🗺️ Tawa: Lost in Time – Roadmap & Upcoming Features
Welcome, explorers!
This roadmap gives you a glimpse of the upcoming content and improvements planned for Tawa: Lost in Time, as well as areas where your feedback will directly influence development.
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✅ Released (Early Access v1.0)
✔️ Core gameplay loop: exploration, stealth, survival
✔️ Interactive creatures (raptors, dimetrodon, herbivores…)
✔️ First environments: forest, swamp, volcano zone
✔️ Dynamic stamina/life system
✔️ Respawn & checkpoint system
✔️ Fully silent experience (no HUD, no dialogue)
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🔧 In Progress
🔄 Optimization & bug fixes (based on your reports)
🎮 Controller support improvements
🔊 Enhanced sound design & creature voices
🦖 AI upgrades: smarter predators, dynamic threat levels
🍎 New interactable items: food, drink, hiding spots
💡 Accessibility options (contrast, optional visual cues)
🌐 Localization polish across all supported languages
🖥️ Graphics settings panel (quality, resolution, fullscreen mode)
🎛️ Customizable input mapping (keyboard & controller remapping)
🎬 Cutscenes to introduce key moments of the story
🧭 Clearer expression of objectives through environmental storytelling and visual cues (e.g. camera hints, animations, symbols)
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📌 Next Milestones (Planned)
🗺️ New biome: rocky mountain pass with platforming challenges
🪹 More side secrets: hidden golden eggs & lore elements
🐦 Flying creatures and sky interactions
🌧️ Dynamic weather and environmental effects
⛺ Rest system (safe zones where Tawa can sleep)
🐁 Burrowing system – let Tawa dig and hide underground
🎨 Community screenshots wall in-game or on website
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💬 Your Feedback Drives the Future
Based on what players like you ask for or mention in reviews/discussions, we’re considering:
🎥 Photo mode
🐾 Pet/ally system (maybe another creature helping Tawa?)
📘 Codex/lore book (optional – unlocked via exploration)
🕹️ Custom difficulty modes (no stamina loss, more threats, etc.)
🔄 Replayability options (biome randomizer, collectibles, etc.)
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🚀 Long-Term Vision (After Demo / Final Release)
🌍 Full island world map with four large biomes + finale area
🔓 Optional endings depending on player actions
💬 Partnership with animal welfare orgs (supporting real-life causes)
🎮 Console port (Nintendo Switch / Xbox / PlayStation)
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Thanks again for being part of this journey!
Your feedback on bugs, wishes, or even screenshots is incredibly valuable — please don’t hesitate to share in the forums. 💌
See you in the wild!
— Drex