Our current art sucks.
It's hard to come to terms with reality, but at Merge Conflict Studio we are committed to the players and boy have they spoken.
The demo has allowed our small studio to get waves and waves of feedback from players, so if you have played and given us your honest thoughts thank you! We have heard your complaints and have tried to ignore it for too long. No one likes with cute and cozy art styles anymore.
In order to stay relevant in this horrible market for games and make sure we can continue to sustain the studio doing what we love, we have made the difficult decision to pivot and fired our artist. Now, we are full sending the new vision for a Realistic, High Fidelity, Raytraced Gemporium.
Sneak a peek at the new art:
We are so excited to share this update with you and hope that the AAA approach to graphics will help us find a larger player base. As of now we have only updated the steam page to reflect the new style, but we hope to continue listening and internalizing the feedback from this lovely community.
To make SURE that the Gamers know we are making a Real Product, Gemporium install size will also grow by 200gb.