Hey everyone!
Since the Early Access launch of Prologue: Go Wayback! in November we’ve been working on adding more depth to the survival gameplay, while also providing clearer in-game feedback on game mechanics for players.
Watch the new trailer below to see what we've added over the last months!
View game pageWe’ve also updated the Demo with the latest gameplay features, in case you first want to try out a few runs across a limited set of predefined seeds.
Cooking & Foraging Food
Cooking has been improved in a couple of ways.
A new system for managing liquids now allows you to collect rainwater in any container that can contain water, such as a bottle or a cooking pot, and also lets you move liquids between containers. Together with other improvements to the inventory UI, it is now easier to move food items and specific amounts of water into the cooking pot.
The cooking process itself is now clearer. Calories show a percentage increase when hovering over food that is being cooked, and steam from the pot will change color depending on the stage of cooking.
The March update adds four new food types to forage in the wild::
Reed Shoots - provides hydration water but no calories
Burdock Root - poisonous when raw
Wild Parsnip - increase calories when cooking
Cattail - increase calories when cooking
Potatoes, onions, pasta, and rice have been added to food types you can find in cabins. Make sure to add water to cook pasta and rice!
Alarm Clock
Want to take a short nap? A new Alarm Clock item can be found in some cabins, letting you configure how long you want to sleep. Set an in-game time, turn on the alarm, and hold down the Z key to sleep until the intended time.
Holding down Z without an alarm will let you sleep for up to 8 hours of in-game time.
Survival UI
We've added new icons to better track your overall state. These will indicate if you are slowed by mud, in a state of hypothermia, running a fever, poisoned, affected by wind chill, and more.
Weather and Environment
Weather has seen a number of improvements over the last months to make them feel more realistic and more impactful for players. Dynamic weather front systems were added to show moving cloud walls and shifting atmospheric effects to indicate storms are inbound.
We have now added birds to the sky, which indicate the weather is about to change.
Storms now also have more visual effects to better convey their intensity. So keep an eye on the skies to prevent getting stuck in a storm!
In our previous February update we made weather impact the surface of the environment, with blizzards freezing over mud and creating ice. We've refined this effect to be more impactful. Mud which is frozen over now creates ice that is more slippery, while mud which becomes wetter due to rain or meltwater will now slow you down more than normal.
Tutorial
Go Wayback! is meant to be a hard game, but we have not always offered enough ways to explain how our gameplay systems work and how you can use the tools available to survive. A new Tutorial option in the main menu now offers a little more guidance on how to build a fire, how to cook, how to use electricity systems, and how to remove and place boards on cabins.
Seed History, Saving, and Sharing
Another highly requested feature: you can now view the last played runs and play them again!
The History menu shows your last played seed and game mode, and we have added multiple save slots to offer more freedom in how you want to manage different parallel runs.
Sharing has also been improved across the board, letting you generate a unique code or a deeplink URL to share with other players, including for custom settings and custom maps.
Changelog v0.25832
Highlights
Cooking system improvements with better ingredient handling and cooking process feedback
New liquid system: liquids now behave more consistently across items and inventories New forageables and food types added
New forageables and food types added
History page added to the menu (first iteration)
Freezing mud changes that affect traversal and movement
Gameplay & Systems
Cooking reworked: better calorie calculations, ingredient handling, and cooking visualisation
Foraging expanded with four plants (wild parsnip, cattail, burdock root, reed shoots) and updated spawn rates
Potatoes and onions added to cabin food types
Pasta and rice have also been added as cabin food items, make sure to add water!
Liquids now exist inside container inventories and interact better with cooking and items
Cooking pots can refill in rain and liquids can evaporate when cooking
Improved sliding and traversal on surfaces like mud, ice, and slopes
Updated stamina behaviour
Added alarm clock
UI & Controls
Added History page in the main menu; view your last-played runs to replay or share
Added save slots to better manage separate runs
Sliders now work with keyboard and gamepad
New status bar icons and debuff notifications
Improved input rebinding and control settings
Cassette player fast-forward key changed to Middle Mouse Button (now user-mappable)
Various UI fixes and text corrections
World & Content
New tutorial option in main menu
In-game map updates including biomes and legend improvements
Lighting and visual consistency improved across quality settings
Updated weather values and improved visuals for all extreme weather
Birds added, indicating weather changes
Balance Tweaks
Adjusted food calories and cooking values
Tweaked flashlight brightness and oil lamp duration
Adjusted spawn rates for forageables near shelters
Updated weather values for hail, snow, and fog
Bug Fixes & Improvements
Fixed multiple issues with liquids, cooking, and inventory interactions
Fixed items falling through the ground after loading
Fixed several animation issues (soda cans, bottles, drinking, etc.)
Fixed problems with wetness, windchill, and temperature icons
Numerous localisation fixes
Various stability fixes, crash fixes, and performance improvements