Estranged: Act I

Alan Edwardes

Released: Jan 16, 2014
Platforms: WindowsmacOSLinux
Last updated: 31 Aug 2025, 21:51 GMT

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04 Jan 2025Developer post
Minor Update
A minor patch update is now available for Estranged: Act I on Windows. Changes in this build: Tweaks to the Extras menu to link to the Official Estranged Wiki Removes the anonymous statistics functionality from the game code, and checkbox from the Estranged Options Adjusts Visual
A minor patch update is now available for Estranged: Act I on Windows. Changes in this build:

Tweaks to the Extras menu to link to the Official Estranged Wiki
Removes the anonymous statistics functionality from the game code, and checkbox from the Estranged Options
Adjusts Visual C++ redistributable version to 2013
Happy 2025, and thank you for playing Estranged!
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16 Jan 2024Developer post
10 Year Anniversary of Estranged
10 years ago today , Estranged: Act I was released. Since then, there have been well over a million unique players , with nearly 7k reviews and the title sits with a Steam rating of 93% . "Natural Reserve" by Er0de from the Act I Steam Community Thank you to everyone that support
23 Nov 2023Developer post
Minor Update
An update is now live for Estranged: Act I on Windows, containing the following changes: Updated workshop tooling to .NET 8 and a newer version of the Steam SDK Updated the Source SDK bootstrapping tool to .NET 8 See the Official Workshop Guide for more information.
An update is now live for Estranged: Act I on Windows, containing the following changes:

Updated workshop tooling to .NET 8 and a newer version of the Steam SDK
Updated the Source SDK bootstrapping tool to .NET 8
See the Official Workshop Guide for more information.
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15 Sep 2019Developer post
Native macOS Support Ending
I'm sorry to announce that because of changes Apple are making in macOS Catalina (due to be released later this year), Estranged: Act I will no longer be able to run on macOS. Impact for macOS Players In the next few weeks, the Act I store page will no longer list Mac as a suppor
I'm sorry to announce that because of changes Apple are making in macOS Catalina (due to be released later this year), Estranged: Act I will no longer be able to run on macOS.
Impact for macOS Players

In the next few weeks, the Act I store page will no longer list Mac as a supported platform
Players that downloaded Act I previously will still be able to access the Mac version of Act I, but after upgrading to macOS Catalina the game will no longer run
There is no impact for players on Windows and Linux.
Technical Details
The specific changes that Apple will make is the removal of support for 32bit applications. I have followed up with Valve around adding 64bit support to the Source SDK 2013, but have not heard anything back.
My hope is that since this also impacts Valve's older first party titles, they will fix this in the 2009 engine branch and upstream the changes into the 2013 SDK.
Apple are also actively deprecating the OpenGL graphics API in favour of Apple's Metal API - something Source SDK 2013 won't support without a lot of engineering work on Valve's side.
To bring Estranged and other Source SDK 2013 games back to Mac for any meaningful length of time, both Metal and 64bit would need to be supported.
If you'd like to discuss this, drop a comment below or join the Estranged community at https://discord.gg/estranged
Thanks,
Alan
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01 Apr 2019Developer post
Steam Workshop Support
I'm excited to annouce that Estranged: Act I now supports Steam Workshop ! Click the image to jump over to the Estranged: Act I Steam Workshop! There are a few items in the workshop already contributed by the Estranged Discord community. I also added my map that started Estranged
10 Mar 2019Developer post
March 2019 Update
An update is now live for Mac, Linux and Windows with the following changes: Statistics collection is now disabled autoexec.cfg - previously it was opt-in, the difference is now the game no longer asks at first boot if it can collect statistics, and runs with them disabled unless
An update is now live for Mac, Linux and Windows with the following changes:

Statistics collection is now disabled autoexec.cfg - previously it was opt-in, the difference is now the game no longer asks at first boot if it can collect statistics, and runs with them disabled unless explicitly enabled
Replaces all URLs to point to iamestranged.com - previously some URLs pointed to alanedwardes.com/estranged which was the temporary landing page since I wasn't sure whether I would be able to keep iamestranged.com (!)
Custom content support - The "custom" folder is now enabled in gameinfo.txt for custom content out of the box
If there are any other changes you'd like to see in future updates, let me know in the comments, or via Discord: https://discord.gg/estranged
Thanks for playing Estranged!
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30 Dec 2017Developer post
Act II 2017 Round Up
This was cross-posted from the Act II news hub As 2017 draws to a close, I thought I'd round up some of the things that happened over the past year, and look ahead to what 2018 will bring. Here are some interesting statistics from the past year: Over 19,000 downloads on Steam 262
This was cross-posted from the Act II news hub
As 2017 draws to a close, I thought I'd round up some of the things that happened over the past year, and look ahead to what 2018 will bring.
Here are some interesting statistics from the past year:

