Only just happened to come across this now... am downloading the demo, though I'll probably resist playing it till the full thing comes out.

So glad you guys are going back to the many-deaths freakiness of Stasis. Don't get me wrong, Beautiful Desolation was a great game as well, but the atmosphere of Stasis and Cayne is where it's at (also I missed the many crazy horrendous death scenes!).

Will the Demo be a spoiler for the main game?

Thx :)

Sounds awesome, since STASIS (and of course Cayne and Beautiful Desolation) already had very impressive graphics, while still being essentially isometric games.

Hopefully puzzle-wise it'll be closer to STASIS than BD since the latter was probably a bit on the easy side (and also it had no death scenes which was a shame).

Can't wait to play this - but we'll have to since according to your website the estimated release is Q1 2022 (!!)... Might relent and play the demo in the meantime...

But your games make happy gamers, and that's what counts!

New trailer just dropped, looks great!

Looking forward to this very much!

Hoping it will be out by EO year and not delayed further (but a good late game is better than an earlier buggy game IMO). But I'm sure it'll be awesome.

Played the demo, generally liked it except the controls seem to be... "consolised" (which isn't a real word but is probably accurate). Something just seemed a bit.. off.. with the controls. It's hard to describe.

The biggest negative is that it seemed to be difficult (with the mouse) to accurately control exactly when your characters walked or ran.

Running when you meant to walk slowly is either immersion-breaking or irritating, depending on whether or not it causes you to run into something that kills you (for me it was the former - I did have a death but I saw it coming, and walked into it to see the death animation - which didn't disappoint, except that you can only trigger it one time, which sucks if you blink and miss it and haven't saved before it).

So you've somehow managed to create a reverse-Sierra situation - where not saving before a death isn't annoying because you die and game over, it's annoying because then you can't trigger the death again. ;)

The only other negative is that it seemed less obvious than previous games where you could actually walk - I can see this turning into a mouse-clicking pixel-hunting thing just to figure out where to walk (only happened in one area though, usually it's pretty obvious)

On the positive side: puzzles are back, as is the gore. I like the approach to controlling multiple characters, and having a magic inventory is cool as it will no doubt save a lot of backtracking that would otherwise occur just to exchange objects. So I see this as adding depth to puzzles while reducing pointless backtracking as well.

I should note I played this a few months ago, so some of the above may have changed. Anyway, I'm still most definitely looking forward to this one.

Cheers, I think I will. Not that I wouldn't buy this instantly anyway...

That said, I'm pretty sure whether you run or walk was already based on distance to mouse click in the version I played - and although I eventually figured out that this is what was happening, I'd personally still prefer a more "standard" (e.g. single-click == walk, double-click (or SHIFT+click) == run). Mainly because I don't want to have to click in small increments just so the character walks in an area where one would expect them to walk... At the very least it'd be good to have some kind of option for this (disable/enable click-distance-based walk/run or something).

Looking forward to whenever this releases anyway!

Demo looks great--I'm just playing STASIS (in space), believe it or not--have yet to finish--it's my kind of game! I wasn't sure I'd like the switch from space to the ocean, but I think it's going to be a great game...;)

Version 3.4.6 of the Demo is the GOG version, which I assume is the latest, as it landed just a couple of months ago, according to the update dates in Galaxy.