💀 TRAPPED IS BACK, OPTIMIZED — LEAVING EARLY ACCESS 💀
Hey everyone, We’re excited to officially announce that TRAPPED is now fully out of Early Access! Here’s the story: Forthright Entertainment picked up TRAPPED in a multi-game acquisition 8 years ago. Two years later, we sold it to another company. However, after 5 years with no a
Hey everyone,
We’re excited to officially announce that TRAPPED is now fully out of Early Access!
Here’s the story: Forthright Entertainment picked up TRAPPED in a multi-game acquisition 8 years ago. Two years later, we sold it to another company. However, after 5 years with no action and with the Steam transfer never completed, the rights reverted back to us.
We had two choices: let it quietly fade away… or finish what we started.
We chose the latter.
Some might argue we should’ve left it behind. But TRAPPED always had good bones—and with some polish, it still offers hours of fun. We've all seen too many Early Access titles vanish without closure, and we didn’t want TRAPPED to be one of them.
We won’t pretend this is the best game out there. It’s indie. It’s gritty. And yeah, you’ll find better-looking games. But TRAPPED has its charm. It’s surprisingly fun, often in ways we didn’t even plan. Sometimes it’s funny without meaning to be—and that’s part of the appeal.
So what does "finishing" the game mean? Let's dive in.
We’ve rebuilt the game in Unreal Engine 5.5 and made major improvements to bring it to a stable, playable, and complete state. It’s still an indie survival shooter at heart—rough edges and all—but we’ve embraced what makes TRAPPED fun: fast-paced action, co-op chaos, creepy enemies, and competitive survival modes with friends.
This is a budget indie title, priced accordingly, and made with heart. If you and your friends enjoy fighting off waves of enemies, exploring eerie environments, or just seeing who can survive longer—TRAPPED is for you.
Original post 🔥 UPDATE HIGHLIGHTS 🔥
- Unreal Engine 5.5 Port: Massive visual and technical overhaul—Nanite, HDR support, and smoother performance across all systems.
- Better Visuals & Optimization: Improved lighting, shadows, collisions, and overall stability with V-sync, FPS limiting, and smarter rendering.
- Smarter, Scarier Enemies: Human enemies now take cover. Monsters have better AI, synced animations, and respond when hit. New models and footstep audio make them feel more alive (and more deadly).
- Co-op & Competitive Friendly Updates: Improved UI, loot interaction, better inventory tracking, respawn tools, and quality-of-life fixes for smoother team-based gameplay.
✅ FULL PATCH NOTES
Ported to Unreal Engine 5.5
- Nanite implemented
- HDR support
- FPS limiter & V-sync
- Better lighting/shadows
- Simplified and improved collisions
- Performance optimization
UI/UX Overhaul
- New main menu & background
- Loot interaction feedback
- Equipped item display in inventory
- Inventory item icons added
- Respawn timer indicator + manual respawn button
- Improved layout/margins of UI elements
Enemy Improvements
- New monster & human enemy models
- Footstep sounds added
- Attack animations now in sync
- AI pathing improved
- Human enemies take cover
- Enemies react when hit
Player Enhancements
- Increased loot pickup range
- Improved weapon fire cadence
- New melee attack
- Auto-reload on empty mag
- New character models
Bug Fixes
- Fixed turret preview lock
- Doorway collision bugs resolved
- Removed ability to loot while dead
- Hitmarkers no longer trigger on dead bodies
- Inventory cannot be accessed when dead
As many of you know, Steam accidentally released Trapped with a free commercial license a few days ago. This sparked a huge surge of downloads and led to a peak of over 61,000 simultaneous players. If we had felt that the game was ready for a general release we might have been excited about this. After all, Trapped made it to #4 on Steam DB. But from our perspective this was a very unfortunate situation. The last thing we wanted to do was bomb a couple of hundred thousand unsuspecting gamers with an unfinished title.
We have been working behind the scenes for months now to improve the game. This build contains a large number of fixes and some expansions to existing features. But think of it as an interim build. Under the circumstances, we wanted to get some of these fixes to our users, but there are many more changes coming and we intend to push as hard as we can to get those to all of you as quickly as we can.
Thanks to all of you who have been so patient. To those of you who got the last build, bare with us. We have promised to finish this and we are!
LIMITED CHANGE LOG
OBJECTIVES - These are goals that the players need to complete as a team in order to win the current scenario. A new objective tracker has been added to the upper right portion of the HUD and each objective has a progress bar to help you see how close you are to victory.
PLAYER OBJECTIVES - These are functionally similar to team objectives and will show their progress in the objective tracker. However, each player chooses one personal objective when they enter the game. Each objective can only be chosen once, so act quickly to get the objective you want. Each type of player objective offers an in-game reward that will help you and your teammates against the mutant and military onslaught.
SUPPLY DROPS - Whenever you complete your player objective, a cargo aircraft will fly over your position and drop a supply crate. The contents of the crate will depend on which objective you completed. Note that anyone can loot the supply crate but it will drop within 50 meters of the player who just completed their personal objective.
HOTBAR - The hotbar UI has been completely revamped, both for simplicity and to accommodate an upcoming batch of UI improvements for gamepads. This includes several changes:
BUFFS - Food items now confer buffs which can affect your Max Health, Max Stamina, Carry Capacity or Speed, or possibly a combination of stats. Buffs are shown on the right hand side of the screen and, like the hotbar icons, include a progress bar which indicates how much time is remaining on the buff. Buff durations currently range between 5 and 10 minutes.
READYING/USING ITEMS - Consumables and placeables can be used directly from the hotbar if you have them. Weapons and food have to be readied or used from inside your inventory.