So many bugs?

[Mellivorium]

I don't see much talk of bugs but boy howdy. I've had it lock up three times, with the character just...not moving no matter what. I can't seem to progress past the very first quest (I build the garden, talk to her... nothing changes? I can't even get back to my boat so I'm just stuck.)

Am I missing really obvious stuff here or...? I tried switching to a controller and had to fight with the settings to let me play Stella and not the cat. Then it locked up on me yet again.

I really REALLY love the art, concept, characters... but the demo is unplayable for me. :(

Edit: Also even though I unplugged my controller, the screen insists on keeping Stella and the cat on screen together, so it just zooms further and further out as I try to move around. Speech bubbles get consistently cut in half by the edge of the screen so I can't read them. As soon as I back out of building the garden, the game locks up again.

[ClockworkXI]

If you go in the options, you can disable the controller assigned to the cat. As for the shipyard, you need to build Summer's house. This building is in a different tab than the garden. Sorry about the confusion, we are still ironing out how to introduce the different mechanics to the player!

The character not moving is quite strange. Do you still hear sound or does the game freeze completely?

[Mellivorium]

Haha I JUST figured out how to change tabs to build the correct thing, I blame needing new glasses for missing how the heck to switch. It defaulted to showing the garden so I was just like guess that's it derpderp. Mmm, player error.

I... think the sound is fine? I haven't noticed, I have the volume pretty low, will turn it up now. But I went and accessed something on the boat, couldn't get back out of it. Ended up having to force close the game for like the fifth time. Tab didn't do anything, when I hit esc and checked keybinds it had reassigned character one to "none" so that couldn't be helping, but fixing that issue still didn't let me back out. It's all very odd but I'm too in love with the game already to stop trying!

[ClockworkXI]

Hmm maybe the back button got unbound for some reason, you can try deleting your saved options located at

%USERPROFILE%/AppData/LocalLow/Thunder Lotus Games/Spiritfarer

[Mellivorium]

It seems to be working on this play through, so far anyway. I figured out the cat/second player issue was my G13 keyboard. I think it was registering as a controller because when I unplugged it that problem vanished. It's causing me personal issues because I'm spoiled and always use it to game with, but so far I haven't locked up again! Having a blast actually. Thanks for the help. :)