The Riftbreaker has passed 350 000 copies sold across all platforms and well beyond half a million Riftbreakers have visited Galatea 37 when adding Game Pass users. Thank you to everyone who supported us along the way! We're thrilled about what's coming in 2022 :)
We've delivered more than 15 updates in 2021 and we're not planning to slow down in 2022. We are already back at work and preparing the next set of updates. In the short term, we're working on balancing improvements for cultivators, improved mouse input latency (especially under low FPS), various quality of life improvements, performance optimizations, and fixes for the bugs that are being reported. We are also planning to work further on improving the modding tools that we've released recently. We are aiming to release the next update with these and other changes near the end of this month.
The next milestone update dubbed "World Expansion I" is going to arrive around the end of March or sometime later in April. We're still designing the new content and mechanics for this update, so there's no fixed release date for it yet. It's going to include a completely new biome, a lot of new content including new creature species, weapons, skills, upgrades, and more. The new biome, all of the new game mechanics, and items are going to be available for free to enjoy in Survival mode and for use in modding. The story-driven campaign expansion is going to be a paid DLC. We're going to share more information about it as we move forward with development.
The last but one of the most important new additions that we're working on is of course - online multiplayer. This is an ongoing task that is being worked on in parallel to all of the other updates. Behind the scenes, we are slowly reworking large parts of code to make surviving on Galatea 37 together with your friends possible. Some of these changes include large optimizations to how we handle data and game logic. This requires big parts of the game's code to be redesigned and rewritten. We don't have a precise estimate for when this task will be completed, but we're aiming for the end of 2022, with early beta tests coming sometime sooner.
Once again thank you for all your support and for sticking with us on this journey!