Hi everyone,
we're heartbroken to say this but we can't release today. We literally can't press the button. It's gone.
The game is ready to go, everything was prepared - but since this is our first release ever, we forgot to tick the "Early Access" checkbox on the Steam backend until this morning. And once that is ticked, Steam automatically put our Steam page in review mode- a normal process on their end but for us it couldn't have come at a worse time. This has caused the release button to disappear, we cannot click it.
So we can't launch T-T
We were super stressed about this all morning, we wrote tickets to Steam. But they're on PDT time where it was still the middle of the night.
We don't know if Steam will accelerate our review, we can't assume anything since they are very busy. Reviews usually take 3-5 days. So we're stuck with just one option: to delay the release until Monday.
We're so sorry, to all of you who were looking forward to this game launching today. We're extremely sad since we worked so hard to get everything ready for you. Our backers have received overwrite keys so they can already play today, but everyone else will need to wait until the release button shows up again, and we can press it.
This is all due to our inexperience, we never released a game before and didn't know about the Early Access tickbox and its implications. All I can say is...
WE'RE SO SOORRRYYYYY T-T 