all updates for Project Basilisk
back to gameArc 2: Alignment 1.0.0 March 31, 2026
1.0.0 (2026-03-31)
Arc 2: Alignment
- Expand your research team with a new Alignment track with 12 milestones
- Balance four alignment submetrics to keep your AI helpful, honest, and harmless
- Choose how much autonomy to grant your AI, up to complete freedom, if you dare
- React to ethical dilemmas, alignment incidents, and research moratoriums
- Reach 15 bespoke endings depending on your alignment progress and management style
- Track your progress towards endings with 16 achievements
Balance
- Mastery no longer decays
- Retuned competitor pacing to be slower early-game and faster late-game
- Rebalanced prestige bonuses to nerf short losses
- Nerfs to mid and late game research
Quality of life
- Added speed controls (1-4x)
- Added arc/mode selector which resets your run but preserves meta-progress (achievements, lifetime stats)
- Improved responsiveness for smaller screen resolutions
0.9.1.1 March 2, 2026
v0.9.1.1 (2026-03-02)
- Active prestige bonuses now visible in Settings > Stats (guided mode only)
- Removed prestige bonuses appearing on the ending screen in narrative mode
0.9.1 March 2, 2026
Content
- Expanded post-breakthrough tutorial with information on new buyables
- Split main tutorial and follow-up hints systems
Balance
- Reduced requirements for early game research
0.9.0 March 1, 2026
Content
- Added CEO Focus Mastery: sustained focus unlocks unique bonuses
- Added game modes: choose Guided or Narrative at start
Balance
- Reworked data tab layout and rebalanced late-game data needs
- HR teams can now speed up culture pivots
Bug fixes
- Revised the timeline on German expansionism
- Fixed maximum flavor
- Assorted other tooltip and UI fixes