Greetings Hunters!
First of all happy new year to you. We hope you arrived well in 2025, and welcome to our first dev update this year!
Now we come to the more important stuff happening at Evolve games. Most of you know we at the studio are just 2 main developers working on Project werewolf and we had a lot of difficulty in the last quarter of 2024 especially in our real life. Because of that we stopped development around mid of october till now. We had a lot of workload to finish and of course the holiday seasons, where we just recharged our batteries to start fresh in 2025. We are sorry we went dark so sudden but sometimes life can be hard. Now that we resumed development, we want to talk about new stuff.
Secondly, we want to introduce the new watchtowers! The watchtowers are a central point of safety in the night, where you can safely rest and equip yourself. No werewolf can attack you up there and you can even upgrade them to make small little stations to refill your supplies, sleep through the night, or just decorate how you want. You first need to claim and “unlock” them. The watchtowers are built to make exploration easier at night, so you won't need to return to your own fortified home.
Watchtowers are scattered all around the map and have different designs. They are handbuilt to make them as immersive as possible, but we still want to give you the freedom to decorate them however you want. But more about that in a future post!
Second of all, we did a lot of backend changes to coding and fixed a whole lot of bugs. We also built some small corrugated iron houses for a new POI I'm currently working on. Can you guess what it will be? We will reveal the POI in our next dev blog, so no worries if you can't guess it right.
During our inactive period, we weren't entirely idle! We're excited to share that, in addition to Project Werewolf, a smaller game is also in development. This project provides us with a great opportunity to test additional mechanics, which will ultimately benefit Project Werewolf as well.
Undead Awakens is a small, round-based zombie survival coop shooter that we plan to release soon but won't impact werewolf's development at all since only half of the team develop it in their free time. You can currently wishlist it and we plan to have a playtest soon to gather some community wishes. The money from the sales we get will be redirected to Project Werewolf and will help to enhance it more.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3291340/Undead_Awakens/
With that, we close the first dev blog of 2025 and we at Evolve Games want to thank you so much for sticking with us and giving us so much support. Since we are now in full force of development, you can expect more frequent updates and even a playtest in the near future.
With that, we see you next month, Hunters!!