has shipped. This has been months in the making, shaped directly by everyone who ran the beta and told me what felt right and what did not. Thank you. This one is yours too. What Anomaly Runs is A run-based combat mode inside the idle game. You pick one of seven rifts - one beneath each zone, down to the seventh under The Hollow - and descend a shifting map of fights, hazards, choices and questions, deciding how much to risk at every step. At the bottom of every rift, something is holding the floor. Seven rifts, three levels each. Every level pays its reward bounty exactly once, scaled to its depth. No grinding one easy floor forever - the rewards live where the danger lives. Boss arenas. All seven tier bosses fight in fully staged 2.5D arenas, each with its own body, its own ground and its own moves. Normal fights can be watched in the arena too, or skipped instantly - your call. Bosses that disagree with you. Every boss has a distinct combat identity: weaknesses, resistances and status pressure drawn from its zone. One weapon type does not answer all seven fights. Build for the fight in front of you. Three dive charges a day - and a boss kill refunds its charge. Winning is free. Only the runs that beat you cost an attempt. The Rift Engine Loot is tunable. Calibration is a weekly meter you feed with Analysis data - the more stable the engine, the richer every dive that week. On top of that, every single dive can be tuned on the way in: Foresight scouts an extra row of the map, Bias the Rift skews the ground toward the kind of work you want to find, and Overcharge is the expensive one - a harder, elite-dense dive that guarantees a standout piece of gear if you survive to the bottom. Rift Feats The rift keeps a ledger of the things nobody sane would do in it. ...
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• Patch Notes·30 Aug 2026Official

  Client Update 0.2.0

  A refreshed desktop client, shipped alongside today's 1.7.0 content update. Desktop client updated to version 0.2.0. Steam achievements that unlocked in-game but never synced to Steam (including Veteran Explorer) are delivered automatically on launch. All content changes in 1.7.0 - the full release of Anomaly Runs plus a large quality-of-life round - land server-side and are covered in the full announcement.
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• Patch Notes·24 Aug 2026Official

  Added Safe-Mode

  Hey guys, just added a quick update to the app to also include Safe-Mode for Lost Vessel. It disables hardware-GPU and renders software-side. This helps some very specific cases who otherwise have issues with the Chromium and Electron-wrapper. Thanks for playing Lost Vessel! Next content-update is close, too.
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• Patch Notes·14 Aug 2026Official

  Company - The I.D.L.E. Companion Update

  {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46096882/368e69946ec3187c192ba7bd5296be884ca2f2ad.png AUGUST 14, 2026 I.D.L.E. has left the room panel. If you have rebuilt him, he now floats over the station itself: drag him wherever you want him parked and he will hold that spot, bob in place, and keep you company while you work. He talks. He was always going to talk. He rambles on his own schedule, reacts to level-ups, forge results, crates and fresh finds, complains the moment the fuel runs out, leans in now and then to check what you are doing, and blinks exactly as often as a machine needs to, which is not often. Leave the station alone for a while and he falls asleep on the job. Click him for his menu: a Chatter switch if you want the company without the commentary, his skins, and a full power-down for the unsentimental. The new button in the top bar, the one shaped like his head, brings him back when you regret it. He also has a wardrobe now. Three outfits landed on the shop shelf: Housekeeping, a maid uniform he has strong feelings about and will share them, Fieldwork, a hat and a coat and a sudden confidence about where to dig, and Stowaway, something green that took root on his head and got to stay. One purchase dresses both of him, the floating companion and the unit in his room, and the two equip separately, so they can disagree about what to wear. Strictly cosmetic, as always. The room tab picked up its own skin picker under the robot while I was at it. The support shop got a floor plan. It opens on a homepage now: the newest drop showcased at the top, the four packs right under it, your live profile preview below that, and Drops, Gifting and Customize on their own tabs instead of one long scroll. Customize is new: interface colorway, loot burst, room skin, badge privacy and your Support Ladder all on one surface instead of scattered across the station. And when you already own part of a set, the set card now explains its price in plain words: what you paid comes off, and it says s...
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