Digital Sagas shares the full post mortem for Shape Swarm, covering development, Steam Next Fest, launch results, and lessons learned from shipping the studio’s first commercial game.
After three years of building Digital Sagas, our studio has officially launched its first game. Shape Swarm was created with a few clear goals in mind: Establish our publishing catalog Work through the entire Steam pipeline end-to-end Launch a clean, fun arcade experience to kick off our Arcade Series At the time of writing this, … Read more
Devlog — March 30, 2026 Another exciting week for Shape Swarm. Valve has officially approved the game for release on Steam as we prepare for our April 14 launch 🚀 This week also marks a major milestone: Architect Mode has been added as a launch-ready play mode. That brings the total to three distinct ways to play at release: Save the ColonyA … Read more
This week marks a major milestone for Shape Swarm. The Save the Colony main game mode is now complete and fully playable from start to finish. Stage-based music has been integrated across the run, and the full gameplay loop is functioning end-to-end. This gives us a stable backbone for the release build and lets us … Read more
Shape Swarm doubled its wishlist during Steam Next Fest — from 49 to 110. The core loop is complete, player feedback is already shaping improvements, and the final evolution has entered the arena. Now it’s time to polish the timed mode and prepare for launch. Devlog – March 1st The Last Day of Next Fest … Read more
January 25, 2026 Hey everyone 👋 Hope you’re having a great week and staying warm wherever you are. As always, thanks so much for being here and supporting what we’re building—it really does mean a lot. Things are moving quickly on the dev side, and this week brought some fun gameplay progress along with a … Read more
January 11, 2026 This is our weekly studio devlog, where we share progress on the games we’re building at Digital Sagas, along with a quick look at what’s been happening across Indie Sagas. ———- 🎮 Studio Devlog — Shape Swarm The Shape Swarm demo is evolving, and an updated build is coming soon. Over the … Read more