Took the time to do another pass at the Milo box art. Enjoy!

TLDR Version: Milo's Steam launch has been pushed to 2025. Multiplayer will not be included in the initial Steam launch. Milo will launch in Early Access on Steam. Milo Steam playtest will likely begin within a few weeks. Anybody who already purchased or claimed Milo on itch.io can still redeem a product-key for the Steam version of Milo.

It has been two and a half years since I decided to develop my first game, 'Milo' and it has been the most wonderful (and certainly the most challenging) experience of my life. Before I continue to share with you some details about Milo and it's future I would like to thank some people because although I am a solo-developer, this game would not be possible without the generous support and patience of my family and friends, as well as the feedback I've received from the budding Milo community.

I also would like to thank the Dunning-Kruger effect for giving me the delusional confidence that I needed to attempt to make a game despite having very little knowledge or experience, also want to thank the brilliant engineers/artists/designers (past and present) who develop the Unreal Engine and Lyra, UE community marketplace developers, and thank you to musician Craig Amromin for his contribution to Milo's soundtrack.

I have decided to remove multiplayer from the Steam launch of Milo mostly so I can focus on continuing to design without needing to carve out more time to implement and test multiplayer. This doesn't mean that multiplayer is not in Milo's future, it just means that it is on hold until I know I have a solid single-player game.

I have also marked Milo as "Early Access" on Steam and pushed the release to 2025. I am choosing Early Access so I can have a bit more license with design decisions in the weeks/months following release. You can refer to the Steam store page link below to get more explanation on the choice to do Early Access.

I pushed the release from June of this year to 2025 because I want to spend at least a few months beyond June to develop a stronger social media presence (especially Youtube shorts, TikTok), explore options I may have with publishers and investigate legal concerns, reach out to streamers/content creators and game journalists, and hopefully dramatically increase the amount of Steam wishlists (currently at 113 with 72 players waiting for playtest access).

Even though I have posted very little in the past few months, I have not been working on Milo any less. And while excitement and hype for the release Milo is important to me, there is nothing more important to me than making sure that Milo is a fun game/fantastic product and I feel more confident than ever that this is the case. Thank you again for your continued support!

-Spencer Sharp (ammoburger)