Deadly Cryptids

Flow VR

Released: Apr 11, 2018
Platforms: Windows
Last updated: 04 Sep 2026, 21:53 GMT

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03 Jul 2021Developer post
Deadly Cryptids 1.5.1 is now live
This release includes the following enhancements based on user feedback: Casual players To not have casual players be overrun and die so fast, these improvements are made to EASY difficulty: Worms are slower Enemies do less damage First couple of scenes now have less worms Sound
This release includes the following enhancements based on user feedback:
Casual players
To not have casual players be overrun and die so fast, these improvements are made to EASY difficulty:

Worms are slower
Enemies do less damage
First couple of scenes now have less worms
Sound

Heartbeat sound, when health is low, now fades away after 30 seconds
Watch

Wave to open watch now possible from further away
User feedback is always very welcome.
Have fun playing Deadly Cryptids.
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13 Nov 2020Developer post
Release 1.5.0 - Added player movement
Release 1.5.0 is live and includes: -- Added movement type 'Walk' in addition to the existing 'Teleport'. Player can now walk with thumbsticks to the next marker. -- Remote grip buttons are re-targeted to 'HOLD GRIP + TRIGGER' in favor of moving feature. -- Added movement type se
07 Nov 2020Developer post
Deadly Cryptids Release 1.4.3
Release 1.4.3 Support for Oculus Quest & Quest2 Touch Controllers using wireless Virtual Desktop Skulls now look better due to less mesh reduction which improves the roundness of the skulls Release 1.4.2 Oculus Touch Controllers angle adjustment Release 1.4.1 Better quality s
Release 1.4.3

Support for Oculus Quest & Quest2 Touch Controllers using wireless Virtual Desktop
Skulls now look better due to less mesh reduction which improves the roundness of the skulls
Release 1.4.2

Oculus Touch Controllers angle adjustment
Release 1.4.1

Better quality sand
Special thanks to tamanegi for reporting the Oculus Quest 2 wireless Virtual Desktop use case.
Have fun playing Deadly Cryptids.
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31 Oct 2020Developer post
Release 1.4.0 is out now - Includes lots of features and improvements.
Deadly Cryptids 1.4.0 is just released and includes lots of new features and improvements that makes the intense experience even more fun. The somewhat complete list: --------------------------- - Improvements: Added new intro scene Cryptids now have physics on deadth animations
Deadly Cryptids 1.4.0 is just released and includes lots of new features and improvements that makes the intense experience even more fun.
The somewhat complete list:
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- Improvements:

Added new intro scene
Cryptids now have physics on deadth animations and explosions
Knife throwing is drastically improved
Magically take distant objects into your hand
Finding the knife scene upgraded to a giant worm and player needs to enter the mouth
Added item animation like switching knife grip and pistol gun-slinging
Weapons can no longer be dropped
Removed Bitcoin Intensity Factor
Removed Game type selection as only story mode is playable.
Main menu now usable in non-roomscale setup
Upgraded to Unreal Engine 4.25.4
Adjusted some weapons and hands to reflect real world size
Watch Menu look & feel enhanced
Water canteen has quality water
Scenes now have more eye-candy with lots of skulls
Gastank explosions will blow away nearby skulls and fly towards player
Performance tune
Large worms will push skulls in the air
Large worms and small crawlers cryptids have randomized skulls attached to its body
- Controller Support

Valve Index Controller support
Oculus Rift with Touch Controller support
- Shooting Range

Added handscanner to open door in shooting range
Added a 3rd person that is shooting
Added Linux style computers that display the help text
Added more eyecandy like military bags and equipments
Added better buttons to move the targets and switch help texts
Performance tuned
- Kate:

Using better quality 3D model for Kate
Changed some dialogues
Kate will now present and reveive items in her hand
Kate now looks at player when talking
Kate will now show attention drawer when you need to touch her shoulder to continue
Remote interact with Kate
- Weapons:

Knife throwing is drastically improved
Knife now sticks in to enemies on final blow
Hand snapping on actionable parts of items like magazines and sliders
Fingers now in better positions when holding items
Shooting now moves the trigger finger
Using the weapon slider on pistol now moves the finger
Weapons now have visuals for empty magazine and exact bullets in magazine
Item help texts now rotate towards player and have background for better reading
- Bugfixes:

