Indie strategy fans, it’s time to call a village meeting. Solo developer Michele Pirovano has officially released the highly anticipated second DLC for his hit rogue-lite village builder, dotAGE. Titled Trade Secrets, the massive new expansion is available right now on Steam, bringing a wealth of features that completely reshape how you survive the apocalypse.

According to Pirovano, some of the core mechanics introduced in this expansion have been on his wishlist to implement for nearly a decade.

What’s New in Trade Secrets?

If you thought managing your Pips was intense before, Trade Secrets blows the village gates wide open by encouraging your clan to finally look beyond their borders.

• Brave New World (Expeditions): For the first time, your Pips can conquer their fears and venture into the wilderness. With over 100 unique expeditions to discover, sending out teams can yield rare resources, lost blueprints, or—in classic dotAGE fashion—unfamiliar new diseases and ailments.
• Trading Places: A mysterious group known as the Goldlings has noticed your village. By building roads, markets, and warehouses, you can now trade your stockpiled goods for a brand-new resource: Coins.
• Born to Ride (Equipment Mechanic): Pips have discovered transportation! You can now craft boats, build carts, harvest resources more efficiently, and tame horses to rapidly expand your reach across the map.
• Three New Elders: Ready to change up your playstyle? The DLC introduces three new leaders with distinct mechanics: Wanna the Merchant, Darwin the Explorer, and the elusive Granny.

Celebrate with a Massive Discount

To mark the launch, the base game of dotAGE is currently featured as a Steam Daily Deal. If you or a friend have been waiting to jump into this mercilessly addictive turn-based survival simulator, you can grab the base game right now at its highest discount ever—40% off—for the next couple of weeks.

Whether you’re looking to hoard coins with Wanna or risk the wildlands with Darwin, Trade Secrets promises to inject an incredible amount of depth (and fresh ways to trigger Doomsday) into one of indie gaming’s best hidden gems.

Head over to Steam, update your game, and go see what secrets the outside world is holding for your Pips!

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