The Cursed Forest
Announce about new update and official soundtrack.
We will give an opportunity to use version 1.0.3 through the beta-branches, so it will be possible to use save that made on that version.
We planning to release OST as DLC. It will include 18 tracks.
Also, we integrating localization for few languages that was made by community power! Big thanks to Lostprophet, 7UC4 C4551N3771 и Pomponeko!
Hungarian:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/345430/discussions/0/1733210552657076111/
Italian:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/345430/discussions/0/1840188800794536736/
French:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/345430/discussions/0/1840188800809480500/
That is all for now soon will be new news! See you soon!
The Cursed Forest finally released from the Early Access!
It is hard to express our emotions. Let say simple it was very long and hard way, we made a lot of updates, changed few engine versions, and was fighting a lot with many bugs and fixing spots that needed improvements.
Few words from Andrey KPy3O Suhachev:
“This day finally came, we tried to reach it as hard as possible. We went through a lot of difficulties, life problems and troubles. I remembering now how all was beginning, that good, fun time :) In the finishing line not much power left, but while looking at good review and community support itself, fire keep burning, that helped to finish our job and get to the full release. I hope you will enjoy this game, from my side I put in this game my soul and huge amount of power and hardworking. Part of my soul will always stay in this forest.”
Few words from the team members:
Thanks to your support we could go through all the troubles. Without it probably our development could ended just after second section, but hopefully we got five sections! That shows how strong is our community!
We thank you very much who waited patiently full release and hope it will not disappoint you. Also, we welcome new players, now they can buy our game without any worries that it never leave Early Access. If you still have doubt you can check out free demo version right here even in IndieDB: https://www.indiedb.com/games/the-cursed-forest/downloads/the-cursed-forest-remake-demo
We will continue support our game and fixing serious problems if they appear.
Also, we have small request.
Please tell about The Cursed Forest so more people will know about our game. It will help us to pay back our development and allow us to start work on the new game project. This will open for us new Horizons and will allow us to blow dust from our ideas and concepts that we made a lot during development time. With this support after short break we will be able to start making something new and make it much faster!
That is all for now, please support us if it possible and follow the news! It will be very interesting!
Final now available! The Cursed Forest v1.0.3.
Now final is available for everyone. From this moment you can consider this game completed, but we still will keep fixing serious bugs, if bugs like that will be find.
We plan to finish Early Access at 26 February, don't miss it! There is still a small possibility that release will be few days later, but at current moment everything goes fine with that date.
Update includes:
- Activated six new achievements, they all for the final section.
- We added more events for the final section.
- Now number of the altars and main items in inventory displayed correctly.
- Used items now deleting from the inventory.
- Now brightness configurations after the game events is not changing to default one.
- ArtyomKGy, we fixed problem where after first launch of the game brightness could become incorrect and make gray or black screen.
- oku, thank you for your feedback, we fixed all problems that you mentioned.
- Small editing of the game-notes.
- Final section optimization is little bit improved.
- We added few easter-eggs.
- Many small improvements of the previous sections.
ATTENTION: We seriously changed final section that is why old save files will not work correctly. You can start new game from the fifth section, it will not be critical for the events.
Also, we update our game trailer, now it is not so dark as before:
https://youtu.be/uoCdg6SQRoA
If you have many followers on Twitch, Youtube or different blogs, we can help you with streaming or game review. For cooperation please contacts us here:
press@thecursedforest.ru
Also, we plan to write an email to the different game reviewers. For this we will use the following emails:
noostyche@gmail.com
sergeidart@noostyche.ru
press@thecursedforest.ru
If you got email from the different email address, please be careful, it can be fake accounts and scammers.
In our email we never ask to install any additional programs, buy game from the strange stores, also we don't attach any files and don't do any suspicious actions.
Usually we just ask to make a review and give free steam-key in the message without using any attachments and without clicking on links.
If you want to translate our game on your native language, please write us on email and we will discuss about details, please write here:
feedback@thecursedforest.ru
If we didn't answer on your message during long time, please don't get upset it could appear in the spam box, but we will still find it, it will just take more time than usual.
