• The day/night system has been reworked so that there is now more sky glow at sunrise and sunset. The stars are also clearer at night, and overall the night sky looks much nicer now. The clouds have been adjusted accordingly as well.

• I added new background music for the dialogues in the \[secret] chapters and reworked many ambient sound effects.

• There are now radios and TVs in the game that you can turn on, and they even play actual programs (in addition to the HUD on the dog trailer). This is currently included as a test, and I’ll add it properly for the demo in the coming weeks.

• I still haven’t been able to solve the FSR 4.0 issue. Graphical artifacts continue to appear.

• I made many small performance optimizations to models and textures that barely affect visuals but improve overall efficiency by roughly 10%.

• The \[secret] chapter is now much further along than before. I added forests, meadows, buildings, POIs, and story content.

• A bunch of bug fixes.

• Finish the \[secret] chapter.

• Add more radios and TVs for players to discover.

• Further improve performance.

• Make some ambient sounds in meadows and forests more dynamic.

• Add more interaction possibilities to the individual chapters.

• I received feedback that some tasks in chapters aren’t clear enough, so I want to redesign certain things to prevent players from getting lost later on. In general, if Ares knows where he wants to go, a marker appears in the world. But if he doesn’t know the location or doesn’t know where his target is, no marker appears. Both the player and Ares need to find the place themselves.

• I want to include at least one side quest in the game.

• Upload an updated version of the game.

Hi everyone,

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, and I wish you a happy New Year. I haven’t been idle these past few weeks, and I really appreciated all your feedback. It’s time for me to post the first update for my game. Since the initial demo version didn’t have a version number, I’m starting with this update.

Thanks to your feedback, the list of changes is quite long:

• New forest and meadow ambient sounds

• Adjusted 3D sound playback based on the player’s position

• Improved geometry calculations

• Ares now has a light cone in front of him, making dark areas easier to see

• Added a ladder on the inside of the checkpoint to prevent softlocks

• Optimized light sources

• Improved render quality

• Added a note about shader compiling to the loading screen

• Adjusted the options menu (removed “Fullscreen Window”)

• Fixed an issue with changing screen resolution

• Fixed shadow flickering at 720p and 4K resolutions

• Fixed grass texture flickering

• Slightly adjusted vegetation colors

• Optimized materials (vegetation, glass, water, roads, dirt paths)

• Removed AMD FSR until certain visual issues are resolved; in return, the “Render Quality” setting now has more impact

• Reworked the hotel puzzle to make it easier to understand

• Improved Fina’s pathfinding and added new navigation data

• Fixed several issues where Fina refused to walk through doors

• If Fina loses track of the player, she now tends to teleport behind the player rather than blocking the way

• Overhauled the save system, making it more robust

Due to the updated save system, your old save files are no longer compatible. Loading them may cause in‑game errors.

Have a great time and take care!

Until then,

FrozyGames