Fixed bug when backpack overlaps the holsters, the order which to store was unspecified. Precedence is now given to one that can store the item.
Fixed bug where giant worm got stuck spawning worms
Next release will include improvements to Kate like custom animations, facial expressions and finally speech. My new motion capture suit will take care of that.
Have fun playing Deadly Cryptids!
PS: be sure to experience Deadly Cryptids on Hard and Very Hard difficulty after your first play-through. It was designed to be that intense....
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12 Oct 2018Developer post
Release 1.3.5 - bugfixes and small updates
A small release this time including: Visibility: Holsters are now no longer visible at the intense knife slashing scene at night. Menu: Kate now mentions the +50% bonus damage of your weapons to cryptids when selecting 'Realistic Weapon Setting'. Bugfix: Holsters are now again vi
A small release this time including:

Visibility: Holsters are now no longer visible at the intense knife slashing scene at night.
Menu: Kate now mentions the +50% bonus damage of your weapons to cryptids when selecting 'Realistic Weapon Setting'.
Bugfix: Holsters are now again visible in the desert when loading a saved game.
Thanks for playing the game.
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11 Oct 2018Developer post
Release 1.3.4 - bugfixes and small updates
After a long break, I reserved the time to code some improvements to Deadly Cryptids. Release 1.3.4 is available now and includes the following: Fixed weapon edge-case bugs Weapon holsters now not visible during the main menu Reduce difficulty for some scenes More save points for
After a long break, I reserved the time to code some improvements to Deadly Cryptids.
Release 1.3.4 is available now and includes the following:

Fixed weapon edge-case bugs
Weapon holsters now not visible during the main menu
Reduce difficulty for some scenes
More save points for faster replay
Initial code for new Survival Mode (nothing is playable yet)
Added hidden keyboard shortcuts for demo purposes
Added keyboard shortcut for bonus scene "Stuck Under Pillar" (send me message if you want to play this scene)
Adding command line --skipIntroOnTrigger on startup will make the initial menu skippable on 'trigger pressed' immediately
The "Survival Mode" is a work in progress and will be in version 1.4.0 and will including a parachute jump. Stay tuned.
Have fun playing Deadly Cryptids!
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04 May 2018Developer post
Release 1.3.3 - small improvements to the Shooting Range
A small release today: Shooting Range - performance: cast dynamic shadows is turned off to improved performance on low end graphics cards Shooting Range - Rendering: bullet impacts flickering at certain distances is fixed Thanks for playing the game.
A small release today:

Shooting Range - performance: cast dynamic shadows is turned off to improved performance on low end graphics cards
Shooting Range - Rendering: bullet impacts flickering at certain distances is fixed
Thanks for playing the game.
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02 May 2018Developer post
Release 1.3.2 - Improvements to Shooting Range
Release 1.3.2 is available now and includes improvements to Shooting Range and Reload Tricks. Reload tricks - fun: dual wielding reload tricks now possible. Dual wield Berettas, throw magazines in the air using 'Trigger Release' and catch them with the weapons to reload them. Not
Release 1.3.2 is available now and includes improvements to Shooting Range and Reload Tricks.

Reload tricks - fun: dual wielding reload tricks now possible. Dual wield Berettas, throw magazines in the air using 'Trigger Release' and catch them with the weapons to reload them. Not realistic but surprisingly fun.
Shooting Range - usability: Prevent going to the next shooting lane when doing reload tricks. Player needs to holster all weapons now in order to walk to next lane.
Shooting Range - fun: the targets now get damaged when grenades and Molotov Cocktails are thrown
Shooting Range - realism: Exploding grenades now leave a black mark behind
Shooting Range - usability: The table on the MiniGun lane is now lowered
Shooting Range - visual: the reload menu weapons are now positioned on the table
Shooting Range - visual: the posters on the wall are changed to TV screens
Deadly Cryptids has already matured a lot thanks to user feedback. Let me know if you want me to code something for you.
More features and improvements will be released...
Thanks for playing the game.
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29 Apr 2018Developer post
Release 1.3.1 - Implemented Shooting Range
A new release is available including a Shooting Range and improvements: - Shooting Range - fun: experience all weapons and items at the shooting range - Shooting Range - fun: practice precision shooting on targets - Shooting Range Monitor - fun: adjust your aim based on a monitor
19 Apr 2018Developer post
Release 1.2.4 - implemented more feedback and improvements
This release includes improvements taken from feedback of gamers. Thanks! Realistic Reload - realism: moving slider now releases the bullet in the chamber out of the Beretta, SCAR, AK47 and UZI Player - difficulty: Grenade self damage reduced to 4m Player - difficulty: Grenade se
This release includes improvements taken from feedback of gamers. Thanks!

