Beginning of the month, I pushed the release date back by one more week in order to give the game some more time for testing. As of yesterday, I released the beta build of the game and also locked in the final Steam release date:
Feb 7th is the date!
I literally cannot change the date anymore in the steam UI, so from this point going forward, that's the definitve release date!
Furthermore, I also updated the demo to the new 1.0.0-beta-1 build. There is no important new content in it - however, a bunch of quality of life improvements, polish work and bugfixes made their way in. In particular, the World Fog feature, which puts a fog effect on parts of the world map which have not been unlocked, should help to avoid new players getting lost in the early game.
The remaining work on the game is now 99% more bugfix and polish work.
Let's hope the last two weeks until the release can give us more wishlists so we can break into New & Trending on release day!