Greetings fellow archers!
The time has come to execute order 66... no wait, that's... that's not right hold on... *(Ruffles through papers)* Ah-HA! Here it is! *(Ahem)* It is time to release Bowmen online through Steam Early Access! After many years of development, it is finally out and ready for the world at large to play it!
As per our previous announcement, we had decided to delay the final launch of the game to March to allow for us to make a few more tweaks before publishing the game and pushing it to Steam. However, as we began to do this, we realized that there are a few features of Bowmen that likely cannot be tweaked through internal play testing alone. Some players may have invaluable feedback to give us that, had we left ourselves to our own devices, we would never know about. Perhaps some items are under-powered, perhaps some others are over-powered, or perhaps the game simply isn't fast paced enough. Perhaps our "hard" difficulty is too easy, and "inferno" is too difficult. Perhaps some enemy types are dynamic and fun to kill, while others are more mundane and in need of improvement. By releasing on Early Access ahead of schedule and allowing a few months of tweaks between now and the final release, we can address some of these concerns directly with the involvement of the players - of YOU - which will make Bowmen the best game it can be. Therefore, we have released the game on Steam Early Access, and pushed the final release date to May 3rd, 2021.
We are very excited to share this moment with you all, it has been a long road and the journey will be a bit longer still. However, we are confident that we can build an awesome game, together, and produce and even BETTER Bowmen come this May with your help. The game will continuously be updated for any bugs we catch and will be worked on as you play it all the way up to the May launch. So if you decide to get Bowmen and help us out, please provide us with feedback or report any bugs you find either to the Steam forums or our official website. We will be regularly addressing these issues with updates over the coming months.
Also, we have another update to share with you all within the coming weeks, but we will keep that under wraps for now until it is ready. Keep your eyes peeled on the Bowmen news and announcements!
Thank you SO MUCH for checking out the game, and if you decide to get it, we hope it provides you with the same level of entertainment and joy as it did while we were making it.
Sincerely,
The Bowmen Team