Yo what's up Backworld gamers! Just wanted to say development is going extremely well right now!
The opening story act is fully ready, and the "non-linear" content is almost done in a playable unpolished state (like done this month), and then after that it'll be finishing off the main story and polish + playtesting. It's hard to say when the actual release window will be as that will be a decision made with my publisher and we gotta do porting. But the game is gonna be a banger and is 100% coming 2027. It will most likely be 50-60+ hours of constantly evolving content, there are so many unique areas and cool things to do.
Also to be clear, the demo was a small solo experience not within the main game, none of the story from the demo is in the full game. The full experience has a much better structured opening act with real development of the world the player lives in... before things get crazy.
I am genuinely very close and have a strict timeline set up for my own sake on completion of the content. I’m grinding hard! No more new mechanics or feature creep, just completion! After 5 years things are finally coming to a close. Thanks for being patient, it'll be worth it!
Here's a little showcase of one of the new non-Backrooms areas.
And the world map system.
