Energy Collector demo is out now!

• A time limit, after which the save can be reset. If not reset, the progress carries over to the main game.
  
• Lower max level.
  
• No prestige.
  
• No leaderboards.
  
• The maximum field that can be reaches is the Archipelago.
  

Check out the demo by visiting the game's Steam page:

Patch 7 (v1.1.4) - Patch Notes

New leaderboard and other minor improvements.

• New pick up count leaderboard!
  
• Companion customization unlocks now give the Companion a small chance to supercharge energies when picked up.
  
• Added two new achievements.
  

• Diagonal transfer UI arrows now shine when putting the mouse over them.
  
• Diagonal transfer UI arrows are now drawn over the chest icons.
  
• "New customization unlocked" typo fixed.
  

• Your score is uploaded to the new leaderboard once for every 1000 pick ups.
  
• A free Demo of Energy Collector will be released soon!
  

Patch 6 (v1.1.3) - Patch Notes

New achievements, rebindable hotkeys and more!

• New rebindable hotkeys system!
  
• Added 4 new hotkeys for manually buying upgrades.
  
• Default manual upgrade buy hotkeys are: G, H, J, K.
  
• Added 23 new achievements!
  
• Added a "Hide completed achievements" checkbox.
  
• Reduced the number of days needed to play for the "Dedicated" achievements.
  
• Reduced the robot helper speed up from the Acorn of Nimble Fingers power up.
  
• AI Helper speed is now also affected by the Acorn of Nimble Fingers power up.
  
• Added one more tier on the Acorn of Nimble Fingers's robot speed upgrade.
  
• New setting for disabling SFX when the Companion picks up power ups.
  
• Manually started quests now do not close the quest tab when completed if there are quests left.
  
• Added button click SFX when starting quests manually.
  
• Improved save file security.
  

• Fixed a bug where left over black energies would contribute to the progress of the next manually started quest.
  
• Quest completed in a row counter now resets when failing the flower quest.
  
• When the Companion picks up the Burning Coal power up, it no longer shows CD reduction animation for your current field.
  

Patch 5 (v1.1.2) - Patch Notes

Reducing long objectives, again.

• Reduced the number of active crystal activations needed for achievements.
  
• Reduced the number of energies needed to pick up in a row for the Workaholic II achievement.
  

• All upgrade prices now fir inside the upgrade module properly.
  
• Loot boost text now fits into its window when you have bought them all.
  

Patch 4 (v1.1.1) - Patch Notes

Reducing long objectives.

• Made the play x hours achievements easier.
  
• Reduced the hours played requirements for the playtime mastery objectives.
  
• Reduced the number of Huge Energy pick ups needed for achievements.
  

• Because the game is now much faster due to the Prestige Buffs system, it no longer makes sense to have some of the very long objectives.
  

Patch 3 (v1.1.0) - Patch Notes

New prestige buff system and more!

• In response to feedback regarding prestige rewards a new Prestige Buffs system has been added!
  
• Prestige Buffs: Get Prestige Tokens from Energy Levels and spend them on base stats and new system unlocks!
  
• Example buffs: Diagonal transfers, offline XP, better idle rewards from the companion, faster research, and much more!
  
• Prestige window design improvements.
  
• Added separate "Prestige Bonuses" and "Prestige Buffs" tabs to the prestige UI.
  
• Updated the game guide for prestige.
  
• Field capacity bonus from Prestige has been increased by 10x.
  
• All capacity upgrades have been increased by 10x.
  
• Added +2 transfer points for reaching Energy Level 4.
  
• Power Ups now remain on screen 10 seconds, up from 5 seconds.
  
• The energy spawning quest no longer places the spawner behind the quest window.
  
• You can now see the max upgrade bought for the current prestige in the statistics window.
  
• Increased field information frame when opening it to better fit the information.
  
• Auto-Pin quests is now checked by default.
  

• Now all windows can be closed by clicking outside of them again.
  
• Time since last save should no longer be able to become a negative number.
  
• The 25 days achievement should now properly unlock in Steam.
  
• Fixed Huge Energy Addict IV Steam description.
  
• The digital display should now always be able to change its text.
  