If you need our response as soon as possible, please leave the message in the forum: https://steamcommunity.com/app/345430/discussions/
Also, it is appeared that in the old The Cursed Forest version, still you can easily enter through the Cryengine login: https://steamcommunity.com/app/345430/discussions/0/1776010325113697430/
If you want to check the original version, you can find it from here:
https://www.indiedb.com/games/the-cursed-forest/downloads/the-cursed-forest-15-full-version
That is all from now, stay tuned, very soon we will push this Big Green Button and get released!
The Cursed Forest Demo v1.0.2.
Update includes:
- Intro playback logic is changed, that will increase stability.
- Fixed problem with zero brightness during first game launch.
- Now brightness and contrast shouldn't get off after the cut-scene.
- We fixed rare problem with sound loudness in the main menu.
- We little bit optimize main menu background.
- Possibility that the game is shut down after the end of the demo is lesser.
- Main objects models that player found during the game are improved.
- We added additional autosave for critical moments.
- Now player don't lose control after first auto-save loading.
- Improved the moment of collapse near the abyss.
- Logic of starting cut-scene activation is fixed.
- Increased view distance for the rune pillars.
- Increased view distance for the main items.
- Now axe appears only in needed moment.
- We fixed problem with collision on the trail, when player going down in the start of the game.
We want to remind you that demo include first section of the game. After player finish it, player return to the main menu. Full demo walkthrough will take around 30 minutes.
Now we would like to say little bit about The Cursed Forest release.
Release is planned at 26 February, but already at 22 February we planning to add final in the main branch, that will allow to everyone who have The Cursed Forest play the game completely. Also, we want you to notice that in the full version will be big changings and new achievements will be available.
In the nearest day we will say more detail information about that changing, stay tuned!
The Cursed Forest is released! The Cursed Forest v1.0.0?
We finally crossed the finish line, and complete that long difficult way. All what is left now is to push the Big Green Button. So, what is stopping us from doing it now?!
We consulted about the best release date and convinced to make it closer to the end of February. But anyway, to anyone who want we giving possibility to play The Cursed Forest full version already now! It is available in the beta-branch!
In the fact release is today, all what is left to get from the early access is to push the Big Green Button :)
Game price will not change. Also, during the release we will have same discount same as during Lunar New year! So, don't miss it!
While we waiting best moment to push that Big Green Button, we will do the next things:
- Fixing troubles that players might have.
- Improve some moments in the final section.
- Improve optimization.
- Improve epilogue video. We changed it right before the end of game development and this process took very long.
If you have account in the twitch or youtube and many viewers or blog with many viewers we can give you a support for your stream or game review. You can send your offers on our email:
press@thecursedforest.ru
If you want to translate our game on your country language also please write on our email, we can discuss it here:
feedback@thecursedforest.ru
We want to give a big gratitude to all the people that still with us during so long time. Your support very helped us to overcome so many difficulties, that was looking like endless. Thanks to the feedback game become way better than it could be. If there wouldn't be early access and so warm support that allowed us to release this game, it would be maybe even impossible to do what we already done.
Thank you very much!
This is not goodbye, follow our news, because pretty soon we will push that release button!
Pre-release. The Cursed Forest v0.8.0.
We decided to release one more update in which we trying to try new zoom and inventory logic. Also, as people wanted we made FPS restriction option that bypassing Vsync.
Also, we planning:
- To polish several moments in the final section.
- We want to add some small events.
- We want to improve optimization.
- We want to try to fix the rest difficult bugs.
- Localize for other languages.
And here is some improvements that we made:
- Inventory logic is improved. Now you will have less trouble with it.
- Some zoom improvements.
- Small game-notes improvements.
- In the game configuration we added FPS restriction option that bypassing Vsync. IMPORTANT: if use this FPS restriction with Vsync, FPS will be double lower.
Demo update is delayed, we decide to concentrate on finishing main tasks. We hope to release update in the nearest days.
