Thank you to everyone who has played so far during Early Access, and a special thank you to everyone who has filed bugs or given feedback. Despite a rocky launch with delayed Steam approval, the game has hit its Early Access sales goals and the path is clear to a full launch in Q2 2027. All of the feedback and data from those who opted in to the Early Access gameplay report telemetry has given me a really clear idea of where the game needs to improve to reach its full potential. So what can you expect over the next few months?
Major Updates
The goal is to release a major update once per month, with smaller bug-fix, balance, and optimization patches in between where necessary.
As the game gets closer to launch in Q2 2027, major updates will end and all work will go towards preparing the full release for all platforms.
What will major updates include? Here are some of the biggest changes that are planned based on current user feedback.
Note: Plans may change based on new data, feedback, or development issues.
Gameplay Improvements
Help struggling players learn combat strategy and how to put together a build
Provide new talismans, tools, and items that let players create more complicated and unusual builds
Make nighttime more fun while retaining its fear factor
Improved Book of Burdens balancing
Improvements to Strict mode
Story and World Improvements
Add new dialog, NPCs, and interactions to deepen the player's connections to the story
Show the extended impact of player decisions with a post-credits epilogue sequence taking place the following year
Improve Reliable Repairs to make it feel more like a real hub
Additional in-game voices (not including dialog or cinematics)
Additional Content
A set of Creation Rituals that give a strong reason to replay the game
An additional game section that involves both Althea and the Doll
Basic Mod support for easily adding community translations or enemy/tool changes
Full Release Features
Official support for additional languages (to be announced)
Console ports (platforms to be announced)
Of course, it wouldn't be any fun if everything was revealed up front, so you can expect a few surprises along the path to the full release as well.
October Major Update
The game's first major update is coming October 14 and will be published to the #nextversion branch a few days prior for testing.
This update is currently planned to include:
Two new NPCs to help new players learn to play the game and draw them into the story
An expanded training room
New talismans and other items to help you make more interesting builds
Additional Creation Rituals including a randomizer to make subsequent playthroughs more interesting
Improvements to Reliable Repairs, including a record player, a new friend, and... other things
Clover voicelines
Bug fixes, balancing updates, and optimizations
Here are two of the new talismans:
Thank you for your patience and support during Early Access and please continue to give feedback and file in-game bug reports on the path to full release.