• Play time, session time and prestige time should now update their values at the same time in the statistics window.
  
• Quest game guide spelling fix.
  
• The game should now always be centered when starting in fullscreen.
  
• Clicking borderless fullscreen now only gives one click sound.
  

• You need to prestige to buy the new prestige buff upgrades.
  

Patch 2 (v1.0.2) - Patch Notes

Minor improvements, but a lot of them, again!

• Implemented borderless fullscreen option!
  
• Switched to delta timing for in-game playtime. This should count time correctly even if the game is in the background.
  
• Prestige count now does not increment if you do a prestige with no rewards.
  
• You can now buy double capacity without closing open windows.
  
• Added units for some achievements to more clearly represent their progress.
  
• Increased Hub Capacity bonus from prestige by about 10x - 100x.
  
• Added window names to windows without tabs.
  
• Auto-Pin Quests setting now also closes the quest window when quests end.
  
• Added "Quest Steak" to quest statistics.
  
• You can now see a field's total in and out transfer even if the Transfer UI is opened.
  
• Added missing thousand separators in mastery objective descriptions.
  
• Added a few more shadows to the Paint surface decor item.
  
• The spawn chance for Large and Huge Energy have been reformulated to a "Spawns an average of X energies per minute" format.
  
• Black energies no longer spawn behind the quest window.
  

• Fixed a bug where the Companion could stop spawning energy if it visited The Hub and then went out to a field again.
  
• Coffee can no longer spawn in The Hub.
  
• Upgrades leaderboard text should now always fit inside its box.
  
• Prestige surge no longer count towards the Temporal Pilgrimage achievement.
  
• Companion customization achievements are no longer unlockable before level 35.
  
• Augmentation tree nodes now correctly say that Companion energy spawns every 25 seconds.
  
• Expedition statistics window colors now properly match the fragment colors.
  
• Updated the "Skillful - IV" and "Recharged - II" Steam achievement descriptions to match the in-game descriptions.
  
• Pressing OK in the Fragment Rewards window no longer closes the Expedition window.
  
• Fixed a bug where if you unlocked the mastery system with a mastery reward already unlocked you would get two notifications.
  

Patch 1 (v1.0.1) - Patch Notes

Minor improvements, but a lot of them!

• Increased upgrade effect for very few early "energy per collect" upgrades.
  
• Increased upgrade effect for a few early "energy per second" upgrades.
  
• Changed a few early "energy per collect" upgrades to "energy per second" upgrades.
  
• Energies can now be picked up slightly before being fully spawned and slightly after starting to despawn.
  
• If the decimal symbol is ",", then the thousand separator is ".".
  
• If the decimal symbol is ".", then the thousand separator is ",".
  
• More consistent use of thousand separators.
  
• If the augmentation tree has been moved you can no longer accidentally spec/unspec nodes.
  
• Made moles a bit more visible by adding more light to them.
  
• "Unlock decor tokens X" now properly says "Unlock X decor tokens".
  
• Lowered the SFX for the Summoning Horn slightly.
  
• Sun flowers no longer spawn behind the quest window.
  
• The quest window now closes when you unpin it even in the mouse is inside the window.
  
• Changed "You unlocked an upgrade module!" to "Upgrade module unlocked!".
  
• The bonus that achievements give can be shown in the achievements UI by hovering over the new "bonus"-button.
  

• One upgrade costing 10T gave almost no reward. This has been fixed.
  
• Partially unlocked achievements are no longer completely gray for 1 frame when opening the achievements.
  

• More improvements are in the works!
  

Energy Collector is finally released on Steam!!!

Beta Patch 29 - Patch Notes

Patch to wipe save files and reset leaderboards. Also some bug fixes.

• Save files are reset.
  
• Leaderboards are reset.
  
• Buy powerup upgrade requirement text is now red when not affordable.
  

• Music volume no longer resets when restarting the game.
  
• Music no longer overlaps itself when prestigeing.
  
• Fixed the in-game link to the game's Discord channel.
  
• Changed "Gardening" to "Expeditions" in the game guide.
  

• The game is releasing within an hour! Beta testers should have access now!
  
• Suggestions for improvements and features are appreciated!