Demo is finally out! :)

Thank you to everyone who helped us with the playtest!

This is a complete redesign of the first level based on your suggestions for improving the game!
This demo comes after two years of development. We’ve poured our hearts and souls into this game, and we hope you’ll love it. It’s not perfect, and it’s a small game compared to major titles, but we’re a tiny studio, and this is only our second game ever—so please be gentle!

In the meantime, we’re working tirelessly to polish the other six levels of OLAR. We’ll definitely release this year, but we don’t know the exact date yet. We’re taking our time to polish as much as possible to ensure the game launches in the best shape.

Over the past two years, we’ve worked incredibly hard with almost no funding. The only thing keeping us going has been the support of our amazing community on Steam, Discord, Reddit, and Twitter! We love you all. Your feedback and the dedication of our playtesters over the past months have made OLAR what it is today. Without you, we wound't have made it!

Here are some improvements we’ve implemented since the last playtest:
Level 01 redesign

- New visual effects for GPU and Gravity Grab
- New health tutorial
- Dataworld teleport tutorial
- Button crouching set as default
- Added trigger sensitivity calibration
- Added left-handed and switch movement options
- Added controller calibration settings
- Can now grab hand slider from different positions
- Added PS controller compatibility
- New train, now an actual locomotive
- Added shootable and breakable locks
- Fixed crawling head offset bug
-Added mantas at the level’s beginning
- Fixed widow disappearing on death
- Added memory menu to read previously collected memories
- Full Virtual Desktop Support

We believe you should try our game before spending your money, not buy a mystery box. One hour of gameplay should be enough to immerse you in the post-apocalyptic world we’ve built and help you decide if it’s worth your investment.

Thank you again to everyone who has been part of this journey and continues to help us test the game! We couldn’t have done it without you!

Love,
The Castello Inc. Team

Hello everyone,

We’re hard at work on Of Lies and Rain and want to give a huge shoutout to our amazing Discord community for helping us polish the game and fix a lot of bugs. Your support means the world to us!

We added some great new enemies to the game.

Please welcome phtirus, a scorpion like creature, we should have just called it scorpion, don't even remember why it's called pthritus really, but we had this one in mind for a while now and so it basically looks like a scorpion but it's called pthirus instead. Apologies for the weird name!

We have also enlarged the Jelly enemy family, we now have MotherJelly and BabyJelly, the family is complete.
The little ones will hatch from eggs scattered across the ravaged world of Of Lies and Rain,
As for Mother Jelly, she brings the same slimy combat style as the regular Jellies, but with more health and bigger, deadlier projectiles to dodge.

Some other updates to the playtest include:

- dataworld have now dataworld looking hands
- you have now a way to read collected memories, just tap your watch.
- secondary hand now doesn;t automatically grab the weapon but you need to grab instead to hold it with 2 hands.
- no limit on machine gun fire in the dataworld
- Fixed a bug that made some levels look too bright
- added rain in the open levels
- Hits in the squid weak point now deal more damage and we changed its attack to make it more deadly.
- added memories in the last levels.
- many bug fixes

Thanks for following along as we continue to build this game—we’ll keep you posted with more updates soon!