Disclaimer: Remember, this test is just the first touch of the game. A lot of features are still missing (including proper optimization). Our goal is to gather as much feedback as possible to help us improve the game. Don’t hesitate to share both negative and positive feedback; we’re eager to work with you to build a great product.
Your last chance to enroll alpha is here.
What
POLYARIS closed Playtest, the first playable demo of the pre-alpha version of the game on Steam
When
On Thursday, October 24th (-+ day), we will send the Steam keys to emails of all the people who signed up using Google Form, you can sign up there if you haven't already
For How Long
We're not sure exactly how long we want to run this alpha, but at least for a week. We will be gathering feedback and when we think we have enough of it, we will close the demo
What's in the alpha
Immersive first-person player controller
- Skiing mechanics (not at its final version)
- Survival mechanics (cold weather, clothing, hunger and thirst, day and night and weather cycle)
- Portable radio mechanic
- 4 starting “onboarding” quests
- A 2 squared kilometers Arctic island acting as a starting area for the game's story
- Melee and ranged weapons
- Enemies
- Crafting system
- Fishing system
What's NOT in the alpha
- Procedural infinite world. It's a lot of work for us to implement an infinite world generation system, where you could go in any direction and explore countless Arctic islands. We will be adding it in the open demo later this year.
- Boat mechanics. The boat will be your "mobile base" which you can customize and use to traverse through an endless Arctic world, but it needs some work before it's functional. This too will come later in an open demo.
- Other enemy types.
- Holistic story.
- A lot more stuff.
- Probably you’ll face some problems with optimizations as well.
How can you help this project?
WE DON’T WANT A SINGLE $ FROM YOU TILL THE RELEASE.
- Wishlist the game and follow it and our game studio on Steam
- https://store.steampowered.com/app/2979810/POLYARIS/
- https://store.steampowered.com/developer/magicpie
- Tell your friend and favorite streamer/youtuber about the game (probably we won’t share the alpha with them at this stage, but we’ll 100% do in the future)
- Subscribe to all of #our-socials
- Engage with community in Discord
- Create content and share it across your socials
Well, that’s it!