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Genre: Adventure

Skotos

May 1st or May 2nd skotos will be leaving steam.
On monday or tuesday skotos will be leaving steam, the exact day depends on how long valves support ticket response time is.

Skotos will be staying on steam
Backstory on why skotos was leaving steam: Since May of 2022 Skotos had been free to play on steam, however, the game had very few players and almost no DLC sales from that. So I decided last week that I would be making the game paid for multi-platform price parity and contacted steam support to change it, They told me no. This left one option, I would need to take the game down to have price parity with other platforms the game is launching on.

Now why is the game staying?: After telling steam support I wanted to remove my game from steam, within 12 hours the game had 100s of players and a ton of DLC sales. I made no change to the game or store page so that means steam intentionally decided to push my game and as of right now they are still doing that so it will be staying up and on other platforms it will remain free to play since it does work if shown to real people.

Will it stay on steam forever?: As long as steam does not go back to sending bots to my store page and the game does not go back to 0 players for months on end then it will stay, if that does happen then being on steam will be pointless as they will provide no value to me or the players of my games on the platform.

I want to apologize about the stress that caused for people who are enjoying the game, steam told me to make an announcement about leaving and then as soon as I did they pushed it. I was under the assumption they were going to take it down same day I made the announcement but they did not.

Skotos will be leaving steam
Starting in just a few days Skotos will be leaving steam. You should still have access to the game in your library if you have already redeemed it.

Thank you for playing.

Skotos goes free to play
Starting today skotos will be free to play for everyone!

HotFix for clown update
This patch fixes several small bugs in the game.

Clown Update
This update adds 8 new clown AI and revamps the entire AI system for improved atmospheric horror.

Nightmare Update
Hey Players,

When the game launched late last year I promised a new content update then named "Levels Update", today that update has finally arrived. I apolgize about it take a while, but I have been hard at work on making it for all of you!

I will list below all of the new features and patch notes.

Quality of Life:

  1. Difficulty has been adjusted to be more forgiving.
  2. Certain platforms have been updated to be more noticeable on where to go.
  3. Several bugs that were reported have been fixed.


Gameplay:

  1. New movement ability: Dashing.
  2. Ending scene now properly ends.
  3. New spinning cul-de-sac platform.
  4. New anchor platform.
  5. New scissor roads platform.
  6. New falling platform.
  7. New tunnel platform.
  8. Per player requests the monsters have been removed from the game.
  9. 15 new levels have been added to the game.


Sound Design:

  1. Ending level now has ambient sounds.
  2. Moving Platforms now have sound effects.
  3. Dashing ability has a new sound effect.


Thank you to everyone who played skotos!

NightMare Update
Hey Players,

When the game launched late last year I promised a new content update then named "Levels Update", today that update has finally arrived. I apolgize about it take a while, but I have been hard at work on making it for all of you!

I will list below all of the new features and patch notes.

Quality of Life:

  1. Difficulty has been adjusted to be more forgiving.
  2. Certain platforms have been updated to be more noticeable on where to go.
  3. Several bugs that were reported have been fixed.


Gameplay:

  1. New movement ability: Dashing.
  2. Ending scene now properly ends.
  3. New spinning cul-de-sac platform.
  4. New anchor platform.
  5. New scissor roads platform.
  6. New falling platform.
  7. New tunnel platform.
  8. Per player requests the monsters have been removed from the game.
  9. 15 new levels have been added to the game.


Sound Design:

  1. Ending level now has ambient sounds.
  2. Moving Platforms now have sound effects.
  3. Dashing ability has a new sound effect.


Thank you to everyone who played the game, this will probably be the last content update for the game as it is not a early access title and this update made due to the promise I made at launch in 2021. if there are bugs reported they will be patched, however new content will more than likely stop after this update.

Difficulty FIx Part 2
Hey, I have a new patch for you guys!

I have updated the games movement system and difficulty system to be less frustrating to new players. the game now defaults to easy difficulty, so if you do want to play at a higher difficulty, please be sure to select the difficulty you want in the difficulty select menu.

Changes Made:
-gravity amount lowered for easier use of platforming mechanics.
-Level 1 now has a texture on the drop down platform that is more clear of where to go for the player.
-easy difficulty is now default due to frustrations with a higher difficulty being set as default.


side note: if you are having bugs with the game please let me know what the bugs are so I can fix them, writing a negative review saying it has bugs without telling me what they are does not help get them fixed.
You can join the discord using the developer website link on the steam page if you wish to report them.

Difficulty bug patch
-Fixed an issue where the easy difficulty did not scale properly with all the levels.
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