For now, everything is showing that our full game release will be available in the end of January as we planned. We need one more small but important step for making full release. We will do it!
Pre-pre-release. The Cursed Forest v0.7.9.
We decide to not take long break during New Year vacation and after little break we continued our job. We worked just a week but we made quite a lot, especially need to mention little things that we delayed before but now we finally made them.
- Now 5th section starting after you complete 4th section.
- Now game-notes after player picked them up disappearing from that place properly.
- Now post-effects should work fine.
- Bug with blinking shadows on the “Ultra” graphic configuration is fixed.
- We added more autosaves.
- We fixed the problem with the zoom stuck.
- Added small fixes to game-notes.
- Small improvements in every section is added.
We want to remind you that game ending will be available after the game release, for now you can play complete 4 sections and half of the final 5th also we planning to update game demo. We piled up a lot of improvements also that includes game stability. We think that we will add this during the next week.
That is all for now, we continue our work, see you soon! Stay tuned.
Happy New Year! The Cursed Forest v0.7.8.
We will not mention again about difficulties that we had during the passing year, and let’s talk about good news. Last year of our early access is finishing, we will hope that our game will deserve your expectations and bring you good impressions. We want to say thank you for your big support, for the big patience while waiting full release, and thank you that you still after all this time with us.
Your support and feedbacks helped us to solve many problems, that before looked hard to solve. Together we finally reach the final line and now just little time left to go. We hope that full game release will be exact at January 2019 as we planned.
And now we will talk about what included in our update:
- We add new events for the 5th section.
- Now brightness and gamma after level launch should be same as it was chosen in option (not just after autosave)
- We fixed game shut downs after starting new game on Linux, it still can happen but more rarely than before.
- Small improvements.
Also, we want to show to the people that interested example how Andrey KPy3O work daily during this year:
https://youtu.be/uNdgoZtppJc
That how step by step our game was made. We want to wish you successful ending of all your plans in this year and wish success in all new plans in the new year!
Happy New Year! :2016watermelon:
Pre-Christmas. The Cursed Forest v0.7.7.
Main part of our project is finally made:
- All main events are released even the finals one.
- Main level-design work is finished only small improvements are left to do.
- Final credits is included : )
One of the important things that not finished yet is an ending video. We prepare already music and video for it, but still need to do a lot of work with frames. We hope we finish it on time.
During this year we made a huge amount of job: 14 updates (doesn’t include small ones). In total work length equals time that needed for making 2 game sections.
Of course, so big amount of job make us tired and prerelease time is quite stressing. But we gather all our power to finish the rest things of our project and make sure that it will not spoil final section impression.
For now, we list the things that we made in the current update:
- In the available part of the final section we added few small events.
- Now birds shouldn’t flickering.
- In the 4th section we added on the lake sound of the water flow, with it this part is now looking better.
- We added in the previous sections small but special detail that should make the story deeper.
Rest of our job was all about finishing final section.
We also want to remind that you can get The Cursed Forest free demo-version from the Steam or IndieDB: https://www.indiedb.com/games/the-cursed-forest/downloads/the-cursed-forest-remake-demo
Probably we will release one more update before this year ends. We still planning to make a full release in 2019 January.
Keep on touch!
Release date is decided! The Cursed Forest v0.7.6.
It will be in the end of January.
It will help us to improve the game without rush and prepare promotion. For now part of the 5th section is available in the beta-branch. We want to add more improvements. Probably we put it in the main branch after a week.
Here is a short list of things that we did so far:
- A lot of improvements of the 5th section.
- In the available part of the 5 section’s beta-version we added small events.
- We fixed some stuck problems in the 5th section.
- We fixed the problem that rarely appeared in the second section. Problem - when you can go to the not allowed place which will block the way to the needed place.
- lostprophet updated his Hungarian language localization: CLICK
We also want to remind that everyone who wants can try to make localization for his/her own language. Here is a manual how to do it: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1574244119
We will try to make the next game update after the week. Keep on touch.