Over 19,000 downloads on Steam
262 Steam reviews (74% positive)
Over 30 content updates (many more undocumented)
Over 300 builds (some are duds and don't go live)
2,829 commits in source control
Over 40 GB of content (raw levels, code, textures, models, sounds)
18 development blog videos on YouTube
Concept level from photograph of sewer - view tweet
Twitter
I am going to be posting more smaller morsels of news and screenshots on Twitter, so if you'd like to get smaller development updates follow me @AlanEdwardes and @EstrangedGame.
These will propagate into the update news posts on Steam, but if you want to get more detail from behind the scenes and development updates as they happen then Twitter is the place.
Looking Forwards
The next year is going to be a big year for Estranged: Act II, with the first content update of 2018 arriving very soon. There will be more action, story and awesome environments to experience in the next few months – the fisherman's voyage is not yet complete!
Upcoming changes to forest level
Thank You
I touch on it every news post, but I want to thank every person reading this for being involved in the project – whether you're waiting for the series to be complete, or you're playing the content updates as they are released – thank you all.
Here's to 2018!
Alan
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30 Dec 2017Developer post
Act II 2017 Round Up
This was cross-posted from the Act II news hub As 2017 draws to a close, I thought I'd round up some of the things that happened over the past year, and look ahead to what 2018 will bring. Here are some interesting statistics from the past year: Over 19,000 downloads on Steam 262
This was cross-posted from the Act II news hub
As 2017 draws to a close, I thought I'd round up some of the things that happened over the past year, and look ahead to what 2018 will bring.
Here are some interesting statistics from the past year:

Over 19,000 downloads on Steam
262 Steam reviews (74% positive)
Over 30 content updates (many more undocumented)
Over 300 builds (some are duds and don't go live)
2,829 commits in source control
Over 40 GB of content (raw levels, code, textures, models, sounds)
18 development blog videos on YouTube
Concept level from photograph of sewer - view tweet
Twitter
I am going to be posting more smaller morsels of news and screenshots on Twitter, so if you'd like to get smaller development updates follow me @AlanEdwardes and @EstrangedGame.
These will propagate into the update news posts on Steam, but if you want to get more detail from behind the scenes and development updates as they happen then Twitter is the place.
Looking Forwards
The next year is going to be a big year for Estranged: Act II, with the first content update of 2018 arriving very soon. There will be more action, story and awesome environments to experience in the next few months – the fisherman's voyage is not yet complete!
Upcoming changes to forest level
Thank You
I touch on it every news post, but I want to thank every person reading this for being involved in the project – whether you're waiting for the series to be complete, or you're playing the content updates as they are released – thank you all.
Here's to 2018!
Alan
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17 Mar 2017Developer post
Estranged: Act II Early Access Now Available
We are excited to announce that Estranged: Act II is now available to download on Steam Early Access! During the Early Access period we'll be using the Act II forums to talk to the community about the direction of the game, features you'd like to see and any bug reports: Please l
17 Mar 2017Developer post
Estranged: Act II Early Access Now Available
We are excited to announce that Estranged: Act II is now available to download on Steam Early Access! During the Early Access period we'll be using the Act II forums to talk to the community about the direction of the game, features you'd like to see and any bug reports: Please l
20 Feb 2017Developer post
Estranged: Act II on Steam Early Access
We are excited to announce that Estranged: Act II will be on Steam! We will be releasing Estranged: Act II into Early Access - for free! Estranged: Act I was released in incremental “alphas” while it was being developed. This allowed us to regularly provide players with new conte
20 Feb 2017Developer post
Estranged: Act II on Steam Early Access
We are excited to announce that Estranged: Act II will be on Steam! We will be releasing Estranged: Act II into Early Access - for free! Estranged: Act I was released in incremental “alphas” while it was being developed. This allowed us to regularly provide players with new conte
16 Jan 2017Developer post
3 Year Anniversary
Today marks the 3 year anniversary of the Estranged: Act I Steam release! I recorded a developer commentary to mark the occasion, available to watch on YouTube: We'd like to thank everyone that played Estranged: Act I, it has been amazing to see so many people experience somethin
16 Jan 2017Developer post
3 Year Anniversary
Today marks the 3 year anniversary of the Estranged: Act I Steam release! I recorded a developer commentary to mark the occasion, available to watch on YouTube: We'd like to thank everyone that played Estranged: Act I, it has been amazing to see so many people experience somethin
09 Jan 2017Developer post
Estranged Dev Blog #13: Vertex Painted Water
A quick development blog video showing vertex painted water in Unreal Engine 4. Save the Dev Blog playlist on YouTube to keep up with all future Estranged development videos.
09 Jan 2017Developer post
Estranged Dev Blog #13: Vertex Painted Water
A quick development blog video showing vertex painted water in Unreal Engine 4. Save the Dev Blog playlist on YouTube to keep up with all future Estranged development videos.
11 Dec 2016Developer post
Estranged Dev Blog #12: Smooth Crouching
A client-side smooth crouching implementation for Unreal Engine 4. The code: Save the Dev Blog playlist on YouTube to keep up with all future Estranged development videos.
11 Dec 2016Developer post
Estranged Dev Blog #12: Smooth Crouching
A client-side smooth crouching implementation for Unreal Engine 4. The code: Save the Dev Blog playlist on YouTube to keep up with all future Estranged development videos.
07 Dec 2016Developer post
Estranged Dev Blog #11: Simple Water
Showcases a very simple work in progress water shader, for Estranged: Act II. Save the Dev Blog playlist on YouTube to keep up with all future Estranged development videos.
07 Dec 2016Developer post
Estranged Dev Blog #11: Simple Water
Showcases a very simple work in progress water shader, for Estranged: Act II. Save the Dev Blog playlist on YouTube to keep up with all future Estranged development videos.

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