Happy New Year to all Terrans!!! :D
We are stoked to announce that The Symbiant will be released on Steam and itch.io on February 2nd, in exactly a month!
Both the full game and the 18+ uncensor patch have been approved on Steam, which means no delay on that front.
Art
700HASH has finished sketching the very last CG of The Symbiant's DLCs, meaning they are officially done with the project. Doubleleaf, on their end, finished inking and coloring the last CG of the first DLC while our background artist Sitai is working on more rooms.
Programming
Bug-squashing, inserting remaining languages + testing them all for bugs and more bug-squashing. This part of development is not fun but it's also essential to minimize the probability of the game crashing or giving you a Ren'py error in the middle of a romantic scene.
By the way, did you know we released the Korean version of the demo a few days ago? The translator is Hyeshin, who used to translate Beyond Eden into English!
The Symbiant and its 12 languages
The languages planned for the full release are:
- English
- French
- Russian
- German
- Spanish
- Italian
- Portuguese-Brazilian
- Simplified Chinese
- Traditional Chinese
- Japanese
- Korean
- Thai
Much of the extra funds we received on Patreon were used to pay our translators and translation editors. As of the time of writing, only Simplified and Traditional Chinese haven't been fully inserted into the game yet. Each language comes with another layer of UI design, programming and testing which have been one of our main focuses in the past 4 months.
Early Access and latest beta: 0.9.0
If you backed one of our early access tiers between March and May 2022, expect to receive an email very soon with a download link to the full game. After this, The Symbiant's beta will keep being updated with DLC scenes, which will be accessible for the $105 tier on itch and $20 tier on Patreon.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1883090/The_Symbiant/