Realistic Reload - realism: moving slider now releases the bullet in the chamber out of the Beretta, SCAR, AK47 and UZI
Player - difficulty: Grenade self damage reduced to 4m
Player - difficulty: Grenade self damage is now less and uses Bitcoin Difficulty Factor
Improved quality of explosions of grenades, barrels and the start menu
Enemies - audio: Enemies no longer make random sound when player is dead
Adrenaline - reduce difficulty: manual injection now available when dying 2 times at same scene (used to be 4)
Player - difficulty: Damage on hit reduced on NORMAL difficulty
Player - tutorial: Kate now hints that there are soft spots on the cryptids.
Enemies - audio: Small worms now have more varied sound effects and volume is reduced
Tutorial: Renamed Shoulder buttons to Menu Button
Have fun playing Deadly Cryptids!
Shout-out to you who read the whole thing ;-)
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16 Apr 2018Developer post
Release 1.2.0 - Implemented feedback
A new version is available for download! First a thank you to all the gamers that posted feedback! Implemented feedback is: 'Weapon Handling' realism: re-enabled weapon recoil on all weapons usability: Magazine location now positioned left and right (instead center) usability: Be
A new version is available for download!
First a thank you to all the gamers that posted feedback!
Implemented feedback is:
'Weapon Handling'
realism: re-enabled weapon recoil on all weapons
usability: Magazine location now positioned left and right (instead center)
usability: Beretta now has LEFT part of the 'Action' button to release the slider and RIGHT part of the button to release the magazine
realism: Beretta & SCAR can now always shoot when there is a bullet in the chamber, even without a magazine inserted
usability: Magazines are now always visible at the belt
usability: Shotgun stops spawning a new round when the shotgun is full. You will need this feature when to stop in fast pased reloading!
realism: double handed weapons now have force feedback in both hands
'Adrenaline shot - slow motion'
fun factor: slow-motion is now faster. From previous value of 10% to 15% of normal speed
bug fix: in slow-motion, the slider was back and player was shooting bullets (visually not ok)
'Dialogues'

Improved some dialogues
Your feedback is valuable and will help me to improve the game.
Remember: if your heart is not racing after a couple of scenes, you need to increase the difficulty ;-)
Spread the word...
Greetings,
Timothy
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14 Apr 2018Developer post
Release 1.1.0 - Implemented feedback from gamers
A new version is available for download! Implemented feedback is: 'Skull Menu System' skulls now move faster to destination place dual hand selecting now activates faster 'Tutorial' Moved the 'Button Controller Layout' window in front of the gamer 'Button Controller layout' is no
A new version is available for download!
Implemented feedback is:
'Skull Menu System'

skulls now move faster to destination place
dual hand selecting now activates faster
'Tutorial'

Moved the 'Button Controller Layout' window in front of the gamer
'Button Controller layout' is now displayed earlier
Improved positioning of the tutorial items
Kate talks less as the Button Controller Layout should be clear now
'Dialogues'

Kate now talks less
Kate now has simpler and more direct sentences
More is scheduled to be implemented...
Your feedback is valuable and will help me to improve the game.
Greetings,
Timothy
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13 Apr 2018Developer post
Initial Release of Deadly Cryptids
The Initial Release is available for download now. Have fun playing and remember: If your heart is not racing...you need to increase the difficulty ;-) Timothy Brake