Actually releasing in 2023?

[huma474]

There's been no updates or news for a while, even the discord looks mostly dead. Is this actually coming out ?

[Lokat]

vaporware

[The nameless Gamer]

Whole lot of updates on SteamDB for October, so whatever is happening is happening behind closed doors. The window for 2023 is rapidly shrinking though. 15th of December is holiday sale time, which is a terrible time for new releases. So it's either by December 15th or another delay.

[Ozzina Arcane]

Feels like a lot of indies are getting into a similar habit of Triple A games of announcing their game too early. Especially since unlike those Triple A games, indie games without all that marketing can't hang onto that announcement hype as long. I mention this game to my friends who I know had positive reactions to the announcement trailer and they don't even remember what I'm talking about.

[nsilvias]

doubt it hits 2023. december is more of an industry break. youd need to be starting your marketing since october if you were actually gonna release this year. some games do get december releases but its usually the first week at the latest.

[dondashall]

The game has been delayed 2-3 years in a row now, never with any warning, it just says 2020?/2021/2022/2023 now I guess then you get to the new year and it isn't released. I have it on the wishlist in the hopes it will release someday, but don't expect good communication about release time from this dev.

[dondashall]

Originally posted by Ozzina Arcane:

Feels like a lot of indies are getting into a similar habit of Triple A games of announcing their game too early. Especially since unlike those Triple A games, indie games without all that marketing can't hang onto that announcement hype as long. I mention this game to my friends who I know had positive reactions to the announcement trailer and they don't even remember what I'm talking about.

Announcing is fine as long as you stay within "coming soon", "TBA" and the like because having on wishlist is good (I mean an argument can be said even with that when you're at Team Cherry levels of delay, but generally), it's announcing release date they aren't capable of keeping that's the problem, because it's just annoying expecting something to come out every so often when it doesn't.

[planescaped]

Another casualty of the Ukrainian invasion methinks.

[comatones]

Originally posted by dondashall:

Originally posted by Ozzina Arcane:

Feels like a lot of indies are getting into a similar habit of Triple A games of announcing their game too early. Especially since unlike those Triple A games, indie games without all that marketing can't hang onto that announcement hype as long. I mention this game to my friends who I know had positive reactions to the announcement trailer and they don't even remember what I'm talking about.

Announcing is fine as long as you stay within "coming soon", "TBA" and the like because having on wishlist is good (I mean an argument can be said even with that when you're at Team Cherry levels of delay, but generally), it's announcing release date they aren't capable of keeping that's the problem, because it's just annoying expecting something to come out every so often when it doesn't.

Exactly. I don't mind games having TBA. But having a date and no news or plan on releasing it then is frustrating.

[Tezius]

Jirard the completionist and jesse cox became producers for this game a little while ago right?, and Jirard just got busted in a charity scandal so i seriously doubt they will release until the heat dies down after that gets resolved

[Lokuzt]

Originally posted by Tezius:

Jirard the completionist and jesse cox became producers for this game a little while ago right?, and Jirard just got busted in a charity scandal so i seriously doubt they will release until the heat dies down after that gets resolved

I'm interested in this as well. As one of the people who was cheated when I donated for Jirard's charity streams, so far, Metamorphosis and Fireshine Games (the developer and publisher, respectively) have no press kit or info page where they disclose if he's involved in this game or if TOVG might receive some part of the earnings.