GRAIN ROT official updates timeline

The other limited event has already closed: the full game was free for 24 hours on 1 August for verified Discord members, attached to two community goals — 10,000 Discord members and 500,000 wishlists — each worth a further 10% off for the two weeks after launch. Both goals and both rewards were stated in the same 30 July post, which is the last entry in the log before the Twitch Drops announcement.

Between them, these two events are the only time-limited offers this ledger currently tracks. Neither is a recurring promotion — the developers describe the free-access day as tied specifically to the two community goals, and the Twitch Drops window as a launch-week event rather than an ongoing program — so once 14 August passes, the log below moves from tracking an open deadline to a purely historical record until the next dated post arrives.

Both rewards are cosmetic hats rather than anything that touches the run loop or the Outpost, which keeps them out of every other sheet on this ledger: they do not appear in the launch-1-0 scope list because they are a promotional tie-in rather than a game-content addition, and they do not appear on The Outpost because a hat earned through Twitch is not furniture the Grinder economy touches. The only place they are recorded is here, against the date the offer opened and the date it is stated to close. Checking that date before claiming either hat is the entire practical use of this section — after 14 August the developers state the rewards become permanently unavailable, with no stated plan to bring them back in a later event.

Source — Steam news announcement of 6 August 2026.

Every row below is a post the Steam news feed or the partner events feed actually returned for App ID 4450620, in the order the studio published them. Filter by post type to isolate the nine community announcements from the single contest post, the one release-date reveal and the release post itself, or use the build radio to see only the seven posts filed under the June demo or the five filed under the 1.0 launch. The figure-stated column is deliberately sparse: most posts carry a headline and nothing else, and this table does not fill that gap with anything the developers did not themselves publish.

Read chronologically rather than filtered, the log tells its own story: three wishlist-milestone posts in June set up the demo window, a cluster of community-announcement posts carried the demo through Next Fest, and the 14 July release-date reveal is the single post that separates the demo era from the launch era for every other sheet on this site. The five posts dated after that reveal are the ones Demo vs 1.0 and this page both treat as "1.0 launch build" evidence, even though the game itself did not ship until 7 August.

The log ends at launch day because that is where the first-party record ends: no post-launch patch has been published yet. When one is, it becomes the thirteenth row here rather than a guess on any other sheet. Until then, this page and What is confirmed carry the same honest limit from two different angles: this one shows exactly how much dated record exists, and that one explains what still cannot be answered because of it.

Source — Steam ISteamNews feed and the partner events feed for App ID 4450620.