Early Access Release
We are excited to reveal Retchid will enter Early Access on August 18th for $24.99/£20.99/24,50€.
While Retchid has been designed to be approachable, we did design it to be more on the challenging side, because as developers that's what we enjoy playing.
There are no objective markers to tell you where to go, or regenerating health, and there is a good chance you'll die.
Steam Deck
We have had some players test it on Steam Deck, it does work. Steam Deck owners will have to manually adjust the settings for now. We will work on making it officially supported in the future.
What's in the Early Access
Levels
Early Access contains Episode 1 containing 7 hand crafted non-linear levels of various themes, like medical centers, and storage facilities. Each level contains secrets, collectibles, and some puzzles to solve.
Saving Progress
We were inspired by classic games like Dead Space, Resident Evil, and Metroid with our save system. To save your game you must find a Rec-Room, which there are several in each level.
Enemies
In Retchid Early Access there are 8 types of enemies, that fly, swim, leap, and teleport around the combat space. Each enemy was designed to be challenging.
Visceral combat
Dismember and gib enemies to your hearts content.
Enemies have specific directional death animations for each weapon based on which direction you kill them from. If you dismember them they also have animations for losing a head or a limb.
Enemies have different stagger animations based on the body part where you shoot them.
Fire Power
5 weapons: Arc-Tool, SMG, Shotgun, TEC-Nade Launcher, and the Mining Laser.
The Arc-Tool in particular can be used to overload/short-out some power panels to allow access to new areas in the level.
Each weapon can be used freely against any enemy without being punished for using the wrong weapon. Enemies do not come with weak points. So experiment and see which weapon you find the best for each situation.
Upgrades
We do have a weapon and suit upgrade system partially implemented.
What this means is that you will find the upgrades in the world, but at this time, all weapons are defaulted to their maximum upgrade level. In a future update, weapons will default to a their base lever, but if you have already found the upgrades, they will automatically be applied to your weapons. The suit upgrading system is not fully implemented at this time.
The PDA and Collectibles
Along with upgrades, you can also find collectibles, which you can then read about in the PDA.
The PDA is the primary way to get information about the story, so we recommend to keep your eyes open for PDAs to collect. They also can contain hints for finding keys and solving puzzles in the world. You can also track your gameplay stats in the PDA, how many times you died, how many kills you have, and more.
We really hope you enjoy Retchid.
-FBS Team