Hello everyone. I hope you're all doing well.
There's a lot to cover, so I won't bury the lede. Good news first, then the "darn."
Day 20's Steam release date is September 24th.
Day 20 won't have any Elysium content.
Here are some stats about Day 20:
• Most scenes of any update
• Most renders of any update
• Most sex scenes and animations of any update
• Most writing of any update
With considerations made for Day 20's laptop session (compared to Day 19pt2 not having one), this update will be the biggest content release for Stranded in Space ever, and that's without any Elysium content.
Needless to say, Day 20 is a huge update. I hope you guys have separate saves for all the unique scenes experienced from Major Decisions.
Though it may seem early, I want to talk about post Day 20, as I have a huge patch planned, and it's also why I'm holding off on the Elysium content for Day 20.
The release date and actual content of the post Day 20 patch is TBD, though the goal is to have it out before 2025 ends. Here are the things that I'm hoping to implement:
• 3 Elysium scenes (will be playable in-story or from main menu)
• Writing improvements/consistency/editing for all days, but particularly Days 2-13
• Translations for Simplified Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French.
• Paige v1 visual rework, would maybe leave option to keep old design in preferences
• Add 2 sex scenes pre-Day 10. I won't detail them here, but it wouldn't be a true retcon, nor would it change the core story in any way. This would be for sex to non-sex content balance.
• Escape Room puzzle, logic, and game flow improvements + visuals reworked.
• Paige Trivia Battle minigame completely changed/redesigned
• Render reworks for a few select scenes pre-Day 10
• Animation reworks/improvements for various sex scenes, most of which are pre-Day 13
• Option to skip entire scenes with a small recap of what happened in said scene if chosen to skip. Due to Story & Major Decisions, this wouldn't be an option for every scene, but if there's a character you don't like or care about, you could skip at least some of their scenes.
I can probably explain some of the logic behind the notes above, but keep in mind I'm not guaranteeing all of this will make it to the planned post-Day 20 patch. In a perfect world, all of above will make it, but it's a lot of work to balance alongside creating Day 21, so we'll see.
And that's it from me.
I'll be seeing you on September 24th.