Good afternoon, The Crust is here with you!
During these 7 days of active public testing of the demo version of The Crust we received an enormous amount of feedback, positive feedback, and new ideas from the players. Your feedback, that we actively collect in Discord, Steam community and through the in-game form contains so much useful information, that we already have a list of tasks for the next few months based on it. Thank you for your suggestions and recommendations, many of them will be included in the final version of the game.
We had an opportunity to observe how different players came to the project, like veterans of base builders and conveyor belts with thousands of hours in Factorio and Satisfactory, or players who were quite new to the genre and just curious about trying our demo at the festival. As well as, we were able to witness how players with different gaming experience faced various kinds of difficulties and challenges and how they reacted to them. Some users even have spent more than 20 hours in the demo game, and one absolute unit from New Zealand played The Crust for 70 hours ːsteamthumbsupː (!).
On a separate note, we would like to apologize for all the inconveniences associated with the Demo - the lack of saves, not that "user-friendly" interface and technical flaws as well. Despite the fact that the basic mechanics are almost ready, we still have a lot of work to do before The Crust will be publicly available again.
Finally, we want to say thank you once again to everyone who participated! It was extremely exhausting 7 days of continuous communication, non-stop hotfixes and processing feedback. But it was the very emotions that only you - the players - can give us, and that's the reason we are creating this project. For developers, it is an inexpressible experience to watch your game being played for the first time, and we are very grateful to you for that!
If you missed the festival and would like to see what it was like, or if you still have impressions/comments about the project, then feel free to check out our Discord! There you'll find a collection of videos with The Crust gameplay from the event in English, German, Spanish and even Japanese, and send your feedback to us, the developers!
Peace!