Note that this change is unlikely to come until we leave early access, but plenty of people have been asking if it’s going to be a feature so we wanted to confirm that and get some of the details out nice and early.

The mode can be completed again, in New Game Mode +2, 3, etc to an as-yet undefined limit.

Queen upgrades, species-specific upgrade and minor improvements will all be active in documentary campaign missions in New Game Plus mode to counteract the increased difficulty.

All ants will be unlockable from the start with your stash of jelly, including the bonus species (bullet ants).

All levels will be significantly harder.

That process will be similar to rehousing the colony in the campaign in terms of lost resources and gained royal jelly.

Upon completing the campaign, you’ll have the option of converting a save to New Game Plus.

For convenience’s sake here’s a brief summary: It was detailed very thoroughly in last month’s vlog (5:58), so for a full rundown that’s the definitive source.

The new addition for this part of the roadmap that needs a little more clarification is New Game Plus mode. Apart from being a must for players with visual perception or eyesight issues, people who want to play on the Steam Deck or to use a controller whilst looking at a TV on the opposite side of the room will soon find text and menus across the game a much more readable experience. The whole interface itself will soon have an option to set its scale, which is a long-requested feature for both accessibility and display format reasons. You can see this in motion in last month’s vlog (at 4:41 seconds). The most eye-catchingly obvious of these changes is probably the level launch menu, which looks much cleaner and has some fancy live-rendered ants in it now. The old and unhelpfully-named option called ‘realistic mode’ has been broken down into its component pieces (hiding pheromone markers, trails, and buried food and creature outlines) and added to a new tab on the updated menu, which also includes options for disabling seasonal hats on the queen if you so wish - not everyone wants to look at a Santa hat in December. A host of changes are coming to the menu system and user interface - more menus will be full screen-sized rather than floating boxes, making the visuals less cluttered when navigating them.

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