Solve Radioactive puzzles in the Twin's bunker. Visit the Science collisions archive with story bits about the world. Explore a new cave that will eventually lead up to two of the alien towers.
This update introduced a new collection, keycard, and currency systems. The Bits currency can be used for various things throughout the game, like the archive stories. Discover Nomad visions and secret optional puzzles.
The playtest will focus on a single or a set of level designs for play-testing, debugging, and iterations, sometimes with unfinished content. The demo is your best bet if you want to play a more significant chunk and get a feel for the game.
Bug Reporting This update includes a new in-game bug report tool; please use that to create tickets automatically. Please help out make the game better with your feedback. Let us know what you liked and did not like so we can improve the game <3
Lunar Soil - PlayTest - The Twin's Bunker
The playtest now contains new puzzle levels!
Solve Radioactive puzzles in the Twin's bunker. Visit the Science collisions archive with story bits about the world. Explore a new cave leading that will eventually lead up to two of the alien towers.
This update introduced a new collection, keycard, and currency systems. The Bits currency can be used for various things throughout the game, like the archive stories. Discover Nomad visions and secret optional puzzles.
The playtest will focus on a single or a set of level designs for play-testing, debugging, and iterations, sometimes with unfinished content. The demo is your best bet if you want to play a more significant chunk and get a feel for the game.
Bug Reporting This update includes a new in-game bug report tool; please use that to create tickets automatically. Please help out make the game better with your feedback. Let us know what you liked and did not like so we can improve the game <3
Lunar Soil - Demo
With the celebration of Steam Nextfest, the prologue demo is now generally available for download. If you are into exploration and puzzle games, we hope you find it entertaining <3.
The demo is not a representation of the final game but contains a set of level features and should give you a general sense of the gameplay and the game's general direction.
Playtest vs. Demo?
The demo will feature a small portion of the game that leads up to the distant island of Lunar Soil. The demo is for you if you wish to play a part of the game.
We use playtests for more focused level-design tests and feature content as it becomes more ready. If you want to help us make the game better, we recommend that you join the playtest.
What's next?
We are focusing on content and level creation for the game. Lunar soil is a place filled with alien activity and, among that, is a set of research stations established around the strange island.
The next playtest will contain a new research bunker, an AI-driven story archive telling some of the events leading up to the island's current state, and, if you manage to beat that, a cave system leading up to one of the alien towers. We aim to finish the game's research bunkers before introducing any more challenging alien towers and the outdoor island.
Alpha #3 concludes the prologue testing of Lunar Soil. This alpha gave us a lot of bug fixes, area tweaks, and puzzle clarifications. We fixed critical bugs that prevented players from progressing, narrative clarifications, and foliage!
The narrative has been clarified a bit, with the addition of a new level "B-12 Outskirt". The void level where you meet the mysterious doppelganger now takes you to the outskirts before returning to the Star and the evacuation.
We added a tutorial level explaining the basic controls like running, pushing buttons, and picking up and dropping items.
During Steam Next Fest in October, we will open up a playable demo and shift the focus of the playtest to future-level testing. If you like bug-hunting in unreleased content or help shape the game please join our playtest. If you just want to check out the game, wait for the demo. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.
Alpha #1 gave us great intel into early gameplay, design feedback, and a good view of improvement areas. Overall we got a good response on the difficulty of the puzzles and more secrets were discovered than we had anticipated. We want to keep the prelude fairly simple to beat and some of the more challenging stuff on the main world.
We got roughly 700hours of gameplay in total. 410 Buttons pressed. Only 28 deaths were recorded. We appreciate all the bug reports and feedback! Thank you so much!
Alpha 2 will continue on the same track as Alpha #1 with the prelude of the game before you set foot on Lunar Soil. With a bit more fleshed-out systems.
This will also be the foundation for the Lunar Soil demo that will be part of Steam Next Fest in October, your feedback is greatly appreciated.
