According to their release schedule, June-September 2017.

Source:
http://www.radicalfishgames.com/?p=5274

I actually went ahead and bought it, because I've been keeping up with it for years now. Problem was, I wasn't going to buy it from Steam. I don't fool with Steam period. Got tons of keys I'll never use. When I saw it on GOG, it was an insta-buy for me. Doesn't matter if it won't finish until Summer/Fall, I'll be ready by then, I hope. Mega Man 2.5D should be releasing in the next couple of days according to the devs, and I already have games on top of that. I know that the Nonary Games comes out soon as well, so that will also keep me busy.

Paying for a Beta/Early Access game ?.

The should be paying those that that test their crappy games.

Well, speak for yourself -- I'm just a guy who likes good games, regardless of their age. That, and I was tired of all the hoops you have to leap through nowadays, just to play some PC games, so I support GOG's anti-DRM approach.

Nothing wrong with liking or preferring old games, of course. But "retro-gamer" sounds like some kind of video game hipster. "Yes, I play video games, but only really old ones, because that's the trendy thing to do." ಠ_ಠ

Well, it's not about playing "old" games, but in the classic style. I guess you can call me a retro-gamer, but I have a few of the modern style games as well. I just end up finishing more of the classic style games. Nothing really hipster about that. We like what we like, and that's a right we still have. Fortunately.

Thanks! =)

I'm a bit sad...I picked it up in the last time it was on sale on Steam, because I was tired of waiting for it to come here. BUT I'm excited it's here, I haven't played the early access version yet, but it has/had an AMAZING demo and it's one of the highest rated games on all of Steam, which does say something.

The devs are VERY active on the game's forum on Steam, they're quite open about its current state, their future ideas and just their overall vision. Not only that, but they've got a pretty deep road map up and they're (mostly) sticking to it, aka they're very reliable.

If you have any interest at all in the game, go try the demo. There is one on Itch.io, and one on Steam. It's a pretty lengthy demo (I think around an hour-ish?) and gives a really solid idea of what you can expect.

(Plus it might look late 90s enough to trick the "When did GOG stop releasing old games?" crowd. /joke)

I'm glad to see it here.

By the way if you're in the situation of "I got this on Steam but I really wanted it on GOG", and it has anything to do with DRM, CrossCode doesn't actually use Steam-DRM. Mostly because that would be extra work to implement something they don't care about at all. So you can grab the folder, throw it on a thumbdrive, and play it wherever you want without ever invoking the Steam application.

Devs also tell me they're evaluating GoG Connect. Actually I'll just paste D13_Michael's response to me: Also TIL: GoG has achievements now. Huh.

after spending several hours last night with this in dev version of the game i can happily say that it's excellent. if you have any love at all for the snes era action-rpgs (terranigma, secret of mana, a link to the past) this is completely worth picking up. i can't speak to the length of this version of the game but based on the steam reviews it seems like there's at least 20-30 hours worth of game already here.

As far as I know a significant portion of GOGs userbase are old farts, but that doesn't make us "retro gamers", just... old gamers. Or how about... experienced gamers? There, that sounds a little more positive.

... How about gaming veterans? :P
What does the in-dev state of this game mean anyhow? Is it missing areas? Can it be completed? Is it still buggy?

It will be fantastic to see this game in GOG Connect for those who really got it in Steam.

it means i believe that the story itself itself is not entirely complete. i haven't reached that point yet but from what i understand after reaching a specific point it quite literally gives you a "thanks for playing! to be continued..." message. however i believe, again, based on steam reviews that this happens mid-late game. and as for bugs, so far no, i haven't run into any bugs.

So there's a breakdown of upcoming milestones here. Currently we're at version 0.8.5-4, with 0.9.0, the next major milestone, on track to update in the next month. What that means completion-wise is:

* Story is about 30% complete. This means that up to around the 1/3 mark the game feels almost completely finished. This is up through the first major dungeon and a little beyond, and especially if you spend time doing all of the various side quests you could reasonably spend 10-12 hours on this alone. This does mean that you can't really "complete" the game in a narrative sense, though.

* Game overworld and dungeons are around 80% complete. The main reason the story isn't up to this point is because they don't want to spoil things or leave really pressing cliffhangers dangling for a long time. So this means once the game tells you "that's it for the story so far" you can still go on through the next dungeon, the following couple overworld maps, and two more smaller dungeons at the end of that. 0.9 will have the final major dungeon in it, and these last three together are kind of like a single mega-dungeon in multiple parts that you can tackle somewhat non-linearly.

* Obviously even finished games all have bugs, so "buggy" is something I usually take as a metric of how often and how badly the game breaks. So in this case, at least from my personal experience with it, not very buggy at all. It generally feels very polished and whenever stuff does get found it gets fixed pretty quickly. The biggest periods of instability naturally happen right after a milestone release, so they do hotfixes for a few days following that (hence 0.8.5-4). There's also a typo correction tool incorporated directly into the game; since the devs are native Germans this helps streamline reporting and handling of one of the most common types of cosmetic bug.

You seem to miss the point.
Yes - I am an "old fart". But of course I play modern games, too.

Most modern games I own on PS4, resp. Steam (because GOG can't deliver -unfortunately- due to DRM).

But back to the point: I call myself a "retro-gamer", not because of my own age - but because of the age of the games I play, respectively because of the age of the systems, on which I play these games (fuck emulators).

Those are definitely "retro" in every sense.

So yeah - I'm a "Retro-gamer" - and there's no need to wrap that up "more positive".

;p