Hey everyone,

The Demo Patch is finally here in preparation for Steam's Next Fest! It obviously brings some pretty hefty changes and additions, being a proper demo now. Basically everything got changed in a way. Full list of stuff can be found below, I can't wait for Next Fest!

Additions:

• Added Frank the fish in The Office

• Finished every loading screen

• Building system now has a UI that appears when moving an object, showing controls

• Added save system v1: demo edition. Game auto saves your stats, skills, and inventory. Heading back to main menu or reopening the game brings you back to where you were. Want to reset your save? Head to the new crusher room where the dealmaker will talk to you as you get crushed to death, resetting all stats, inventory, and skills.

• Added difficulty selection v1: demo edition. easy, which is 0.8x stat drain, medium which is default, hard, which is 1.2x. Upon entering The Office you will have the dealmaker speak with you about choosing difficulty, and you can choose which looks best for you. Walking into it will teleport you to the main office.

• Added voice slider for voice acting and music in audio tab, all of them save across sessions as well as camera sensitivity (which is now in the main menu too), and all graphics settings save globally onto your gameusersettings.ini :)

• Changed and added a bit more to the exit room in The Office (where the lights go out), now a big industrial catwalk area with a big red light thats always on

• Added more sanity effects, like creepy music, decals, and added more sounds

• Added voice acting in the introduction cutscene and also the first decontamination node

• Adjusted and added various different dialog points, things are overall clearer, are less “guidey” while still being helpful and giving the character more personality

• Added another X0-RANS0MWARE encounter

• Added more spooky music when the lights go out in The Office (and a new sound)

• Added demo ending

• New items:

  • Aloe Coffee - New cooking recipe with water, aloe, and coffee

  • Heavy Duty Backpack - New backpack upgrade found at the upgrade station/anvil

Changes:

• Adjusted and changed low health effects, and made it a bit easier to see (lessened the vignette and lens flares)

• Polished the intro a little bit more (anims, voice acting, sounds)

• As this is a demo patch, all levels and otherworlds past Level 1, The Office, have been removed. Will return in patch 5

• Moved credits to local files inside the credits document as well as with the hundreds of other creative commons assets i have there

• Fentadryl now sets all your stats to 0 besides health (can be useful if u get softlocked or sumn idk)

• Rebalanced the entire X-Coin economy (with sell prices, made them all even numbers so selling 1 item at a time isn't more efficient than selling in bulk) and added more coins in chests

• Updated the menu texts, and play page with play demo, and reset save buttons

• Skill Tree has been added to the pause menu as a button, and also has been visually updated, and you can no longer press esc for menu while in it

Performance Improvements:

• Changed the freezer room in The Office up a bit, added some neon ceiling lights and removed a couple freezers for some FPS gain

Bug fixes:

• Fixed the LOD’s on The Office’s trash cans

• Adjusted a couple of the walls/wall skirtings in The Office to not look dumb

• Fixed the popup after power shuts off in The Office from not appearing sometimes

• Fixed the intro from being unable to be accessed (also fixed u being able to go into the menu in it)

• Fixed sanity warning message overlapping hunger warning message