Launch Week!
Well everyone, Spiritfall has been out for a week, and what an incredible week it has been.
Before we begin, we would like to a say a massive THANK YOU to everyone who bought the game and made our launch week such a success. We're a small team who have poured our hearts into getting us to launch, and your excitement and enthusiasm for what Spiritfall is and will become has us all feeling extremely motivated.
Now, with your help and feedback, we can work on making Spiritfall even better.
If you have already purchased the game, and would like to do us another huge favour, it would be amazing if you could leave us a review.
You can also join in with our community Discord which has grown hugely over the past week.
Steam Deck Verification
We were incredibly proud this morning to hear that Spiritfall have been verified on Steam Deck. Now you can Spiritfall on the go!
What Now?
Content! Content! Content!
Feedback from our first week has been incredible - Hearing all the positives as well as the aspects of the game that people want to see worked on.
We'd like to also thank everyone who has submitted reports for any technical issues. It has been a huge help in identifying and duplicating errors before we fix them.
We have received a huge amount of excellent feedback and suggestions, however, as a small team of five, we have to be really careful in what additional content we prioritise on top of our roadmap.
Here's what we're focused on...
Synergy between blessings
Our highest priority is working on our April Content Update which perfectly coincides with some of the feedback we have received wanting some Spirits to feel more connected to each other.
With our April update, we will be unveiling Synergy Blessings that will bolster this system considerably.
To give you an idea of how this will work, each Spirit will have a unique Synergy Blessing with every other Spirit with set requirements for the Synergy Blessing appearing. This will enable you to create more sophisticated and complimentary builds, and will create more strategic depth in the map as you plan your runs.
This April update will also include updates to other systems. We will be delivering new skills and relics for you to experiment with.
It's worth mentioning that although this update is centred around Synergy Blessings and existing systems, it is by no means the end of new blessings, skills and relics being added. We plan on introducing these and more major weapon enchantments in future updates.
Controller Options & Additional Fixes
Our other priorities at the moment are some crucial fixes that some of you have been experiencing as well as improved controller options. These are not determined for a specific content update but we do aim to get these out as soon as we can.
We know many of you come from a Platform Fighter background and have your own specific controller and playstyle. We've really appreciated all of your feedback, and we're currently exploring a few options to increase the range of controller support as well as give you options.
The two main pieces of feedback we have seen are:
- Options for dropping through platforms (Down + Jump vs. down)
- Options for tilt stick (Tilt Stick Launcher vs. Tilt Stick Attack vs Dynamic Attack/Launcher)
We recognise that everyone has their own way of playing, so we want to be able to give you the option. We intend that you will be able to select your preference.
Future Content Updates
Just to give you all an idea about how we're working. We have already started work on additional features for future roadmap updates. New enemies, regions, bosses, spirit skins, weapons and weapon variants are already cooking.
We have planned it this way so we can immediately move forward to working on the next content update with minimal build-up time. We're being quite disciplined about it while also giving us the flexibility to respond to changing priorities.
We're very excited to share new features with you soon. We promise you won't have to wait too long!
Thank you once again for your support, it means the world to us!
Yours,
The Gentle Giant Team