Today we’re releasing a small update for Spirit. We are already at work with some bigger changes and more content to the game. But we wanted to quickly release an update that addresses some of the bigger issues we’ve seen:

At launch, the Adventure Mode unlocked Free Mode content. We have decided to get rid of this completely. All Free Mode content is now unlocked from the start, leaving Adventure to people that WANT to play through it.

* Free Mode: The game now always starts with your chosen animals/plants/minerals
* Free Mode: Snails now correctly spawn from rocks, even if the player moved the rock
* Adventure 1: Made the level more casual and quicker to play through
* Menu: Trees don’t mysteriously stop growing anymore
* Menu: Swapped Free Mode and Adventure GUI positions
* Menu: Changed release date from 2016 to 2017

First of all, huge thanks to everyone that has bought the game so far. We are currently at work with the first update.

After reading the initial feedback, we realize that most players prefer the Free Mode to Adventure. In the launch version, the Adventure Mode unlocks Free Mode content. We have decided to get rid of this completely. The first update will have the Free Mode completely unlocked from the start, leaving Adventure to people that WANT to play through it.

This also means we will be focusing primarily on the Free Mode from now on. We will do our best in future updates to make it the fun, casual ecosystem sandbox game it was always meant to be.

Thanks for all the feedback! We are reading every word.

- The Spirit Team